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San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2020, Fri-Sun, Jan 10-12

Posted on October 25, 2019 by admin

The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2020 Friday, January 10, 8:30pm Saturday, January 11, 7:00pm Saturday, January 11, 9:30pm Sunday, January 12, 7:00pm Victoria Theatre 2961 16th Street San Francisco $20 general ($10 Sat 9:30 concert) $10 balcony/underemployed $50 fest … Continue reading →

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Recital at the Prelinger Library, San Francisco, October 27th

Posted on September 29, 2019 by admin

I’ll be giving a late afternoon recital of solo prepared and improvised electro-acoustic pieces at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco on Sunday, Oct. 27. The first work Nature or nurture is a suite of four pieces for prerecorded and … Continue reading →

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San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2019

Posted on December 23, 2018 by admin

sfSound and The San Francisco Tape Music Collective present The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2019 I’ll be premiering a work titled epenthesis, for electroacoustics and drum kit, on Friday January 4th at 9:00 PM. Friday, Jan. 4 (9:00 PM) … Continue reading →

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Cascade plays at SF Tape Music Festival and Stanford

Posted on March 29, 2017 by admin

On January 6, 2017, my new electroacoustic composition Cascade was diffused live over 20 loudspeakers at the 2017 San Francisco Tape Music Festival at The Victoria Theater. On March 17, 2017, Cascade was again diffused over the same CCRMA-hosted speaker … Continue reading →

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Spanish Panoramas – Guided Improvisations with SoundFisher

Posted on March 8, 2016 by admin

I performed my improvisation + fixed media composition, Spanish Panoramas – Guided Improvisations with SoundFisher at the 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference in Malaga, Spain on October 28, 2015. The concert was held in the 15th Century … Continue reading →

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The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2016

Posted on December 19, 2015 by admin

sfSound, The San Francisco Tape Music Collective, and Gray Area Arts present: The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2016 I’ll be playing a new audio postcard, Spanish Panoramas, at The 2016 San Francisco Tape Music Festival on Saturday January 9th … Continue reading →

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My second “audio portrait” for the SF Asian Art Museum

Posted on September 3, 2015 by admin

Lovers Departing in the Rain — an audio portrait © 2015 by Thom Blum For the full experience, go to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum’s Picturing Sound, Creating Mood exhibit, through November 22, 2015.

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J-Wake performed at the Hörlursfestival 2015

Posted on August 18, 2015 by admin

My piece J-Wake was performed at the Hörlursfestival in Solleftea, Sweden, on July 4th. The theme of the Festival was “water soundscapes” and, according to the organizers, Like Now, the sixth annual Festival took place, “under the dome coupole in … Continue reading →

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Sound portraits for the San Francisco Asian Art Museum

Posted on June 29, 2015 by admin

I am creating some sound portraits to go along with specific paintings in the San Francisco Asian Art Museum’s current exhibition, “Picturing Sound, Creating Mood”, which runs from March 23 – November 22, 2015. The small paintings are from 18th … Continue reading →

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World premiere of Walkways of the Hopeful and the Hopeless, San Francisco Tape Music Festival

Posted on January 9, 2015 by admin

I’ve just completed a new electroacoustic composition that will have its world premiere this Saturday night, January 10, 2015, 8:00 PM at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival. The Festival includes four distinct concert programs and spans three nights (January … Continue reading →

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