{"id":7373,"date":"2020-10-01T19:43:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T19:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=7373"},"modified":"2020-10-21T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T19:46:00","slug":"james-darrah-named-creative-director-of-digital-content-for-los-angeles-chamber-orchestra-virtual-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/james-darrah-named-creative-director-of-digital-content-for-los-angeles-chamber-orchestra-virtual-season\/","title":{"rendered":"James Darrah named creative director of digital content for Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’ virtual season"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n

By Jessica Geltstaff<\/p>\n

In a tacit acknowledgement that performing arts will likely occupy a socially distanced twilight for the long haul, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on Thursday is expected to announce a virtual season for 2020-21 featuring 16 episodes imagined and directed by designer and interdisciplinary artist James Darrah, who has been named LACO\u2019s creative director of digital content.<\/p>\n

Darrah directed the world premieres of composer Ellen Reid\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning \u201cprism\u201d and Missy Mazzoli\u2019s adaptation of the Lars von Trier film \u201cBreaking the Waves,\u201d and his work has been featured at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Prototype Festival in New York and Theater an der Wien in Vienna. He is most interested in the peculiar magic that can be conjured at the intersection of theater, opera and film.<\/p>\n

For his new position, Darrah is teaming up with LACO music director Jaime Mart\u00edn on a slate of offerings dubbed \u201cLACO Close Quarters.\u201d The linchpin of Darrah\u2019s vision involves the creation of a digital studio at Wilhardt & Naud, a multidisciplinary arts campus in downtown L.A.\u2019s Chinatown.<\/p>\n

Darrah is scouting the campus to find collaborators for the new season, consisting of original visual episodes informed by LACO music recorded and filmed separately at the Colburn School\u2019s Olive Rehearsal Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cDigital art is conjured up out of that music,\u201d Darrah said in a recent phone interview, adding that the art in question might be a dance, a painting in progress or a sculpture.<\/p>\n

If one beautiful note has been struck in the coronavirus crisis, Darrah said, it\u2019s that art can\u2019t be stopped. The minute the coronavirus began halting performances, Darrah said, he started talking with collaborators, including composer Reid, about innovative ways to move forward. In some ways, Darrah has been ready for this moment for years. He said he has been \u201cdragging around a soap box\u201d about how opera and new music need to embrace film and television.<\/p>\n

His collaboration with LACO, he said, will allow him to demonstrate the varied ways that can be done. Darrah hopes to invent a visual and aural language that can employed long after the threat of COVID-19 subsides.<\/p>\n

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From the Los Angeles Times By Jessica Geltstaff In a tacit acknowledgement that performing arts will likely occupy a socially distanced twilight for the long haul, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on Thursday is expected to announce a virtual season for 2020-21 featuring 16 episodes imagined and directed by designer and interdisciplinary artist James Darrah, who … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4835,5937,6350,6351,6352],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7374,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373\/revisions\/7374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}