The Grim Schocker Duo creates rich sound textures through combining ancient instruments, made and found objects, electronics and alternate tuning systems. The duo consists of Wayn Grim and Edward Schocker www.edwardschocker.com www.waynegrim.com

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mattrobidoux.com Matt Robidoux is a San Francisco based composer, improviser, and educator interested in the convergence of movement and sound as it relates to free improvisation and accessibility. Their primary instrument is the “corn synth” — (Kinetically Operated Randomness Network) a modular system that interprets physical input from two “ears of corn” sculptures cast in aluminum. Why corn? I like to focus on the modularity/ubiquity of corn and this kind of illogical sculptural sound causality as a starting point for free improvisation. The instrument was invented during my residency at ACRE in Wisconsin, where I cast two corn cob moldings in aluminum at a metal pouring workshop in a cornfield. Movement and touch determine the parameters of pitch, velocity, and duration. This makes for an accessible instrument, at once charming and absurd, while also a merging of my practice creating space for unrestricted musical improvisation. The modular environment, configured around two touch controlled aluminum cast ears of corn, is informed by my ongoing work with Pauline Oliveros' final project AUMI (Adaptive Use Musical Instrument) in direct collaboration with the disability community and multidisciplinary arts organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. The powerful echo and artistic legacy of Mills College CCM (1967-2022) resonates in my design of the corn synth, modeling it after the Buchla 158, the original synthesizer used at the San Francisco Tape Music Center beginning in 1963.

NURSE BETTY IS A PROJECT BY DIANNE LYNN OF FOOT SOS AND WEIRD EAR RECORDS... MANIPULATED FIELD RECORDINGS AND SYNTHESIZED SOUNDS INFORMED BY NATURAL BODY PROCESSES CREATE A SOUNDSCAPE THAT BOUNCES BETWEEN FUN AND FRIGHTENING. https://nursebetty.bandcamp.com

Raub Roy has performed and recorded electroacoustic music as horaflora since 2005, and more recently (2017-present) as Scy1e. Performances often are based around low-tech immersive sound, utilizing novel arrays of semi-autonomous devices and techniques to keep the audience, as well as himself, surprised. Balloons, electric toothbrush, modified speaker cones, transducers, and a bevy of cassette walkmen, are some of the idiosyncratic tools in his stage show. https://scy1e.bandcamp.com/

Adult Math = Psychodramatic chaos for the mathematically impaired. San Leandro based solo project exploring timeless themes such as failed expectations, numeric guilt, and quadratic emotions. https://youtu.be/tCCbsELw8I4?si=4HiwHoMSgB62AXR1 https://youtu.be/oZtF4S4nkkY?si=XuPYOTmANgp6lWtD

Talia and Graham are both musicians based in the East Bay. They make electronic music and love to stare directly into the sun.

Now available in giblet. Accept no substitutes! https://departmentofentropy.bandcamp.com/

https://petrazelie.com/

Distant Reader is based in Berkeley and plays slow, pensive music. A new album, Place of Words Now Gone, is available from Lily Tapes & Discs. Listen at distantreader.bandcamp.com.

Microtonal minimalism on a custom algebraic synthesizer. Come with me as we explore morphing otherworldly patterns layered into a bright and psychedelic tapestry. http://soundcloud.com/theallelectricsmartgrid

http://www.patricktalesforejr.com/

Daniel lives and works in the Bay Area. He has had releases on Audiotalaia, Jack Tone Records, Glacial Movements, Tectorum Tapes, Edgetone Records, Dark Entries and Geographic North. www.danielblomquist.com

https://sites.google.com/view/derek-scott-exp

Tamara “Tammy” Duplantis is a Louisiana-born experimental musician, digital media artist, game developer, and teacher of the arts. Under the name Tambalaya, she crafts unique games and music out of glitchy Game Boy cartridges and hand-me-down toy Casios, planting strange and beautiful pixel dreams in every place they take root.

https://www.peachymango.org - Franck Martin focuses on space as a compositional element. His music is dark ambient experimental. He has released several albums in Dolby Atmos made on Modular Synthesizers.

The still rarely-heard harsh noise project from Oakland, this time in a solo performance https://soundcloud.com/dry-patch

https://joshpollock.bandcamp.com/album/the-war-of-the-roses

http://www.davidslusser.com/

Revenant (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. Audio: https://grex.bandcamp.com/album/revenant-i

Eurostache, formed in 2009 on Oakland's Telegraph Ave, is an electro-acoustic group focused on live experimentation. Their performances blend unique instruments, analog synths, found objects, and vocalists' extended techniques. The result is a captivating cacophony ranging from ambient textures to noise and feedback. Learn more at http://eurostache.com

https://www.anost.net/release/A8A2/john-davis/landlines

https://youtu.be/rKI5Ie4oM2Q?si=7KeFC6zFH9ocPfAH&t=160

https://soundcloud.com/runcible-spoon-fight Runcible Spoon Fight came together at the insistence of Thomas Pynchon's literary agent, who encouraged them to form, thus ensuring a rich supply of a sudden chorus of whoops and yibbles for your event, whether it be a bar mitzvah, battleship launch, or ritual suicide via V2 rocket. The duo is currently exploring more structured forms of improvisation and the re-use of found sounds, but on their own terms...meaning, presumably, something different from the norm. In fact, expect beaten-metal clouds of mercury syringe-drops, squeezed into popcycles of sub-prime numbers only, with peanut-prawn curry icing.

