Charles Gaines, Manifestos 6: Ben Patterson at The Nimoy
Dates: 3/14/2026
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CAP UCLA
1262 Westwood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tickets: $38.08 - $48.67
In the west coast premiere of Manifestos 6: Ben Patterson, world-renowned artist Charles Gaines interprets Fluxus artist Benjamin Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass (c. 1962), a score for performance that uses words rather than traditional musical notation.
Gaines converts Patterson’s letters into music, following an inventive system Gaines devised in 2004: transcribing letters A through H from the texts into their equivalent musical notes (with the use of the letter “H” representing the code used in early Baroque tradition for B-flat).
The resulting composition, to be performed by an ensemble consisting of a string section, double bass, trumpet, trombone, tuba, and percussion, pays homage to Patterson’s legacy while showcasing evolutionary artistic engagement with systems of language, text, notation, and sound.
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