6.8.2026 // a line up of improvisational noise // Dead End Vintage, 3370 19th St. San Francisco // doors 7:30, show 8 // $10, NOTAFLOF

Ava Koohbar : sound enactor, handmade instruments, ‘making unfolds through process, handmade instruments and performances. Performance not as a product, but a as a way of life.’ - excerpt from a description of her new book, Of Flesh and Frequency, a Poetics of Sound Making. @avakoohbor

Kanoko Nishi-Smith is a performer currently based in SF/Bay Area. Her recent interest has primarily been in performing 20th century and contemporary musical compositions for piano as well as for koto (Japanese 13-string zither), and free-improvisation in various different contexts.
@kanoko.nishi

Danishta Rivero is an improviser, performer, and sound artist based in Oakland, California. She explores the artifacts resulting from heavy processing of the voice and their relationship to its acoustic resonance.

Jordan Blankenship is an experimental sound artist from Modesto, California. His work examines the kinetic relationship between sound and gesture through extended techniques, prepared instruments, and improvised performance.
@jordanblankenship

K Francis Messer is a bay area-based percussionist and electro-acoustic noisemaker. performances emphasize suspension and consequence with analog feedback, prepared drums, salvaged objects, and sonic interference. sounds move in fractures and flares, embracing points of collision.
@chlorinearoma

Kaitlin McSweeney is a performer and composer based in Oakland, Ca. She improvises with live-looped vocals, cello, feedback, signal and environmental noise. Her recent work explores eroticism in noise through a body-centered invitation of tension and release, tearing apart and bringing together.
@captainmcsweeney

Domi Nigro is a performance artist and dancer of varied vocabulary based in Oakland, Ca. Inspired by both the mundane and fantastical, their art aims to explore the merging paradigms of these worlds by delving into highly emotional feeling states, improvisation, and technical movement forms.
@earthenergy

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Sean Keenan and Mike Meanstreetz, Scot Jenerik, Shin Chida (Japan)

Shin Chida (Japan) @burriedmachine
Japanese experimental noise musician based in Yokkaichi, known for creating dark, atmospheric soundscapes using 8-track tape manipulation

Scot Jenerik (Portland) @scot_jenerik
Scot Jenerik is a composer and conceptual artist. Projects include; AUME, F-Space, and Soundtrack for the Dead. He has performed, lectured and distributed audio/video works extensively in the United States, Europe and Japan. He is co-owner of Mobilization Records, has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, founded 23five Incorporated and co-hosted the No Other Radio Network on KPFA

Mike Meanstreetz is a LA based improviser whose non-traditional craft seeds new genres while reaping the fallen fruit of old. Sonically his practice explores and expands upon both metrical genre adjacent sensibilities and more fluid extended techniques via drum kit/percussion, musique concrete/electronic manipulation, and acoustic-electric nylon guitar. In these various modes he has performed throughout the US, Mexico, Canada and Europe with a long list of collaborators including Los Angeles Free Music Society, Anna Homler, Sandy Ewen, Tatsuya Nakatani, Martín Escalante, Henry Barnes, Patrick Shiroishi, Derek Monypeny and Arrington De Dionyso
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