aug27 SONGscape at Mission Synths

San Francisco, CA

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In celebration of SONG, a group exhibition on view at Creativity Explored, join the CE community with musician and composer Matt Robidoux at Mission Synths for an interactive music-making workshop using adaptive technologies and instruments.

During the event, participants are invited to map their gestures and movements to sounds and musical phrases using Deep Listening Institute's Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI). This accessible technology, originally created by composer Pauline Oliveros, is a software interface that allows anyone to create music with movement – for example, by moving one’s hands or blinking an eye.

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Interpreting sheet music drawings by Creativity Explored artist Walter Kresnik and other artworks on view in the exhibition SONG, together the group will play and record an original SONGscape. We can’t wait to see and hear what we create together!

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aug 18 adobe books

santé loisirs presents happy fuji news 

w/ insane angel

SF, CA

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aug 12 wrong brain

w/ Ty Udea, Nat Strickland

Dover, NH

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aug 8 live on ckut "underground sounds" 

Montreal, QC

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aug 7 casa del popolo

w/ npnp trio, a.m. sci-fi

Montreal, QC

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aug 6 villeray bbq

trio set avec/ Nicolas Gaudreault et Élise Paradis

w/ Craig Pedersen and friends

Montreal, QC

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jul 28 noisebridge hackerspace 

resident electronic monthly 

San Francisco, CA

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jul 23 the big easy

w/ Matt Norman, ShonRay, 888vino888, Malpractice, Shifty Shea 

Petaluma, CA

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jul 16 Sonifying Gesture: AUMI and Hardware Synthesizers

collaboration with Mission Synths 

Temescal Arts Center, Oakland, CA  

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Deep Listening Institute’s Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI), among one of composer/performer/humanitarian Pauline Oliveros’ last projects, is a software interface that enables the user to play sounds and musical phrases through movement and gestures. This workshop will be a collaboration with Matt Robidoux (founder of Adaptive Instrument Ensemble (AIE), a neurodivergent electroacoustic improvising group founded at Mills College in 2017) and Mission Synths, a hardware synthesizer shop established in San Francisco in 2020.

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Using AUMI as a remote MIDI controller, workshop participants will be invited to map any gesture using camera capture (i.e. a hand motion, an eye blink) to a corresponding hardware synth, sample bank or combination of instruments. Each member of the group will devise an individual approach to synthesis that could either function as a closed system or in expanded dialogue with an instrument of choice.

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The group will collectively interpret graphic scores by artists of Creativity Explored, a studio-based collective in San Francisco that partners with developmentally disabled artists to celebrate and nurture the creative potential in all of us.

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jun25 minnow arts

w/ volvo 240dl, poor clares, clare bathum, grace cofrancesco

Santa Cruz, CA

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may8 mills college "all ball" w/ amina kirby, christoper davidson, angela edwards,

krishna jhaveri, adam troy

Oakland, CA

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mar24 shapeshifter cinema w/ jake parker-scott and mitch stahlmann

w/ laetitia sonami, voicehandler 

Oakland, CA 

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 west coast tour with painted faces

feb26 Los Angeles, CA, love song bar w/ banny grove, earl vallie

feb25 San Francisco, CA, adobe books w/ briana marela, sucker crush

feb24 Seattle, WA, gallery 1412 w/ CHARI, changing bodies

feb23 Olympia, WA, cryptopia w/ max nordile, free sound shelter system

feb22 Portland, OR, no fun bar w/ mike gamble

feb21 Portland, OR, turn! turn! turn! w/ eaton flowers / tony mowe

feb20 Anderson, CA, demented designs

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temoleh (Roco Córdova/Nathan Corder/Matt Robidoux/José Solares)

jan14 the lab

w/ Rubber (() Cement Solid City State installation and performance with Zuper Cimevox, & Rosatankwaffen Schimpanzer *---Kyle Bruckmann----Last Paintings in Mazurka Mantis (Cooper/Roberts)----Decision/Fatigue----Ian Harding

