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Dutt Campbell Duo (Experimental Classical Series)
Hank Dutt and Kate Campbell play Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Mary Kouyoumdjian, and Fodé Lassana Diabaté.
The Dutt Campbell Duo, are thrilled to perform their program “Metamorphosis” for you at the Roar Shack, in one of the duo's first concerts in the Bay Area.
“Metamorphosis” features music by Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Fodé Lassana Diabaté, and others. The title reflects the change we are undergoing as musicians, shifting into the Duo form of viola and piano, a new, inspiring configuration for both of us. “Metamorphosis” is also the title of one of our signature pieces by Philip Glass, with whom we both share a strong connection.
About the Dutt Campbell Duo: With an energizing and adventurous repertoire focusing on both new works by living composers and contemporary classics, the Dutt Campbell Duo unites the talents and vision of two prominent figures in today’s new music: violist Hank Dutt, who performed with the three-time Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet for nearly 50 years; and pianist Kate Campbell, a current member of the groundbreaking San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the West Coast’s largest and longest-running new music ensemble.
Given their focus on contemporary works, it’s fitting that Campbell and Dutt were introduced to each other (in 2024) by a noted composer—Mary Kouyoumdjian, whose alternately elegiac and turbulent Children of Conflict: A Boy with a Makeshift Toy for viola and piano has become a flagship work for the duo. Campbell and Dutt also workshopped their musical partnership early on with a movement—in a new duo arrangement by Dutt—from a Kronos-commissioned work from Dutt’s past, Sunjata’s Time for string quartet and balafon by Malian balafon virtuoso and Trio Da Kali member Fodé Lassana Diabaté.
The duo is committed to commissioning new works, including a forthcoming piece from Kouyoumdjian and compositions by Missy Mazzoli and former Kronos cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. Dutt and Campbell are also ardent supporters of New York’s nonprofit Luna Composition Lab and look forward to premiering a new composition by a Luna Lab alum and to performing additional works by Luna Lab mentors and alumni. Looking to the immediate precursors and influences of many of today’s leading composers, Dutt and Campbell offer their own singular interpretations of now-classic works by the likes of Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, Toru Takemitsu, and Benjamin Britten.
About Hank Dutt
The violist of the world-renowned Kronos Quartet for most of his five-decade career, Hank Dutt has been hailed for “exquisitely songlike phrasing” (New York Times) and “one of the most humanly haunting viola sounds around” (Santa Barbara News Press). He has appeared on more than 70 recordings (including three Grammy Award–winners), premiered more than 1,100 new compositions and arrangements, and taken the stages of the world‘s most revered concert venues and festivals thousands of times. He has also shared in numerous other national and international honors, including the Polar Music Prize, Avery Fisher Award, and "Musicians of the Year" from Musical America.
About Kate Campbell
Hailed as a “brilliant pianist” (Financial Times) and “an artist of remarkable commitment and insight” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Kate Campbell has been the pianist of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players for 12 years and regularly collaborates with other new music ensembles like After Everything and Eco Ensemble. Her recent honors include a Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency, a distinguished fellowship at Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts, and a residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute. Her recorded work can be heard on New Amsterdam Records, Pinna Records, and New Focus Recordings. She currently serves on the collegiate faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
— Artist Bio by Matthew Campbell
Outsider Sounds and Sonic Visions: Twenty Years of Ratskin Records
Experimental music, noise, and one-night installations launch Ratskin Records' 20th-anniversary series.
Ratskin Records is excited to launch a new ongoing music series at The Roar Shack in San Francisco. Centered on adventurous live performances and pop up installations in celebration of Ratskin Records 20th anniversary. The series will showcase experimental music, noise, electronic, avant-garde, and genre-defying artists from the Bay Area and beyond, creating a recurring home for adventurous sounds and creative community, co curated by Ratskin Records in collaboration with Bay Area multidisciplinary artist Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt.
Each installment over the next year will feature a curated lineups incorporating special one-night only installations that complement the live performances and pull from both past and future Ratskin projects bringing in twenty plus years of collaborations . The series will also include a Ratskin Records pop-up shop featuring new and archival releases, books, zines, prints, apparel, and exclusive 20th anniversary merchandise, giving audiences the opportunity to explore two decades of independent music and artist-led publishing. There will be a special release produced that will only be available at these special events.
More than a concert series, this unique collaboration aims to build on the communal aspect of Outsider Sounds & Visions and continue to establish The Roar Shack as a destination for forward-thinking live music and art intersecting with a community rooted in togetherness and outsider out in San Francisco.
LINEUP
55 CASTLES
https://55castles.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwMhCNfM5Jg This duo from Oakland(Ca) is an amalgamation of Gothic Post-Punk, EBM, Industrial, and old cold dark wave!!
