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Exploring the Mysteries Within
Third Angle’s 22/23 Season takes you on a journey wilder than ever before, across genre-bending music, through boundary-defying venues, and beyond groundbreaking immersive experiences to explore the ultimate unknowable frontier—the human mind.
We’ll touch the thin line between reality and psychosis, deromanticize and destigmatize artists’ mental health challenges, heal through collective creation, and confront long-held prejudices against people with visible and invisible disabilities.
Subscribe today to join Team 3A and explore the mysteries within. We’ll see you on the other side…
Third Angle is bringing the beats to Milwaukie this winter with Portland percussion phenoms Andy Akiho, Christopher Whyte, and Machado Mijiga. Swing south to Decibel Sound & Drink for some cozy happy-hour listening sessions with one of the sweetest sound systems in town.
1000 Airplanes on the Roof
@Evergreen Museum
May 20 & 21, 2023 @ 8:00pm
In a once-in-a-lifetime event, 3A performs composer Philip Glass’s one-act sci-fi melodrama beneath the towering Spruce Goose’s tail, commemorating the 75th anniversary of its lone 26-second flight. Set in NYC, the sole character, “M,” recalls encounters with extraterrestrial life forms. Are the surrealistic visions haunting her an accurate recollection of an abduction, part of a drug-induced nightmare, or the beginning of a mental breakdown? M mirrors builder Howard Hughes’s own mental battles at this nexus of the fragile mind and sky.
The Big Reveal
@OMSI Kendall Planetarium
Oct 19 & 20, 2022 @ 7:30pm
Join Team 3A at the planetarium for a full visual and sonic takeover of your senses! Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate ushers in an evening of clarinet and string quartet with Pisachi (Chickasaw for Reveal), and 3A performs new co-commissions of works by Chris Cerrone and Oregon Symphony Creative Chair Gabriel Kahane—the latter inspired by artist Paul Klee—plus a delightful piece by Adolphus Hailstork that’ll leave you smiling.
Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion
@Patricia Reser Center for the Arts
Nov 11, 2022 @ 7:30pm
3A and Beaverton’s stunning Patricia Reser Center for the Arts co-present Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion as they perform music from their recent album Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part. Audiences will hear echoes of ABBA, James Joyce, and Mother Earth herself, then experience “all the things you aren’t supposed to do to string instruments” in Julia Wolfe’s percussion quartet Forbidden Love.
Self Portrait
@New Expressive Works
Jan 26 & 27, 2023 @ 7:30pm
From Messiaen to Yayoi Kusama, artists expressing their unique inner worlds have crafted some of the world’s most personal and profound beauty. Recent traumas left many isolated from their pressure release valve, communal creation. Bear witness to testimonials from local artists, hear the vulnerable music and words of composer-mental health advocates Nina Shekhar and Aaron Helgeson, and join in for a polka dot-inspired group art project.
Also, be sure to check out the FREE workshops for music educators with Galen Cohen in conjunction with Self Portrait in February & March! Learn more here.
The Goddess | Min Xiao-Fen and Rez Abbasi
@New Expressive Works
Mar 2 & 3, 2023 @ 7:30pm
Internationally renowned composer and pipa player Min Xiao-Fen returns to Portland with guitarist Rez Abbasi, performing the NW premiere of her reimagined score to The Goddess, a 1930’s Chinese silent film about a streetwalker fighting amid social injustice to give her young son an education and a better life.
Yo-Yo Va
@Oregon Contemporary
Apr 27 & 28, 2023 @ 7:30pm
3A’s resident rockstar cellist Valdine Ritchie Mishkin goes multi-dimensional, performing with sound-reactive light technology, making sound accessible and inclusive to the deaf & hard of hearing, and allowing our entire audience the opportunity to experience her sound like never before.
