Shows

Archive of Selected Past Shows, for Upcoming see Home Page 

2022
3/21 Music From the Fault-line – Mills College Festival

2021
9/10 Saariselka @ The Chapel, Seattle with Golden Retriever
9/11 Saariselka @ The Old Church, Portland, with Golden Retriever
11/9 Saariselka @ Feels like Floating, LA

2020
Saariselka “The Ground Our Sky” Tour January 2020 w/Lea Bertucci
1/28 Brooklyn @ Public Records
1/29 Detroit @ Trinosophes
1/30 Chicago @ Hideout
1/31 Iowa City @ Trumpet Blossom
2/1 Minneapolis @ Drone Not Drones Festival
3/6 Recombinant Festival 2020 @ Gray Area Theater, San Francisco Saariselka with Fennesz & Lillevan, Byetone, and others
4/11 Saariselka @ Brickside Music Festival, Duke Coffeehouse

2019

10/24 Saariselka Record Release show w/Piano Rain and r beny @ Starline Social Club, Oakland, CA
11/8 Saariselka Stop ICE Benefit @ Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

2017

3/2 Ecstatic Music Band (John Krausbauer, Agnes Szelag & me) with Alto! | MurderMurder @ NightLight Oakland
4/22 Don Buchla Memorial Concerts @ Gray Area, SF
6/8 The Nature of Music, presentation and talk @ Berkeley, CA
9/22 Center for Contemporary Music 50th Anniversary Concerts @ Mills College, Oakland, 
9/23 Fall Hits with Wizard Apprentice, Lotus Disco, Cultural Odyssey, Idris Ackamoor @ Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco
10/9 Duo Jakobsons + Johnson with James Fei and Suzuki + Krausbauer @ Studio Grand, Oakland
11/2 NoisePop Presents MVJ with Hauschka @ Swedish American Music Hall, San Francisco

2016
“Star Core” Record Release Tour
8/2 KALX radio appearance 90.3 FM 9:30pm PST
8/13 “Star Core” AudioVisual Record Release Party @ The LAB, San Francisco with Phil Manley (TransAm) & Andy Puls, Maggi Payne
8/19 Seattle, Washington Co-Record Release Party with Medina/Smith and Chuck Johnson
8/20 Portland, Oregon @ Xhurch with Ant’lrd, Josh Medina, numbskull
9/1 Chicago, Illinois @ Moustache Cafe with Chuck Johnson, Spa Moans
9/2 Madison, Wisconsin @ Arts & Literature Laboratory with Chuck Johnson
9/3 Milwaukee, Wisconsin @ ACME Records with Chuck Johnson
10/6 Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool with Koen Holtcamp, Chuck Johnson
10/7 Philadelphia, PA @ Da Vinci Art Alliance with Chuck Johnson
10/8 Western Mass @ Bookmill with The Baird Sisters
10/14 Oakland @ Legionnaire with Naan Violence, For Now, EFFT
11/19-11/27 Europe – Now booking!
11/20 Paris, France @ Les Nautes
11/26 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Koncertkirken Sorte Firkant Musik Festival 
11/27 Berlin, Germany @ Spektrum
12/8 San Francisco @ Exploratorium Resonance Series
12/10 Los Angeles @ Non Plus Ultra

Gallery / Art Showings
Sept 9-11th “Recognition” will be screened at the Staunton International Film Festival
Sept 24-Oct 24 My photograph “Into Being” will be in Glendale, CA at the Brand 44 Works on Paper Annual National Juried Exhibition
Sept 24-Oct 4 My photograph “Into Being” will be on exhibit at Art Party, San Jose @ Santa Clara Co. Fair Grounds

SELECTED PAST SHOWS

2016

6/10 –6/ 26 “Recognition” (single channel audiovisual screening) at Warehouse 1-10 in New Mexico as part of the Current’s New Media New Mexico Trail Exhibition
6/10 Gray Area for the Arts, SF  (live audiovisual performance)
6/4  Echo Park Film Center, LA
4/13-5/11 Djerassi Artist Residency
4/4-4/7 “Into Being” (photograph) on exhibition at Allegany Arts Council National Photography Competition and Exhibition
3/28-5/13 “Into Being” (photograph) on exhibition at Indiana University East “Art & Science” National Juried Exhibition
1/28 Artist’s Television Access, SF