MARS KUMARI
https://marskumari.bandcamp.com/ · https://marskumariworld.com/ When Jacques Derrida defined the lingering Marxism of late-Capitalist society as hauntological, mashing together the words haunting and ontology, he couldn’t have imagined what the era might sound like. Mars Kumari captures the grief and grit of loss we all feel now, haunted as we are by what was here and is now missing."
-Roy Christopher
ANCHORESS
https://norentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-dweller-nrr218
https://www.instagram.com/hag.doll____/
notes on her recent record "Dweller" on No Rent RecordsDweller was recorded while living in a perpetually flooding basement where the artist was recovering from facial feminization surgery. She captures the horrors of domesticity and the compelling inertia of bed rotting.
Her tools are kitchen appliances, the ambient sounds of houses, radio signals, a dismembered piano in the woods, mutated iron on an urban shore, eggs.
The album is heavily influenced by her experiences with early childhood psychosis which coincided with watching her grandmother who helped take care of her, degenerate with Parkinson’s Disease. Also, navigating her mother’s inconsistent states from bi polar disorder and the complexities of being the latest in a line of women brought up by women who are trying their hardest to caretake while falling apart.
Her themes are her own diagnosed schizophrenia, religious trauma, a grandfather with religious psychosis who thought he was a prophet sent from god, festering depression, layers of dead skin and hair, possessed houses, moving multiple times because the house was trying to kill her, slowly rotting into furniture, the feeling of crawling out of one’s skin brought on by antipsychotics and gender dysphoria, akathisia, and the blurred lines of being a friend, a lover, a family member and a mental health patient.
More than a concert series, this unique collaboration aims to build on the communal aspect of Outsider Sounds & Visions and continue to establish The Roar Shack as a destination for forward-thinking live music and art intersecting with a community rooted in togetherness and outsider out in San Francisco.
Co Curated By: Ratskin Records & Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt
Rock Out Volume 4: Gagged by Goth (Alternative Series)
PeachOut Productions and The Living Earth Show celebrate the darkly dramatic world of goth music.
Lineup TBA.
PeachOut Productions returns with Rock Out Volume 4: Gagged by Goth, an electrifying collaboration with The Living Earth Show that celebrates the darkly dramatic world of goth music. Following the success of their previous Rock Out performances, Peaches Christ and Edwin Outwater of PeachOut reunite with Andy Meyerson and Travis Andrews of The Living Earth Show to transform The Roar Shack into a live concert experience drag spectacular (lineup TBA). Join us for an unforgettable evening of haunting melodies, big emotions, and beautifully dark music and glamour. Doors open at 6:45, and the show begins promptly at 7:30.
Boyfriend Presents: In The Garden (Alternative Series)
A provocative live reimagining of the creation story, starring Boyfriend and featuring the voices of Billy Porter, Big Freedia, Jake Shears,
IN THE GARDEN
Blending provocative storytelling with genre-bending music, In the Garden explores identity, autonomy, temptation, and rebellion. As Eve questions her role in a world created for her, she confronts the consequences of desire, knowledge, and freedom — reframing one of humanity’s oldest stories through a fiercely contemporary lens.
The production stars Boyfriend as Eve and features the voices of Tony and Grammy winner Billy Porter as Narrator, New Orleans icon Big Freedia as God, Jake Shears as Adam, and legendary feminist performance artist Peaches as the Serpent.
Bold, theatrical, and unapologetically original, In the Garden is part concert, part musical, and entirely unforgettable.
Cast
BOYFRIEND ……………. Eve
Featuring the voices of:
BILLY PORTER ………… Narrator
BIG FREEDIA ………….. God
JAKE SHEARS …………. Adam
PEACHES ……………… Serpent
LISTEN TO IN THE GARDEN:
Boyfriend Presents: 15 Year Celebration Show (Alternative Series)
Raw, provocative, fan favorites, deep cuts, and surprise guests before the alter ego retires.
Boyfriend’s 15 Year Celebration brings it all back to where it started: small clubs, sweaty rooms, and gloriously provocative, raw performance. This intimate farewell show dives into fifteen years of Boyfriend’s world, trading spectacle for closeness as she tears through fan favorites, deep cuts, and the songs that built a cult following — with the occasional surprise guest dropping in along the way. It’s a last-chance, up‑close communion with the character before she returns to her role as an alter ego.
COMMANDO (Alternative Series)
Queer rap-metal mayhem: COMMANDO returns for a rare live performance.
Featuring five of the most powerful queer vocalists in California music history–Juba Kalamka (Deep Dickollective), Lynnee Breedlove (Tribe 8, The Homobiles), Drew Arriola Sands (Trap Girl), Krylon Superstar (Double Duchess), and Honey Mahogany (San Francisco Democratic Party)–COMMANDO simultaneously confronts our shared cultural past while making music unlike anything that has come before it.
