Climate Music Project

(USA)

CLIMATE

(2016)

Date(s) & Time(s): Sat May 3, 7:30pm
Duration: 90 mins (No Intermission)
Venue: Monkey Brains
Location: 933 Treat Ave. SF, CA 94110

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Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28
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Artist Information

Bass & Keyboards: Erik Ian Walker
Violin, Loopers: Michele Walther
Keyboards: Scott Brazieal
Live Sampling: Thomas Dimuzio

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CLIMATE
CLIMATE is an original composition by Erik Ian Walker, in collaboration with the Climate Music Project. It was created to help audiences understand how the planet's climate has changed in the last 200+ years, and what we might expect in the future. It was composed as music to be modulated by existing and predicted climate data (co2, temp, ocean acidification, energy balance), dramatically altering the sound as the timeline goes into the future. The accompanying video timeline and animated graphics illustrate this collision of music and climate data. The effect on the audience is sweeping and powerful.

Project History
Launched in 2016 and premiered in 2019, the Climate Music Project's mission is to generate conversations about the climate crisis and solutions, and to motivate action by audience members. The project's primary goals are to educate, inspire, and motivate diverse audiences to engage actively on climate change by creating and performing science-guided music and visual experiences to viscerally convey the urgency of taking action. CLIMATE was created from climate data that runs from the year 1800 to 2300 (a video showing this data accompanies the live performance). The project was created in collaboration with William Collins and Andy Jones, climate scientists at the UC Berkeley Climate Lab. Since its premiere, CLIMATE has traveled the globe in an effort to illustrate, in a very different way, the climate crises. Solutions to climate change exist; the challenge is to create the individual and collective will to take action.

Artist Biographies

Erik Ian Walker
Erik has been writing and recording music for theater, dance, and film in San Francisco since 1982. He has released 10 albums, the most recent of which is the Erik Ian Walker Quartet debut album. In 2021, Erik scored the soundtrack to "When We Were Bullies" by director Jay Rosenblatt, which was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary Short Subject category for 2022. He has scored numerous Rosenblatt films, most notably "The Smell of Burning Ants." In 2021-22, he also scored the award-winning epic podcast trilogy "Miss Experience White" by Milo Johnson and continues to run the recording and teaching studio, WackoWorld Music, in San Francisco. Erik was born in Portland, Oregon, and studied with Composers John Adams and Alden Jenks at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Michele Walther
Violinist Michèle Walther is a performer, composer, arranger, and educator from Switzerland and San Francisco. Michèle has performed in venues throughout Europe and North America with Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull, Gloria Estefan, Joe Lovano, Oscar Stagnaro (Paquito D’Rivera), John Cage, Basel Sinfonietta, Mark Feldman, LaMuseMent, and more. Recent performances include Resonance at SFJazz and Yoshi’s, and “A Living Tribute to Carla Bley” at SFJazz, where she was featured in “Birds of Paradise”. Ms. Walther earned her M.M. at the Conservatory of Music in Basel, Switzerland, and later graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, majoring in jazz violin performance.

Scott Brazieal
Scott has been composing and performing various genres of experimental music for over 45 years and featured on recordings with Cuneiform Records and Recommended Records. Scott has toured with his own rock group, Cartoon, and with the avant-rock band, 5uu's. He has released a solo album, "Songs from the Empire"" (2012) and written film scores for the DEA Pictures independent films, "The Cedars" (2014) and “Beat the Shift” (2021), which won the 2022 Santa Cruz Film Festival’s “Best Locally Produced Film” award. Scott is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying with John Adams, among others.

Thomas Dimuzio
Thomas Dimuzio is a San Francisco-based musician, composer, improviser, sound designer, mastering engineer, and music technologist whose work creates immersive sonic landscapes. Described by Peter Marsh of the BBC as having a “brilliant and rarely less than entertaining,” Dimuzio’s music transports listeners to otherworldly auditory realms. Dimuzio has collaborated with a diverse array of artists such as Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Matmos, Marcia Bassett, Negativland, 5uus, ISIS, and Voice of Eye, showcasing his versatility and collaborative spirit. His current Sculpting Electric series features real-time compositions using the legendary Buchla 200 series, also known as the Electronic Music Box.


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