About this Event
On the evening of Friday, February 13th, join us for an immersive night of sound and visuals featuring S’hells Gate x Fyusha, Marc Merza & No Translation (LA) , and exteeng. Pulsing electronics and ambient textures bloom through live visuals, tea, and florals—shaping a space for deep listening and altered perception.
Doors 7pm
Show 8pm
$20 at the door. sliding scale available
exteeng
Chris Giang (exteeng) is a multimedia sensory artist and data scientist based in Oakland, CA. Her practice weaves together tea, flowers, incense, and handmade ceramics, expanding into soundscape work that centers audio narrative. Working through sound, she explores the tenderness embedded in the terrain of the ordinary, infusing it with experimentation and deconstruction.
Immersive environments unfold through her work, aligning auditory, tactile, and visual elements to invite presence and reflection. She is currently integrating touch and audio reactive systems, with both visual and sound components—to combine previously distinct strands of her practice. Through iteration, spatial design, and interdisciplinary collaboration, she reexamines these elements across different lenses, reshaping how sensory language is experienced and understood.
S'hells Gate x Fyusha
S’hells Gate is an Oakland-based three-piece electronic outfit featuring Jon Carr, Matt Brownell, and Cat Lauigan. The group merges arpeggiated electronics, experimental spoken word and processed vocals with hypnotic drones and industrial-dub rhythms, occupying a space between destruction and transcendence.
Laura Ho, also known as fyusha, is a Vietnamese-American artist based in the SF Bay Area whose practice centers on immersive digital visuals and projection work. Through a surreal, vibrant visual language she associates with an entity called the “Child Spirit,” fyusha creates moving-image environments that activate performance and sound. In recent years, her work has expanded into live projection collaborations with multidisciplinary dance artist Johnny Nguyen and Oakland-based experimental band S’HELLS GATE, with presentations at venues including Joe Goode Performance Group and sites across the Bay Area.
EMMA PALM (NO TRANSLATION ) & MARK MERZA
Marc Merza is a Filipino-American artist and musician based in Los Angeles. His sound work spans a spectrum from raw improvisation to meticulously layered compositions. Marc has performed and collaborated across the globe—from Brooklyn and Oakland to Tokyo, Taipei, Porto, and Manila. His practice centers on guitar, clarinet, and Kulintang (a traditional Filipino gong ensemble), but his music often incorporates tape loops, field recordings, and electronic textures, creating a dialogue between tradition and experimentation.
No Translation is the creative project of Emma Palm, a Taiwanese-American musician and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Drawing from personal archives of field recordings, photography, and video, her work explores the intersections of sound, geography, memory, language, and identity.
In her music, Emma weaves together vocals, synths, guqin (a traditional Chinese zither), and field recordings to construct immersive meditative soundscapes and dynamic textures. Her process is fluid—at times emerging from improvisation, experimentation and collaboration, and at other times taking shape through more deliberate, composed structures.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room, 2523 Broadway, Oakland, United States
USD 20.00
