About this Performance

Communicating solely through the sounds produced by their instruments, the musicians of JACK invite one another into musical processes, accepting these invitations or responding in kind with an invitation of their own—and always deciding for themselves how far they choose to go down each path together, before turning back.

Georg Friedrich Haas’ visionary Third String Quartet is designed to be performed in total darkness, creating a uniquely physical concert experience. As Haas wrote in his “darkness rider” for this work, “The outline of one’s hand will ideally not be visible even when directly in front of their face. The darkness is absolute, and the effect is disorienting: an audience member feels they have become absorbed in an India ink level of blackness with no visual cues to demarcate the size and shape of the space or their relation to it.” For the Body and Sound festival, JACK Quartet, the foremost interpreters of Haas’ work, will perform his String Quartet No. 3, “in iij Noct.” Co-produced with Liquid Music. Co-presented by REDCAT.

There will be a post-show Q&A with JACK Quartet, moderated by REDCAT Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Performing Arts, Katy Dammers.

Attendees to Haas in the Dark may not enter the theater until they sign a mandatory waiver in-person upon arrival that acknowledges their understanding that the performance is entirely in the dark and their assumption of risk for such a performance. The waiver can be previewed here.  

Please note there is no late seating and no reentry following the start of the performance.

LA Phil Insight is generously supported by Linda and David Shaheen.

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