Quarterbacked by a rhythm section of bassist Van Jackson-Weaver and virtuosic San Francisco experimental chamber duo The Living Earth Show (drummer Andy Meyerson and guitarist Travis Andrews), COMMANDO synthesizes rock, punk, hip hop, experimental music, metal, screaming, shredding, and poetry create something entirely unique.
Peaches Christ, David Flower, + Roar Shack Live!: Holiday Dark Ride Night 2 (Alternative Series)
A new macabre holiday show built by Peaches Christ, David Flower, and The Living Earth Show.
More information coming soon!
Peaches Christ is a San Francisco–based filmmaker, event producer, and theatre creator renowned for fusing drag, horror, and cult cinema into large-scale live experiences.
BODYSONNET x The Living Earth Show: Classic (Dance Series)
Classic brings music, movement, and the personal histories of the performers into playful conversation, using the idea of “canon” as a lens through which artists explore the traditions, influences, and knowledge that shape their practice. Through rigorously structured improvisational scores and curated musical remixes, the work creates a dynamic space for virtuosity, individuality, irony, and surprise to emerge. Rather than presenting fixed choreography, Classic highlights the dancers’ extraordinary skills, instincts, and wealth of knowledge, revealing each artist as both interpreter and author.
BODYSONNET (2019) is a New York-based company committed to site-responsive work. Led by Co-Founders Moscelyne ParkeHarrison (AD) and Mio Ishikawa (AAD), BODYSONNET initiates projects that center dance to yield highly physical works unique to the communities with which we engage. Our work demonstrates the intersection of movement with many mediums through collaboration with local artists and institutions. We redefine the viewer’s experience by developing innovative work that reinforces our shared humanity.
BODYSONNET has presented more than 25 original works for site-specific locations, film, and fixed mediums in The Berkshires (MA), Cologne (Germany), The Hudson Valley, NYC, San Francisco, Northwest Arkansas, and online.
@bodysonnet_
Krylon Superstar + Brown Lemon (Alternative Series)
San Francisco premiere of the new collaboration between Krylon Superstar and Brown Lemon!
Edge of the Wild Records: Dungeon Legends
A night of fantasy synthesizer music from Edge of the Wild Records. Details soon.
Hails! Edge of the Wild is a dungeon synth and fantasy music label emphasizing live performance, physical media, and supporting human artists.
Terry Riley’s Tarantella Hill (Experimental Classical Series)
The Living Earth Show premieres a new concert-length work written for the ensemble by legendary composer Terry Riiley.
Outsider Sounds and Sonic Visions: Twenty Years of Ratskin Records
Experimental music, noise, and one-night installations launch Ratskin Records' 20th-anniversary series.
Ratskin Records is excited to launch a new ongoing music series at The Roar Shack in San Francisco. Centered on adventurous live performances and pop up installations in celebration of Ratskin Records 20th anniversary. The series will showcase experimental music, noise, electronic, avant-garde, and genre-defying artists from the Bay Area and beyond, creating a recurring home for adventurous sounds and creative community, co curated by Ratskin Records in collaboration with Bay Area multidisciplinary artist Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt.
Each installment over the next year will feature a curated lineups incorporating special one-night only installations that complement the live performances and pull from both past and future Ratskin projects bringing in twenty plus years of collaborations . The series will also include a Ratskin Records pop-up shop featuring new and archival releases, books, zines, prints, apparel, and exclusive 20th anniversary merchandise, giving audiences the opportunity to explore two decades of independent music and artist-led publishing. There will be a special release produced that will only be available at these special events.
The first installment happens November 6th - lineup announced September 1st - until then, it’s a secret!
More than a concert series, this unique collaboration aims to build on the communal aspect of Outsider Sounds & Visions and continue to establish The Roar Shack as a destination for forward-thinking live music and art intersecting with a community rooted in togetherness and outsider out in San Francisco.
Co Curated By: Ratskin Records & Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt
Honey Mahogany: Black Thursday (Alternative Series)
Black Thursday: a night of music celebrating and manifesting collective power. With The Living Earth Show.
Dennis Aman + Fred C. Riley, III (Experimental Classical Series)
An evening with instrument builder Dennis Aman and puppeteer Fred Reilly. Details soon.
Timo Andres (Experimental Classical Series)
Acclaimed composer and pianist Timo Andres performs at RSL!
