Machine Project

Wednesday, May 28th // 7:57 pm
at Olive Court @ Grand Park
FREE

The great Los Angeles detective novelist Raymond Chandler is justly known for depictions of his city and its environs. As part of our extended program of events in Grand Park, a selection of descriptive excerpts from Chandler’s novels will be heard each evening at dusk in Olive Court (just downhill from the fountain) through mid-June. Chandler selections are curated and read by Machine Poet Laureate Anthony McCann.

We are gathering together at 7:57pm to enjoy sunset and the somewhat menacing sound of Raymond Chandler’s prose infiltrating the soundscape of the park. Upon cessation of the audio at 8:26pm, Anthony will read a poem he wrote in adjacency to the Chandler piece and then Adam Goldman, who recorded and mastered the audio, will perform an acoustic cover of “It’s a shame about Ray(mond Chandler)” by the Lemonheads. Afterwards we might go get a drink or slink away anonymously.

Mark will be wearing a red tie in case you don’t know him and want to say hello.

This event is co-presented with the Music Center.