We have a couple of shows coming up that we are looking forward to 💫
The first being this Saturday May 9th at The Lab @thelabsf , opening for Colleen @colleenplays . If you haven’t heard her music before, it is stunning! This will be a lovely evening.
Then we are headed to Anacortes, WA to do some recording at The Unknown @anacortesunknownstudio , and while we are there are playing a show on Thursday May 21st at Buxton’s with Bad Posture Club @badpostureclub and Hoop @hooptheband ! We are so excited to share the stage with these sweet friends, and to hear their beautiful music again. 🐚
Thanks to Joel @seagullinvasion for the photo!
✨Tomorrow night! Join us Thursday, February 26 at 7pm as Bay Area duo and 2024 Music & Composition Fellows Brendan Glasson and Sally Decker present 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘝𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 inside Montalvo’s historic Villa Main Hall. Audience members will be invited to sit in the round, encircling the performers, to experience the spatial dimensions of the piece. Following the performance, there will be an informal gathering and conversations with the artists.
🎟️ Tickets are $10, free for members and students. Click the link in our bio!
Free parking is available on-site in Lots 2, 3, and 4.
Photo by Paul Gallo
Music Credit: “Sunset Shape” from 𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 (2020) by Sally Decker & Brendan Glasson
#LucasArtRes #MontalvoArtsCenter #MirroredVariation #BrendanGlasson SallyDecker
We are honored to be opening for @juliannabarwick & @maryoverthere this Sunday 2/15 at @greatamericanmusichall ! 🌸 Their new album Tragic Magic is so dreamy ✨
It has been a long time since our duo has performed and we are excited to play a new set of music (that we will be recording soon!!) ~ see you at the show! 🕊️
Thank you for the photo @seagullinvasion ♥️
Join us Thursday, February 26 at 7pm for our first Open Access event of 2026, featuring Bay Area duo and 2024 Music & Composition Fellows, Brendan Glasson and Sally Decker as they present 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘝𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, a work-in-progress performance. Coming just days after their arrival for their second residency (👋 anyone remember their performance during our April 2025 Open Access?), this offering provides a glimpse into their creative process at an early stage.
Taking place inside Montalvo’s historic Villa’s Main Hall, the duo will use a grand piano, electric organs, and synthesizers in a four-channel immersive sound experience to explore themes of independence, connection, and interdependence. Audience members will be invited to sit in the round, encircling the performers, to experience the spatial dimensions of the piece.
Following the performance, there will be an informal gathering and conversations with the artists.
💫Tickets are $10 and FREE for Montalvo members/students. Click the link in our bio to purchase!
Music Credit: “Sunset Shape” from 𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 (2020) by Sally Decker & Brendan Glasson
#LucasArtRes #MontalvoArtsCenter #ArtistsResidency #BrendanGlasson #SallyDecker
hi ppl! I am taking in all the spectacular roses in the Bay right now, and I am headed to Germany in June! tell your friends out there to come to these shows 🐦⬛
Very excited to be playing a night of @blaues_rauschen with @6_e_l_a & @jessicaekomane ✨
And a special riverfront show in Berlin ~ music starting at 18:00, if it’s too rainy we’ll move inside and start at 20:00. Best place to listen from: 52°31 27.3N 13°19 14.6E
Details and links up on my site. ~ ~ ~
Also right before I head out I’m playing a solo electronics set this Saturday the 31st at @elismilehighclub with @lamplandband on tour from NYC and @poppypatica ~ come hang!!
Beautiful rose garden photo by @nnnaaathan 💕
We are really happy to be in residence at @montalvoarts@lucasartres for the next two weeks, and then to have recurring time for the next three years!! What a gift. We are so grateful for the beautiful studio space : )
This Sunday 12/8 i’m playing a special show at @cafedunord ~ opening for @hannahfrancesmusic trio, out here on their West coast tour! 🍂
Very honored to have a dreamy band of friends joining me for this set 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️fleshing out these songs I have been with over the last year, helping them grow up & expand in ways i couldn’t have imagined 🥹 thank you @seagullinvasion@reb_nussen@brianamarela@nnnaaathan 🤍
Come out on Sunday, get yr tickets, and catch Hannah while she’s out here!! Really looking forward to this ✨
photos by @nnnaaathan
A new piece of mine ‘Song for becoming’ is out now as part of Sky Will Learn Sky, a compilation of sound, poetry and language art created and curated by Deep Strawberry @end____less____lee 🍓out on cassette and digital on @coneshapetop 🤍 : “Sky Will Learn Sky creates a soundtrack for future mythology. Crisscrossing forms and modes, its multiple, temporary languages open freshly toward a contested yet consistent perceptual commonality—the sky.”
I recorded this song last summer. In responding to the sky I felt a mixture of quiet presence and giddy awe. Very appreciative of the opportunity to contribute to this project ~ it helped me start to put words to a particular feeling I’ve had since as long as I can remember 🤲🏻☁️ ~ Video is from a special moment last week off the 1.
Check out the compilation on Cone Shape Top Imprint’s Bandcamp, & come to celebrate the release this Saturday Nov 2 at @climate.control.sf I will be performing this song. Cy Ozgood and DROUGHT SPA will also perform. ⭐️ And the beautiful cassettes will be available for purchase ! 7pm doors, 8pm we start up.
The project will also be included in Climate Control’s new group exhibition opening Oct 18 and on view until Dec 10 ~ stop by to see the work in the context of a sound installation.
Some process photos from me and Brendan’s time at @audiumsf : Brendan mid-take, and a scene from our lobby install. There are still two more weekends of shows 🔊Feeling proud of this piece that we made, and wanting to share a bit more of the process 🤍
Early experiments generating acoustic feedback showed us the way ~ We set up a microphone in the center of the room and methodically recorded the feedback from each speaker at a time in the Audium space (many many speakers, of differing varieties). The recordings immediately revealed these fundamental qualities to us: inherent destinations of where the speakers want to go, and where the room wants to go. Rather than imposing other sounds onto the space, it was a way of pulling out what sounds are inherent, waiting to arise, waiting to sound. All the other sounds we added used the feedback as a guide, largely for pitch content, but also to energetically match and be in harmony with these dimensions. All the sounds were recorded in the space. Brendan and I would switch off engineering for each other (except for one section when we are playing together).
It was challenging to be inside of a process and a sound world that demanded a lotttt of patience from us when we were on a tight timeline. Tons of reflection and slowing down 🌀🌀 when it didn’t feel possible to slow down.. but I feel rly thankful for the space me and Brendan dove so deep into. It was special to devote ourselves to this world and wrestle with questions of how to be in relationship, how to trust the unfolding quality of this intrinsic behavior of the feedback, and how to find acceptance within this endless searching and unfinished quality that I think the piece still hovers in.
If you’re curious and want to hear more about the conceptual underpinnings, or any of the method/technological details of the process, there’s a lot to share!Or, process aside: I hope you come experience the piece if you’re interested. It’s been helpful to widen the lens through the sharing process so far and hear people’s responses to this work.
6 more shows to go, tix available at Audium’s site for this and next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday ✨
𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒐𝒔 by @sallydecker & @_______brendan is premiering next Thursday!
Since early August, Sally Decker and Brendan Glasson have been crafting a site-specific piece that dives deep into acoustic feedback within Audium’s one-of-a-kind space. The piece transforms into a sonic representation of the ouroboros—a snake devouring its own tail.
𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒐𝒔 is playing Thurs-Sat, September 5 through October 5 (except 9/19-21).
Get your tickets now at audium.org or follow the LINK IN BIO! 🎟️
