The Depths
Saturdays in December
Head down below, to a place beneath the surface. A place where time slows down, and sonic events unfold with subtle precision and startling intent. The Depths is a sound world that asks for your patience, but where you end up is worth the wait.
Audium V: Rewind
Fridays in December
Special live performance Dec 13
One of the first Audium compositions, originally premiering in 1969 by Audium co-founder Stan Shaff. Find yourself inside an old muscle-car, feel a Pan-American flight fly right through you, and meditate in a cacophony of fog horns. One can only imagine what audiences at that time (54 years ago!) must have thought.
Now, following in his dad’s footsteps, David Shaff has reworked his father’s sounds for Audium’s current system. The younger Shaff will perform a live spatial movement of Audium V on 12/13.
Audium 11 Redux
Fri/Sat in Janurary
Now remastered for Audium’s newest sound technology, Audium 11 dives into the primordial world buried beneath the surface of consciousness; the shifting sonic layers deep inside us all. Listeners will be immersed in urban sounds more familiar, as well as a vast assortment of electronic sounds in the abstract. In Audium’s pitch-black, 176-speaker space, a calm scene in a cafe can become a raucous thunderstorm, and dark ethereal rumblings can morph into pleasant piano tinkling.
Audium’s entire theater has been reimagined with sound compositions by father-son duo Stan and Dave Shaff.
New Voices IV
Feburary 13- April 5, 2025
The culminating show of the 2024/25 residency, featuring the works of Shanti Lalita, Phillip Laurent, and Briana Marela
Resident artists at Audium are offered a unique opportunity to explore sound movement, texture, and spatialization within Audium’s one-of-a-kind, pitch-black 176-speaker space.
Red Clay Sound Haus
Summer 2025
Red Clay Sound Haus presents a final show series after a two-year residency at Audium. Tossie Long and the RCSH Collective will explore The Sound of Black San Francisco. Body, architecture and desire feature in a collection of run-ins, synchronicities, memories and predictions poised for performance, unearthing a symphonic tapestry of sound.
