Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/02/2012
2:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Location
Subterranean Arthouse
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$25.00 to $30.00 SLIDING SCALE
Featuring
- Jim Haynes
- Cheryl Leonard
- RK Faulhaber
- Dean Santomieri
A day-long festival exploring the various aspects of experimental music through performances and talks. Each performer will contextualize their work, explaining the aesthetic or philosophical underpinnings, giving the audience a new way to appreciate some of the Bay Area’s more avant-garde and difficult music. Featuring four local artists whose various backgrounds include membership in such notable international outfits as Nurse with Wound and Big City Orchestra.
The idea for the Koinonia Festival, curated by Gregory Scharpen and Paul McNees, was originally sparked by a festival sponsored by The Wire magazine in London which McNees attended, wherein several musicians and music journalists gave various insights to an uninitiated audience as to the workings and ideas and aesthetic beauty of what is occasionally termed “difficult music.” Realizing that the Bay Area is an internationally-renowned hotspot for experimental creative musical endeavours, and yet so-called “experimental music” shows are frequently under-attended, or suffer from the perception by a large portion of the concert-going audience that such music is inaccessible and impenetrable, McNees enlisted Scharpen to help curate a day-long event wherein some of the luminaries of the Bay Area could perform their music and elucidate the aesthetic, technical, or philosophical context that informs their work, allowing new listeners a handle to grasp onto more “difficult” work that would normally be outside their musical zone, and allowing long-time listeners a chance to hear about the intimate inner workings of the music they love.
From Cheryl E. Leonard discussing her recent Antarctic explorations in search of new sounds and new instruments formed from the natural objects she discovered there, to Jim Haynes’ recent experiments with the physical manipulations of light and sensors and projections and mysterious objects, to Dean Santomieri’s dream-and-cinema inspired guitar improvisations, the day-long festival offers a heady combination of words and sounds to prick the curiosity of the intellect and stir the guts with the rumblings of some of the finest sound artists in the Bay Area.