Experimental, Ambient, Noise, Free Improvisation
5pm to 8pm FREE!!

Featuring:
Going in With Li (AKA LIsa Harris) 5pm
http://www.lisaeharris.com

Transient (David R Molina touring from San Francisco, CA): 6pm
http://drmsound.com/archives/album/transient

Sandy Ewen and Aaron Russell: 7pm
https://youtu.be/gXwgUkhuSJU
https://youtu.be/gFA7Pzz2Xrk

Lisa E. Harris, Li, is an independent and interdisciplinary artist, performer and composer from Houston Texas, USA. Li is trained as a classical voice/opera singer and performs across a wide range of genres and mediums. She is a certified facilitator of DEEP LISTENING®, the sonic philosophies of composer Pauline Oliveros. Li's work focuses on the energetic relationships between body, land, spirit and place. She uses voice, theremin, movement, improvisation, meditation and new media to explore healing in performance and living.

Transient:
is San Francisco based David R Molina. Depending on his mood the output can be a combination of electro-acoustic, ambient, noise, industrial, free improv, experimental project Sometimes he combines traditional acoustic, invented and found object instruments with field recordings and electronics to create meditative soundscapes which can either be light, beautiful and haunting, or dark and disturbing. Other times it can be a beat driven layers of noise, or a wall of shoegaze like noise guitar. Transient has collaborated and performed with musicians such as Thomas Dimuzio, Darren Johnston (trumpet), John Ingle (violinist), Yvette Jackson (composer/sound artist), the late Chris Webb, Polar, Garret La Fever, Miguel Hernandez, Kyron, the late Marco Eneidi, and George Cremaschi, Drew Ceccatto, Marc Williams (Chicago Saxophonist), Alex Weiss (Saxophonist) Ackamoor/Molina Duet, video artist Mickey T, and filmmaker Anna Geyer.

David R Molina is also a composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound artist, sound designer, music producer, studio/live sound engineer, and instrument inventor. He has created music for the performing arts, film, radio, and multimedia installations, nationally and internationally, for the past 24 years. His work leans towards social justice issues. Company member of: NAKA Dance Theater, Human Shakes Dance, Brava Theater Center, USF’s Performing Arts and Social Justice Program. Founding member: El Teatro Jornalero!, Drum Machine Museum, Soapstone Theater Company. Instrument design, sound art installation, multimedia collaborations: The Formaldehyde Trip (SFMOMA, The Broad Museum), Coming to California (Oakland Museum of California), Moving Images (McLoughlin Gallery), Along The Way (Sundance Film Festival), Transience: The Work of David Molina (Asterisk Gallery and Magazine), and pieces by Violeta Luna. Film: Beautiful Sin, Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness. Awards & residencies: Crossover, Red Poppy (2016); InterMusic SF’s MGP (2016); Bonjour Monogramista (2015); Creative Capital Grant (2009), Wattis Fund (2011) with Secos Y Mojados; LA Ovation, Lydia, Mark Taper Forum (2009). Band collaborations: TAU (Berlin), Emanative (UK), El Paso (Peru), The Pyramids (Strut Records). Molina’s own bands: Impuritan, Ghosts and Strings. http://drmsound.com/home-example

Sandy Ewen:
is an experimental guitarist, artist and architect currently based in Brooklyn NY. Ewen's approach to playing is centered around found objects and extended guitar techniques. She performs solo and in many diverse musical and multi-media collaborations. She has about two dozen musical releases; recent ones include duo and trio CDs with Weasel Walter & Damon Smith, a duo with guitarist Chase Gardner on Marginal Frequencies, a cassette on Astral Spirits with percussionist Lisa Cameron, and an upcoming solo LP on Gilgongo Records. Ewen spent the beginning of 2019 performing in Mexico City, before touring the west coast and central US in February & March. In 2018, she performed at the Sant'anna Arresi Jazz Festival in Sardinia, the Experimental Sound Studio Option Series in Chicago, and the High Zero Festival in New York. Ewen toured Europe in 2017, performing solo sets and in collaboration with Steve Jansen (tapes and electronics) and Maria Chavez (turntables). While in Brooklyn, she has collaborated with many musicians, including Michael Vatcher, Bill Nace, Sam Newsome, Stephen Gauci, Kevin Shea, Cecilia Lopez, Weasel Walter & Samantha Riott. Past projects include the trio Etched in the Eye, a duo with Tom Carter called Spiderwebs, and the experimental rock band Weird Weeds with Sarah Hennies & Aaron Russell. In years past, Ewen has performed alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Keith Rowe, Lydia Lunch, Pauline Oliveros and many others, and has performed and recorded with Jaap Blonk, Henry Kaiser, Joe McPhee and more. In 2014, she performed at San Francisco's 13th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, and she has made several appearances at Austin's annual No Idea Festival. https://sandyewen.bandcamp.com

Aaron Russell:
grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and has played guitar in a series of underground/experimental bands since the early 1990s, including The Weird Weeds and Moonsicles in Austin, Texas and The Cherry Blossoms in Nashville. He currently lives in Houston, Texas, and is focused on composing and performing pieces for solo electric guitar, as well as participating in Houston's fertile improvised and experimental music scene. He released his first solo guitar album, "Red Guitar," on Sedimental Records in 2017.