OPENING RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK Thursday, July 7, 6-8 PM Join the artist for a free opening reception! Talk and demonstration will begin at 7 PM. Artist Statement I like to make things that other people think are “cool”. I like other people to make things that I think are “cool”. I think the choice […]
Larnie Fox: Cranks and Other Noisemakers
OPENING RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK Thursday, July 7, 6-8 PM Join the artist for a free opening reception! Talk and demonstration will begin at 7 PM. Artist Statement I like to make things that other people think are “cool”. I like other people to make things that I think are “cool”. I think the choice […]
CANCELED – Double CD Release Concert: Perkis/Walton Duo & Thea Farhadian – Solo
Scott Walton is a bassist and pianist whose music negotiates the terrain between jazz, free improvisation, and the classical avant-garde. Tim Perkis is a well-known figure in the worlds of improvised and electronic music. Their piano/electronics improvisation project is captured on their new CD “Improvisations” on the pfMentum label (pfmentum.com) and further work in the […]
CANCELED – Double CD Release Concert: Perkis/Walton Duo & Thea Farhadian – Solo
Scott Walton is a bassist and pianist whose music negotiates the terrain between jazz, free improvisation, and the classical avant-garde. Tim Perkis is a well-known figure in the worlds of improvised and electronic music. Their piano/electronics improvisation project is captured on their new CD “Improvisations” on the pfMentum label (pfmentum.com) and further work in the […]
SOUNDSMITHS: Celebrating Instrumental Invention – The second annual C4NM window gallery fundraiser
SOUNDSMITHS: Celebrating Instrumental Invention The second annual window gallery fundraiser $10 General, $20 Donor Food or Drink Tickets $5 each (BBQ + Salad or 2 Beer/2 Wine) Bid on an array of books, CDs and original invented instruments All proceeds support the window gallery’s displays of invented instruments Join us in a celebration of the […]
SOUNDSMITHS: Celebrating Instrumental Invention – The second annual C4NM window gallery fundraiser
SOUNDSMITHS: Celebrating Instrumental Invention The second annual window gallery fundraiser $10 General, $20 Donor Food or Drink Tickets $5 each (BBQ + Salad or 2 Beer/2 Wine) Bid on an array of books, CDs and original invented instruments All proceeds support the window gallery’s displays of invented instruments Join us in a celebration of the […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Jason Robinson
Saxophonist and composer Jason Robinson returns to the Bay Area to reunite with long time musical collaborator and bassist Scott Walton in two new configurations featuring a stellar lineup. The first will showcase various Robinson compositions and will feature Darren Johnston (trumpet), Steve Adams (alto sax), Robinson (tenor sax), Walton (bass), and John Hanes […]
Economimesis: Drummer’s Secret Handshake #3
As part of an on-going ethnographic and political education platform Marshall Trammell’s Music Research Strategies platform further investigates culturally situated design and communicative behavior amongst Creative Music percussionists. Drummer’s Secret Handshake is the newest iteration of Decolonizing the Imagination: Arts Practicum launched in 2010. At once, this project documents a mimetic relationship to nature […]
Economimesis: Drummer’s Secret Handshake #3
As part of an on-going ethnographic and political education platform Marshall Trammell’s Music Research Strategies platform further investigates culturally situated design and communicative behavior amongst Creative Music percussionists. Drummer’s Secret Handshake is the newest iteration of Decolonizing the Imagination: Arts Practicum launched in 2010. At once, this project documents a mimetic relationship to nature […]
Kyle Adam Blair: Piano Etudes by Bruno Ruviaro
In his latest set of “intellectual improperty” pieces, composer Bruno Ruviaro copies, borrows, and steals music from an eclectic mix of sources, including Bach, Chopin, the 20th century avant-garde, Brazilian bossa-nova, and more. The result is a collection of “Pós-Tudos”, twelve solo piano etudes in which the sources are sometimes transformed beyond recognition, sometimes […]