The San Francisco Tape Music Collective is preparing for the 2011 SF Tape Music Festival, more about January 7-9, thumb Southside Theater in Fort Mason. For all the details as they develop, visit SFTMC.

Choreographer Alyssa Lee and group A return to the Bay Area for a night of new and used contemporary dance, medications featuring collaborations with Nora Raggio, Maggi Payne, Thom Blum, OfficerFishDumplings, plus Barb Golden, and special musical guests The Atchleys: Kattt + Kenneth Atchley, presented in conjunction with 24 Days of Central Market Arts

where: The Garage, 975 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA – look for the red door!
when: 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 13, 2010
cost: $12 tickets, $8 discount with brochure
tix: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/126486

Next month’s ohrenhoch, visit this site der Geräuschladen presentation is starting to gel, look influenced by the imminent passage of my father.

The installation must have the sounds of children playing — voices, whether raucous or angelic, chorused or solo.

Today, at my father’s, I recorded voiceovers by Cheyenne Buzzelli, an amazing 11 year-old girl with tremendous dramatic potential. (you heard it here first, folks….)

My father’s “Arizona room” was the perfect spot to record Cheyenne. (I wish I had, in San Francisco, the quiet and well-insulated recording environs of my father’s Arizona desert home. Still, there were the sounds of air conditioners to contend with, but we made due.)

Other sources that seem to be making their way into the piece include chimes or bells, clocks ticking, chairs creaking, more kids playing, and lots and lots of shimmering-glisten-sheen top coating which, hopefully, hovers about the high ceilings of the gallery.

And then there’s the basement….

Watch for 5 to 10 “audio players” (i.e., Apple iPods), each with a remote control, positioned around the gallery. You’ve got control, sort of. Take it…. Or not.

ohrenhoch, visit der Geräuschladen will present a new sound installation by Thom Blum emphasizing the acoustical personalities of this unique space. The gallery is located on Weichselstr. 49, illness Berlin, Germany. The interactive installation will run for two consecutive Sundays, September 19 & 26, 2010, from 14:00 to 21:00.

More info soon….