Past Events

Anna Luisa Petrisko + Isola Buhawi

Workshop: RICH GLITCH with Anna Luisa Petrisko

Opening Reception: Raven Chacon

Anna Friz: Media Landscapes

andPlay: "Translucent Harmonies," works by Catherine Lamb & Kristofer Svensson

Workshop: No-Input Mixer Feedback with Sally Decker

Landscape Thinking Group: Relational Landscapes

Speak for Change with Micha Scott, Zachary James Watkins, and Thomas Sage Pedersen

Indexical & Kuumbwa Jazz Center: Nicole McCabe & Logan Kane Quartet

Dolphin Hyperspace + Vooo + Triple Sec

Adrian Drummond-Cole: Liquid Landscapes

Nada: “Sound, Systems, and Psychoacoustics” with Madalyn Merkey + Mykola Haleta

Nada: “Sound, Systems, and Psychoacoustics” with Gabriel Labov Dunne + Ellen Phan

The Chromelodia Project + Polly Malan & Emily Sinclair

Tim Berne & Gregg Belisle-Chi + Gordon Grdina

Raven Chacon: American Ledger No. 1 (Live Performance)

Raven Chacon & Guillermo Galindo

Speak for Change with Esabella Grace, Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour, and Thomas Sage Pedersen

Workshop: Improvising DIY Electronics with Lauren Sarah Hayes

Lauren Sarah Hayes + EEL TANK

electric.kitchen + Chantal DeFelice

Louise Leong & Tim Young, Aja Bond, Kellee Matsushita-Tseng: Transformational Landscapes

Opening Reception: Paul Walde's "Alaska Variations"

Adrianne Munden-Dixon & Carrie Frey

Workshop: Composing with Cybernetics with MSHR

MSHR + ordinary blood

Nathan Clevenger, Jordan Glenn & Cory Wright + Caleb Gomes & Ben Krasner

Speak for Change with Jase (Monk) Earl & Kaethe Hostetter

Beyond the Grave with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

site-specific performances dealing with death, grief, and decomposition

Bill MacKay + Great Blue Heron

Departure Duo

new chamber music for soprano and contrabass

Touch40: Chris Watson's "Namib"

eight years of field recordings from the Skeleton Coast

Touch40: Bana Haffar & Patrick Shiroishi

modular synthesizers, field recordings, and saxophone

Touch40: Sonic Landscapes

discussion of field recording and landscape

RAGE Thormbones

computer-controlled banjo, bagpipes, and virtuosic trombonists

Speak for Change with Stoney V. Godet and Alwa Gordon

discussion of break-up recovery and empowerment, and local hip-hop

Kuumbwa Jazz & Indexical Present: Alex Zhang Hungtai & Voicehandler

filmic soundscapes with saxophone and ecstatic improvisation

Manfred Werder & Kevin Corcoran: [the music of history]

accumulation of texts and field recordings from bay area sites

Karolina Karlic, Aspen Mays, and Mercedes Dorame: Unseen Landscapes

seeing the multivalent histories that compose the california landscape

DSA Ecosocialist Working Group: Abolition Landscapes

discussion of building power for multi-species justice

Sontag Shogun + Albert Peacock

field recordings, synthesizers, and cassette tape manipulations

Workshop: Creative discourse and computer music performance with Madalyn Merkey

get a view into composer madalyn merkey's extensive work in max/msp

Workshop: Free Improvisation with Jacob Felix Heule and Danishta Rivero

bring your instrument and improvise

Jason Kahn + Ministry of Apathy

modular synthesizers and diy noise

Paul Walde: Artist Talk

the artist behind "Alaska Variations" on his work

Listening Event: Paul Walde's "Alaska Variations" + Chris Watson's "Namib"

double-header, screening two works recording the natural world

Speak for Change with Ashanti Branch and August Lee Stevens

the oakland-based founder of the ever forward club and singer-songwriter august stevens

FUJI|||||||||||TA + Michael Masaru Flora

first-ever U.S. tour by japanese musician performing on his hand-made pipe organ

Juneteenth Afrobeats Afterparty with DJ Monk Earl

high fashion dance party fundraiser for african roots social club

Kuumbwa Jazz & Indexical Present: Speak for Change – Darius Jones & Amirtha Kidambi with Cat Willis

Kuumbwa Jazz Center & Indexical bring the highly popular Speak for Change series of live events to the Kuumbwa stage

SOLD OUT! Carl Stone & Eric Theise + MAXX GYORKEL

pioneer of live computer music and "the king of sampling"

The Language of Birds

a site-specific installation, guided tour, and new piece by composer Carolyn Chen

Melissa Achten: Ritual Schizophonia

harpist and interdisciplinary artist focused on immersive musical ritual in experimental performance

Dirty Looks: The Girl Can't Help It

platform for queer cinema and performance

Mivos Quartet

performing the works of contemporary composers and presenting new music to diverse audiences

Speak for Change: Khafre Jay + Lyrical I

Premier of new work from Spoken Word and Hip Hop artist Lyrical I

Methods Body + RogueViolin

creates original sound art and music using custom tunings systems, polyrhythms, and the cadences of language

evicshen

eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones

Y2K22 International Live Looping Festival -- Day 1

two-day live looping festival of instrument builders and improvisers

Y2K22 International Live Looping Festival -- Day 2

two-day live looping festival of instrument builders and improvisers

Booker Stardrum with Samantha Bounkeua, Genoa Brown, & Miranda Javid

a pantonal harmonic sense, and an intuitive approach to rhythm

DROUGHT SPA + Madison McCartha

a cybernetic assemblage of language, imagery, and sound interested in global logistics systems and statecraft

Zoh Amba & Wobbly + Floating Shard

rising free-jazz saxophonist joining forces with wobbly from negativland

DUMA + Masma Dream World + Only Now

bone-crunching breakcore and raw, nihilist industrial noise through a claustrophobic vortex of visceral screams.

Lara Saab: twirling, not spiraling

lecture-performance that activates co-current timelines for listening, making, and perceiving in proximity to violence and crisis

John P. Hastings & Ben Mayock’s The Former World + Fraufraulein + Chris Kallmyer

multi-media essay on “deep time,” geologic history, the environment, humanity, and the artist

New Date Announced: Speak for Change: Consuelo Alba & Alexandra The Author

Live Musical Set from Alexandra the Author and Conversation with Consuelo Alba of the Watsonville Film Festival