Tamzin Elliott is a composer and writer based in Los Angeles, and a doctoral student at University of Southern California. Articles By This Author Review Sound and Fury Introduces a Decet of So-Cal Composers Tamzin Elliott - June 17, 2019 The fifth season of the L.A. contemporary music series Sound and Fury concludes by putting a few young composers on our radar screen. Review Common Desperation: Koan Quartet Paints a Deliberately Unsettling Picture Tamzin Elliott - June 14, 2019 Three quartets explore the underlying poetics of a famous filmmaker. Review The Challenge of Amanda Gookin’s Forward Music Project Tamzin Elliott - June 4, 2019 Is it actually a good thing to overwhelm your audience? Review Holly Herndon’s PROTO at the Teragram Ballroom Tamzin Elliott - May 21, 2019 Shape-note singing, the sounds of an artificial-intelligence “baby,” and bone-rattling bass shake the rafters. Review Katherine Young Uses Noise to Teach Feeling Tamzin Elliott - May 7, 2019 The Chicago composer’s works for string quartet and trio cap wasteLAnd’s sixth season. Review An Intriguing Concert of Acoustic-Electronic Compositions Suffers from Funky Logistics Tamzin Elliott - April 22, 2019 People Inside Electronics hosts “place/displace” at Villa Aurora. Review MicroFest Records Hosts a Well-Tempered Party at Monk Space Tamzin Elliott - April 13, 2019 New-music composers focus on the “notes between notes” played on everything from microtonal guitar to full-blown gamelan orchestra. Review (M)iyamoto Is Black Enough Sizzles With Percussive Energy Tamzin Elliott - March 18, 2019 The poetry-percussion-cello ensemble celebrates black cultures in its eponymous program at The Wallis. Review Meredith Monk’s Cellular Songs Fuses Idealism and Reality at a Deep Level Tamzin Elliott - March 4, 2019 How fitting that Monk’s longtime interest in interdisciplinary art should result in a multimedia piece about cooperation. Review New-Music Series wasteLAnd Uncovers the Master of Disguises Tamzin Elliott - February 19, 2019 Woodwinds and voices do battle with menacing tape players in the evening’s title work. Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next › Next page Last » Last page