San Francisco, CA

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2021

dec28 phoenix theatre

w/ shit love ft. insane angel, shonray, 888vino888

Petaluma, CA

 

dec12 Mission Synths 1 year anniversary

w/ Next Expanse, slowspines, Franck Martin, electric.kitchen, Your Opponent , ramonaisonline, Rudo Rudeboi, Oso Feo, Alphastare, KZZL, Nihar, Hydroplane, Guidewire, Frank Zula, All That’s Gone, USRD

San Francisco, CA

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"at dust" release show

nov7 the knockout

w/ LCM, Carrie Ford Decunzo, Spectralbinch

San Francisco, CA

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sep26 beauty supply

w/ Banny Grove, Matt Norman, David Castillo, Musele 

Oakland, CA

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sep5 mancini's warehouse

w/ Timecop, Will Krauland, Marlene, Iris

Chicago, IL 

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jul31 warehouse show

w/ Painted Faces, Moth Eggs, Newports, Train Guts

Brooklyn, NY

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jul29 never ending books

w/ Alex Burnet, An Historic

New Haven, CT

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jul11 la cera 13

w/ Ubaldo

Barcelona, ES

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jul10 el pumarejo

w/ Ubaldo, Igulsosegado

Barcelona, ES

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may 15 — ongoing

prepared guitar ensemble at Maker Music Festival

online

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2020

oct14 coaxial

axial age festival presented by nett nett and otoño

LA, CA online

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sep 12 online

🔊🥞G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S QUARANSTREAM

 

feb29 adobe books

Brief Candles album release show 

w/ Melissa Weikart, Vol., Nathan Corder/Kevin Murray

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feb 1 

Dirt and Copper with Laura Steenberge: Shadowbox 

collaboration with Laura Steenberge, Dana Hemenway, and Rebeca Bollinger

space 124 @ project artaud

san francisco, CA

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jan 11 pro arts 

oakland, ca 

w/ grex, the social stomach, rodolfo cordova 

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monopiece

jan 3 adobe books 

w/ evicshen, bryan day

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2019

dec 29 the windjammer 

ridgewood, ny

w/ minivan, tbhq, carrie ford, painted faces

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dec 11 the knockout

san francisco, ca 

w/ briana marela, dingbat superminx, tendher

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w/ temoleh  (+ rodolfo cordova / nathan corder)

dec 9 OFJS: fernando's birthday party

pro arts 

oakland, ca

w/  STONE RAFT (JOSH ALLEN/TIM DUFF/AARON LEVIN), GABBY FLUKE-MOGUL/GLENN/MEZZACAPPA

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All Ears: remembering Pauline Oliveros 

nov 24 temescal arts center 

oakland, ca

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nov 23 cmaj7 for large ensemble by Sean Keenan 

w/ Mitch Stahlmann, Jake Parker Scott, Rodrigo Barriga, Kris Force, John Ivers, Matthew Wong, Joel Nelson, Petur Eggersson

san francisco, ca 

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preparing guitar  workshop / performance

to coincide with fractures and resistance exhibition

nov 2 creativity explored 

san francisco, ca

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Dana Hemenway Solo Exhibition – Differently Structured Possibilities 

sound performance night: trio with sally decker / mitch stahlmann 

oct 5 Eleanor Harwood Gallery 

san francisco, ca

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w/ temoleh  (+ rodolfo cordova / nathan corder)

sep 28 land and sea

oakland, ca

w/ theresa wong, gabby wen 

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refracted pathways: dirt and copper with rebeca bollinger

sep 27 center for new music

san francisco, ca

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Dana Hemenway Solo Exhibition – Differently Structured Possibilities 

opening night collaboration with Arletta Anderson

sep 7 Eleanor Harwood Gallery 

san francisco, ca

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solo

aug 28 dildo factory, berkeley, ca w/ dolphin 

aug 31 borderland noise festival, tijuana, bc 

sep 1 landers brew, landers, ca w/ banny grove, junior mint prince, mountain girl 

