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Spectral Tides


Saturday, December 13
Admission:
$8, $10 minimum
Showtime:
7:30pm
reservations are recommended


Spectral Tides: Joshua Churchill + Paul Clipson, w/ Sannhet

San Francisco based sound artist Joshua Churchill and filmmaker Paul Clipson create hallucinatory collisions of sound, light, and image with Super 8 film and looped and processed guitar and percussives. Their continually evolving collaboration exploits the element of chance as each artist presents densely layered and textured abstract collages within their respective mediums without premeditations on their coalescence. 

Joshua Churchill plays in a number of other experimental music projects in the Bay Area, ranging from ambient/drone to doom metal to noise, and is also an actively exhibiting artist who works primarily in sound and light installation and photography. Paul Clipson collaborates with sound artists and groups in live performances, artworks and installations, exploring aspects of memory, dreams and moments of the everyday, with densely layered, in-camera edited studies of figurative and abstract environments vast and small, bringing to light subconscious preoccupations and allowing for un-thought, unexpected elements to reveal themselves.

Sannhet are a two piece project based out of Brooklyn and Philadelphia.  Members Christopher Todd and John Refano combine elements of electronics, noise, driving avant rock, ambient textures and field recordings to create a sound ranging from uplifting to bleak, delicate to oppressive.  Full live drum kit and electric guitar/bass w/ laptop, samplers, loopers and other devices build up dense walls of sound and break them down.