Timo Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Andres’ season is threaded through by an ongoing collaboration with pianist Aaron Diehl; the duo performs a two-piano recital (including a new work by Andres) at Carnegie Hall and Howland Chamber Music in January. Diehl also performs Andres’s 2024 concerto, Made of Tunes, at the Minnesota and Cleveland Orchestras. Andres performs his third piano concerto, The Blind Banister, with the Maryland Symphony led by Elizabeth Schulze, and writes new commissions for the Heida Hermanns Competition, cellist Arlen Hlusko, and The Living Earth Show.
In recent seasons, Timo made his sold out solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall; received a Tony nomination for his work orchestrations and arrangements of Sufjan Stevens’s Illinoise for the acclaimed theatrical production by Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury; served as advisor and editor of a 2023 edition of the Philip Glass Etudes published by Artisan; and performed with the Pomegranate Arts productions of the Glass Etudes internationally, including recent dates at Lincoln Center, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Elbphilarmonie, the Philharmonie Berlin, and for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts.
Notable works include Everything Happens So Much for the Boston Symphony; Strong Language for the Takács Quartet, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Shriver Hall Concert Series; Steady Hand, a two-piano concerto commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia premiered at the Barbican by Andres and David Kaplan; and The Blind Banister, a concerto for Jonathan Biss, which was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Biss recorded the work with Pekka Kuusisto and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra for Orchid Classics in 2025.
As a pianist, Timo Andres has appeared with the LA Phil, North Carolina Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Metropolis Ensemble, among others. He has performed solo recitals for Lincoln Center, and Wigmore Hall. Timo’s collaborators include Becca Stevens, Jeffrey Kahane, Gabriel Kahane, Brad Mehldau, Nadia Sirota, and—of course—Philip Glass, who selected Andres as the recipient of the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize. He was nominated for a Grammy award for his performances on 2021’s The Arching Path, an album of music by Christopher Cerrone. Andres’s collaborations with Sufjan Stevens also include his May 2023 recording with Conor Hanick of Stevens’s latest album, Reflections; arrangements of ballets for New York City Ballet, and a solo piano album, The Decalogue.
A Nonesuch Records artist, Andres has multiple albums on the label, including 2024’s The Blind Banister with Metropolis Ensemble. A Yale School of Music graduate, he is a Yamaha/Bösendorfer Artist and is on the composition faculty at the Mannes School of Music at the New School. He was recently awarded the 2025 Stoeger Prize by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Del Sol Quartet (Experimental Classical Series)
Del Sol Quartet brings the music of inti figgis-vizueta to the Roar Shack.
San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet believes that music can, and should, happen anywhere - screaming out Aeryn Santillan’s Makeshift Memorials from a Mission District sidewalk or a rural high school, bouncing Ben Johnston’s microtonal Americana off the canyon walls of the Yampa River or the hallowed walls of Library of Congress, bringing Huang Ruo’s Angel Island Oratorio home to the island detention barracks or across the Pacific to the Singapore International Arts Festival. Del Sol’s performances provide the possibility for unexpected discovery, sparking dialogue and bringing people together.
Since 1992, Del Sol has commissioned or premiered hundreds of works by composers including Terry Riley, Tania León, Frederic Rzewski, Vijay Iyer, Mason Bates, Pamela Z, Chinary Ung, Chen Yi, Andy Akiho, Erberk Eryilmaz, Theresa Wong, and Reza Vali. They especially value their ongoing relationship with the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music in Boonville, California.
Huang Ruo - A Dust in Time, Del Sol’s eleventh album, was described in the New York Times as “excavations of beauty from the elemental.” Recent Del Sol recordings include The Resonance Between, a collaboration with North Indian musicians Alam Khan & Arjun Verma, SPELLLING and The Mystery School with Oakland magical-futurist pop phenomenon SPELLLING, and their podcast “Sounds Current,” an official selection of the Tribeca Festival.
delsolquartet.com / @delsolquartet
Benjamin Kreith & Hyeyung Sol Yoon, violins
Charlton Lee, viola
Kathryn Bates, cello
Tether Dance Project Night 1 (Dance Series)
Tether Dance Project is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit based in San Francisco, California presenting performances and workshops.
Tether Dance Project is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit based in San Francisco, California presenting performances, workshops, and community-building around modern dance and performance art. At Roar Shack Live!, Tether is bringing an immersive dance-theater work that explores transportation equity in the Bay Area through movement, live music, and audience participation.
Tether Dance Project Night 2 (Dance Series)
Tether Dance Project is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit based in San Francisco, California presenting performances and workshops.
Tether Dance Project is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit based in San Francisco, California presenting performances, workshops, and community-building around modern dance and performance art. At Roar Shack Live!, Tether is bringing an immersive dance-theater work that explores transportation equity in the Bay Area through movement, live music, and audience participation.
Edge of the Wild Records: Dungeon Legends
A night of fantasy synthesizer music from Edge of the Wild Records. Details soon.
