The new new-music series “Silence at Descanso” is at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge, but rather than silence, the first program happened to be full of intentional sound. Having been greatly influenced by Cage, Ono has gone on to inspire the sorts of uncategorizable indie performers Bulbrook brings to “Silence at Descanso.” A lot of this came together at …
Christopher Rountree, 36, who has emerged as one of L.A.’s leaders in the new-music scene, at Descanso Gardens. “Look, over there — there’s an elf in that tree,” Rountree’s mother would say, and he would happily run after it, chasing fantasy and magic in the picturesque La Cañada Flintridge gardens. “Silence” is, in many ways, representative of Rountree’s curatorial style: …