Marc Kate and Robert Crouch present the debut performance of Land Sound at the de Young Museum, Friday May 9, 5:30-8:30pm, in San Francisco

Land Sound is the musical collaboration of Robert Crouch and Silencefiction (Marc Kate). Combining laptops with live electronics, Land Sound creates minimal electronic music that explores the tension between dance floor propulsion and headphone-worthy obsession with detail. Drawing inspiration from a wide array of sources such as conceptual art, photography, house, "shoe gazing," and ambient music, Land Sound is both a celebration of this latitude as it is the struggle to maintain cohesion within the context of the dance floor. "How do I create a track or a set that is both psychedelic and cerebral?" Kate asks, "Or lush and minimal? Exploring that tension is what excites me about techno."

Marc Kate (aka Silencefiction) bought his first Technics shortly after buying his first Chain Reaction 12"'s, and began DJing at art openings while in grad school. Since then, he has played to venues as diverse as Burning Man, 1015 Folsom and Trannyshack. In San Francisco, he formed the techno weekly [404] in 2001, the acid house revival party Jack in 2005, and became a Qoöl resident in 2007. As a musician, he has played bass, keyboards and engineered for synth-prog band I Am Spoonbender, goth-punk duo Evolution Rainbow and dark cabaret iconoclast Vinsantos as a member of his band A Sixthe Toe. He has also composed soundtracks for performer/choreographer Monique Jenkinson and political circus spectacle Circo Zero.

Los Angeles based artist and curator Robert Crouch has exhibited his work in London, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He co-organized the minimalist music festival, Immersion, with LAFMS alum Tom Recchion at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) in 2004, and the experimental multimedia music series, Visual Music: See Hear Now! at MOCA and the Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater (REDCAT) in 2005. He also co-organized the Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in 2006. In 2007 he co-founded Volume, a non-profit curatorial project that explores and promotes the nexus of music and visual arts practices ranging from the avant-garde to popular culture. Crouch holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.

The performance takes place during Doubles & Quadruples, a night of performance and music in the queer, colorful, collaborative spirit of Gilbert & George (organized by Monique Jenkinson). The event also features:

Fauxnique & friends (Valentine, Falsetta Knockers and Precious Moments) performing a reprise of Lip Synching Sculpture - a glamour-drag tinged re-interpretation of Gilbert & George's classic work Singing Sculpture.

DJ's PeePlay and Jason Kendig of Honey Soundsystem do double dancefloor duty.

Fauxnique is the drag queen alter ego of Monique Jenkinson, a multifaceted artist working locally and internationally in the realms of dance, theatre, drag and performance art. A prolific fixture on the experimental performance scene, Fauxnique continues to deliver new creations to the theaters, museum events and nightclub stages on a regular basis.

Honey Soundsystem is a hand-picked group of disc jockeys, musicians, and designers who bond over their shared love of timeless sound, iconic imagery, the complete look, indulgent behavior, and most of all, attractive men.
 
The event is free to the public, museum admission is $10.
Double and Quadruples is part of Friday Nights at the de Young and takes place Friday May 9, 5:30 - 8:30 PM at the de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.