Hails! Edge of the Wild is a dungeon synth and fantasy music label emphasizing live performance, physical media, and supporting human artists.
Tanner Porter + The Living Earth Show: Beachcomber (Experimental Classical Series)
Tanner Porter premieres Beachcomber, a new song cycle written for herself and The Living Earth Show.
Tanner Porter is a composer-performer, arranger and songwriter. In her “original art songs that are by turns seductive and confessional” (Steve Smith, The New Yorker), Tanner explores her passion for storytelling, often framing her work within the imagery of the California coast she grew up on. Her orchestral music, described as “drop-dead gorgeous” (Jim Munson, Broadway World), has been commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra (2023-24 LO Creators Corps Residency), the Albany Symphony Orchestra, and the National Repertory Orchestra, among others. She is thrilled to have collaborated with choreographer Claudia Schreier on two orchestral ballets: Slipstream, for the Boston Ballet, and Kin, commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet and hailed as “a total-stage spectacle” (Rachel Howard, SF Chronicle). As an arranger, Tanner orchestrated Grammy award-winning songwriter Aoife O’Donovan’s record All My Friends (The Knights of New York, The Westerlies, SF Girls Chorus), and collaborated with the Orlando Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony and music director Eric Jacobsen on the score for the original play “Potsdam” (script by Harley Elias). As a performer, Tanner made her Broadway debut in ILLINOISE at the St. James Theatre (music by Sufjan Stevens, choreography and direction by Justin Peck, and a book by Jackie Sibblies Drury and Peck), and premiered “Legacies” with the Living Earth Show (featuring music by The Sleeping Giant Collective) at San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre. Her latest record of songs, One Was Gleaming, was described as “an outstanding, genre-defying album from a uniquely talented composer-songwriter” (Lauren Ishida, I Care If You Listen) and can be heard on all streaming platforms. She received degrees in Composition from the University of Michigan (BM) and the Yale School of Music (MM).
Evicshen + The Living Earth Show (Experimental Classical Series)
A trio performance by Evicshen (Victoria Shen) and The Living Earth Show
Victoria Shen is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in San Francisco.
Shen's sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones, Shen uses what she calls "chaotic sound" to oppose signal and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning.
Her personal identity; her body; is the space her work utilizes to restructure sonic meaning. In her live performances, she proposes an exploration between meaning and non-meaning through the physical activation of noise tropes. Her probing into these melodic voids interrogate the ways we perceive value within aural experiences. The appendage-like instruments and objects she makes, exemplify Shen’s ability to embody through sound her interest in the tension created by opposition: control and chaos, the unique and the mass produced, the practical and the absurd.
Outsider Sounds and Sonic Visions: Twenty Years of Ratskin Records
Experimental music, noise, and one-night installations launch Ratskin Records' 20th-anniversary series.
Ratskin Records is excited to launch a new ongoing music series at The Roar Shack in San Francisco. Centered on adventurous live performances and pop up installations in celebration of Ratskin Records 20th anniversary. The series will showcase experimental music, noise, electronic, avant-garde, and genre-defying artists from the Bay Area and beyond, creating a recurring home for adventurous sounds and creative community, co curated by Ratskin Records in collaboration with Bay Area multidisciplinary artist Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt.
Each installment over the next year will feature a curated lineups incorporating special one-night only installations that complement the live performances and pull from both past and future Ratskin projects bringing in twenty plus years of collaborations . The series will also include a Ratskin Records pop-up shop featuring new and archival releases, books, zines, prints, apparel, and exclusive 20th anniversary merchandise, giving audiences the opportunity to explore two decades of independent music and artist-led publishing. There will be a special release produced that will only be available at these special events.
The first installment happens November 6th - lineup announced September 1st - until then, it’s a secret!
More than a concert series, this unique collaboration aims to build on the communal aspect of Outsider Sounds & Visions and continue to establish The Roar Shack as a destination for forward-thinking live music and art intersecting with a community rooted in togetherness and outsider out in San Francisco.
Co Curated By: Ratskin Records & Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt
Cole Pulice + The Living Earth Show (Experimental Classical Series)
An evening of new works written and performed by Cole Pulice and The Living Earth Show.
Cole Pulice (they/them) is an electroacoustic saxophonist, improviser, and composer based in Oakland, California. Cole’s work blends saxophone and wind synth with live signal processing for a deeply contemporary sound that opens up the surrealist sonic spaces between acoustic and digital worlds, playfully drifting between improvisation, modern composition, and experimentalism to explore themes of gender, emotion and technology, modes of memory, and sensations of time.
In addition to their own work, Cole has performed with Bon Iver, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Toro y Moi, and many others.
