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  • Small Press Traffic: TUCK,HERNANDEZ, MIROV, MUMOLO

     

     

    ZOE TUCK
    Zack Tuck is an enduring identity which is nonetheless being phased out. His slightly altered replacement is being gradually and awkwardly phased in. With Jackqueline Frost, Zoe Tuck curated the Condensery Reading Series. Her work has been featured in Try!, Mondo Bummer, Timeless, Infinite Light, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry (forthcoming from EOAGH and Nightboat). Zoe Tuck is currently working on a poetry manuscript disposition matrix and a novel about the life of René Descartes.

    JOHNNY HERNANDEZ
    JTH is a graduate of the Mills writing program and is currently on staff at Small Press Distribution. He is currently trying to find a home for his latest manuscript and enthusiastically accepts drinks in lieu of ‘Hello’.

    BEN MIROV

    Ben Mirov is the author of Hider Roser (Octopus Books, 2012), Ghost Machine (Caketrain, 2010) and the chapbooks Vortexts (SUPERMACHINE, 2011) I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010) and Collected Ghost (H_NGM_N, 2010). He grew up in Northern California and lives in Oakland.

    SARA MUMOLO

    Omnidawn will publish Sara Mumolo’s first collection of poems Mortar in fall of 2013. Sara is the Program Manager for the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of CA. She is the co-editor of the chapbook series, Calaveras. Mumolo curated the Studio One Reading Series in Oakland, CA from 2008-2012. Cannibal Books published her chapbook, March, in 2011, and poems have appeared in journals such as 1913: a journal of forms, Eleven Eleven, Action Yes, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Offending Adam, Real Poetik, The Volta, and West Wind Review, among others.

    This event was guest curated by Sara Wintz

  • Short Collections

    SF Short Film Screening Hosted By Cupid’s Conundrum

    Fix (McPherson, 5 min)
    Hat Trick (Luff, 6 min)
    A Fool For Desire (Briggs, 4 min)
    Fifteen Hundred Short (Desurray, 8 min)
    Flapjack (Blakely, 10 min)
    The Greatest Gift (Carlson, 3 min)
    Taxi (Thinley, 4 min.)
    Tara Kamangar (Talani, 10 min)
    A Rapturous Scent (Henderson, 8 min)
    Untitled: The State of Hip-Hop in Shanghai (Davis/ Murray, 10 min)
    The Alternates (Greenwood, 5 min)
    Bed Bugs From Outer Space (McCarthy, 24 min)
    Cupid’s Conundrum Promo (Henderson, 8min)

  • Trance Mutations

    Screen Shot 2013-01-04 at 7.06.03 AMPlease join us for an evening of transformation, merging the senses of sight and sound into one shared experience.

    ‘Trance Mutations’  is an on going series of live musical performances with accompanied projections curated by Micah Danemayer. Focusing on experimental themes, the moving image as it relates to sonic landscapes, Micah is continually searching for local musicians who harness these themes.

    Appearing will be new sonic modulations from local musicians  Waxy Tombs, Black Thread, Idaho Joe and Jungle Jim. Paired with the music will be 16 mm Projections from the East Bay’s Black Hole as well as Vhs based artist, Visual Aids.

    Waxy Tomb/Program Home

    Julia is a native SF and a prolific artist whose music performances center around the same sensory issues that her extensive work in visual arts have, namely the interface between the body and technology. Using the subversive language of the alienated body she evokes the idea that our sensory organs are just a step away from becoming “knobs” which interface us with external reality.

    Black Thread

    Using the tape cassette as a medium, Black Thread experiments with magnetic tape surgery. Creating long or short loops of obscure soundscapes, the artist creates a collage of intriguing imagery oozing with heavy synth rhythms and melodies.

    Idaho Joe

    Idaho Joe Windslow is the inventor of the gongtar (cello with gong resonator), singing bowl gamelan (which is played standing with a back brace of mannequin arm singing bowl holders), and thevoxtar (amplified sympathetic string fixture excited by voice).  He backs himself up with a collection of exotic drum machines from India and the Middle East.  Using hypnosis and lyrics he aims to send the listener into altered states of  consciousness.

    Jungle Jim

    Jungle Jim’s ear is tuned to another time, conjuring lush, tropical imagery. Armed with tape cassette, loop station and a sampler, Jungle Jim caresses the audience with sonic meditations that stir into introspective percussion. His work  attempts to bind a wide variety of influences (music or otherwise) into a single train of sonic thought.