Rova Saxophone Quartet returns to Kanbar Hall for another no-sounds-barred evening of improvisatory collaboration. Acclaimed Berlin-based multimedia artist/wunderkind Lillevan joins international music giants from the field of improvised music to perform Fissures, Futures, a set of pieces dedicated to the visionary genius that was Buckminster Fuller. Live music and digital animation will lock themselves into a continuous feedback loop – with the music influencing the real-time films’ creation and the film images inspiring the music. Not to be missed. Both shows will be recorded live for future DVD release.

When:
8PM, May 22-23, 2009

Where:
Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California St.
San Francisco, CA 94118

Who:
Rova Saxophone Quartet (Larry Ochs, Jon Raskin, Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams)
Lillevan
Charlotte Hug
Lisle Ellis
Joan Jeanrenaud
Thomas Lehn
Carla Kihlstedt
Kjell Nordeson

Ticket Info:
415.292.1233 or www.jccsf.org
$24 regular; $21 JCCSF members; $16 students

Online:
http://rova.org/rovate2009/

Image Credits:
Lillevan Pobjoy

ANDES SPROUTS SOCIETY (Andes, New York)
CALLING architects, artists, engineers to submit proposal
for sustainable studio/living units at ASsociety's meadow farmland.

ASsociety farm is looking for design submissions for 3 resident/studio
structures for its expanding artist in residency program. 3 free standing
structures will house resident artists as well as enhance existing farming
activities. ASsociety Resident artists will be engaged in developing media
art projects with crossover activities of emergent technologies and organic
farming.

This call out encourages collaboration between artists, architects
and engineers in order to demonstrate and promote unique, functional, and
inspiring approaches to sustainable design and post-crash housing
techniques.

ASsociety,a NYS not-for-profit entity, works toward the exchange of
knowledge and labor of urban gardening and field farming, the sustainability
of the land, the emergent media exploration, while engaging artists and the
international perspective on eco-bio issues.

For more information and submission
http://www.andessproutssociety.us
now |at| andessproutssociety.us

I hope that anyone interested in the Platonic solids will visit my website:

www.PlatonicSolids.info

I am a long-time follower of Fuller. I saw him speak in New York in the early eighties. Some of you may remember the educational product I created. It was a tensegrity model construction kit called FANTASTIX. They used to sell it in the BFI store among other places. I recently finished a computer-animated video about the Platonic solids. It is called Platonic Solid Rock. You can find it on YouTube. I created an informational website to go with the video. It has lots of great downloadable graphics like the spinning shapes in this posting. There are also lots of other educational and fun resources on the site. Check back from time to time for updates. I will soon be publishing a ninety-page book on the Platonic solids with beautiful color graphics. I hope you enjoy it!

Oscar Tuazon - Selected Works

http://www.standardoslo.no/v1/o.tuazon.swo.php

http://www.standardoslo.no/v1/o.tuazon.php

"In an initial phase these sculptural works would take forms of geodesic domes and draw on such typologies as indigenous building techniques, DIY architecture, as well as a more determined dedication to structural clarity, advocated by the engineer R. Buckminster Fuller. More recently the works have taken on the character of full-scale building prototypes, such as the work "1:1" at the center of the show. "