MOSSWOOD SOUND SERIES
a new weekly experimental sound series every Friday evening
presented by sfSound
ON THE NATURE OF SOUND (#2)
Karen Stackpole gongs and percussion
Revealing the tremendous sonic spectrum of gongs: at once visceral, muscular, musical, droning, soothing and surprising - incredible sounds of vibrating metal that are truly unique, both sonically and visually.
Karen Stackpole performs and records with metals/gongs duo Euphonics, Dean Santomieri, Ron Thompson, Myles Boisen, Moe Staiano, and John Schott’s Ensemble Diglossia as well as collaborating on various other projects. Gongs and resonance are the calling. Small distinct sounds (a la insect music) and use of silence and space rank high also. She is the drummer for Cactus Motel and has played with Malcolm Mooney and The Tenth Planet, Moxie, Bolshoi Rodeo, and Rare Thing. She is the percussionist for the improvising quartet, Vorticella. Her percussive efforts include work with the Onsite Dance Company and the San Francisco Shin Taido group. Karen also operates Stray Dog Recording Services and works as a freelance writer for DRUM! and Electronic Musician magazines.
As part of his "opening set residency," Oakland musician
Matt Ingalls performs his decades-in-the-making, 30-minute-continuous-micro-timbre-circular-breathing-tour-de-force clarinet solo. Exploring extended techniques that interact with the acoustic space, he often acoustically synthesizes difference tones that are perceived to originate inside the listener's ear.
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale