School of Music

Late last month, Josephine Shetty (Music MFA 21), a student in CalArts’ Experimental Sound Practice program, released her latest single, “Exhausted” as Kohinoorgasm. A portmanteau of the Kohinoor diamond and “orgasm,” Kohinoorgasm is the lo-fi experimental pop music project of the queer,...

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On May 15, the nonprofit record label Touched Music released John Tejada Presents Future Stars, a compilation album created by CalArts students in John Tejada’s spring 2020 music class “Advanced Electronic Music Production.” Producer and composer Tejada also contributed the original track...

On Friday, May 22, the Herb Alpert Foundation announced the recipients of the 2020 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA). Administered by CalArts since 1994, the awards recognize five mid-career artists pushing the boundaries of Dance, Film/Video, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts. Each honoree...

CalArts alum Erick Pepper Rivera (Music BFA 12) is a composer and cartoonist who released his debut graphic novel The Hat Boyz in 2019. The book follows Benny, a half-black, half-Mexican teenager who has a hard time avoiding the drug scene and crime from his South LA neighborhood. It also...

Tonight (Thursday, May 7), CalArts alums Ellen Reid (Music MFA 11) and Juan Pablo Contreras (Music BFA 10), along with fellow composers Sarah Gibson, and Peter Shin, are in conversation for a virtual salon hosted by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s (LACO) Sound Investment commissioning...

A new video by the Los Angeles contemporary art museum The Broad celebrates the impact of late longtime faculty CalArts members James Tenney and John Baldessari (Chouinard 59) on Los Angeles’ art landscape. Organized by faculty Madeline Falcone (Music MFA 13), the video explores...