Memory Theater

memory theater is a Filipinx dream/synthpop artist based in Berkeley. Their music explores how memories – both individual & collective – influence our present and future lived realities, framing how we process and perpetually regurgitate/reconfigure our experiences through the projector screens of past feelings, thoughts, and dreams, which are always enmeshed with and distinguished according to race, gender, class, etc.

Their music is intrigued with how memory can be a harrowing and painful experience , and can immobilize growth & lock oneself into destructive + repetitious patterns due to generational and interpersonal trauma. but also how memory — such as collective cultural memory — interweaves with our deepest imaginative powers, and can help us reconnect to our unique spiritualities/identities/communities. Their music looks at how memories can encircle our dreams & act as a source for creating moments, however infinitesimal, of reprieve and joy, & reawaken wonder and belief in life.

Their influences: Cocteau Twins, Fishmans, James Ferraro, GRIM, Slowdive, Strawberry Switchblade, Wong Kar Wai, Nine Inch Nails, Gregg Araki, Lil B, Naoko Takeuchi, Grouper, Harold Budd, Sweet Trip, Chromatics, Yellow Magic Orchestra, minimal synth/industrial, Nagamatzu, Basic Channel, Kentaro Miura.