BODY AND SOUND FESTIVAL

Select projects co-produced by LA Phil and Liquid Music
Jan–Apr, 2026 (Dates TBA)
Multiple sites in Los Angeles, CA

Stretching from January through April 2026, the Body and Sound festival is aimed at transforming audiences’ perception of music by drawing attention to a full range of senses. Created out of a desire to counteract the forces that conspire to numb these senses, from the obsessive use of mobile phones to the generalized anxiety of modern life, Body and Sound events will offer unconventional concert experiences. Listening to music in complete darkness, in atypical and even moving spatial arrangements or while heightening a sense like smell sharpens our awareness, making it possible to hear familiar compositions anew. The LA Phil has partnered with Liquid Music, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) to stage Body and Sound events at Walt Disney Concert Hall and sites throughout the city. Body and Sound’s offsite programming is part of the LA Phil Insight initiative.

Projects co-produced by Liquid Music include:

JACK Quartet performs Georg Friedrich Haas’ String Quartet No. 3 “In iij Noct” in complete darkness at REDCAT.

Crossing Open Ground by John Luther Adams, staged outdoors and with musicians and audiences in motion, receives its Los Angeles premiere led by conductor Christopher Rountree and director Dimitri Chamblas.

Multidisciplinary artist Mary Prescott investigates the intersection of music, taste and identity with Ancestral Table.

Additional programs and details to be announced.