Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
In partnership with Liquid Music, 2220 presents celebrated composer, guitarist and sound artist Rafiq Bhatia to our theater, accompanied by Ian Chang and Riley Mulherkar. The night opens with Eternal Raays, the duo collaboration of ghalani (of The Growth Eternal) and modular synthesist Aaron Raays. ~ In the past year, **Rafiq Bhatia** released his EP *Each Dream, A Melting Door*, a collaboration with pianist Chris Pattishall, and the full-length release *Environments*, his first solo release since co-scoring 2023’s Academy Award-winning Best Picture, *Everything Everywhere All At Once*. A collaboration with trumpeter Riley Mulherkar and Bhatia’s Son Lux-bandmate, drummer Ian Chang, *Environments* finds the trio improvising to conjure worlds of sound that bloom, melt, crackle and combust. *The New York Times* proclaims “Rafiq Bhatia is writing his own musical language,” heralding him as “one of the most intriguing figures in music today.” A guitarist, producer, and Academy Award-nominated composer “who refuses to be pinned to one genre, culture or instrument,” Bhatia makes sculptural, meticulously crafted music that finds common ground among ecstatic avant-garde jazz, mournful soul, fractured beats and building-shaking electronics. “He treats his guitar, synthesizers, drum machines and electronic effects as architectural elements,” the *Times* writes. “Sound becomes contour; music becomes something to step into rather than merely follow.” ~ **The Growth Eternal & Raays** are longtime collaborators and Leaving Records labelmates whose work has crossed paths in different forms over the years. For this performance, the two come together for a largely improvised set built from shared musical language, rhythmic exploration, ambient textures, and threads connecting both past releases and material still taking shape. Rooted in the spirit of the Leaving Records community, the set will move fluidly between structure and spontaneity.