West Oakland Sound Series
2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland
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KOLE GALBRAITH
Eric Theise + Suki O'Kane + GRAHAM VIEGUT
JAIME ROBLES + Nancy Beckman + Tom Bickley


KOLE GALBRAITH is a multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on sound, audio-visual, and found-object installation. Based in Seattle, Washington, Kole Galbraith has been active in the underground experimental music community for the past decade performing throughout the West Coast of the United States and Europe. Sonically his sonic studio compositions are informed by early 20th century French musique-concrète, metal, jazz and contemporary composition. Thematically, the compositions are influenced by interior Salish folklore, and contemporary indigenous experience. Galbraith mixes using materials found in nature with electronic techniques to uncover both latent sonic capabilities and to uncover latent histories.


Eric Theise's set of cartographic works includes the West Coast premiere of his collaboration with composer SHAHRZAD TALEBI (a piece commissioned for the inaugural season of dadageek's Contemporary Art & Sound Technologies, played here by percussionists Suki O'Kane and GRAHAM VIEGUT), a performance of A Synesthete's Atlas with pianist CHRISTOPHER HARTO, and a solo work for optical sound.


"Unseen Stream:" a 30 minute performance of JAIME ROBLES'S poem, Unseen Stream, with video by Jaime Robles, music by Nancy Beckman (shakuhachi, ocarina, voice), Tom Bickley (EWI/electronics, voice), and JAIME ROBLES (voice and percussion). The video projection is fixed media of water in various streams, with some text from the poem. The performance is enclosed in a soundscape of processed sounds of water flowing and footsteps on dry leaves. The music is improvised, with the text sung and interludes of instrumental music between sections of the poem.

Cost: $20 (FREE students/seniors/underemployed)

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