Soundwave Next

RE-EDUCATION, presented @grayareaorg on October 26th, is an emergent composition, presented in three movements: Movement 1: A Curiosity Movement 2: A Recognition Movement 3: A Promise A Promise is just that. What we make to each other and to our selves, to bring to fruition collective liberation. It is presented by the following. Salimatu Amabebe (he/they), is a trans, Nigerian-American chef and interdisciplinary artist, working in food, film, photography, sculpture and installation. His work centers community activism, African diasporic performance traditions and Black queer/ trans liberation. Micah Morris was formed from the lava of volcanoes, silk of a spiders web, glisten of rainbows behind waterfalls, and snail trails after the rain. She has sung her song all over turtle island and aims to sing with whales from outer space in the future. David Wilson is an artist based in Oakland, CA. He creates observational drawings based in direct experiences with landscape and orchestrates site-based gatherings that draw together a wide net of artists, performers, filmmakers, chefs, and artisans into collaborative relationships. Gaia WXYZ (pronounced “wise”) is a multimedia artist and musician living in Oakland, CA. A bassist since the age of 10, they utilize live looping and vocals to produce soundscapes that crescendo into chaotic dance-driven, earth shaking lamentations as TERA MOTO. Justin “Hongry” Robinson hails from Richmond California by way of Oakland. Traveling down through the valleys of California and further down into the delta of Americas folly to then ascend into the mountains of Jamaica as well as sweeping across the Italian Swiss alps all in the name of love. Zekarias Musele Thompson (they/them/their) is an artist based in Oakland, CA, and Reykjavik. Their practice is concerned with humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures—and how we bring them into material form. Martin Perna has been making music for thirty years. He began his musical journey in New York in the early 1990s, where he founded the groups Antibalas and Ocote Soul Sounds and was a founding member of The Dap Kings and frequent contributor to TV on the Radio.

RE-EDUCATION, presented @grayareaorg on October 26th, is an emergent composition, presented in three movements: Movement 1: A Curiosity Movement 2: A Recognition Movement 3: A Promise A Recognition holds space for the necessity of community for the individual to truly thrive. It will be presented by the following: Gabriele Christian is a San Francisco-based conceptual artist and descendent of stolen folk experimenting within somatic practices, language, performance composition, video production and community arts facilitation to locate and center BlaQ (Black and Queer) experience, vernaculars and aesthetics as wellsprings for radical futurity. B Dukes is a multi-hyphenate trans, non-binary artist who hails from the Backwoods of the Deep South. They are "a Big Ma's baby, carrying the wisdom and teachings of my foremothers in every aspect of my work". Jasmine Nyende is an artist and musician from Los Angeles, CA. Her work explores how patterning in punk, astrology, poetry and craft can become healing collaborative modalities in our communities. Benjamin Rodgers is a musician and graphic designer based in Oakland, CA. He turns most frequently to the electric guitar and synthesizers, and occasionally to cello, his first instrument, in restless pursuit of new sound marking possibilities. Joel St. Julien, a Haitian-American composer and sound alchemist based in San Francisco, channels a fragmented world of sound, where the acoustic and the electronic collide, distort, and dissolve. Roco Córdova is a vocalist, composer, producer, and improviser based in the San Francisco Bay Area and born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Roco’s work fuses diverse influences with electronic media, noise, and improvisation, featuring extended vocal techniques like throat singing, overtone singing, and falsetto. Phillip Laurent is an Haitian American artist living and working in San Francisco. He works in multiple disciplines including music, visual art, and storytelling. Laurent approaches his practice as an inquiry into ethnogenesis and the mediation of identity as asserted by oneself and that which is observed by others.

