Soundwave Festival ((4)) : Viscera August 1, 2010

Green Sound revisits the historic WWII site on the stunning Marin Headlands hillside overlooking the majestic Pacific for the second of two shows. Curator Jorge Bachmann takes you inside the belly of the cavernous Battery, built inside an artificial hill that was able to withstand aerial and naval bombardments of the era. Soldiers worked and slept inside the fortified Battery but now the hollowed rooms and spaces echo with reverberance. Sound artists reinterpret the space without electricity and powered amplification.

Artist Raub Roy (horaflora) immerses the audience in an Aleatoric improv-installation using balloons and toothbrushes. Drumheads are made to sing throughout the bunker’s recesses, whilst the innate windiness excites Aeolian instruments along the bunker’s main corridor.

Artist Jim Haynes builds a series of thermally driven turbines agitating suspended pieces of glass generating a variety of tones and frequencies. The performance includes sheet metal, bells, mallets, bows, battery powered vibration devices and a shortwave radio.

Bus Station/Box Office: The Lab, 2948 16th Street at Capp, San Francisco, CA

Station Times: 3pm-4:30p (tickets not available at performance site, only online and at station box office)

Bus Departs: 4:30pm, returns to SF approx 9pm

Infoline: 415.320.6685 or [email protected]

Official Website: http://www.projectsoundwave.com