ME'DI.ATE Art Group

Soundwave Festival ((4)) GREEN SOUND Calendar

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June 6 to August 13, 2010
Artistic Director: Alan So

EVENT #1
What: Resonance at Battery Townsley (Season Opening Event)
When: Sunday June 6
Location: Battery Townsley, Marin Headlands
Time: Performance: 6:00pm
Price: $15 or $25 with bus transport
Bus Station/Box Office Location: The Lab
Station Opens: 3pm
Departure: 4:30pm
Performances by: Danny Paul Grody (guitar, effects), Gregg Kowalsky (tapes), Jacob Felix Huele (drums) & Kanoko Nishi (koto)

EVENT #2
What: Whispers of Reverberance
When: Saturday June 12
Location: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
Time: 8:00pm
Price: $10-15
Performances by over a dozen vocalists and musicians comducted and composed by Myrmyr (Marielle Jacobsons –violin, Agnes Szelag – cello, voice)

EVENT #3
What: Phantom Power
When: Sunday June 13
Location: Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission Street between 3rd and 4th
Time: 7:00pm
Price: Free Event
Performances and Talks by: Bay Area Sound Ecology featuring Jeremiah Moore, Andrea Williams and Aaron Ximm

EVENT #4
What: Infloresence 2010
When: Thursday June 17
Location: Civic Center Plaza
2 Performance Times: 7:00pm, 8:30pm
Price: Free Event
Art Installation, Interactive Performances and Talks by: artist Brett Ian Balogh (Chicago)

EVENT #5
What: Rock the Bike at Sunday Streets Mission
When: Sunday June 20
Location: Sunday Streets Valencia and 24th Streets (actual stage location TBA)
Time: 1:00pm
Price: Free Event
Pedal-powered Performance by rockabilly band Kemo Sabe

EVENT #6
What: Turrell Resonance at the de Young
When: Friday July 2
Location: de Young Museum Barbro Osher Sculpture Garden
Three Performances: 6pm, 7pm, 8pm
Price: Free Event
Acoustic performances by Myrmyr (Marielle Jacobsons –violin, Agnes Szelag – cello, voice)

EVENT #7
What: The Illuminated Forest Exhibition Opening Night
When: Friday July 9
Location: The Lab
Time: 8pm
Price: Free Event
DJ Luc Meier
Exhibition featuring artists Agnes Szelag, Jorge Bachmann, Ben Bracken, Suzanne Husky, Jessica Resmond, Reenie Charrière, Alyce Santoro, Vaughn Bell, Sam Easterson, Alan So
Exhibition Times: July 9-August 7
Exhibition Hours: Wed-Sat 12p-5p

EVENT #8
What: Re-Sonic in the Illuminated Forest
When: Saturday July 10
Location: The Lab
Time: 8pm
Price: $10-15
Performances and talks by sonic fabric artist Alyce Santoro (Texas), artist Joshua Churchill, and performance artist Thomas Carnacki

EVENT #9
What: Water Stories in the Illuminated Forest
When: Friday July 16
Location: The Lab
Time: 8pm
Price: $10-15
Performances by chamber ensemble REDSHIFT with composer Mason Bates, cellist/vocalist Theresa Wong

EVENT #10
What: Ground/Shift in the Illuminated Forest
When: Saturday July 17
Location: The Lab
Time: 8pm
Price: $10-15
Performances and talks by band Shores, artist Jim Haynes, electronic artist Lissom

EVENT #11
What: Imaginary Creatures in the Illuminated Forest
When: Friday July 23
Location: The Lab
Time: 8pm
Price: $10-15
Performances by electroacoustic band Barn Owl, artist Christine Choi, and musician Lazurus

EVENT #12
What: Archives of the Natural World in the Illuminated Forest
When: Saturday July 24
Location: The Lab
Time: 8pm
Price: $10-15
Special Event by singer Odessa Chen featuring sound artist [ruidobello] and artist Samuel Leshnick

