Friday July 17 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $10-25 * TICKETS

Isaac Sherman is a musician, composer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles, California. Engaging with a variety of analog and digital synthesizers, samplers, guitar and voice, Isaac explores sonic curiosities through improvisation, composition and collaboration. His current musical practice focuses on the physical elements of analog synthesis and its ability to emulate wind, string and other acoustic instruments.

“An adventurous electroacoustic artist working in the tradition of Terry Riley and Laurie Spiegel, Isaac Sherman combines the refracted glow of L.A.’s ambient jazz scene with more tactile synth excursions. Though adroit at loop-based synth improvisation, Sherman has turned to tighter structures and more definite rhythms for his first proper album. Though its name suggests a concern with boundaries and demarcations, A Pasture Its Limits finds ways to make the territory it stakes out feel expansive if not endless…” -- Aquarium Drunkard.  

Composer, flutist, and improviser, Rachel Beetz explores presence through sound and listening. Her works recreate physical atmospheres based on her deep listening adventures in the wild, exploring hidden worlds of nature and machines. Combining experimental field recordings and electronically modified flutes, her works examine community, environmentalism, and women’s work through sound, textiles, and lighting. Her projects have been featured in concert halls and galleries in Australia, Iceland, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Michael R. Bernstein presents Blue Tape Human Liberation Orchestra - For as long as Minimalist music has existed, one weakness has persisted — the need for human involvement. The BTHLO imagines a future where the purity and pleasure of music can exist without the petty and profane need for human intervention. With its twin slogans of “Save Humans from Music” and “Save Music From Humans,” the BTHLO interrogates the infinite possibilities of this perfect future.