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Sights and Sounds of Central Market: Warfield Theater

August 2, 2011 in Historical, Music by admin | No comments

 

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Central Market was once the hub of big-screen entertainment celebrating seven theaters within two-blocks during the pre-television era. Today, these historic theaters, may be found in three states: abandoned, in the sex biz, or still going.

The Warfield on Market Streets is STILL going and regularly welcomes sold-out audiences. Built in 1922, the Warfield is one of the neighborhood’s few historic theaters still functioning as an entertainment venue and boasts performers such as Louis Armstrong, the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, and the Pixies.

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No Justice for Oscar Grant

November 11, 2009 in Music, Public Affairs by admin | No comments

 

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I’ve been eager to do something with Smith & Mighty‘s song “No Justice,” ever since I first heard it while Janaka Selekta lived with me in 2002. Freedom Archives’ 10th anniversary seemed like a perfect time to work it in to a project.

Freedom Archives has over 8,000 hours of audio and video tape of some of the progressive movement’s most important voices and actions. More importantly, they keep these voices alive for people to access today through an accessible archive, revealing documentaries, and innovative projects like the Vinyl Project, an album of progressive soundbites to be used by DJs, musicians, MCs, and activists.

To celebrate their tenth anniversary, they threw a party at 330 Ritch in San Francisco. One of the giveaways was a CD made up of the many songs musicians have created using the archives along with mixes interns have created as they developed their ProTools chops and their consciousness.

I remixed this song with clips on police brutality from the Vinyl Project along with Oscar Grant footage I found on YouTube.

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Labor Day Vignettes

September 1, 2006 in Music by Nonogirl | No comments

 

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Description: Latino USA did a call to their producers for sound snapshots of Latino laborers for their Labor Day show. In light of the immigration debate, they wanted to show the range of work that Latinos do. They attracted stories representing a graffiti artist/gallery owner, a housing lawyer, a business man, a teacher, a domestic worker, a filmmaker, and mine, on composer Guillermo Galindo.

I saw the crazy contraption he built with his Meet the Composer grant and I thought it would make for a fun, sound-rich
story. It just so happens that he was going to work to perform live at KFJC during their record swap. I wanted to show that although artists look like they’re having a lot of fun, they are also very hard workers and Guillermo helped bring that point home.

Broadcast History: Latino
USA on September 1, 2006

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La Plebe Tours Eastern Europe

June 30, 2006 in Music by admin | No comments

 

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Description: La Plebe is one of my favorite local bands. They’re one of my favorite bands, period! Their love for people and music is infectious and their fans actually DANCE at shows!

A little Myspace promo on their part led to me learning about several similarities between Eastern Europe and Mexico, surprisingly, including a relationship between Yugoslavia and Mexico back in the 1950s!

I created one version for Dailysonic while the band was still on tour; another for Latino USA after the band returned; and since Latino USA cut the Yu-Mex connection, I produced a “director’s cut” linked above, which will be licensed by KTUH through PRX.

I loved getting to know the band, learning more about Eastern Europe, and becoming intimate with their song lyrics!

Broadcast History :
NPR’s Latino USA
DailySonic: Music Spotlight
KTUH
Marfa Public Radio

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5 Song EP

January 1, 2002 in Arts, Music, Personal, Public Affairs by Nonogirl | No comments

 

Memorial near Ground Zero

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Description: I didn’t know how to respond after 9/11, but the community around me built on existing infrastructure to quickly support the soon to be scapegoated Muslim American community and demand a peaceful response to the 9/11 destruction.

I captured these responses including the dance community raising funds for South Asian victims of hate crimes, a peace vigil in Japantown’s Peace Plaza, and a Walk of Shame to the consulate of several Asian countries for buying into Bush’s war on terror.

Collaboration: Because of the controversial issues this piece raises about forms of patriotism, I really wanted to be able to share the work in a gathered community rather than in isolation through radio. Dhamaal‘s Janaka Atugoda helped me hook up with their video crew and Kyle Burrows/Skip Intro helped me create figurative moving images to accompany my audio.

We made a master track with color and movement, which Skip Intro then would use to mix in other video sources in a live “jam” for an improvised element to the screening.

Broadcast History :
KUSF’s Radio Segue
KPFA’s Morning Show
KPFA’s Apex Express
Post-Day of Remembrance screening
Visual Communication’s Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film and Video Festival 2002
Locus Arts’ Color of Patriotism 2002
Foundation of Independent Asian American Media’s Chicago Asian American Showcase 2003

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The Rambler

October 18, 2001 in Music by Nonogirl | No comments

 

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Description: Tina Gordon embodies rock’n'roll. In light of all the music venues being shut down in 2001, she wanted to build a mobile rock unit, the Rambler. And several people backed her idea, performing for fundraisers and volunteering to build out the van.

Broadcast History: KUSF’s Radio Seugue

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Soundtrack to a(n) (R)Evolution

September 5, 2001 in Music, Personal by Nonogirl | No comments

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Description: In preparation for a reading by zine writers put on by Kearny Street Workshop and Locus Arts, I created a personal audio piece based on my journal writing. Bob Hsiang helped me pull together images I could show in a timed slide show to accompany the piece, which was mixed with music. What resulted was a powerful piece exploring my identity and the similarities between the Asian American movement and punk rock.

After the reading, someone encouraged me to drop it all into some video editing and with Paul Jaffe‘s help, the video premiered at KSW’s APAture. It also links to my existing body of work online.

Broadcast History : Zine-licious (KSW and Locus)
Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture, 2001
UC Berkeley’s Women of Color Film Festival 2002
Bindlestiff’s PinoisePop 8, 2003

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Shots in the Dark

July 16, 2001 in Arts, Music by Nonogirl | No comments

 

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Description: This is a feature about a gallery show put together by a bunch of photographers on the sf_indie list. The show had six photographers with their photos of live music shows.

Broadcast History: KUSF’s Radio Segue

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Kimo’s Shutdown

April 26, 2001 in Music, Public Affairs by Nonogirl | No comments

 

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Description: The dotcom boom affected everyone and when neighbor complaints threatened to shut down music venue Kimo’s, Radio Segue asked me to cover it.

Broadcast History: KUSF’s Radio Segue

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Mates of State

December 5, 2000 in Music by Nonogirl | No comments

 

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Description: This is the piece where I turned lemons into lemonade. In trying to reach Mates of State’s label to do set up an interview, I wrote to the entire sf_indielist. Total faux pas. But in doing so, Josh Wilson from Radio Segue checked out the Samiam interview and asked if I wanted to join the team.

Collaborators: I think Jeanne Acceturo misses being on the radio. She’s friends with Mates of State and used to DJ, so I thought she’d be a great collaborator on this interview!

Broadcast History: KUSF’s Radio Segue

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