Matt Ingalls’s weekly sfSound concert series will present a Microfestival of Surround Sound Diffusion on June 9, 2024, featuring the members of the San Francisco Tape Music Collective. We will be controlling the spatial diffusion of pieces — works by members of the Collective as well as other composers — over 16 Meyer Sound speakers that will surround the audience.
The concert is June 9 at 7:00 PM
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland, CA 94607
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.
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, run by sfSound’s founder and director Matt Ingalls.
The program for this concert will be as follows:
P R O G R A M
STEVE REICH – It’s Gonna Rain (1965)
MAGGI PAYNE – Through Space and Time (2022)
PAULINE OLIVEROS – Bye Bye Butterfly (1965)
KRISTIN MILTNER – Meditation on a Rainy Afternoon in January (2023)
MATT INGALLS – poem number two (2023)
CLIFF CARUTHERS – Chorale for Ola and Tomek (2016)
THOM BLUM – Reset (tabula rasa) (2018)
On April 16, 2023 I was interviewed by D-Minor for his Sunday night show “Let’s Talk Music” on KPFA. The program is archived (for now) and can be heard on demand.
Kary Hess, an author for FMRL.com, published an insightful review of the very unique Prelinger Library in San Francisco. The first part of the article explores the Library’s mission and organization, as explained by cofounder Megan Prelinger. The second part of the article delves into the “permanent” sound installation/instrument that I created for, and installed in, the Library last year. It continues evolving and can be experienced on any Sunday, from 1:30 to 4:00 PM. (See the Library’s home page. It will post exceptions.)
After a very unwelcomed two year absence, due to COVID-19, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival is returning, January 13, 14, and 15 2023 to the Victoria Theater in the Mission district. The sfSound organization and the San Francisco Tape Music Collective (of which I am a member) will present four distinct curated concerts over the three-night Festival.
As always there will be the featured headliners, from Robert Fripp to Ennio Morricone, as well many other international and local composers. And, as always the pieces will be dynamically diffused, live, through a pristine web of 24 loudspeakers. Thank you, CCRMA.
On the “late” (9:30 PM) Saturday concert, I’ll be playing my newest set of three short pieces. I’m looking forward to projecting them and shaping the space in real time, controlling the mixer that’s set up in the theater’s sweet spot.
Here are all the details. Go to Eventbrite for advance ticket purchases for both individual concerts (using a pull-down menu to select the date) and the festival pass.
Here’s a preview published in December in Stephen Smoliar’s The Rehearsal Studio.
On November 29, 2022, at the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology of the University of California, Santa Barbara, I presented a 45-minute talk about my approach to music-making. This was an event in the CREATE seminar series, hosted by Curtis Roads, Professor and Chair of Media Arts and Technology. Below is the abstract for the talk.
In his light-filled Sculpture Studio, Artist Brian Goggin
presents
The latest Project Artaud and Developing Environments Art-talk Salon
When: Saturday November 19, 2022, 2-5pm
(Note: If it rains we will reschedule for December 3)
Where: Project Artaud
401 Alabama Street
The Sculpture Studio #123
San Francisco, CA
www.metaphorm.org
2-3 p.m. – Art-talk (part 1): Thom Blum – Making Music with Found Sound, with piano music played by Hadley McCarroll
3-4 p.m. – Art-talk (part 2): Improvisation with the environmental soundscape outside Brian’s studio
4-5 p.m. – Gramophone music and mingle
The PDF contains the details about this past event, including information about the sponsors of the Art-talk Salon series, details about the presenters Thom Blum and Hadley McCarroll, as well as the performance script that guided their two-hour presentation.
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 a different way replete with vocalizations and sonifications.
Sundays from 2:00 to 4:00 PM
July 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31
Prelinger Library
301 8th Street (corner of Folsom Street)
Suite 215
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 252-8166
I’m looking forward to seeing you there.
For more information about the sound installation, You Are Here You Are You Here, and brief video walkthroughs recorded in binaural sound, check this out.
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 spatially distributed sound system that I’ve created for the Library.
I hope you’ll stop by, browse the stacks a while and enjoy a unique almost synesthetic blend of printed and sonic matter. Come and check it out during any of these times:
Sundays from 2:00 to 4:00 PM
May 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29
Prelinger Library
301 8th Street (corner of Folsom)
Suite #215
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 252-8166
https://prelingerlibrary.org
https://www.thomblum.com
For more information and brief video walkthroughs of the sound installation, click me now.
