Come down Saturday evening for a night of sound collage at the gallery! We can’t think of a better way to kick off spring than with a night full of strings, theremins, waterphones, and all sorts of ethereal noises mashed-up by local musicians (and a Grammy-nominee).

Image: Collage by Michael Lowe Grandi 

SOUND SCULPTURE 
Saturday, March 24, 8PM
Swarm Gallery
560 Second Street, Oakland CA 94607

Suggested donation $10 at the door. No one turned away.

Solace Trio, image courtesy of Jen Giese. 

Featuring the music and art of

SOLACE TRIO
Joshua Downer, guitar, vocals
Tim Kim, violin, vocals
Joseph Mintz, guitar, bass, percussion, vocals

The Solace Trio is a Berkeley-based band that blends classical, punk, hip hop, and folk backgrounds to produce soundscapes that connect personal narrative to the creation of story in songs.

Violinist India Cooke. Photo by Don Gurwitz.

INDIA COOKE with CLOUD SHEPHERD
Andrew Joron, theremin, waterphone
Brian Lucas, bass, tapes, vocals
Joseph Noble, various wind instruments, waterphone
Mark Pino, ‘cloud kit’ percussion

Cloud Shepherd is a San Francisco Bay Area improvisational quartet committed (as their name implies) to the pasturing of ever-changing, nonlinear cumulations of sound.

Grammy Award nominated violinist, composer and educator India Cooke has performed with Sun Ra, Pharaoh Sanders, Cecil Taylor, Joelle Leandre, and many others.

Cloud Shepherd