Outer Spaceways Incorporated: Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra. Red Hot Organization

Individually, Kronos Quartet and Sun Ra are two of the most groundbreaking

names in contemporary music - The former is the legendary San Francisco-

based string quartet that laid a blueprint for what concert music could become,

working with the likes of John Cage, Tanya Tagaq, and Astor Piazzolla. The

latter was a singular jazz and avant-garde bandleader, as well as a philosopher

and poet, who honed an extraordinary strain of cosmic experimental music

from the 1950s until his ascension in 1993..

It's stacked with some of the most innovative artists active today — everyone

from multidimensional electronic musician Jlin, to Moor Mother and DJ Haram's

radical noise / rap project 700 Bliss, to abstract hip hop luminaries Armand

Hammer, to avant-garde hero Laurie Anderson, to minimalist pioneer Terry Riley