On Saturday nights in downtown Los Angeles, one warehouse party is trading EDM for ambient music, and glow sticks for blankets.
At the “Remember Those Quiet Evenings” on July 11, guests arrived with pillows, settled onto the floor and spent the night listening to Tibetan singing bowls, modular synthesizers and effected guitar.
Before the main performance, attendees ate, talked, journaled and prepared to do something that can feel increasingly unusual on a weekend night in Los Angeles: remain still.
For some, that was precisely the attraction.
“It just sounds like a really good alternative to going and getting drunk tonight,” one attendee said. “So, just doing the reverse today.”
The gathering was organized by Adam Weiss, a longtime Los Angeles event promoter who previously threw underground warehouse parties. But after 17 years of sobriety, he said the traditional party environment no longer felt consistent with the life he was building.
“The more I leaned into my sobriety, the more the warehouse parties didn’t actually feel aligned,” Adam said. “And so I started being like, ‘What else can I do? What are the events to make people connect?’”
His answer was to begin organizing what he calls “wholesome events” centered on meditation, reflection and community. “Remember Those Quiet Evenings” combines those ideas with the atmosphere of an underground music gathering.
Once guests had arranged themselves across the warehouse floor, conversation faded and the live performance began. Adam played singing bowls and chimes alongside musicians performing atmospheric synth and guitar, creating an experience that attendees compared to a sound bath — but with a fuller live musical component.
One guest said the combination of frequencies and instruments made the event feel different from other sound baths she had attended. Another described leaving “well-rested” and more in touch with himself.
For Adam, the purpose was simpler than any formal definition of the event.
“The whole idea of this is just an invite to slow down and pause,” he said, “and invite in stillness.”
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