3RD EAR Presents: Soft Landing (Ambient Overnighter)

Celebrate the solstice with a gently immersive, high fidelity, all-night audiovisual experience conducive to dreams and other nocturnal visions.

Featuring:

• Live music by the Soft Landing Ensemble (Hair and Space Museum, Forest Floor, Zekerias Musele Thompson, and Jonathan James Carr)
• Ambient DJ sets from Matt (CST), NFS (CST), and Matt Sussman (Chillits)
• Live sound sculpting by Leonard Blanche
• Visuals and lighting by 5k Candle

Doors at 8pm, music from 9pm until 8am.

The Soft Landing Ensemble conducts long-form, improvisatory sound rituals aimed at finding emergent shapes in silence. For this iteration, the ensemble includes Emily Pothast and David Golightly, who perform together as Hair and Space Museum (https://hairandspacemuseum.bandcamp.com/), sound artist Geoff Saba, who performs as Forest Floor (https://forestfloorpragmatism.bandcamp.com/), and Jonathan James Carr (https://jonathanjamescarr.bandcamp.com/) and Zekarias Musele Thompson (https://zekarias.co/).

Matt, co-founder of Cone Shape Top, has been spinning eclectic sets for over 20 years, from ambient to house and every zone in between. Never beholden to genre, they relish finding relationships between varied and often disparate sounds to create shifting and unexpected moods. https://coneshapetop.com/

NFS (Not For Sale) is a East Bay raised and based DJ that weaves together sonic worlds that invoke esoteric and mystic atmospheres often extracting on more offbeat offerings of (but not limited to) ambient, obscure club, post punk, noise and avant pop; often with a penchant for juxtaposing contrasting tempos and rhythms. She is co-founder of Oakland based underground cultural hub, Cone Shape Top and the club night, EGG! at Thee Stork Club. https://coneshapetop.com/

Matt Sussman (Chillits): Matt's love of psychedelic and left field music of all stripes had led him to DJ and program music at campouts and other underground gatherings across California and beyond. Previously, Matt was one third of the crew who put on Other Stranger, a semimonthly night of mutant electronics at The Stud (RIP). https://www.chillits.org/

Spatialized sound sculpted live by Leonard Blanche (Audium, Meyer Sound).

Lighting and visual experience by 5k Candle. https://5kcandle.com/

Poster by Benjamin Rodgers (https://instagram.com/opticalsoundexperience/).

This event is part of the Alembic's 3RD EAR series. 3RD EAR is a new series of music and sound events and discussions held at the Berkeley Alembic. Curated by Erik Davis and Sam Plattner, 3RD EAR will explore ambient soundscapes, field recordings, experimental electronica, sacred noise, cosmic drones, sonic manipulations, and Old World improvisations. Hearing is a thing that just happens, but listening is a practice: a way of exploring and meditating on sensation, mind, and the vibratory cosmos around us.

Host or Publisher The Berkeley Alembic Foundation