Return the Gift Sound Series with Merlin Coleman and Ava Koohbor

Name: Return the Gift Sound Series with Merlin Coleman and Ava Koohbor
Start: 2025-08-28T19:30:00-07:00
Location: TAC: Temescal Art Center

Schedule

Thu, 28 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

TAC: Temescal Art Center | Oakland, CA

My new new August Return the Gift curated series at Temescal Arts Center concludes with two great sound artists. August 28 features Merlin Coleman and Ava Koohbor.
Doors 7:30 / Show at 8:00. Entry by donation which goes to the artists.

Merlin Coleman:
Merlin Coleman is a multimedia artist making work ranging from a Gargling Chorus to a layered piece about a local quarry’s environmental degradation. Coleman holds an MFA in Composition from California Institute of the Arts. Her works intermingle field recordings, sound poetry,
performance art, movement, film, and audience participation with melting pianos, unraveled stories, and harmony-filled songs often presented in multichannel sound systems. She has been awarded residencies at Chalk Hill, Engine 27, Millet Farm, Ragdale, Audium S.F. and BANFF, has produced two full length recordings, and appears on multiple compilations.
http://www.merlinman.com

Ava Koohbor:
Ava Koohbor is an experimental sound artist and instrument builder. Through an undetermined process she transforms the acoustical properties of everyday’s objects to create an immersive experience of sound in space.
Her latest works have been performed at Night of Ideas, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Re:Sound, Audium, APICC Festival and more.
https://avakoohborarts.com/