[E16] Compound Wonders

***TICKETS ON SALE NOW, LINKS BELOW***

"Most people think of the mind as being located in the head, but the mind doesn't really dwell in the brain, it travels the whole body on caravans of hormone and enzyme, busily making sense of the compound wonders we catalog as touch, taste, smell, hearing, and vision." — A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman

Beginning October 19th, DOG will host a series of four Saturday live music events focused on our collective relationship to sound, featuring performances from artists exploring acoustic folk, ambient soundscapes, and analog electronica.

Designed as a tuned environment to celebrate the diversity of sound as a medium, [E16] COMPOUND WONDERS celebrates local emerging artists and the power of making new connections through intersecting communities. Each session invites a multi-sensory, embodied experience, uncovering the liminal spaces where vibration becomes meaning.

In partnership with Studio Ahead ↗ and sound provided by Western Acoustics ↗, DOG will transform into an immersive environment that enhances every note, interaction, and shared experience.

***SCHEDULE & TICKETS*** Doors open at 7pm, performances start at 7:30pm

10/19 Kelly McFarling ↗ TICKETS: $17

10/26 Chris Kallmyer ↗ TICKETS: $17

11/2 Cheflee & James Wallace ↗ Curated in collaboration with Eternal Now ↗ TICKETS: $17

11/9 Chris Latina ↗ TICKETS: $17

***ABOUT THE ARTISTS***

KELLY MCFARLING ↗ Bolinas, CA Kelly McFarling grew up riding the prolific RnB radio stations and lady folk waves of Atlanta, GA in the early 90's. This incubation translated to a songwriter anchored in melody, metaphor and potent observation. McFarling began playing original songs in the Bay Area as an adult and quickly became known for her dynamic, witty, emotional gut-punch of a live show.

She spent the next decade touring and releasing music independently; earning a devoted following as a compelling, versatile indie-folk singer-songwriter. Garnering comparisons to Laura Marling, Bonnie Raitt, and Dottie West, McFarling’s voice anchors into the power of well-crafted songs, delivered with emotion.

DOG will be hosting Kelly for her first solo, acoustic performance.

CHRIS KALLMYER ↗ Petaluma, CA Chris Kallmyer is a musician who works in art and design. In 2021 he started Furniture Music, a studio that creates sounding home goods and research-based projects for active listeners, architectural applications, and to promote social well-being through sound.

His installations, performances, and publications has been presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, STUDIO TeatrGaleria in Warsaw, Fondation Richard in Paris, and the National Gallery of Singapore among other spaces in America and Europe.

A listening session with ambient spirituals, contemplative drones, sculptural wind chimes, and breezy field recordings pressed into vinyl. The performance will be articulated by new films by Ben Bloom. Bring your ears, lie on the floor, find your breath, lose your keys.

CHEFLEE ↗ Oakland, CA Imari "Cheflee" Mubarak is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and visual artist from Oakland, California. Over the last decade, he's been producing and releasing solo material, weaving together intricate, hazy psychedelia, heavy groove and surreal storytelling. His latest, the full-length odyssey Fescue June, dropped in March. A fixture of the Bay Area arts ecosystem, Cheflee's track record includes collaborations with artists like Toro y Moi, Saba, Salami Rose Joe Louis and more.

JAMES WALLACE Oakland, CA James Wallace is an East Coast transplant living in Oakland as a full time composer and producer. He’s involved in the neo-psychedelia and folk-rock band Skyway Man as well as the local live-scoring, ambient-experimental trio, Rewards Program. He composed the music for the cult HBO show “Joe Pera Talks With You” and has collaborated with several local musicians including Andy Cabic (Vetiver), Kelly McFarling, and Sam Doores (The Deslondes). His music and ideas combine left-field philosophies (aliens ideology / doomsday predictions) with moments of deep self-reflection carried along on a cosmic stream of progressive blues-rock, swamp boogie, and future folk.

CHRIS LATINA ↗ San Francisco, CA “God Memories” is a collection of new recordings and live musical patchwork by Bay Area producer Article C. Inspired by the universal language of trance, the work decomposes electronic rhythm styles alongside live acoustic modeling of flute and string synthesis using analog delay and filter processors. Uprooting the tropes of dance genres, the outcome crosses aesthetics like UK garage house with outsider freeform hardcore styles.

Article C formed as a refraction of Chris Latina’s audio research & sound design documentation, reworking experiments in spectral morphology and extractive synthesis into generative dance structures (often with modular hardware and custom software). The latest iteration of the project revisits its origins, primarily focused on playing studio-live chimeras of grooving ROMpler aberrations to form rave abstractions.

Over the past decade, Latina has presented his artwork, personal research and innovation through academic / industry contexts, music festivals, and museum installations.

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ABOUT DOG DOG is a dynamic project space exploring emergent cultural themes through an ongoing series of in-person events. An experimental, physical complement to its parent, Landscape, a brand strategy and design studio in San Francisco, CA, the events make tangible the studio’s commitment to nurturing our collective social fabric and supporting new ideas, technologies, and opportunities for cultural expression.

ABOUT LANDSCAPE ↗ Landscape is an integrated creative studio providing brand strategy, design systems, and campaign production to clients pursuing intentional, sustainable, and influential change across a range of sectors—science, technology, social, environmental, arts, and culture.

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