Corpus Callosum

Performing at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles at 10 PM. 

Songwriters Avery Burke and Dax Tran-Caffee collaborate with musicians Stevie Hryciw, Zach Michels, Qarly Canant, Andrea Craver, and Jason Samaha. This ensemble composes songs using traditional instruments such as accordion, reed organ, banjo, glockenspiel, mandolin and guitar; more obscure instruments like the singing saw, theremin, wash bucket bass and glass goblets and common objects such as pots and pans, pickaxes, children’s toys, a kitchen blender and sheet metal. As much performance art as music, a Corpus Callosum concert showcases an array of puppetry, stilt-walking, kinetic sculpture, and other uncanny imagery to complement and embellish the sound.

Corpus Callosum is an effort to create dynamic finely crafted songs, both heady and theatrical, using do-it-yourself means. The band credits influence from American roots music, gamelan, early industrial and noise and western classical. They draw upon the sounds of Neutral Milk Hotel, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits and Einstürzende Neubauten, among others, to generate a unique soundscape.

The band has shared stages with such notable acts as The Mountain Goats, Xiu Xiu, Deerhoof, Yo La Tengo, Zeena Parkins, Vermilion Lies, Matmos and Jason Webley..