{"id":4,"date":"2010-07-04T02:51:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T06:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomblum.com\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-02-27T23:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T06:59:02","slug":"past-performances","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thomblum.com\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"Past Performances, Releases, Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 11, 2025 –\u00a0<\/strong>Presented Combustible<\/a> at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2025<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

August 2, 2024 –\u00a0<\/strong>Speaker and DJ for the day at SFMOMA<\/a>, as a minute in The Art of Noise<\/a> exhibition.<\/p>\n

January 5,<\/strong> 2024 <\/strong>–\u00a0Telescopic 1 (zoom out)<\/em> premiered at the\u00a0San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2024<\/a>. (Notes here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

April 30, 2023<\/strong> – The San Francisco Tape Music Collective<\/a> presented a \u201cmicro-festival\u201d of members’ fixed media works, projected live over a multichannel sound system. This was one in a running series of concerts<\/a> at Mosswood Chapel in Oakland, California, presented by sfSound\u2019s founder and Director Matt Ingalls. The 2018 composition Reset (tabula rasa)<\/a> was diffused.<\/p>\n

January 14, 2023<\/strong> –\u00a0Three Improvisitions<\/em><\/a> premiere at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival<\/a> 2023.<\/p>\n

January 7, 2023 and ongoing <\/strong>– Sound environments, sonifications,<\/a> audio animations, and live soundscaping course through the stacks of the Prelinger Library<\/a>, for visitors who come on Sundays in 2023, from 1:30 to 4:00 PM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

November 29, 2022<\/strong> – Invited speaker at UCSB-CREATE seminar series. Topic: Approaching music.<\/a><\/p>\n

November 19, 2022<\/strong> – Invited speaker\/performer at Art-talk Salon<\/a>, San Francisco. Topic: Making music with found sound. Featuring Hadley McCarroll<\/a>, piano. Recording of part 1: talk with examples<\/a><\/p>\n

October 18, 2022<\/strong> – Released digital album “Three Improvisitions<\/a>” on Bandcamp, consisting of three short improvisation-inspired fixed media compositions.<\/p>\n

January 22, 2022 and ongoing\u00a0<\/strong>– Sound environments, sonifications<\/a>, and audio animations are embedded in the stacks of the Prelinger Library<\/a> and speak to visitors on Sundays in 2022, from 1:30 to 4:00 PM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

June 21, 2021<\/strong> – Featured artist on the Watt From Pedro Show<\/a>; Mike Watt’s 2-hour interview of me.<\/p>\n

February 6, 2021\u00a0<\/strong>– Veggie patch<\/em>, a sound improvisation and video interpretation. Video processing by Brutal Sound Effects.\u00a0<\/em>Played at\/on Brutal Sound Effects Pestival #91 (Twitch online).<\/p>\n

March 12, 2020 — USA announces nationwide COVID-19 shutdown<\/strong><\/div>\n
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June 2020 – January 2021<\/strong> – Curated “Collections”, a set of four digital albums released by SfSoundLabel<\/a>. These consist of categorized selections of my compositions, written between 1973 and 2018.<\/p>\n

January 11, 2020<\/strong> – To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room<\/em> premiered at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, The Victoria Theater, San Francisco, CA. http:\/\/www.sfsound.org\/tape<\/a><\/p>\n

October 27, 2019<\/strong> – Nature or Nuture<\/em> and Conjuring waves\/Soniferous climates<\/em>, solo improvisations for live-processed sound, at the Prelinger Library<\/a> in San Francisco on Sunday, Oct. 27. archived post here<\/a><\/p>\n

January 5, 2019<\/strong> – Epenthesis<\/em> premiered at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, The Victoria Theater, San Francisco, CA. http:\/\/www.sfsound.org\/tape<\/a><\/p>\n

January 5, 2018<\/strong> – Tabula Rasa<\/em> premiered at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, The Victoria Theater, San Francisco, CA. http:\/\/www.sfsound.org\/tape<\/a><\/p>\n

March 17, 2017<\/strong> – Cascade<\/em> – diffused over the same CCRMA-hosted speaker network at Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University.<\/p>\n

January 6, 2017<\/strong> – Cascade<\/em> premiered at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, The Victoria Theater, San Francisco, CA. http:\/\/www.sfsound.org\/tape<\/a><\/p>\n

