Cantor Arts Center presents our Spring season of Forms & Frequencies, a Thursday night music series featuring musicians and sound artists from the Bay Area and beyond, with special evening hours for audiences to visit exhibitions on view.

On Thursday, May 1, join us at the Cantor Arts Center for a performance by Santino Gonzales, whose work bridges the intersections of technology, landscape, and the unseen. Combining improvisational ambient music, field recordings, and voice messages from loved ones, Gonzales crafts ephemeral soundscapes that blur the boundaries between memory and transmission, intimacy and distance. His use of radio as both medium and metaphor transforms static and interference into poetic conduits for connection, inviting listeners to tune into the layered soundscape of life.

This series is programmed in conjunction with Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, an exhibition featuring forty-four photo-based artists across the globe who use a variety of artistic methods to explore the complexities of the this geological time of vanishing ice, rising waters, increased resource extraction, as well as the painful legacies of colonialism, forced climate migration, and socio-environmental trauma. 

Whether you’re a fan of live music, a lover of art, or simply looking for a unique night out, Forms & Frequencies promises an unforgettable experience that resonates with all your senses.  

All public programs at the Cantor Arts Center are always free! Space for this program is limited; advance registration is recommended. 

About the Artist

Santino Gonzales is an artist from Los Lunas, New Mexico currently living in Oakland. His multimedia works draw on elements of ufology, adobe, and radio to explore feelings of connection across space and time. Gonzales’s art practice reveals throughlines between technology, land, and the unknown. His work positions these modes of cultural analysis within their broader legacies of resilience, resurgence, and wonder. Gonzales received his BFA from the UNM & his MFA from California College of the Arts. He is a Dedalus Fellow and has exhibited work in San Francisco, Brooklyn, Mexico and South Korea. https://www.santinogonzales.com/

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Parking

Free visitor parking is available along Lomita Drive as well as on the first floor of the Roth Way Garage Structure, located at the corner of Campus Drive West and Roth Way at 345 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305. From the Palo Alto Caltrain station, the Cantor Arts Center is about a 20-minute walk or there the free Marguerite shuttle will bring you to campus via the Y or X lines.

Disability parking is located along Lomita Drive near the main entrance of the Cantor Arts Center. Additional disability parking is located on Museum Way and in Parking Structure 1 (Roth Way & Campus Drive). Please click here to view the disability parking and access points.

Accessibility Information or Requests

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is committed to ensuring our programs are accessible to everyone. To request access information and/or accommodations for this event, please complete this form at least one week prior to the event: museum.stanford.edu/access. 

For questions, please contact disability.access@stanford.edu or Kwang-Mi Ro, kwangmi8@stanford.edu, (650) 723-3469.