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<\/p>\nWelcome to \u201cThe Sights + Sounds Show with Jene\u00e9 Darden,” where every week we tap into the Bay Area arts scene and bring you rich conversations with artists. On today\u2019s show: a creative who is using sound technology to create a beautiful audio experience at the Grace Cathedral. Host Jene\u00e9 Darden chts with sound sculptor Bill Fontana. Then, BATS Improv celebrates its 40th anniversary. Co-founder William Hall is on the show.<\/p>\n
Today we\u2019re going to laugh and chill.<\/p>\n
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Photo Provided by Alina Dennis<\/p>\n
Sound sculptor Bill Fontana<\/p>\n
Bill Fontana Photo Provided by Kevin Kopjack<\/p>\n BATS Improv co-founder William Hall<\/p>\n William Hall Check out their August Intensive workshops, as well as their BATS Jam-a-thon, on Sunday, August 30. All will take place at their Bayfront Theatre at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to \u201cThe Sights + Sounds Show with Jene\u00e9 Darden,” where every week we tap into the Bay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-425124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Did you ever notice a still object and wonder if it makes a noise, even while not moving? That\u2019s kind of what Bill Fontana<\/a> has been doing around the world for 50 years. He\u2019s a sound sculptor. Bill places microphones and vibration sensors on objects. Then speakers project sounds from the objects that can\u2019t really be heard with the human ear alone. They are beautiful, other worldly, meditative sounds. Bill is Grace Cathedral\u2019s 2026 artist in residence. His latest installation is called \u201cResonance <\/a>\u201d and it\u2019s currently running at the church through September 20.<\/p>\n![\"BATS](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785990850_679_.jpeg\"\/)
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William Shakespeare wrote, \u201cAll the world\u2019s a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts.\u201d
This got Host Jene\u00e9 Darden thinking about how in life, we do a lot of improvising on our daily stages. William Hall<\/a> is an improv teacher and performer. He teaches improv to actors and businesses. Bill co-founded BATS Improv<\/a> in San Francisco. BATS is the largest and longest-running improvised theatre company and school in Northern California. This year, they\u2019re celebrating their 40th anniversary. BATS has events lined up for the community this month<\/a>. In this interview William and Jene\u00e9 do some improv and talk about how we use improv in various areas of our lives. <\/p>\n