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Playlist for the day at SFMOMA’s Art of Noise

Posted on February 28, 2025 by admin

Last August (2024) I was one of many invited to DJ for a whole day at SFMOMA’s Art of Noise exhibition. The blog entry for the event can be found here. I finally got around to posting a (pretty accurate) … Continue reading →

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San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2025 Is Now!

Posted on January 3, 2025 by admin

The three-night, four-concert Festival takes place once again at the Victoria Theatre in the Mission district — Friday-Sunday, January 10-12. Go here for all the wonderful details. If you want tickets right now, go here. I’ll be diffusing my short … Continue reading →

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Late Night Phone Call Release Party

Posted on November 14, 2024 by admin

The Late Night Phone Call Release Party, with live sound/image/text atmospherics, will be celebrating Kattt Sammon Atchley’s LNPC project and the recent album release on Edgetone Records — available below and at the party! What: Late Night Phone Call release party and live sound/image/text melange. … Continue reading →

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Late Night Phone Call CD and Digital Release Out Now

Posted on September 10, 2024 by admin

From the brainchild of Kattt Atchley, Edgetone Records and others have erected a 15-track collection of original musical pairings, each one using Kattt’s brief, haunting humming-melody, “Late Night Phone Call (Original)“. The set of pieces covers a rich and wide … Continue reading →

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Raw House at Godwaffle Noise Pancakes on September 21, 2024!

Posted on September 9, 2024 by admin
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Blum waxes acousmatic at SF MOMA’s Art of Noise

Posted on May 26, 2024 by admin

Devon Turnbull has designed a stereo setup for SF MOMA’s current exhibit titled The Art of Noise. I’ve been invited to take control of the “HiFi Listening Room” for the entire day on August 2, 2024. I will use the … Continue reading →

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Prelinger Library’s Sonic Sundays Continue

Posted on May 25, 2024 by admin

My sonic environments at the Prelinger Library are now running into their second year. On Sundays at the Library, my “instrullation” — part installation part musical instrument — continues to infuse books and other texts with a sonic sensibility, giving … Continue reading →

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“House Music” album released by Thom Blum

Posted on May 24, 2024 by admin

My latest release House Music was put up on Bandcamp in early March 2024. It contains some recent short soundworks I mixed in late 2023 and early 2024. Several of the pieces take advantage of recordings of, what I think … Continue reading →

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West Oakland Sound Series presents…

Posted on May 23, 2024 by admin

Matt Ingalls’s weekly sfSound concert series will present a Microfestival of Surround Sound Diffusion on June 9, 2024, featuring the members of the San Francisco Tape Music Collective. We will be controlling the spatial diffusion of pieces — works by … Continue reading →

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S((•))undays at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco

Posted on June 24, 2023 by admin

Sound environments, sonifications, audio animations, and live improvised soundscapes course through the stacks of the Prelinger Library for visitors on (most) Sundays in 2023 from 1:30 to 4:00 PM.

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