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For 46 years, this soulful oddity has been San Francisco's best-kept musical secret FacebookTwitterEmail Jazz piano melodies and San Francisco street recordings bounce around the room like ping pong balls from speaker to speaker.Mariah Tiffany/ Special to SFGATE In the Audium’s pitch-dark concert space, sound is the only color. Since 1975, this theater hidden off Bush Street in Polk Gulch has quietly — and sometimes loudly — tried to redefine how San Francisco thinks about music. The humble performance space feels like a college lecture hall crossed with a mid-century modern rec room. S...

The new Audium Sound Hour offers San Francisco a curated immersive sound environment to promote calm and wellness as the city recovers from the pandemic. Experience field recordings and electronic sounds that will take audiences on a journey from the streets of San Francisco to a place inside themselves. The historic sound theater is keeping everyone safe with an updated HVAC system, small-group venue bookings only, and full sanitization of the venue between groups. Audium's pitch-black, 176-speaker space has been upgraded, allowing for crisper and more immersive sound movement than ever befo...