Office Playlist (03-21-16)

Here’s some of what’s playing in the SASSAS office today!

Strategy: Information Pollution Michael Mizrahi: Currents (Q2 Music Album of the Week) V/A: The Roots Of Chicha – Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Out Of This World Sonic Boom: Spectrum Rats: Rats Collage: Käokiri Aphex Twin: Peel Session 1992 / Live From Sheffield Hallam University 1993

Links to online media are below.

Strategy: Information Pollution

Michael Mizrahi: Currents

Office Playlist (03-15-16)

Here’s some of what we’re listening to in the SASSAS office today!

Amon Düül II: Yeti Christine Tavolacci: Ryoanji Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Alone in San Francisco Iggy Pop: Post-Pop Depression Anenon: Petrol Mark Maxwell: Sankofa Sound System (03.08.16 on Dublab)

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Amon Düül II: Yeti

Christine Tavolacci: Ryoanji

Ryoanji by Christine Tavolacci with Bonnie Whiting

Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Alone in San Francisco

Iggy Pop: Post-Pop Depression

5.5 Questions for Matt Barbier

Matt Barbier / sound. at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook: Mural (photo by Don Lewis)

1. What led you to the kind of work you make now?

A lot of things. One of the big ones is my non-music job. I do a lot of woodworking and machining, because of that I’ve spent a lot of time with earplugs in. I’ve started to notice this pleasant difference in hearing between what is close to me [the sounds in my ears] and the sounds outside of my earplugs. It’s made me very interested in how a…

5.5 Questions for the Southland Ensemble

This week, the founders of the Southland Ensemble – Eric KM Clark, James Klopfleisch, and Christine Tavolacci – will lead SASSAS’ Kids Play Oliveros workshops. On Sunday, September 7, they will lead students from The Harmony Project in a free concert of Oliveros’ music at 2pm at CFAER.

The Southland Ensemble will also perform works by Pauline Oliveros at Human Resources on Sept. 9, 8pm.

 What led you to the work you’re making now?

The majority of us…

5.5 Questions for Carmina Escobar

What led you to the work you’re making now?

For a while, I’ve been really interested in the phenomenon of resonance, and most of my personal work has been oriented towards exploring this physical event both conceptually and perceptually. I think this is because of the nature of my primordial instrument, the voice, and its production through an utter bodily experience .

Who are some other musicians and/or artists you admire and why?

I tend to admire the people I…

5.5 Questions for Odeya Nini

What led you to the work you’re making now?

My main focus in the last few years has been performing experimental vocals integrated with movement, a full bodied experience. The physical movement of the body is inseparable from the character of the voice. Integrating these two has led my vocalizing to be very dynamic and highly expressive, opening new possibilities of sound.

I arrived at this form of art over a long period of time spent singing as different personalities…