Spring Season » Focus on New York

Fresh Sound is not stuck in any particular style of music but is dedicated to bringing to San Diego music that is new, and as we proclaim, fresh. We plan to lavish you with glorious sounds, therefore we’ll just say that the music will be composed and improvised, acoustic and electronic, contemporary and traditional; the concerts will include music which grooves and doesn’t, is really loud and very quiet, some familiar and often not. All of it will be delicious and will leave you hungering for more.

As Fresh Sound series consists of concerts that focus on a theme, the upcoming Fresh Sound music series will feature musicians from New York. Bonnie Wright, Director and Curator of Fresh Sound, recently returned from a six month sojourn in New York where she explored the city by attending 160 concerts, theater and dance events. Wright now wants to share with her fellow San Diegans some of the great music she experienced on her trip.

The first two concerts are March 6th and April 9th (see below for details). In May and June we hope to include New York musicians David Shively, percussionist; Mary Rowell, violinist and Eve Beglarian, composer, electronics; Evan Ziporyn, clarinets; and maybe Caleb Burham, violin; and Tristan Perich. – Dates to be determined, check back often.

Ticket Information
Please contact Bonnie Wright via email at bonniebwright@gmail.com or phone 619-987-6214

325 15th St. between J and K
Parking is easy: on the street and nearby $3.00 parking lots are located on Island between 14th and 15th and on K St. @ 14th. The big Padres parking lot is at K @ 13th.

Bawdy Storytelling features real people sharing their bona fide sexual exploits in 10 minutes or less: think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love.

Storytellers are an eclectic mix of authors, porn stars, comedians, sex educators and actors, along with a handful of real people just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of misadventure. Each evening of true dirty stories features tales of carnal wins and epic fails with no scripts, no nets, and no holds barred. You may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!

Saturday, Feb 25 2012
7:00 pm
$10 at the door
RSVP on Facebook

Ticket Information
Please contact Bonnie Wright via email at bonniebwright@gmail.com or phone 619-987-6214
Parking is easy – on the street and at $3.00 parking lots very nearby.

Premiere performance, ever, in the history of the world: Ben Goldberg (San Francisco), clarinets; Jeff Parker (Chicago), electric guitar; and Ches Smith (New York), drums, playing Goldberg’s new compositions. He has been composing up a storm, both for his new group Ben Goldberg School, and getting ready for the world premiere of his Orphic Machine, based on the poetical writings of Allen Grossman – commissioned by Chamber Music America

Ben Goldberg
Clarinetist / Composer Ben Goldberg grew up in Denver, Colorado. He received his undergraduate music degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Master of Arts in Composition from Mills College. He was a pupil of the eminent clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo, and studied with Steve Lacy and Joe Lovano. In addition to composing for and playing in his new band Ben Goldberg School, he performs in the following groups: Go Home with Charlie Hunter, Ellery Eskelin, Ron Miles, and Scott Amendola, “A searching ensemble that welcomes lyrical improvisation while embracing the groove.” (The New Yorker); Tin Hat; plays Monk; Myra Melford’s Be Bread; Nels Cline’s New Monastery; Clarinet Thing; and Afterlife Music Radio, an electro-acoustic quartet. Ben’s group New Klezmer Trio “kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music.” (San Francisco Chronicle) Ben was named #1 Rising Star Clarinet in the 2011 Downbeat Critics’ Poll. Recent awards include a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commission, and commissions from San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, the French American Cultural Exchange, the de Young Museum of Art in San Francisco, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

WITH MUSIC FROM STEVE POLTZ, IRWIN CONSPIRACY 8 PM
MIHO GASTROTRUCK 6 to 9 pm

Space 4 Art and Loft 9 Gallery present a Pacific Standard Time exhibition exploring early surfboard design and how the use of surfboard materials influenced mid-century sculptors and designers.

The show was conceived and curated by Richard Kenvin, of Loft 9 Gallery. Kenvin is the director of the Hydrodynamica Project and has surfed in San Diego for over forty years. The exhibition focuses primarily on the work of two Southern California surfboard pioneers: Bob Simmons and Carl Ekstrom.

Simmons’ board design and early use of composite construction processes in board building from 1949 to 1954 parallels California’s post-war modern design movement and profoundly influenced modern surfing and skateboarding. Andy Warhol considered Ekstrom’s surfboards works of art and purchased two in 1968 for props in the campy surfsploitation flick “San Diego Surf.” The boards helped inspire an explosion of revolutionary surfboard design in San Diego that culminated with the designs of Steve Lis in the late 1960’s.

