December 1st MAPP @ Red Poppy Art House

Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces, such as private garages, gardens, living rooms, studios, street corners, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.
 
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Adrian Arias is a visual poet from Peru, living and performing his art in the Bay Area since 1999. He has received much recognition in his different disciplines, including his work as a poet for which he obtained prizes that culminated in book publications. As a visual artist, Arias has participated in artist residences with museums, such as the de Young, and in international exhibitions, like the Biennial of Venice and the Ibero-American Biennial. His video-art pieces have been selected and won prizes in San Francisco and Berkeley.

Lewis Patzner is an Oakland-born cellist and composer who plays a variety of styles, including classical, jazz, rock, and pop. Known for his 11-year stint playing metal with Judgement Day, Lewis now plays with the Town Quartet, Cosa Nostra Strings, Trio Étrange, the Composer Arranger Performer Orchestra, and the Proteus Trio. Pianist Elektra Schmidt has been active in the San Francisco Bay area as soloist and as chamber musician for the past nine years. Originally from Athens, Greece, she has performed locally, as well as in the UK, Greece, and France. Lewis and Elektra have been collaborating for several years. Their program for the MAPP includes a selection of their favorite repertoire for cello and piano featuring compositions by Bach, Schumann, and Piazzolla.

Mauro ffortisimo grew up in Argentina, where his interest in art and music led him to study classical piano and visual arts. Emigrating to California in 1981 to further his artistic explorations, he took classes in printmaking, sculpture, and painting in numerous academies including San Mateo College, Art Institute, and Berkeley Extension. He is a founding member of 849 Folsom Music—a 13-member music and spoken-word performance troupe—as well as the Enso Art Collective and the Miles Davis Memorial Hall. ffortisimo has been investigating sounds with the deconstruction of pianos, becoming able to expand the 12-tone scale. He does not subscribe to the romantic notion of a solitary artist, a suffering individual, hidden in a state of despair, creating work that only few can appreciate; instead, he travels the world, looking to the mundane, the sacred and the original with the same eyes, and listening to the music of diverse cultures.

After a childhood spent with the children choir Maitrise de Radio France, SAN discovered traditional music and singing at the age of 17. She fell in love with Iranian singing, Portuguese fado, and Romanian and Bulgarian musical styles. In order to finish her master’s degree in ethnomusicology, she moved to Bulgaria to learn from singers such as Yanka Rupkina and Svetla Karadjova. After four years spent in Bulgaria and the Balkans, she returned to France in 2007 and built a career as a singer performing the repertoire of the Balkan region, singing in groups such as Trio Tzane, Electrik Gem, and Sebastien Giniaux Balkan Project. SAN continued to travel across the world—Morocco, India, Spain, Brazil, and Japan to name a few—and began to write her own music influenced by these cultural experiences. Since 2010, she has been involved in projects around global music and pluridisciplinarity, also working with dancers and visual artists. In Brazil, she discovered body percussion with Pedro Consorte (Stomp) and is fascinated by this new way of expressing herself. SAN’s first album, Don’t take my head, was released in 2013, and she is now preparing her second to be released this spring 2019.

Mark Deutsch’s work as a musician, inventor, theoretician, and philosopher of sound have put him in rare company. He is a visionary artist with a background in nonlinear mathematics, sacred systems, and cosmology, and has extensive experience in orchestral and world music ensembles, jazz combos, and solo sitar performance. While studying Indian classical music, Deutsch began delving deeper into the universal fundamentals of music and its underlying frequency structures. This, in turn, inspired him with the desire to develop a new musical instrument that could more audibly reproduce his findings. This work culminated in the creation of the bazantar, a remarkable instrument that weaves a mesmerizing soundscape of resonance and evokes all the power of Western classical music with the depth and nuance of Eastern traditions, for which he has been granted an international patent #5883318. His latest work, The Picasso Tunings, is a vast revolutionary soundscape of solo bazantar compositions. Maestro Deutsch has recently started teaching at the Yoga Society of San Francisco and the the Resonance Center in Los Angeles.

 
Time: 7:05pm event
Admission: Free

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