Friday, April 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Late Breakfast is proud to present a special co-headline show from Byron Westbrook and Tashi Wada. Byron Westbrook will be performing his work *Translucents* in a special quadraphonic audio format. Tashi Wada will be performing new and recent music joined by partner and collaborator Julia Holter. ∆ First emerging from within New York’s experimental music scene nearly two decades ago and now based in Los Angeles, **Byron Westbrook** weaves intricate tapestries of sonority bridging the worlds of sound art, installation, avant-garde electronic music and synthesis. He works between immersive installation formats and music performance, utilizing a wide array of sound design, synthesis techniques and field recordings. Westbrook’s practice approaches sound in a structural way, where the architecture of a listening space becomes a key collaborator in his concerts. He currently hosts Chromatic Fields on dublab radio, a monthly program exploring overlap in ideas between music making and visual arts practice. Inspired by optical phenomena occurring while viewing the color panels of abstract painter Blinky Palermo, *Translucents* explores the concept of "audio after-image". The work presents a series of audio scenes, with the intention of imprinting on the listener's mind in order to influence the way each consecutive scene appears. It is a play with memory, presence, and with time, experimenting with dynamics between perceiving presence in the space where one is listening vs the perception of an external space or place. For this concert, *Translucents* is presented in an expanded immersive form that differs from its published release. ~ Los Angeles-based musician **Tashi Wada** has carved a unique path as a composer, drawing on a diverse array of influences and exchanges. Born in New York, Wada studied composition at CalArts with James Tenney, and for many years performed alongside his father Yoshi Wada. Wada’s early music explored resonance and dissonance, using alternative tuning systems and simple structures to generate rich and unanticipated perceptual effects. Expanding on this foundation, his recent music has incorporated song-like forms, improvisation, and the formation of a band, leading to a newfound complexity. Wada has presented his music at venues and festivals across the world, and collaborated with a range of musicians, artists, and ensembles including his partner Julia Holter, Charles Curtis, Simone Forti, and Harmonic Space Orchestra. Wada founded and runs the record label Saltern. His most recent album *What Is Not Strange?* was released in 2024 by RVNG Intl.