First presented in six hours spread over a long weekend in September, 1982 in a St. Paul, Minnesota storefront, 𝙰𝚗 𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝙳𝚘𝚘𝚛 celebrates its 40th anniversary in September, 2022 in downtown Los Angeles with a 5-hour performance installation combining electronic and sampled musical instruments, radio transmissions, World musics recorded by Paske at the 1990 Los Angeles Festival, archival recordings from Paske’s 50 years of compositions and improvisations, and a mic out the door providing a sonic bedrock of real-time urban ambience.

In the weeks following the performance Paske will create a series of music nfts from brief excerpts of the live performance recording. All proceeds from sales of these nfts will be donated to social service agencies serving downtown Los Angeles.

𝙰𝚗 𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝙳𝚘𝚘𝚛 will be performed outdoors from the front portico of Union Center for the Arts.

Audience members will be free to come and go as they please during the performance and refreshments will be served.

Richard Paske is a musician, multimediator, and writer born in Minneapolis and living in Los Angeles since 2004. His current work involves both live performance and the creation of musicvideos and nfts with a hybrid digital music/video system running on two laptop computers. In the mid-1980s Paske was a pioneer in performing in front of a live audience with a MIDI-based digital music system and multi- projector visual system. Since 1971 he has presented his work all over the world – New York City, Paris, London, The Hague, Taipei, Hong Kong, Minneapolis, and most recently Los Angeles. Throughout 2019 he presented his musicvideos at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art on LA’s Gallery Row. In March, 2020 he performed his Sun Ra-inspired AnnArbor73 live at Live House Hollywood.