2015

12.6 – Live audiovisual performance at LAND & SEA w/Robert Crouch and Yann Novak
November 2015: Residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Wyoming
Summer Tour July 2015: Solo tour Milkwaukee, Chicago, Portland, and Debacle Festival, Seattle featuring Chuck Johnson on bass, and in Terrane
June 2015: World premiere  “The Threads Beneath” commissioned by International Orange Chorale of San Francisco ; voted Audience Favorite for their Spring Season
March 2015 “The End Of Light” Group Photography Exhibition, Madelife Gallery, Boulder, CO
1.31 LANDSCAPE VERSES collaboration with filmmaker Tooth at the LAB, SF

2014

8.22 Soundwave Bienniel premier of Macro Cymatic Studies live at SOMarts, SF
July-August Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency
7.12 Gravity Spells performance collaboration with filmmaker Mark Wilson @ Kala Arts, Berkeley as part of Gravity Spells Series
3.14 Mission Eye & Ear commissioned collaboration with Kirthi Nath filmmaker, ATA
2.14 Guest Artist/Composer @ Eastern Washington University, Spokane

2013
9.2013 Date Palms US & European Tour – including Incubate Festival, NE
6.29.13 Marielle V Jakobsons + Paul Clipson @ ATA, SF
6.14.13 Jackie O Motherfucker, Date Palms, Soft Shells, Lady Freemountain @ the Night Light, Oakland
4.13 Marielle V Jakobsons & Date Palms, Debacle Festival
3.13 Marielle V Jakobsons, Magma Festival

2012
6.30.12 Myrmyr @ King’s Park Pavillion, presented by SASSAS, LA
5.25.12 Marielle V Jakobsons, Evan Caminiti, KWJAZ @ Liminal Space, Oakland
4.27.12 Marielle V Jakobsons @ Activating the Medium Festival, SF
3.10.12 Date Palms, Barn Owl, Ensemble Economique w/films by Paul Clipson @ The LAB, SF
2.5.12  Date Palms @ Berkeley Art Museum

2011
10.21.11 Light Asylum, Le Big Vic, Quilts, Date Palms @ Mexican Summer CMJ Showcase, Brooklyn, NY
10.16.11 Rhys Chatham, Alan Licht, Forma, Date Palms, and more @ Neon Marshallow Festival, Brooklyn NY
10.11.11 Washed Out, Entrance Band, Date Palms presented by FolkYeah @ Fernwood Resort, Big Sur
10.8.11 Date Palms, Barn Owl, Danny Paul Grody @ Zen Center, San Francisco
9.24.11 Mountains, Simon Scott, Darwinsbitch @ Liminal Space, Oakland
9.10.11 Tribute to Max Mathews @ San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
8.7.11 Date Palms presented by Soundwave Festival @ Battery Townsley, Marin
7.24.11 Darwinsbitch @ Noise Pancakes, the LAB, SF
6.2.11  Tiny Owl, Myrmyr @ Luggage Store Gallery, SF
6.15.11  Fielded, Common Eider King Eider, Myrmyr @ Fingerling’s Grotto, Oakland
6.23.11 Bill Orcutt, Jozef Van Wissem, Derek Monypeny, Date Palms @ Hemlock Tavern, SF
6.24.11 Jozef Van Wissem, Derek Monypeny, Date Palms, Vestals @ Life Changing Ministries, Oakland
6.25.11 Jozef Van Wissem, Derek Moneypeny, Date Palms @ The Hub, Sacramento
2.20.11 Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Date Palms @ Great American Musical Hall, SF

2010
11.12.10 guest appearance with ARP @ Berkeley Art Museum
11.5.10 Date Palms | Expo 70 @ Heco’s, Oakland
10.15.10 Darwinsbitch | Lulacruza | Orquesta Jungla @ Club Cultural Matienzo Buenos Aires, Argentina
10.23.10 ‘Electric Cinema’ Myrmyr collaboration w/video artist Sue C curated by VOLUME @ ATA, SF
9.25.10 Paul Clipson Presents @ SF MOMA with live performances by Portraits, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma + screenings w/ Barn Owl & Gregg Kowalsky
9.4.10 Date Palms @ On Land Festival, Café du Nord
7.15.10 Myrmyr @ Mission Creek Festival w/Lau Nau
7.2.10 Myrmyr Resonance in the James Turrell Sculpture @ De Young Museum
6.12.10 Myrmyr’s “Unweathered Embers” Orchestra @ Green Sound Festival
5.22.10 Portraits @ Grace Cathedral w/Dan Higgs, Barn Owl, Danny Paul Grody
4.23.10 Alee Karim & the Science Fiction Record Release Show @ Amnesia, SF
3.27.10 Darwinsbitch @ 21 Grand Brutal SFX w/James Twig Harper
2.22.10 Myrmyr @ Songlines Series, Mills College

