Thomas Dimuzio, Joshua Churchill, Brian O'Reilly, Liz Albee,

Fri, May 5
8:00pm-11:00pm
Free

Echo de Pensees Sound Series
in conjunction with
The Museum of Viral Memory and PLAySPACE Gallery

present live performances by
Thomas Dimuzio
Joshua Churchill
Brian O'Reilly's Ledger Of Fence
Liz Albee

San Francisco-based Thomas Dimuzio is one of those unsung artistic
figures whose influence and abilities have substantially outstripped
his visibility. Composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer,
experimental electronic musician, collaborator and recording studio
owner - Dimuzio has been busy doing his thing(s) since the late
1980's, but is still only known to a small circle of electronic music
enthusiasts. A true sonic alchemist who can seemingly create music
events out of almost anything, Dimuzio's listed sound sources on his
various CDs include everything from "modified 10 speed bicycle" and
"resonating water pipe" to short-wave radios, loops, samplers and
even normal instruments such as clarinet and trumpet. And while his
wide range of musical interests make it impossible to pin a label on
him, Dimuzio clearly has an insider's knowledge of older experimental
musical forms such as musique concrete and electroacoustic, as well
as more current ambient-industrial, noise and post-techno styles.
www.thomasdimuzio.com

Joshua G Churchill is an interdisciplinary artist whose interests and
work revolve around interpersonal relationships, our relationships to
our surroundings, and the ways in which those relationships affect,
and are affected by, communication and representation. Utilizing
appropriated materials from everyday life, such as sounds, images,
language, and existing technologies, Joshua aims to compel the
listener/viewer/participant to become critically aware of these
relationships on both global and intimate scales by creating work
that focuses on details and anomalies of the familiar. His recent
work includes installation environments that challenge a viewer/
listener's expectations, often by activating spaces or objects that
transpose the roles of the operator-device relationship, ink drawings
of forms that simultaneously reference space and the sea,
photographic work where images of anonymous memories are literally
reshaped and distorted, and experimental sound performances and
recordings involving live processing and manipulation of field
recordings, found and altered electronics, and guitar.
www.joshuachurchill.com

Brian O'Reilly works with video, sound installation, kinetic
sculpture, assemblage books, electro-acoustic composition, and also
is a performing contrabassist. He attended the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago on a scholarship for sculpture, where he
completed a BFA in 1997. In 1998, he moved to Paris to study
composition and work with the UPIC system at what is now the Centre
de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX). In 1999 he was appointed
to the position of Musical Assistant at CCMIX. He received his
graduate degree from MAT (Media Arts and Technology) at the
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2004.
For this show he will be premiering his new quartet Ledger Of Fence.

Liz Albee is one of the Bay Area's most prolific and talented
musicains, mixing brass with electronics for the benefit of all.

Echo de Pensees Sound Series is an ongoing series of sound
performances and installations at California College of the Arts. The
series strives to offer a venue for experimental and contemporary
musicians and sound artists.
Upcoming artists include:

June 26: Cheryl Leonard & TBA @ PlAySPACE Gallery

Contact for more information.
Visit our page on www.vime.org

The Museum of Viral Memory is an institution dedicated to exploring
the sensuality of temporality.
www.vime.org

Venue:

PLAySPACE Gallery
1111 8th St
San Francisco



at 16th and Wisconsin

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