Anderson / Gerowitz / Surendran & Grace Dashnaw

Tuesday 17 June 2025 • 8pm

$15 door

Improvised music from the trio of Casey Anderson, Josh Gerowitz, and Shravan Surendran. Grace Dashnaw opens the evening.

Casey Anderson (they / them) is designing and repurposing technologies to activate participatory practice, primarily involving explorations of sound, in diverse cultures and communities. Performances, exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA - Los Angeles (CA), ISSUE Project Room (NY), STEIM (NL), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), Mass MOCA (MA), The Walker Art Center (MN), and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (CA). They co-founded, and co-edited (with John P. Hastings and Scott Cazan), the Experimental Music Yearbook, and own and operate a wave press. They currently live in Los Angeles, California, co-run Trade School with Arden Stern, and teach at KAOS Network, UCLA, ASU, and ArtCenter College of Design.

Joshua Gerowitz is a composer, performer, improviser, and guitarist who resides in Los Angeles. His work is concerned with live human interaction, the juxtaposition of premeditation and spontaneity, as well as the fickle nature of our perceptual senses. He has written and performed music that involves everything from traditional instruments to bottom-shelf beer tastings, knife sharpening, ping pong, and surfing. Gerowitz has performed in many different settings and locations including but not limited to Teatro Manzoni, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Paradise Rock Club, REDCAT, Bowtie Project, Clockshop, Firehouse 12, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. His recordings have been referred to as “eccentric and original work of multidimensional and captivating music” (Vital Weekly), and he has been called “a creative soul with hugely impressive chops, as his keen vision is assertively concentrated on blazing newer trails” (All About Jazz). Gerowitz is a cofounder (along with Georgia Bell) of SatanNotSatan (a community based multi-disciplinary artistic salon founded in 2014). He holds a B.M. in guitar performance from Berklee College of Music and an M.F.A. from CalArts in Performance/Composition.

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Grace Dashnaw is a cellist, composer, and multimedia artist based in Los Angeles. Grace’s practice navigates the intangible of lived experience. Emotional depth; longing, nostalgia, frustration, anger, and tranquility are paramount in their work. Dashnaw works within the mediums of graphic notation, instrument building, circuitry, programming, sculpture, fiber arts, and poetry, both within solo creations and collaborations. Dashnaw is currently pursuing an MFA in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices with an Integrated Media Specialization at California Institute of the Arts.

https://gracedashnaw.com/