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w/ dirt and copper

aug 13 active music series at the uptown 

oakland, ca 

w/ gabby wen, dolphin

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w/ temoleh (trio w/ rodolfo cordova and nathan corder)

jul 28 

dildo factory 

berkeley, ca 

brutal sound FX

​Bran...pos---Ma++ Ingalls---Headboggle---Fluorescent Grey----Failure Cock---Robidoux &+---Mas Coad---

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isness

jul 14 brasserie beaubien 

montreal, qc 

w/ elizabeth millar and nikki forrest, moose terrific, muffin daydream 

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w/ gamelan encinal

jul 1 pro arts 

oakland, ca 

w/ dunklepek

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monopiece w/ rodolfo cordova 

~West Coast Tour~

jun 8 sunnyvale

jun 9 LA

jun 10 pasadena

jun 11 ensenada

jun 12 tijuana

jun 13 joshua tree 

jun 14 san francisco

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duo w/ tony gennaro 

jun 1 LCM

w/ sharkiface, doctor9, rob macgill, fletcher pratt

oakland, ca 

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w/ made in the shade (quartet w/ seiyoung jang, gabby wen, lee hodel)

may 30 vamp

w/ nathan corder, alex cohen, shariatzadeh/jang

oakland, ca 

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w/ monopiece

may 5 canessa gallery

san francisco, ca 

w/ virtual balboa (ben bennett, zach darrup, evan lipson), jay kreimer/bryan day/sudhu tewari

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apr 17 octopus literary salon 

w straight crimes, nerve beats, asdipwy

oakland, ca

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"denim fibres" premiere by ensemble habitant 

and trio set with ylang ylang and anne-f jacques

mar 28 la sala rossa

montreal, qc

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w/ monopiece

mar 25 high desert soundings fundraiser

studio grand

oakland, ca

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mar 16 mills college ensemble room 

w/ andrea williams, wobbly (jon leidecker), michele seippel, mitch stahlmann

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w/ adaptive instrument ensemble, gabby fluke-mogul, jennifer wilsey, amy reed, phillip greenlief

mar 10 signal flow festival, mills college

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w/ dirt and copper

feb 6 tree play mills art musuem

oakland, ca

john ivers with dirt and copper and marc zollinger will perform works generated from maría elena gonzález’ birch tree rubbings which will be on display for her exhibition tree talk. in collaboration with gonzález, the composers translated the visual, gestural, and topographic data found in the tree rubbings into scores to be premiered at the event. each re-composition approaches the material in a myriad of ways ranging from strict graphical interpretations to varying conceptions of growth-time as the ensembles traverse open and diverse notations.

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w/ monopiece with william winant

jan 25 signal flow fundraiser, martial arts

oakland, ca

w sally and briana, efectos humanos, junior mint prince, phoxii

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jan 23 octopus literary salon 

oakland, ca 

w zachary james watkins, hiss and hum, sharon tate fetus explosion 

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w/ monopiece with tom weeks

january 11 vamp

oakland, ca

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do over music series #2 w/ the jordan glenn party 

january 5 temescal arts center

oakland, ca

w nava dunkleman

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2018

december 21 terra nova 

keene, nh

w david ross

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w/ made in the shade 

december 17 studio grand

oakland, ca

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w/ monopiece with danishta rivero

december 11 active music series, the uptown

oakland, ca

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w/ monopiece 

december 8 godwaffle noise pancakes, noisebridge hackerspace

san francisco, ca

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november 20 the hole

oakland, ca

w lily and horn horse, prinsess, w0rk

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mills grad student group performance w/ maria chavez

oct 20 mills college littlefield concert hall 

oakland, ca 

oct 19 adobe books

san francisco, ca 

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october 8 octopus literary salon

