Local and international artists (musicians and dancers) meet to perform an evening of improvisation, creating spatial interaction and sonic abstraction in between the different bodies (body of sound and human body). This series has been curated and produced since 2013 by Christine Bonansea in various local venues of the bay area of San Francisco: The […]
SONIC BODY SERIES #10
Local and international artists (musicians and dancers) meet to perform an evening of improvisation, creating spatial interaction and sonic abstraction in between the different bodies (body of sound and human body). This series has been curated and produced since 2013 by Christine Bonansea in various local venues of the bay area of San Francisco: The […]
Workshop: Lighting Design for Musicians
You’ve spent hours in rehearsals refining your music… how can you make sure your performance complements what you’re doing? Take a long lunch with award-winning lighting designer Clyde Sheets to explore lighting design for music. Sheets, who is himself a musician, and has designed for operas, musical theater, and top new music ensembles like Bang […]
Workshop: Lighting Design for Musicians
You’ve spent hours in rehearsals refining your music… how can you make sure your performance complements what you’re doing? Take a long lunch with award-winning lighting designer Clyde Sheets to explore lighting design for music. Sheets, who is himself a musician, and has designed for operas, musical theater, and top new music ensembles like Bang […]
Kyle Motl: Transmogrifications – Solo Contrabass
At the heart of my solo music is an ongoing interest in exploring the limits of the contrabass. In solo improvisation, I am free to plumb the instrument’s wealth of sonorities, pushing sound to its breaking point and revealing the extremities of technique, timbre, and dynamic envelope. Solo performance also presents a platform for the […]
Kyle Motl: Transmogrifications – Solo Contrabass
At the heart of my solo music is an ongoing interest in exploring the limits of the contrabass. In solo improvisation, I am free to plumb the instrument’s wealth of sonorities, pushing sound to its breaking point and revealing the extremities of technique, timbre, and dynamic envelope. Solo performance also presents a platform for the […]
Phil Pierick, saxophone: memories in gray
memories in gray stitches together works for saxophone with and without electronics from the 21st century. In works by Lei Liang, Kati Agócs, David Reminick, Stefano Gervasoni, and Javier Quislant, saxophonist Phil Pierick obscures the lines between silence and sound, real and imagined, and gray and in color. A staunch advocate for new music, saxophonist […]
Phil Pierick, saxophone: memories in gray
memories in gray stitches together works for saxophone with and without electronics from the 21st century. In works by Lei Liang, Kati Agócs, David Reminick, Stefano Gervasoni, and Javier Quislant, saxophonist Phil Pierick obscures the lines between silence and sound, real and imagined, and gray and in color. A staunch advocate for new music, saxophonist […]
Public Speaking Workshop
From stage banter to gig pursuits, public speaking skills are an important tool for musicians to better engage their listeners. Today’s performers and composers are expected to address audiences, students, booking reps, potential supporters, and a host of others. Work with an expert artistic and nonprofit leader to hone your public speaking skills. With decades […]
Public Speaking Workshop
From stage banter to gig pursuits, public speaking skills are an important tool for musicians to better engage their listeners. Today’s performers and composers are expected to address audiences, students, booking reps, potential supporters, and a host of others. Work with an expert artistic and nonprofit leader to hone your public speaking skills. With decades […]