Support The Roar Shack At Our Season Preview Launch Fundraiser!

Join The Living Earth Show and friends at Living Earth Day: a Fundraiser Gala to support The Roar Shack’s third season.

The Living Earth Show will premiere a set of new music, announce the lineup for The Roar Shack’s third season, and offer conviviality and a few small bites as we raise funds to support a third year of immersive, multidisciplinary, experimental, pay-what-you-can performance in the heart of downtown San Francisco.

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An interactive, participatory, family-friendly musical journey with composer/teacher Danny Clay

What if a piece of music could be learned and played live by both the musicians on-stage AND the audience at the same time?

In this family-friendly evening of community music-making by the Living Earth Show and composer / music teacher Danny Clay, concertgoers will be invited to join in on the noise.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate! Bring whatever instruments you have lying around at home (some small noise-makers will also be provided) and we’ll go on a musical scavenger hunt, play improv games, and traverse a video-game-style musical obstacle-course.

Work Sample : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVXqhFiYuBo

More about Danny Clay: https://dclaymusic.com/

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Peaches Christ and Edwin Outwater present ‘Wig Metal’ with The Living Earth Show at Roar Shack Live!

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Three years after we started writing, Trust Me is honored to release our debut album:  “Why I Like Dead Guys.” 

It has been the honor of a lifetime to work with Lynn Breedlove to bring this album to life, and we can’t wait to share it with you. We’ll be releasing it on March 27 through all streaming platforms, but we’ll be playing an album release show at The Roar Shack on Wednesday, March 25, and at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN on March 28. 

6:45 PM - 7:30 PM Doors open. Grab a drink!

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Performance

8:30 PM - 9:00 PM Post-show Hang

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Raven Chacon with Mali Obomsawin, Andy Meyerson, and Travis Andrews

Lazyhorse is a rotating collective ensemble, prompted by contributed fragments, shards and shared effects from various members. The music of Lazyhorse is an embracing of distortion, classical extended techniques, and song collage. 

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Led by Juba Kalamka and featuring Andy Meyerson, Travis Andrews, and Van Jackson Weaver, Dr. Bittinger is a rock, rap and rhythmic blues-fused confrontational Black queer ancestral reckoning with reappropriated pimp-slapping bass to your face.

6:45 PM - 7:30 PM Doors open. Grab a drink!

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Performance

8:30 PM - 9:00 PM Post-show Hang

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A band in which ludic whimsy and rigorous discipline coexist in fragile harmony.

Achievement is a continuous, 50-minute piece made up of 13 crossfaded musical modules, each designed by Bucket List’s alter ego—"The Achievement Institute." Performed in the round, some traditional seating will be available, but listeners are also encouraged to take in the soothing tones on their own yoga mat and pillow. 

Tickets on Sale November 26 at 11am

Each musical module is scientistically engineered and clinically tested to advance the audience’s achievement in various domains:

Achievement I: Enhance REM Sleep

Achievement II: Improve SAT Exam Performance

Achievement III: Facilitate a Successful First Date

Achievement IV: Pass a Breathalyzer Test

Achievement V: Submit an Effective Insurance Claim

Achievement VI: Select Cryptocurrency Investments

Achievement VII: Perform Skillfully in Upcoming Congressional Testimony

Achievement VIII: Excel as an Online Influencer

Achievement IX: Recover from an Episode of Social Cancelation

Achievement X: Microdose Lucratively; Invent Algorithm that Will Destroy Democracy

Achievement XI: Apply for a Mortgage and Research the Best Infant Car Seats

Achievement XII: Boost Shareholder Value for Muzak

Achievement XIII: Efficaciously Introduce Fetus to the Genius of Mozart

The concert will begin with a lecture that explains the Achievement Institute’s proprietary methods, and offer ground floor investment opportunities for those billionaire venture capitalists in attendance. (Investment is optional. But, along with your pillow and yoga mat, bring your checkbook.)

Please join us for this exciting celebration of the morally unassailable record of neoliberal achievement!