EVENT #13
What: Earth Stories in the Illuminated Forest
When: Friday July 30
Location: The Lab
Time: 8pm
Price: $10-15
Performances and talks by composer Paul Rudy (Kansas City) featuring video artist Peter Rand (New Mexico), sound artist Jay Kremier (Nebraska), and electro duo Ambient Black

EVENT #14
What: Animosity in the Illuminated Forest
When: Saturday July 31
Location: The Lab
Time: 8pm
Price: $10-15
Performances and talks by composer Cheryl Leonard, sound artist Elin Øyen Vister (Norway), and electronic musician Elise Baldwin

EVENT #15
What: Viscera at Battery Townsley
When: Sunday August 1
Location: Battery Townsley, Marin Headlands
Time: Performance: 5:30pm
Price: $15 or $25 with bus transport
Bus Station/Box Office Location: The Lab
Station Opens: 3pm
Departure: 4pm
Performances by: artist Raub Roy, artist Jim Haynes and sound artist Takahiro Kawaguchi (Japan). Curated by Jorge Bachmann

EVENT #16
What: Revelations in the Illuminated Forest
When: Friday August 6
Location: The Lab
Time: 8pm
Price: $10-15
Performances by composer and artist Géraud Bec (France), artist Extraordinary Forest

EVENT #17
What: The Illuminated Forest Exhibition Closing Night
When: Saturday August 7
Location: The Lab
Time: 8pm
Price: Free Event
DJ Danimals
Exhibition featuring artists Agnes Szelag, Jorge Bachmann, Ben Bracken, Suzanne Husky, Jessica Resmond, Reenie Charrière, Alyce Santoro, Vaughn Bell, Sam Easterson, Alan So

EVENT #18
What: Green Sound at the de Young (Season Finale Event)
When: Friday August 13
Location: de Young Museum Wisely Court
Time: 6:30pm
Price: Free Event
Performances by avant-jazz band The Drift featuring video projections by Ben Bracken, Agnes Szelag and Jorge Bachmann

ME’DI.ATE Announces Soundwave Festival ((4)) GREEN SOUND

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Alan So, Artistic Director, alan@me-di-ate.net or 415.994.8935

Bay Area’s Most Innovative Festival Explores Environmental Performances and Works From June 6 to August 13 2010.

San Francisco USA (April 8, 2010) – ME’DI.ATE Art Group is excited to announce the return of the acclaimed Soundwave Festival this summer for its fourth season, entitled GREEN SOUND, exploring the natural world and environmental issues. Arguably the largest collection of artists and performances the Bay Area’s avant-sound scene has ever seen, Soundwave ((4)) GREEN SOUND will feature over 75 participating artists and musicians, in over 35 inspired performances, exhibits and talks, in 18 events over the span of 2 ½ months.

Full festival details at www.projectsoundwave.com. Infoline: 415.320.6685

The astonishing season will feature events in the most stunning environments around the Bay Area including Battery Townsley in the Marin Headlands, the de Young Museum, Civic Center Plaza, Yerba Buena Gardens, Sunday Streets in the Mission, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church and a month-long residency at The Lab where ME’DI.ATE turns the gallery into an artist-imagined forest. The most eclectic array of artists will perform including Bay Area luminaries like sound artist Jim Haynes, improviser Cheryl Leonard, singer Odessa Chen, electroacoustic band BarnOwl, chamber ensemble REDSHIFT with composer Mason Bates, avant-jazz band The Drift, as well as, national and international artists such as Texas artist Alyce Santoro, Chicago artist Brett Ian Balogh, Japanese sound artist Takahiro Kawaguchi, Norwegian artist Elin Øyen Vister, French composer Géraud Bec, amongst others.

