Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street SF
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Composers in Curation- the History of Meridian in Music
A Fundraiser for the Meridian Gallery
Thursday June 26, 7-10 PM
$35 Donation
535 Powell St. SF


7 PM
First Floor
Bob Marsh: the Visitor
Bob Marsh, composer has over 40 years experience with solo and ensemble performances and public engagement projects. He holds a BFA in sculpture and MA in humanistic clinical psychology. He studied classical guitar and piano privately, taught himself other traditional instruments as well as inventing several of his own. He frequently blurs boundaries between art, performance, dance and music and is actively engaged in changing the relationship between performer and audience. He is currently combining sculpture, movement and music in a variety of wearable sculptures that make sounds when in motion.

7:15 PM
Third Floor
Andrea Williams
Sound artist, Andrea Williams, composes immersive sonic environments with field recordings, laptop, small instruments, and room resonance.

7:45 PM
Second Floor
Bryan Day
Bryan Day is an instrument inventor and experimental musician based in Richmond, CA. For this event Day will be performing two-part piece using whiskerphones (amplified carbon-fiber filaments) and homemade radio transceivers.

8: 15 PM
First Floor
Phillip Greenlief & Jon Raskin's 1+1

For more than 10 years, Greenlief and Raskin have been active in their celebrated 2+2 performance series, where the pair of saxophonists invite a pair of "like instruments" to join them in improvisations and graphic scores. The project has spurred more than 40 concerts, and as many recordings, working with numerous great musicians from around the United States. From time to time, the saxophonists pare the project down to a duo, where the same mix of improvisation and forward-thinking graphic scores (that are often referred to by others as works of art in their own right) are on the table to encourage dialogues between these accomplished Bay Area reed wizards.

8:45 PM
First Floor
David Samas
David Samas is a painter, poet, inventor, composer, philosopher, farmer and father of 4. A native San Franciscan, David performs, curates and catalyzes multidisciplinary collaborations which stem from a deep love of the natural world, a respect for the ancient ways and the profound sacredness of all life. He will perform on his sonic painting “the Dragon of Music”.


9:15 PM
Third Floor
Tom Bickley
Tom Bickley, alto recorder and voice performs his composition Basho (1996). This is a piece both noisy and meditative, an hommage to the famous poet and the tradition of walking/wandering meditation.

9:30 PM
Beginning on the Third Floor, On Each Floor, Ending on the First Floor
the Cornelius Cardew Choir
Heart Chant- Pauline Oliveros
Wind Horse- Pauline Oliveros
7 Hums 7 Times- Tom Bickley
The Cornelius Cardew Choir, a unique blossoming of politics and experimental music, was founded on Mayday 2001 by Bob Marsh, Kattt Atchley, and Tom Bickley. Continuing under the leadership of Tom Bickley, the choir models healthy political community by mutually supportive sonic endeavors. It has performed with Pauline Oliveros and the Deep Listening Band, and annually at the Garden of Memory event on the Summer Solstice. It is named in honor of social activist and composer/performer Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981).

Cost: $35 Donation- noone turned away

Audio samples in which musicians at this event play: