MOVE>SOUND: Soundwave>Series ((3))

Program

Welcome to MOVE>SOUND: Soundwave>Series Season ((3)), the most daring and adventurous season ever. Twelve extraordinary events await you at leading San Francisco art and music institutions...as well as a moving bus venue. Each performance, by some of the most intriguing sound artists and musicans, explores movements connection with sound, inspiring new innovative ideas in the sound experience. Buckle up, you are going to be moved (literally) like never before.

EnviroSonic 6/27 The LAB

Soundwave begins its new season MOVE>SOUND with a stunning sonic assault on the audiences sensory environment. Sam McKinlay and Christian Nicolay sonify the urban landscape as a skateboarder and an amplified railing become a living, breathing instrument. Diana Burgoyne creates a sonic masterpiece by enveloping the audience with live drawings that activate sounds into a rising cacophonic score from the copper frames elemental reaction to graphite. Amplified Skateboard and Sound Drawings have an audience-interactive component. Beno + Minnie combines melodies culled from free spirits, shaken and stirred percussion and layers of vocal textures with video and projection interventions and an amplified bicycle. Notice: Canadian artists Christian Nicolay and Sam McKinlay have been denied entry by US Customs. The artists have filmed their performance "Live Amplified and Processed Skateboard Railing" in Vancouver to be screened at EnviroSonic.

Sam McKinlay's sound art project THE RITA has been participating in the world of harsh noise since 1996. With international live shows and many of the noise recordings released by independent record labels in worldwide, THE RITA's presence in the international harsh noise world has been well recognized. Artist Website

Christian Nicolay has been the recipient of several visual and media arts awards. Artistic Director and Curator of various projects, includes collaborations with artists from various fields. He has given several lectures about his work, and has exhibited and performed in numerous spaces worldwide including Public, Commercial, and Artist Run Art galleries. Artist Website

Diana Burgoyne has been a visual artist working with technology since 1982, though refers to herself as an electronic folk artist. She explores the relationship between society, technology, and the environment through the use of sound, performance, and installation and has exhibited her work in Montreal, Toronto, New York, France, Holland and Estonia. She has been the artist-in-residence at Surrey Art Gallery's Tech Lab and participated in SCANZ in New Zealand. Burgoyne has also instructed "Creative Electronics" at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada since 1998. Artist Website

Beno + Minnie perform strange sounds, resonant riffs, and mysterious vocals inspired by long lost love letters from Beno to Minnie in the long lost summer of 1948. Upon serendipitious discovery of the letters, Rob Reger (of Thuja) and Aimee Friberg founded Beno + Minnie to charm and lull the amorous spirits from the recesses and crevices of their dark beings. Love is a hand written letter...love is waiting to hear back for days...love is telling every detail of your day in quill green ink...love is hearing the words in voice from your lover though they are 923 miles away. This is Beno + Minnie sound like. Sometimes.

Canada's Sound Sculptors 6/29 Intersection For The Arts RESERVE NOW

In this special free artist talk event, Vancouver artists Diana Burgoyne and Christian Nicolay/Sam McKinley share their perspectives on their sonic work and process. Diana will also showcase and demonstrate her innovative sound-making frame device that involves live drawing to activate sound. Christian Nicolay/Sam McKinley will screen their short films on sonifications of everything from a tank, sneezing and a tennis match. Notice: Canadian artists Christian Nicolay and Sam McKinlay have been denied entry by US Customs and are unable to attend the talk. Their sonic films will still be screened at Canada's Sound Sculptors.

AudioBus 7/12, 7/18, 7/19, 8/8, 8/9

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Conceived by Soundwave Artistic Director Alan So for MOVE>SOUND, the AudioBus is a moving venue, giving audiences an adventurous sonic experience like never before. The sound artists and musicians curated for the AudioBus compose their San Francisco route and perform live scores to the scenery moving past them. An Audiobus system map will be created for passengers with leading art institutions the de Young Museum, New Langton Arts, Art Engine and Queens Nails Annex serving as bus station gathering places to check-in, wait, nibble, drink, buy merchandise and take in their latest exhibitions*. Double-decker bus shows are vintage UK-imported open-top buses courtesy of CitySightseeing with installed headphones for audiences.

AudioBus: Human Street Textures 7/12

and 8/9

Station: New Langton Arts, Queen's Nails Annex

Composer David Graves & sound artist [ruidobello] devise a tour route collecting live moving street sounds. David & [ruidobello] will mix, and manipulate the soundscapes into an alternate sonic reality for audiences equipped with headphones atop a CitySightseeing open top double-decker bus moving through the city. Station hosted by Queen's Nails Annex will a special AudioBus viewing of an extension exhibit of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' BAY AREA NOW.

Buses have extremely limited seating. We strongly advise arriving at 6:00pm for 6:45 departure and 7:00pm for 7:45 departure. Check-in closes 15 minutes before scheduled departure time and your paid ticket will be given to the standby waitlist. No REFUNDS, TRANSFERS or EXCHANGES to another departure or event will be available for latecomers.

David Graves has composed music for multiple genres, including "neoclassical," ambient, jazz, and rock and has also scored music for film and theatre. He was a resident composer at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program where he was awarded the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellowship. In the past five years, in addition to progressive rock with Science NV and electronic explorations with AmbientBlack, he has also been scoring chamber music, especially in conjunction with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and recently completed a residency with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra. Artist Website

[ruidobello] aka Jorge Bachmann is a multi-disciplinary, mixed-media and sound artist. Since the early eighties, he has been exploring the strange, unique and microcosmic sounds of everyday life, collecting field recordings. The sound atmospheres created are meant for deep listening and are composed in symbiosis with the sculptural installations. He creates equally sensual and detailed oriented photo-based work. His art explores social and sensual constructs and experiences. Artist Website

AudioBus: Zoe Keating 7/18 Station: de Young Museum

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Bay Areas own acclaimed avant-electro, one-woman-orchestra cellist, Zoe Keating will develop and perform a live score to her very own San Francisco bus tour route for an audience on a bus. Station hosted by the deYoung Museum on a special AudioBus "Friday Nights at the de Young" event featuring live performances and current exhibitions by Dale Chihuly and Timothy Horn*.

Armed with just her cello and a small box of electronics, Zoe Keating inhabits her own territory somewhere between classical and electronica. Keating's works of layered cello have been called luminous, haunting and complex. Onstage, Keating reproduces her music entirely live, her feet dancing over an array of pedals that control her live orchestrations and allowing "the moment" to take her compositions in spontaneous new directions. She has performed on NPR and Jay Leno with Paulo Nutini, and has collaborated with countless musicians, including the chamber-rock group Rasputina and toured with Imogen Heap. Her album "One Cello x 16: Natoma" rose to #2 on the iTunes Classical and Electronica Charts. Artist Website

*Regular admission fees will be in effect for de Young Museum's exhibitions. Friday Night performances are free.

AudioBus: Goh Nakamura 7/19 Station: Art Engine Gallery

Bay Area's own troubadour, Goh Nakamura, is famous for singing about parking tickets, impossible crushes, and faraway dreamlands. He will develop his tour route that will score to his songs for an audiences equipped with headphones atop a CitySightseeing open-top double-decker bus. Gohs music has scored and soundtracked a few movies. Now audiences can experience their own real life movie in motion. Station hosted by the Art Engine Gallery on a special AudioBus viewing night of their featured exhibition "The Best I Have Ever Had" by Alexandra Chowaniec and Kristen Van Diggelen.

Goh Nakamura is a SF Bay Area based musician who accompanies himself with digital samplers and an acoustic guitar. His live solo shows are always unique and often unpredictable. Goh's music is described as 'falling in love for the first time' drawing comparisons to Elliot Smith and Nick Drake. Goh is winning fans worldwide when his video "Embarcadero Blues" became a hit on YouTube which has already surpassed one million views. Goh has contributed his guitar and vocal work to the Ridley Scott films A Good Year and American Gangster. His song Daylight Savings is on the soundtrack to the Robert Benton film Feast of Love starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear. Artist Website

AudioBus: Odessa Chen 8/8 Station: de Young Museum

Breakout singer songwriter Odessa Chen has been called a rare talent sending shivers up and down the spine of listeners, with a voice that is truly a thing of sheer beauty. She will develop her tour route that will score to her ethereal and haunting music for an audience equipped with headphones atop a CitySightseeing double-decker bus. Featuring guitarist Roger Riedbauer. Station hosted by the deYoung Museum on a special AudioBus "Friday Nights at the de Young" event featuring live performances and current exhibitions by Dale Chihuly and Timothy Horn*.

Odessa Chen's pure ethereal voice that has drawn comparisons to Jeff Buckley, Sigur Ros, Nina Nastasia and Cat Power. Her music has been described as wintry, intelligent, haunting, and tender. She has collaborated with Wilco's Nels Cline, Xiu Xiu's Devin Hoff, The Drift's Rich Douthit, Matt Brubeck and shared stages with Joile Holland, Damien Jurado and Vienna Teng, amongst many others. Odessa Chen attracted international attention with her debut record, One Room Palace. She has been interviewed on NPR, MTV Chi and Pacific Fusion TV, and her work has appeared in numerous independent films, compilations, and radio stations. She has just released her sophomore album Ballad of Paper Ships. Artist Website

Joining Odessa will be guitarist Roger Riedbauer. Roger has performed with Jolie Holland, Sean Hayes, the Halifax Pier as well as collaborated with numerous filmmakers and visual artists for multi-media performances. He is lead guitarist with noir rock band Boxcar Saints, experimental jazz ensemble Transmission and singer songwriter for The Cannery.

*Regular admission fees will be in effect for de Young Museum's exhibitions. Friday Night performances are free.

Aural Sensations 8/1 Community Music Center

An all sensory experience your body and mind you will not soon forget. Nebraskas sonic alchemist Jay Kreimer creates an audio spectacle with audience-triggered motion sensor sounds with 'Red Crickets, Blue and Yellow". Sensors, from modified burgular alarms, will trigger pre-recorded and solenoid sounds evolving in response to the motion of the people in the space given red, blue and yellow metal cricket clickers. Walter Funk orchestrates 3-D holographic images from a custom-built video synthesis system intertwined with sound. The video synthesizer projects 3D holograms that animate and spatially transform into each other controlled by unique sound scultures and human movement. Jay Kreimer and Walter Funk will discuss and demo audience-interactive motion sensor technology follow performances.

Jay Kreimer is a musician, instrument builder, sculptor, composer and educator. He has shown artwork, mostly large installations with Wendy Weiss, and performed music through the U.S. and Canada. He is a