https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs Critically-acclaimed chamber ensemble, Phonochrome, returns to the stage with a compelling array of music and songs in solidarity with Banned Books Week. Their program is a timely, musical exploration of artistic and literary censorship. It features works by notably blacklisted artists Aaron Copland and Dorothy Parker, controversial songs made famous by Billie Holiday and […]
Timothy Johnson: Solo Piano
Timothy Johnson will perform his original compositions for solo piano. The works include pieces from his last album, A Guide to Misinterpreting the Past, as well as new unreleased material. His compositional style is a mix of impressionism and minimalism combined with American harmonies and structure. He started out by experimenting with the concept of […]
Timothy Johnson: Solo Piano
Timothy Johnson will perform his original compositions for solo piano. The works include pieces from his last album, A Guide to Misinterpreting the Past, as well as new unreleased material. His compositional style is a mix of impressionism and minimalism combined with American harmonies and structure. He started out by experimenting with the concept of […]
Eric Glick Rieman w/ Knitting Ensemble
This incarnation of the Knitting Ensemble includes Eric Glick Rieman: prepared Rhodes electric piano Brett Carson: piano Nava Dunkelman: percussion Suki O’kane: percussion Jakob Pek: guitar My work is about sound and sounds. I like to listen, and I hope my work evokes this in a listener. In this performance, I’ll be performing on a […]
Eric Glick Rieman w/ Knitting Ensemble
This incarnation of the Knitting Ensemble includes Eric Glick Rieman: prepared Rhodes electric piano Brett Carson: piano Nava Dunkelman: percussion Suki O’kane: percussion Jakob Pek: guitar My work is about sound and sounds. I like to listen, and I hope my work evokes this in a listener. In this performance, I’ll be performing on a […]
Thea Farhadian and Tim Perkis/Carter Scholz Duo
Thea Farhadian is a composer based in San Francisco and Berlin. She comes from the background of new contemporary music and works primarily with free improvisation, and live electronic processing using the software program, Max/MSP. Her solo work integrates extended techniques, microtonality, and sound-based material in what Touching Extremes calls “..fumes of disassembled harmony and dissonant […]
Thea Farhadian and Tim Perkis/Carter Scholz Duo
Thea Farhadian is a composer based in San Francisco and Berlin. She comes from the background of new contemporary music and works primarily with free improvisation, and live electronic processing using the software program, Max/MSP. Her solo work integrates extended techniques, microtonality, and sound-based material in what Touching Extremes calls “..fumes of disassembled harmony and dissonant […]
The Bottesini Project
The Bottesini Project, Colorado’s premiere free improvisation ensemble creates intricately woven, fully improvised compositions in a contemporary jazz-based setting. From this basis, the music may take off to the fringes into a myriad of stylistic and sonic portals. The journey is the key – beautifully melodic, captivatingly rhythmic, Bottesini excels at harnessing the drama of […]
The Bottesini Project
The Bottesini Project, Colorado’s premiere free improvisation ensemble creates intricately woven, fully improvised compositions in a contemporary jazz-based setting. From this basis, the music may take off to the fringes into a myriad of stylistic and sonic portals. The journey is the key – beautifully melodic, captivatingly rhythmic, Bottesini excels at harnessing the drama of […]
Søren Kjærgaard, Solo (piano) and Chris Brown, Solo (piano & electronics)
Danish pianist Søren Kjærgaard is currently working on an artistic research project that looks into solo performance as an expressive format for multi-layered and multi-directional improvisation. As a pianist and improviser Søren Kjærgaard is engaged in how one can open a field of possibilities within the natural limitations of the solo format and the core […]