January 8, 2016<\/strong> – Spanish Panoramas<\/em> premiered at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, The Victoria Theater, San Francisco, CA. http:\/\/www.sfsound.org\/tape<\/a><\/p>\n

July 4, 2015<\/strong> – J-Wake<\/em> – played at Like Now’s HorlursFestival<\/a> which, this year, was devoted to the theme or “Waters soundscapes”. The Festival took place in Solleftea, Sweden.<\/p>\n

March 23 \u2013 November 22, 2015<\/strong> – Picturing Sound, Creating Mood<\/em> audio portraits at The San Francisco Asian Art Museum<\/a>, San Francisco, CA.<\/p>\n

January 11, 2015<\/strong> – Walkways of the Hopeful and the Hopeless<\/em> premiered at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, The Victoria Theater, San Francisco, CA. http:\/\/www.sfsound.org\/tape<\/a><\/p>\n

March 10, 2014<\/strong> – Soundscraper Capsule 1 \u2013 inside\/outside<\/em> premiered at Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA. http:\/\/www.soundscraper.org\/?p=750<\/a><\/p>\n

February 16, 2014<\/strong> – Soundscraper project’s online launch, http:\/\/www.soundscraper.org\/?page_id=470<\/a><\/p>\n

January 4, 2014<\/strong> – J-Wake<\/em> performed at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, Z Below at Z Space, San Francisco, CA. http:\/\/sfsound.org\/tape\/Fest2014.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

May 5, 2013<\/strong> – Emancipation<\/em> was performed at The Lab, San Francisco, CA. http:\/\/www.thelab.org\/schedule\/events\/681-may-2013-pancakes.html<\/a><\/p>\n

January 2013<\/strong> – Couplings<\/em> on CD compilation of October, November, December 2012, Undae! Concert Series, Madrid, Spain. https:\/\/proyectoundae.wordpress.com\/undae-2012-album<\/a><\/p>\n

April 12, 2012<\/strong> – Couplings<\/em> was performed as part of CREATE \/ MAT’s “? and beyond” 2012 Spring concert. The concert took place at 8:00 PM in the Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Click here<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n

January 20-22, 2012<\/strong> – Couplings<\/em> premiered on the Friday night program of The 2012 San Francisco Tape Music Festival at the ODC Theater. \u00a0Click here<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n

August 28, 2011<\/strong> – Performed an episode of Bedbug Strategies (live electroacoustic improvisations), with Charles Kremenak, at Godwaffle Noise Pancakes at The Lab in San Francisco, California. For details check this <\/a> out.<\/p>\n

March 3, 2011 <\/strong>– The Logos Tetrahedron Theater concert series, New Media, presented\u00a0Combustible<\/em> by Thom Blum, along with works by Marko Timlin and Pete Stollery, on March 3, 2011 at 8:00 PM. The Logos Tetrahedron Theater is located at Bomastraat 26-28, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. For information about this concert see http:\/\/www.logosfoundation.org\/concerts\/concerts.html. For information about the Tetrahedron Theater see http:\/\/www.logosfoundation.org\/architecture\/tetrhall.html.<\/p>\n

January 7-9, 2011 – <\/strong>2011 San Francisco Tape Music Festival<\/a> performance of Post from Rajasthan<\/em> (2007, rev. 2010). Southside Theater, The Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n

July 11, 2010\u00a0– g<\/span>odwaffle noise pancake<\/span><\/a> show presents\u00a0VMDCR (featuring Thom Blum and Charles Kremenak) at the at <\/span>The Lab<\/span><\/a>, San Francisco, California, noon.<\/span><\/p>\n

June 17 through July 17, 2010 –<\/strong> An installation of pieces by San Francisco Tape Music Collective<\/a> (Thom Blum, Cliff Caruthers, Matt Ingalls, and Kent Jolly), and media works by Bonnie Banks, Aaron Finnis, Jacqueline Gordon, and Kiearan Daly & Isaac Linder, will be running Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at NOMA GALLERY<\/a>, 80 Maiden Lane, San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n

May 12, 2010<\/strong> – Poodle Sound Effects<\/a> #3 presents VMDCR (Thom Blum and Charles Kremenak), in Poodles for Peace. \u00a0Also performing: Slusser, Head Boggle, Darph Nader, Terror Apart, and Gumball Rimpoche, in concert at The Lab<\/a>, San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n

