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2024 "riprap, rebar, salt, & bone" Dance | MUsic event
Interdisciplinary music-dance performance at the Albany Bulb by "Meatclock" (Gemma Szusterman & John Colle Rogers);  JoAnn Selisker and Scott Duane

"More Than A FACE" PAnel Discussion

Our first 2024 event  was an off-site  panel discussion at  120710  featuring distinguished Bay Area artists and writers Sarah Cahill, Olivia Ting and Maria Porges. The panel  was the culminating event of "More Than a Face," an exhibition  curated by  Alternating Currents alum Randy Hussong,. The panel  was  co-sponsored by 120710.

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Active, thought-provoking exchanges with respondents Craig Nagasawa and D.L. Pughe,  following the formal remarks with brilliant  SRO audience participation  of 45 + people.

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2023 "Wind, Water, Birds," By "Gusty Winds May Exist"
Shakuhachi musician Nancy Beckman and Recorder and woodwinds musician Tom Bickley of "Gusty Winds May Exist" describe the performance: "WIND, WATER, BIRDS’ offers a respite both literal and figurative from the chances and changes we all encounter day to day.” 

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Sunday Afternoon @ YSA w/ The Roosevelt Middle School All Stars

Led by the inimitable Randy Porter, music director, composer, musician and educator – with guest artists-teachers  Dan Plonsey and Christopher Lowell Clarke – featuring  an eclectic range of contemporary tunes, jazz standards and original compositions in a convivial outdoor setting

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A collaboration of Youth Spirit Artworks, the Roosevelt Middle School Music Program  and Alternating Currents.
 

2022 "Sonic Dogness" a collaborative installation and performance event by artists Olivia Ting and Annette Jannotta debuted on July 17. 2022  Visit the project page, or artists' website and Eventbrite page for additional information.

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"IN C" our spring Equinox event (March 20, 2022) brought together over 50 musicians in a community performance of Terry Riley's seminal 1964 composition.  Over 100 people - and nearly that many dogs attended the dusk into twilight concert.

 

2021 "Second Valve slide - The Christopher Lowell Clarke Quartet"  a jazz performance  featured  Howard Wiley - Tenor sax, Michael Jones - bass, and  Greg German - drums and composer | band leader Christopher Lowell Clarke on trumpet.

"High Tide Bulb Chorale"  experimental jazz concert directed by Musician | Composer Randy Porter with colleagues Christopher Lowell Clarke, Ben Green and Dan Plonsey  that took place on Saturday. August 14 at the Amphitheater.  

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"HEAR | TOGETHER" our Mother's Day event was  a collaboration with New Music Bay Area, Contemporaneous, the Crowden Music Center and the Ross McKee Foundation The all-day event took place offsite at the Crowden School in Berkeley. 

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"Remnants & Rudiments" a performance featuring poet Maw Shein Win and musicians Dan Plonsey  and Thomas Scandura.  

2020 
 “11 11 Caution 20 20 Veterans Day”  an Intermedia project by musician Dan Plonsey & artist Randy Hussong.

“Spinet Farewell” Inaugural piano concert featuring pianist Sarah Cahill

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All Alternating Currents unless noted  are free. ​

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