“These innovative artists will investigate environmental compositions, solar and wind-powered performances, interactive eco-systems, climate change and pollution, natural- and human-powered performances, sustainable productions, reinvention and recycling, real and imagined environments and creatures, endangered species, water, plantlife/animal life, and other artist imaginations,” says Alan So, ME’DI.ATE Director and Artistic Director of the Soundwave Festival. “Soundwave promises to astound audiences with the locations, productions, and artist ingenuity, while challenging people to refocus attention on the beauty and destruction of our world, its needs for survival and implications to our community.”

Soundwave ((4)) GREEN SOUND begins June 6th at the historic WWII site Battery Townsley in the Marin Headlands. ME’DI.ATE is collaborating with the National Park Service for two events at the Battery. Artists will perform without electrical power using only the extreme natural resonance of the structure to amplify sound in this stunning environment. Audiences are encouraged to ‘buspool’ to the remote site leaving from The Lab gallery in San Francisco. “The battery today represents many things to many people – from national defense to the preservation of these former Army lands as a National Recreation Area,” says John Martini, Historical Consultant of Battery Townsley. “The historians and volunteers of Battery Townsley are excited to have artists explore the historic structure in new ways, and make it accessible to a new and diverse audience.”

From the resonances of bunkers, GREEN SOUND takes you to the resonances inside the majestic St. Mark’s Lutheran Church on June 12th featuring over a dozen vocalists and musicians. June continues with special free events in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Gardens June 13th featuring the Bay Area Sound Ecology, a sonic art installation/performance at Civic Center Plaza June 17th and a bicycle-powered music stage at the city’s Sunday Streets in the Mission District June 20th in collaboration with Rock the Bike.

July’s events start on July 2nd with special performances featuring experimental cello/violin duo Myrmyr at the spectacular de Young Museum, the first of two events here. “The de Young is very pleased to be collaborating with ME’DI.ATE Art Group for their Soundwave Festival ((4)) GREEN SOUND on this site-specific concert inspired by James Turrell’s “Three Gems,” says Renee Baldocchi, de Young’s Public Programs Director. “This experimental project is part of Cultural Encounters, which encourages artists to respond to the de Young’s collections and building.”

July 9th opens ME’DI.ATE Art Group’s most ambitious project ever. ME’DI.ATE will present a month-long exhibition entitled “The Illuminated Forest” at The Lab, San Francisco’s premier experimental art space. ME’DI.ATE Art Group is creating an artist-imagined natural world inside the gallery walls with environmental artist works and an immersive multi-media interactive exhibit and performance installation by Agnes Szelag, Jorge Bachmann, Ben Bracken, Alan So, Suzanne Husky, Jessica Resmond, Sam Easterson, Vaughn Bell, Alyce Santoro, and Reenie Charrière. Every Friday and Saturday night during the exhibition run, the Forest will host experiential performances inside the installation by some of the most compelling artists and musicians. “The Lab eagerly anticipates ME’DI.ATE’s residency here for Soundwave,” says Eilish Cullen, Executive Director of The Lab. “Our mission is to support the experimental and the daring, and ME’DI.ATE’s work continues to push those boundaries of presentation and performance.” The exhibition closes August 7th.

August 1st sees the second event at the gorgeous site of Battery Townsley and the festival concludes with a special GREEN SOUND ‘Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young’ on August 13th.

Full Calendar of Events with list of participating artists available here. Extended descriptions are available at the festival website: www.projectsoundwave.com. Press Images available at www.projectsoundwave.com/press. Ticketed events will be at affordable rates between $10 and $15 available online starting May 3rd at www.projectsoundwave.com/buy-tickets/. RSVP to free events atrsvp@me-di-ate.net

Soundwave Festival ((4)): GREEN SOUND gratefully acknowledges support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Black Rock Arts Foundation, Japan Foundation, SF Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum, Bill Graham Memorial Foundation, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, Meet the Composer MetLife Creative Connections, The M-Line, The Lab, the de Young Museum, National Park Service, Rock the Bike, Yerba Buena Art and Events, and many individual donors and volunteers.