April 30 – May 9, 2010<\/strong> – Deborah Slater Dance Theater’s\u00a0\u00a0Men Think They Are Better Than Grass<\/a> – interpretations of W.S. Merwin’s environment-inspired poetry, featuring music by Carla Kihlstedt & Mattias Bossi and soundscapes by Thom Blum and Floor Vahn, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n

November 9, 2009<\/strong> – Mills College presented\u00a0Combustible<\/em> and other works by members of\u00a0San Francisco Tape Music Collective and sfSound<\/a> in concert at Mills College, Oakland, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
August 21-29, 2009<\/strong> – Music for\u00a0group A dance company’s<\/a> FIELDS4<\/em>, at the Garage, 975 Howard Street, San Francisco, California.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April 25, 2009<\/strong> – Live performance of\u00a0untitled<\/em>, at\u00a0Godwaffle Noise Pancakes<\/a>, the GOLDEN TRAPPER KEEPER LODGE, 1687 Hayes at Central Street, San Francisco, California.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 30, 2009<\/strong> – Premiere of\u00a0Combustible<\/em>, electroacoustic composition mixed for 7.1 surround, at the2009 San Francisco Tape Music Festival<\/a>, CELLspace, San Francisco, California.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 21, 2008<\/strong> – Live soundscape performance – for\u00a0Deborah Slater Dance Theater’s<\/a> performance of “Men Think They are Better than Grass,” at 1:00 PM in the esplanade at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 28 & 29, 2008<\/strong> – Sound Installation –\u00a0The Long Hall<\/strong> – along the entry corridor of Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California, in conjunction with\u00a0Deborah Slater Dance Theater’s<\/a>performance of “The Desire Line”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 10, 2008<\/strong> – Contributed sounds for work-in-progress performance and benefit of\u00a0Mordake<\/a>, an opera by\u00a0Erling Wold<\/a>, starring John Duykers. Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, California.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 24, 2007<\/strong> – performing with film-sound band EPIC [abridged], in the “Music by the Eyeful” series, presented by\u00a0Outsound.org<\/a> at\u00a0The Luggage Store<\/a>, San Francisco.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 30, 2007<\/strong> –\u00a0Cycle<\/em> presented by\u00a0EAR – new music collective<\/a> (Dublin, Ireland), in collaboration with\u00a0The San Francisco Tape Music Collective<\/a>, at Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland. More info\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 25, 2007<\/strong> —\u00a0Three Studies for Pedal Steel<\/em> presented at\u00a0GodWAFFLE Noise PANCAKES<\/a>, San Francisco.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 26, 2007<\/strong> —\u00a0nomen plaid<\/em> presented at\u00a0the 2007 San Francisco Tape Music Festival<\/a> at ODC Theater, San Francisco<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 3 – 4, 2006<\/strong> —\u00a0Cycle<\/em> (a.k.a. bog dance, with video by Mark Bartscher), choreographed by Alyssa Lee Wilmot and\u00a0group A<\/a> dance company, presented at at\u00a0CounterPULSE<\/a>, in San Francisco.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
July 11, 2006<\/strong> —\u00a0Squelch<\/em>,\u00a0Medi(t)ations – Australasian Computer Music Conference<\/a> – hosted by Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 18 – June 3, 2006<\/strong> —\u00a0Brushes with Satie<\/em> – a suite of electroacoustic orchestrations of Erik Satie’sGymnopedies<\/em>, produced specifically for\u00a0Deborah Slater Dance Theater’s “Furniture Dances”<\/a>. Presented at\u00a0CounterPULSE<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 28, 2006<\/strong> —\u00a0Squelch<\/em> was presented at\u00a02006 San Francisco Tape Music Festival<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 10 – 13, 2005<\/strong> —\u00a0Cycle<\/em> was presented at\u00a02005 Seoul International Computer Music Festival<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 3-19, 2005<\/strong> —\u00a0Japanese Postcard<\/em>,\u00a0Maroc<\/em>, and\u00a0Note from Patzcuaro<\/em> (audio postcards) was presented within the SOUNDSCAPEpgh at Pittsburgh, PA’s\u00a0Three Rivers Arts Festival<\/a> on Penn Avenue.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April 28-30, 2005<\/strong> —\u00a0Brushes with Satie<\/em> – a suite of electroacoustic orchestrations of Erik Satie’sGymnopedies<\/em>, produced specifically for\u00a0Deborah Slater Dance Theater’s “Furniture Dances”<\/a>. Presented at\u00a0ODC Theater<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 18, 2004<\/strong> —\u00a0Cycle<\/em> — presented at San Jose State University Concert Hall, co-sponsored by SJSU’s Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music and\u00a0Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS)<\/a> as part of Electroacoustic Music Month. San Jose, CA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
