Psychodramatic chaos for the mathematically impaired. Bay Area noisey solo project exploring themes of failure, numeric guilt, and quadratic emotions. https://youtu.be/unLXG8uXShc?si=E2pf8bKk1aUdw0R5 https://youtu.be/hJOUJMOM3hE?si=ox1woPoY5ohXha4
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Derek has been making music since 1987. He started out in an all-synthesizer band in high school, then ventured into making underground dance music very soon after graduating. With a heavy focus on Techno, he created music for releases on record labels like Resource Records (San Jose, CA), Flask (a division of Silent Records, San Francisco, CA), as well as his own netlabel, Dobox Recordings. Nowadays his focus is still on Techno, but also experimenting with various esoteric electronic instruments and music software to create abstract and ambient soundscapes. Beginning with recordings used for the album 'Loose Memories' and a contribution to 'The Big California Noise Compilation', Derek is exploring the more extreme side of sound

ROBIDOUX & VARGA HAVE MET MORE THAN ONCE BY ACCIDENT ON BART TRAINS TRAVELING BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY. SOME MAY SAY THIS IS BY PURE CHANCE, BUT WE SAY THERE ARE LARGER FORCES AT WORK. SIMILAR GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE WILL BE BROUGHT TO BEAR DURING THE COURSE OF OUR 1AM SET ON KZSU. https://grayarea.org/community-entry/madame-varga-lori-varga-oakland/
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More sound that you can shake a stick at. http://www.rduck.com/
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After that, Dr. Sample's ideas, methods... became... unsound. https://departmentofentropy.bandcamp.com/
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bay area dj spinning dubby house music https://www.mixcloud.com/dj_loudmouth/
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Oneirine Electronic is the stage name of Tommy York, San Francisco native and modular synthesizer obsessive. Using both Eurorack and Buchla synthesizers alongside homebuilt drum machines, his music runs the gamut from off-kilter takes on genre to idiosyncratic polyrhythmic soundscapes. His recent work moves in a more experimental direction, focusing on fewer instruments and reflecting his repeated health crises and unexpected recovery: textures of lament, alongside painful, irrepressible hope. https://oneirine-electronic.bandcamp.com; https://soundcloud.com/oneirine
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floating in the space between worlds since ‘93, hat brackets makes sounds for the void with assorted electronics that sometimes behave without a plan. http://hatbrackets.bandcamp.com/
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Petra Zélie shapeshifts between filmmaker and sound artist, making electroacoustic noise in liminal spaces where boundaries blur. She works with granular synthesis, custom-built electronics, and field recordings—bringing sounds into the spaces she's exploring, then letting those explorations find their way into performances.Granular Synthesis / Electroacoustic Noise / Drone / Harsh / Ambient. https://petrazelie.com/
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DLeading is an ever-evolving project by spareorgan proprietor rob beckstrom using vintage tape machines and magnetic tape to re-create the atmosphere of hell. http://www.spareorgan.com/
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Attic Clatter is a collaborative group from Riverside CA exploring acoustic drone and other sounds. https://www.instagram.com/atticclatter
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Picked up a bass guitar in 2000 to play speed medal for Midnightmare and goth band Dead Sexy in 2001 in the San Francisco Bay Area but quit and played solo keyboards. In 2004 Korey performed with synth pop band Red Youth leaving in 2006 to attend SFSU. After a 10 year hiatus Korey began playing solo synthesizer and performing by 2018 as KZZL at underground events, most notably Resonant Frequencies and Resident electronic monthly. In 2019 Korey cofounder Piqued.FM with Richard Hogben bringing a curated electronic music show to the Bay Area, expanding to documentaries and articles. https://kzluna.bandcamp.com/
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Peter is an active electronic musician. He loves the broad palettes of rhythm and timbre, the tension of precision and mess. He has pursued community through music, starting the Column technoculture monthly in downtown San Jose with Andrew Blanton. https://nbor.us/
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mit Darm is the minus two project of Thingamajigs Performance Group with Edward Schocker on triggering glass, p’iri and shō, Suki O'Kane on contact mics and Jurassic pedals, creating that burst of wurst as you float in a sea of narcotic noise. https://www.thingamajigs.org/resident-ensemble-info
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The Shared Air Quartet is an ephemeral assemblage of relative strangers from the SF Bay Area, Sacramento, and Cleveland, brought together by a deep curiosity for sound and collective music making. Be prepared for an unpredictable exploration of drone, spontaneous composition, and electro-acoustic timbres.

