The First Light Sessions #2

In conjunction with Fort Mason Art’s current exhibition, Anthony McCall: First Light, musicians (guitar), (musical saw/multi-instrumentalist), and (percussion) will perform live in the gallery, improvising in response to the solid light works on view. As visitors move through the space, touching and interacting with the cones of projected light, they immerse themselves in these cinematic sculptures and the live music, journeying through and creating their own perspectives of sight and sound. The program is modeled on Four Simultaneous Soloists, a music series organized by David Grubbs for a previous McCall exhibition.

Travis Andrews (Guitar) is the co-founder, executive director, and electric guitarist in The Living Earth Show. In his work, he strives to use the tools of classical and contemporary music to foreground the voices and perspectives often marginalized by the tradition and its presentation. Highly in demand as a solo artist, Andrews has been a featured soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Eco Ensemble, and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. He has performed with John Doe of X, Bryce Dessner of The National, Terry Riley, & Kronos Quartet. A musical omnivore, Andrews also performs with avant-thrash trio Freighter, chambercore band miRthkon, and queer nü metal band COMMANDO.

David Coulter (Musical Saw/Multi-Instrumentalist) is an English-born multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, director, and educator based in Oakland, California. Since the 1980s, he has performed, directed shows, produced records, and played his musical saw and other assorted weird and less-weird instruments in studios, theatres, and on stages and recordings around the world with the likes of The Pogues, Tom Waits, Robert Wilson, Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, Marianne Faithfull, Yoko Ono, Hal Willner, and Damon Albarn and Gorillaz.

Andy Meyerson (Percussion) is a drummer and percussionist based in San Francisco. He is the Artistic Director, co-founder, and percussionist of The Living Earth Show, one of the premiere experimental classical ensembles in the United States. He is also the drummer and co-founder of queer nü metal collective COMMANDO, music director of renegade dance company Post:ballet, drummer for Russian feminist protest and performance art group Pussy Riot, the artistic director and CEO of uncompromising experimental chamber music record label Earthy Records, and a renowned solo artist. Most recently he guest curated San Francisco Performances’ annual PIVOT Festival, three programs surveying the networks, interconnections, and impacts of new music.

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