Outsound Presents DREAMBOUNDERS, Carson/Katz duo

Name: Outsound Presents DREAMBOUNDERS, Carson/Katz duo
Start: 2025-08-17T19:30:00-07:00
Location: Musicians Union Local

Schedule

Sun, 17 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Musicians Union Local | San Francisco, CA

Dreambounders is an ongoing collaboration between André Custodio and LX Rudis, presenting "phonographical" reports from fantastic locations; Charting surreal geographies through layered percussion, synthesis, and various other sound sources.
https://dreambounders.bandcamp.com/
Celebrate our first full-length digital release with us!
Reserve your spot NOW:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dreambounders-recording-release-performance-tickets-1533324868959
Admission $10-25 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds). All ages welcome.
The first 10 people through the door will receive a free digital download code [with paid admission].
LX Rudis: Electronics
LX Rudis, a former member of the San Francisco synthpunk band The Units and other art/punk groups, is best known for his work in video games and console development. He contributed to the creation of the Atari Lynx, Atari Jaguar, and LeapFrog’s Leapster device, and is credited on over 40 video games. He remains active in experimental and improvised music, both solo and in groups, and has collaborated with performance artist Winston Tong for over a decade, primarily in live performance of contemporary art songs.
André Custodio: Percussion | Electronics
André Custodio is a drummer, percussionist, and electronic music artist known for his blend of free-form improvisation, world rhythms, and ambient experimentalism. His past collaborations include work with LX Rudis, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Rent Romus, and Say Bok Gwai, contributing to a wide spectrum of experimental and improvisational music.
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Brett Carson (piano) and David Katz (voice) present a set of music exploring the use of text and graphic scores as a dynamic impetus and structuring mechanism for improvisation, juxtaposed with readings of their own idiosyncratic and surreal spoken word compositions.
Brett Carson is a composer, pianist, improviser, poet, and theater artist based in Berkeley, CA. His compositional work, which has been described as "fascinatingly intense" (Stephen Smoliar, SF Classical Voice), explores the juxtaposition of a plurality of musical approaches, spanning contemporary classical music, free improvisation, jazz, and progressive rock. This is combined with a penchant for the creation of imagined spaces and cosmologies, along with a deep engagement with language, expressed in the writing of his own libretti and an ongoing commitment to composing for the voice and the stage. As a pianist, he has performed internationally in the realms of free improvisation, contemporary classical music, and jazz, collaborating with a variety of musicians including Sidney Corbett, George Lewis, Lisa Mezzacappa, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, and William Winant.
David Israel Katz squeezes spiritual ascent out of total irreverence, bending spacetime with voice, movement, text and image. His Jewish art project, foreignfire, unleashes through scored performances, improvisations, installations, and recorded media the aesthetic heat potentized in heritage ritual formulations. A versatile singer, David appears in recordings by Brett Carson (Mysterious Descent) and Hauswasser (2) among others. His work appeared in such places as Tectonics (Tel Aviv), Musrara Mix (Jerusalem), and Studio Venezia (Venice Biennale). David studied Composition and Improvisation at Mills College; Ha’aretz described him as “an uber-performer,” and his art-ritual, THRESH, was praised by Jewish Currents as “an intense game you can lose yourself in.”