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Outsound Presents was founded by Rent Romus in 2000 and became a non-profit corporation and obtained it's 501(c)3 status in 2009. The mission of Outsound Presents is to raise public awareness of sound and unique events not otherwise made available by presenting public performance, co-op promotion, and education. Events and works supported by Outsound Presents include and focus around the creation of experimental music, avant garde musical composition, various forms of sound art including found sound, and improvisation, creative music, new music, noise, musique concrete, minimalism, invented instruments, genre-bending music, and sound that is sculptural or textural in nature.
History
Outsound, began in February 2000 as a monthly music performance series at 848 Divisadero under the name 'Static Illusion/Methodical Madness' (SIMM). As the series grew, performances moved to the Musician's Union Hall. Presently, Outsound is offering three performance series at different locations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Performances feature international as well as local talent in a broad range of new music and improvisational genres.The SIMM Series is a musician run/audience funded music series bringing highly professional and adventurous music that would not normally be heard or supported by mainstream venues. The series presents sixteen to twenty performances a year, bi-weekly on season (Spring-Fall) and monthly off season. And is currently in it̢۪s sixth season.
The Luggage Store New Music Series presents weekly Thursday night performances. It is the longest standing experimental music series in the SF Bay Area. Operating since 1991, Outsound was given curatorship in 2001.
The Outsound New Music Summit, presented on four consecutive nights in San Francisco and Oakland, has been showcasing the most innovative and pioneering new music in California and beyond since 2002. The Festival's line-up includes electronic music artists, composers, and improvisers, providing a supportive environment for exploration of genre and sonic creativity. In addition, the festival promotes intermedia arts, fostering cross-pollination between music/sound art and experimental film/visual arts. In the last four years the Summit featured over 200 groups from around the United States as well as Europe, Australia, and Japan including California debut performances, drawing an audience of over a thousand annually.