Author: Fara

Wiggwaum (with film by Doug Katelus)
Doug Katelus & Randylee Sutherland, with newest member Matt Hartman, lead you toward the brain center, nervous center, soul center, through the ears. Wiggwaum is a spell of reeds, vox, percussion and A100 Hammond organ; amped up, melted, cracked up, splitting out sounds. “Sounds like death via sasquatch.”
Randylee Sutherland, percussion
Doug Katelus, Hammond Organ
Matt Hartman, Electric Saxophone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciOd8hIKAFs

Aram Shelton: alto sax
Mike Forbes: tenor sax
Andrew Scott Young: bass
Jacob Felix Heule: drums
21st century energy music featuring 2/3rds of Chicago’s Tiger Hatchery joined by Bay Area stalwarts.
https://soundcloud.com/jacob-felix/heule-forbes-shelton-live-at

Headboggle (with video by Mike D)
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl9sfuTVJZc

HOT VICTORY are like an octopus of drums and technology, and seeing them play is less an experience of watching a “band” with “songs” as being privy to some dystopian future-vision of a gladiator battle between two drum-bots. Caitlin and Ben face off behind a mutant drum kit bristling with synth pads and triggers and their wordless battle of beats spirals from one idea to the next, morphing from one sci fi vision to another without silence or pretense. Must be seen and felt to be believed or understood.

3 SYNTHS 1 CUP – Matt Jones is one third of the synth-punk band BLASTED CANYONS and has been collecting analog synthesisers for almost 15 years. 3 SYNTHS 1 CUP started as a jokey transitional song on their first LP, but Jones has taken the moniker as a title for his free-form synthesizer experiments. With a towering setup that includes a Moog MG-1, a Sequential Circuits Pro One, and an Oberheim OB-8, played in conjunction with a Moog Taurus bass pedal synth, a Simmons SDS-400, and a Sequential Circuits Drum traks, 3 SYNTHS 1 CUP is a synth-nerd’s wet dream of filtration, phase, oscillation, and exploration. Completely improvised and completely
analog.

TOOTH is a total badass weirdo that screens films in his West Oakland home (a converted church) and brings his unique yet bleak sensibilities to life with his live video work. His aesthetic is dreamlike, strange and expertly cultivated, and it’s our intention to have him project video and film onto whatever surface possible and available during the musical performances to effectively separate this event from “humans” making “music” in the classic sense and bring it back to the sensory overload ideal of 60’s bands playing long improv sets with films projected onto them, rather than the spotlighted “artist” making “work” to be absorbed with rapt attention.

As San Francisco’s dank and verdant spring arrives, GAZE presents a kinetic program of short moving image works that lay bare both streams of consciousness and visceral embodiment. Absurdity, queerness, and melodrama collide; the camera is a mirror, the screen is a diary.

Featuring film, video and animation by local and international women filmmakers:

Jillian Peña
Angel Rose
Jamie Walters
Emily Kuehn
Maria Magnusson
Kristin Reeves
Christina Kolozsvary
Allison Halter
Dolissa Medina
Daniela Zahlner

and more…

GAZE is a film series dedicated to screening independent film and video made by women. GAZE promotes women’s artistic expression and  creates dialogue related to the influence of this powerful medium.