8:00pm
Bryan Day + Jorge Bachmann + Michael Gendreau + Mason Jones
9:00pm Viv Corringham - voice & electronics + Multimedia Consort & Wind Choir (
Nancy Beckman - shakuhachi,
Tom Bickley: EWI wind synth & contrabass recorder, Nan Busse: didgeridoo & dance, Joe Lasqo - laptop, keyboards, objects,
Suki O'Kane - percussion,
Jennifer Wilsey - percussion, Bill Thibault: video)
Bryan Day is a improviser, instrument inventor, illustrator and installation artist based in Richmond, CA. His work involves combining elements of the natural and man-made world using field recordings, custom audio generation software and homemade instruments. Day’s work explores the parallels between the patterns and systems in nature to those in contemporary society.
Day has toured throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, Argentina and Mexico, performing both solo as Sistrum and Eloine and in the Shelf Life and Seeded Plain ensembles.
Festival appearances include Soundwave Festival (San Francisco, 2014), Thingamajigs Festival (San Francisco, 2013), New Media Sound and Art Summit (Austin, 2013), Milwaukee Noise Festival (Milwaukee, 2012), Denver Noise Festival (Denver, 2011), Heliotrope Festival (Minneapolis, 2010), Megapolis Festival (Baltimore, 2010), Denver Noise Festival (Denver, 2010), Transistor Festival (Denver, 2009), Quiet Music Festival (Cork, Ireland, 2008), Sonic Circuits Festival (Washington, D.C., 2007), Soundfield Festival (Chicago, 2005), and SubZero Festival (Minneapolis, 2001). Day has over 40 solo and ensemble releases on labels such as Creative Sources, Bug Incision, Friends and Relatives, Gameboy, Freedom From, Digitalis, Featherspines, Neus-318, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Unread, and Seagull.
In addition to sound art production, Day is studying Butoh and physical theater. Since 1997 he has been running the new music label Public Eyesore and its sister label Eh?. Through Public Eyesore and Eh?, Day has produced and released over 200 albums of improvised and experimental music by artists from all over the globe and organized numerous tours for American artists in Japan. Day curated regular events at the Clawfoot House (Lincoln, 2009-2010), Tiptop Haus (Omaha, 2005-2007), The Magic Theatre (Omaha, 2006) and Sitting Still, Going Places first Friday series at Chatterbox (Lincoln, 2006-2007). Day is currently music curator at the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco.
NY-based British vocalist, composer and electronic sound artist Viv Corringham plays the Luggage Store Gallery as part of her Northern California tour, joined by a Transbay multimedia consort of Deep Listening practitioners and neogaku kaiju.
Program may include various types of improv games based on sonic grammars, deviant sample-melting, mnemo-narrative field recording, and intermedia moiré of words, utterance, sound, motion, memory, image & music.
Viv Corringham has worked internationally since the early 80s, creating music performances, audio installations & soundwalks. She's interested in exploring people's special relationship with familiar places and how that links to an interior landscape of personal history, memory and association. Her ongoing project Shadow-walks has been presented in gallery shows from New York to Istanbul to Hong Kong.
Viv's training and awards include an MA in Sonic Art with Distinction from Middlesex University & a BA in Theatre Design from Nottingham Trent University. She's a certified teacher of Deep Listening, having studied with Pauline Oliveros. Viv is the recipient of many grants and awards on multiple continents and will be completing a residency at Montalvo whilst in the Bay Area.
Deep Listening colleagues, wind/electronics artists
Nancy Beckman,
Tom Bickley, and percussionist
Jennifer Wilsey are long-time associates and collaborators of Viv. Also joining will be their student of neogaku, percussionist extraordinaire
Suki O'Kane and laptopist/pianist Joe Lasqo, whose special interests include application of artificial intelligence techniques and computational linguistics to music & the intersection of traditional Asian musics with modernism. Another culture- and genre-bending partner in crime is dancer and didjeridooist Nan Busse, pioneer of "dada didge".
The final multimedia channel in the mix will be that of video artist and computer scientist Bill Thibault, who is often found constructing the video narrative for the Bay Area's leading electronic musicians.
Cost: $6-10 sliding