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THE SALTY SERIES
Our residency at the Bread & Salt Gallery in Barrio Logan continues, as we bring you inexpensive monthly concerts of cutting-edge new music. Come hang out with us and explore new sounds and songs curated by some of our favorite local artists and friends.
Concerts happen on the second Saturday of the month, tickets are sold at the door, and beer and wine are available for purchase.
All shows are at 8:00 pm @ Bread & Salt, and tickets are $10 General Admission or Pay-What-You-Can at the door.
December 10: Machine Music curated by Joe Cantrell
Music never touched by human hands: performances by artists that create sounds by electronic or electromechanical means.
January 14: Treatise On Violence: The Invention of Us by Francisco Eme
A multimedia opera that explores the violence that often hides in plain sight in modern society.
February 11: Space Time Art curated by Nick Lesley
A collaborative performance of multi-disciplinary artworks that exist outside conventional listening, viewing, and theatrical structures.
March 11: Lingua Franca curated by Leslie Ann Leytham
An evening of works that feature manipulated voices and genre-crossing modalities.
May 13: VoxVoxVox curated by Jonathan Nussman
Baritone Jonathan Nussman will present a concert of works for unaccompanied voices, featuring performances by local singers.
MACHINE MUSIC is an evening of music never touched by human hands, featuring a diverse group of artists who create artistic sound worlds by electronic or electromechanical means. These vary from digital computer processing, to modular analog synthesizers, to 3D ambisonic speaker arrays. Join us for an evening of uncanny electronic performances that will dazzle with fascinating soundscapes and textures.
WITH PERFORMANCES BY: Joe Cantrell, Haydee Jimenez, Xareni Lizarraga, Michelle Lou, and Starvelab aka Michael Trigilio.
Francisco Eme’s Treatise of Violence: The Invention of Us is a powerful and immersive multimedia experience featuring operatic singing, instrumental and electronic music, sound installations, field recordings, sculptures, and photographs. The performance explores legalized violent practices in our modern society created in the name of civilization, highlighting the violent ways in which capitalist, misogynist, racist, and imperialist systems function.
WITH PERFORMANCES BY: Francisco Eme, Monica Camacho, Bonnie Lander, Leslie Ann Leytham, and Wilfrido Terrazas.
SPACE TIME is pleased to present a program of “illuminated music,*” featuring various methods of real-time image and sound manipulation. The program will begin with a screening of Studies by video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka. “The Vasulkas' investigations into analog and digital processes and their development of electronic imaging tools, which began in the early 1970s, place them among the primary architects of an expressive electronic vocabulary of image-making.**” In 1971, The Vasulkas founded The Kitchen in NYC, which has served as a model for multidisciplinary arts organizations, including Space Time and Project [BLANK].
*The term “illuminated music” is taken from another video synthesis pioneer, Stephen Beck.
**Text from Electronic Arts Intermix (NYC), www.eai.org
WITH PERFORMANCES BY: Helixhand and Kevin Schwenkler
LINGUA FRANCA is a concert of music that asks musical artists from a wide variety of genres, styles, and traditions to consider their relationship to pop music. Batya Macadam-Somer will weave her violin and voice together, presenting an improvised set inspired by songs from some of her favorite pop artists. Dom Cooper will perform recents works for voice, prepared tape, piano, and electronics. Sound artist Joe Cantrell will create soundscapes based on recorded vocal content including a reading of “The Winter of Ending," a poem by his mother, Anita Van Tellingen. These altered vocal sounds will be complimented by live performance on acoustic instruments and obsolete/broken electronics. Julien Cantelm (drums) and Lexi Pulido (voice) will present some of their collaborative explorations of genre-crossing music with influences in Brazilian jazz and popular styles.
WITH PERFORMANCES BY: Joe Cantrell, Dom Cooper, Batya MacAdam-Somer, and Lexi Pulido with Julien Cantelm
VOXVOXVOX is the final installment in our monthly series of experimental concerts at Bread & Salt! Local singers Michelle Gallardo-Arias, Mariana Flores Bucio, Jonathan Nussman and Miguel Zazueta will present an evening of contemporary solo works that explore the expressive possibilities of the unaccompanied human voice.
VOXOXVOX is a concert of works that zero in on the sound of the human voice and explore its boundless lyrical, expressive, instrumental and percussive qualities. Curated by Jonathan Nussman, these works free the singer from the confines of traditional accompaniment, unlocking each individual artist’s creativity by combining new and familiar sounds in surprising ways. The concert features singers from San Diego and Tijuana, including sopranos Michelle Gallardo-Arias and Mariana Flores Bucio, baritone Jonathan Nussman, and tenor Miguel Zazueta. This eclectic program includes music by Carolyn Chen, Gilda Lyons, Georges Apperghis, and a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds. In addition to the live performances, an installation by local painter Stacie Birky Greene will be on display in space.