Soprano Jill Morgan Brenner and pianist Paul Dab present Vermilion Border: Songs at the Threshold, a wide-ranging program of contemporary American art song and opera featuring works Brenner has commissioned and premiered over the past decade.

The recital revisits selections from I Sing Words: The Poetry Project, a commissioning initiative Brenner founded in 2015 to expand the contemporary art song repertoire. For the project, Brenner curated poetry primarily by living poets, inviting composers to select the texts that inspired them and create new works for voice and piano. The program features art songs by Emily Shisko, Kyle Hovatter, Nicolás Lell Benavides, Julie Barwick, and Joseph M. Colombo.

The program also includes excerpts from Brooke DeRosa’s opera The Yellow Wallpaper, in which Brenner performed the lead role of Jane in the West Coast premiere.

Vermilion Border celebrates the collaborative spirit of contemporary vocal music, bringing poets, composers, and performers together on one stage and inviting audiences to hear these works in a new light.
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cbmuse (Chris Brown)
Ma++ Ingalls
Matt Robidoux
David Leikam
Clarke Robinson

Free GOURMET vegan pancakes & fruit compote with entrance fee.
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Nat Evans performs his new album What Are Days For. Written over the course of three years, this new album by Nat Evans considers the grief of losing loved ones, relationships with plants, surfing, home, and the light of the west coast.

Fuzzy radios, bass and warm guitar tones drift through field recordings and clouds of synthesizers humming along. Like a surreal baroque dream, a Buchla synthesizer and fretless bass duet give way to washes of pedal steel and a fretless bass solo in conversation with a weather radio. An immersive, ever shifting series of landscapes.

What Are Days For was released September 11th on Heavy Weather Records. The album is being released on limited edition vinyl, and available streaming everywhere.

The Electric Guitar Ensemble performs music for different combinations of electric guitar and bass. It features performers from Santa Cruz and the Bay Area. Its repertoire includes works that explore improvisation, alternative notation, process-based structures, and extended techniques. Performing music by Catherine Lamb, Rodrigo Barriga, and others. The Electric Guitar Ensemble is Rodrigo Barriga, Nathan Clevenger, Christopher Pierandozzi Everingham, James Mossa, & Sean Keenan
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7:00 - DJ Deep Sea Fishing in Apash’s Eye Pockets
7:30 - Fluorescent Grey presents YT Obscura. (10 minute duration)
7:45 - brief introduction & THTHNG II Movie Premiere
9:45 - brief Q & A

THTHNG II is long awaited sequel to 2023’s THTHNG

In 2023 Robbie Martin alongside collaborator Kelly Porter premiered THTHNG. One part unauthorized sequel to the John Carpenter classic horror film, one part sensory overload of visceral body horror and gore. Before AI slop became a household term, before the Butlerian Jihad started, THTHNG was technically the very first full-length ‘AI movie’ ever produced or screened for an unsuspecting audience.

THTHNG II takes the concept in a much more refined direction while still leaning into the uncanny creepiness of AI image and video generation. Illegally starring an ensemble cast of semi recognizable obscure 80s horror movie actors, THTHNG II follows their horrifying journey through Antartica, Florida, and Argentina as they try to survive the now full blown global infection. Directed by Robbie Martin and Written by Robbie Martin & Kelly Porter.
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YT Obscura is a new experimental audio visual performance by Fluorescent Grey born out of the discovery of strange one-of-a-kind, personal and at times very unsettling home recordings on audio cassettes found at flea markets. Wondering if the same concept could be applied to the internet, Robbie picked up some rudimentary programming techniques to tap into the backend of the largest archive of obscure and low/almost no view count home video recordings, Youtube. Sitting somewhere between a live sampling mashup and a carefully edited found footage film, YT Obscura uses only source material uploaded before 2008 with view counts lower than 20. Every performance of YT Obscura is unique, as the videos are pulled from the internet in real-time and edited together using unusual ‘match cut’ techniques like matching spoken words, body position, movement, color composition across completely unrelated material.

WARNING: because of the nature of the highly obscure ‘home video’ material, some performances *may* include footage from accidental uploads, or uploads without the participants consent which some may find voyeuristic or disturbing, (even though all the clips exist on Youtube publicly today, URLs to each video will be provided in post show notes).


Robbie Martin / Fluorescent Grey bio:


“In the spirit of the old time innovators” (Norman Records)

“One of the Bay Area's best-kept secrets” (Nina Protocol)


Robbie Martin has made experimental electronic music as Fluorescent Grey since the mid-1990s. He founded the Oakland label “Record Label Records” at fifteen — home to Scorn (Mick Harris), Kush Arora (Only Now), Sote, Contagious Orgasm and Nommo Ogo — and has released sixteen records of his own appearing on imprints Katabatik, Acroplane, RRRecords, Nebleena, Naboamusic, Jacktone, Geräuschmanufaktur and Isolate. His dense 3xLP Ambiente was given a recommendation in the MIT Computer Music Journal for the physical modeling synthesis used, and its follow-up Delta Quadrant was described by Juno as ""sci-fi-influenced noise-delia"". He's often heard on the :zoviet*france: podcast A Duck in a Tree, and can be regularly seen performing in the revolving lineup of musicians in Katabatik.

In 2015 Robbie veered into filmmaking with the release of the 3-part 7-hour long, A Very Heavy Agenda, which was met with reactions like “one of the most disorienting pieces of cinema i've ever seen” (Letterboxd) and ""the best documentary I have watched – on any subject – in years” (Spyculture).

In 2023, being an early adopter of AI visual tools, Robbie premiered several AI short films at the Volumens festival in Valencia, Spain and later linked up with visual artist Kelly Porter to produce the full length fictional horror movie THTHNG.


https://fluorescent-grey.bandcamp.com/



links:
THTHNG (2023 full movie)

https://youtu.be/WjMbUbMOsSE?si=9IVsaGr8qSs_Z_ko


A Very Heavy Agenda trailer

https://youtu.be/V-vEGNEtKSU?si=1D8Xyw4Y1ztgzXRe
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