Bucket List

Bucket List is a band conceived by The Living Earth Show—the San Francisco–based experimental duo of Travis Andrews and Andy Meyerson—in collaboration with composer and creative catalyst Mark Applebaum.

For more than a decade, The Living Earth Show has sought to challenge and expand the traditional composer–performer model in contemporary music. Their partnership with Applebaum represents the most radical iteration of that philosophy to date. Rather than commissioning a single piece, Andrews and Meyerson invited Applebaum—whose work has profoundly shaped their artistic outlook—to form a band with them, developing a shared language through improvisation, experimentation, and collective composition.

Applebaum has long been a towering influence on The Living Earth Show’s practice: his irreverent virtuosity, conceptual rigor, and playfully subversive approach to music have deeply informed the duo’s aesthetic since Meyerson studied with him as an undergraduate. Bucket List is both a tribute to that lineage and a reimagining of it—a living, evolving collaboration that resists hierarchy and celebrates process over product.

The trio’s repertoire spans new complexity, experimental electronics, minimalism, funk, and jazz, often interwoven with theatrical and video elements. In Bucket List, ludic whimsy and rigorous discipline coexist, yielding music that is as unpredictable as it is exacting—a testament to the creative chemistry between Applebaum and the ensemble he helped inspire.

Mark Applebaum (Keyboards, Guitars, Voice, Doodads)

Well, I’ll be, lemme tell ya ’bout this here feller, Mark Applebaum, Ph.D. — a right smart hombre over at Stanford University, callin’ himself the Edith & Leland Smith Professor o’ Composition. Ain’t no ordinary town fiddler neither, nosiree. This here Applebaum digs music like a prospector digs for gold in a dry riverbed, pan in one hand, pick in t’other, never knowin’ what shiny nugget he’ll strike next.

He’s done music fer all sorts o’ rigs — solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic, and them fancy electroacoustic doodads. Folks say his work’s traveled near ’bout everywhere: from the Yukon to Patagonia, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia… why, I reckon even Mars if’n he wanted! Commissions? Lordy, he’s had ’em from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Kronos Quartet, the Spoleto Festival, and a heap more, all lookin’ fer the glitter of somethin’ new.

But don’t think he’s panning for gold the normal way. No sir. He’s done music fer three conductors an’ no players, a concerto fer a florist, made instruments outta junk, scribbled scores on wristwatches, and even a 72-foot-long graphic score that leaves museum folk scratchin’ their noggins like they found fool’s gold. He’ll wrangle silence, chaos, an’ obsessive page-turnin’ into somethin’ that shines like pure gold dust in the sun.

He plays jazz like a river rattlin’ over rocks, builds sound-sculptures outta scrap and busted gizmos, and got props from the American Academy o’ Arts & Letters. Over at Stanford, he founded [sic] — the Stanford Improvisation Collective, runnin’ it like a claim he stakes every day at high noon. Served on boards too, Other Minds, Carleton College, all the while keepin’ his pan full o’ nuggets of sound.

So if yer hankerin’ fer music with the glint o’ invention, the grit o’ the earth, an’ the thrill o’ the hunt, keep yer eyes peeled fer Mark Applebaum, Ph.D. — he’s out there sluicin’ the river of sound, and sometimes, if yer lucky, you’ll strike a nugget that’ll make yer heart sing.

A band whose ludic whimsy and rigorous discipline coexist in fragile harmony.

An artistic whiplash of changing styles, moods, and instruments. The concert showcases Bucket List’s dedication to the deadly serious but playfully ludic execution of carefully planned explosions of absurdity, whimsy, gravity, and levity: funk and rock grooves; subtle jazz improvisations; minimalist phasing accompanied by choreography; mercurial, gritty new complexity chamber music; performance art with office supplies and doodads; time-lapse video of a trip to the grocery store; incompetent but vociferously executed vocalizations made whilst trapped in a purple, three-person pope costume; and the reckless administration of mustard to a series of hotdogs.

