On April 28th UPEND presents electro-acoustic percussionist JAKE MEGINSKY at a *free* concert at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive in Chinatown. Based in Western Mass, Jake Meginsky is a rarefied percussionist who can embrace, eschew, or simply chew on rhythm. While his current live method is modular synthesis, his intuition as an improvisor and his instincts as a hitter-of-things are well intact, as he deftly coaxes pulse and sequence into organic clusters of attack. A new LP – Trintities – on Portland, Maine’s Poole Music, showcases his “…adventurous vein of pointillist minimalism: stark, oblique, cerebral, fluid. It’s free music in both form and function, liberated from rhythm, pattern, or expectation. Abrupt flurries of metallic reverberations ping and echo against charged silences like avant-garde morse code.” Jake has rattled and swung with a set of collaborators wild and diverse including Bill Nace, Alvin Lucier, Joan La Barbara, Greg Kelley, Joe McPhee, Paul Flaherty, and John Truscinski. Alongside his ceaseless activity organizing events, performing, recording, and teaching, the widespread acclaim of his full-length documentary about his key collaborator and mentor – Milford Graves Full Mantis – has rightly placed Meginsky in the vanguard of the interdisciplinary discourse of vision, sound, motion, and thought. PLUS L.A.-based musician, artist, and creative broadcaster SAM ROWELL performs a rare in-person iteration of SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, the radio show she’s aired for almost a decade. Via thematic collages, Rowell pulls sound from a world of noises culled from academic archives, scientific research, crowd-sourced field recordings, and other audio ephemera. Hers is a study of sonic phenomena and phenomenology that asks “Why does a thing sound the way it does?” and “Does a thing sound like what it is?” Los Angeles Contemporary Archive is located at 709 N. Hill Street in Chinatown. Enter on Ord Street, under the LACA sign.