oakland, ca

w red ribbon 

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w/ dirt and copper + julie herndon

september 24 center for new music 

san francisco, ca

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w/ h2 (duo w dylan burchett)

september 16 octopus literary salon

oakland, ca

w vol, footSos, love chains 

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w/ henry kaiser, soo-yeon lyuh, shanna sordahl

september 14 mills college ensemble room 

oakland, ca

w voicehandler, lee hodel

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w/ moe! stiano large ensemble 

august 18 first church of the buzzard

oakland, ca

w/ hogwind, solo organ

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summer west coast tour with victoria shen

august 8 tijuana, mx, nett nett

august 9 ensenada, mx, el eurobar

august 10 baja california, mx, taberna lebaron

august 11 joshua tree, ca, pool party w/ banny grove and daniel meyer

august 14 san francisco, ca, adobe books w/ james fei

august 15 oakland, ca, vamp w/ footSos

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august 4 apartment show

mexico city DF

w/ rodrigo barriga 

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w/ N∞NM∞N

july 28 casa del popolo

montreal, qc 

w hazy montagne mystique + guillaume vallée, mimico, zones

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w/ helene barbier 

july 26 l'escogriffe bar spectacle 

montreal, qc 

w material girls, special noise

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w/ isness (duo w/ ylang ylang)

july 25 guru music academy, casa del popolo

montreal, qc 

w copcarbonfire, kyle jukka

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summer east coast tour with wren kitz

july 13 rollinsford, nh, sue's space w duck yed, colby nathan, corporate horn

july 14 star island, nh, nichols barn

july 15 greenfield, ma, "noisy summer fly bye" at the root cellar

july 16 brooklyn, ny, H0l0 w anastasia clarke + ginny benson, octonomy, carrie ford, das audit 

july 17 burlington, vt, autumn records 

july 18 montreal, qc, brasserie beaubien w alden penner, marilou craft

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duck yed 

july 6 dorchester art project 

boston, ma 

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monopiece (nathan corder, matt robidoux, tim russell) with sally decker

june 12 the speakeasy 

oakland, ca 

w rubber (O) cement, victoria shen, max nordile

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june 10 new music works avant-garden party 

santa cruz, ca 

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monopiece (nathan corder, matt robidoux, tim russell) with anastasia clarke 

april 30 studio grand 

oakland, ca 

w hypercolor (James Ilgenfritz, Lukas Ligeti, Eyal Maoz)

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april 19 slide space 123, mills college 

oakland, ca 

installation opening "frog pond long gone" 

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dirt and copper (michelle lee, golnaz  shariatzadeh, john ivers, tony gennaro, matt robidoux) performing compositions by morgan evans-weiler, soo yeon lyuh, gabby fluke-mogul

april 17 studio grand 

oakland, ca 

 w soo yeon lyuh / john bischoff 

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monopiece (nathan corder, matt robidoux, tim russell)

april 15 high desert soundings 

joshua tree, ca 

w Jeph Jerman [AZ]
Liam Mooney [LA]
Michael Pisaro/Kathy Pisaro/John Pisaro/Megan DeJarnett [LA]
Roughhousing: Jack Wright, Evan Lipson, Zach Darrup [PA/TN]

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april 12 luggage store gallery 

san francisco, ca 

w H/I ensemble

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march 24 brasserie beaubien

montreal, qc, with ensemble habitant (large ensemble) performing my piece “beaubien tactile list” and “ears” by hildegard westerkamp

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february 24 gold lion arts

sacramento, ca

w dana reason, gabby fluke-mogul, amy reed

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monopiece (nathan corder, matt robidoux, tim russell) with naomi harrison-clay

january 27 temescal arts center 

oakland, ca

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january 16 darger bar

san francisco, ca 

w footSoS, vol

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january 2 le cagibi 

montreal, qc 

w helene barbier, alex pelchat, emilie mouchous 

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