FERMENT[cheese] at Berkeley Art Museum

Posted April 22nd, 2011 by isaac
Date: 
Friday, April 29, 2011 - 6:00pm

    April 29, 2011 // 6pm to 9pm
    at the UC Berkeley Art Museum
    $7 // free for students & BAM members

    FERMENT[cheese] is a multi-media concert/presentation/tasting
    exploring milk’s journey to cheesehood. Through an immersive sound
    environment we invite visitors to more fully experience the fermented
    arts. FERMENT[cheese] is a collaboration between Sue Conley,
    co-founder of Cowgirl Creamery and sound artist, Chris Kallmyer.
    Featuring the experimental ensemble TempWerks (Casey Anderson,
    Scott Cazan, Isaac Schankler and Andrew Tholl).

    Everyone is encouraged to come, but there is limited space in the
    workshops so please sign up ahead of time here!

  • Cheese


    The Cowgirl Creamery is
    curating a milk-to-cheese tasting that will take visitors through the
    cheese making process finishing with their aged cheeses. At 7:30 Sue
    Conley, co-founder of Cowgirl Creamery will speak about the art of
    cheese making, and the sustainable qualities of artisan and farmstead
    agriculture.

  • Sound


    The evening’s milk-to-cheese tasting will be accompanied by field
    recordings of cows eating grass, curd draining, cheese aging, and oral
    history with local dairyman, John Taverna. Chris Kallmyer will create
    site-specific and dispersed sound works inspired by the cheese making
    process and fermentation set within a rich texture of field recordings.
    The experimental ensemble, TempWerks will perform these new pieces
    using cow bells, harmonicas, violin, accordion, saxophone, and
    electronics.

  • Image


    Projected video will cover three walls of the space with images of John
    Taverna’s Jersey Cow Dairy. The ambient, incidental video will show
    visitors the pace of farm life with farm workers, cows grazing, and the
    surrounding landscape of John’s organic dairy farm. Films by Emily Lacy
    and Chris Kallmyer.