4/11 FERMENT + hydrophones
This next week and a half, I’m on tour to the Bay Area. From 4/29 to 5/6, I’ll be participating in concerts, workshops, and cheese-tastings!
The first is a music//cheese collaboration with Cowgirl Creamery co-founder, Sue Conley. FERMENT[cheese] is at the Berkeley Art Museum from 6-9pm on 4/29. I’m doing a 4 channel sound installation with field recordings from John Taverna’s Chileno Valley Dairy, curd draining at Cowgirl Creamery’s Petaluma facilities, storage refrigerators aging cheese, and latino dairy workers wrapping cheese. All of the sound materials were sourced in 2010 and 2011 from the locations that produce the milk and cheese folks are tasting. The cheese tasting that pairs with the sound goes from milk, to fresh cheese, to aged cheese. All of this is paired with a three channel video installation by myself and the extremely talented Emily Lacy.
The second event is a Hydrophone Workshop at the Exploratorium on May 1. The workshop will happen at Pier 3, their new Observatory on the Embarcadero. Participants will make a hydrophone and record the San Francisco Bay itself. The recordings will be installed at the Berkeley Art Museum on the night of May 6. I’m really excited for this workshop because the only thing cooler than hydrophones is the exploratorium. More information about the Hydrophone Workshop can be found here.
The third event, I’m producing for Machine Project, also at the Berkeley Art Museum. This event is called the Triway Hyperlecture Cage Match (with musical accompaniment): Join Machine Project for an experimental three way lecture blowout with musical accompaniment. Jason Brown, Colin Dickey, and Jason Torchinsky will simultaneously deliver presentations covering some or all of the following topics – phrenological graverobbing, pre 1860 automobiles, the lizard people and their tunnels under Los Angeles, mechanical televisions, a paranoid history of San Francisco, ergotism, demonic possession, the scourge of masturbation and its relationship to capitalism, and Flaubert’s very complicated feelings about images, photographic and otherwise. These presentations will be accompanied by incidental musical performances, including j.frede and his wine-glass drone ensemble, and underwater recordings of the San Francisco Bay.