Sun 8/2 :: NW EXPERIMENTAL GUITAR ORCHESTRA / LORIN BENEDICT + CASEY TESSIER

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west oakland sound series  SUNDAY AUGUST 2 2026 7:15p NORTHWEST EXPERIMENTAL GUITAR ORCHESTRA LORIN BENEDICT + CASEY TESSIER THE NORTHWEST EXPERIMENTAL GUITAR ORCHESTRA is a Seattle-based ensemble of musicians from diverse performative backgrounds. They perform new works that explore alternative methods of scoring, conducting, and technology integration, favoring methods that avoid traditional Western music notation, making participation accessible to everyone, regardless of background, training, or education. They will perform a suite of three compositions inspired by particle physics. All movements are guided without a live conductor, each using a different form of audio or visual technological guidance.     LORIN BENEDICT is a California-based improvising vocalist (scat singer, essentially), who operates in the fields of jazz and jazz-adjacent music. He specializes in small group improvisations (solo, duo, trio), in which structured forms are addressed in a manifestly loose and playful way.   CASEY TESSIER is a professional tap dance artist and award-winning percussionist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has devoted her life to honoring, sharing, and advancing percussive dance as an instrumental medium for representation, communication, and inspiration.

UPCOMING Sun Aug 9 - Jean Carla Rodea w/ Bruckmann, L-Holm, Nishi /Aine Nakamura Sun Aug 16 - Nathan Clevenger / Fornax Linteum Sun Aug 23 - West Oakland Tape Music Festival Sun Aug 30 - Domi + Kaitlin McSweeney + K. Francis Messer / Ken Ueno + Matt Ingalls West Oakland Sound Series Dresher Ensemble Studio 2201 Poplar Street. Oakland ample parking! (perpendicular when past the trees on Poplar) Cash and Venmo accepted at door $20 (FREE for students/seniors/underemployed) late arrivals follow instructions on door to get buzzed in Advance tickets can be purchased at eventbrite.com presented by sfSound & New Performance Traditions https://sfsound.info