Jim Haynes Suki O'Kane Demonsleeper Gabriel Stern
If corrosion is your vocation, the initial conditions become as elemental as the rusting sulfates and chlorides themselves. In studio or from the field, Haynes gathers signals massive or miniature, shortwave or hypodermic, concussive or ultrasonic. Those initial signals cross contaminate his corroding molecules and the first timecycle will be as present as the last with results that could be visible, tactile, conceptual or, at this performance, audible. Treat yourself to the raptures of generative decay. Behold as "cycles of activity collapse into stasis, and how that stasis can rupture when any number of pressures are applied."
http://www.helenscarsdale.com/haynes/sound.htm
A natural born instigator across multiple worlds of music, movement, expanded cinema and public art genres, O'Kane emanantes what in days gone by would have been painted as an aura, a halo, and yet evades mainstream detection by immersing herself, decades-deep, in gorgeously fetid swamps of shared artistic endeavor. Composing for and collaborating with so many artists, including Thingamajigs Performance Group, inkBoat, Theater of Yugen, the Dan Plonsey ensembles, and Illuminated Corridor, it's a rare treat to see her perform solo. Of course, focusing on movement theater and durational performance, the audience becomes her unwitting collaborator. Rising from the bog of our collective warmth there appears dripping Jurassic electronics, a bass drum painted with moving images, masterful restraint, and a treasure of sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAeIpv9DKzQ
Deathrattle lullabys and inescapable lucid dreamscapes wrought by somnambulist maestra, Alexandra Buschman-Román, have become cherished among audiophiles lucky enough to find themselves in a room with her. In 1999, she formed the electro-acoustic group, Synethesia, together with Angélica Negrón. After scaring the daylights out of everyone at the Conservatory of Music in Puerto Rico, she matriculated to Mills College before committing to advanced studies with ancient dark forces whose names must never be spoken.
https://soundcloud.com/demonsleeper
As if striking a stone to summon a green geyser, Gabriel Stern touches off irrepressible beats and alarming timbres from his boulder of synth circuits. An aeonian fountain of sound begins to fill the room to its rafters as you realize you're in the presence of a sort of Radagastian wizard whose heart and ears are forever wide open. You'll find yourself wanting to nest atop his head and drink in the unceasing euphony he conjures.
https://www.gabeohgabe.com/
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Paranormal Activity
American Conservatory Theater (2/19 - 3/15) | |
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She Loves Me
Dinkelspiel Auditorium (1/23 - 1/25) | |
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What the Constitution Means to Me
Hillbarn Theatre (1/22 - 2/8) | |
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Comedy Oakland at The Elbow Room Thu Feb 19 8pm
Elbo Room Jack London (2/19 - 2/19) | |
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“El Tiempo Latine”
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St (5/16 - 5/16) | |
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Mark Twain's
CounterPulse (2/19 - 3/1) | |
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The Outgoing Tide
Cloverdale Performing Arts Center (1/23 - 2/1) | |
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Comedy Oakland at The Elbow Room Fri Feb 27 8:30pm
Elbo Room Jack London (2/27 - 2/27) | |
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Comedy Oakland at Elbo Room Sat Jan 24th 8pm
Elbo Room Jack London (1/24 - 1/24) | |
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“E4TT/RMF New Music Piano Summit”
Berkeley Piano Club, 2724 Haste Street (3/1 - 3/1) | |
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