Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Fri, Jul 11 2025 8:00 PM

2727
2727 California St Berkeley, CA 94703

Sonic Cartographies II

Sonic Cartographies is Klank.ist’s performance series designed to foster bi-monthly gatherings and collaborative encounters with Bay Area-based musicians and artists. The series offers a platform for local performers to engage with, interpret, and respond to sonic and visual works shared by Klank.ist members across Berlin, Istanbul, Strasbourg, Graz, Yalova, and the San Francisco Bay Area — forming an ongoing, evolving dialogue across geographies.

Curated by Eda Er for Klank.ist, Sonic Cartographies explores experimental music and interdisciplinary collaboration through live improvisations, graphic scores, recorded interventions, and multimedia gestures. The series blurs boundaries between digital and physical presence, celebrating the power of collaboration beyond borders.

Bay Area Performers:

Alexandra Buschman-Román

Kyle Bruckmann

Eryk CB

David Coll

Nathan Corder

Eda Er

Brendan Lai-Tong

Cheryl E. Leonard

Mat Muntz

George Papajohn

Danishta Rivero

Danniel Ribeiro

Eric Theise
Audio samples in which musicians at this event play:
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
The premiere, at the 2013 Outsound New Music Summit, of Wrack ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (made possible by the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commissioning program).
Krys Bobrowski: sliding speaker; Eric Theise: map manipulations. Excerpt of the 40 minute improvisation that took place on 13 November 2022 at Mosswood Sound Series, Oakland, CA. Thanks to Matt Ingalls of sfSound for presenting experimental sound, weekly, in this warm and welcoming venue throughout 2022. Thanks, too, to Conrad and Willis Meyers for the loan of the digital projector.
The Empress for voice, trombone,double bass, video,lights and electronics Voice: Eda Er Trombone: Brendan Lai-Tong Double Bass: Richard Worn Concept, composition, video and light design: Eda Er