RE-EDUCATION, presented @grayareaorg on October 26th, is an emergent composition, presented in three movements: Movement 1: A Curiosity Movement 2: A Recognition Movement 3: A Promise A Curiosity begins the evening, invoking the searching spirit. It is presented by the following: Mary Winona Dora Graham - a Philadelphia born, San Francisco based interdisciplinary artist. Her work in painting, sculpture and vocal performance studies the notion of “the ancestors” as a conceptual medium through which we might gain historical, interpersonal, and introspective insight. Amina Malika is a sculptor and potter who works with clay to explore the profound connection between movement, nature, and identity. Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her background in dance, particularly rooted in diasporic African rhythms. Christopher Robin Duncan - a multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. Duncan utilizes the Sun and the Moon, as well as Time and Tide, as conceptual and compositional prompts for experiments in sonic and visual endeavors. Maya Nixon is a black non-binary performance artist, yoga instructor, and healer originating from New York and creating in San Francisco for the past 10 years. Maya is not only a harpist, dancer, and actor, they also are a dynamic healer that strives to inspire from live art making. Cat Lauigan is a Filipina Oakland based multi-disciplinary artist, DJ, and co-founder of CONE SHAPE TOP, a record shop / project space / label. Her work explores the decay and degradation of physical realities and properties in search of the metaphysical through textiles, sound and poetics. Matt Brownell is an Oakland-based artist, DJ, and co-founder of Cone Shape Top, a record shop / project space / label. They also perform experimental electronics as 1/3rd of S'hells Gate. Joshua Wismans is a sound and visual artist based in Oakland, CA. His work consists of exploration in texture and drone, with occasional excursions into rhythm.

We’re honored to bring to life an evening of togetherness, in collaboration with Soundwave Next and Working Name Studios at @grayareaorg in San Francisco. On the evening of Saturday, October 26th, The Togetherness Ensemble presents: RE-EDUCATION - an emergent composition in three parts. The Togetherness Ensemble is convened on occasion by Zekarias Musele Thompson to hold space for communal resonance through collective improvisation. Prompted by the historical and contemporary creative sensibilities of African, and African diasporic peoples, and the possibilities of emergent composition as the scaffolding for recognizing ourselves as free. The ensemble serves as a curatorial prompt for them, and also as a reason to gather people whose work and friendship they are deeply appreciative of. Micah Morris is of special importance in summoning this gathering. For this evening, the Ensemble is: Salimatu Amabebe @salimatuamabebe Matt Brownell @mattbrownell____ Gabriele Christian @gabriele.mov Roco Córdova @roco.cordova B Dukes @bdukesthetruth Christopher Robin Duncan @christopherrobinduncan Mary Graham @mary.graham.art Joel St. Julien @joelstjulien Cat Lauigan @catlauigan Phillip Laurent @psychicsagree Amina Malika @shining_wet_earth Micah Morris @z.e.r.o.c.h.a.r.i.s.m.a Maya Nixon @maya_nixon Jasmine Nyende @standarized_sext Martin Perna @martinperna Zekarias Musele Thompson @zekarias Justin (Honry) Robinson @bighongry Benjamin Rodgers @opticalsoundexperience David Wilson Joshua Wismans @unofficialjoshw Gaia WXYZ @gaiaw.xyz As we learn how to be in space and sound with each other, through trial and tribulation, it’s time for a RE-EDUCATION

Soundwave SF is honored to announce our recipient of the 2024 Buzz Award - Joel St. Julien! @joelstjulien is a Haitian-American composer, sound and video artist based in San Francisco. Joel has written music for documentaries, short / feature films, podcasts, and dance. He is a firm believer in experimentation/fusion with acoustic and electronic elements in sound oscillating through escapism and the mysticism of the present tense: music both being art and spiritual practice. Joel has shared music at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Stanford University’s CCRMA, Gray Area, CounterPulse Festival, Land and Sea Gallery, Re:Sound, The Lab, and Kadist Gallery. His music has also been featured and reviewed in Resident Advisor, The Wire, Disquiet, KQED, Foxy Digitalis, a closer listen, Dublab, and many more.Joel has released music independently and on Land and Sea, Dragon's Eye Recordings, Beached Records, and CST Imprint. The BUZZ Award is a prize that recognizes promising San Francisco Bay Area artists that are making a creative impact with their sound-related work and have demonstrated great potential and commitment to performance and immersive art. Social /joelstjulienMusic

We are thrilled to kick off our first playlist with the inimitable choreographer, filmmaker and poet Maurya Kerr @tinypistol . Much of her work, across disciplines, is focused on black and brown people reclaiming their birthright to both wonderment and the quotidian. Maurya was a member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet for twelve years, an ODC artist-in-residence from 2015 to 2018, and holds an MFA from Hollins University. She will be performing her piece 'Slow Dark Dances' at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Archive @bampfa tomorrow Feb 10th from 12-6pm with a community dance open to the public from 5-6pm. Tune into her curated playlist at /revplaylist we love you Maurya! Thank you for this community offering. Link in bio!

