Soundwave Nightlife

Celebrate opening night of San Francisco's innovative three-month art and music festival, Soundwave, presented by MEDIATE and The Bold Italic.

  The night features a blend of art, science and sound around this year's festival theme: challenging audiences to question their perspectives on the present and our hopes and fears about the future.

  Futuristic space rock band Lumerians performs in the piazza, musician Matt Baldwin will play amongst the fish in the coral reef, and guitarist Danny Paul Grody will play the skies of the Aurora Borealis in a mini-planetarium, with DJ Tristes Tropiques and DJ Nihar spinning the night away with post punk and acid house tunes.

  Select Soundwave artists will present interactive demonstrations that explore future experiences of sound and technology, including Les Stuck's video dance sensors, The Cellar Ensemble's sound/light oracle instrument, Jay Kreimer's empathic facial responder and instruments, Drew Detweiler's Lumisketch, and Stephen Hurrel's live sounds of the moving Earth.

  Plus, Apocalypse Cakes author Shannon O'Malley will serve samples and read from her guide to doomsday desserts.