Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Wed, Feb 24 2016 8:00 PM

Berkeley Arts
2133 University Avenue Berkeley
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Thollem McDonas will play music from his latest album, “Operation Sunbeam” which uses Modified Electric Pianos, Rhodes, Hammond Organ, and Analog Effects. Improvisational dance by Butoh artist Christina Braun.
Thollem will also play an acoustic set.

As a keyboardist Thollem performs and records both solo and in collaboration with many different musicians, dancers, filmmakers across the stylistic spectrum from agit rock to experimental rock/pop to blues to noise to ambient to drone and...His main focus at the moment is with his Silver Ochre project and preparing for a 7-month tour throughout the lower 48 states.
www.thollemelectric.com
http://thollemelectric.com/operation-sunbeam.html

Lifelong dancer Christina Braun's choreography with collaborating composers has been presented regularly since 2002. Her core teachers in the Butoh form are local treasures Hiroko and Koichi Tamano. As SF Butoh LAB and with BUTOH San Francisco, she has produced Butoh Dance symposia, performances, workshops, and festivals.

Cost: $10-20 Donation at the door, NOTA
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Thollem Electric on Rhodes and pedals interacting with Jesse Gilbert's realtime visualization software "Spectral GL" which combines 2D and 3D visualizations with real time audio/camera/kinect feeds.