8:15 pm - Headboggle (Derek Gedalecia)
8:45 pm - Thea Farhadian
9:30 pm - Later Days (Wayne Jackson)
Headboggle is a self described "culmination of diverging unsound musical and accidental pursuits…" He studied Classical and Ragtime piano under noted Ragtime Revivalist Dr. Brian Dykstra. Influences may/not include "Bartok, Scott Joplin, and Morton Subotnick, Eno's Oblique Strategies, Andy Kaufman, and John Cage. A typical performance might include live analog synthesizer improvisation over a prepared backing. Backing sounds are usually multritracked soundscapes featuring unique field recordings and other synthetic treatments.
Thea Farhadian is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in the Bay Area. Her projects include electronic music, sound art, performance, and video. Thea's work has been seen internationally at venues which include the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, the Center for Experimental Art and the Aram Kachaturyan Museum in Yerevan, Armenia, the Alternative Museum and Issue Project Room in New York City, Salon Bruit in Berlin, and the International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project in Amsterdam and Los Angeles. In 2002, she co-founded the Armenian Film Festival in New York City and currently is one of the curators for the film festival in San Francisco. Thea studied Arabic classical music in New York City, San Francisco, and in Cairo. She has an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State and an M.F.A. in Electronic Music from Mills College.
http://theafarhadian.com
Wayne Jackson (aka Later Days) is intrigued by the complexity of emergent systems, both natural and computational.
In the summer, this fascination leads him to create obscure computer music software. In the winter, it sends him outside to hunt mushrooms.
Cost: $6-10 sliding scale