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Drought Spa
Roco Córdova
Doors at 3:30pm
Suggested donation $15-20 Get tickets here
All ages welcome
Park at Mare Island Ferry Terminal.
Please wear a mask and bring proof of vaccination.
1024 Nimitz, Building 34 38.098466,-122.2694642
Vallejo, CA 94592
arc, an ongoing project by the filmmaker known as tooth (USA), has been a mainstay in the Bay Area experimental scene for many years. They run a free and open-to-the-public cinema (Black Hole Cinematheque), helped found a new lab (Black Hole Collective Film Lab) and a celluloid-only film festival (Light Field). They’re continuously shooting and making new work, often shown at packed venues at various in-the-know small experimental theatres across the bay. Favouring analogue-only screenings, their work is often performance-based expanded cinema and single screen 16mm films, where they run layered multiple 16mm projectors, and create a live accompanying score through various instruments and feedback. Their work encourages trance-like meditative engagement, that relies heavily on the sensation of light reflecting in a darkened room full of vibrating tones.
Drought Spa
DROUGHT SPA is the interdisciplinary experiment of artists alex cruse and Kevin CK Lo, who live and work on Chochenyo Ohlone land.
Since 2015 cruse and Lo have used varieties of generative visuals, stochastic synthesis, sensing-technologies, video, text, and movement to explore questions regarding statecraft and the built environment; the political economy of machinic/nonhuman sensing; and the weaponization of time-based media, among other topics.
DROUGHT SPA has performed and presented at Cloaca Projects, Brown University, San Francisco State University Poetry Center, UC Berkeley Center for New Media and Audio Technologies, Gray Area (San Francisco), CounterPulse (San Francisco), SOMArts (San Francisco), B4BEL4B Gallery (Oakland), Aeromoto (Mexico City), Audio Foundation (Auckland), the International Symposium of Electronic Art (Vancouver), and elsewhere.
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Roco Córdova is a vocalist, composer, producer and improviser based in the San Francisco Bay Area. They possess a B.Mus. in Composition from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music and an M.A. in Composition from Mills College in Oakland, California. They have studied under the guidance of Carlos Carrillo, Manuel Ceide, Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins and James Fei. As a singer they have trained under the instruction of conductor and countertenor Paul Flight and have participated in vocal advancement workshops with Meredith Monk.
Their music has been described as "slow-boiling, apparently timeless" with "an odd momentum of its own" (The Washington Post). Córdova's work fuses diverse influences with electronic media, chance operations, gradual processes, noise, improvisation, and timbral techniques of composition. Their performances and improvisations explore intersections with literature and visual arts and engage with issues of colonialism, gender, geopolitics and migration. Voice is at the core of their music making: they incorporate extended techniques like throat singing, overtone singing, falsetto, yodeling, vocal processing, and vocal clicks and pops into live improvised performances. Recently, they have been focused on exploring the intersection between their practice as vocalist-improviser with electronic dance musics and reggaetón.
As a touring vocalist and improviser with The Art Ensemble of Chicago, they have performed in venues including but not limited to: The Tennessee Theater in Knoxville, Tennessee; The Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois; SESC Pompéia in São Paulo, Brazil; The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.; and the Maison des Arts in Créteil, France. They're also an active member of the improvising bands Monopiece and Temoleh, with whom they have toured internationally and published recordings with. Roco has also collaborated with artists like Dirt and Copper, Theresa Wong, Timothy Russell, GeraldCaselDance, La Macacoa and Danistha Rivero.
Their research, interviews and concert reviews have been published in Revista Musiké, and in Boletín Música, Casa de Las Américas. A collection of Roco’s work can be found at: https://linktr.ee/rococordova.
Re:Sound is a series of experimental performances that explores relationships between forgotten spaces, sound and image abstraction, and the natural environment. The series now takes place in Building 34 in the Historic Core of the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Building 34 is a warehouse space beneath the craneways next to the old dry dock on the Napa River Waterfront.