PLAYBACK > AudioBus, Battery Townsley, SoundLab
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PLAYBACK is a series that showcase some of our most acclaimed events and raise funds for ME’DI.ATE, our newly incorporated non-profit arts organization. This fundraising drive hopes to raise $10,000 by October 1st to help us continue to support artists and create innovative exhibitions and events, including our biennial Soundwave Festival. PLAYBACK is presented in partnership with City Sightseeing San Francisco, National Park Service, ARUP, Million Fishes, Lagunitas Brewing Co. and Everybody Bikes and curated by Alan So and Jorge Bachmann.
September 23 & 24: PLAYBACK > SoundLab
Location: Arup, 560 Mission Street (at 2nd), San Francisco
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Friday Sept 23: Showtimes: 7:30p, 8:15p, 9:00p, 9:45p sharp!
Battery Townsley: Jacob Felix Heule (drums) & Kanoko Nishi (koto)
Battery Townsley: Gregg Kowalsky (tape)
Special Composition: HoraFlora & Shane Myrbeck
Sat Sept 24: Showtimes: 7:30p, 8:15p, 9:00p, 9:45p sharp!
Battery Townsley: Danny Paul Grody (guitar/voice)
Unweathered Embers: Myrmyr (20 vocalists and musicians)
Special Composition: [ruidobello]: Bees
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Limited 6 people per show. Arrive 30 minutes before your scheduled showtime as event is in a high-security office building with security processing to enter. Latecomers cannot be allowed inside the SoundLab once the program has started. No refunds or exchanges can be given to latecomers.
SoundLab is an immersive, full-sphere ambisonics listening chamber designed by the acoustic group at ARUP that recreates an sonic environment true to real life situations. On September 23, sound artists HoraFlora & Shane Myrbeck explore the depths of perception by developing fictionalized sonic environments using experimental techniques to create, manipulate and spatialize sound. SoundLab also recreates excerpts of the stunning performances at Battery Townsley by Gregg Kowalsky, and Jacob Felix Heule & Kanoko Nishi from last season’s Soundwave ((4)). On September 24, sound artist [ruidobello] creates a special ambisonic composition featuring field recordings of bees while SoundLab recreates excerpts of the stunning performances at Battery Townsley by Danny Paul Grody, and St. Mark’s Lutheran Church by Myrmyr and 20 vocalists and musicians from last season’s Soundwave ((4)).
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Past Events
August 7: PLAYBACK > Battery Townsley
Time: Arrive by 5:30p, Showtime at 6:00p
Location: Battery Townsley, Fort Cronkhite (off Rodeo Beach), Marin Headlands
Transport from/to SF: Email playback@me-di-ate.net if you can carpool or need carpooling to/from San Francisco.
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Limited attendance for safety and preservation of site. Arrive by 5:30p as there is a 20-minute uphill hike to performance site. Please bring warm clothes and blankets and proper shoe attire as the site can be chilly, windy and foggy even on sunny days. No refunds or exchanges can be given to latecomers.
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Introduced in 2010 at Soundwave ((4)), Battery Townsley explored the extreme resonances inside and around this historic WWII harbor fortification overlooking the ocean in the hills of the Marin Headlands. August 7 features performances by electroacoustic duo Date Palms w/ Trevor Montgomery (acoustic bass) & Michael Elrod (tanpura), vocal dance ensemble M.Mara Ann’s Sugar Pine Tesla, and composer/sound artist Edward Schocker (glass/sho) w/ Adam Fong (double bass), Suki O’Kane (bass drum), and Taka Oda (voice).
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DATE PALMS W/ TREVOR MONTGOMERY & MICHAEL ELROD
Oakland-based duo Gregg Kowalsky and Marielle Jakobsons create a site-specific performance in the Battery’s gunwell with Trevor Montgomery (acoustic bass) and Michael Elrod (tanpura). They share internationally-spanning solo careers as creative practitioners with a solid foundation in drone music composition and performance. However, it is a mutual love for classical Indian music and Bitches Brew that resulted in their psychedelic, trance-inducing collaboration known as Date Palms. Their music has been called “a strange, yet fantastic fusing of Eastern style raga drones, and hypnotic Spacemen 3 style bass buzz, almost like some sort of slowcore, spacerock, dronedrift that is abstract and minimal.”
