2013: David Molina’s Transient

David Molina: cello, electric guitar with pedals, broken autoharp and dulcimer, flute, some small homemade instruments and found objects, CDjs and DJ mixer
Anna Geyer: 16mm film

Transient is David Molina’s electro-acoustic, ambient, experimental project. He combines traditional acoustic, home-made and found object instruments with field recordings and electronics to create meditative soundscapes which can either be light, beautiful and haunting, or dark and disturbing. Transient has collaborated and performed with musicians such as John Ingle, Chris Webb, Polar, Garret La Fever, Miguel Hernandez, Kyron, Marco Eneidi, and George Cremachi; video artist Mickey T; and filmmaker Anna Geyer. He has performed at 2005 and 2007 International Loop Festival, the Chapel of Chimes winter 2005, The Lab, Noise Pancakes, the Drum Machine Museum, Galeria De La Raza, Noh Space, SOMARTS, the Performance Art Institute, and at various noise shows in San Francisco. He collaborates with performance artists Violeta Luna and Secos Y Mojados.

David Molina has composed, performed, recorded, mixed, and designed sound for theatre, video, film, dance, performance art, radio, and multimedia productions for the past 17 years. He has collaborated with numerous theatre companies, performing arts venues, and educational institutes throughout the Bay Area, and has presented his work outside the Bay at Cal Arts, ASU, and throughout Peru and Argentina. Molina recently presented his first solo gallery exhibit Transience: The Work of David Molina, at Asterisk Gallery in San Francisco. It featured several instruments built by Molina, including Rusting Souls, a restored and modified Cimbalom, as well as A Dividing Line: American Ashes, a 14-channel speaker installation about immigration, xenophobia, the Mexican/U.S.A. border, and the lives that cross it, claim to protect it, or are separated by it. He was curator and producer of Color + Form + Frequency = Memory and Dreams, a multimedia concert at the Performance Art Institute in San Francisco, featuring electronic musician and video artist Mickey Tachibana; experimental filmmaker Anna Geyer; instrument builder Garrett La Fever; and Molina as composer and live musician. He collaborated with La Fever and Tachibana on Memory Web, an original instrument and interactive sound/video installation presented at SOMARTS, SF Fine Arts Fair, PAI, and Vessel Gallery.

Anna Geyer is an award-winning experimental filmmaker and writer. Her films have screened in many festivals internationally. A fascination with non-traditional methods of both production and presentation is apparent in her work. Cameraless, non-representational work has been the emphasis of much her recent effort, although she frequently describes her work as, “experimental with a narrative bent”. Live three projector loop sets performed in collaboration with local musician David Molina encompass the technology of the past and present and include abstract imagery, live action work and degraded imagery of the digital age. She teaches cinema classes at both City College of San Francisco and Solano Community College.

Artist (photo by Photographer)