Movie Night
@ Turquoise Yantra Grotto
Friday December 18, 8-10 pm
32 turquoise way sf
$10-15
Cheryl Leonard
Bryan DayBrother’s Quarrel feat.
Amanda ChaudharyJaroba w/ David Samas
Join us for the first in a series of movie nights at TYG exploring live sound for new visuals with 4 short sets from Bay Area luminaries of free improv. Winter is chilly, so curl up with us by the fire and sip cider for the avant equivalent of Netlix and chill. Bring your eyes and ears and we’ll provide the popcorn.
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Cheryl E. Leonard is a San Francisco-based composer, performer, and instrument builder. Over the last decade she has focused on investigating sounds, structures, and objects from the natural world. Leonard is fascinated by the subtle textures and intricacies of sounds, especially very quiet phenomena. She uses microphones to explore micro-aural worlds hidden within her sound sources and develops compositions that highlight the unique voices they contain. Her projects often feature one-of-a-kind sculptural instruments that are played live onstage and field recordings from remote locales.
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. Dayís work explores the parallels between the patterns and systems in nature to those in contemporary society.
Jaroba aka James Robert Barnes musician / composer/ visual artist. Has performed jazz blues 20th century and experimental music. Jaroba has written music for Flatwater Shakespeare company. And has been awarded by the Kennedy center for best original music for stage. Currently Jaroba has been exploring compositions with home made instruments, electronics and improvisation.
Jaroba lives in San Francisco
Brother’s Quarrel is the avant improvising duo of David Samas, invented instruments and Ian Saxton, new digital instruments. On this occasion they will be featuring Mistress of Mod Synth:
Amanda Chaudhary.
Amanda Chaudhary is a composer and performer specializing in contemporary and electronic music. Her solo work involves experimenting with innovative sounds via analog synthesis and custom software with computers and mobile devices as well as folk and toy instruments. Her other ensemble projects include Reconnaissance Fly, an art-pop band and composers collective; and Surplus 1980, a Bay Area post-punk band.
David Samas is a composer, cosmologist, poet, painter, performer, philosopher, farmer and father of 4; he is a practitioner and professor of arcane healing technologies and traditional magics. He has a BFA from the SF Art Institute in conceptual art and studied poetics at the New College of California, Vassar, Bennington and S.F. State. As a young man he performed with the SF Boys Chorus, the SF Opera and the SF Symphony with which he won a GRAMMY for the “best classical recording” of 1994. He also makes sacred geometry amulets and talismans, is an excellent cook, and self publishes small editions of hand bound art books when he isn't hosting at one of the two Bay Area venues he curates: the Window Gallery at the Center for New Music SF and Turquoise Yantra Grotto.
Ian Saxton is an experimental percussionist and theatrical activist with a background in computer music and a deep passion for complex polyrhythms. He completed a music BA at UC Santa Cruz with David Cope, a Computer Music MA at UC San Diego with Miller Puckette, and worked closely with David Wessel while in the Music Composition PhD program at UC Berkley before leaving in “protest” over the corporatization and militarization of public education and arts research.
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The Turquoise Yantra Grotto is a house concert series for avant improvisers and invented instrumentalists with a focus on ethno-modernism and extended techniques. We hold a monthly event which is part concert, and part social club, near glen canyon in San Francisco.
Cost: 10-15