HUMANEAR
- San Francisco
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News
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Human Ear's in San Francisco!
A new career in a new town...
We've relocated to the north, with a renewed sense of mission and play.
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New Comps Series
An ongoing compilation series presents fresh views on our work.
Free download or order handmade CD's, starting in August.
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Be An Intern
Human Ear seeks savvy interns!
Play a unique, creative role and interact directly with us and the artists.
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Mailing List
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Projects
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Dog Star Archive
A remarkable, annual festival of new and rare experimental music.
Curated by Michael Pisaro and archived by Human Ear.
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Human Genius
Human Genius is a free open recording session hosted by Human Ear.
Great jams with total strangers.
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Comps
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Enclosed (New Experimental Music)
Enclosed (New Experimental Music)
Selections from one of America's premiere experimental music festivals.
Michael Pisaro, Christian Wolff, Mark So, Julia Holter and more.
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Here Is Tonight (Homemade Pop)
Here Is Tonight (Homemade Pop)
Hot studio pop made at home.
Julia Holter, Nite Jewel, Stellar OM Source, Black Powder and more.
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Records
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Michael Pisaro: Tombstones
In June 2010, we hosted acclaimed composer Michael Pisaro and a band of 10 for a series of unprecedented studio recordings.
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Concerts
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Jeff Phelps @ SFAI
This Fall, Human Ear welcomes independent soul legend Jeff Phelps to San Francisco.
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Linda Perhacs @ SFAI
This Fall, Human Ear welcomes major American songwriter Linda Perhacs to San Francisco.
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Writing
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Mark So: Into Silence
Prolific text-score composer Mark So inaugurates our writing series with a sweeping anti-review of the experimental tradition.
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Artists
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Ariel Pink
His serendipitous home studio techniques have become symbolic to a generation of young people who consider themselves the alternative to alternative.
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Black Powder
Black Powder, a founding member of Human Ear, makes healing dark mystery music with drum machines, drones and frineds.
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Bubonic Plague
Long before synth-pop revivalism became the norm — complete with straight-faced goth-isms, Micro-Korgs and automated rhythm sections — Bubonic Plague were doing it all with a not-so-straight face.
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Garbaj Kaetz
Veteran performers in LA, San Francisco, Berlin and Amsterdam, they turn their wisdom into gleefully executed, precisely calibrated glam rock.
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Gary Wilson
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Geneva Jacuzzi
She creates painstaking layers of synth and rhythm counterpoint, breathing life into forgotten dance tropes from the 1980's and 1990's.
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Indian Jewelry
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Janet Kim
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Jason Grier
Referred to by Human Ear people as the "connector," his curatorial efforts seek to define the intersection of ever-increasing directions in contemporary art music.
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Jeff Phelps
Jeff Phelps is loved by musicians and music lovers for his idiosyncratic sense of orchestration, plaintive lyricism and line.
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John Webster Johns
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Julia Holter
Her thematically rich, delicately orchestrated music deals with memory, process and divinity unpretentiously.
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Linda Perhacs
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Makeing Tents
Makeing Tents describes a communal banding together to create temporary, ramshackle (intentionally mis-spelled) soul-shelters.
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Maria Minerva
She creates drenched, quizzical popscapes that suspend time, while defying the dreary self-importance associated with fuzzed-out modal pop.
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Mark So
His works uphold, through every conceivable strategy, the delicate boundary between restriction, chance, aesthetic beauty and imperceptibility, often demanding great attention through changing experiences of silence.
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Michael Pisaro
His music is often described as having a transformative effect on awareness of time and auditory perception, in addition to a surface of intense beauty.
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Michael Stasis
His washed-out tape fades rub up against industrial punches, evoking nightmare soundtracks with a pop sensibility.
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Nite Jewel
Linear editing, one-chance and chance-based composing, and painstaking adjustments characterize her recent work in the analog studio environment.
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Raw Geronimo
Gushing, 1000-watt-sweet pop tunes with just-balanced construction and countryside histrionics like a young Maria Tanase or Peggy Lee.
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Ry Rocklen
Ry Rocklen is a sculptor whose music is a dreamlike merger of indie, hip hop and chill electro.
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Stellar OM Source
Her music sheds light on an ecstatic plane of experience that (still) lies beyond the worldly experience of genre-play.
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The Samps
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Vibe Central
Vibe Central's charged literary sensibility and brutalist aesthetics virtually defined the protean community that gave rise to Human Ear.
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Weave
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William Basinski
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Us
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Who And What We Are
We do a lot, from directly presenting new and awesome music, to helping emerging artists gain a voice. ...And we're artists, too.
Here's your guide to Human Ear.
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Creative Services
Learn about our innovative music services programs. We help emerging and experimental artists create and inspire with totally free publicity, recording, conservation and more.
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Mission Statement
Human Ear is a contemporary art organization for music. It hails to adventurous artists and passionate listeners as a primary source of new music and sound art from all disciplines.
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History
In 2006, artist Jason Grier created Human Ear Music to give a sense of identity to a growing community of Los Angeles based experimental recording artists
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Board
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Staff
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Curators
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Demo Policy
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Contact
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Love
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Dâm Funk
He spins lush, evolving textures from his chosen medium, early 80's Boogie, Modern Soul and Electro-Funk.
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Diamond Dusted & Rhinestoned
Diamond Dusted & Rhinestoned is the insouciant social-commentary of Samantha Magowan and friends.
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Studio Paradiso
Studio Paradiso is a gorgeous recording facility in the basement of the Mosser Hotel in San Francisco.
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Monika Enterprise
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Wandelweiser
An international group of composer-performers with an holistic, DIY approach to classical publishing and CD releases.
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Dublab
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Sounds Awful Good
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Catalyst Community
Catalyst Community is an experience-driven community development nonprofit from Long Beach.
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The Wire
A preferred, encyclopedic resource for new music knowledge and a rare source of good music writing.
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Flood
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100 Limousines
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Waxidermy
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Yoga Records
Yoga Records is a renowned re-issue label featuring a wealth of precious private press content.
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The Wulf
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