About the Soundwave Festival
ME’DI.ATE’s Soundwave Festival is San Francisco’s premier experiential arts festival held every two years over the span of two months over the summer. Bringing together sound purveyors from across the sonic spectrum (from sound art to experimental to classical to popular music), Soundwave presents experiential performances and activities that challenge the way audiences see and hear sound and music. Each season investigates a new idea through sound that incites diverse artists and musicians to create work that explores the season’s theme in new and innovative directions. Led by Artistic Director Alan So, Soundwave has completed three incredible seasons: 2004’s Free Sound, 2006’s Surround Sound and 2008’s Move Sound. Soundwave has established itself as one of the most anticipated events in the San Francisco Bay Area avant-sound scene and a growing reputation in the global sound and art communities. Among its accolades, Soundwave won Best ’07 Award and called a ‘Future Classic’ by San Francisco Magazine, ‘Inspired’ by 7×7, ‘Unique and participatory’ by SF Chronicle, ‘Magical and deeply personal’ by SF Weekly, featured on numerous local and international radio programs including the BBC (UK), CBC (Canada), NPR (New York), KPFA (Berkeley), KUSF (San Francisco), as well as an in-depth feature on the PBS-KQED television program SPARK* with an accompanying experimental music Educator’s Guide. www.projectsoundwave.com

About ME’DI.ATE Art Group
ME’DI.ATE is a volunteer-driven, San Francisco-based non-profit arts group. Founded in 1998, our mission is to develop innovative exhibitions, products and live events that challenge perspectives and inspire new and unique experiences within ourselves and the world around us; present diverse artists, mediums and places to exchange ideas and collaborate; connect new and diverse audiences to experimental arts and visions; and provide an innovative forum and an essential voice for progressive ideas to be seen, heard and explored critically, imaginatively and without limitation. ME’DI.ATE showcases emerging and established local artists, as well as national and international artists, to bring innovative ideas and perspectives to Bay Area audiences. For more information about us, please visit our website www.me-di-ate.net.

Soundwave ((4)): GREEN SOUND Coming Soon!

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Check out the new trailer for the Soundwave Festival happening this Summer (2010) in San Francisco, USA. Presented by ME’DI.ATE Art Group. Stay tuned for more details!

Soundwave ((4)): GREEN SOUND Festival Trailer

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Soundwave ((3)): Audiobus Odessa Chen

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http://www.projectsoundwave.com The AudioBus is a moving venue, giving audiences an adventurous sonic experience like never before. The sound artists and musicians curated for the AudioBus compose their San Francisco route and perform live scores to the scenery moving past them. Breakout singer-songwriter Odessa Chen, performs “Made Up My Mind” featuring Roger Riedlbauer (Jolie Holland) on her very own San Francisco bus tour route for an audience on a bus. Station hosted by the deYoung Museum on a special AudioBus “Friday Nights at the de Young” event. Conceived and curated by Soundwave Artistic Director Alan So for Soundwave’s third season MOVE SOUND. Produced by ME’DI.ATE Art Group

Soundwave ((3)): N_DREW

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http://www.projectsoundwave.com. N_DREW creates “Global War(n)ing”, with clips from Fox News, a real-time audio/visual experience using a custom-built motion-sensored sonic interface with movement, improvisation and light at Soundwave ((3)) Festival August 15, 2008 at Intersection For the Arts, San Francisco. Presented by ME’DI.ATE Art Group

N_DREW (aka: Andrew Bucksbarg) creates audio-visual/VJ performances and interactive works, exploring organic and abstract forms, live A/V processes and participatory techno-culture, enthralling audiences with images, beats, ambient sounds and pixilated atmospheres. He’s a media artist, experimental interaction designer, audio-visual performer and a professor at Indiana University. N_DREW ’s work and interests reverberate in the space of new interactive technology/media practices and theory.

Soundwave ((3)): Moe!Kestra!

