A fun, free, and open to the public monthly get-together for rousing discussions, live demonstrations, impromptu jams, show-and-tells, and all things synth related.

This event is presented by the Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative

New York-based artist Nina Sobell presents GammaTime in collaboration with Ed Bear, a real-time participatory brainwave drawing performance. GammaTime aims to create a foundation for understanding and experiencing gamma brain waves as well as other brain waves through art and music. By engaging with the installation, participants will not only gain insights into their own brain wave activity and each others, but also experience the potential cognitive and emotional benefits of 40 Hz gamma stimulation. The project seeks to inspire, educate and provide a platform for creative exploration, ultimately contributing to the broader discourse on the intersection of art and neuroscience.

This event is free to attend with donations accepted. All ticket sales for this event will go towards The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund.

Cellist Tyler Borden and pianist Mari Kawamura present Morton Feldman’s concert-length work, Patterns in a Chromatic Field. Written in the last decade of his life, this work is a unique example of his late style, known for long durations and unpredictable repetition. In his maturity, we find Feldman exploring different ways that ambiguity catalyzes performer interpretation and invites contemplation on the nature of the listener’s perception. Microtonal shadings ring against the equal tempered piano, creating complex rhythmic constellations that drift slowly through the air. Introduction and opening remarks by Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz Amy Beal

habitus is a two-day investigation of new music technologies, creative coding, and field recording, rooted in careful and carefree investigation of gesture and the practice of de/composition. It is a collective gathering to explore new habits of programming and musical practice through experimentation, research, collaborative learning, and the exercise of daydreams.

This event is free to attend with donations accepted. All ticket sales for this event will go towards The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund.

In this 3 hr storytelling workshop using the Limbs installation as a catalyst. We will use improv, body movement, writing and imaging to recreate parallel realities and possibilities which went missing with each destroyed limb or lost life. In this act of giving life to the limbs through stories, in creating for them a memorial, we activate our own capacities of reimagining history and reality and complete the natural cycle of life and death.