SFSU (Conceptual Information Arts) presents:
new works by:
Evan Albertson Leslie Armstrong Nova Barton Sean Bennett Patrick Boehner Sarah Castle Christina Davidson Alice Esposito Taylor Fitzgerald Alex Galaviz Audrey Goodman Jessica Johnston Christopher Lopez David Mcmahon Jordan Perkins-Lewis Astrid Ramos Hanada Shagour Spencer Siegrist Michael Thurin Andy Zevallos
Since 1993, San Francisco’s Noise Pop festival has hosted indie bands including Death Cab for Cutie,the Shins, Pavement and many more. Director Adam Werbach’s documentary (which premiered at this year’s Noise Pop and is looking for distribution) was filmed onstage and backstage between 1998 and 2009, capturing the rise of current indie rock in the process. “It’s about the idea of indie and what happens when it goes mainstream—is it still indie?” says Werbach. Among the highlights: Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse cursing out an audience for making too many requests, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab recalling the band’s rise to fame and Pavement’s Scott Kannberg offering bitter memories of the band–prior to its recent reunion.
Join us for a wide-ranging evening of experiments in electronic performance, put on by students of SFAI’s ‘Signal to Noise’ class. Led by instructor Andrew Benson, the performers blur the lines between audio and video, the body, the circuit, and the signal. Featuring performances by Hannah Kirby, Emily Chaves, Travis Miller, Nick Thomas, Taylor Buttling, Mike Figge, Zach Wheaton, Blaze Gonzalez, Graham Strang, Caleb Swann, Lindsay Laven, Lauren Schatzel, Maria Burr, and Ryan Wylie.