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http://www.projectsoundwave.com. Mythical orchestra Moe!Kestra! surrounds the audience and perform special improvised compositions and orchestrations moving around the space concocted by leader Moe! Staiano. Created for Soundwave ((3)) Festival MOVE SOUND on August 2, 2008 at the Community Music Center, San Francisco. Produced by ME’DI.ATE Art Group

Moe!Kestra! is “a pounding, moving experience that surrounds the audience (literally; there are dozens of musicians taking up the room). When it’s over you feel as if you’ve heard a whole new form of music.” NY Times. Moe! Staiano founded the Moe!kestra! project in 1997. It began when he gathered a dozen or so musicians playing a one sustained note from soft, quiet, crescendoing into a loud frenzy. At the end of the show, people were cheering and shouting “Moechestra! Moechecstra!” Some shows have as many as eight drummers mixed in with massive amounts of guitars, reeds, strings, etc. Visually, Moe! runs frantically like a madman, cuing musicians, arms flailing about, being very visual and very into his work.

Green Sight + Sound: A Benefit

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GREEN SIGHT & SOUND
Benefiting ME’DI.ATE’s 2010 Soundwave Festival GREEN SOUND and ecoartspace, celebrating 10 years of art and ecology programming

Mina Dresden Gallery
312 Valencia @ 14th, San Francisco

Friday, December 4th, 2009
6pm-9pm
Doors 6pm – Live Performances at 7pm
Art Auction Preview:
12pm-4pm
Bidding Ends/Winners Announced:
8:30pm

Art Exhibition and Silent Auction of small works by over 40 environmental artists including Amy Franceschini, Andrea Polli, Fritz Haeg, Stephen Kaltenbach, Kim Abeles, Samantha Fields, Lisa Adams, Kim Stringfellow, Ned Kahn, Nils-Udo, Roy Staab, Christopher Kennedy, Mark Andrew Gravel, Gary Brewer, Judith Selby-Lang, Vaughn Bell, Basia Irland, Besty Damon, Lea Redmond, Abigail Doan, Beverly Nadius, Shai Zakai, Lillian Ball, Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao, Mark Brest van Kempen, John Roloff, Ed Morris and Susannah Sayler, Linda McDonald, Christy Rupp, Karen Reitzel, Philip Krohn, Jorge Bachmann, Kim Anno, Sarah Pedlow, Kathryn Miller, Aviva Rahmani, Ann Rosenthal, Therese Lahaie, and Ruri

Wine-Appetizers-Sweets by Terra Savia, Bi-Rite, Marin French Cheese Company, Paulding & Company Kitchen, Woodbridge Winery and other Bay Area purveyors

Special performances by acclaimed singer/song-writer Odessa Chen, guitarist Danny Paul Grody (Tarentel), electroacoustic sensations Myrmyr, & special guests

CLICK TO BUY TICKETS
Tickets are $30 in advance and $50 for two, $35 at the door

If you can not attend, please consider showing your support of Soundwave through a tax-deductible gift by going to http://www.me-di-ate.net/donate.

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GREEN SIGHT & SOUND invites you to a unique and exciting evening featuring art, music, and delicious foods and refreshments.

ME’D1.ATE and ecoartspace have joined forces to celebrate everything GREEN with artists and musicians for a holiday fundraiser. Proceeds will support the 4th season of ME’D1.ATE’s Soundwave Festival entitled GREEN SOUND, and 2010 programs for ecoartspace who is currently celebrating ten years of art and ecology programming.

Special live performances by Bay Area’s favorite singer/song-writer and Soundwave artist Odessa Chen , Danny Paul Grody (Tarentel, The Drift), electroacoustic sensations Myrmyr and special guests. GREEN art works curated by Patricia Watts will be on view for silent auction at affordable prices just in time for the holidays.

