Noisy with a chance of TEXT
breaking the ultimate taboo in noise- meaning...
Red Thread- CJ Borosque and Laurie Amat
Pitta of the Mind- Amar Chaudary and Maw Shein Win
the Turquoise Yantra Grotto presents:
poetry and noise music
Fri April 5 @ 8PM
32 Turquoise Way SF
$10-15
C.J. Reaven Borosque is a San Francisco Bay Area based noisician, multi-instumentalist, abstract graphic artist, and writer. In her youth she explored plunder-phonics as a means of expression “composing” tape works comprised of snippets of radio static, college radio and death metal.
As a teenager she was heavily influenced by her family to explore the realms of jazz through the saxophone. Her own interests diverged however, when she began working with guitar.
Laurie Amat is an acclaimed vocalist, improvisational performer, experimental composer and teacher. Her approach is informed by broad experience including pop, rock, traditional and inventive opera, spoken word, video, dance, theatre and performance art. She has performed pure-voice, site-specific resonant space pieces internationally in venues from concert halls, museums and galleries, cathedrals to alternative spaces including castles, bunkers, cisterns, rivers and concrete overpasses. She is known for her solo and collaborative performances throughout Europe, including projects with The Residents, Czech scholar/keyboardist Mirek Vodrazka and the Sad Song Singers (Deutsch Nepal and Der Blutarsch). Her performances in the U.S. have included California NOISEFEST and LOOPFEST music festivals, New York City appearances with her improvisational group SWIRM and multiple appearances in the Outsound Series at the Luggage Store Gallery.
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Amar Chaudhary is a longtime composer and performer specializing in contemporary and electronic music, as well as a developer of advanced software for sound synthesis and music composition. Amar studied composition first with Ruth Schonthal at the Westchester Conservatory of Music in New York from 1983 to 1991, and then at Yale University from 1991 to 1995. Amar had his music performed internationally and has received several honors for his musical work, including a 1992 premier of his clarinet quartet Conversational Impromptu at Weill Recital Hall in New York and the 1990 NGCSA Young Composers Award for Earth Songs.
Amar received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. While at Berkeley, Amar was a researcher at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and developed advanced software for music composition and performance, including Open Sound Edit, an advanced 3D graphical editor for sound representations and Open Sound World, a programming environment for real-time music and audio applications. He has published several research papers related to these and other projects.
Amar remains actively involved in local electronic and experimental music in the San Francisco Bay Area, and performs regularly. His recent music involves experimentation with new sounds and sound-synthesis/processing techniques and new modes of musically expressive performance. He is also interested in the use of folk instruments and toy instruments in electro-acoustic music.
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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. Chinese tea service in the planted atrium offers guests an opportunity to mingle among a menagerie of (rescued) tropical birds and unique invented instruments including the Gamelon Piano (an upright retuned with 2 Indonesian scales and a set of haunting bell tones) and the Superb Metaliphone ( with over 20 bells cut from high pressure gas cylinders, floating bowls, tuned chimes, harmonic rods and a bowed steel plate).
Cost: $10-15 sliding scale