Turquoise Yantra Grotto
32 Turquoise Way SF
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Inventor’s Quorum:

Neil Feather/Rosie Langabeer- Two To Tutu Too
Tom Nunn/ Kevin Corcoran/ David Samas- Pet the Tiger

@ Turquoise Yantra Grotto
Wed. Sept. 30, 8-10 pm
32 Turquoise Way SF
$10-15 (free to Music for People and Thingamajigs festival participants and their guests)

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Sound Mechanic Neil Feather has been creating radical and unusual musical instruments since 1970 and is increasingly known outside of Baltimore as one of the most original musical thinkers of his day. His instruments each embody uniquely clever acoustic and engineering principles, and are visually arresting. The music he plays on the instruments is equally original, embodying new principles and resulting in a nearly alien idiom of music.
 
Neil Feather has been involved in Baltimore’s fertile and eccentric culture since moving there in 1985.  He was a founding member of the Red Room Collective and the High Zero Foundation, a group committed to the presentation of experimental and improvised music.  He has a long history of collaborative projects and solo concerts.
Feather’s work has always been fully rooted in art and music together in concept, execution and performance. He won the 2014 Sondheim Art Prize and the 2014 Trawick Art Prize. He was included in a major exhibition “Art or Sound” in the 2014 Venice Biennale. 

Tom Nunn has designed, built and performed with original musical instruments since 1976, having received a B.Mus. and M.A. in music composition from the University of Texas at Austin and S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, and post-graduate work at U.C. San Diego. His instruments typically utilize commonly available materials, are sculptural in appearance, utilize contact microphones for amplification, and are designed specifically for improvisation with elements of ambiguity, unpredictability and nonlinearity.

Pet the Tiger is an inventors collective that plays in a wide variety of idioms exploring new timbral dimensions through extended techniques, and pioneering acoustic methods of creating feedback, overtones, interference and beating patterns usually reserved for electric instruments.
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The Turquoise Yantra Grotto is a house concert series for avant improvisers and invented instrumentalists with a focus on ethno-modernism and extended techniques. We hold a monthly event which is part concert, part art opening and part social club, near glen canyon in San Francisco.

Cost: $10-15

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