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ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Odessa Chen’s pure ethereal voice that has drawn comparisons to Jeff Buckley, Sigur Ros, Nina Nastasia and Cat Power. Her music has been described as wintry, intelligent, haunting, and tender. She has collaborated with Wilco’s Nels Cline, Xiu Xiu’s Devin Hoff, The Drift’s Rich Douthit, Matt Brubeck and shared stages with Joile Holland, Damien Jurado and Vienna Teng, amongst many others. Odessa Chen attracted international attention with her debut record, One Room Palace and her sophomore effort, Ballad of Paper Ships, only expanded her cult following. MTV U calls her “an unstoppable force” and has been featured on NPR, MTV Chi and Pacific Fusion TV, and her work has appeared in numerous independent films, compilations, and radio stations. She is set to release her third album in 2010.

Danny Paul Grody is a founding member of both acclaimed San Francisco based bands with international followings, Tarentel & The Drift. His first solo CD of primarily acoustic guitar music will be released this fall on Root Strata. He is a self taught guitarist, and the melodies at the core of Danny’s songwriting bring to mind his love of West African kora, Tacoma style fingerpicking and all things minimal, repetitive & hypnotic.

Myrmyr is the duo of Agnes Szelag and Marielle Jakobsons (aka Darwinsbitch) who are taking the electroacoustic scene by storm. They create songs on many instruments such as violin, cello, voice, bass, gezhong, piano, and accordian. When those instruments aren’t enough, they invite friends to play with them and write scores for conducted improvisations. Their scores are often conceptually or process-driven, resulting in their unique style of electroacoustic music, reminiscent of Scandinavian free folk, lullabies, dramatic film scores, and electronic improvised music. They just released their newest album “The Amber Sea” on Digitalis.

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ABOUT THE BENEFICIARIES
ME’DI.ATE
Founded in 1998, ME’DI.ATE is a San Francisco-based art organization creating experiential art through products, exhibitions, and live events. ME’DI.ATE is the mastermind behind the acclaimed Soundwave, the most innovative sound/art/music festival in the Bay Area, and beyond. Bringing together some of the most compelling sound purveyors from across the sonic spectrum, Soundwave produces experiential performances that challenge the way you see and hear sound and music.

SOUNDWAVE ((4)): GREEN SOUND
The fourth season of Soundwave, happening throughout Summer 2010, will be the most ambitious yet. Artists, composers and musicians will explore our sonic connections to the environment investigating the wonders of natural world, and examining environmental responsibility and sustainability through awe-inspiring performances and installations.

ecoartspace (http://ecoartspace.blogspot.com)
Since 1999, Patricia Watts and Amy Lipton of ecoartspace, have provided a platform for artists who address environmental issues internationally. During this time they have organized 38 exhibitions, over 70 programs, and have worked with over 400 artists. Their total budget has been almost $800,000, of which $280,000 was paid directly to artists for site-specific installations. Their programs have been viewed or attended by more than 200,000 people, and they have collaborated/partnered with over 140 organizations.

Soundwave ((3)): Audiobus Zoë Keating

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http://www.projectsoundwave.com

The AudioBus is a moving venue, giving audiences an adventurous sonic experience like never before. The sound artists and musicians curated for the AudioBus compose their San Francisco route and perform live scores to the scenery moving past them.

Bay Areas own acclaimed avant-electro, one-woman-orchestra cellist, Zoe Keating developed and performed a live score to her very own San Francisco bus tour route for an audience on a bus. Station hosted by the deYoung Museum on a special AudioBus “Friday Nights at the de Young” event featuring live performances and current exhibitions by Dale Chihuly and Timothy Horn*.

Conceived and curated by Soundwave Artistic Director Alan So for Soundwave’s third season MOVE SOUND.

Soudwave Park(ing) Day: Kemo Sabe

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Kemo Sabe (guitar, mandolin, upright bass, vocals) perform their rollicking tunes at Soundwave Park on a parking spot at Park(ing) Day 2009. September 18, 2009. Soundwave explores sonic connections to the environment in its fourth season coming next Summer 2010.