This post was updated May 5 at 4:15 p.m. Two UCLA students created an intercollegiate independent electronic dance music label that now works with students at the University of Michigan, Duke University, UC Berkeley and Cornell University. Third-year business economics student Suman Padhi and 2015 alumnus Andrew Conde thought of the idea while returning from […]
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Collecting Creatives: Music student Sahara Grim finds cultural outlet in jazz quartet
Sahara Grim strummed her acoustic guitar on a Sunday afternoon in her Treehouse apartment, singing smoky jazz melodies that diffused slowly through her living room. Most of the second-year ethnomusicology student’s development as a jazz musician has taken place outside the lecture hall. Her musical and personal connections with her culture have informed her work […]
Doctoral student makes compositional debut paying homage to film noir
Geoffrey Pope hopes his latest composition will transport listeners into a classic Hollywood film scene full of femme fatales, smoky jazz clubs and fedoras. Pope, a doctor of musical arts student, will debut his original composition “Overture Noir” at the UCLA Philharmonia’s Thursday concert in Schoenberg Hall. Pope will conduct the orchestra in playing his […]
MFA students use sibling experiences to shape characters in ‘Three Sisters’
Acting students Lea Madda, Tara Turnbull and Maia Rychlik are used to taking on different identities. But for their latest acting roles, their own identities are key. From Nov. 4 through Saturday, the trio of graduate acting students will portray the titular three sisters Olga, Masha and Irina Prozorov in Anton Chekhov’s classic “Three Sisters” […]
UCLA alumnus to release album, bare connection between sound, feelings
Colin O’Brien-Lux believes art should be democratic, involving the participation of both artist and viewer. O’Brien-Lux, a theater alumnus, performs as an electronic and experimental music artist under the name Goosehappen, a pseudonym he chose for the fluid way the words sound when spoken aloud. He said his musical work likewise seeks to delineate the […]