Noon to Midnight Festival: Field Recordings

On November 16, 2024, the LA Phil presents Noon to Midnight: Field Recordings, a 12-hour festival featuring live performances and art installations activating every corner of the Walt Disney Concert Hall campus. This edition of the LA Phil’s beloved new-music marathon explores the intersections of art, technology, and nature through the theme of field recordings.

Curated by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Ellen Reid, Noon to Midnight features the work of visionary composers performed by a host of Los Angeles-based ensembles and solo artists. The festival showcases how recordings and reflections of natural and built environments are being utilized in composed music for healing and meditative purposes, as a tool to resist climate change, as political statements, and for pure listening pleasure.

At the center of the program is the world premiere of Doug Aitken’s Lightscape, a groundbreaking new film-based artwork accompanied by live performances from the LA Phil New Music Group and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Audiences can also engage directly with the festival’s theme through intimate performances, a listening room, interactive installations, and conversations led by LA Phil’s Insight program.

Noon to Midnight: Field Recordings is an invitation to experience how sound changes us by participating in deeper forms of listening.