Grouper (w/ Ilyas Ahmed)
Danny Paul Grody
Irwin Swirnoff

Tuesday, May 28
$?

The Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk St
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 923-0923

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson
Sunday April 28th
Headlands Center For The Arts, Building 961
3pm – Free!

Richard Youngs has breached the digital world & is now directly selling various entries from his epic catalogue via his own No Fans site.

Included is his current LP ‘Stormcrash‘ which comes in its own tote!!

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Devotion
Digital only EP out now.
Grab it here.
Vid for ‘Difficult Loves’ by Paul Clipson.

Danny Paul Grody & Chuck Johnson are hitting the road.

3/23 – @ Human Resources, Los Angeles CA w/ Amps For Christ + Daniel Bachmann
3/25 – Eureka, CA (TBA)
3/26 – @ Valentines, Portland OR w/ Planton Wat & Golden Retriever
3/28 – @ New City Theater (MAGMA Fest!), Seattle WA w/ Lori Goldston & Marisa Anderson + Eyvind Kang & Jessiika Kenney
3/31 – @ Hemlock Tavern, SF CA w/ Date Palms

Tony Martin: The Variable Place

Tony Martin arrived to San Francisco in 1962, promptly forging creative alliances and lifetime friendships with “new music” people Morton Subotnick, Pauline Oliveros, and Ramon Sender. When the San Francisco Tape Music Center moved to its location at 321 Divisadero St., Martin was invited by co-directors Sender and Subotnick to become the Visual Director. With special attention paid to working in the tape music medium, as well as performing regularly, they joined with Mills Center for Contemporary Music in ’67. During the SFTMC days Martin was responsible for numerous visual compositions, including Terry Riley’s In C performance, as well as Sender’s Desert Ambulance. Martin was deeply engaged in experimenting with light via overhead and slide projectors, mixing paint, oil, water, and objects to build his light compositions. His following grew as a culture of psychedelia pervaded the 1960s and his light shows became popular amongst bands such as Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead. During this time he began to build “interactions” by engineering entire environments using sensors and mirrors. By the late ’60s he returned to New York City where he continued his focus for these types of installations; time and time again synthesizing his technological skills with painting as a moving image. A painter at heart, he continued with consideration of his experience working with his viewer-activated sculptures, as well as his devotion to the medium of light — maintaining a thread that binds all aspects of his work. His latest piece entitled Proximity Switched Installation (2012) is a clear culmination of a lifetime of experimentation/production. A video demonstration of this installation will be available to view online at the time of the books release and includes musical accompaniment by Compound Eye (Spring Press).

The Variable Place is the first book of its kind to tie together over 50 years of Tony Martin’s work. It includes an in-depth interview with Martin by Will Cameron, Albert Herter and the editors. As well as a special introduction by long-time friend/collaborator Pauline Oliveros. Available as a limited edition release of 350, 104 pp, full-color, 8” x 10”, perfect bound.

Grab it HERE

Tony Martin’s Proximity Switched Installation from AB-SENS PRESS

Barn Owl – Void Redux

Barn Owl’s new one,  V will be out  April 16th via Thrill Jockey.

UNISOUND

For four days, which are concurrent with the Printed Matter Art Book Fair (Thursday January 31st – Sunday February 3rd) Public Fiction will be transformed by artist/musicians Robert Barber/The Urxed and Chris Duncan into a sound sculpture that will function as a platform for sound makers from the Los Angeles and Bay Areas to perform in, on and/or interact with.
Donation at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Schedule (in no particular order)

THURSDAY 7PM -11PM
Infinite Body
DIVA
Matthew Sullivan
Pod Blotz
the Urxed

FRIDAY 7PM -12AM
Secret Circuit (LA)
High Places (LA)
Zachary James Watkins (Oakland)
Anenon (LA)
Anthony Iamurri/Chris Duncan (Oakland/SF)
John Davis/Paul Clipson (Oakland)

SATURDAY 5PM-12AM (Starts EARLY!)
Lucky Dragons (LA)
Rene Hell (LA)
Danny Paul Grody (SF)
White Rainbow (LA/PDX)
Robert Crouch (LA)
Tana Sprague (Oakland)
Laura Steenberge (Oakland)
The Sun (Oakland)

SUNDAY Afternoon 1PM -6PM
Brendan Fowler (LA)
Sneaky Snake (LA)
Dean Spunt (LA
Collin Mckelvey (Oakland)
Randy Randall (LA)

The entire 4 days of sound will be archived by the wonderful
DUBLAB.COM

Brought to you by:
PUBLIC FICTION: http://publicfiction.org/
LAND AND SEA: http://landandseelandandsea.blogspot.com/
THE URXED/ROBERT BARBER
With generous support from DUBLAB http://www.Dublab.com/

Wednedsay, January 23, 2013
8:30 PM
The Lab
$6 – $15 Sliding Scale

MANDELBROT & SKYY (LA/NY)
MATHEW DRYHURST (SF)
BRANDON NICKELL (SF)
PAUL CLIPSON (SF)