Pushing beyond the boundaries of the performance stage towards a multidisciplinary celebration of some of the most exciting artistic voices in the Bay Area today.
Featuring contemporary music group sfSound, vocalists Antique Naked Soul, piano duo ZOFO, and dance company RAWdance.
sfSound, Experimental Music Ensemble
SfSound presents a new sonic work for amplified acoustic instruments that explores the psychoacoustic phenomena of "difference tones." When two tones are played simultaneously, listeners can perceive an additional tone whose frequency is a sum or difference of the two frequencies. Hard to reproduce over recordings, listeners often perceive the (harmless!) difference in tones as strangely originating from inside the ear.
Antique Naked Soul, Beatboxing Vocal Soul Band
What does it sound like to wear shame, to be dipped in it, smothered by it? What is the sound of the dissonance between a Eurocentric society and a Black identity? Using only their voices, Antique Naked Soul builds a soundscape of the historical shame of Blackness.
ZOFO, Two Pianists One Piano
ZOFO plays one piano with four hands. Notes and arms cross with a furious and graceful choreography, almost becoming like one creature playing the piano.
RAWdance, Contemporary Dance Trio
Burn In is a dark, mesmerizing, and psychologically driven piece, inspired by Rorschach imagery and the shadowy, stark world of film noir, that offers a study in contrast, both visual and emotional. Allan Ulrich described it in the SF Chronicle as "a low-down exchange in which every shift of weight, every daring lift, every displaced limb seemed both carefully wrought and another chapter in an ongoing relationship." Burn In, Part I was presented as a work-in-progress in 2012 at ODC Theater; the full piece premieres in 2014.