Collision
Collision / THE 12TH ANNUAL MISSION CREEK MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL - 2008
The Mission Creek Music Festival’s Collision showcases local and international sound artists, experimental musicians and collaborating artists working in mediums such as video, film, dance, theater, and media arts. The results are sure to challenge, stimulate, and surprise all audiences seeking the latest in experimental music and performance.
For the 12th year in a row, San Francisco's premier independent music festival continues to present the finest local music and art. Close to a dozen venues, both big and small, will host the festival from July 16th – July 20th, 2008. In previous years, the festival has been spread out over 11 or more days, with more than 180 acts. By scaling back the length of the festival, we have honed in on what we consider truly crucial, providing an opportunity for record labels, radio representatives, agents, publicists, press, and music fans to discover the best of San Francisco’s up-and-coming performing artists.
Mission Creek Productions exists to promote local musicians, artists, writers, designers, and filmmakers, and is a fiscally sponsored partner of The Intersection for the Arts. This year we are very pleased to add Berkeley's Fantasy Studios to our family of presenting sponsors. Other sponsors include The San Francisco Bay Guardian, KUSF, and Rainbow Grocery.
Collision events will be held at New Langton Arts located at 1246 Folsom Street (between 8th and 9th streets) San Francisco, CA 94103-3817
All shows are: doors/7:30pm, performances/8pm
$12-$15 Sliding Scale
Contact: 415. 626.5416
Performing: Wed., July 16Wednesday’s line up will be curated by Jeff Ray Producer/ Founder of MCMAF and Collision., Artists/ Musician. This particular night is enriched with ironic, and sardonic, comedic escapades. Some of the artists are from Berlin, known to be a hot bed of creative activity. | |
Torsten Kretchzmar Since Sprockets and Kraftwerk defined the art of good old German abstract entertainment, Torsten Kretchzmar will surprise you with his new multimedia show "I Know What Girls Like" that will make everyone wonder. |
Justine Electra Live i sing and play guitar which i combine with loops to get a blues-electro sound. I was signed to the "City Slang" music label last year and have just completed my 1st album "Soft Rock" which is very song-oriented, kind of laid back electro-blues. |
Katrina Lamb is a post-conceptual artist, writer, performer, and musician living and working in San Francisco. her forthcoming album "electric light lullaby," a collection of micro stories told through piano+voice, will be coming out at some time in the near and undetermined future. |
Freddy Mcguire |
Performing: Thurs., July 17Thursday’s line-up offers an evening of igneous sound flows and drones galore curated by Eilish Cullen. Participating artists include Sokai Stilhed, darwin'sbitch and Jim Haynes. Eilish Cullen is a Co-Director at The LAB and has organized experimental music concerts at The Point Montara Lighthouse and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. | |
Sokai Stilhed uses a large variety of instruments and her haunting, other worldly, blue as blue can be voice to pull you into her richly imaginative and vividly textured world. |
Jim Haynes manifests a broken minimalism whose magnetic drones give the impression of timelessness, when in fact the environment is quite active. Drawing from shortwave radio static, electric field disturbances, controlled feedback manipulation, and numerous textural scrapings, This engineering of disparate materials and media seeks to evince the unpredictability of decay, to manifest its potential for a rough hewn beauty, and to bare witness to its inevitability. |
darwinsbitch is fluid forms of drones, doomy laments, and folk melodies fleshed out from a backbone of sine oscillators and violin. Sound sources from the environment blend with instruments such as piano, ocean-harp, guitar, bass, and specially designed computer programs to create a unique sonic hybrid between the acoustic and the digital. | |
Performing: Fri., July 18Friday and Saturday nights are curated by Biba Bell, a dancer/artist/performer who performs with Modern Garage Movement (MGM) and makes work under the moniker URISOV. She is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University investigating interplay between architectural space and the moving body. While curating for Collision she worked specifically with the concept collision itself -- collision as an instance of simultaneous transmission or, more specifically in MCMF, a platform of performance which could bring forth alternate genres. For the series she has brought together a bi-coastal group of artists who deal with encounters between genre and medium within their work, blurring the primacy of a single source or mode of expression (i.e. visual, sonic, choreographic, technological, etc.). Friday, July 18th: Aura Fischbeck and Claire Duplantier (SF), Jane(t) Pants (LA/Portland), Kunsole (Rotterdam/San Francisco), Nancy Garcia (NYC) & Saturday, July 19th: Hope Mohr (SF), MGM Grand (SF/NYC), The Mirror Theory of NLP (Oakland/Berlin), Heart the Band (NYC). | |
Jane(t) Pants 
Kunsole is a collaborative platform created by Deric Carner and Roddy Schrock in order to cross-import ideas and tactics between creative sectors such as experimental music, high art, and radical graphics. Fischbeck/Duplantier This new collaboration, entitled "versions of each others" exposes the moment of informational contact between two dancers.
