CONCERT: Modular Sound Bath
Take some time and space to stay centered amidst the rush of the holiday season! This soothing sound experience will leave you feeling relaxed, restored, and ready to celebrate the end of the year!
Join Modular Sound Bath + Terry de Castro for a dynamic ambient set using crystal bowls, modular synth, and electric guitar.
Modular Sound Bath is a duo interested in raising vibrations via direct tonal healing. Their sound baths stimulate the 7 chakras, bringing participants into a more balanced and aware state of being. The steadiness of their crystal singing bowls pairs beautifully with the varied arrangements available with Modular Synthesis, sometimes melding the frequencies seamlessly, and sometimes adding some texture to the relaxing hum of the bowls. This approach to sound gives participants an opportunity to travel, to take a journey through their minds.
The responses vary greatly:
- “It felt like I was traveling through space.”
- “I was flooded with memories from childhood.”
- “It felt like an acid trip, but safe.”
- “This is the first time I’ve been able to truly meditate.”
https://modularsoundbath.bandcamp.com/
Terry de Castro is a Los Angeles yoga teacher and recording artist. She was a longtime member of UK indie band The Wedding present, and she has several solo recording projects. She teaches restorative yoga accompanied by ambient guitar.
https://www.scopitones.co.uk/terrydecastro
CONCERT: Sound Artist Will Thomas
Composer/producer Will Thomas creates ambient textures and minimalist rhythms with modular synth and homemade instruments.
PERFORMANCE: MOTHER NATURE with BHAMA ROGET
Planet Earth needs a pep talk, and who better to do it than the Mother of All Mothers? At a time when the problems of humanity might seem unsolvable, she’s hoping that we might learn from her mistakes and show us that just because we may have ruined everything doesn’t mean that we aren’t winners!
In this genre-defying original rock-comedy, Seattle writer and award-winning comedian Bhama Roget brings Mother Nature alive in all her brutally charming glory. You’ve never seen a hot mess quite like this before.
This is a New Work Presentation on it’s way to a 20-show run at the Edinburgh Fringe.
CONCERT: Early Music with Argenta Walther
Argenta Walther, mezzo-soprano, is a dedicated singer of music from the sacred medieval to the modern experimental, living and working in Los Angeles. She performs on a regular basis at some of the city’s best-loved venues, including the blue whale, REDCAT, Automata, Saint John’s Cathedral and the Museum of Jurassic Technology.
Argenta is a frequent guest artist with both new, jazz, traditional classical and early music groups including Bach Collegium San Diego, People Inside Electronics, The Alexander Noice Sextet and Southland Ensemble. She is a founder of the contemporary vocal group Accordant Commons, and is one of the directing members of Ensemble Vocatrix, a group dedicated to the music of Hildegard von Bingen.
CONCERT: Terry de Castro & Friends
An evening of music and camaraderie with our own Craft in America House Band member Terry de Castro (of The Wedding Present) will be joined by guitarist Chris Silagyi (of 20/20) UK singer Sally Dahl and banjo player Joan Mace. Come enjoy a collection of old traditionals, eclectic cover versions, and original songs.
Free and open to the public.
An Evening of Listening
Join us for an evening of experimental and experiential pieces by sound artists, The Wind (Fil Corbitt) and Pattern (Theo Rasmussen).
The Wind: A few years ago, radiomaker Fil Corbitt found a handsaw in the mountains and built a small desk out in the woods. High in the Sierra Nevada, flanked by an aspen grove and a lodgepole pine stand, Fil makes a podcast called The Wind, a critically acclaimed show that investigates our relationship to place through sound. The Wind has aired internationally on 99% Invisible, Snap Judgement, + BBC’s Shortcuts, and has featured interviews with John Luther Adams, buZ blurr, Jessica Bruder (Nomadland), Gary Farmer and Joe Lally (Fugazi), among many others. After a tour in 2023, which included performances in Boise, Vancouver, The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Glasgow and a sold-out show in New York City, Fil returns to Los Angeles to perform a long-form piece at Craft in America.
Pattern: using granular & toroidal wavetable synthesis as well as field recordings through a modular synthesizer, Theo reveals atmospheric landscapes, distortions, healing drones and punctuations in time.
Watch an intro to acclaimed podcast by The Wind here.
CONCERT: Modular Sound Bath with SONA
Modular Sound Bath creates a meditative soundscape using modular synthesis and crystal singing bowls. They will be performing with SONA, a duo of guitar and Tibetan singing bowls.
Concert: Squash & Biscuit
Shuwen Zhao and Brian Griffith create musical atmospheres for moving images. Their experience with traditional musical structures informs their approach and experimentation with sounds. Zhao, a pianist, has an ear for detail creating lush soundscapes and intricate melodic lines. Griffith, a bassist, builds deep currents of sound and delicate tonal whispers. Together, they compliment each other’s styles, able to build a piece that is expertly crafted and surprising.
CONCERT: Early Music for Voice and Lute
Vocalist Argenta Walther will perform medieval and Renaissance pieces with Stuart Wheeler and Alejandro Acosta.
Argenta Walther is a singer of music from the sacred medieval to the modern experimental. She is a founder of the contemporary vocal group Accordant Commons, and is one of the directing members of Ensemble Vocatrix, a group dedicated to the music of Hildegard von Bingen. In her free time, Argenta likes to explore somatic movement and stand-up comedy.
Stuart Wheeler is a singer, composer and poet living in Los Angeles. He was an early member of Utah’s Deseret Experimental Opera collective and a co-curator of the Avant GaRawge concert series. He is one of only a handful of singers to have completed a full solo performance of John Cage’s Empty Words. He holds an MA in experimental music composition and performance from Wesleyan University.
Alejandro Acosta is guitarist and lutenist who specializes in the performance of Renaissance and Baroque instruments of the lute family. As a lutenist Alejandro had participated with several early music ensembles in Mexico and in Germany. Nowadays Alejandro is pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he is member of the Baroque Sinfonia.
CONCERT: Joe Cunningham, “Current Events”
Joe Cunningham, quilt artist, got his beginnings as an artist playing guitar professionally in and around his home in Flint, Michigan. In these songs he revisits Flint, as well as his new homeland, San Francisco. His songs, like his quilts, address a wide range of subjects and emotions, a whole landscape of themes.