Category Archives: Current and upcoming events

“Sounds in the Prelinger Library” Series Now on Bandcamp

At the start of 2022 I began a long running Artist-in-Residence post at the wonderful Prelinger Library in San Francisco. For this post I set up a sound installation in the Library’s stacks. It continues to include six small computers, … Continue reading

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Sound Instrullation Schedule at the Prelinger Library

April 2025 Every Sunday in April, from 1:30 to 4:00 PM, the Instrullation will provide live soundscaping in the Library’s stacks. Exceptions and highlights for April April 20 — Resonant Margin (Kattt and Kenneth Atchley (Greensatan), and I) will provide … Continue reading

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San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2025 Is Now!

The three-night, four-concert Festival takes place once again at the Victoria Theatre in the Mission district — Friday-Sunday, January 10-12. Go here for all the wonderful details. If you want tickets right now, go here. I’ll be diffusing my short … Continue reading

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Sound Sundays in July at the Prelinger Library

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

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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Sound installation installments — Prelinger Library

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

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

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

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

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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