Rachel Beetz, Scott Arford, Anne Hege,
John BischoffThurs June 13 8pm-11pm Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF
All-ages, $5-$15 no one turned away for lack of funds.
Please rapid-test day of show, keep each other healthy!
Rachel Beetz
Perfectly tuned ARP Synthesizer oscillators can summon the bicameral mind to razor focus. Pareidolia is the apophenic heuristic whereby our brains anticipate patterns from random information. Call it superstition, the uncanny, the collective unconscious, or delusion, Beetz plunges us into physical atmospheres based on her exploration of the hidden worlds of nature and machines. "Evoking the roar of prehistoric animals" she combines experimental field recordings and electronically modified flutes, performing in concert halls and galleries from Australia to Iceland, India and the U.K. She is currently a co-director of Wasteland Music and Populist Records.
https://rachelbeetz.bandcamp.com/
Scott Arford
Spartan, stoic, genuinely fearsome, and charged with a political undertow that sweeps away all safe shores, Arford shatters the lucite ant maze of dualism, trusting us to crawl the shards. Translating sound into physical force, he resuscitates our loving nausea pumping fresh black air into lungs churning actual blood. Arford founded the legendary 7hz venue in 1995, his worldwide exhibits of film and sound have reached SFMOMA(USA) Dissonanze 7(Italy) LUFF Festival(Switzerland) Observatori Festival(Spain) Sounding Festivals(China) Liquid Architecture(Australia) and Festival de Video/Arte/Electronico(Peru) and more importantly, the Peacock Lounge (Lower Haight)!
http://soundcloud.com/scott-3-3
Anne Hege
As her live-looping Tape Machine spins impossible yarn, Anne Hege weaves live voice, electronics, and video compositions from her project New Prosthetics. First constructed in 2009, the Tape Machine is three hacked cassette players––one recording tape head and two playback points running a handmade loop, laying bare the process and technology by which sound approaches ritual, tapping perception, memory and heightened awareness. No hidden processing, just the magic of a single blank tape loop. Born in Oakland, Hege has composed for film, installation art, dance, and concert settings. She is the artistic director of the Peninsula Women's Chorus.
https://annehege.bandcamp.com/
John BischoffEvery sleeper wave begins as a subtle sizzle at the horizon, far off until the instant it takes your feet. For more than forty years,
John Bischoff has been a musical Poseidon. Once swept away you're content never again to make shore. Lauded for his pioneering solo constructions in real-time synthesis and for his development of computer network music, Bischof was a founding member of The League of Automatic Music Composers as well as The Hub. With major retrospective releases on Tzadik and New World Records, he is the subject of Douglas Kahn's "A Musical Technography of
John Bischoff" published in MIT's Leonardo Music Journal and is currently Associate Professor of Music at Mills College in Oakland.
https://soundcloud.com/johnleebischoff
Cost: $5-$15 notaflof