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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.
border angels donations
We invite all fans of Project [BLANK] to join us in supporting Border Angels, a nonprofit organization dedicated to humanitarian aid, migrant rights, and social justice along the U.S.–Mexico border. At each event this season, we will be collecting valuable items to help support our neighbors in need.
Your contributions directly assist migrants, asylum seekers, and families served by Border Angels through programs such as shelter aid in Tijuana, water drops in the desert, educational initiatives, and day-laborer outreach. For a full list of needed items and more information about their mission, please visit their website.
Please consider bringing any of the following new, unopened items to donate to each show:
Adult undergarments (all sizes)
Kids undergarments (all sizes)
New clothing & shoes (all sizes for adults & children)
Diapers & Pull-ups
Reusable Water Bottles
Toilet Paper & wipes
Shampoo, body soap & deodorant
Toothbrushes & toothpaste
Body lotion & hand sanitizer
Cold Medicine (for adults & children)
Prenatal vitamins & multivitamins (for adults & children)
Disposable plates, cups & cutlery
Non-perishable food items (ie. rice, beans, pasta, etc.)
Dish soap, laundry detergent and cleaning supplies (ie. bleach, all purpose cleaners, etc.)
Children’s books & arts & craft supplies (preferably in Spanish)
ACOUSMONIUM
BY SAM DUNSCOMBE
JAN 16, 2026, 7:30 PM → BREAD & SALT GALLERY
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.
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.
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.
Mr. Wong’s travel made possible by a grant from the Goethe Institut
Seaweeds
by michelle sui
NOV 21, 2025, 7:30 PM → BREAD & SALT GALLERY
Blurring the lines between cinema and live performance, Seaweeds re-imagines the lost ending of The Toll of the Sea, the 1922 silent film that introduced screen legend Anna May Wong (1905–1961) in the first-ever Technicolor motion picture. In Michelle Sui’s bold re-envisioning, actors audition for Wong herself, who breaks free from the script and takes off to Paris and Tijuana in search of her on-again, off-again girlfriend.
Past/present and onscreen/offscreen selves begin to blur as performers slip between roles and realities. An Asian-American cast conjures a world where time folds in on itself and stories are rewritten and reclaimed. Merging live performance and music with cinematic fragments, Sui’s Seaweeds creates a layered homage to Wong and the roles she played, as well as those she never got to play.
It’s Kitschmastime Again, Brian & Ryan
DEC 05, 2025
EXHIBITION OPENS AT 6:00 PM
PERFORMANCE BEGINS AT 7:30 PM
→ ATHENAEUM ART CENTER at BREAD & SALT
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.
FREE admission to Athenaeum members!
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