2009
12.10.09 solo collaboration with Paul Clipson w/ Oskar Fischinger, Dean Smith, Thorston Fleisch @ Meridian Gallery, SF
11.14.09 Myrmyr “Amber SEA” CD release party w/Higuma & Danny Paul Grody @ Fractal Mindgaze Hut, Oakland
11.1.09 Myrmyr @ Pyramid Atlatic Arts Center, Silver Springs, MD/Washington DC
10.27.09 Myrmyr | Christy & Emily | Kyle Bobby Dunn @ Monkeytown, Brooklyn
10.21.09 Myrmyr | Jozef van Wizzem | Robbie Lee & Che Chen @ Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont- kickoff show for Myrmyr East Coast Tour!
10.11.09 Nadja | Date Palms | Portraits @ Hemlock Tavern, SF
9.19.09 darwinsbitch @ Swedish American Hall, ON LAND Festival
8.09 ‘String TV’ Installation @ the LAB’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition, SF
07.15.09 Oth | Nim| Hora Flora | Darwinsbitch @ Mission Creek Festival, the LAB, SF
06.14.09 T/R | J Krausbauer |Darwinsbitch @ 5lowershop, SF
06.07.09 Animal Hospital| Darwinsbitch | Lineland | Harbour @ Li Po Lounge, SF
5.15.09 Darwinsbitch, Thomas Dimuzio, Laces, Holly Caust @ Argus Lounge, SF
5.3.09 Date Palms w/Eternal Tapestry, Oaxacan, @ 21 Grand
4.28.09 Date Palms w/Grouper, Chen Ste Maria, Dan Friel @ Fractal Mindgaze Hut
4.7.09 darwinsbitch @ Antje Oekselund, Berlin, Germany
3.27.09 darwinsbitch @ Salon Bruit, ACUD Berlin, Germany
3.7.09 darwinsbitch ‘ORE’ record release show w/Elm & More Animals of the Arctic [Odawas] @ the Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut
2.8.09 Date Palms w/Valet, Eternal Tapestry, Dragging an Ox through Water @ Valentines, Portland
2.7.09 darwinsbitch @ Little Mtn Studios, Vancouver, B.C.
2.5.09 darwinsbitch w/Pete Swanson, Gregg Kowalsky @ Pocket Sandwich, Portland
1.10.09 Date Palms w/Pocahaunted, Sun Araw, Inca Ore, Mangled Bohemians @ Fractal Mindgaze Hut, Oakland

2008
9.5.08 myrmyr @ San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
8.2.08 myrmyr @ Project Soundwave Move>Sound Festival
7.08 db @ Mission Creek Music Festival
5.08 db @ Olympia Experimental Music Festival
4.9.08 Zachary Watkin’s The Country Western Ensemble rocks @ Meridian Gallery
2.9.08 Mills College Dance & Music Alumni Showcase Concert

2007
12.07 darwinsbitch @ godwaffle noise pancakes, ART SF
11.07 db WEST COAST TOUR!!! November 16th Seattle, Nov 17th Olympia Nov 24 Echo Park/LA @ the Echo Curio
11.1.07 db + matt davignon, a double dose @ the Yosemite Sound Series Stockton, CA
10.17-10.19.07 Theatre of Yugen presents “A Chain Reaction” at the NOHspace in San Francisco, a play featuring noh-inspired dance with music/sound design by me. Special Guests to perform with me and the dancers after the play:: Thursday: Liz Albee Friday: Matt Davignon. Saturday: Gregg Kowalsky
10.10.07 Full Moon Ceremony as the ATA Film Festival Opening Party with Paul Clipson. The Full Moon Ceremony is the quartet of: Jefre Cantu & Tony Cross & Gregg Kowalsky & me.
09.26.07 1510 performance space: Phillip Grienlief (reeds) +MVJ (violin, electronics)
07.25.07 darwinsbitch Edgetone New Music Summit festival, San Francisco, CA
02.23.07 TrioMetrik SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Art

2006
05.23.06 myrmyr at the Stone, NY, NY with Normal [Fred Frith + Sudhu Tewari]
12.20.06 darwinsbitch curated by mvj featuring The PWFL POWER [aka Kazu Nomura]|| Vinnie and Minnie [aka Liz Allbee and George Cremaschi] || The Norman Conquest [featuring Alee Karim] & darwinsbitch
12.15.06 As Adjunct Professor — the SFSU Experimental Sound Art Class & Student Show
12.3.06 TrioMetrik Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival || Western Washington University
11.10.06 darwinsbitch Godwaffle Noise Pancakes, 110 Capp St, SF
10.21.06 darwinsbitch Palais Ideal Festival, Chico, CA || Gallery 1078
10.5.06 TrioMetrik Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco, 8 pm