Lucky Cloud is a monthly experimental music series in the Mills College Chapel featuring intimate performances by local composers, sound artists, and songwriters. Shows are all-ages, donation-based, and are held on the last monday of every month.
doors 7:30
music 8
$5-15 sliding donation
BEAST NEST
http://www.sharmi.info/
Born in Oakland and raised in the bay area, Sharmi Basu attempts to catalyze a political, yet ethereal aesthetic through combining her anti-colonial and anti-imperialist politics with a commitment to spirituality within the arts. Beast Nest, Sharmi's primary performing project, utilizes an unwavering depression & restrained horror to channel left-eyed spirits. While simultaneously clearing and entering, the sewage pipes of the body and the patriarchy congeal into watery soundscapes as a vehicle for achieving liberation through the darkest of fears.
FOREST FLOOR
https://forestfloorpragmatism.bandcamp.com/
Forest Floor is Geoff Saba's sonic adulation of the cosmos. Dualities such as composition and decomposition, wave and particle, and dark and light, Saba posits, find no better microcosmic home than within sound. Forest Floor navigates between order and chaos, and endeavors to make sense of it all.
MARISSA DEITZ WALL
http://marissadeitz.com/
Marissa Deitz Wall (b. 1990) is a composer, cellist, and vocalist located in Oakland, CA. Her current interests lie in electro-acoustic works, electronic and digital instrument development, and multimedia works featuring live video processing. Deitz is an MFA candidate in Electronic Music & Recording Media at Mills College, studying under James Fei and Pauline Oliveros. She also holds a BM in Music Composition from Columbia College Chicago under the instruction of Drew Baker and Marcos Balter. Her work reflects the manifold influences of her musical upbringing, penetrating the intersections of popular and contemporary classical music in ways that are not only superficially based in genre but engrained in the compositional and social approaches to these musics. Deitz Wall's current pursuits address her critiques of contemporary classical music while harnessing its attitude of experimentalism and technical excellence, attention to minute detail, and motivic treatment of musical elements that are not exclusively pitch or metered rhythm.
Cost: $5-15 sliding