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ILIOS (GR) | R. Jencks | Michael Gendreau

A night of extremes: Joining us from Athens, Greece, sound artist ILIOS returns to the Bay Area after 20 years to reunite with R. Jencks and Michael Gendreau in an onslaught of subsonic frequencies, noise, and astounding vibrations. ILIOS (Athens, Greece) https://soundilios.bandcamp.com/ http://www.siteilios.gr/ Instagram: antifrost_sound Active since the early ‘90s in sound art and image, […]

Charles Hutchins and Usufruct: Electon Wind

Charles Celeste Hutchins joins us from London with his serpent and laptop for some computer-aided free improvisation. Usufruct will merge woodwinds with electronics to deconstruct, lovingly reassemble, and improvise around found texts and musical materials in the public domain. In this rotation of the space time continuum, the linear perception of time is disrupted by […]

Latitudes 22: Austin Larkin/Theresa Wong

New Haven’s Austin Larkin returns to the series to transmogrify his violin into a tool to amplify the poetics of space. Following a stunning performance at Other Minds Festival 26 in 2022, Theresa Wong makes her debut appearance at Latitudes to deconstruct the cello and voice to their most essential elements. Austin Larkin is a […]

Larnie Fox’s ‘Contraptions’: Gallery Reception

Larnie Fox presents ‘Contraptions’ his installation of invented instruments at C4NM’s Window Gallery! Reception followed by talk/demo by Fox Artist’s Statement ~ Contraptions What I’m doing is fun. It has developed, gradually, over many years, starting in Salt Lake City in the early 80s when we had heard about “performance art”. We didn’t have any […]

Improvisation Summit: Lehn, Bertoncini, Bischoff & Brown

Vienna-based composer-performers Tiziana Bertoncini, violin and Thomas Lehn, synthesizer perform as a duo, and also with Bay Area electronic musicians John Bischoff and Chris Brown. Lehn first met and performed with Bischoff and Brown as members of The HUB, the computer network band the HUB in 2005 in Cologne, Germany. Tiziana Bertoncini violin and Thomas […]

G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S

Gourmet vegan pancakes served with entrance fee. ‘Natch! Eurostache Liver Cancer 4 Foot Owl Mission Hypnotic Shuttered […]

G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|I|G|H|T||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S

Savory dinner pancakes concoction not seen on this planet since 2005 served at the show! You’re in for a treat. Commode Minstrels in Bullface w/Ploc Munster— Medicine Cabinet—- Gustavo Pastre—- Horaflora—- David Leikam—- Tanuki Spider Cat— […]

G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S

Y’all know what time it is, Godwaffle is back again baby! Pulsating Cyst (L.A.)—- Mod Life Crisis—- EKG (Kyle Bruckmann & Ernst Karel)—- Amphibious Gestures—- Birdspanker—— […]

Matt Sargent and Casey Anderson

Matt Sargent performs “The Fragility of Time,” an immersive, hour-long guitar work by James Romig. The performance starts off Sargent’s west coast tour of Romig’s music to celebrate the CD release of “The Fragility of Time” on A Wave Press (Los Angeles). The concert will be open with a new piece by Casey Anderson (electronics) […]

Harjo: Release Party – Nocturnus: Waking

It’s the day of birth for Harjo‘s latest album Nocturnus: Waking. Come join us in celebration! Nocturnus: Waking is the fourth studio album by Harjo, the groundbreaking metal experimental guitar trio. Conceived as a continuation of Harjo’s second album Nocturnus: Dreaming, this album delves deep into the enigmatic realm of sleep and its surrounding mythology, […]