the SALTY SERIES

Join us for our take-over of Bread & Salt Gallery in Barrio Logan with concerts on the THIRD FRIDAY of every month!

From October through May, THE SALTY SERIES brings a savory spread of genre-bending concerts, immersive installations, and offbeat happenings by San Diego’s most innovative artists and visionary international guests. Each show offers a one-night-only experience—uncompromising, unexpected, and unforgettably salty.

All shows begin at 7:30 pm (unless otherwise stated) at Bread & Salt. Tickets are $15 General Admission or Pay-What-You-Can. Grab a drink, make a new friend, and feast your eyes and ears on the most adventurous experimental music in town.

Seaweeds
by michelle sui

NOV 21, 2025, 7:30 PM → BREAD & SALT GALLERY

Seaweeds is inspired by the silent film The Toll of the Sea, in which twentieth century Hollywood icon Anna May Wong played her first leading role. In this “remake” of the film’s ending scene, actors audition for Anna May Wong, who herself runs off to Paris and Tijuana to pursue her on again, off again girlfriend. Onscreen and offscreen selves merge as time and space collapses. An Asian-American cast sings the blues to the first Technicolor film, whose original racist ending was serendipitously lost to the times, and now rewritten.

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It’s Kitschmastime Again, Brian & Ryan

DEC 05, 2025, 7:30 PM → BREAD & SALT GALLERY

San Diego’s favorite art duo Brian & Ryan return with the third edition of their irreverent, glitter-drenched holiday variety show, It’s Kitschmastime Again! Expect a rollicking evening of festive music, offbeat storytelling, absurd theatricality, and lovingly over-the-top seasonal cheer. The Pageant runs alongside Brian & Ryan’s 10th annual Kitschmas exhibition—a maximalist explosion of all things fantastically plastic, wonderful, and weird about the holidays. Whether you’re a true tinsel-lover or a holiday skeptic, Brian & Ryan will send you home grinning and ready to deck the halls with reckless abandon.

ACOUSMONIUM
BY SAM DUNSCOMBE

JAN 16, 2026, 7:30 PM → BREAD & SALT GALLERY

Sam D, Recording Engineer for the UC San Diego Music Department, presents a research-based exploration of the acousmonium developed during the 2024–25 academic year. This presentation is part of UCSD research, and Sam appears courtesy of UCSD Music.

Composer and sound artist Sam Dunscombe surrounds audiences in an acousmonium–an immersive “loudspeaker orchestra” of more than two dozen custom-positioned speakers. First developed in the 1970s by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris, the acousmonium was designed to project electroacoustic music in space—treating each speaker as an individual voice in a vast sonic field. Dunscombe’s hand-built system transforms the room into a living architecture of sound, where tones move, swirl, and morph depending on where you stand. The program features spectral soundscapes and textural explorations that invite audiences to walk, turn, and listen from multiple perspectives, making each seat a unique vantage point. It’s a rare opportunity to experience sound not just as music, but as a three-dimensional environment you can inhabit.

POETRY + SOUND in 2 acts:
Fabiola Carranza +Wilfrido Terrazas

FEB 20, 2026, 7:30 PM → BREAD & SALT GALLERY

This two-part program brings together music, poetry, and performance for an evening of boundary-crossing storytelling. In Act One, improviser Wilfrido Terrazas and poet Ronnie Yates explore the liminal space where their disciplines meet—Terrazas’s music shaped by the Mexico City poetry scene, Yates’s poetry by Houston’s improvised music world. The duo’s first-ever live collaboration promises an adventurous dialogue of words and sound. Act Two presents The Mexican Husband (2019) by Fabiola Carranza, a bilingual reimagining of Bertolt Brecht’s The Jewish Wife set in contemporary Los Angeles. The play follows a couple’s final night together before the husband flees across the border to avoid deportation—an unflinching, poetic meditation on immigration, separation, and resilience in the face of systemic injustice.

to live a loving life
by Patrick Michael Ballard

MAR 20, 2026, 7:30 PM → BREAD & SALT GALLERY

Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Michael Ballard invites audiences into a surreal, participatory world where performance unfolds in response to those present. Through playful instructions, poetic imagery, and unpredictable transformations, Ballard blurs the line between witness and participant—offering a choice to step into the action or simply observe.

celestial bodies: Moons+
Marguerite Brown

APR 17, 2026, 7:30 PM → BREAD & SALT GALLERY

Sound artist Marguerite Brown opens the evening with an exploration of the electric guitar as a celestial body, using planetary tuning forks, custom hardware, and extended performance techniques to reveal new resonances and cosmic frequencies. Her work invites listeners to consider sound as both vibration and matter, connecting the earthly and the astronomical. Following Brown, the bi-coastal quartet MOONS—Judith Berkson, Laura Cetilia, Katie Porter, and Christine Tavolacci—presents a set of new compositions born from years of collaboration in experimental music. Their performances traverse chamber textures, electroacoustic landscapes, and subtle improvisations, creating music that is intimate, exploratory, and richly detailed. Together, Brown and MOONS offer an evening that bridges the cosmic and the deeply intimate.

Algorithmic
Rave

MAY 15, 2026, 7:30 PM → BREAD & SALT GALLERY

Get ready for a full-throttle dance party where human creativity and machine intelligence collide. Headlining the night is Deep World, a new live audiovisual/AI performance by VJ Übergeek—the long-running performance persona of artist Amy Alexander—joined by DJ monocromo. Picking up where Übergeek’s legendary CyberSpaceLand series (2000–2015) left off, Deep World blends club energy with theatrical spectacle, part live text improv, part VJ set, and part video game. As Übergeek converses with a custom-trained AI built on the words of writers and thinkers who have navigated crisis, the dialogue drives a pulsing, immersive cathartic rave. The party kicks off with high-energy, algorithmically generated sets by Joe Cantrell and Matty Terrones & Victor Castañeda—priming the dance floor with worlds of sound, light, and automation.

ERIC WONG +
RM FRANCIS

OCT 17 2025, 7:30 PM → BREAD & SALT GALLERY

Berlin-based sound artist Eric Wong transforms Bread & Salt into an immersive, decentralized sonic environment using dozens of Bluetooth speakers scattered throughout the space and among the audience. Harmonic and inharmonic tones shift and interfere depending on where you stand, creating a constantly changing, interactive experience. Sharing the bill is Seattle-based composer RM Francis with a haunting “depopulated opera” built from simulated human voices—an uncanny chorus of digital timbres that blurs the line between the organic and the synthetic. Together, Wong and Francis offer a night of spatial listening and technological experimentation that invites audiences into a sonic world of exploration, meditation, and imagination.