On Thursday, April 12, I will be playing my latest piece, Couplings, as part of CREATE / MAT’s “π and beyond” 2012 Spring concert. The concert will take place at 8:00 PM in the Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Click here for more details.
The 2012 San Francisco Tape Music Festival will once again be moving back to the ODC Theater. The dates for the Festival are Friday, January 20th, through Sunday, January 22. Nestled within the three nights — specific night yet to be determined — will be the premiere of my new piece Couplings. Check here for details as they develop.
Upcoming episode of Bedbug Strategies will be at Godwaffle Noise Pancakes this Sunday, August 28. For details check this out.
The Logos Tetrahedron Theater concert series, New Media, will present works by Marko Timlin, Pete Stollery, and Thom Blum, on Thursday, March 3, 2011, at 8:00 PM. Logos Tetrahedron Theater is located at Bomastraat 26-28, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. For tickets, as well as information about this concert please see http://www.logosfoundation.org/concerts/concerts.html. For information about the Tetrahedron Theater see http://www.logosfoundation.org/architecture/tetrhall.html.
I just received a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, for my sound installation Timepiece (Berlin, September, 2010). Thank you, ACF.
The San Francisco Tape Music Collective and sfSound hosted a very successful 10th annual SF Tape Music Festival last weekend, January 7-9, 2011. Over our 18-speaker set up, I diffused pieces by Christian Marclay and Maryanne Amacher and also presented one of my own audio postcards, Post from Rajasthan
The 2011 Festival featured 20 local and international composers, and it concluded with an entire evening of diffusions by Jonty Harrison. Having Jonty Harrison perform live at the Festival was a treat for all. The Collective and our audience were lucky benefactors of some rare and good timing. Thank you, Jonty, for coming and playing!
The San Francisco Tape Music Collective is preparing for the 2011 SF Tape Music Festival, January 7-9, Southside Theater in Fort Mason. For all the details as they develop, visit SFTMC.
I finally got around to adding program notes and a sound excerpt for Timepiece (Berlin, September, 2010), the installation I presented at Gallery Ohrenhoch der Geräuschladen. Try playing it softly in the background.
Choreographer Alyssa Lee and group A return to the Bay Area for a night of new and used contemporary dance, featuring collaborations with Nora Raggio, Maggi Payne, Thom Blum, OfficerFishDumplings, plus Barb Golden, and special musical guests The Atchleys: Kattt + Kenneth Atchley, presented in conjunction with 24 Days of Central Market Arts
where: The Garage, 975 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA – look for the red door!
when: 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 13, 2010
cost: $12 tickets, $8 discount with brochure
tix: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/126486
Timepiece (Berlin, September, 2010) – a sound installation – completed its run at the Berlin sound gallery ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen. Many people experienced and manipulated the installation over the 14 hours it played, and I would like to thank the gallery proprietors Knut Remond and Katharina Moos for their hospitality and support.

A few guests enjoying Timepiece - sound installation by Thom Blum