This event goes from 6pm to 9pm. Conspiracy of Beards sings two sets: 7pm & 8pm

Conspiracy of Beards, a choir of men that sings a cappella arrangements of the poetic songs of Leonard Cohen, kicks off our 12th season with a special performance on the theme of Water at the de Young Museum as part of the Soundwave ((6)) Biennial. This is a FREE event!

Soundwave is San Francisco’s acclaimed biennial of innovative sound, art and music. Every two years, MEDIATE Art Group launches a summer-long, multi-venue and multi-date experiential event series all over San Francisco. Each season investigates a new idea through sound and invites diverse multidisciplinary artists and musicians to explore the season’s theme in new and innovative directions. This years theme is Water.

http://www.soundwavesf.com/6/sep5/

Also taking part in the evenings event:

Sound artist and instrument builder Jay Kreimer creates ‘When Its Gone’, a performance installation that explores human use of water and waste with an invented instrument using lab glass, which makes different tones and pitches as it fills and empties, evoking repetition and emptiness.

Staged in the most-inspiring locations – the Observation Tower of the De Young Museum— composer Luciano Chessa envisions ‘Water Memory,’ featuring small piano melodigrand, bullhorn, Vietnamese Dan Bau and Glockenspiel. He explores a rhapsodic meditation on the possibility that water may be the longest-lasting, and most formidable database we have around, capable of preserving memory of places it travels through.

Moses Hacmon’s FACES of WATER is part art, part science, part spiritual awakening. It is a breathtaking, haunting collection of photographic images of water that transforms and advances our understanding of this life-giving substance, and exposes a layer of reality previously hidden from sight.