the LISTENING GARDEN PRESENTS

Friday June 14th, 8–11 PM, Ojai

DANCE GROUND

with DJs

EARTHTONES

Celebrating the Release of his New Album
’We Can Live Together’

and

JOHN ALDERSON

A 3-hour communal celebration through movement

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ABOUT

Dance Ground is a new offering from The Listening Garden, extending the opportunity to enjoy immersive audiophile sound on the same weekend.

Whereas The Listening Garden creates an environment for elevated musicianship & deep listening, Dance Ground marks out a space for communal celebration through movement, featuring expansive & roots music from all over the world.

~ dancing deeper, not harder ~

DJs

EARTHTONES

The Listening Garden cofounder Earthtones is a multi-faceted artist/musician who crosses cultures in electronic music from ambient to cumbia & house to hip hop. Actively collaborating with artists across the globe, Earthtones creates and shares a diverse array of music, with releases on Wonderwheel Recordings, Isle of Jura Records, a forthcoming project on Multi-Culti Records, and a catalog of independent releases under various aliases.

We Can Live Together is the first full LP by Earthtones on Wonderwheel. The record is based in Folkloric Futurism, a movement that explores the convergence of global folk traditions with technology. Combining analog synthesizers & vintage drum machines with vocals & folkloric instrumentation from around the globe, it’s a celebration of the intersection of past and future, here and there, ancestry and technology. It celebrates themes of spirituality, feminism, love, and most of all, peace.

Serge headlines this edition of Dance Ground with a DJ set that includes a presentation of music from the new album!

JOHN ALDERSON

John is a multi-hyphenate creative, cultural producer, DJ, and relentless collector of music. He operates from a place of listening intently for what the moment calls for next, and is inspired above all to facilitate experiences of collective resonance and transcendence for all who gather. As well as cofounding and producing The Listening Garden in Ojai, he is a cofounder the LA hi-fi party series Sound of Make Believe.

Originally hailing from London, UK, his approach to DJing is shaped especially by his participation in David Mancuso’s Loft parties with Lucky Cloud soundsystem and in the scene surrounding the revered nightclub Plastic People, where he held down a residency as part of the Voices collective.

JOIN

The Listening Garden now presents 3 hi-fi music & community centered gatherings on the same weekend, every quarter as the seasons change. Come to listen, commune, and immerse in sound, setting, and culture.

Friday June 14th ~ Dance Ground
Saturday June 15th ~ The Listening Garden
Sunday June 16th ~ Film Club
Join us for one, two, or three gatherings. Full refunds until June 11th.

PLEASE NOTE: EARLY BIRD TICKETS & BUNDLE DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE UNTIL JUNE 1ST

By securing attendance you agree to hold to simple principles to ensure a safe space for all:
KEEP SHOES, USE OF PHONES & CONVERSATION OUTSIDE
CLEAR CONSENT BEFORE CONTACT
BE FREE WITH RESPECT TO OTHERS’ FREEDOMS
21+. Light and Space is an indoor/outdoor environment. Bring: easy on/off shoes. Don’t bring: your dog.

Questions? Contact inthelisteninggarden@gmail.com

INSPIRATION

Dance Ground takes cues from spiritually-grounded NYC party The Loft, freeform movement practices & improvisational performance, and seeks to answer “the growing imperative to revive communal rituals of wonder that resound with the pulse of the present” (Joshua Schrei).

Photo credits: ‘Love Saves The Day’ by Tim Lawrence courtesy of Duke University Press; Gabrielle Roth, liner notes for ‘Endless Waves Volume One’, reissued by Time Capsule; ‘Organic Self’ performed by Paloma Rabinov & Carlos Niño.

AUDIOPHILE SOUND

OUR SOUND SYSTEM WILL COMPRISE

Altec Lansing Model 19 loudspeakers

JBL 4546C Bass Reflex subwoofer

Mark Levinson & Crown amplification

Alpha Recording System Model 9100B rotary mixer

Technics 1210 turntables w/ Nagaoka cartridges & Jelco headshells

Pioneer XDJ-1000MK2s w/ SimAudio Moon DACs