7:00pm
Feb 25 2026
location:
Monkeybrains
931 Treat
San Francisco, CA
Map
Street parking only
Accessible space
DONATIONS MUCH APPRECIATED $5-$20 sliding scale. All proceeds go to our hosts monkeybrains
Ken Murphy - Phase Chimes: A polyrhythmic music instrument and MIDI sequencer
PhaseChimes is a generative music application built on a metaphor of gears and gear ratios. One assembles "musical machines" by connecting gears of varying sizes to produce complex polyrhythmic and melodic patterns. It has potential for live performance, as a tool for exploring musical ideas, or simply as a creative plaything.Ken Murphy is a musician and coder that dabbles in various pursuits, such as time-lapse photography, illustration, and simple creative electronic projects.
Bryan Day - Adapting Sound Sculptures into Portable Instruments
Bryan has been designing and building sound-making machines since the late 1990s, many of which were too large to easily bring to events, let alone transport overseas by airplane. Over the last decade, he's been working on a system of miniaturization and modularization, redesigning and combining pieces from my collection into instruments that are easy to travel with, quick to set up, and acoustically superior to some of the larger pieces he's built. Bryan will give a quick history of his work and share some of the strategies he's used to make invented instruments tour-ready, easy to use, and capable of being set up as quickly as possible.Bryan Day is a sound artist, instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials, he reimagines them as constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late 1990s, he has built over a hundred sound devices ranging from amplified measuring tapes and hacked radio transceivers to electromechanical installations using magnets, hard drives, and pendulums. His recorded work spans noisy electroacoustic improvisation, droning minimalism, and audio collage, featured in projects such as Euphotic, Collision Stories, and Seeded Plain. He has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. By day, he works as a museum exhibit and software developer at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Tom Zimmerman - SUNO: A Cadre of Virtual Musicians
This talk traces Tom Zimmerman's shift from using Suno (AI) as a music generator to treating it as a cadre of virtual musicians that perform the lyrics and music he writesThomas G. Zimmerman is an inventor, engineer, educator, and artist developing experimental instruments, music technology, and computational tools. He has been a research scientist at IBM Research, an adjunct professor at San Francisco State University, and a TED speaker. His projects include systems to sense and study humans, sea turtles, plankton, and fruit flies.
Rudy Rucker Sr. - >The One & the Many: Painting/Writing
Rudy Rucker, cyberpunk author will be talking about his sojourns in the lands of math and literature. Prints of his paintings will be on sale.Rudy Rucker is a mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, Rucker, has written three books on the fourth dimension and is the winner of two Philip K. Dick Awards.
