FF (SHARKIFACE + AVA KOOHBOR) / KIMIA KOOCHAKZADEH-YAZDI / CHRIS EVERINGHAM

(ff) is a new duo formed by SHARKIFACE and AVA KOOHBOR. SHARKIFACE, aka Angela Edwards, is an Oakland-based performer blending synths, custom instruments, and voice to craft visceral, noise-influenced electronic works. San Francisco based poet, visual and sound artist AVA KOOHBOR works with sound as a tactile material. Her performances are sensory fields where vibration becomes texture, risk, breath, and presence in space.

Iranian composer and performer KIMIA KOOCHAKZADEH-YAZDI presents In Between Spaces, a live electronic set that moves through memories, spaces, and feelings. The piece lives in the coexistence of extremes and between shifting thresholds. Its sound world is built from synthesized and sampled Iranian instruments, field recordings, processed material from previous works, and transformed vocal sounds. It comes from sorrow, anger, and grief, but also from hope, love, and resilience. Sonically and narratively, the piece moves between edge and immersion, water and space, noise and delicacy, flow and rigidity.

Santa Cruz based composer, CHRIS EVERINGHAM presents Searching, a work that uses a just intonation sound space synthesized in MAX/MSP. The performer “searches” for JI harmonies within the sound space. Throughout Searching, the fundamental pitch of the harmonies slowly descends, creating new resonances with each change. In this piece Everingham seeks to combine his interests in just intonation with influences from the music of Morton Feldman, the drone-metal band Sunn O))), and controlled improvisation. Searchingis an evolving piece of music that changes with each new performance.