Anthology of Unknown Music, Volume 1: Sonny Smith and Friends

Anthology of Unknown Music, Volume 1 is a collection of musical works and associated visual memorabilia imagined by Sonny Smith, an American musician, playwright, and artist based in West Marin. Centered around Smith's anthology of twenty recorded songs by invented artists and bands, the exhibition presents accompanying LP covers and sculptures by various collaborators commissioned by Smith. The result is a group exhibition of over 30 artists offering their own visions of to Sonny's fantastical musical narrative, as well as ceramic and multimedia pieces by Smith himself, including a functioning custom jukebox. The bands and their histories span genres and are often populated by characters identified as outcasts, weirdos, and freaks, whose songs are inspired by death, love, and atypical transformation.