Unfrozen Music
Santa Monica Main Library
Saturday, October 26th, 2013
7:00-9:00pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium
601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA

It’s that time of year again: time for local architects to put down their laptops and pick up their musical instruments. This Saturday, October 26, Shimahara Illustration will hold its fifth annual Unfrozen Music concert at the Santa Monica Main Library. The concert program includes six short sets performed by Los Angeles architects. AN‘s West Coast Editor, Sam Lubell, will MC the event.

Performers include Alice Kimm (principal of John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects and Director of undergraduate programs at USC) on piano, Jonathan Ward (Partner at NBBJ) on acoustic bass, Terence Young (Design Director for Aviation, Transportation, and Retail Entertainment at Gensler) on cello, and many more.

The concert series takes its name from a quote by theorist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “I consider architecture to be unfrozen music.” This year’s event will feature digital animations corresponding to each piece, a new wrinkle that will bring in a visual element; fitting considering who is performing.