Ernst Karel works along the area of reality-based audio, including location recording, experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, electroacoustic music, and postproduction sound for nonfiction film. CDs of his often collaborative work, including with the electroacoustic duo EKG, have been released on and/OAR, Another Timbre, Cathnor, Gruenrekorder, Locust, Sedimental, Sshpuma, and Relay Recordings record labels, and a duo with Bhob Rainey was released in 2024 on Erstwhile. https://ek.klingt.org
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The Revenant Quartet (Karl Evangelista-el. gtr, Tom Djll-electronics, Kevin Corcoran - percussion, Rei Scampavia - keys) is a unique, doom-inflected mixture of free improvisation, intense noise, and moody electronic textures–music that is both chilling and beautiful. https://grex.bandcamp.com/album/revenant-i
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The Neshama Alma Band is a San Francisco-based collaboration of composer/guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante and filmmaker/flutist Marjorie Sturm. Neshama means soul in Hebrew, and Alma means soul in Spanish. https://paxrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/clearing-clouds-of-confusion
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Bird Train is an experimental music project which seeks to explore the relationship between nature and the impact that humans have on it. This is done through a combination of field recordings and electronic instruments. The sounds of nature have been personally recorded from various parts of the country, including Sacramento, Chicago, and Hawaii. They are intended to create an immersive atmosphere of the natural world, as well as our impact on it. Electronic sounds are added as a juxtaposition to these recordings. A variety of synthesizers, effects, and other instruments are used to convey this idea. The sounds created include harsh noise, ambient soundscapes, evolving drones, and more. http://birdtrain.com/noise
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Hauras, Finnish for “fragile”, is the music project of Howard Ryan, San Francisco. His work is “concerned with the psychology of society at the end of civilization.” Utilizing strings and effects, vocals and radios, Hauras has shared stages with Sara Davachi, Low, Nels Cline, Mary Lattimore, Tom Carter, Laraaji and many others. The writer George Grella described the music as being "recorded on a paper bag and played back with an eraser.” Helen Scarsdale Agency (CA) and Industrial Coast (UK)

The still rarely-heard harsh noise duo of Oakland-based musicians Michael Zelner and Suki O'Kane

