Sep
30
7:00 PM19:00

Sholeh Asgary: S3ljam - Night 1 @ The Lab, SF

Tickets: https://withfriends.co/event/16499061/s3ljam

S3ljam is a 2-night performance and convening that formally presents a compilation of 6 scores collectively developed in workshops between December 4, 2022, to January 15, 2023, as part of Sunday Sessions X MAJLES, during Sholeh Asgary's residency at Berkeley Art Center. Sunday Sessions built upon, and at times, broke down, MAJLES, a program that situates the body as a site of knowledge, enacting movement and voice from and within the physical place they occupy to explore complex relationships to space, place, and one another. "Majles" is an Arabic and Persian term that translates to council. In this context, it refers to a creative contract as a form of decentralized governance. The weekly 3-hour Sunday Sessions sought to build collaborative and cross-cultural processes of score writing within a non-hierarchical framework. Each composition connects specific types of movement work (including strikes, protests, home, collectivity, and rest) to the collective build and physical space within which the score is developed and eventually performed through sound, movement, silence, text, and image. 

For this special occasion at The Lab, S3ljam invites new and previous participants to formally and publicly perform these six collectively developed scores for the first time. In addition, there will be a limited edition gift. Ultimately, S3ljam proposes a creative sonic governance that is decentralized, asking how listening can reveal how we understand, relate, and world-build. 

Sholeh Asgary (b. Tehran, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist whose works implicate the viewer participant in future mythological excavations, bridging large swathes of time and history through water, water clocks, movement, light, imaging, voice, and sound. Her practice is a conglomeration of visual, sound, and collective processes, all of which she is deeply committed to. Featured in Art in America's 2022 "New Talent Issue" and a 2023 Artadia Finalist, Asgary's work has been presented by such institutions as ARoS Kunstmuseum, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Minnesota Street Project, Sotheby's Institute of Art, and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Asgary is a UCLA Art|Sci Collective member and a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and California College of the Arts.

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Jul
9
2:00 PM14:00

Solo set at 覺 (JUÉ) Queer Sino-Diaspora Showcase @b4bel4b

Tickets: jue.splashthat.com

觉 (jué: internal or external human reaction after external stimulation) is a gathering of workshops, conversations, performances and collaborations. The event will center queer sino-diasporic artists / makers curated by MaggZ and Output Field, through a network of internet friends (我们都是网友). 觉 (jué) is an expression of feeling embedded, generated, and realised by sino-queer experience. These kindred connections were forged by a nebulous communal affect that engages queer expression with Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kongese culture. MaggZ and Output Field welcome you to find your own through-lines through their live showcase of movement, sound, image, and tea.

Buy tickets today to see @magg._z @kinglotusboy @tiffrexrei @gabbywen_sound @mother.athena @babe__lin @r.e.d.beans.

There will be a tea tasting workshop from @teaphilelife and BaZi astrology readings from @tiffrexrei in the beginning! Sign ups available on site!

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Nov
7
4:00 PM16:00

[LIVESTREAM] FULL CIRCLE: NEW SONORITIES ON ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS

Full Circle is a free improvisation project between Anita Chandavarkar on bansuri (Indian bamboo flute) and Gabby Wen on guqin (Chinese seven-string zither). Anita Chandavarkar is a flutist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser who spans and mixes the gamut of genres, experimenting with new music, classical, folk, Hindustani classical, and jazz. Gabby Wen is an electroacoustic music composer and improviser, working with synthesizers, electronics, guqin, field recordings, and miscellaneous instruments and objects to create captivating auditory experiences and narratives. With a common interest in cross-cultural musical conversations, and a passion for ancient wisdom, the duo explores the unique synergy of this specific instrumental combination, beyond the expectations of its inherent sonic qualities, in both traditional and contemporary contexts.

Tickets: $15 General, $10 Members

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Oct
16
2:00 PM14:00

Online solo performance/presentation @ COTFG

https://www.cotfg.org/events/altstrings

Join us for an online presentation Saturday, October 16th of 2021!
Begins at 4 pm CT (2 pm PST)

4:00pm (CT) Alec Toku Whiting is a composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist based in Boston, Massachusetts. Primarily a koto player, his improvisatory approach is rooted in his experiences studying modern music for the instrument while growing up in Yokohama, Japan. His technique foregrounds the manipulation of timbre and its relationship to physical gesture. As a composer Alec’s work results from the investigation and synthesis of abstract formal processes and intuitive structures in pursuit of a multiplicitous musical event. His music has been performed in the United States, France, Spain, and Australia and he has collaborated with musicians including Mark Fell, the Mivos Quartet, Wendy Eisenberg, Lina Tullgren, and Ted Reichman.

4:20pm (CT) Cedar Choppers is the project of composers Andrew Stoltz, Travis Weller, and Brent Fariss. With origins in concerts produced by Austin New Music Co-op, their collaboration is a departure from the one-composer-per-piece approach and occupies the muddy borders between composition, improv, production and performance: sounds from instruments new and old, traditional and custom-made, woven into a fabric of compositional ambient Americana.

4:40pm (CT) Gabby Wen

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