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MANNA + Sandy James + Danielle Nia

with

Video Projections by Neil Cippon and Samara Talkin

at

The Gatherings Concert Series

In-Person Event (plus Live Stream)

Saturday 22 November 2025 8:00PM

at

St. Mary's Hamilton Village
3916 Locust Walk in Philadelphia, PA

Free Admission / Donations Requested / Registration Advised

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MANNA + Sandy James + Danielle Nia 22 Nov 2025


Electronic Musicians MANNA + Sandy James + Danielle Nia return to The Gatherings Concert Series on Saturday 22 November 2025 (with video artistry by Neil Cippon and Samara Talkin) within the remarkable church sanctuary of St Mary's Hamilton Village.

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Manna

The learned listener will find the modular-made realizations by MANNA marked by creative beauty and a meritorious aural adventurousness. The sonic energy level winds its way languidly through the resonant and subtly shaded Ambient moods provided by a range of synthesizers of an open-ended voicing architecture. From tuneful fairytale engagement to the enigmatic and uncategorizable, this explorer of the electronic realm absorbs, then plays the world around us.

 

MANNA Live on STAR'S END 08.11.24 (live stream/complete performance)

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Sandy James

Sandy James teaches music technology and is in charge of labs, smart classrooms and computers at the Boyer College of Music and Dance and Temple University. Previously she worked in the commercial software industry as a developer and analyst. Sandy has a Masters in Sonic Arts from University of Rome, Tor Vergata, a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Temple University, and a Certificate in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She studied Latin Percussion at Philadelphia's Latin American Music Association, and has studied privately in Cuba and Panama. Sandy uses a combination of analog sound synthesis and computer AV synthesis for her installations, fixed media pieces and performances. She has built some of her own synthesizers and modules, and has presented pieces created in Csound, Flash, pd, POVRay, Blender and Max / MSP, and is a regular performer at local Modular on the Spot events.

 

Sandy James 2022 (complete performance)

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Danielle Nia

With a warm-blooded wiring this patch cord poet connects to a constellation of charged, storied machines - devices meant to set the inner workings of the mind into motion, as they cast their spell of consonance and dissonance in alternating currents and continuous voltages. Humming with energy and creativity, Danielle Nia fearlessly imagines a future full of freedom and possibility - a new age hopefully within our reach.

 

Danielle Nia Live at The Gatherings Concert Series (5 April 2025 - complete performance)

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Neil Cippon/Samara Talkin Neil Cippon/Samara Talkin

This event will include the video artistry of Neil Cippon and Samara Talkin.
Generating projections of original, ever-evolving graphics onto the interior features of the St Mary's staging space, their visual output aligns with the improvised live musical expressions conjured by the musicians.

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The Gatherings Concert Series presents MANNA plus Sandy James plus Danlelle Nia live in concert on Saturday 22 November 2025 at 8:00PM. (doors open at 7:30PM) in the church sanctuary of St. Mary's Hamilton Village 3916 Locust Walk (just east of 40th & Locust) on the Penn campus in West Philadelphia. Free Admission/Donations Requested. Advance Registration is advised through Humanitix.

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CIMA of PA CIMA of PA - The Corporation for Innovative Music and Arts of Pennsylvania

MANNA plus Sandy James plus Danielle Nia at The Gatherings Concert Series on 22 November 2025 is funded by CIMA of PA (The Corporation for Innovative Music and Arts of Pennsylvania), the all-volunteer, IRS recognized 501(c)3 non-profit organization behind the organization and production of The Gatherings Concert Series. The basic mission of CIMA of PA is to bring innovative music concerts to the public and further the advancement of this form of art.

For more about CIMA of PA, please access the Mission Statement


MANNA plus Sandy James plus Danielle Nia Youtube Live Stream Saturday 22 November 2025
In-Person Concert/Live Stream - Complete Performance

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The Gatherings Concert Series is presented by the all-volunteer staff of The Corporation for Innovative Music and Arts of Pennsylvania

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