Roar Shack Live!: Ja'Moon presents Sweat (Night 1)
World premiere of Sweat, a new performance piece by Ja'Moon. Details soon.
Ja'Moon Jones works through dance and multidisciplinary collaboration to build immersive worlds that examine spiritual displacement and diasporic identity. As a child of the African diaspora, Ja'Moon inherits fragmented and obscured histories, and his artistic practice functions as a ritual of recall. Ja'Moon's work seeks to recover and preserve histories, cultural memory, and ways of knowing erased or excluded from dominant understandings of Black American life. Centering radical embodiment, oral storytelling, and immersive scenic design, he translates arcane wisdom cultivated through his engagement with stewards of African and diasporic ancestral traditions.
The cosmology Ja'Moon's work is rooted in Black mysticism and the expansive interiority of Blackness—its imagination, movement, memory, sound, and Spirit. Whether situated in ceremonial settings or performance spaces, Ja'Moon's work invite audiences into intimate encounters with the resilience of Black lore and the ever-evolving breath of our stories. His movement language draws from North American contemporary dance, African diasporic and continental folkloric traditions, and immersive dance theater. Ja'Moon braids the emotional and physical rigor of contemporary form with the character development, storytelling, and world-building embedded within folkloric and immersive practices. He creates performance environments that function as sites of remembrance, transformation, and collective witnessing.
Roar Shack Live!: Ja'Moon presents Sweat (Night 2)
World premiere of Sweat, a new performance piece by Ja'Moon. Details soon.
Ja'Moon Jones works through dance and multidisciplinary collaboration to build immersive worlds that examine spiritual displacement and diasporic identity. As a child of the African diaspora, Ja'Moon inherits fragmented and obscured histories, and his artistic practice functions as a ritual of recall. Ja'Moon's work seeks to recover and preserve histories, cultural memory, and ways of knowing erased or excluded from dominant understandings of Black American life. Centering radical embodiment, oral storytelling, and immersive scenic design, he translates arcane wisdom cultivated through his engagement with stewards of African and diasporic ancestral traditions.
The cosmology Ja'Moon's work is rooted in Black mysticism and the expansive interiority of Blackness—its imagination, movement, memory, sound, and Spirit. Whether situated in ceremonial settings or performance spaces, Ja'Moon's work invite audiences into intimate encounters with the resilience of Black lore and the ever-evolving breath of our stories. His movement language draws from North American contemporary dance, African diasporic and continental folkloric traditions, and immersive dance theater. Ja'Moon braids the emotional and physical rigor of contemporary form with the character development, storytelling, and world-building embedded within folkloric and immersive practices. He creates performance environments that function as sites of remembrance, transformation, and collective witnessing.
Travis Andrews: The Dharma At Big Sur + Other Selections (Experimental Classical Series)
Travis Andrews performs new music for electric guitar. Details soon.
Travis Andrews is the co-founder, executive director, and electric guitarist in The Living Earth Show. In that capacity, Andrews' performances have been praised as “mind-blowing” and "a vanguard effort of new chamber music" by the San Francisco Examiner and "emotional, transcendent, and at times bursting with raw post-rock power" by the Charleston City Paper. In his work, he strives to use the tools of classical and contemporary music to foreground the voices and perspectives often marginalized by the tradition and its presentation.
Highly in demand as a solo artist, Andrews has been a featured soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Eco Ensemble, and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble.
He has performed with John Doe of X, Bryce Dessner of The National, Terry Riley, & Kronos Quartet. A musical omnivore, Andrews also performs with avant-thrash trio Freighter, chambercore band miRthkon, and queer nü metal band COMMANDO.
Andrews has authored articles and books for String Letter Publishing and has been an artist in residence at universities and conservatories around the country. He is an endorsing artist for Fishman Transducers.
Edge of the Wild Records: Dungeon Legends
A night of fantasy synthesizer music from Edge of the Wild Records. Details soon.
Hails! Edge of the Wild is a dungeon synth and fantasy music label emphasizing live performance, physical media, and supporting human artists.
Conrad Tao & Andy Meyerson (Experimental Classical Series)
Conrad Tao and Andy Meyerson: piano and percussion. Details soon.
Conrad Tao is a leader of the new generation of classical music. The pianist and composer has amassed a steady stream of awards and critical acclaim for his performances, compositions and recordings. A former prodigy, Conrad has emerged as a mature, thoughtful and thought-provoking artist with both a singular vision and the talent to realize it.
Andy Meyerson is a drummer and percussionist based in San Francisco, California. He is the Artistic Director, co-founder, and percussionist of The Living Earth Show, one of the premiere experimental classical ensembles in the United States. Named one of the “22 performers to watch in ‘22” by the Washington Post, The Living Earth Show has presented over a decade of “outstanding” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “transcendent” (Charleston City Paper) new music that pushes the boundaries of technical and artistic possibility while amplifying voices, perspectives, and bodies that the classical music tradition has often excluded.
