Karl Ove Knausgård and Glenn Kotche: Historia
       
     
An evening with Gabriella Smith & yMusic
       
     
Body and Sound Festival
       
     
Mary Prescott: Ancestral Table
       
     
John Luther Adams: Crossing Open Ground
       
     
Karl Ove Knausgård and Glenn Kotche: Historia
       
     
Karl Ove Knausgård and Glenn Kotche: Historia

Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 7:30 pm
The 92nd Street Y, New York
Produced by Liquid Music

Sun, Nov 2, 2025, 4 pm
Northrop, Minneapolis
Copresented by Liquid Music and Northrop

Writer Karl Ove Knausgård (My Struggle, The Morning Star) and composer/percussionist Glenn Kotche (Wilco) come together for a shared evening of words and music that celebrates collaboration, craft, and friendship, featuring visuals by director Johan Renck (HBO's Chernobyl, David Bowie's "Blackstar").

An evening with Gabriella Smith & yMusic
       
     
An evening with Gabriella Smith & yMusic

Sat, Nov 8,  7:30 pm
Walker Art Center
Copresented by Liquid Music, the Walker Art Center, and Schubert Club

Gabriella Smith is an environmentalist as well as a composer. Channeling both the awe-inspiring beauty of nature and the effect of the climate crisis in sound, Smith makes a moving plea for the planet we call home in Aquatic Ecology. Acclaimed chamber ensemble yMusic presents the Twin Cities premiere of the major new work, which was written for the sextet.

Body and Sound Festival
       
     
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

Liquid Music co-produces three projects with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as part of its Body and Sound festival Jan–Apr 2026—a selection of events aimed at transforming audiences’ perception of music by drawing attention to a full range of senses. Programs include: John Luther Adams: Crossing Open Ground with Christopher Rountree and Dimitri Chamblas; Mary Prescott: Ancestral Table; and Georg Friedrich Haas: String Quartet no. 3 "in iij Noct" performed by JACK Quartet.

Mary Prescott: Ancestral Table
       
     
Mary Prescott: Ancestral Table

Thu–Fri, Mar 19–20, 2026, 7 pm
Millwick, Los Angeles, CA
Co-produced by LA Phil and Liquid Music
Part of the Body and Sound Festival

Multidisciplinary artist Mary Prescott investigates the intersection of music, taste, and identity with Ancestral Table featuring a communal meal by legendary chef Jazz Singsanong of Jitlada.

John Luther Adams: Crossing Open Ground
       
     
John Luther Adams: Crossing Open Ground

Directed by Dimitri Chamblas and Christopher Rountree with musicians from USC Thornton School of Music

Sat–Sun, Apr 18–19, 2026, 6 pm
Elysian Park, Los Angeles, CA
Co-produced by LA Phil and Liquid Music
Part of the Body and Sound Festival

LA Phil Insight presents environmentalist composer John Luther Adams’s Crossing Open Ground, an outdoor work for winds, brass, and percussion offering an opportunity to rediscover and reconsecrate place.