Center for New Music Production Manager Riley Nicholson interviews curator Julia Ogrydziak about her “HUSH” Series. HUSH is a series at Center for New Music that explores music as meditation. HUSH: March 25th, 2018 Daniel Corral Polytope April 15th, 2018 Long Tone Choir: Spring May 22-23, 2018 Anka Draugelates Summer 2018 Julia Ogrydziak, Norther Lights […]
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Founders Letter on the 5th Anniversary of C4NM
In 2012, we asked ourselves and our community a simple question: if we had a space, what could we do with it? Armed with a mission to support and build the community of new music to encourage its efficiency, growth, integration, and excellence, we set about creating a welcoming space that values inclusivity. Five years […]
A Discussion with Paul Dresher
Paul Dresher is a multi-talented composer who is uniquely able to weave contemporary classical, pop, minimalist, and South and Southeast Asian musical styles together into his own distinctive personal style. He creates in a myriad of different genres, including experimental theater, contemporary opera, acoustic and electronic chamber music, orchestral compositions, dance scores, and musical instrument […]
Call for Proposals: Curators 2018-2020
The Center for New Music is now accepting proposals from curators for two-year terms beginning in 2018. Please consider sharing your artistic vision through C4NM! For information on how to apply, download the Call for Proposals. Deadline to submit is Monday, October 16, 2017 at 9:00 AM PST. C4NM welcomes […]
Can New Music Actually Do Social Activism
We need to do better. I know this is going to be hard to hear, and it should be hard to hear. New Music is so very white. We need to make New Music more inclusive—more revolutionary—if we want to claim that our art does political work. We need to more deeply consider our audiences […]
Lighting Tips by Clyde Sheets
Clyde Sheets, a veteran lighting designer who’s worked with ensembles like Eighth Blackbird, So Percussion, and many others, dropped by C4NM to share insights about how to approach lighting live music. As musicians and composers we often obsess about sound while ignoring other key production factors involved with presenting music. A key element of music […]
May Workshops for Musicians – FREE!
The Center is thrilled to host a variety of opportunities for musicians to build their knowledge, artistry, and career this May. All workshops are free with registration, and open to anyone! Project Development Workshop Thursday, May 4, 12:30 – 2 PM How can you take your musical idea and bring it to fruition? Independent […]
In the Stacks: New York is Now! The New Wave of Free Jazz by Phil Freeman
Fiercely passionate and unapologetically polemical, Phil Freeman’s debut book New York is Now! The New Wave of Free Jazz is by turns infuriating, maddening…and completely enthralling. Early on, Freeman states that he wrote the book to introduce free jazz to music lovers “who may be only passingly familiar with it”, and it certainly can function […]
Interview with Jennifer Walshe
Jennifer Walshe was in town performing one of her multimedia one-woman shows at the Center. As with many of her pieces, it was a vocal tour de force, spotlighting her virtuosity and charisma as she nailed rapid-fire spot-on impersonations and a smattering of extended vocal techniques for nearly an hour. I sat down with her […]
The Source: Interview with Composer Ted Hearne
SF Opera Lab recently put on Ted Hearne’s work The Source, an oratorio/album/“patchwork of songs” drawn from primary source documents around and related to Chelsea Manning and the documents she leaked in 2010. Source texts include actual incident reports from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and online conversations between Manning and Adrian Lamo, a former […]