¡THIS FRIDAY, AUGUST 25th!
¡FREE!
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
¡FREE!
Adobe Books
3130 24th St, San Francisco, California 94110
¡FREE!
Donations to the performers will be encouraged and collected
NO BYOB please.
¡Free refreshment with $6 or more book purchase!
Donations also accepted for delicious refreshments
Buy a book, support your venue, take something home.
We love you. ♥
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Join us for Adobe's monthly music series!
This month we have some of the Bay ...
¡THIS FRIDAY, AUGUST 25th!
¡FREE!
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
¡FREE!
Adobe Books
3130 24th St, San Francisco, California 94110
¡FREE!
Donations to the performers will be encouraged and collected
NO BYOB please.
¡Free refreshment with $6 or more book purchase!
Donations also accepted for delicious refreshments
Buy a book, support your venue, take something home.
We love you. ♥
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Join us for Adobe's monthly music series!
This month we have some of the Bay Area's, nay, the world's best improvisors, experimental acoustic, amplified, electronic composer/performers ("..how dare he!") in the intimate setting you've come to know and love at Adobe Books on a early Friday eve (note, 7:30pm, perfect for after work!) make these dark days a bit brighter in cosy company at Adobe Books!
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Finalizing the evening off with Laetitia Sonami. Born in France, Sonami settled in the United States in 1975, Bay Area 1978, to pursue her interest in live electronic music. She has studied with Eliane Radigue, Joel Chadabe, Robert Ashley and David Behrman, among others. Sonami’s sound performances, live‐film collaborations and sound installations focus on issues of presence and participation. She's noted for having devised new gestural controllers for performance and applies new technologies and appropriated media to achieve an expression of immediacy through sound, place and objects. Best known for her unique instrument, the elbow length lady’s glove, which is fitted with an array of sensors tracking the slightest motion of her hand and body, she has performed worldwide and earned substantial international renown. Recent projects include the lady’s web – an uncontrollable controller for live performance, Sound Gates a public sound installation on a 2.5 km pier in Rijeka, Croatia and Sheepwoman, a live film in collaboration with SUE-C, based on a Murakami novel. Sonami has received numerous awards among which the Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Awards. She currently is visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute and Bard College and Mills College.
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On second we have Xopher Davidson aka Antimatter. Davidson 's work with experiments in electronic sound stemmed from a basis in painting, film, and installation art, mixed with a long-time interest in electronics. Davidson received a BFA degree in painting and sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1991. In 1992, Davidson rode the train to Oakland, California, where he founded the seminal Exhibit < > space. In this storefront location (situated adjacent to a freeway onramp), he presented an ongoing installation of signs and diagrams which his paintings had evolved into. Listening here to the rumblings of the overhead freeway, it became obvious that the issue of sound needed to be (re)addressed. A year later, Davidson began work at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland, California. Here he performed and recorded sound in many forms, presenting three concerts of electronic music while working on his MFA. At this same time, Davidson constructed a trilogy of experimental 16mm films at CCAC's film studios, to be overlayed with sound developed at the CCM recording studio. As a member of the live electronic groups Citizen Band and Circular Firing Squad, he performed extensively in and around the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest. Davidson continues to conduct experiments in sound and image.
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Starting off the night with Jim Haynes! Haynes tends to investigate properties of corrosion, both in his visual and sound art. He focuses on how decay parallels and relates to the perception of time when cycles of activity collapse into stasis, and how that stasis can rupture when any number of pressures are applied. These result from a cross-contamination of ultrasound detection, shortwave reception, surveillance camera observation, moribund radiophonic exploration, and/or electro-magnetic disruption. Currently Haynes is in the process of extracting himself from the San Francisco Bay Area out to rural North CA, and it will be interesting to see how a less urban landscape affects his work. Haynes has exhibited internationally at the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, the Lausanne Underground Film Festival, the Berkeley Art Museum, WestSpace (Melbourne, Australia), and Diapason (New York) and his recordings have come out via Editions Mego, Ghostly International, Drone Records, Hooker Vision, Intransitive, Semperflorens, Elevator Bath, and his own The Helen Scarsdale Agency. Fruitful collaborations with Loren Chasse, Keith Evans, Steven Stapleton, and M.S. Waldron make for striking juxtapositions and blends of sound worlds. Until 2015, Haynes was the Vice President and Curatorial Director for 23five Incorporated, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound arts. Through 23five, Haynes co-curated the 2003 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and the Activating The Medium Festivals from 2007 to 2012. Anyone who's been paying attention has seen Haynes' writing on sound art, noise culture, minimalism, and general music experimentation for The Wire, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Metro Pulse, The Sound Projector, Chunklet, and of course for Aquarius Records (RIP) and Stranded Records (VIVA!)
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Laetitia Sonami - http://sonami.net/
Xopher Davidson - http://www.23five.org/archives/antimatterdavidson.html
Jim Haynes - http://www.helenscarsdale.com/haynes/bio.htm
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