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[SF CA USA] [Fri Jan 31] Lovely is the New Loud



As ever, apologies for the cross posting. What to do?

If you're in the Bay Area hope you can come out; this should really
be.... lovely. Just what I need.

----> Quiet American presents at 964 Natoma <-----------------

Lovely is the New Loud

964 Natoma, San Francisco, CA
Friday, January 31st
Doors 8pm

$6-10 sliding, no one turned away for lack of funds

----> Event Description <-------------------------------------

Electronics extend the reach of traditional instruments; new
sensibilities breed a new music of groove, drone and ambiance.

For "Lovely is the New Loud," the artists have been asked to
present work that pursues unabashedly the lovely. In these
loud and painful times, take a moment for something softer.

'Lovely' features work by Bay Area artists:

 christopher willits / scott pagano

  Christopher Willits and Scott Pagano overlap an audio
  generating system and an image generating system. The two
  networked systems share data, producing moments of synthesis
  and synchrony: a duet for sound and image.

  Christopher's interests lie in music that is generated
  spontaneously by self-organizing systems; his music is a
  direct result of the processes involved: software
  processes recontextualize warm guitar chords and fold
  acoustic timbres into fluid forms that retain geometry
  and centeredness. These systems take on a life of their own,
  generating a music of constant variation and repetition:
  structures that persist yet gradually drift.

  Willits recently completed graduate research at Mills College
  where he studied with Pauline Oliveros and Fred Frith. Prior
  to Mills, Willits received a visual arts training at the
  Kansas City Art Institute, studying under Patrick Clancy.
  Christopher has proliferated music through the collaborative
  space of visuallistening.com and has released CDs with
  Fallt (Ireland) and 12k (New York).

  Scott Pagano is a video / sound artist currently living in
  San Francisco. His work ranges from experimental video and
  film and video performance, to architectural photography
  and electronic music composition. Driven by a keen interest
  in the byproducts of machine errors, graphic reworkings of
  architectural spaces, and breakdowns in communication
  systems, his work foregrounds precision image reworking
  and malfunction fetishism. Communication technologies,
  transportation, the physical layout of cities, and the
  pathways through which we are 'informed' of events around
  the world are the impetus behind his compositions...

  Through careful/chaotic video works, Scott focuses on
  developing an intense visual language to offer up an
  alternate view of the multitude of systems and interactions
  that fill our lives.

  Scott's work has been shown in the New York Underground
  Film Festival, Transcinema, the Rotterdam Film Festival,
  Frieze magazine, Pond, and Mass MoCA. He has accompanied
  musicians from Kid606 to the Kronos Quartet.

   http://www.visuallistening.com
   http://www.12k.com/index2.htm
   http://www.fallt.com/pollen/index.html

 tom heasley

  'Forget all previous conceptions of the tuba. When composer
  Tom Heasley conjures his music for tuba, didjeridu, throat
  singing, electronic processing and loop sampler, you will
  be transported to a cavernous panorama of stunning sonic
  exploration: delicious deep drones; sublimely spiraling
  swells of brass shifting like seismic plates...'

  Tom's music has been featured on National Public Radio,
  BBC Radio 3, Public Radio International, John Schaefer's
  New Sounds on WNYC, Hearts Of Space, and many other radio
  programs. In 2002 Heasley was awarded an Artist Fellowship in
  Music Composition by Arts Council Silicon Valley. His work has
  also been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts,
  the American Composers Forum and the McKnight Foundation.

   http://www.tomheasley.com
   http://www.innovarecordings.com/albums/566.html

We may have additional artists; for up-to-date information
vist:

   http://www.quietamerican.org/lovely.html

Seating mostly on futons to encourage comfortable deep listening.
Hopefully we'll still have beanbags (thanks to Blasthaus!).

Depending on weather, hot or cold drinks will be available.
Hopefully someone will make cookies again!

----> 964 Natoma Venue Info <-----------------------------------------

964 Natoma
San Francisco, CA, USA

Between Mission and Howard, 10th and 11th street, south of market.
A few blocks from Civic Center BART, or the corner of Market & Van
Ness. Bike parking inside!

----> More Info <-----------------------------------------------------

Please write me at ghede@xxxxxxxxx

----> Disclaimer <----------------------------------------------------

This information is not for print distribution or advertising.
This is a private event for friends, family, and our community.
Wondering why I have a disclaimer now?  Write me and find out!

  ghede@xxxxxxxx
  http://www.quietamerican.org

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