Join us for our take-over of Bread & Salt Gallery in Barrio Logan with concerts on the THIRD FRIDAY of every month. Grab a drink, make a new friend, and feast your eyes and ears on the most savory experimental music in town. Each concert is curated by a different local artist, pulling from our community’s incredible wealth of talent on both sides of the border. This season’s savory selections will include evenings dedicated to improvisation, sound art, electroacoustic music, voice and electronics, performance art, and works that combine live music and video.

All shows are at 7:30 pm (unless otherwise stated) @ Bread & Salt, and tickets are $15 General Admission or Pay-What-You-Can.

THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
by Alejandro Jodorowsky

SEP 25TH 2023

The Salty Series kicks off with The Holy Mountain with Joe Cantrell, a film screening of The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorwsky with live electronic score improvisation. According to Joe Cantrell, "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 film The Holy Mountain is as visually striking as it is difficult – a journey that is unrelenting in its surreal maximalism. At times serene, grotesque, and comical, the sense of the uncanny never leaves the viewer. It is this focus on imagery that is intensely unusual that I find so fitting for a live performance setting. My intention is to use these fantastical images as a visual representation of noises and sounds, similar to a type of music notation called a graphical score. These scores use static pictures instead of notes to convey musical ideas. The images used are often abstract and unusual and open to a wide variety of interpretations by the musician. I feel the challenging and dazzling visual world that Jodorowsky paints is a fitting filmic analog to this graphical tradition, and one that promises to create impactful and memorable sonic and visual pairing."

stay strange presents: the experimental guitar show

OCT 20TH 2023

Curated by Sam Lopez of Stay Strange, the long-dormant Experimental Guitar Show will return after a 10-year hiatus!with a NOISE Guitar workshop with MJ Stevens, and the concert kicks off at 7:30pm. This presentation features local musicians who have outgrown the limitations of conventional guitar playing and expanded their technique by using their imagination rather than instruction. Gone are the orthodox chords and standard scales normally attributed to the instrument; a new musical vocabulary of tone and timbre emerges in its place.

Come early for the NOISE Guitar workshop with MJ Stevens starting at 7:00 PM!

PERFORMANCES BY:
Randy Chiurazzi, designer of the Sound Suite, creator of the Guitarbage Can
Bobby Bray of renowned hardcore punk bands The Locust and INUS
A. Eugene LeGrow with 20 years’ experience in design, art direction, and music

the in^set trio

NOV 17TH 2023

The in^set trio is a flexible chamber ensemble dedicated to creation, improvisation, and experimentation, presents TANGIBLE MECHANICS.

The evening will feature works by Pauline Oliveros, Teresa Díaz de Cossio, Ilana Waniuk, Melissa Vargas Franco, David Aguila, Kotoka Suzuki, and members of in^set trio, exploring the physicality of sound through the medium of cassette tape and the resonance of found objects.

Founded in 2018 by David Aguila (trumpet), Teresa Díaz de Cossio (flute), and Ilana Waniuk (violin), in^set trio is committed to commissioning and performing existing compositions which extend their respective instrumental practices beyond the confines of contemporary classical music.

INORI by karlheinz stockhausen

DEC 15TH 2023

Project [BLANK] presents INORI, performed by San Diego-based percussionist Christopher Clarino, who is currently touring the piece across the United States and in Brazil.

As the first person to perform this extremely virtuosic work in the U.S., Clarino's approach to the material is equally rooted in his experience interpreting some of contemporary music's most challenging percussion works, as well as his time as an interpreter of American Sign Language. By merging ritualistic gestures and musical expression, INORI is a unique and moving experience not to be missed.

Written in 1974, Karlheinz Stockhausen's INORI is a rarely performed, concert-length work for soloist and electronic audio playback. Created by one of the 20th Century’s most notoriously challenging composers, INORI is an exploration of the gestures of prayer and religious ritual as they appear in cultures from around the world. Inside the performance, the soloist makes no sound, and instead moves through a series of meticulously choreographed gestures that coincide with Stockhausen's luminously orchestrated score. This profound work takes the audience on a deeply meditative journey, punctuated by moments of despair and shocking violence.

material intimicies

JAN 19TH 2024

Material Intimacies is a one-night performance art gathering inviting viewers to contemplate the ephemeral edges between the self and the collective body.

