8/9/10
The End of Soundwave on Pirate Cat Radio
Artistic Director Alan So talks about the end of Soundwave Festival ((4)): Green Sound and reminisces the past two-month festival on Tiny Antennas Have Large Receptors with DJ Words and DJ Rousch. Listen to Clip.
8/06/10
Soundwave Festival’s Illuminated Forest Sees Final Performances: SFWeekly Covers the End of the Exhibition/Performance Residency
“Video art. Interactive sound. Live performances. All in a high-tech “Illuminated Forest” that only truly comes alive when humans enter. (Yes, it knows when humans enter.) This is the Soundwave Festival’s Illuminated Forest exhibit — a so-called “multimedia exhibit and reactive performance space” at the Lab.” Read Full Article.
7/30/10
SF Artists Explore What ‘Green’ Sounds Like: Soundwave’s Illuminated Forest in Treehugger
“What does “green” sound like? Artists and musicians in San Francisco are attempting to answer that tricky question with a series of avant-sound performances and shows, including a month-long installation that allows visitors to explore an illuminated “forest” that changes with their presence, reflecting the impact people have on real ecosystems.” Read Full Article.
7/30/10
Cold Core: Soundwave’s Animosity Featuring Cheryl E. Leonard in SFWeekly
“Good sound artists don’t do things halfway. Cheryl Leonard was interested in the Antarctic, so she went to the Antarctic. She collected field recordings — of penguins, seals, birds, ice, storms. She made instruments — of penguin bones, limpet shells, ice, rocks.” Read Full Article.
7/23/10
Soundwave’s Imaginary Creatures Featuring Barn Owl is Flavorpill’s Editor’s Pick of the Week
“The duo spins out spooky electronic drone music on treated electric guitars. The Gothic jams are also inspired by Bay Area natural wonders like Muir Woods and the Presidio. Tonight at the Lab, Barn Owl uses their dark, atmospheric music to haunt the Illuminated Forest, a multimedia landscape created from projections, sound, lights, and shadows.” Read Full Article.
7/19/10
All Natural Technology: ArtSlant Reviews the Illuminated Forest
“The exhibition strongly makes the case that man’s relationship to the natural world has shifted so thoroughly that the intervention of interactive technologies seems not only logical but the necessary way in which to engage an audience. The star of the show, however, is not the machines themselves but their source material, which has been craftily reinvented into a rather fantastical landscape.” Read Full Article.
7/17/10
The Act of Illumination: Notes from the Artistic Director about the Illuminated Forest
Artistic Director Alan So takes a closer look into ME’DI.ATE’s exhibition and performance residency at The Lab. Read Full Article.
7/16/10
Jessica Wise on the Illuminated Forest
Academy of Art student, Jessica Wise, produces a wonderful video piece about the Illuminated Forest. View Here.
7/14/10
Shrouds Illuminated: San Francisco Bay Guardian Reviews the Illuminated Forest
“I walked in and these great swaths of white tulle were draped, floor to ceiling in front of the entryway and all around the exhibit hall, separating each small nook from the next cranny, and providing screenage for video projections of forest color and form.” Read Full Article.
7/07/10
A Special Message by Alyce Santoro
Texas-based artist Alyce Santoro explains her absence at Soundwave and presents a special presentation to Soundwave audience. Read Full Article.
7/5/10
Soundwave Fest on KUSF 90.3FM
Artistic Director Alan So and Technical Director Jorge Bachmann previews the Illuminated Forest on KUSF 90.3FM on Monday at 10:30am with DJ Jacob featuring tracks by Geraud Béc, Jim Haynes and Alyce Santoro. Listen to Clip.
7/4/10
Soundwave Fest on KALX 90.7FM
Artistic Director Alan So talks about the Soundwave Festival on KALX 90.7FM on Amazing Grace Sunday at 12p with DJ Helen featuring tracks by REDSHIFT, Barn Owl, Odessa Chen, Crooked Jades, Myrmyr, The Drift, Geraud Béc, Thomas Carnacki, Christopher Willits, and Cheryl E. Leonard. Listen to Clip.
6/21/10
A Look Inside Soundwave’s Rock the Bike at Sunday Streets Mission
Check out a great video by K9 Sound about our special bike-powered music stage event at Sunday Streets! View Here.
6/15/10
Soundwave’s Inflorescence Event Pick of the Week!
Inflorescence 2010 at Civic Center Plaza has gotten everyone buzzing! San Francisco Bay Guardian, Nitevibe, Flavorpill and SFStation agree it is one of their Editor’s Event Pick of the Week!
6/10/10
KQED Reviews Soundwave Festival’s Season Opening Event
“Strange noises echoed out of an abandoned WWII fortification hollowed into the hillside above Rodeo Beach. Gregg Kowalsky orchestrated elegant, almost hypnotic, loops that reverberated viscerally around the audience; Jacob Felix Heule and Kanoko Nishi stormed the tunnel with an incredibly cinematic improvisational duet; Fog billowed around Danny Paul Grody mixing and re-layering loops of feedback as swallows darted in and out of the battery circling the audience in such perfect sync with the music it was as if Grody had choreographed their movements.” Read Full Article
6/8/10
6/8/10
Sounding Good: Soundwave’s Unweathered Embers in SFWeekly
“Unweathered Embers takes place in St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, a 1895 Romanesque Revival building designed by architect Henry Geilfuss. The red-brick masterpiece structure has two towers, pointed arches, pier buttresses, a rose window, and a large, fine organ. Why are we telling you so much about it? Because for Unweathered Embers, part of the ambitiously Soundwave Festival ((4)) Green Sound, you should consider St. Mark’s not only part of the band, but its throat.” Read Full Article
6/07/10
Jeremiah Moore and Aaron Ximm of Bay Area Sound Ecology (BASE) talk about Phantom Power on KUSF 90.3FM
Bay Area Sound Ecology co-chairs interviewed about Phantom Power at Yerba Buena Gardens on KUSF 90.3FM Today Monday at 11am with DJ Jacob. Listen to Podcast (3rd Hour).
6/01/10
Spill It Over: Soundwave in the Bay Guardian
“…we may be entering a genre-free experiential zone. So why not step it up by immersing yourself in the two-month wonder of our very own experiential music festival, Soundwave? Trust, it’ll be amazeballs. There will be illuminated forests. There will be “extreme natural resonance” drones in abandoned bunkers. There will be live string duets inside famous sculptures.” Read Article.
5/28/10
Soundwave Fest on Pirate Cat Radio 87.9FM San Francisco
Artistic Director Alan So previews GREEN SOUND on Psionic Dehiscence with DJ Yuri G on Pirate Cat Radio 87.9FM San Francisco. Listen to Clip.
4/7/10
ME’DI.ATE Announces Soundwave ((4)) Festival Green Sound
Bay Area’s Most Innovative Festival Explores Environmental Performances and Works From June 6 to August 13 2010. View Press Release | View Festival Calendar