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Contribution based, pay $5-20 at the door via Venmo or cash. Funds go to nourishment of musicians, space rental + snacks..
Entrance door closes at 7pm, please arrive before then.
Dan Gorelick is a Brooklyn and Bay Area based musician who integrates his lifelong classical cello background with various technologies to explore the sonic possibilities between the two. He creates improvisational and emerging performances that can respond to the energy of the space. He performs in many different contexts, from contact jams to sound baths as well as more experimental electronic events.
Dan is organizer and educator, creating community-oriented gatherings that cultivate new connections and creativity at the local level. He is a co-founder and organizer of the artist collective AV Club SF, and a member and organizer of the LivecodeNYC collective. He is a past student of the School for Poetic Computation, and a member of the NEW INC Year 10 cohort.
Nava Dunkelman is a percussionist and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother. Her musical approach is innovative and dynamic, combining virtuosity and intuition. Meticulous in an intrinsic way, she uses her distinctive sound palette to explore and give life to a vast spectrum of musical possibilities.
Nava's current projects are electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA with Amma Ateria, and percussion duo NOMON with her sister Shayna Dunkelman. She also has performed and collaborated with Angélica Negrón, Brandon Seabrook, Du Yun, ÉMU aka Maria Takeuchi, Fred Frith, gabby fluke-mogul, Ikue Mori, John Zorn, Pauchi Sasaki, William Winant, yuniya edi kwon, and many others. She has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, Joan Jeanrenaud, Raven Chacon, San Francisco Girls Chorus, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and others.
Her work has been recognized through notable awards and residencies, including the Jerome Artist Residency (2024–2025) and Jerome Commission at Roulette (2023–2024), the Hermitage Artist Retreat (2025), Loghaven Artist Residency (2024), create Award with the American Composers Forum (2023), and the New Music USA Creator Development Fund (2022).
Website: navadunkelman.com
Instagram: @nldunk