Ambient Church is a nomadic experiential event series dedicated to working with artists to bring new ecologies to architecturally unique spaces through transcendent audio and visual performance. It was founded by Brian Sweeny in Summer 2016 in Brooklyn, and is based in NY and now LA.

For the inaugural Los Angeles event, Ambient Church proudly presents a live quadraphonic (spatial) sound performance by pioneering electronic musician Suzanne Ciani - Diva of the Diode. Also performing for this event will be Sarah Davachi on the a pipe organ -- the largest functioning pipe organ in the world.

Musical performances for the evening will be companied by live analogue video by J.J. Stratford and Stephi Duckula and a 360-degree LED light show by celebrated NYC outfit Nitemind.

IMMERSIVE SOUND & LIGHT ENVIRONMENT
PROJECTION-MAPPED LIGHT SHOW
BURNT OFFERINGS
WOMBLIKE ENVIRONMENT
MEDITATIVE FOCUS
GROUP TRANSCENDENCE
LARGEST PIPE ORGAN IN THE WORLD

7p doors / 8p show
First Congregational Church of Los Angeles
540 South Commonwealth Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90020
*Free parking is available on site*

Ticket buyers will receive a free copy of Suzanne Ciani LIVE Quadraphonic: linkwired.com/story/suzanne-ciani-live-quadraphonic

$25+ / Discounts for members*
To learn more about the benefits of becoming a member, please visit our ticketing page

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SUZANNE CIANI (b. 1946) is a five-time Grammy award nominated composer, electronic music pioneer, sound designer, and neo-classical recording artist whose work has been featured in countless commercials, video games, and feature films. Over the course of her 30+ year career, she's released 15 solo albums, including "Seven Waves," "The Velocity of Love," and most recently, the live electronic album retrospective, "Buchla Concerts 1975." She's been recognized as Keyboard Magazine's "New Age Keyboardist of the Year," provided the voice and sounds for Bally's groundbreaking "Xenon" pinball machine, received the 2017 Moog Innovation Award, played concerts all over the globe, and carved out a niche as one of the most creatively successful female composers in the world. More information about Ciani's extensive career can be found on her website: linksevwave.com.

SARAH DAVACHI (b. 1987) holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary, and a master's degree in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California where she studied with Maggi Payne, James Fei, and David Bernstein. As a composer and performer of electroacoustic music, Davachi's projects are primarily concerned with disclosing the delicate psychoacoustics of intimate aural spaces, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures that emphasize subtle variations in overtone complexity, temperament and intonation, and natural resonances. The instrumentation she employs is varied, including analog synthesizers, piano, electric organ, pipe and reed organ, voice, analog samplers, orchestral strings, and woodwinds, with mutual idioms often layered in textural and timbral counterpoint. Similarly informed by minimalist tenets of the 1960s and 1970s, baroque leanings toward slow-moving chordal suspensions, and experimental production practices of the studio environment, in her sound is manifest an experience that lessens apprehension of consonance and dissonance in likeness of the familiar and the distant.

In addition to her recorded output, including 2017's All My Circles Run on Students of Decay and 2016's Vergers on Important Records, Davachi has toured extensively across the globe and has shared the stage with artists such as Donald Buchla, Morton Subotnick, Aki Onda, Grouper, Arnold Dreyblatt, Ariel Kalma, Alessandro Cortini, Oren Ambarchi, Aaron Dilloway, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Ellen Arkbro, Loren Connors, and filmmaker Paul Clipson. She is currently a doctoral student in musicology at UCLA and is based in Los Angeles, California.