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Aerocade Music, Inc.
@aerocade.bandcamp.com
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San Francisco Bay Area's non-profit record label dedicated to adding exciting, modern, and even revolutionary perspectives to the contemporary classical, experimental, and electronic music landscape. aerocademusic.com | Mailing list: https://eepurl.com/i1C
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Out today: "Canto Caló" by Nicolás Lell Benavides. With two major works exploring New Mexican identity, ancestral memories of grandparents, and how those live and breathe within us, cultural connections over generations and what is lost and gained when we revisit our roots:
October 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Join us this Friday (Oct 10) to celebrate the release of "Canto Caló" by composer Nicolás Lell Benavides. We will be having a virtual listening party on Bandcamp at 8pm, Pacific!
nicolasbenavides.bandcamp.com/merch/canto-...
Text on orange background: "Bandcamp listening party. Canto Caló. Music by Nicolás Lell Benavides, featuring Friction Quartet, and Melinda Martinez Becker. 10/10, 8pm" Image of album cover for Canto Caló: old black and white photo of a man and his daughter in front of a 1950s car.
October 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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And ICYMI, @meerenai.bandcamp.com's recent release: "The Audacity" with liner notes by @garrt.bsky.social!
meerenai.bandcamp.com/album/the-au...
Photo of "The Audacity" CD and cd packaging on dark wooden background.
October 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Our favorite holiday is here: BANDCAMP FRIDAY! 🎉
Pre-order our next release: "Canto Caló" by composer Nicolás Lell Benavides, Friction Quartet, and mezzo-soprano Melinda Martinez Becker!
(RSVP for the virtual listening party too while you're there!)
nicolasbenavides.bandcamp.com/album/canto-...
Photo of "Canto Caló" CD packaging, CD, and booklet on dark wooden background.
October 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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It’s Bandcamp Friday! And we have a new release: “The Audacity” by @meerenai.bandcamp.com.

Includes: “Vermont Counterpoint” by Steve Reich and newly commissioned works from @ebakermusic.bsky.social, Brent Miller, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, and @megwilhoite.bsky.social!

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Photo of The Audacity compact disc coming out of the CD sleeve.
September 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Behind the scenes! Friction Quartet tracking music for their Aerocade release at Skywalker Sound and Tiny Telephone.
Friction quartet musicians playing together, sitting in a semicircle inside Tiny Telephone studio in Oakland, California with music stands in front of them. Maroon baffles in between each musician for better sound isolation. Friction Quartet members sitting in a semicircle warming up to record at Skywalker Sound studio in Lucas Valley, California. Sound diffusion panels are placed behind the musicians and microphones are all over the place. Friction quartet members listening to a recent take with composer Andrew Rodriguez in front of the control board at Skywalker Sound.
August 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Meet Alchymie & Gregg Skloff: Since late 2013, bassist Gregg Skloff and keyboardist/composer Jennifer Theuer Ruzicka (aka Alchymie) have been weaving deep drone, ambient textures, and ethereal soundscapes.

They give an improvisational performance called “TRITON: Echoes from the Ice Moon"
Grey text on dark grey background: "Meet the Performers" Aerocade Music logo on dark grey background. Photo of Alchymie & Gregg Skloff from a live performance with green and yellow background. Text under the photo: "Alchymie & Gregg Skloff, Keyboard and Contrabass Improvisation"
March 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Meet Elizabeth Robinson: Flutist and educator Dr. Elizabeth Robinson is an active soloist, orchestral, and chamber
performer.

On Sunday, Elizabeth will perform "Death Whistle" for solo piccolo by Nicole Chamberlain.
Grey text on dark grey background: "Meet the Performers" Aerocade Music logo on dark grey background. Two photos of Elizabeth Robinson with a bright yellow background. In one photo, Elizabeth is leaning on a white chair and holding a flute. Text under the photos: "Elizabeth Robinson, Piccolo"
March 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Meet @notnicknorton.bsky.social: Nick Norton makes things out of sound. Nick has lately been interested in AI tools and ethics, live spatial audio, and field recording.

On Sunday evening, Nick will provide a live spatial mix of his new piece for four harps, recorded by Elizabeth Huston.
Grey text on dark grey background: "Meet the Performers" Aerocade Music logo on dark grey background. Two photos of Nick Norton. In one photo, Nick is wearing a t-shirt with text in metal band-style lettering: "Live Laugh Love". Text under the photos: "Nick Norton, Quadraphonic Sound"
March 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Meet @chelseahollow.bsky.social: Chelsea Hollow “has rewritten the book on the potential of musical activism” creating art that invites her audiences to think collectively and gain perspective.

Chelsea and pianist Taylor Chan will perform a newly commissioned work on Sunday!
Grey text on dark grey background: "Meet the Performers" Aerocade Music logo on dark grey background. Headshot photos of Taylor Chan and Chelsea Hollow. Hollow's photo shows text written on her throat: "This Machine Kills Fascists." Text under photos: "Taylor Chan, piano. Chelsea Hollow, soprano."
March 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Meet @eyesack.bsky.social: Isaac Io Schankler (they/them) is a composer, accordionist, and electronic musician interested in how technology complicates the ways we create and consume music.

They will be performing an accordion+electronics set on Sunday!
Grey text on dark grey background: "Meet the Performers" Aerocade Music logo on dark grey background. Photo of Isaac Io Schankler: Schankler is speaking into a toy bullhorn and turning knobs on a plastic controller on top of a toy piano. Also on toy piano: slide whistle and other toy instruments and speakers. Text underneath photo: "Isaac Io Schankler, Accordion and electronics."
March 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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On Sunday, we keep the music going, no matter what! Five Aerocade Artists will perform at the Center for New Music in San Francisco for our Anniversary/Birthday Celebration.
Info/Tickets: centerfornewmusic.com/event/aeroca...
Text on dark grey background: You're Invited. Aerocade Music logo on dark grey background. Text inside off-white box: "Aerocade Music's 10th Anniversary & 1st Birthday Concert and Party. March 23, 2025 @7PM, Center for New Music, San Francisco."
March 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Buy tickets to our big party at the Center for New Music in San Francisco!
www.eventbrite.com/e/aerocade-m...

Sunday, March 23, 7PM

Performances: @eyesack.bsky.social, @chelseahollow.bsky.social & Taylor Chan, @notnicknorton.bsky.social, Alchymie & Gregg Skloff, Elizabeth Robinson
Text: Hot pink text on black background: "10th Anniversary & 1st Birthday Party! Featuring" Yellow text on black background: "Chelsea Hollow & Taylor Chan, Isaac Schankler, Elizabeth Robinson, Alchymie & Gregg Skloff, NIck Norton. Food by Philip Gelb!" White text on black background: 3/23 Aerocade Music Birthday Concert Logos on black background: Round Aerocade Music logo in white with a party hat. white center for new music logo.
February 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Celebrating our 10th year as a label, and our 1st as a non-profit! Join us at the Center for New Music in San Francisco on March 23rd. Performances by
@chelseahollow.bsky.social
,
@eyesack.bsky.social
, Alchymie & Gregg Skloff, and Elizabeth Robinson. Food by musician and vegan chef Philip Gelb!
Text on color block background: Save the date. White text on dark blue background:10th anniversary and 1st Birthday party. March 23, 2025, Center for New Music. 55 Taylor St. San Francisco, CA. Logo: Circular logo with black text on white background: Aerocade Music.
January 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Recycling our best-performing social media hot take:
Text: “Classical musicians should be required to play in a ska band for a couple of years as a part of their undergraduate performance degree so that they learn how to play off beats.
January 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM