Category Archives: Current and upcoming events

S((•))undays at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco

Posted on June 24, 2023 by admin

Sound environments, sonifications, audio animations, and live improvised soundscapes course through the stacks of the Prelinger Library for visitors on (most) Sundays in 2023 from 1:30 to 4:00 PM.

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“Micro festival” of Fixed Media Works

Posted on April 27, 2023 by admin

This Sunday, April 30, 2023, The San Francisco Tape Music Collective presents a “micro-festival” of fixed media works projected live over a multichannel sound system. This is one in a running series of concerts at Mosswood Chapel in Oakland, California, … Continue reading →

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Sound Sundays in July at the Prelinger Library

Posted on June 30, 2022 by admin

Continuing to stock and mine the sound-stacks on Sundays in July, when printed matter in the stacks of the Prelinger Library mingles and merges with its sound counterpart. Come in, browse the unique collections a while, and experience the Library in … Continue reading →

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Sundays in May — Sound Installments in Prelinger Library

Posted on April 29, 2022 by admin

On Sundays in May Prelinger Library visitors will find themselves urged into the stacks by an unusual sound environment that sometimes pipes up. A couple hours a week I power up, softly play, and occasionally improvise on a twelve channel … Continue reading →

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A “sonified library” in San Francisco

Posted on April 26, 2022 by admin

A couple hours a week I power up, play, and occasionally improvise with the sound installation that I’ve created here in San Francisco for Prelinger Library. These hours occur within the Library’s public hours, making it possible for visitors to … Continue reading →

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Sound installation installments — Prelinger Library

Posted on March 9, 2022 by admin

For the next four Wednesdays, Prelinger Library visitors who are there any time between 4:00 and 6:30 PM will be treated to an “audio animation” of the stacks. I’ll be nudging the installation (instrument) through its latest paces and pirouettes. … Continue reading →

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Openings – an audio animation of and at Prelinger Library, San Francisco

Posted on January 20, 2022 by admin

Prelinger Library and I will be co-hosting two initial launches of my new sound-art installation (see below for a description). Please drop by during one or both of these openings — They’ll be different — and spend some time floating … Continue reading →

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New album series released on sfSoundLabel — Collections: Music by Thom Blum

Posted on September 8, 2020 by admin

I’m releasing a series of albums on Bandcamp’s sfSoundLabel. Each album is a collection of thematically like-minded musical works hand-picked from those I’ve produced over recent and past many years. Abstractions 1 artwork: “baooooanh” © 2016 Tuyen Q. Nguyen | www.odyssey7.zone Abstractions 2 artwork: … Continue reading →

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San Francisco Tape Music Collective Releases New Album on Bandcamp

Posted on June 19, 2020 by admin

sfSound is pleased to announce our new release San Francisco Tape Music Collective A selection of fixed media works presented by the collective in recent San Francisco Tape Music Festivals. Works by Maggi Payne, Kent Jolly, Cliff Caruthers, Matt Ingalls, … Continue reading →

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Amore Vieni for Isolated Ensemble by Cenk Ergün & Friends

Posted on May 12, 2020 by admin

Cenk Ergün had a great idea, inspired by the 2020 Pandemic and shelter-in-place: enlist a group of his musical friends, yours truly among them, to contribute sound recordings that Cenk would then assemble into a composition. He executed the idea … Continue reading →

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