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WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES
A weekly new-music and experimental-sound series presented on Sunday evenings with sfSound.
Location: Dresher Ensemble Studio (2201 Poplar Street, Oakland, CA)
Tickets: $10-$25 sliding scale (cash & Venmo accepted at the door)

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BEN GOLDBERG + DILLON VADO + TIM BULKLEY
FILMS BY DAVID MICHALAK, STEVE MOBIA, ARTHUR GANSON

March 15 @ 7:15 pm - 9:30 pm

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Clarinetist BEN GOLDBERG joins DILLON VADO (vibraphone) and TIM BULKLEY (drums) in a set of trio improvisations. Sound knowledge and awareness from planet Neptone. The practice of remembering what you can’t forget. Come have a listen; you won’t believe your ears. Or else, you will believe your ears but there might be something else you don’t believe. Or maybe nothing at all.

 

EYE-FULL FILMS presents a set of experimental films by DAVID MICHALAK, STEVE MOBIA, and ARTHUR GANSON, including the premiere showing of Michalak’s Still Movin’.

PROGRAM

DAVID MICHALAKLife Is a Serious Business (1983, color, B+W, 8 min.)

George Kuchar in dual roles as Instructor and hopeless nebbish attempts to instruct himself out discouragement. The dialogue has been appropriated from a “How to Overcome
Discouragement” instructional record. Music by Dean Santomieri

ARTHUR GANSONMachines (various shorts 1978-2004, color, B+W, 6 min)

STEVE MOBIA – Nudge (2012, color, 8min.)

a pinball percussion piece that features the sounds of vintage pinball machines, scored by Steve and performed by members of the Composers Orchestra.

DAVID MICHALAKStill Movin’ (2025, color, 6 min)

Nature’s beautiful abstractions present themselves through a car window. World premiere! Soundtrack by Dr. Bob

DAVID MICHALAKThe Secret Opera (2025, color, B+W, 13 min.)

Grum, an opera singer played by Bob Marsh searches for the key to love & art attempting to perform in spite of aphonia, inner demons and a ghost that has been haunting and dooming
performances in the decaying Opera House. Soundtrack by Dr. Bob.

DAVID MICHALAKRegenbogen (1998, color, 4 min.)

an animated rainbow, soundtrack by Reel Change

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