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Late Night Phone Call Release Party

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

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!

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Blum waxes acousmatic at SF MOMA’s Art of Noise

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

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

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…

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

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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“Micro festival” of Fixed Media Works

This Sunday, April 30, 2023, The San Francisco Tape Music Collective presents a “micro-festival” of fixed media works projected live over a multichannel sound system. This is one in a running series of concerts at Mosswood Chapel in Oakland, California, … Continue reading

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Interview on KPFA’s “Let’s Talk Music”

On April 16, 2023 I was interviewed by D-Minor for his Sunday night show “Let’s Talk Music” on KPFA. The program is archived (for now) and can be heard on demand.

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