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Nancy Garcia is a New York based choreographer/musician/artist making performance work since 1997. Her work has been shown at several New York venues, including Greene Naftali Gallery, Tonic, Dixon Place, Movement Research Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Knitting Factory, and throughout the US, Japan, and Europe, at festivals such as All Tomorrow's Parties (UK).
www.nancygarcia.org Garcia & Thurston Moore at No Fun Fest, May 16, 2008 |
Performing: Sat., July 19 | |
Hope Mohr (Choreographer) trained at the San Francisco Ballet School and on scholarship at the Trisha Brown and Merce Cunningham Studios in New York, and has performed throughout the world with a wide range of modern choreographers, including Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Douglas Dunn, Margaret Jenkins, and Della Davidson. Hope has presented choreography on both coasts and formed Hope Mohr Dance in 2007. recently returned to her native Bay Area to focus on her own work after performing professionally around the world with a number of pioneers of post-modern dance, including Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, and Douglas Dunn. Hope was classically trained at the San Francisco Ballet School and was first exposed to modern dance at Stanford University. After moving to New York, she trained on scholarship at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio and the Trisha Brown Studio. In addition to performing in several major New York-based companies, she also danced as a freelance artist with Mimi Garrard, Pat Catterson, Liz Gerring, and Trajal Herrell. Since returning to the Bay Area, she has worked with Margaret Jenkins and Janice Garrett. She formed Hope Mohr Dance in 2007. Heart of the Band is Eleanor Bauer, Beth Gill, Chase Granoff, Jon Moniaci, and Chris Peck stretching the murky lower limits of minimal structure under which a dispersed interdisciplinary performance collective can continue to exist at all, or perhaps slowly working towards a consensus on how such an undefined collective might in fact be dissolved. www.intermittentmusic.com/Heart_the_Band |
MGM GRAND New Gree is a dance on tour that not only happens anywhere, but is happening all the time. The fashions worn on the road are the costumes of the dance. The terrain of the performance is demarcated by props; flags, lights, mirrors and projections. MGM's rock band concept is transformed into a band of female cowboys not cowgirls, and the New Gree group is always on guard, ready for long stillnesses, quick getaways, telepathy and remonstrance. An aim, but not goal of New Gree, is to dance in complete unison with eyes closed, navigating safely through densities of people and space. Ulteriorly, the choreography works with shifting formations of energy and hyper-reality in relation to the mobile audience, building additive layers of past and future performances, past and future influences, and linking everyone and everything in the accumulative journey of now. 
The Mirror Theory of NLP Erin Olivia Weber was born in Chicago on April 26, 1973 to a teenage mother. Having her first San Francisco band Crack: we are rock, she was inspired to perform with such projects as: Shadow Glove. Lionheart Mirth, Taurus, Talent!, and Garbaj Kaetz. Her work is dealing with memory, fantasy, rock and roll and the language of performance. Since graduating from The California College of the Arts, SF, Erin has been performing under different pseudonyms such as Exprezzionz, Crystalbeamslightmachine, and Mirror Theory of NLP. She is currently working and living in Berlin where she is obsessed with long haired men. Her recent memories are listening to Mercyful Fate in the woods, floating down the Wisconsin River and living at Jumpin Jupiter Bait shop with fellow Garbaj Kaetz. |