Holly Herndon performing at August Hall with FOOZOOL + 8ULENTINA
Locally-based experimentalist Holly Herndon is touring in support of her new album PROTO, which was just released on May 10 via 4AD. The PROTO tour begins May 16, and comes to San Francisco's August Hall on May 20. Club Chai co-founders FOOZOOL and 8ULENTINA will support the San Francisco show with individual sets. PROTO is Holly Herndon's third full-length. Herdon recorded the project over the past couple years in collaboration with Mathew Dryhurst, their AI child named Spawn, and the PROTO Ensemble. Additional collaborators include Jenna Sutela, Jlin, Lily Anna Haynes, and Martie Syms. Herdon "operates at the nexus of [...]
Mixtape: Experimental Music from Bay Area Artists
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/Experimental_Mix_2015.mp3 Download: Mixtape: Experimental Music from Bay Area Artists (Podcast #369) We may focus most heavily on indie rock at The Bay Bridged, but we also aren't oblivious to the many talented local artists operating outside of standard rock and pop conventions. The Bay Area has long been home to talented experimental and avant-garde musicians who employ acoustic and electronic instruments in unique and impressive ways. We've collected music from twelve experimental local artists in this mixtape. That's not to say that there aren't some more conventional elements being played with here. As you'll hear in the mixtape's opener, local [...]
Noise Pop 2015: Check out all of our festival coverage!
Jessica Pratt at The Chapel (Photo Credit: Jon Ching) Got any plans for the weekend? If you're like us, you're still recovering from the week that was Noise Pop 2015, and you're not quite ready to wrap your brain another show-filled weekend. Well, if you'd rather stay in this weekend, wear your pajamas around the clock (don't forget Daylight Savings Time starts Saturday night), drink some herbal tea, and go on a Netflix binge, we don't blame you. But, at the very least, you can relive some of the best moments from Noise Pop with this wrap-up of all [...]
Noise Pop 2015: Holly Herndon monitors The Lab
For all involved, Holly Herndon’s prodigious set at The Lab on Sunday night for Noise Pop was an exercise in the limitations of sound, vision, social agitation, supervision, and dissociation. Crowded into the center of an unobtrusive and stale space, while the outside world incessantly buzzed towards the center of the Mission, unprepared attendees found themselves suddenly guided into an intimately surveilled microcosm, simultaneously embellished and probed by the beautifully discordant sound experiments that make up the oeuvre of the Bay Area artist. Situated into a triangular space partitioned by three large screens, Holly and her equipment took their place [...]
Editors' Picks: What We've Been Listening to This Week (Painted Palms, Holly Herndon, Pontiak, Blank Realm)
Editors' Picks is a feature collecting music that we’ve been enjoying recently. Anna: I've hit play a few times on Painted Palms' Forever, always enjoying and finding the whole record to be a great uplifter for weary afternoons. Most recently, however, the album came up once again in my Rdio feed, and as I listened through, the hooks of "Not Really There" really dug in, and I haven't been able to stop listening since. The song has an incredibly infectious spirit, an almost glimmer-y quality, as it pops and echoes and comes back again in its circular, easygoing melody. Forever [...]
Future|Perfect presents: NGUZUNGUZU & Holly Herndon at Public Works, 2/14/13
Future|Perfect will present two of California's most promising experimental electronic acts, NGUZUNGUZU and Holly Herndon, at Public Works on Valentine's Day. Marco de la Vega and Loric Sih will DJ the event, there will be a hosted vodka bar from 9–9:30pm. You can RSVP and purchase tickets via Facebook and Ticketfly, respectively. Herndon, who calls San Francisco home, turned heads last year with the release of her Movement LP. In an effort to push the boundaries of laptop music with an emphasis on experimenting with the human voice, her full length debut leaves a haunting and cerebral impression. Using her [...]