Thu June 19, 2025
Ernst Karel, Ava Koohbor, Seedy Arcing at Canessa Gallery, SF
at Canessa Gallery
(7:30pm)
June 19, 2025
7:30-10 PM
$5-$20 sliding scale
Ernst Karel
Ava Koohbor
Seedy Arcing
An evening of experimental and improvised music at Canessa Gallery in Jackson Square, San Francisco.
Electroacoustic duo Seedy Arcing (Alex 'Puzzle' Abalos and Bryan Day) will be performing a piece using toy keyboards, radio transceivers, hacked electronics, and Filipino gongs to mark the release of their new album on UK label Chocolate Monk. Also on the bill, noisy electronic sounds from instrument builder Ava Koohbor, and a quadraphonic electroacoustic performance by Ernst Karel.
Ava Koohbor is an experimental sound artist and instrument builder. Through an undetermined process she transforms the acoustical properties of everyday's objects to create an immersive experience of sound in space.
Ernst Karel works with sound, including electroacoustic music, experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, image-sound collaboration, and postproduction sound for nonfiction vilm, with an emphasis on observational cinema. Lately he works around the practice of actuality/location recording (or 'fields [plural] recording') and composing with those recordings, with recent projects also taking up archival location recordings.
Alex Abalos is an electrician, musician, sound artist, instrument fabricator and synthesizer nerd who enjoys piecing together unlikely partners, instruments, found sounds, and venues, creating unique and meaningful experiences that help neighborhoods think outside of their barriers and boundaries. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay to a working class, immigrant family with a mentality of "working with what you got," Alex attributes his success to his DIY attitude. Realizing later in life that he could use it as a tool to connect with people, he brought his passion for music to alternative educational spaces where he can bridge the gap between the avant garde music that he loves and the street culture that he grew up in.
Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in the San Francisco Area. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials, he re-imagines them into constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late-1990s, he has built over a hundred sound object devices, from amplified measuring tape, hacked radio transceivers to electromechanical installations using magnets, hard drives and pendulums. His recorded work ranges from noisy electroacoustic improvisation to drony minimalism and audio collage, which is showcased in his projects Euphotic, Collision Stories and Seeded Plain. Day has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
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7:30-10 PM
$5-$20 sliding scale
Ernst Karel
Ava Koohbor
Seedy Arcing
An evening of experimental and improvised music at Canessa Gallery in Jackson Square, San Francisco.
Electroacoustic duo Seedy Arcing (Alex 'Puzzle' Abalos and Bryan Day) will be performing a piece using toy keyboards, radio transceivers, hacked electronics, and Filipino gongs to mark the release of their new album on UK label Chocolate Monk. Also on the bill, noisy electronic sounds from instrument builder Ava Koohbor, and a quadraphonic electroacoustic performance by Ernst Karel.
Ava Koohbor is an experimental sound artist and instrument builder. Through an undetermined process she transforms the acoustical properties of everyday's objects to create an immersive experience of sound in space.
Ernst Karel works with sound, including electroacoustic music, experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, image-sound collaboration, and postproduction sound for nonfiction vilm, with an emphasis on observational cinema. Lately he works around the practice of actuality/location recording (or 'fields [plural] recording') and composing with those recordings, with recent projects also taking up archival location recordings.
Alex Abalos is an electrician, musician, sound artist, instrument fabricator and synthesizer nerd who enjoys piecing together unlikely partners, instruments, found sounds, and venues, creating unique and meaningful experiences that help neighborhoods think outside of their barriers and boundaries. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay to a working class, immigrant family with a mentality of "working with what you got," Alex attributes his success to his DIY attitude. Realizing later in life that he could use it as a tool to connect with people, he brought his passion for music to alternative educational spaces where he can bridge the gap between the avant garde music that he loves and the street culture that he grew up in.
Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in the San Francisco Area. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials, he re-imagines them into constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late-1990s, he has built over a hundred sound object devices, from amplified measuring tape, hacked radio transceivers to electromechanical installations using magnets, hard drives and pendulums. His recorded work ranges from noisy electroacoustic improvisation to drony minimalism and audio collage, which is showcased in his projects Euphotic, Collision Stories and Seeded Plain. Day has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
June 19, 2025
7:30-10 PM
$5-$20 sliding scale
Ernst Karel
Ava Koohbor
Seedy Arcing
An evening of experimental and improvised music at Canessa Gallery in Jackson Square, San Francisco.
Electroacoustic duo Seedy Arcing (Alex 'Puzzle' Abalos and Bryan Day) will be performing a piece using toy keyboards, radio transceivers, hacked electronics, and Filipino gongs to mark the release of their new album on UK label Chocolate Monk. Also on the bill, noisy electronic sounds from instrument builder Ava Koohbor, and a quadraphonic electroacoustic performance by Ernst Karel.
Ava Koohbor is an experimental sound artist and instrument builder. Through an undetermined process she transforms the acoustical properties of everyday's objects to create an immersive experience of sound in space.
Ernst Karel works with sound, including electroacoustic music, experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, image-sound collaboration, and postproduction sound for nonfiction vilm, with an emphasis on observational cinema. Lately he works around the practice of actuality/location recording (or 'fields [plural] recording') and composing with those recordings, with recent projects also taking up archival location recordings.
Alex Abalos is an electrician, musician, sound artist, instrument fabricator and synthesizer nerd who enjoys piecing together unlikely partners, instruments, found sounds, and venues, creating unique and meaningful experiences that help neighborhoods think outside of their barriers and boundaries. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay to a working class, immigrant family with a mentality of "working with what you got," Alex attributes his success to his DIY attitude. Realizing later in life that he could use it as a tool to connect with people, he brought his passion for music to alternative educational spaces where he can bridge the gap between the avant garde music that he loves and the street culture that he grew up in.
Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in the San Francisco Area. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials, he re-imagines them into constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late-1990s, he has built over a hundred sound object devices, from amplified measuring tape, hacked radio transceivers to electromechanical installations using magnets, hard drives and pendulums. His recorded work ranges from noisy electroacoustic improvisation to drony minimalism and audio collage, which is showcased in his projects Euphotic, Collision Stories and Seeded Plain. Day has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
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7:30-10 PM
$5-$20 sliding scale
Ernst Karel
Ava Koohbor
Seedy Arcing
An evening of experimental and improvised music at Canessa Gallery in Jackson Square, San Francisco.
Electroacoustic duo Seedy Arcing (Alex 'Puzzle' Abalos and Bryan Day) will be performing a piece using toy keyboards, radio transceivers, hacked electronics, and Filipino gongs to mark the release of their new album on UK label Chocolate Monk. Also on the bill, noisy electronic sounds from instrument builder Ava Koohbor, and a quadraphonic electroacoustic performance by Ernst Karel.
Ava Koohbor is an experimental sound artist and instrument builder. Through an undetermined process she transforms the acoustical properties of everyday's objects to create an immersive experience of sound in space.
Ernst Karel works with sound, including electroacoustic music, experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, image-sound collaboration, and postproduction sound for nonfiction vilm, with an emphasis on observational cinema. Lately he works around the practice of actuality/location recording (or 'fields [plural] recording') and composing with those recordings, with recent projects also taking up archival location recordings.
Alex Abalos is an electrician, musician, sound artist, instrument fabricator and synthesizer nerd who enjoys piecing together unlikely partners, instruments, found sounds, and venues, creating unique and meaningful experiences that help neighborhoods think outside of their barriers and boundaries. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay to a working class, immigrant family with a mentality of "working with what you got," Alex attributes his success to his DIY attitude. Realizing later in life that he could use it as a tool to connect with people, he brought his passion for music to alternative educational spaces where he can bridge the gap between the avant garde music that he loves and the street culture that he grew up in.
Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in the San Francisco Area. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials, he re-imagines them into constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late-1990s, he has built over a hundred sound object devices, from amplified measuring tape, hacked radio transceivers to electromechanical installations using magnets, hard drives and pendulums. His recorded work ranges from noisy electroacoustic improvisation to drony minimalism and audio collage, which is showcased in his projects Euphotic, Collision Stories and Seeded Plain. Day has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
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