The exhibition will feature original Simmons planing hulls and other objects he made, including the boomerangs he used for experimentation. Boards from Ekstrom, Lis, and Nicholas Mirandon will also be exhibited, along with photographs and short film clips. Viewers will be invited to ponder the relationship of these designs to California art and design from 1945 to 1980.  Once overlooked, surfboard design is currently experiencing a worldwide renaissance that is changing surfers’ perspectives on the past and changing the way people ride waves today.

Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented series of concurrent exhibitions throughout Southern California museums and galleries that highlight the significance of art in Los Angeles region in the post World War II decades. Exhibitions and related programs began in the fall of 2011 and conclude in spring 2012.

The first of 2012′s Long Story Short comes on the theme of “Lost.”

Have you ever been lost? geographically or otherwise?  Tell us all about it! Share your story about a time when you became confused or disoriented. Hopefully you found your way home and can tell us how you did it.

Open to one and all to tell a true, five minute story without notes to a room of story devotees on the theme.

We’re made of love and we would love you to join us.

7:30PM – 9:00PM

“SSWA Presents: Ugly Boogie’s self-benefit concert!”

Ugly Boogie is a blue-grass/klezmer punk band

This is a benefit concert to help them  raise money to release their first record.

Wednesday, Jan 11th, 8:30pm

$5 suggested donation

The best performance poets from Train of Thought and Abstract Form figure it all out through the arts. This is a collaboration of some of the finest poets, singers, songwriters, comedians in San Diego in a special showcase at Space 4 Art.

Sunday, January 8th @ 7pm

$5 suggested donation

Please join us for an “off the wall” art show & sale featuring work by Space 4 Art studio artists priced affordably at $50, $100, or $150.

50% of sales go to the artist
50% of sales go to Space 4 Art
100% of the art goes home with you or
becomes a gift for someone you love.

Champagne and hors d’oeuvres.
Live music early. Dancing late.
Casual to elegant attire.

December 10, 2011
7-10 pm

Sunday, November 27th

7:30pm – 9:00pm

It’s smack in the middle of the Holiday season, when the expanding nucleus of the family circle suddenly constricts back together in a claustrophobic choke-hold around the dinner table. Or maybe it doesn’t and you have a good relationship with them. Either way, November’s “Long Story Short” is back on the outdoor main stage and welcomes anyone who wants to tell a five minute or less story of note about their families, relations, or the holiday season.

Doors 7 pm     $8 and  $10(sliding scale)

Swarmius Duo

Swarmius is a sonic fusion of hip-hop, house-lounge-techno meets modern classical … catchy hooks, soaring melodies & multi-level syncopations that draw from rock, jazz, the Yoruba music of Nigeria, Eastern European Klezmer, Indonesian gamelan, electronica, hip-hop, vaudeville, European classical and more.

Jozefius (Joseph Waters), laptop and compositions

Saximus, saxophones

http://swarmius.com/

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Lisa Mezzacappa’s Bait & Switch

Bait & Switch is San Francisco bassist Lisa Mezzacappa’s rollicking garage jazz quartet, playing original music inspired by adventurous jazz masters like Ornette Coleman, Henry Threadgill, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Eric Dolphy. The music funnels improvisational collectivity into finely honed compositions steeped in free jazz abandon, avant-Caribbean groove and garage rock attitude. The band was voted Best Debut in the 2010 Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll, and tours the West Coast this fall in preparation for recording their second CD.

Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone

John Finkbeiner, electric guitar

Vijay Anderson, drums

Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass

www.lisamezzacappa.com 

Photo by Myles Boisen

Wednesday, November 16th at 7:30 pm

Benjamin Van Dyke, MFA University of Michigan, BFA Kendall College of Art & Design. In 2006, Van Dyke was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Netherlands where he was artist-in-residence at NLXL in The Hague. During this time, he lent his talents to the implementation of experimental practices for the ministries of education and culture with an analysis on the cultural implications. He has continued his research through site-specific installations of experimental typography. He has been invited to exhibit his work across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East

Following his work in The Netherlands, Van Dyke was invited to join the Visual Studies faculty at The State University of New York at Buffalo, where he is Head of the Communication Design program. He also serves as Vice President of DesignInquiry — an international design collective focused on design research and education.

Upgrade! International network of gatherings concerning art, technology and culture.

http://upgradesandiego.info/

The event is free and open to the public. There will be a cash bar!

For more information contact:

Arzu Ozkal - arzu.ozkal@mail.sdsu.edu

Leigh Cotnoir - lcotnoir@mail.sdsu.edu

Max Luera - vinyllogic@yahoo.com