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Zoe Boekbinder was born on an early winter morning, in the upstairs bedroom of a brown wooden farmhouse on Regional Route #3, in a small township in Ontario, Canada. Zoe’s brother, Oliver, was disappointed at her arrival because he was hoping for a brother named Zanzibar.

When Zoe was four years old her parents sold the family farm and took off for the USA in a big red truck towing a trailer behind it. She and her three siblings and two parents rode all around the western half of the US for six long months. The family stayed in different buddhist communities and trailer parks along their way to California. This period in her young life marks the beginning of her career as a junk show evangelist.

After six months on the road her family settled in the Sierra foothills in Northern California. 

In 2005 Zoe formed a band, with her sister Kim Boekbinder, called Vermillion Lies. Over the five years that they played together they released two albums, “Separated by Birth” (2006), and “What’s In the Box?” (2008). Her sister still plays music and makes albums. From time to time they still collaborate.

In 2009 Zoe decided to release an album of songs on her own. She recorded with her friend and producer, Cesar Alvarez, in Brooklyn, NY. Thus, “Artichoke Perfume”, was born. Two years later came her second born, “Darling Specimens”, produced by Shenandoah Davis in Seattle, WA. “Baby Bandit” is the newest release (January 2014) and was recorded live onto two inch tape in Oakland, CA with cellist Danah Olivetree and violinist Dorota Szuta. 

From May 2010 to December 2014, Zoe volunteered as a performer and teacher at New Folsom Prison. She is working on an album of songs with songwriters, poets, and rappers who are incarcerated there. The profits of the album will benefit re-entry programs for people being released from prison.

In the fall of 2013, Zoe wrote 100 songs in 100 days. She recorded each one and posted them daily. The last 25 songs are the draft of a musical called The Darling Taxidermist. You hear it in its immense entirety on bandcamp.

Zoe resides in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has an affinity for mason jars, rusted metal, Dolly Parton, sea creatures, botanical drawings, dilapidated barns, chocolate, avocados, broken hearts, port wine, and the open road. She wants to own a farm someday.

Her favorite collaborators over the years have been; Kim Boekbinder, Ani DiFranco, Kaki King, Amanda Palmer, Myles Boisen, Shenandoah Davis, Cesar Alvarez, Jason Webley, Carla Kihlstedt, Mal Blum, Carey Baldwin, Constance Hockaday, Mirah, and writers incarcerated at New Folsom Prison: Alex Batriz, Greg Gadlin, Spoon Jackson, ‘Drifter’ Allen, Abraham Banks, Samuel Brown, Nathen Jackson, and Ken Blackburn. 

Phantom Tides is an Oakland based duo consisting of Gracia Logue-Sargeant on vocals/guitar and the new addition of JM Jaffe playing guitar. Phantom Tides brings heartbreaking songwriting, otherworldly vocals and dreamy guitar riffs together in a unique and soulful way. The band currently has no album but is in the process of making one.
https://gracia.bandcamp.com/releases
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ9xzZnnYHM
https://www.facebook.com/themusicofgracia/

Join us as we highlight youth Uke performers and support these amazing students!

12pm – The Littles
12:15pm – Piotrus Pazdan-Siudeja
12:30pm – Uke Grrrlz
12:45pm – Lily Claypool
1:00pm – NEHS
1:30pm – V
1:45pm – The Ukestronauts
2:00pm – TRUE

Avant-Gardé ideas by

Beatbox Fred
Samuel Raining
Mr. Powell’s ARts & Technology Academy
Xapchyk
The Giant Worm
Mini-Mutations
Instrinsic Quartet

Edward Mainwaring is a musician from Oregon, USA. His original compositions are influenced by traditional blues and folk masters yet suffused with a contemporary aesthetic and original voice.

Simulating the Experience of Daylight in Buildings

With Siobhan Rockcastle, PhD, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon, Director of the Baker Lighting Lab, and co-founder of OCULIGHT dynamics

June 13, 2019 | 6:30-8:30PM; Doors open @ 5PM | $5 Suggested Donation
 

Daylight can have a range of positive and negative effects on our health, comfort, and experience in buildings. It provides the electromagnetic energy we need to see, enhances our perception of space with light and shadow, and drives the production of hormones responsible for entraining our circadian system. Daylight can also cause discomfort in the form of glare and overheating. In this talk, Siobhan Rockcastle will present her research on the effects of daylight on human well-being – from the development of simulation tools for modelling the impacts of light in buildings to her work with virtual reality, which allows users to experience daylit spaces in an immersive way and make informed design decisions before a building is constructed. A sample of these virtual environments will be shared using Oculus Rift and webVR through google cardboard.

Siobhan Rockcastle is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon, Director of the Baker Lighting Lab, and co-founder of OCULIGHT dynamics, a company offering specialized daylight design support to promote healthy indoor occupation. She explores topics at the intersection of architectural design, environmental dynamics, human perception, and daylight performance. Siobhan’s research uses simulation and virtual reality to model and design experiential lighting environments. She has a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell, a Master of Science in Architectural Studies from MIT, and a PhD in Architecture and Science of the City from the EPFL. Both her Master and PhD theses received recognition, with a ‘Top Thesis Award’ and ‘Special Distinction,’ respectively.

Before the start of her position at the University of Oregon, Siobhan worked for Snøhetta NY, MSR design, Epiphyte lab, and Gensler and taught classes at Cornell, Northeastern, and EPFL. She consults on lighting design integration and environmental performance for a number of architectural and urban-scale projects in Switzerland and the USA. As a continuation of her work at MIT, Siobhan’s PhD research proposed new metrics that predict the impacts of daylight and spatial composition on perception and emotion in architecture. She has co-authored journal papers in Building & Environment and Lighting Research & Technology and presented her research at IBPSA International, SimAUD, Velux Daylight Symposium, LUX EUROPA, LIGHTFAIR International, and Transsolar Research Days.

Science Pub Eugene is a monthly event that is open to anyone and everyone. No RSVP or scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for food, drinks, and knowledge! For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.