Outsider Sounds and Sonic Visions: Twenty Years of Ratskin Records
Experimental music, noise, and one-night installations launch Ratskin Records' 20th-anniversary series.
Ratskin Records is excited to launch a new ongoing music series at The Roar Shack in San Francisco. Centered on adventurous live performances and pop up installations in celebration of Ratskin Records 20th anniversary. The series will showcase experimental music, noise, electronic, avant-garde, and genre-defying artists from the Bay Area and beyond, creating a recurring home for adventurous sounds and creative community, co curated by Ratskin Records in collaboration with Bay Area multidisciplinary artist Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt.
Each installment over the next year will feature a curated lineups incorporating special one-night only installations that complement the live performances and pull from both past and future Ratskin projects bringing in twenty plus years of collaborations . The series will also include a Ratskin Records pop-up shop featuring new and archival releases, books, zines, prints, apparel, and exclusive 20th anniversary merchandise, giving audiences the opportunity to explore two decades of independent music and artist-led publishing. There will be a special release produced that will only be available at these special events.
The first installment happens November 6th - lineup announced September 1st - until then, it’s a secret!
More than a concert series, this unique collaboration aims to build on the communal aspect of Outsider Sounds & Visions and continue to establish The Roar Shack as a destination for forward-thinking live music and art intersecting with a community rooted in togetherness and outsider out in San Francisco.
Co Curated By: Ratskin Records & Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt
Paul Dresher + The Living Earth Show (Experimental Classical Series)
Paul Dresher is a composer, performer, instrument inventor, and producer.
Paul Dresher is an internationally active composer noted for his ability to integrate diverse musical influences into his own coherent and unique personal style. He pursues many forms of musical expression including experimental opera/music theater, chamber and orchestral composition, live instrumental electro-acoustic music, musical instrument invention, and scores for theater and dance.
The Living Earth Show collaborates with musical artists to build multidisciplinary, accessible, San Francisco-centric musical productions that reflect and respond to our world. The organization produces, commissions, records, and presents the ambitious work of vital musical creators, with a specific focus on foregrounding artists building work from, by, and for communities that are often marginalized and overlooked by traditional arts institutions. As a performing ensemble, record label, production company, and venue operator, The Living Earth Show uses experimental music to facilitate community and make San Francisco a place where culture is created.
Dungeon Legends: A Night of Fantasy Synthesizer Music
A night of live fantasy synthesizer music with Refusa, Frogknight, Reyhan, and Chitin Shield. Dress to quest!
Prepare to quest!
Edge of the Wild Records is bringing another night of fantasy synthesizer music to San Francisco. Gather your party on Thursday October 29 at The Roar Shack Gather your party! Three days before All Hallows’ Eve!
With vile and treacherous spellcraft by the great
REFUSA, GODDESS OF TRASH – jaunty post-food synth by @refusagoddessoftrash
FAUNALOTH – a dark dungeon music trio with bagpipes by @loudsoundclub
FROGKNIGHT – comfy synth about a frog in Lothorien by @frogknightmusic
REYHAN – oldschool dungeon synth by newcomer @reyhan.songcraft
What’s dungeon synth, you ask? Fantasy synthesizer music. Think: film and video game soundtracks with the aesthetics of black metal, cloaks, and lots of fog. You’ll love it.
So get ready for a fun night! Dress to quest (costumes encouraged but optional), listen to some epic live dungeon synth, and support local artists!
Thursday October 29
The Roar Shack
34 7th Street, San Francisco
Doors: 6:45
Music: 7:30
$20 at the door (suggested)
See you there!
Del Sol Quartet (Experimental Classical Series)
Del Sol Quartet brings the music of Julius Eastman to the Roar Shack.
On Julius Eastman: The Nation
San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet believes that music can, and should, happen anywhere - screaming out Aeryn Santillan’s Makeshift Memorials from a Mission District sidewalk or a rural high school, bouncing Ben Johnston’s microtonal Americana off the canyon walls of the Yampa River or the hallowed walls of Library of Congress, bringing Huang Ruo’s Angel Island Oratorio home to the island detention barracks or across the Pacific to the Singapore International Arts Festival. Del Sol’s performances provide the possibility for unexpected discovery, sparking dialogue and bringing people together.
Since 1992, Del Sol has commissioned or premiered hundreds of works by composers including Terry Riley, Tania León, Frederic Rzewski, Vijay Iyer, Mason Bates, Pamela Z, Chinary Ung, Chen Yi, Andy Akiho, Erberk Eryilmaz, Theresa Wong, and Reza Vali. They especially value their ongoing relationship with the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music in Boonville, California.
