Event

GENERAL MANIFEST

Composer Braden Diotte brings the first of two Southern California performances of music inspired by two decades of hopping freight trains throughout the American west.
From the composer:
"The inspiration behind General Manifest came two-fold. Aesthetically, I'd wanted to create a piece to pay tribute to the transitory-yet-awe-inspiring music that I've witnessed emanating from the underbelly of thousands of tons of rolling stock on occasion over a twenty-year span in which I was taking pleasure in riding freight trains about the American west. At the same time, I also wanted to create a piece based around the broader notion of freedom a term that I feel has garnered negative connotations since the events of the recent turn of the century. Where these concepts intersect, a philosophy exists that's as personal as it is political, as anarchistic as it is patriotic, and as natural as it is spiritual."