indescribably good interactive sometimes changing at break neck speed sometimes deliciously slow and melodic and sometimes pure noise– not forgetting levity and not shying from intensity… Fred Frith is a songwriter, composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist best known for the reinvention of the electric guitar that began with Guitar Solos in 1974. He learned his craft […]
line upon line percussion
A sampling of the most recent developments in percussion music over the last half-decade. Australian-born, but Berlin-based Thomas Meadowcroft relays the migratory flight patterns of the great knot, while Matthew Shlomowitz investigates everyday and pop culture in Popular Contexts #6. Steve Snowden’s A Man with a Gun Lives Here takes its cues from Depression-era […]
line upon line percussion
A sampling of the most recent developments in percussion music over the last half-decade. Australian-born, but Berlin-based Thomas Meadowcroft relays the migratory flight patterns of the great knot, while Matthew Shlomowitz investigates everyday and pop culture in Popular Contexts #6. Steve Snowden’s A Man with a Gun Lives Here takes its cues from Depression-era […]
Super Healings! – Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
“SUPER HEALINGS!” The Legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble All Star 2016 Tour begins in February during Black History Month. Internationally acclaimed percussionist, composer, and band leader Kahil El’Zabar will premier a brand new Ethnic Heritage Ensemble featuring two masterful icons of the modern jazz idiom: Baritone sax giant, Hamiet Bluiett, and trombone titan, Craig Harris! While these three giants […]
Super Healings! – Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
“SUPER HEALINGS!” The Legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble All Star 2016 Tour begins in February during Black History Month. Internationally acclaimed percussionist, composer, and band leader Kahil El’Zabar will premier a brand new Ethnic Heritage Ensemble featuring two masterful icons of the modern jazz idiom: Baritone sax giant, Hamiet Bluiett, and trombone titan, Craig Harris! While these three giants […]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents: People Making Sounds – Bromp Treb + Weston Olencki/Charlie Sdraulig
SET 1: People Making Sounds is a project co-organized by Weston Olencki & Charlie Sdraulig. They present experimental sound art, conceptual music, & iterations of expanded sonic practice. Performances feature, but are not limited to, instruments, objects, gestures, tapes, & videos. tim parkinson – opus 1 james saunders – lots and lots for us to […]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents: People Making Sounds – Bromp Treb + Weston Olencki/Charlie Sdraulig
SET 1: People Making Sounds is a project co-organized by Weston Olencki & Charlie Sdraulig. They present experimental sound art, conceptual music, & iterations of expanded sonic practice. Performances feature, but are not limited to, instruments, objects, gestures, tapes, & videos. tim parkinson – opus 1 james saunders – lots and lots for us to […]
Beau Dream: Songs and other Signposts
Beau Dream (MM Piano SFCM 02, MM Viola SFSU 07) is a 38-year-old transmale musician living in San Francisco since 2000. After a brief stint in Los Angeles he returned to SF in 2012 to continue his transition and enrich his musical journey. He currently teaches private lessons, and studies voice with Suzanne Mentzer. The […]
Beau Dream: Songs and other Signposts
Beau Dream (MM Piano SFCM 02, MM Viola SFSU 07) is a 38-year-old transmale musician living in San Francisco since 2000. After a brief stint in Los Angeles he returned to SF in 2012 to continue his transition and enrich his musical journey. He currently teaches private lessons, and studies voice with Suzanne Mentzer. The […]
Lisa Leong, pianist: Arrell, Boulez, Harvey, Lin, Nono, Williams
This concert explores the sonorities, complexities, textures and processes in classics by Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, Jonathan Harvey and new works by contemporary composers Amy Williams, Mei-Fang Lin and Chris Arrell. The program includes Boulez’s ‘Incises’ (2001 version), a fertile, perpetually-moving shimmering fabric of textural interplay, Nono’s poignant reflection on loss ‘…sofferte onde serene…’ […]