Hey lovelies!
We’re hosting another awesome weekend of live music and art in our Backyard space next weekend, June 19th/20th.
We have an amazing body of work by Entropy, a good friend of ours, and local Sunset artist.
On saturday, we’ll have a live opera performance and talk by Céline Ricci. She is the Founder /Executive Artistic Director from Ars Minerva, and live music from Murder Murder
Sunday we’ll have live music by Lunchbox!
The Boars is one of Brent Willson’s bands, a founding member of The B0ardside collective.
Video here is produced by Sean Silk, another awesome Sunset artist!
Recordings from Kei Terauchi to accompany her piece ‘What Makes The World Go Around - Outer Sunset Mix 2021’ in The B0ardside zine issue #2.
Ah, super lovely review of My Side Of The City and The B0ardside #1 from my buddy Dan Shahin ..
This is taken from a longer livestream here.
thanks Dan!
Well then, well then!
Big changes afoot! This has been my personal blog for many years, just random videos I dig and the occasional content of my own. The name ‘B0ardside’ was one I originally thought of as the name of a venue I would one day own. Well! That time is now.
With Covid going on, I decided to experiment with my backyard more for open-air shows, putting on my first show in early september, which went well.
Since then, and chatting with friends, Douglas Gorney and Brent Willson, we’ve morphed the space into an art collective, with a zine and putting on more shows.
This weekend, we’re going to put on a two day show featuring Brent’s work. Zines will be available too. Come check it out!
Here’s the full press release in the Sunset Beacon!
This is a recording of Kei Terauchi’s composition she contributed to the first issue of the B0arside zine:
The text which accompanies it:
This piece portrays an experience one might have wandering the Outer Sunset neighborhood from dusk till dawn. The story is extremely simple. It’s nightfall. The protagonist walks and revels in the moonlight and music until the sun rises.
Compositionally, the piece is a pastiche of references from my own musical memory. I’m always curious about sounds in my head and the distortions the memory plays. I will go over these references to unfold my compositional process and, hopefully, to offer nuggets of music geekdom.
The piece opens with “Tempest’s theme.” The first four notes of the melody [A - F - E - D] come verbatimly from the main melody of Beethoven’s piano sonata Op. 31 No. 2 Mvt. III. The sonata is nicknamed “The Tempest,” and, thus, determines the identity of the protagonist of my piece. So, here she is. Tempest wanders into the night in the Outer Sunset. Although the accompanying chords and the melody following are far from Beethoven’s original, this is a note-for-note musical reference.
Tempest’s theme shows fluidity in tonality and rhythm. The first two measures assert we are in D major/minor, then quickly pivot to G major/minor. We also get a glimpse of the rhythmic bend with the triplet sixteenth notes in m. 3 that foreshadow more rhythmic variations to come.
Tempest confronts the moonlight in the next section (m. 5-8). Ostinatos (repeated right hand chords) in groups of 7s, 8s and 9s pay homage to Debussy’s classic piano work, “Claire de Lune.” In this French composer’s celebrated work, the section that starts on m. 15 is one of the most breathtaking; sustained low Eb octaves are followed by shimmering chords that outline [F - Eb- Eb- Eb- Db- Db - Db - C - C- C- Db - Bb] while defying rhythmic restriction. As for our Tempest in the Outer Sunset lit by the Lune, the octaves that outline the right hand chords loosely trace the chorus of Daft Punk’s song “Get Lucky.” Though unsung, the lyrics here, “She’s up all night ’til the sun/ I’m up all night to get some/ She’s up all night for good fun/ I’m up all night to get lucky,” overlay with the light of Debussy’s moon. Tempest may have encountered a group of dancers at Ocean Beach.
The arpeggios in m. 9-11 harken to the bridge in the same song by Daft Punk, “We’ve come too far to give up who we are/ So let’s raise the bar and our cups to the stars,” and feature diminished 7ths, already familiar to us as they made an appearance in Tempest’s theme (m. 3, beats 3 & 4).
Returning to our protagonist’s theme from m. 12, we see that she has now gained rhythmic freedom after her experience with Debussy & Daft Punk. We slow down to Calando and anticipate the sun to rise at any moment. This sunrise was hinted at by Daft Punk earlier and is implied in Tempest’s joyful tiredness shown in rests and fermatas. Finally, her theme [A - F - E - D] turns into [D - F - E - D], ending the piece with [A - G - F# - D], not an exact quote, but a liberal citation of Soul II Soul’s “Keep on Movin,” concluding Tempest’s night out in the Outer Sunset with, “Yellow is the color of sun rays.”
Kei Terauchi, October 2020