Performance artists JAX, Jun!, Hamsa Fae, and erika fruit will offer durational and staged works as portals of liminality, disruption, and soft ferocity.

some kind of tube

FEB 16TH 2024

Some Kind of Tube showcases San Diego musicians working with brass instruments in innovative, non-traditional, and occasionally unpredictable ways. Using extended techniques, electronic processing, modified instruments, and more, these musicians each approach their instruments and music-making in dramatically different and idiosyncratic ways, transforming familiar horns into malleable tools for sonic expression and exploration.

PERFORMANCES BY:
David Aguila (trumpet)
Sean Francis Conway (trumpet and invented instruments)
Jonathan Piper (tuba),
Berk Schneider (trombone), Douglas Osmun (electronics) and Joey Bourdeau (percussion)

I was all ear

MAR 15TH 2024

Xareni Lizarraga manifests a Sonic World transporting audiences to another time, another place, through interdisciplinary art and sound performance. I was all ear invites witnesses to bolster their sonic awareness and deep listening while sharing sound that thickens the sensory stew of our lives. I was all ear celebrates the sense of sound that we depend upon to help us interpret, communicate with, and express the world around us.

MALA FORMA DANCE

APR 19TH 2024

“Audiences will witness the rigorously skilled but entirely unprofessional antics of those naturally selected for the school (by haters, lemmings, basics, and society-at-large) to pursue their preemptive post-graduate non-denominational degree from this universally ignored and egregiously unaccredited school, where, in fact, no-one ever graduates and where degrees, if they could be awarded, would serve to offer nothing in the way of gainful employment.

For this evening's recital audiences witness the dance bricolage and resulting detritus of works the most luminary Dishonored Students of ThE CanCEled ScHoOl, performers of almost painfully nonexistent acclaim, who, on this evening alone, and probably never again thereafter, will offer their most generous work to date, because, in fact, they find, with great relief, they have nothing more to lose. Led by the unprofessed and disgraced dancer and director, Justin Morrison, this is a special work that will never, ever, be repeated.” – Justin Morrison

HOMENAJE A Javier Álvarez

ON THE PROGRAM:
Temazcal for maracas and electronic sounds, performed by Camilo Zamudio
Lluvia de Toritos for solo flute, performed by Alexander “Sasha” Ishov.
Peninsula de Pajaros and Mejor Morir en la Selva, two works never before heard in San Diego, with electronic spatialization performed by Francisco Eme

MAY 17TH 2024

Homenaje a Javier Álvarez / Homage to Javier Álvarez is a one-night performance featuring electroacoustic compositions by one of the most celebrated Mexican composers of our time. The music of Javier Álvarez (1956-1923) combines a rich tapestry of electronic sounds with live acoustic instruments, infused with rhythms and sounds rooted in a deep love for his native Mexico. Concert curator Francisco Eme notes, “When you listen to his music, you listen to Mexico inserted perfectly in the great global discourse of contemporary music.” Come celebrate the life and work of this remarkable, community-minded composer at the one- year anniversary of his passing.

ELECTROACOUSTIC NITE!

JUN 21ST 2024

Electroacoustic Nite! features dynamic performances by some of Project [BLANK]’s favorite noisemakers and improvisers. They’ll be cooking up one-of-a-kind sounds by combining instruments and everyday objects with computers, signal processors, synthesizers, and repurposed machines. Join us as we close out the season with an evening of body-shaking, dreamy, noisy, meditative music.

PERFORMANCES BY:
Eric Derr (drums/synthesizer)
Joe Cantrell (found objects/electronics)
Go By Land (Michell Lou on bass/electronics and Jonathan Piper on tuba/electronics)
Adam Zuckerman (guitar/electronics) and Ess Whiteley (multiple instruments/electronics)
Mem1 (Laura Cetilia on cello and Mark Cetilia on electronics)