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

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

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

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

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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Soundscraper premiered Capsule 1 – inside/outside — excerpts are available now

The March 10, 2014 premiere performance of the Soundscraper project — live-streamed, crowdsourced soundscaping — took place as planned. Over twenty people participated by streaming live sound from their environments. Excerpts from the 90-minute recording of the performance are now … Continue reading

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Soundscraper premieres Capsule 1 – inside/outside — Live crowdsourced soundscaping

The first performance by the Soundscraper project will take place at Center for New Music in San Francisco, California on Monday, March 10, from 8:00 to 10:00 PM PDT (March 11, 3:00 to 5:00 AM GMT). The mixer-performer for the … Continue reading

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A couple new field recordings on SoundCloud

I recently added a couple new field recordings to my SoundCloud page. One is a thunderstorm, this with some impressive thunder claps, seek that I recorded one evening in the countryside surrounding San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The other is … Continue reading

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Godwaffle Noise Pancakes – Sunday, May 5, 2013

Here’s a video, viagra dosage posted to YouTube, no rx of the “live” performance from that day. I’ll be playing a set of three short pieces that I call “pile-ups” at the Godwaffle Noise Pancakes show this Sunday. The pieces … Continue reading

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Santa Barbara Performance of Couplings

On Thursday, prescription April 12, about it I will be playing my latest piece, case Couplings, as part of CREATE / MAT’s “? and beyond” 2012 Spring concert. The concert will take place at 8:00 PM in the Lotte Lehmann … Continue reading

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San Francisco Tape Music Festival

The 2012 San Francisco Tape Music Festival will once again be moving back to the ODC Theater.  The dates for the Festival are Friday, information pills January 20th, through Sunday, January 22. Nestled within the three nights — specific night … Continue reading

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