{"id":1939,"date":"2019-06-13T19:20:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2019-06-13T19:20:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:20:51","slug":"action-in-the-stacks-klooj-w-si-si-d-saturday-june-15-at-730-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/action-in-the-stacks-klooj-w-si-si-d-saturday-june-15-at-730-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Action in the Stacks! Klooj w\/ Si-si D Saturday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Action in the Stacks<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Klooj w\/ Si-si D<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Saturday, June 15, doors 7 p.m., performance begins at 7:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\nPrelinger Library<br \/>\n301 8th St, Suite 215<br \/>\nSan Francisco, CA 94103<br \/>\nprelingerlibrary.org<\/p>\n<p>Electronic duo Klooj and Si-si Dance &amp; Performance Art Project (Si-si D) present another episode in their allegorical composition series, <strong>Action in the Stacks<\/strong>\u2014collisions of sound, action, spoken word, and location&#8230; in places with books. This composition explores the tension between storytelling and improvisation through choreographed per\u00adformance and sonic events that vary depending on location. <em><strong>Drawing Out the Muse: Ce\u00adcilia is Wondering<\/strong><\/em> is inspired by the mysterious, open-ended pursuit of creative knowl\u00adedge as manifested by the Prelinger Library. soundcloud.com\/klooj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thom Blum<\/strong> has been composing electroacoustic music since 1972. His early teachers were James Tenney, Ingram Marshall, and Curtis Roads. Recent performances and in\u00adstallations include tabula rasa (reset) (2018) performed at the 2018 San Francisco Tape Music Festival, &#8220;Sound Portraits&#8221; (aural renderings of 18th C. Indian paintings), for the San Francisco Asian Art Museum (2015), the 2015 ISMIR Conference (concert) in M\u2021laga, Spain, the H\u00f6rlursfestival, in Solleftea, Sweden (2015), and the 2016 San Francisco Tape Music Festival. He is co-founder of the International Computer Music Association and a member of the six-person San Francisco Tape Music Collective www.thomblum.com soundcloud.com\/thom-blum<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charles Kremenak<\/strong> is a media artist who\u2019s been experimenting with sound and story\u00adtelling since the 1980\u2019s. His subject matter has included memory, synesthesia, surveillance, acoustic ecology, and the body as listening instrument. He first met Janet Silk in the early 90\u2019s through their performance art-work with Ian Pollock. Col\u00adlaboration with Thom Blum began in 2007, with the live performance cinema ensemble Epic[abridged]. Their work together over the years has involved use of noise, acousmatic sound, ambient drone, free-jazz, and post-digital elements. Their current sound project Klooj explores deeper relationships within site specific location and history. https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/charkrem @charkrem on Instagram<\/p>\n<p><strong>Janet Silk<\/strong> is the founder, Artistic Director, and Choreographer for Si-si Dance &amp; Per\u00adformance Art Project (Si-si D) which was launched in 2014. Si-si D is Silk&#8217;s conceptual framework for exploring the intersections between dance, performance, and experimen\u00adtal art. Si-si D&#8217;s performances have been inspired by somatic movement practices, Situationist theories of d\u00e9rive and psychogeography, street art, goth\/industrial\/black metal music and culture, and butoh dance, especially the work of Kazuo Ohno. In 2018, she began a collaboration with the electronic band Klooj on Action in the Stacks, an allegori\u00adcal composition to be performed in settings with books.<br \/>\nwww.facebook.com\/1sisi.D<\/p>\n<p>Pianoland.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Action in the Stacks Klooj w\/ Si-si D Saturday, June 15, doors 7 p.m., performance begins at 7:30 p.m. Prelinger Library 301 8th St, Suite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}