Electro-acoustic, noise, and free improvisation duo on invented instruments and electric mandolin from the San Francisco Bay Area. https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-currents

Euphotic brings together three seasoned sonic experimenters, each with a unique approach – put in simple terms – natural, physical, and imaginary. Natural - bones, driftwood, stones, sand, wind and water; physical - gravity, friction, resonance, kinetic forces; imaginary - technological circuitry making hitherto imaginary sounds real via plotted electricity. https://ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/album/conjugate-regions

https://youtu.be/ufx5Vs4yUUY https://youtu.be/VoDZbDgSRic?si=OFzORQPbGX46I5Pi https://darkentriesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/krispy-kat-whack-live-at-the-lube-room

Transient is David R. Molina's project exploring electro-acoustic, ambient, noise, free improvisation, and experimental music. He sometimes plays traditional or invented instruments, or found objects, or field recordings, and processes and loops them via electronics, effects pedals, and software. The results can be meditative soundscapes which are either light, beautiful and haunting, or dark and disturbing. Other times it can be industrial beat driven layers of noise, or a wall of noisy shoegaze guitar.

Finnish for ‘fragile’, Hauras is interested in employing repetition, decay and chaos to help find a space where a song can exist. In doing so, Hauras attempts to expose and explore the psychology of society here at the end of civilization. Hauras is Howard Ryan, San Francisco.

Doug Lynner brings forward to the modern modular world the influences of his pioneering mentors, Morton Subotnick, Harold Budd, Jim Tenney, Nicholas England and Leonid Hambro. Beginning with Synapse Magazine, Lynner has had a multigenerational impact on the world of modular synthesis. Www.neatnetnoise.com

blurness is Barbara Nerness’ solo project exploring fluidity of time, space, body, gender, sexuality, and consciousness. For some, consciousness is the soup between your ears. For me, it is the space between everything else, the invisible fabric of connection. www.barbaranerness.com

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://linktr.ee/birdtrain

https://soundcloud.com/bird-train

https://antimatter3.bandcamp.com/ https://www.recombinant.media/antimatter https://sirr-ecords.bandcamp.com/album/negative-resistance

https://saganmusic.bandcamp.com/album/anti-ark

John Ingle and Matt Ingalls are long time collaborators in various contexts of improvised and composed music. Saxophonist John Ingle is an improviser, an interpreter, a composer, and a conductor of new music. He is a founding member of sfSound and is known for his unique tone, his adept control of extended techniques, and a huge dynamic range­ —from nearly inaudible whispers to room-filling resonance. Oakland musician Matt Ingalls (clarinets) is a composer and improviser heavily influenced by his long involvement in computer music. His composerly solo improvisations explore extended clarinet techniques that interact with the acoustic space, often as combination tones. Matt is the founder and co-director of sfSound, currently curating the West Oakland Sound Series weekly concerts of new and experimental music. John and Matt performed as a duo on the 2012 Day of Noise. https://sfsound.bandcamp.com/track/duo-ing http://mattingalls.com/ http://www.sfsound.org/~john/

CONCHADERO - A mystical time traveler who uses the modified conch shell to to create sonic interdimensional frequencies, by combining the principals of the fibonacci sequence with modern earthly electronic components. A musical project of Courtney Sexton who also plays brass instruments in Extra Action Marching Band, Brassica, and Dancin Baby. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571224846433

https://tanukispidercat.bandcamp.com/ https://tanukispidercat.com

Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase feverishly builds and abandons junk palaces of shiny detritus. Following the first solo tape-collage 7" releases in the mid '90s, the idea of what Angst Hase could be has varied over the years - from painstaking musique concrete compositions, to small-band noise-based songs, with frequent prepared guitar improvisations interspersed throughout. https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/album/bidden

Billy Gomberg lives in San Francisco, California. His practice incorporates traditional & modern synthesis, digital treatments, acoustic location recordings and occasional instrumentation. https://soundcloud.com/billygomberg/25018-collage https://bandcamp.com/billygomberg https://www.fraufraulein.com/billy/

https://embalminglately.bandcamp.com/track/on-earth

Ven Voisey's artwork is rooted in a practice of attention and response; listening and replying. Using a combination of field recordings, voice, found objects, fabricated structures and electronics, his works take a variety of forms: sculpture, installation, video, sound performance... Born in Richmond, CA, he grew up in the East Bay Area of Northern California, and attended San Francisco State University, receiving a BA in a self-designed major combining Humanities, Electronic music , Film, and Conceptual Art. He currently splits his time between roles of artist, designer, and facilitator, and between the locations of Oakland, CA and the Mojave Desert. website: v-v.fyi

FootSOS... Sticky sweets; these three ladies or what with some secret returning to subterfuge or something like a tribute band of lost nostalgic selves. Is it bad times for gluttons and low-carb false consciousness? Or the burnt burrito butt of at least one former sugar baby turned sugar cougar. Vegan nut cheesin' in the Bay 100% natural flavoring. Tartine dumpstering: A collective fiction or queef centric punning? Memorable ditties! Definitely 85% human. Or more like uhhhh 2sweet 2B 4 gotten https://footsos.bandcamp.com/album/foot-sos-live-on-kzsu-day-of-noise-2019"

Carrie Hunter - poetry reading / Derek Gedalecia - electronic sounds . We will deliver thirty minutes of ambient/electronic sounds with Carrie reading her original poetry over the top. https://headboggle.bandcamp.com/album/headhunter-live-10-7-23-long-haul-berkeley

Leading is a solo project of Rob Beckstrom/DJ certone from spareorgan in Ukiah, CA. using reel to reel & cassette analog tape machines, modular synth and other items to transmit droning, distorted, depressing ambient waste. www.spareorgan.com / www.spareorgan.com / http://www.instagram.com/spareorgan

https://60hzcollective.bandcamp.com/track/live-12-8-2024