Preston Swirnoff: SILO Chords

Musician, composer and multidisciplinary artist Preston Swirnoff presents SILO Chords, a site-specific installation and performance in The Silo Room at Bread & Salt in Barrio Logan. Composed for organ, analog tape, and voice, the performance will include Swirnoff with members of San Diego New Verbal Workshop, a community choir that performs contemporary and avant-garde music. Swirnoff’s piece explores the many surprising possibilities of the chord and the unique acoustic properties of The Silo Room, with its 40 foot high flour tanks, to create an immersive listening experience.

Swirnoff often creates site-specific works that explore acoustic and visual qualities of physical spaces while engaging the intimacy of what he calls ‘a sense of unspoken radical presence’. A common thread that runs through Preston’s work is the unbroken chain between our forgotten histories and the challenge of being present today. This work continues a series of installations for sound and visual art that took Swirnoff’s work to exhibitions in unconventional spaces last year: an ancient cave in Greece, a 12th century castle in Sicily, a high-rise roof top in Sofia, Bulgaria, and a giant walled garden in Oaxaca.

DJ’s from Particle FM will spin records on the patio through their new Klipschorn sound system. A special menu of food and drinks will be served by Alchemy. The Silo Room space at the Bread & Salt property has been recently re-activated for performances and events after being dormant for several years.

Tickets must be purchased online in advance as seating is limited.