Tickets on sale November 25 at 11am

The program will include:

Packing List for the Brian Ferneyhough Circus Deposition

an absurd plea from the balcony

Sample Hold

a ludic game piece

E-mail

a ritual synced to a click track of secret message orations

100 Boxes

a meditation on pitch class D inspired by donald judd’s 100 aluminum boxes

Clapping Music

a dodecaphonic adaptation of a classic (with supernumerary hemiolas)

Titled

a piece that was, when first composed, untitled

Springtime for Travis & Andy (hommage à Стравинский)

the aphoristic sine qua non of a more loquacious work

Meditation

an indeterminate space for contemplation

Grocery Store

a trip to safeway

6 Canons for Vibraphone & Electric Guitar

a version performed with metrically demonstrative composer accompaniment

Bucket List is a band conceived by The Living Earth Show—the San Francisco–based experimental duo of Travis Andrews and Andy Meyerson—in collaboration with composer and creative catalyst Mark Applebaum.

For more than a decade, The Living Earth Show has sought to challenge and expand the traditional composer–performer model in contemporary music. Their partnership with Applebaum represents the most radical iteration of that philosophy to date. Rather than commissioning a single piece, Andrews and Meyerson invited Applebaum—whose work has profoundly shaped their artistic outlook—to form a band with them, developing a shared language through improvisation, experimentation, and collective composition.

Applebaum has long been a towering influence on The Living Earth Show’s practice: his irreverent virtuosity, conceptual rigor, and playfully subversive approach to music have deeply informed the duo’s aesthetic since Meyerson studied with him as an undergraduate. Bucket List is both a tribute to that lineage and a reimagining of it—a living, evolving collaboration that resists hierarchy and celebrates process over product.

The trio’s repertoire spans new complexity, experimental electronics, minimalism, funk, and jazz, often interwoven with theatrical and video elements. In Bucket List, ludic whimsy and rigorous discipline coexist, yielding music that is as unpredictable as it is exacting—a testament to the creative chemistry between Applebaum and the ensemble he helped inspire.

Mark Applebaum (Keyboards, Guitars, Voice, Doodads)

Well, I’ll be, lemme tell ya ’bout this here feller, Mark Applebaum, Ph.D. — a right smart hombre over at Stanford University, callin’ himself the Edith & Leland Smith Professor o’ Composition. Ain’t no ordinary town fiddler neither, nosiree. This here Applebaum digs music like a prospector digs for gold in a dry riverbed, pan in one hand, pick in t’other, never knowin’ what shiny nugget he’ll strike next.

He’s done music fer all sorts o’ rigs — solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic, and them fancy electroacoustic doodads. Folks say his work’s traveled near ’bout everywhere: from the Yukon to Patagonia, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia… why, I reckon even Mars if’n he wanted! Commissions? Lordy, he’s had ’em from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Kronos Quartet, the Spoleto Festival, and a heap more, all lookin’ fer the glitter of somethin’ new.

But don’t think he’s panning for gold the normal way. No sir. He’s done music fer three conductors an’ no players, a concerto fer a florist, made instruments outta junk, scribbled scores on wristwatches, and even a 72-foot-long graphic score that leaves museum folk scratchin’ their noggins like they found fool’s gold. He’ll wrangle silence, chaos, an’ obsessive page-turnin’ into somethin’ that shines like pure gold dust in the sun.

He plays jazz like a river rattlin’ over rocks, builds sound-sculptures outta scrap and busted gizmos, and got props from the American Academy o’ Arts & Letters. Over at Stanford, he founded [sic] — the Stanford Improvisation Collective, runnin’ it like a claim he stakes every day at high noon. Served on boards too, Other Minds, Carleton College, all the while keepin’ his pan full o’ nuggets of sound.

So if yer hankerin’ fer music with the glint o’ invention, the grit o’ the earth, an’ the thrill o’ the hunt, keep yer eyes peeled fer Mark Applebaum, Ph.D. — he’s out there sluicin’ the river of sound, and sometimes, if yer lucky, you’ll strike a nugget that’ll make yer heart sing.