west oakland sound series
SUNDAY JULY 26 2026 7:15p
FF (Fuck Fascists) is the collaboration of
SHARKIFACE and
AVA KOOHBOR, who met at Mills College. They use electronics, noise, and spoken word to enact resistance and reject fascism and patriarchy. They make sound as protest, performance as refusal, and noise as a space for collective action. SHARKIFACE, aka Angela Edwards, is an Oakland-based performer blending synths, custom instruments, and voice to craft visceral, noise-influenced electronic works. San Francisco based poet, visual and sound artist AVA KOOHBOR works with sound as a tactile material. Her performances are sensory fields where vibration becomes texture, risk, breath, and presence in space.
Iranian composer and performer
KIMIA KOOCHAKZADEH-YAZDI presents
In Between Spaces, a live electronic set that moves through memories, spaces, and feelings. The piece lives in the coexistence of extremes and between shifting thresholds. Its sound world is built from synthesized and sampled Iranian instruments, field recordings, processed material from previous works, and transformed vocal sounds. It comes from sorrow, anger, and grief, but also from hope, love, and resilience. Sonically and narratively, the piece moves between edge and immersion, water and space, noise and delicacy, flow and rigidity.
Santa Cruz based composer,
CHRIS EVERINGHAM presents
Searching, a work that uses a just intonation sound space synthesized in MAX/MSP. The performer “searches” for JI harmonies within the sound space. Throughout
Searching, the fundamental pitch of the harmonies slowly descends, creating new resonances with each change. In this piece Everingham seeks to combine his interests in just intonation with influences from the music of Morton Feldman, the drone-metal band Sunn O))), and controlled improvisation.
Searching is an evolving piece of music that changes with each new performance.
