autumn is the fourth in a five-part series of performance installations created by the Long Tone Choir, based on the seasons. The soundscape of autumn is inspired by the season’s processes of descending, diminishing and condensing. Over the course of an hour, the sound slowly shifts from harmonically and texturally dense to sparse with surprises […]
Enrique Arriaga (Unknown Persons) and Concepción Huerta (Territorios Personales)
Enrique Arriaga (Mexico City) : Unknown Persons For his presentation at the C4NM in San Francisco, Mexican artist Enrique Arriaga will perform a sound work entitled Unknown Persons. This piece approaches aural cycling and subtle change thru tape loops and self-generative modular synthesis. This sound-substance is blended with cut-up lyrics of hardcore punk messages, spoken […]
Enrique Arriaga (Unknown Persons) and Concepción Huerta (Territorios Personales)
Enrique Arriaga (Mexico City) : Unknown Persons For his presentation at the C4NM in San Francisco, Mexican artist Enrique Arriaga will perform a sound work entitled Unknown Persons. This piece approaches aural cycling and subtle change thru tape loops and self-generative modular synthesis. This sound-substance is blended with cut-up lyrics of hardcore punk messages, spoken […]
Scott R. Looney / Joseph Noble / Kjell Nordeson – Duos and Trio
Piano stalwart Scott R. Looney comes out of the woodwork playing duos and a trio grouping with friends old and new. Scott has been playing with percussionist Kjell Nordeson off and on for well over a decade, frequently in groupings featuring ex-local bassist Damon Smith, but with a variety of sax players. This time they’ll […]
Scott R. Looney / Joseph Noble / Kjell Nordeson – Duos and Trio
Piano stalwart Scott R. Looney comes out of the woodwork playing duos and a trio grouping with friends old and new. Scott has been playing with percussionist Kjell Nordeson off and on for well over a decade, frequently in groupings featuring ex-local bassist Damon Smith, but with a variety of sax players. This time they’ll […]
TO….OBLIVION
Giacomo Fiore performs three works that situate the electric guitar in dialogue with itself through looping and delaying processes: from the postminimal textures of Eve Beglarian until it blazes (2001), through Anthony Porter’s mercurial loops in hair of the thing that bit you (2011), to Danny Clay’s Turntable Drawing No. 16, with its ambiguous explorations […]
TO….OBLIVION
Giacomo Fiore performs three works that situate the electric guitar in dialogue with itself through looping and delaying processes: from the postminimal textures of Eve Beglarian until it blazes (2001), through Anthony Porter’s mercurial loops in hair of the thing that bit you (2011), to Danny Clay’s Turntable Drawing No. 16, with its ambiguous explorations […]
Martin Azevedo & Planarian Collective, with Dennis Aman: Disassembling The Clocks
Writer & sound artist Martin Azevedo combines found sounds, homemade electronic & acoustic instruments, experimental song craft and vivid storytelling to uncover a world of ghosts. Composer & instrument builder Dennis Aman performs on custom-designed instruments to explore a family history of inventions, devotions, confinements and escapes. […]
Martin Azevedo & Planarian Collective, with Dennis Aman: Disassembling The Clocks
Writer & sound artist Martin Azevedo combines found sounds, homemade electronic & acoustic instruments, experimental song craft and vivid storytelling to uncover a world of ghosts. Composer & instrument builder Dennis Aman performs on custom-designed instruments to explore a family history of inventions, devotions, confinements and escapes. […]
Sontag Shogun (NYC/Montreal) with Maggi Payne
Sontag Shogun is a collaborative trio that makes use of analog sound treatments of foley and tape, and nostalgic solo piano compositions in harmony to depict abstract places in our memory. Textures built from organic materials such as sand, slate, boiling water, brush and dried leaves, both produced live in performance and recorded to weathered […]