Category Archives: Current and upcoming events

Abstractions now available on the San Francisco Public Library’s “Bay Beats” site

Posted on December 11, 2025 by admin

My 2020 digital album of electroacoustic compositions, Abstractions, is now available through The San Francisco Public Library’s Bay Beats site. This is a unique site that offers free access to a vast array of music and musical styles.

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Premiere of Resilience, an electroacoustic composition, at the SF Tape Music Festival

Posted on December 11, 2025 by admin

I will be playing my new composition, Resilience, at the 2026 San Francisco Tape Music Festival, taking place at The Victoria Theatre in San Francisco, January 9-11. More details as they become available.

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Sound Instrullation Schedule at the Prelinger Library

Posted on July 3, 2025 by admin

December 2025 Every Sunday in December, from 1:30 to 4:00 PM, the Instrullation (and I) will provide live soundscaping in the Library’s stacks. Come for the texts and the sounds! 1:30 to 4:00 PMPrelinger Library301 8th Street (corner of Folsom)Suite … Continue reading →

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“Sounds in the Prelinger Library” Series Now on Bandcamp

Posted on April 27, 2025 by admin

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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San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2025 Is Now!

Posted on January 3, 2025 by admin

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

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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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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