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Selections

Peacock Lounge, SF. One of the first live performances with a live audience after a return to gathering. Video Projections from Morenci Mines, AZ the largest copper mines in the states. The earth is shocked in regular intervals. 

Also a monsoon bloom in our homelands. The Wilcox Playa in the new year/ full  blooming beautiful and alive in monsoons. Reflections on welcoming, on many streams filling the land, on the playa, once used as a bombing range. Blooming at sunrise. Performance is mostly under a sheet, hand dyed with Cochineal. Our re- connection with our guitar presently sounding after a long period away. Many Returns.

"Drogonfly" 

Sonata

An excerpt. Our video creates a structure for live telematic improvisation from performers across continents.

Cássia Carrascoza Bomfim (flute, words, percussion, sound mixing) (Brazil), Amy Reed (voice, guitar, words, visuals) (California), Ximena Alarcon (voice, words, mixing) (UK), Jataveda Banerjee (voice, tanpura, words) (India), Biggi Vinkeloe (flute, words, percussion) (Sweden)

The pieces will be performed as virtual ensembles utilizing network arts technology including JackTrip audio and PGJTT audio/video mixers. In-person watch party for the NowNet Arts Virtual Venue presented through our Network Arts Studio Partnership with Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.

With the invitation from Karl Evangelista in 2022  we created a video from the burned area near our home. The American River Confluence. We created a video score and sound composition for live performance - solo guitar.

A time of deep isolation this composition and live performance was created for CRISAP's Unearthed festival 2022. The composition was from a winter and spring time of renewal in the American River Canyon. Reflecting on  Hill Nisenan language and lifeways and their word for water, Momoli. Working through a time of deep disconnection to performing and familiar collaborations and spaces of our performing arts community. 

Hakim Mirza is a wonderful poet from Sulaymaniah living in West Sweden. Biggi Vinkelo (Alto Saxophone) and I accompany him on guitar. April 10, 2023 



One of three video score collaborations honored to be commissioned by Leyya Tawil and Arab. amp during pandemic and huge wildfires afflicting our communities. This video is silent. Reflecting on the great loss and hardship on our communities and the continued strength we are conjuring to care for eachother. The pandemic of 1918 took away the matriarchs of our family.  Remembering our homelands and the tremendous loss during this time due to the abuse of land and people.