The Coldest Winter …

I haven't given a San Francisco Bay Area performance in over a year so I'm making up for that with four local performances this summer.

  • 11 July as part of Sonic Cartographies II in Berkeley
  • 26 July, solo, at SF's Center for New Music
  • 3 Aug, with Sarah Grace Graves, Tom Bickley, and Nancy Beckman at the Tiger Garage, Berkeley
  • 17 Aug as part of the West Oakland Sound Series; also on the bill is a trio of Larry Ochs with Fred Lonberg-Holm and Ben Davis
  • I'll be touring the East Coast and elsewhere this autumn. Additional information with links on the A Synesthete's Atlas page.

    As always, please be in touch with ideas or questions.


    Recent Blog Posts

    The Museum of Jurassic Technology: Harbinger of Major Gift Fails

    The Museum of Jurassic Technology: Harbinger of Major Gift Fails

    10 Jun 2023

    Lawrence Weschler’s Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney are essential for an understanding of those artists’ thinking, the trajectories of their careers, and the impacts of their work. But when Weschler lectured at the San Francisco Art Institute (9 Feb 2009) in commemoration of the University of California Press’ publication of expanded editions of his Irwin and Hockney books, the book I brought for him to sign was neither of those.

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    A QuickTake and Radio Valencia Cafe

    A QuickTake and Radio Valencia Cafe

    28 Dec 2022

    You’re forgiven if you’re thinking “surely he meant to title this A Quick Take on Radio Valencia Cafe”.

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    Warhol, Empire, the Met Life Tower, and Me

    Warhol, Empire, the Met Life Tower, and Me

    03 Aug 2022

    It’s tautological to say I’m resigned to being a fatalist but disappointments take their toll and I tend to set my expectations low. I learned late that the second volume of The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné was nearing publication and while Callie Angell had been gracious in crediting me in her publications for providing the clue necessary to sequence the reels of Empire, I was anxious about whether I’d make it into what would become the definitive source of truth.

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    For Sale: Robert Indiana 'MECCA I, II, III'

    For Sale: Robert Indiana 'MECCA I, II, III'

    02 Aug 2022

    Pop Artist Robert Indiana was commissioned to design the basketball floor for the Milwaukee Exposition Convention Center and Arena (MECCA). The floor made its debut in October 1977 and was disassembled after the Bucks began playing in the BMO Harris Bradley Center in 1988. I don’t know the current status of the floor, only that it was saved from a salvage sale by Greg Koller, then passed to the stewardship of his son, Ben, and that a replica was reconstructed for one game in 2017 to celebrate the fifty year anniversary of the Bucks’ first season.

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    For Sale: John Wesley 'Smoke Ring'

    For Sale: John Wesley 'Smoke Ring'

    01 Aug 2022

    Update

    This painting sold in Artsy's Post-War and Contemporary Auction, September 2022.

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