The Living Earth Show is a megaphone and canvas for the world’s most progressive artists. One of the premiere contemporary chamber ensembles in the United States, TLES pushes the boundaries of technical and artistic possibility while amplifying voices, perspectives, and bodies that the classical tradition has often excluded. The organization uses the tools of experimental music to facilitate the creation of their collaborators’ most ambitious musical visions and presenting work that reflects and responds to our world.

Based in San Francisco, The Living Earth Show has presented seasons of commissioned multimedia productions since 2011, working with dance companies, visual artists, sculptors, poets, drag performers, and other musicians to craft compelling, immersive, California-centric productions.

Committed to supporting the next generation of artistic thinkers, The Living Earth Show has been in residence at the Music Department at Stanford University (2019), the University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies (2019), University of California Davis (2018), and University of South Carolina (2018).

In 2022, The Living Earth Show launched ​​Earthy Records: a record label designed to give its collaborators unparalleled access to and control over the manners in which their work is created and consumed. Earthy Records has become a home for innovative, beautiful, and vital experimental classical chamber music, and allows the organization to reach audience members around the world.

In 2024, The Living Earth Show opened The Roar Shack, an artistic incubator and performance venue in the heart of downtown San Francisco. Repurposing a bar that had been vacant since 2019, The Living Earth Show created a monthly season of immersive, experimental, San Francisco-centric productions, with each ticket being pay-what-you-can. Presented in partnership with Market Street Arts and a variety of local co-producers, the sold-out 2024-25 series featured world premieres across the spectrum of time-based live performance.