Huang Ruo - A Dust in Time, Del Sol’s eleventh album, was described in the New York Times as “excavations of beauty from the elemental.” Recent Del Sol recordings include The Resonance Between, a collaboration with North Indian musicians Alam Khan & Arjun Verma, SPELLLING and The Mystery School with Oakland magical-futurist pop phenomenon SPELLLING, and their podcast “Sounds Current,” an official selection of the Tribeca Festival.
delsolquartet.com / @delsolquartet
Benjamin Kreith & Hyeyung Sol Yoon, violins
Charlton Lee, viola
Kathryn Bates, cello
A Moment Beyond (Experimental Classical Series)
Two recent ambient classical pieces by Danny Clay, including the live premiere of a new album release on IIKKI editions.
Program (60 minutes):
Still Cycles
Andy Meyerson, vibraphone
A Moment Beyond
Doug Machiz, cello
Danny Clay, piano on tape loops
A Moment Beyond was commissioned by IIKKI editions as a musical response to the work of Gunnar Smoliansky, who lived and worked for several decades in Sweden developing his own voice in the medium of black and white photography.
A limited amount of CDs and records will be available for purchase at the event.
To listen and purchase this release on IIKKI Editions:
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/album/a-moment-beyond
Danny Clay (b.1989) is a composer and educator whose work is deeply rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and the sheer joy of making things with people of all ages and levels of artistic experience. He sees “composing” as the act of putting things together, and strives to find ways to utilize this act to foster creativity and connection around sound – whether it be writing classically notated compositions, playing musical games with visitors to Chicago’s Millennium Park, or building experimental installations with classes of elementary schoolers.
The Living Earth Show: Bucket List
Witness the members of experimental music trio Bucket List play the performance art board game Information Hazard.
Co-presented by Roar Shack Live!
The premise of the game is that Roko, a leader of future beings, has instructed Bucket List to construct and play this game to save humanity. Bucket List members are the three players: two opponents and a referee. The rule book is elaborate, fastidious, and often nonsensical. At times the opponents switch sides, thereby confounding the conventional notion of competition. The scoring system is arcane and perplexingly dynamic. Transgressions result first in penalties, but then in gifts. Sometimes dice are rolled, sometimes they are stacked. Hats can be exchanged. Game pieces can be eaten. All three players must execute absurd but tightly coordinated rhythms and gestures. The game seems incredibly irrational. But, as Bucket List says, “The more we play it, the more it makes sense.”
“I am grateful to my colleagues in our trio Bucket List for taking on the project of learning and playing this esoteric and tremendously difficult game. It may easily be the most or least valuable enterprise ever undertaken.” — Mark Applebaum, composer
Bucket List will play Information Hazard from 4 to 8 p.m. with occasional breaks. Visitors are invited to stay for a few minutes or watch the game unfold over several hours.
This performance was commissioned by the Roar Shack, a creative laboratory located in the heart of Mid-Market, San Francisco.
The Lambert Show (Alternative Series)
Lambert premieres a good old fashioned musical variety show: great music, fun stories, and some of the coolest guest stars.
A breakout star of Honey Mahogany's Black Thursday, Lambert opens The Roar Shack's third season with a show of their very own.
With support from The Living Earth Show, Lambert has created a good old fashioned musical variety show. Expect a night of great music, fun stories, and some of the coolest guest stars.
Season 3 Opening Night
Season 3 opens with a variety show built by The Living Earth Show performing with Roar Shack all-stars like Tanner Porter, Pamela Z, Peaches Christ, Mark Applebaum, and Lynn Breedlove.
Join us as we ring in a new season of San Francisco-centric experimental performance with highlights from the past two seasons and a preview of the season to come.
Pamela Z & The Living Earth Show
A new collaboration between legendary composer/vocalist/electronic musician Pamela Z and experimental chamber ensemble The Living Earth Show
Building off their prior collaborations as part of the Qube Chix reunion last season, Pamela Z and The Living Earth Show create a new, concert-length collaborative production. Performed as a trio of Pamela Z (vocals/electronics), Travis Andrews (guitars), and Andy Meyerson (percussion), the group explores song, improvisation, chamber composition, and experimental performance as they build a SF-centric artistic vocabulary and practice.
This program is made possible by 836M.
Website: https://pamelaz.com/
Season 3 Launch Gala
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.
Danny Clay & The Living Earth Show
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/
Wig Metal
Peaches Christ and Edwin Outwater present ‘Wig Metal’ with The Living Earth Show at Roar Shack Live!
Trust Me
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
Lazyhorse
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.
Dr. Bittinger
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
Bucket List presents "Achievement!"
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.
Bucket List
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
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.
