ABOUT

On Tuesday April 9, 2024, join DUBLAB for an intimate evening amongst the most creative Angelenos for the annual Creative Cultivation Salon. Experience live music, DJ sets, and special guests while also enjoying specialty drinks and bites at an inspiring location.

Proceeds from the Creative Cultivation Salon will go toward supporting dublab’s broader mission in freeform radio and educational initiatives that benefit and enriches our community and the creative ecosystem of Los Angeles and the world.

Laurie Anderson

GUEST OF HONOR

Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most reknowned – and daring – creative pioneers. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist.

Valecia Phillips

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

A native New Yorker, Valecia Phillips is a seasoned and versatile change leader who most enjoys working at the intersection of the arts and social justice. She is currently the director of finance and operations at Film Independent, and has extensive experience as a public radio producer and vocalist. She holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

MUSIC BY

V.C.R.
Live

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V.C.R, born Veronica Camille Ratliff, is a world-class multidisciplinary singer/songwriter, composer, violinist, and published author. The Memphis-bred recording artist blends cathartic lyrics combined with her powerhouse vocals that entrance the listener and leaves them breathless. As a storyteller, this transcendental soul-singer uses amalgamations of her rich southern gospel roots and classical orchestral training to produce songs rooted in vulnerability and truth.

Lucy Liyou
Live

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Los Angeles-based composer Lucy Liyou synthesizes field recordings, text-to-speech readings, poetry, and elements from Korean folk opera into sonic narratives that explore the implications of Orientalism and Westernization. Combining disparate sonic elements into critically cohesive pieces, the musical world of Lucy Liyou alternates between beautiful serenity and unsettling entropy. Her latest record, Dog Dreams (개꿈), is a rumination on the double-sidedness of trauma and love, on how one does not undercut the other, but rather how both are interlocked in an affective dialectic. Liyou’s work has earned acclaim from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus, Them, Tone Glow, Wire Magazine, Mixmag Asia, The FADER, and NPR Music, among others, and received notable airplay on NTS Radio, KEXP, NPR, and Sonos Radio’s Radio Hour with Thom Yorke. Liyou has shared the stage with artists like L’Rain, claire rousay, Salamanda, Drew McDowall (Coil), Theodore Cale Shafer, HTRK, Liz Harris (Grouper) and performed on stages such as Cafe OTO, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and Rewire Festival. Lucy will be joined by Los Angeles based percussionist Angel Lin.

Darone Sassounian
Dj Set

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Darone Sassounian is a DJ, producer, and label head from Los Angeles. He runs the label, Rocky Hill and is the curator of the acclaimed compilation, Silk Road: Journey of the Armenian Diaspora (1971 - 1982), released on Terrestrial Funk. Darone is inspired by music made in the 70’s and 80’s, while his goal is to approach contemporary audiences by clashing the old with the new. Styles ranging from disco, soul, jazz, international obscurities and vintage house, combined with his technical abilities, solidifying himself as a selector who fosters his roots and the community around him.