Sonic Oddities at SOMArts' Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party - Sat. April 27th - 10:10PM

Oddball Films Media • Apr 21, 2013

One night only, 8PM- 12AM, the group exhibition Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party blankets SOMArts in site-specific luminous art installations, live music and performances, and digital and cinematic projections by more than 50 artists.

Night Light includes a film projection performance by Stephen Parr/Oddball Films titled Sonic Oddities a cinematic and auditory collision of film shorts, clips, fragments and reprocessed sounds set to live improvisational electronics by Jakarta musician Iman Fattah. Drawn from Parr’s company, Oddball Films’ 16mm film archive of 50,000 works, this cinematic trek through the auditory oddities of film history features bizarre commercials, religious propaganda films, campy movie trailers and Italian spy films colliding with scenes and sounds of bush-devil dancers, audio test tones and European animation.

Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013, 8pm–12am, performances 9pm–12am, Sonic Oddities at 10:10pm

Venue: 934 Brannan St. (between 8th and 9th) San Francisco, CA 94103

Admission: $10 in advance, $12 at the door, cash bar; get tickets here

Click here for a complete list of the evening's events.