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Sun, Jul 27 2025 7:00 PM

Berkeley Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley
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Vision & Vibration
Doors 7 | Q&A 7:30 | Music 8:15
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Doctor Bob & the Out Patients

Doctor Bob & the Out Patients will peform 'Raga for Dark Times', composed by Bob Marsh & David Michalak, an all world musical slipstream, powered by the events of the day and days of innocence lost, memory and dreams. The piece allows for each musician to rise from the stream and contribute their own musical reflections and insights. Bob Marsh will dance and sing as a costumed character. and (World Premiere) The Secret Opera - film, (12 minutes) (digital) - Grum, an opera singer played by Bob Marsh searching for the key to love & art attempts to perform in spite of aphonia, inner demons and a ghost that has been haunting and dooming performances in the decaying Opera House. An Expressionistic, Felliniesque, rear window view of opening night jitters. Filmed in part in the once glorious Stone opera in Binghamton, N.Y. built in 1890 and in San Francisco. Music by Doctor Bob, directed, photographed and edited by David Michalak
Personnel:
Bob Marsh - cello, accordion, voice, movement, EWI Electronic Wind Instrument | David Michalak - lap steel, box of junk, omnichord, morse code | Cindy Webster - singing saw, hurdy gurdy | Kersti Abrams - alto saxophone


Ari Micich

Ari Micich is a San Francisco based trumpet player and composer with a solo show for trumpet, electronics and video. He will perform his original music along with several new compositions at The Outsound New Music Summit. He explores new contexts for the trumpet, through the combination of organic sounds, melody, harmony and visual storytelling. His work with video is inspired by a background in visual arts, the interplay between musical and visual mediums and their shared language of line, rhythm, harmony and dissonance. The show consists of electronics, fixed media, projections and live trumpet playing. He has performed this music as an opening act for Bonnie Prince Billy and at Sacramento State University. His compositions have been performed around the country by trumpet players at various universities. As a trumpet player, he performs regularly with many orchestras and arts organizations, including the San Francisco Symphony and SF Ballet.
Personnel:
Ari Micich - trumpet, electronics, video

Cost: $16/$25