the SALTY SERIES

Join us for our take-over of Bread & Salt Gallery in Barrio Logan with concerts on the THIRD FRIDAY of every month. Grab a drink, make a new friend, and feast your eyes and ears on the most savory experimental music in town. Each concert is curated by a different local artist, pulling from our community’s incredible wealth of talent on both sides of the border. This season’s savory selections will include evenings dedicated to improvisation, sound art, electroacoustic music, voice and electronics, performance art, and works that combine live music and video.

All shows are at 7:30 pm (unless otherwise stated) @ Bread & Salt, and tickets are $15 General Admission or Pay-What-You-Can.

The SALTY SERIES is supported in part by Jaimi Lomas and Tom Haney and a grant from World Design Capital.

wave + energy,
Improvised works for video+sound curated by Joe Cantrell

SEPT 20TH 2024

Sound you can see - light you can feel!
WAVE + ENERGY is a concert of works that pair music and video to create an immersive sensorium where perceptions shift and boundaries blur. Curated by Joe Cantrell, this concert pairs some of our favorite improvising artists and musicians to create new works of sound that you can see and light that you can feel!

With performances by:
Joe Cantrell (sound) & Armando de la Torre (visuals)
Michell Lou (sound and visuals)
Michael Trigillio (sound and visuals)
Matty Terrones (sound) & Victor Castañeda (visuals)

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LA POCHA NOSTRA

OCT 18TH 2024

THE MEX FILES: A Divination Ritual
A new spoken-word duet & “live-action juke-box” by Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Balitrónica
with live music by Perry Vasquez

Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Balitrónica's current duet features excerpts from their most recent performance manuscripts and bank of ritual actions. Utilizing a casino roulette and several tarot decks, Balitronica utilizes various forms of oracular magic to select spoken word texts and props for Gómez-Peña’s live performance. The fate of the script and the performance are determined by methods of divination, chance, and direct contact with the spirits that be.

In this live performance project, the artists are unplugged, thinking out loud and articulating the challenges and possibilities of reinvention in the midst of multiple pandemics & the spiritual world crises. The performance includes new texts written during the past two years combined with “classics” from Gómez-Peña’s own living archives.

THE OUTSIDE IN

NOV 15TH 2024

Curated by Project [BLANK] Artistic Director Leslie Ann Leytham, THE OUTSIDE IN features composer/performers who utilize techniques that combine field recordings, electronics, and acoustic instruments from our extended Borderlands community from Enesnada to LA.

With performances by:
Mattie Barbier (Los Angeles)
Jennifer Belleville (Riverside)
Haydee Jimenez (Tijuana/Los Angeles)
Teresa Diaz de Cossio & Alvaro Diaz Rodriguez (Ensenada)

Fates, Boots and Bob: A Hijacked Hootenanny Holiday Hullabaloo

DEC 20TH 2024

Written and performed by mika Castañeda, Maria Antonia Eguiarte, beck haberstroh, and Victor Castañeda H.

Bob Cratchit is on his way home from work when a spaceship crash lands in his path. In this extraterrestrial twist on a holiday classic, an alien, a museum educator, an enormous piece of sacred toast and YOU help Bob navigate his existential workplace woes.

Installation performance by natalia merlano gomez

JAN 17TH 2025

Installation performance by Natalia Merlano Gomez featuring works for electronics and voice

During the concert, we will delve into the various dimensions of the human voice beyond just singing, encouraging a moment of contemplation about communication and expression. The event will also provide an opportunity to appreciate visual elements and synthesizers, taking the audience on an immersive journey.

The program will include pieces from creators with diverse musical backgrounds TBA.

Installation performance by Valerie Jackson

FEB 21ST 2025

Jackson will be creating an installation comprised of several projections onto screens and furniture/set dressing with performance by LA-based musician Jason O'Connor.

The audience is welcome to come and go as they please.

An evening of improvised music curated by Necking

MAR 21ST 2025

An evening of improvised music curated by Necking (Amy Cimini, viola, and Nick Lesley, drums). Artist lineup TBA.

SOLO performance by Teresa Diaz de Cossio

APR 18TH 2025

Installation performance by Teresa Diaz de Cossio, flutes, objects, and video

RITUALS FOR RELINQUISHING A BODY
by Esther Gamez Rubio

MAY 16TH 2025

Performed by Esther Gamez-Rubio, Wilfrido Terrazas, and Ivan Trujillo.

This is a ritual of separation.

The last moments of a person with the body they inhabited.

This is a funeral song you sing to yourself.

This is a ritual of gratitude and tenderness, of desperation and frustration.

This is a moment of realization that there is no true return to the earth.

This is a moment of love and horror.

PAST SALTY SERIES SHOWS

THE GOLDEN HOUR:  WORKS FOR THE MINI PARK

AUG 31 2024
6:30 – 7:30 PM → NORTH PARK MINI PARK

FREE season launch event!

The Golden Hour will feature a series of modular, collaborative works by Teresa Díaz de Cossio, Ilana Waniuk, Alvaro Diaz, and Joseph Bourdeau. Using an expansive repertoire of sounds, including toys, radios, live instruments, and electronics, as well as the public percussion installation at North Park Mini Park, the performers will present a series of vignettes as the sun goes down.

The show will last roughly an hour, and audience members are invited to move about, or come and go freely during the performance. Bring your own chairs, blankets, picnics, and join us as we melt into the sunset together!


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