Aural Fixations
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California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse
San Francisco, CA 94188
Category: Museums
Region: Richmond (Inner)
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San Francisco is home base for some of the world’s greatest aural explorers. An orchestra of toys or insects, flames that sing arias, organs played by the lapping of the sea, and minuets written by the subtle movement of a composer’s limbs are not uncommon here — but they are remarkable. Every other year, Soundwave brings these distinct and daring artists together for a summer-long fete staged within museums, nightclubs, abandoned bunkers, rolling buses, and open fields. This year’s festival opens with “The Beginning of the End,” a night of art, science, and sound set against the closing cycle of the Mayan calendar. Shannon O’Malley, author of Apocalypse Cakes, offers sugary dainties, while Oakland’s hypnotic space-rock quintet the Lumarians holds court in the piazza. In the planetarium, hear the Aurora Borealis stretched across 12 strings. Have your future read by the Cellar Ensemble’s sound-and-light oracle, play music on an “empathetic facial responder,” draw pictures with light on the Lumisketch, or meditate on the sound of the earth moving under your feet with seismic sound artist Stephen Hurrel. Whichever path you choose, this will be quite an introduction to the season.
Thu., July 5, 6 p.m., 2012
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