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“Don’t call it mellow.” Adam Rosen says his Sight and Sound multimedia and music happening will move into a new space this month, which he says is not unusual, and this time without hard alcohol.
“Sight and Sound has been at different venues here and there.” But in this case, he says, form dictates function. Hence Rosen’s decision to host a beer-and-wine only speakeasy event. “This venue seems to have a speakeasy feel. You go up these stairs, and you’re surprised by what you see up there.”
The new venue is called 3rdSpace. “It’s right on Park Boulevard, right under the University Heights sign.” Rosen thinks it was at one time an antique store. “It does not actually have any signage that says 3rdSpace,” he says, with the exception of a small decal on the door. 3rdSpace lists itself as a coffee shop on Facebook.
“We had an issue with the other space we were using, Queen Bee’s on Ohio Street in North Park. We did eight or nine events there, but there were a couple instances when the management accidentally double-booked.” Rosen was forced to cancel and when it happened again, he moved the show.
Rosen, 31, calls Sight and Sound a multi-room interactive experience into which he incorporates performance artists, dancers, various artists, and musicians. The present lineup includes Ugly Boogie, Miss Erika Davies, and an acoustic set from Convoy’s Robbie Dodds and Louis XIV’s Brian Karscig.
“I’m not sure if they’ve done this together before. Karscig was hesitant at first,” Rosen says, “because the acoustic set is outside the norm of what he does.”
Sight and Sound, produced by Rosen’s Exodus Studios debuted in 2008 at Bamboo Lounge in Hillcrest. “It was monthly from 2008 until 2010.” Rosen started the events with a fellow musician named Jon Block (he no longer works with Rosen.) “Jon and I were in different bands and were tired of dealing with the creative uphill battle.” Creative frustration, in other words, led to Sight and Sound. Today, he says, the goal is to keep the shows going.
Sight and Sound is, in its own way reminiscent of the ‘happenings’ of the late 1950s and ‘60s that took hold in New York. Based on performance art without rules or boundaries, happenings depended on participants rather than audiences. Spontaneity was the rule. Yoko Ono famously enlivened such a happening once when, during the British Wave in 1964 that brought her eventual husband John Lennon to America she stood on a stage and passed scissors out to audience members. Her instructions were to cut away her clothing. They did.
“There’s gonna be dinosaurs you can walk around at Sight and Sound Speakeasy Edition” on November 19, Rosen says. “Art will be in one room, and we’ll have free massage in another room.” Free massage? “Yes,” he says. “No happy endings, though.”
“Don’t call it mellow.” Adam Rosen says his Sight and Sound multimedia and music happening will move into a new space this month, which he says is not unusual, and this time without hard alcohol.
“Sight and Sound has been at different venues here and there.” But in this case, he says, form dictates function. Hence Rosen’s decision to host a beer-and-wine only speakeasy event. “This venue seems to have a speakeasy feel. You go up these stairs, and you’re surprised by what you see up there.”
The new venue is called 3rdSpace. “It’s right on Park Boulevard, right under the University Heights sign.” Rosen thinks it was at one time an antique store. “It does not actually have any signage that says 3rdSpace,” he says, with the exception of a small decal on the door. 3rdSpace lists itself as a coffee shop on Facebook.
“We had an issue with the other space we were using, Queen Bee’s on Ohio Street in North Park. We did eight or nine events there, but there were a couple instances when the management accidentally double-booked.” Rosen was forced to cancel and when it happened again, he moved the show.
Rosen, 31, calls Sight and Sound a multi-room interactive experience into which he incorporates performance artists, dancers, various artists, and musicians. The present lineup includes Ugly Boogie, Miss Erika Davies, and an acoustic set from Convoy’s Robbie Dodds and Louis XIV’s Brian Karscig.
“I’m not sure if they’ve done this together before. Karscig was hesitant at first,” Rosen says, “because the acoustic set is outside the norm of what he does.”
Sight and Sound, produced by Rosen’s Exodus Studios debuted in 2008 at Bamboo Lounge in Hillcrest. “It was monthly from 2008 until 2010.” Rosen started the events with a fellow musician named Jon Block (he no longer works with Rosen.) “Jon and I were in different bands and were tired of dealing with the creative uphill battle.” Creative frustration, in other words, led to Sight and Sound. Today, he says, the goal is to keep the shows going.
Sight and Sound is, in its own way reminiscent of the ‘happenings’ of the late 1950s and ‘60s that took hold in New York. Based on performance art without rules or boundaries, happenings depended on participants rather than audiences. Spontaneity was the rule. Yoko Ono famously enlivened such a happening once when, during the British Wave in 1964 that brought her eventual husband John Lennon to America she stood on a stage and passed scissors out to audience members. Her instructions were to cut away her clothing. They did.
“There’s gonna be dinosaurs you can walk around at Sight and Sound Speakeasy Edition” on November 19, Rosen says. “Art will be in one room, and we’ll have free massage in another room.” Free massage? “Yes,” he says. “No happy endings, though.”