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We are very excited to release these new sounds in the next few weeks. !

Electricwest - ‘Detach’ - March 2010
Electricwest is Patrick Benolkin, a diverse and prolific producer from Boise, Idaho. With a tip to the sounds of Warp records and Ghostly International, Electricwest creates soulful and crystal-sharp experimental electronic gems. In 2006, Electricwest made some Overlap-related waves by winning a Creative Commons (CC) remix contest of Christopher Willits’ track “Colors Shifting” which was featured by Ghostly International and CC. Since then Benolkin has surfed an explosion of activity, releasing six albums via his Electricwest and Eluder monikers. “Detach” is Electicwest’s newest and most concise statement to date.

Tom Hall - “Past Present, Below” - April 2010
“Past Present, Below”  is the accumulation of 2 years of experimentation, bringing together a vast array of instrumentation (drums, guitar, piano, organ, virbraphone, chinese gongs and harmonia) and field recordings (Australia, Kyoto temples, German rivers, Tasmanian forests). Hall ties these varied sources together with a unique blend of studio practices ranging from Max / Ableton Live processing, analog effects pedals and a unique process of replaying and re-recording compositions back into environments in which they originated. This album is Tom Hall’s most developed and beautiful work to date, exclusive to Overlap.

“The most radical Arts Festival I have experienced in San Francisco in many years”. - Performance artist Guillermo Gomez Peña, commenting about POW!POW! 2009.

If you have a low tech body-based or time-based performance piece that is risky, outrageous, provoking and/or adventurous we are looking for YOU!…it just has to be pinche good!

POW!POW!POW!, the 3rd annual ACTION art festival in San Francisco is searching for fresh and original “cutting-edgy” action art works for 2010.

Are you willing to take more risks in your performances? Is there any performance/action art piece you always wanted to do, but couldn’t, because it didn’t fit into your funding organization’s agenda? Did you limit your artistic vision because you thought it might “offend” your PC grandmother or someone else? If so, your prayers have been answered! POW! POW! POW! 3rd annual ACTION art festival opens a free expression space for ANY kind of performance art!

About the festival:
The only festival of its type, POW! POW! POW! encourages and supports performance artists to do…whatever they want! Unlike other funded festivals, POW! POW! POW! is a grass roots open-ended festival run by artists and for artists themselves. Triple POW! believes in radical and FREE expression and experimentation with no particular aesthetic, moral, political or social limitations. Since we are not funded, there are “no strings attached.”

The co- founders/curators/directors/producers of the festival are:
gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo
Alyssa Lee (of group A)
Guest curator:
Guillermo Gomez Peña

In the spring of 2008 the first POW! mini-performance art festival was a huge success. We received press in the San Francisco Chronicle and numerous other local publications. In 2009 POW! POW! sold out every night (the audience tripled from 2008) and received press from local publications. The 2010 version promises to take the festival to a new level of national and international recognition.

Selected works will be performed at a well-known performance venue (TBA) in San Francisco, California during our 3rd Annual ACTION art festival on October14th-17th, 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/POWACTIONart
http://www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival

What we ARE looking for:
-Artists willing to speak up and talk back and who are not afraid to express themselves freely
-Low tech or no tech, original, out of the box, risky, outrageous, provoking, adventurous, creative action work based on action and the human body… your imagination is the limit. (The curatorial criteria is originality not “quality”!)

You may submit:
- Continuous installations (preferably interactive), no more than 4 hours in length
- 20 minute or less live performance pieces
- Video action art pieces

What POW!POW!POW! DOES NOT want to view:
Anything that looks like conventional theater, dance, choreography, music or media work. If this is what you make, there are already hundreds of venues and festivals you can submit your work to.

For questions please contact powsf@yahoo.com or visit www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival
For the full application visit http://www.groupadance.com/POW!.htm

To apply, follow 3 easy steps below!
1)    Online Application – found at http://www.groupadance.com/POW!.htm
2)    DVD or VHS sample – snail mail
3)    $20 Application fee – snail mail

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photo by officerfishdumplings. !

Our friend Ben Tinker is a show creating machine, and we love the sounds he features. The sheer volume of shows and diversity of sounds at these events is a huge testament to all of the great music (and awesome band names) happening in San Francisco right now.

The next show will see Common Eider King Eider, Raccoons, Das Blut, Hiss & Hum, and Marigold Crowns, throwing down some patient neo-class-noise.

March 18th, 2010 - Amnesia - 853 valencia @ 20th, SF

facebook event page : http://bit.ly/9FCQgG

If you have an event or event ideas that overlap with Overlap’s mission of supporting experimental media in San Francisco and beyond, send us the details at connect (at) overlap.org and let’s connect and collaborate !

This year Overlap will be sponsoring and promoting more events created by others. We want to help bring people together around new and expansive work with sound and light.

A new cymatics project / school where people can learn about and share experiments in visualizing sound through different materials.

The School of Cymatics has officially opened it’s doors with it’s first virtual classroom lesson “Cymatics 101″ going live today. The school already has 67 members and the doors are currently still open for free admission.

http://cymatica.com/2010/02/28/school-of-cymatics-officially-opens/

Overlap would love to point your eyes and ears to a very talented young artist, Miguel Sabogal. Miguel makes some very intriguing and beautiful film and audio work. He also curates events at The Hexagon, an awesome venue in Baltimore.

Here is a sample of his piece “CUBE”.

http://cubefilm.tumblr.com

We’re talking to Miguel about doing an exclusive piece for Overlap. Yes.

Very important work being done here. Come out and support the project and our friends at GAFFTA.

The Internet Archive is building an Internet library offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages. Much of this store of human knowledge is available for creative reuse. The Internet Archive Salon hosted by Gray Area Foundation For The Arts will discuss the resources available at the Internet Archive, how artists and creative people can access and contribute to the Archive, and our Open Library and BookServer projects.

http://www.gaffta.org/2010/02/24/internet-archive-salon-at-gray-area-foundation-for-the-arts/