Soundwave ((4)) Festival Kickoff Event: Resonance | Sausalito

Submitted by the Event Organizer

In this stunning Soundwave season opening event, Green Sound takes you beyond the city streets and into the wilderness for a sonic event like no other. Up in the hills of the Marin Headlands, amongst the gorgeous ocean and parklands, lies a structure steeped with history, Battery Townsley at Fort Cronkhite (http://www.nps.gov/goga/historyculture/battery-townsley.htm). Built in 1940 during WWII, this strongest and most secretive harbor fortification was a marvel in technology outfitted with battleship guns to defend the western shores against the Japanese navy. After the war, the outpost was a military testing site but by the 1980s, it was largely abandoned. National Park Service took authority and historians, contractors and Volunteers in Parks helped restore a historic site.

Green Sound retreats to the Battery for a special performance event in this metallic highly resonant structure. From war comes art as artists are commissioned to re-interpret the environment in the Battery’s gun well and hallway with sonic sculptures and music. Performances will be without electrical power and using only the extreme resonant spaces to amplify their sounds. Featuring musician Danny Paul Grody (acoustic guitar and various soundmakers (melodica, bells, bows, voice, tapes), Sound artist Gregg Kowalsky (tape recorders) and experimental duo Jacob Felix Heule (drums) & Kanoko Nishi (koto).

Soundwave is offering bus transport from The Lab Gallery in San Francisco’s Mission District to and from the Marin Headlands site to limit carbon emissions. The gallery will act as a bus station (box office, refreshments, merchandise sales, waiting area).

Bus Station/Box Office: The Lab, 2948 16th Street at Capp, San Francisco, CA

Station Times: 3pm-4:30p (tickets not available at performance site, only online and at station box office)

Note: This is an outdoor event. Please bring warm clothes and proper shoe attire. If you are not buspooling, please park in the Rodeo Beach Parking Area and arrive at least 30 minutes before performance time. There is a 20-minute mild uphill hike from the Rodeo Beach parking lot to the Battery. There is also a free Battery open house from 12pm-4pm. There will be no chair seating.

BUY TICKETS @ https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/107020

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.