Blog – Center for New Music

A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations by Eric Theise

Cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated, digital maps in dialogue with composed and improvised soundtracks. A wash of street grids, coastlines, land masses, contours, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Auditory roundabouts and cul-de-sacs. Disorienting labels and free-floating symbology. Driving rhythms. Colors, both saturated and subtle. Zooms, pans, rotations, and traversals. Wayfinding frustrations and failures. […]

Composer Meetup – July ’25

Present what you’ve been working on, ask for feedback, hear what others are up to, discuss relevant new music topics, and spend time with colleagues and good company! The composer meetup is open to anyone. Bring a score or recording to share, or just be ready to chat about new music. If sharing music, you […]

6 x 3

A rare concert consisting of piano trios only, by major Bay Area composers. Pianist Paul Dab, violinist Michael Long, and cellist Sung Choi! SIX BY THREE Here is something unusual: a concert consisting entirely of trios for piano, violin, and cello. This combination has been used by composers for centuries. Its austere limitations provide a […]

G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S

Unique experimental sounds 25 yrs stronger through gourmet vegan pancake event. Please enjoy. Jay Howard (Circuit Wound, L.A.) Fletcher Pratt Sharkiface Sissisters Tomaka Conner […]

animals & giraffes with boyce, davis, walsh, watkins

animals & giraffes (saxophonist phillip greenlief & writer claudia la rocco) returns to the sf bay area with a special concert featuring David Boyce (saxophone, effects), Evelyn Davis (piano), Anne Walsh (visuals/video, voice), Zachary James Watkins, electric guitar, electronics, effects ANIMALS AND GIRAFFES Musician/composer Phillip Greenlief and writer Claudia La Rocco created animals & giraffes […]

Fire at the Plantation House: Farewell San Francisco

After 13 years of rockin’ in the Bay, John Angel is saying goodbye the only way he can: with an evening of melting faces!! A set of Fire at the Plantation House tunes featuring all the hits and some never before heard numbers will celebrate the release of Angel’s latest single “Tin(der) Foil Hats”! Special […]

Composer Meetup – June ’25

G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S

Maximum vegan gourmet pancakes served with top notch experimental sounds featuring the glass hands of: John Bischoff Mitchell Brown (L.A.) (ruidobello) Sterile Garden (Eureka) KROB Sab.ot 25 yrs sound series of experimental trajectories beyond ear realities, beyond comprehension, beyond the fractal madness cutting a honeyed harmonics that melt into caramelized dissonances, each note glazed […]

Composer Meetup – May ’25

LMNts Trio + Aaron Bennett

The LMNts Trio is a collaboration between Scott R. Looney (piano,prepared piano, electronics), Lisa Mezzacapa (bass), and Kjell Nordeson (percussion), and the group has been playing together in person since before the pandemic, remotely during the pandemic, and in person again since the pandemic subsided. The communication between the players is telepathic and ranges widely […]