SSB PRESENTS

High Performance

Things Were Different Then

A Laboratory for Experimentation, Venice was a cultural stew of innovators and risk takers.

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Elizabeth Freeman, Susan Martin, Nancy Drew co-founders, SSB Reunion Party, 2018

SSB Celebrates 50 Years

SSB Celebrates 50 Years with an Oral History of the 70s Art Scene in LA

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Site Santa Fe photo by Brad Trone

Some Serious Business and Site Santa Fe Present: amplifies it, doubles, trebles it

kelechi agwuncha envisions and constructs a new framework for restaging sound artists through public activations—drawing on experimental spatial approaches found in genres like experimental music, disco, punk, and Jamaican dub

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Save the Ugly Music Festival

SAVE THE UGLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, features music, raffles, murals, a clothing swap, games, and lots of other wacky, experimental art activities and people.

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Ann Magnuson as Tammy Faye Bakker

BOOK TALK: Village Preservation

July 25th Zoom Webinar: “We Started a Nightclub” with Susan Martin and Kestutis Nakas moderated by Yael Friedman and hosted by Village Preservation.

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The Electronic Lover

Finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s “The Electronic Lover” Premieres

The finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s audio opera set in chatrooms at the dawn of the internet airs on June 1st.

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Karload of Klowns

A PYRAMID HOMECOMING at Baker Falls

The sold out show featured performances and readings by talented pioneers from the Pyramid’s heyday.

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Mariel Roberts Sunder Premiere

World Premiere of Mariel Roberts Sunder in New York

Sunder was commissioned by pianist Conor Hanick, regarded as one of his generation’s most inquisitive interpreters of new music whose “technical refinement, color, crispness and wondrous variety of articulation benefit works by any master.” (New York Times)

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SSB Away - Lisa Mezzacappa - photo by Tim Rowe

SSB Away Resident Lisa Mezzacappa

SSB Away welcomes bassist, composer, producer Lisa Mezzacappa from San Francisco to Casa Kama in Abiquiu. She’ll be taking advantage of the pristine landscape and silence to fine tune her serial audio opera The Electronic Lover.

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photo by Cameron Browne - Tipping Point documetntary

Some Serious Business Presents the Portland Theatrical Premiere of “Tipping Point”

Some Serious Business Presents the Portland Theatrical Premiere of TIPPING POINT What The Portland Protests Tell Us About The State Of America Thursday June 15 / 8 PM / Alberta Abbey Filmmaker Q+A And Musical Performance by Mic Crenshaw TICKETS In 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, the largest civil rights protest in recent…

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