August 24, 2004<\/strong> — Untitled — a piece for 9 dancers choreographed by\u00a0Deborah Slater Dance Theater<\/a>involving live mix of field recordings projected in the Yerba Buena Gardens. Summerfest, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
July 23-24, 2004<\/strong> —\u00a0Trio<\/em> — a piece for 3 dancers choreographed by\u00a0Deborah Slater Dance Theater<\/a> with music composed by\u00a0Erling Wold<\/a> and Thom Blum. Performed at ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 1, 2004<\/strong> —\u00a0Japanese Postcard<\/em> —\u00a0Presented at The University of Edinburgh presents\u00a0Soundings<\/strong><\/a>, Reid Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh, Scotland.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April 17, 2004<\/strong> —\u00a0Cycle<\/em> —\u00a0Choreographer Alyssa Wilmot and group A<\/a>,\u00a021 Grand, Oakland, CA.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 21, 2004<\/strong> —\u00a0Cycle<\/em> —\u00a0New San Francisco Tape Music Center Festival<\/a>, CELLSpace, San Francisco, CA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 23, 2003<\/strong> —\u00a0Note from Patzcuaro<\/em> —\u00a0Strictly Ballroom concert series<\/a>, CCRMA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
July 27, 2003<\/strong> —\u00a0nomen plaid<\/em> —\u00a0San Francisco Electronic Music Festival<\/a>, SomArts, San Francisco, CA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 29-June 1, 2003<\/strong> — soundtrack for\u00a0Deborah Slater Dance Theater’s<\/a> Survival of the Fit Enough: The Galapagos Project v.2<\/em> — Dance Mission, San Francisco, CA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 24-March 10, 2003<\/strong> — on XStreamRadio ‘top ten’ list —\u00a0\u00a0XStreamRadio<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 14-18, 2003<\/strong> —\u00a0Things Frankie Heard, J-Wake, Parker<\/em> — XStreamRadio webcast, Clichy, France.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 4, 2003<\/strong> —\u00a0Things Frankie Heard <\/em>and Maroc<\/em> — Bobo Teatre, Sao Paolo, Brazil.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
August 17, 2002<\/strong> —\u00a0Things Frankie Heard<\/em> — Tranparent Tape Music Festival,\u00a0 sponsored by the New San Francisco Tape Music Center, Berkeley, CA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
August 10, 2002<\/strong> —\u00a0Japanese Postcard<\/em> and\u00a0Maroc<\/em> —\u00a0Field Effects 6<\/a>, Space 964 Natoma, San Francisco, CA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 18, 2002<\/strong> — interview broadcast and webcast —\u00a0Quiet Please<\/a> on KFJC, San Jose, CA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 12, 2002<\/strong> —\u00a0J-Wake<\/em> — Tranparent Tape Music Festival,\u00a0 sponsored by the New San Francisco Tape Music Center, Berkeley, California.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
December 21, 2001<\/strong> —\u00a0five haiku<\/em> — La Cucina, Barcelona, Spain.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
September 26, 2001<\/strong> —\u00a0five haiku<\/em> — broadcast and webcast — “art @ radio” with Steve Bradley, WMBC, Baltimore, MA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 16, 2000<\/strong> —\u00a0five haiku<\/em> — Lotte Lebmann Concert Hall, sponsored by the Dept. of Music, Media Arts & Technology, and CREATE, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 11, 2025 –\u00a0Presented Combustible at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2025. August 2, 2024 –\u00a0Speaker and DJ for the day at SFMOMA, as a minute in The Art of Noise exhibition. January 5, 2024 –\u00a0Telescopic 1 (zoom out) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomblum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomblum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomblum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomblum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomblum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomblum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomblum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomblum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}