Don Seaver's "Stranger" Odd by Nature

From the mind of Sean Owens comes "ODD BY NATURE II: The Stranger Journeys." with songs and an original score by songwriting partner and Soundwave>Series composer, Don Seaver.

Buckle up for this unforgettable follow-up to 2007’s celebrated ODD BY NATURE, "a feast of bite-sized comedies that entertain and provoke" by “SF's Best Comic Playwright," (SF Weekly). Propelled by Don Seaver’s score, this comedic junket traipses to the remotest corners of consciousness, from Disneyland to beyond the grave.

ODD BY NATURE II
The Stranger Journeys
Feb. 8th-24th, Thurs, Fri, Sat 8pm
Tickets $12-20 sliding scale
www.theexit.org
(415) 673-3847

Don Seaver Official Site

Jorge Bachmann's Illusion Feb 9-11

Resident sound artist and Project>Soundwave Technical Director, Jorge Bachmann (justino) creates the sound design for Takami & MoBu Dance Group newest production "Illusion".


Takami & MoBu Dance Group presents,       
    “Illusion”

Direction and choreography:  Takami
Glass art & stage set:   Kana Tanaka 
Sound design by Jorge Bachmann

Dancers:  Monique Tajiri Goldwater, Mai Shimizu
 
DATES:    February 9, 10, 11, 2007
TIME:     Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm; Sunday at 7:00pm
VENUE:  Project Artaud Theater (450 Florida Street @ Mariposa, San Francisco)
TICKETS:  $22 general; $18 senior/student

BOX OFFICE:  www.brownpapertickets.com/event/9559
INFORMATION:  (415) 602-8557   www.mobudancestudio.com

Takami & MoBu Dance Group collaborate with Kana Tanaka (glass installation artist) and Jorge Bachmann (sound artist) to transform Project Artaud Theater into a magical realm wherein the audience is invited to question reality and the nature of truth. 
 
Takami states "the word 'illusion' has many interpretations, the first being a false idea or belief.  In our lives, what we hold to be the truth that which we want to believe in our relationships and everyday life - often turns out to be false, or based more in fantasy than reality.  Sometimes we even want something to be true so badly that we begin to believe it...if we repeat it over and over, truth ceases to be an illusion, and in effect, becomes more real than truth itself.  Indeed, illusion is often more comfortable and less frightening than reality."

Jorge Bachmann Official Site

Tarentel performs at the SFMOMA January 25th

Soundwave>series artist Danny Grody's (The Drift) other band Tarentel performed a live soundtrack to the original silent film Nosferatu (by F.W. Murnau circa 1922) following a showing of Wener Herzogs 1978 re-make.

Thursday January 25th at 6:30. Tickets are $10.

Please visit this link for more detailed info:
http://sfmoma.org/calendar/calendar_event.asp?eventid=990&etype=2&func=repeat

There was a rumor Wener Herzog himself made a surprise appearance!

Tarentel Official Site
The Drfit Official Site

Stefan Smulovitz and Viviane Houle at PuSH Festival

Soundwave>Series artists Stefan Smulovitz and Viviane Houle perform at 2 shows at the 2007 PuSH International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver, Canada. The PuSh International Performing Arts Festivall presents acclaimed local, national, and international artists and their work expanding the horizons of audiences and artists with work that is visionary, genre-bending, startling and original.


JANUARY, 18 & 19, 2007 at Roundhouse Community Centre

Projections - Music meets video in this evening of interdisciplinary collaboration, featuring a newly commissioned score by George Lewis for Kate Craig's Mary Lou; (The Rest is Missing), a collaboration between visual artists Hadley+Maxwell and composer Stefan Smulovitz; and Bill Viola's breathtaking visual accompaniment to Edgar Varese's Deserts. Music performed by the Turning Point Ensemble.

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JANUARY, 23 2007 at Vancouver East Cultural Centre

La Belle et la Bette (Beauty & the Beast) : Vancouver's Eye of Newt ensemble are joined by American jazz legend Wayne Horvitz to perform an original score to Jean Cocteau's eye-popping cinematic masterpiece, a pioneering work of surrealism. Eye of Newt is: Stefan Smulovitz - viola, waterphone, Francois Houle - clarinet, Viviane Houle - voice, Jesse Zubot - violin.

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Stefan Smulovitz and Viviane Houle Site