Thu 4/09 7:00 PM San Francisco State University, Knuth Hall [1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132]Volti’s professional singers, under the direction of founder and Artistic Director Robert Geary, are dedicated to the discovery, creation, and performance of new vocal music. The ensemble’s mission is to foster and showcase contemporary American music and composers, and to introduce contemporary vocal music from around the world to local audiences. The group has commissioned more than 120 new works, by emerging as well as established composers.
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SF]Ven Voisey
Presence irreducible, an artist marvellously attuned to form, material, technology, and ontology, modulating time and presence into something perceptible that leaves you saying, holy shit.
https://vimeo.com/1130556951
Thomas Dimuzio
Innovative techniques of sound synthesis, signal processing, algorithmic mixing and custom crossfade looping stoke this smelter of man and machine.
https://gench.com/thomas-dimuzio
Holy People
Informed by her cartooning practice, Leah Victoria's "clown poetics" channels stories from different characters' voices and ancestral perspectives under the name Holy People. All the way from NYC, don't miss her west coast debut at the Peacock Lounge!
http://holypeople.bandcamp.com/
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase
Chris Cooper brings withering critique of fear's own coping mechanism: logic. Given human cowardice, he gently myofascializes weak forces upon amplifying waves, directing gravity through his own hands into heaps of pie cutters, spinning tops, stiff brushes, long strings, and power amplifiers, to gently embolden all who, alas, must one day perish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zJMowXteNE
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