Errorgrid Presents: DATA/LOSS

A curated dark electronica showcase exploring the erosion of data and the loss of form.

The second installment of the DATA/LOSS showcase series brings Portland and Bay Area artists together for a night filled with curated raw audiovisual oblations. Set as an immersive, seated experience, we invite you on a journey of erosion that moves from dark industrial textures toward total decomposition of signal. At the heart of the event lies the study and observation of impermanence of form, of stability as a popular illusion, and the impact of quantization of reality. The visual aspect of the showcase is presented by Arson Rivvers. Phase 1: HEMADAXIS (Katabatik) Phase 2: MALARKI (Errorgrid) Phase 3: FALLING SOCIETIES (Errorgrid) Phase 4: ERIC SCHLAPPI Phase 5: THOABATH

https://grayarea.org/event/errorgrid-dataloss/
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After Thought

A night of electronic and multimedia compositions by Stanford composers.

After Thought is a concert that occurs slightly after it has already happened, where the memories of computers and humans blur into something you won’t quite be able to forget (or fully remember). What exactly does a memory disk remember, and what does it choose to leave behind? Ten composers interviewed the transistors, microchips, and hidden circuitry inside of our electronic devices to ask them about their childhood memories. What is a microchip’s favorite song? What happens when a transistor undergoes a transistential crisis? This concert features works by ten Stanford composers– Anna Golubkova, Brian Brown, Calvin Van Zytveld, Lemon Guo, Nicholas Shaheed, Mercedes Montemayor, Walker Smith, Mohammad H. Javaheri, Héloïse Garry, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi– with wide-ranging composition and performance practices spanning electronic and acoustic music, audiovisual compositions and installations, live coding, custom-built instruments, field recordings, film, dance and more!
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Visible Cloaks: Paradessence

Experience Paradessence, the latest from Visible Cloak, a shimmering journey of emergence and illusion unfolding in a luminous, hyperreal nocturne.

Paradessence, Visible Cloaks’ third full-length, is a work of emergence and illusion. The album’s fourteen songs shift, heave, and shimmer against a faintly luminous backdrop of night, a cavernous space shaped by sparse hyperreal representations of the natural world. The arrangements are simultaneously grandiose and fragile, both an inversion and culmination of what came before and as adventurous as anything they’ve produced so far.
Opening the evening is San Francisco Bay Area based composer and performer Madalyn Merkey, whose recent work observes the principles of acoustic instruments and material spaces to design real-time soundsynthesis programs for site-specific performances.

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