“These artists in our community who have been here through thick and thin and whose output continues to deepen are just such a treasure,” Dix continues, “and that’s why Downtown Chamber Series exists.” “Of the downtown arts community, Chaos Theory really is the annual show people want to in, because each artist is only allowed one piece, and that piece has to be created that month –- thus the term ‘chaos’.”
“It’s a real point of civic pride,” says DCS founder and Phoenix Symphony musician Mark Dix. Named for an iconic Arizona amusement park, Legend City is a former auto body shop turned arts venue at 521 West Van Buren, and the workspace of artists Randy Slack, Jon Balinkie, Jason Grubb, and Brandon Sullivan. Welcome to this weekend’s remarkable Black Angels program on the Downtown Chamber Series (DCS), offered in conjunction with the annual Chaos Theory show at Legend City Studios. Although they’re playing traditional acoustic classical instruments – violins, viola, and cello – the sounds they create, alternately disturbing and hypnotic, are anything but conventional. In a spacious gallery filled with the striking and innovative work of 60 artists, four musicians share the spotlight on a small stage.