Space Time Solutions
Tommy Guerrero is an artist whose heavy engagement with his hometown of San Francisco has resulted in more than a dozen LPs of warm, unforgettable, human music. Guerrero’s openness and inquisitiveness leads his music, threading in the rhythms and melodies of countless genres. Each album echoes the experience of a twilight ramble through the city: the celebrations, enthusiasms, and laments drifting out of open windows and directly into your heart. Guerrero’s many collaborations reflect his commitment to the restless, creative community articulated in Bay Area Then, perhaps most clearly visible on the records themselves. His LP A Little Bit of Somethin’, released in 2000, features cover art by Margaret Kilgallen. His LP From the Soil to the Soul, released in 2006, features cover art by Barry McGee. His LP Perpetual, released in 2015, features cover art by Chris Johanson.
Space Time Solutions are Mike Morasky and Kal Spelletich. Space Time Solutions perform scored compositions mixing in improvisation of ambient sounds and Noise using custom made sound machines triggering composed movements.
The combo plays like prophets in chrome — robots swooning beauty from glitch and grit, conjuring symphonic industrial storms. The San Francisco landscape is their score, streets and waterways manifest beats and washes, every tremor and transmission a hymn to the future.
Mike Morasky was a founding member of Steel Pole Bath Tub, the noisy, lurching punk band that worked out of San Francisco from 1988 – 2002. As a soundtrack composer, Morasky has won multiple awards for his work on the video games Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead.
Kal Spelletich is an artist and pioneer of San Francisco’s machine art scene. As the founder of the machine art collective Seemen, Spelletich created some of the most notorious interactive performance installations seen in the early years of the Burning Man festival.
Galleries will be open from 5–9pm. Performance begins at 7pm in the YBCA Forum.
This event is part of the programming for the exhibition Bay Area Then. Music programming is conceived by Chris Johanson and Ethan Swan.