Massive Sound Processing Rig, from the San Francisco Bay Area, is a venture probing the boundaries of sound. Through live processing, sampling, electro-acoustic instrumentation and gear-driven improvisation, it radiates out to those who are present, those who have been present, and those to come, with intensity inversely proportional to the square of the distance between machine and performer. https://mspr.bandcamp.com
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Steve Adams (of Rova Saxophone Quartet) and Dan Plonsey (of Goggle Saxophone Quartet, Plonsey Scheme, Concert Band 1, Moeser) have been meeting semi-regularly to play saxophones (both), electronics (Adams), and the odd clarinet (Plonsey). Regardless of instrumentation, the two tend to proceed by independently establishing overlapping territories of sound: collections of pitches, rhythms, shapes, evocative sounds -- to explore at some length, before transitioning on to the next territories. An analogy: two non-competing, non-predatory species occupying the same small environment: sometimes jostling, sometimes taking pains to make space for each other, as in a TV nature show, minus the annoying commentary. For this performance, Adams plans to focus on his electronics, supplemented by his sopranino saxophone, while Plonsey's been playing a lot of clarinet, so this analogy of interaction between imaginary animal species is sonically especially apt. https://steveadams.bandcamp.com/album/improvisos https://danplonsey.bandcamp.com/ http://www.danplonsey.com/
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Blevin Blectum (half of the dastardly duo Blectum from Blechdom) performs new unreleased solo smatterings live and unfiltered, with a dash of electronic chthulhuian operatic weirdness - outtakes from her current collaboration in progress with librettist China Mieville. https://vimeo.com/user2673719
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James Goode coaxes extraordinary sounds from everyday objects. Russian nested dolls are transformed into squealing narwhals; bird calls into growling lions; the voice box from a stuffed animal into a flock of hungry seagulls; and brief vocal sounds into the soundtrack for a comic and surreal conga line. Defying easy description or pigeonholing, his music takes you to an unfamiliar place filled with luscious atonality and compelling polyrhythm. Goode navigates a course between austere minimalism on the one hand and pandemonium on the other. Dichotomies abound in his work: natural versus prosthetic, acoustic versus electronic, ancient versus modern, symbolic versus literal. In the Bay Area, Goode’s work has been presented at 21 Grand, Dresher Ensemble Studio, The Exploratorium, First Church of the Buzzard, The LAB, Luggage Store Gallery, Meridian Gallery, Mills College, New Langton Arts, The Peacock Lounge, St. George Spirits, Spire the Church, Victoria Theatre, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; in New York City, at The Stone; and at venues throughout Australia, Canada and Japan. https://jamesgoode.bandcamp.com/music
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Thadeus Frazier-Reed is a composer, instrument designer, and creative technologist exploring the effects of movement, dynamic and stochastic processes, error, and instrument form on sound creation. He is interested in the ways in which the time, place, and audience change the context and content of a composition and uses these variables to explore emergent behavior of complex systems with simple rules. He views each new instrument design as an opportunity to discover the unique voice of that instrument. Jivari is a new electro-acoustic instrument that uses audio transducers inside its wooden body to vibrate its strings sympathetically with any sound played through it. It gets its name from the buzzing sound of the strings which is inspired by the design of North Indian instruments like Sitar and Tanpura. The jivari is manually manipulated during the performance to influence its buzzing and resonances. https://www.foxgloveinstruments.com/instruments/jivari
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THE LAKE MILLIONS is guitarist/etc. Josh Pollock, who's played with John Cale, Acid Mothers Temple, Van Dyke Parks, White Hills, Gong, Gary Floyd, Tatsuya Yoshida, The Moe! Staiano Ensemble, and Jandek, amongst others. He also plays in the bands Foxtails Brigade, The Kilbanes, White Pee, and as turntablist DJ Female Convict Scorpion. https://joshpollock.bandcamp.com/album/surgery-salad-brain-2
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hermischalet is Rachel Smith, an audio-visual artist who also performs as one-half of the experimental, electronic-folk duo, The Lickets. http://hermischalet.com/
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Continuum Ban is a noise duo comprised of Oakland California based artists/sound makers Christopher Robin Duncan and Ben Sap. The pair weave soft atmospheric washes with brutal gestures made with electronics, field recordings, guitar and percussion. Continuum Ban is an improvisational interpretation of what happens when two opposing forces collide. https://soundcloud.com/chris-duncan-3
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Xopher Davidson’s work is an ongoing exploration into the material of sound. Exploring a multiverse of of sound worlds from subatomic drift to subharmonic long waves. He has performed as a member of : Circular Firing Squad, Citizen Band, and 45/102. Collaborating with Zbigniew Karkowski he released the albums Function Generator, Khz, Divide by Zero, and Processor. He has released the solo albums: Transfixion, Antimatter vs. Antimatter, Our Lady of the Skies, Reset, and Lux Perpetua. https://antimatter3.bandcamp.com/ https://touchingextremes.wordpress.com/2022/02/22/xopher-davidson-lux-perpetua/
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TanukiSpiderCat blends electric cello, modular synth, and samples. Dissection, manipulation, chaos. It’s a fragmented, unlikely and chimerical animal hailing from San Francisco. link: https://www.tanukispidercat.com/ also: https://tanukispidercat.bandcamp.com/ and https://instagram.com/tanukispidercat
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Order of Humanity exists for the solitary purpose of modifying and redirecting any coherent conception of your stated reality and existence. Any attempted analysis or explanation of our broadcast phenomenon, especially those with any grounded empirical evidence or rigorous reasoning will be denied and rejected. How your electrodes coordinate and align to our given synchronematic frequency cluster will determine your adapted future state. End transmission //

Drones, textures, soundscapes. https://60hzcollective.bandcamp.com/music
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Distant Grids, based in Berkeley, is the duo of Distant Reader and The All Electric Smart Grid. Listen to Distant Reader at http://distantreader.bandcamp.com/ and The All Electric Smart Grid at https://soundcloud.com/theallelectricsmartgrid.
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The All Electric Smart Grid explores music as a living system: cycles, symmetries, and patterns maintained through collective motion. Independent voices braid into structures that only function through mutual care, where harmony emerges from participation. And lo, the forces of evil seek to interrupt this ritual! They shall not be allowed! Each performance is maintenance, each gathering another revolution of the cosmic clock, minute to minute, week to week, Day of Noise to Day of Noise. https://on.soundcloud.com/WsBw0MPlGZK4tNopCy
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Isabelle Waldner Kalb is an artist from Oakland California exploring the relationship between sound and touch primarily through electric guitar. Connor Tomaka is an artist from San Francisco California working with physical modelling, fidelity, and repetition, primarily through software instrumentation.