In the wake of so much grief and violence, Soundwave invites you to contribute and tune-in to a new series- Revolution Mixtapes. Curated by various Bay Area artists with the intention to support and inspire our community, we hope you will drop-in! Send us a DM if you want to contribute🍉Stay tuned for our first release!

Dario Slavazza live for KING TIDES at @grayareaorg Oct 26th!⁠ ⁠ Get your tix asap~⁠ $10 NOTAFLOF⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Composer and producer Dario Slavazza lives on a sailboat in San Francisco’s North Bay. He works as a music curator for global brands such as FitBit, Obe, and Asics, and leads water excursions for first-timers. A voracious reader, especially of the philosophical implications of entropy, he is also a classically trained saxophonist and recording studio engineer. His sound and visual art are largely inspired by renaissance sculpture, the impressionist and new wave cinema. ⁠ ⁠ Tix here and in our bio: /event/soudwavenext-presents-king-tides/⁠

This wednesday!!!Link in bio~⁠ ⁠ Soundwave NEXT is thrilled to present King Tides, an evening of musical performances and video by artists who live and work near coasts. This year we present an international dialogue between Italy and the Bay Area- two regions that owe much of their culture to oceans. Like the king tides which occur when the orbits and alignment of the earth, moon, and sun combine to produce the greatest tidal effects of the year, artists and creatives often preview how our cultural landscapes will change and evolve. As sea levels continue to rise across the globe, artists across borders must strengthen our networks and deepen solidarity in order to address the climate issues of our time. ⁠ Location: Gray Area 2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110⁠ Doors at 7:30pm ⁠ Show at 8:00pm⁠ October 26 2022⁠ Tickets: $10 NOTAFLOF⁠ ⁠ Ticket link here: /event/soudwavenext-presents-king-tides/⁠ ⁠ Flyer by @ele.mol ⁠

/handlogic ⁠ ⁠ /event/soudwavenext-presents-king-tides/

See /handlogic premiere their U.S. tour on October 26th at Gray Area. Link in bio!⁠ ⁠ ⁄handlogic is an experimental pop project born in Florence, Italy in 2016.⁠ From its inception, it gained prominence in the national underground scene thanks to its victory in several nationwide contests and to the debut EP receiving excellent feedback from the music press (Mucchio Selvaggio, Rumore, Blowup, La Repubblica). The songs were described as “[…] multiply inspired, with the experimental approach of trip hop, the refined sound of that R&B that refuses to conform to market models […] all of it coordinated by a sensibility for interlocking sounds and jazzy exchanges between instruments”.⁠ During the following two years the band embarked on a long tour with over 130 gigs across the whole of Italy, reaching Germany, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. ⁄handlogic performed on the stages of prominent festivals, played live in the state broadcasters Rai Radio 1 and Radio 2 studios, and opened for artists such as Primal Scream and Paolo Fresu. ⁠ In 2018 the idea sparked to revisit the band’s material in collaboration with eleven artists from the Italian scene, such as Alberto Ferrari (Verdena), Andrea Appino (Zen Circus) and Giulio Ragno Favero (Teatro degli Orrori); this culminated in a visionary and multiform collection of remixes. ⁠ ⁄handlogic’s debut full-length “Nobodypanic” was released in May 2019 with Woodworm Label, followed by a tour that was cut short by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The forced pause was used by the band to work on a new, Italian language record, which will be released in the winter of 2022. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

Composer and producer Dario Slavazza lives on a sailboat in San Francisco’s North Bay. ⁠ ⁠ Come see him perform live at Gray Area on October 26th for King Tides. ⁠ ⁠ $10 NOTAFLOF⁠ ⁠ Ticket link in bio