Re:Sound Migration
Come join us on Mare Island in Building 34 for an afternoon of sound, vision, and space with three performances by Bay Area artists. Mare Island will also be celebrating the yearly migration of over one million shorebirds and hundreds of thousands of ducks, geese, hawks, and songbirds that migrate through our winter in the San Francisco Bay Area. Come early to explore the island sounds and beautiful trails.
Sholeh Asgary
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase
LEXAGON
Doors are at 3:30 and show starts at 4:00 pm
1024 Nimitz Building 34
Vallejo CA, 94592
Coordinates: 38.098466,-122.2694642
Please bring a chair or blanket to sit on.
Food and drink are available at Mare Island Coal Shed a half mile up the waterfront
There is a distillery with food service right across Building 34.
Sholeh Asgary is an interdisciplinary artist who researches how the auditory characteristics of a location reveal its underlying conditions and our relationship to place—echoing the near-perpetual movement across borders that characterized Asgary’s formative years. Situating the body as a site of knowledge, the work takes form as visual, sound, and collective processes. The resulting works implicate the viewer in mythological excavations that bridge large swathes of time and history through water, water clocks, crude oil, movement, light, imaging, and voice. Asgary's sound performances use her voice, the environment, and the innate properties of everyday objects as an ether for direct communication in an otherwise disparate circumstance of image. She explores materials and concepts used in her larger practice through improvisational performance, such as water clocks, AM transmission, frequency interference, and language.
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase is a jackdaw duo of Chris Cooper (guitar, electronics) and Jessica Goddard (Pure Data and SuperCollider), building and abandoning junk palaces of shiny detritus. Following the first solo tape-collage 7" releases in the mid '90s, the idea of what Angst Hase could be has varied over the years - from painstaking musique concrete compositions, to small-band noise-based songs, with frequent prepared guitar improvisations interspersed throughout.
As a member of Bhob Rainey's improvising octet The BSC (also including Greg Kelley and Howie Stelzer), Cooper has collaborated with Pauline Oliveros, Andrea Neumann, and Axel Dorner. And let's not forget his long-running nameless duo with Bill Nace.
Jessica Goddard's solo project Schurt Kwitters' sole LP release of analog synth and contact-mic'd sewing machine has garnered accolades in certain dusty corners of the internet. Both have been members of skewed rock-ish band Fat Worm of Error, and fritzy-electronic trio White Limo.
Alexa Burrell was born in San Francisco, CA. She is an experimental collage artist who weaves together field recordings, video composites, projections, animations, sculptures and archival materials to create lush fantastical and evocative narratives that compare the emotional and material, natural and technological, and scientific and spiritual.
Alexa is a musician with a solo project LEXAGON. Her music brings an afro-futurist sonic mirage of sound- weaving together enchanting vocals, clarinet, field recordings and handmade instruments. Inspired by female jazz vocalists and melancholy love songs, her performances incorporate femme ballads with ritualized moments of improvisation and intricate rhythms from unordinary objects such as stovetops and birds. Her music has been described as “ancient, sexy and haunting.” She’s interested in how music activates memory, particularly ancestral trauma and epi-genetics. Music is her vehicle for time-traveling, meditation and intergenerational healing.