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M. MARA-ANN’S SUGAR PINE TESLA
Sugar Pine Tesla is M. Mara-Ann’s newest composition for voice and movement, featuring Sarah-Elena Palmer (voice), Julie Binkley (dance), Caroline Penwarden (voice), Sonsherée Giles (dance), Jen Harper (voice), Vanessa Beggs-Skacel (voice), Alexa Hall (voice), M. Mara-Ann (voice). Sugar Pine Tesla will activate the sonic, visual and constructive aspects of the concrete and steel structure to generate an aural and visual surround sound, multi-directional, moving, shifting, reverberating intermedia work. M. Mara Ann is a vocalist, writer and performance artist that employs improvised music, dance, text, video and theater to explore topics of the environment and currently producing the intermedia performance series ‘The Containment Scenario Project’.
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EDWARD SCHOCKER
In the bellies of the battery fortification, composer Edward Schocker creates a resonant performance with glass and sho (Japanese wind instrument), featuring musicians Adam Fong (double bass), Suki O’Kane (bass drum) and Taka Oda (voice). Schocker’s work is a unique mixture of alternate tuning systems and unique instruments, combined with theater/opera. He has collaborated with many dancers, artists and writers and his music has been performed in numerous countries throughout the world.
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Saturday, July 30: PLAYBACK > AudioBus: Christopher Willits
Sundown Tour: 7:30p Check-in, 7:45p Boarding, 8:00p Departure
Night Tour: 8:30p Check-in, 8:45p Boarding, 9:00p Departure
Route: Golden Gate Park/Ocean Beach
Bus Station: Everybody Bikes, 1288 15th Avenue (at Irving)
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Limited to 50 people per tour. Arrive at bus station at least 30 minutes before departure time for check-in processing. Purchased seats will be given to standbys 10 minutes before departure. No refunds or exchanges can be given to latecomers.
Christopher Willits guides you through the wonderland of Golden Gate Park onto Ocean Beach as he performs with dreamy vibrations and electric reverberations. Willits occupies a unique corner of the electronic-art-music universe—releasing 20 albums in 10 years—solo and in collaboration with artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Matmos, Zach Hill, and Taylor Deupree. Created in 2008 at Soundwave ((3)), AudioBus is a moving live concert venue on an open-top double decker bus, giving audiences an adventurous sonic experience. Musicians create their own San Francisco route and perform live scores to the scenery moving past them. Double-decker buses are vintage UK-imported open-top biodiesel buses with installed Sennheiser headphones provided for audiences. Sponsored in part by CitySightseeing San Francisco.
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Friday, July 29: PLAYBACK > AudioBus: The Genie
Sundown Tour: 7:30p Check-in, 7:45p Boarding, 8:00p Departure
Night Tour: 8:30p Check-in, 8:45p Boarding, 9:00p Departure
Route: The Mission District
Bus Station: Million Fishes, 2501 Bryant Street (at 23rd)
Limited to 50 people per tour. Arrive at bus station at least 30 minutes before departure time for check-in processing. Purchased seats will be given to standbys 10 minutes before departure. No refunds or exchanges can be given to latecomers.
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The Genie takes you on a tour past stunning murals and colorful sights of The Mission District while performing live on his own innovative brand of music featuring live looping, slide guitar, beatboxing, and unconventional syncopation. The Genie is a musical pioneer best known for his ’scratch guitar’ shows and one of the best live loopers in the world, featured on Current TV and Guitar Magazine. Created in 2008 at Soundwave ((3)), AudioBus is a moving live concert venue on an open-top double decker bus, giving audiences an adventurous sonic experience. Musicians create their own San Francisco route and perform live scores to the scenery moving past them. Double-decker buses are vintage UK-imported open-top biodiesel buses with installed Sennheiser headphones provided for audiences. Sponsored in part by CitySightseeing San Francisco.
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Raffle!
Everybody loves a raffle! We will be raffling off some great prizes from artworks from artists to gifts from our community supporters. Many chances to win while supporting our $10,000 Goal! Win prize packages worth up to $200 for a mere $5!
Details: http://www.me-di-ate.net/playback-raffle-extravaganza/
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