Friday, April 5th
Doors, 7:00pm - Show, 7:30
Suggested donation: $10-20
If you plan to attend, please RSVP
Join us for what will certainly be a beautiful evening of deep, subtle, sensitive sounds in an immersive environment.
Oakland-based field recordist and percussionist Kevin Corcoran will be joining the evening with a solo set featuring bass drum and delicate sounds, amidst other objects, movements, and shapes. Kevin’s work is sensitive and highly textural, guiding listeners who appreciate subtlety and revitalizing change in sound to be constantly awaiting the next new experience, moment by moment, second by second. His performance is contextualized by a past of collaborations with artists across time, genres, borders, and disciplines.
Caspar Sonnet - Portland-based composer, improviser, lap steel/sonic revitalizer, and director of Creative Music Guild’s Discordance series and noise label Andromache Records - will perform in collaboration with Joey Largent, who will accompany Caspar on just intoned harmonium and Dhrupad voice. Together, they will present a delicately unfolding, improvised, long-form piece that weaves the practice of dhrupad jugalbandi with a contemporary approach of sonic interaction— lifting the veil of an impermanent raga, note by note, phrase by phrase, with sensitivity, compassion, and ecstatic wandering; offering to listeners through sound an array of harmonious, conflicting, and inquiring acoustical relationships.
The artist/architect trio of Kyle Griesmeyer, Tae Kim, and Sasha Leon (sometimes known as Ordinary Services) will bless us with their guidance for the evening, presenting what will be a surprise spatial installation/evening shape to unify the night’s sounds with all of us who are in attendance. Their work as collaborators has provided a constant stimulation of mind through unveiling the deeply reflective, symbolic, meticulous, mundane, ritualistic, and organic occurrences of the body, of memory, of time and environment, offering playful, yet evocative interactions with those who witness their work, whether it be in gallery or casual settings. Their holistic vision has and always will tie performance and audience together as one.
After the music, all those who attend are warmly invited to join us for a gathering in the sculpting studio. If you would like to, feel free to bring snacks or non-alcoholic beverages (since we are now also serving as a meditation space for a growing sangha, we have to keep our place alcohol-free— thank you for understanding).