C4NM Gallery Opening Receptions are from 6-8pm and feature an hour long reception followed by a talk/demonstration by the artist 6pm – Reception 7pm – Talk/demonstration Free and open to the public! Shape Studies Artist Statement: For as long as I can remember I have been attracted to sound. First through playful curiosity, building make-shift […]
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2 sets, 90 minutes total. Californian artist Jim Haynes works with a recombinant crucible of shortwave radio, convulsive motors, electro-magnetic disturbances, and electronics in variable states of disrepair. Corrosion and decay are central themes of his work. Joshua Churchill (guitar, field recordings and effects) and Konrad Steiner (video and live mixing) will collaborate to compose […]
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This show celebrates the release of “Tremble Trove”, a double-CD album of free improvised music on ArtifactRecordings featuring Chris Brown, piano&electronics; Ben Davis, cello; and Marshall Trammell, drums. The show opens with the Bay Area premiere showing of “Eleven Postures”, directed by Matt Volla, a performance film documenting Marshall Trammell’s solo percussion vernacular as a […]
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Singer, performer and artist Aine E. Nakamura and composer and performer Srayamurtikanti will make their first appearance at the Center for New Music. They will present each of their solo works, and a collaborative work they will premiere upon this occasion. Aine E. Nakamura creates her idiosyncratic art of voice and body, focused on site- […]
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Symbiotic Instruments are a collection of resonant objects made by Roxanne Nesbitt and played by an ever-evolving group of musicians. The ceramic instruments are used both as percussion instruments and as preparations in the piano and on the drums. This version of the ensemble features Roxanne Nesbitt on piano and ceramics, and Ben Brown on […]
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Mexican vocalist/looper Lizeth Ruvalcaba returns to the Bay Area for a solo concert of electronically-augmented voice. Ruvalcaba is a singer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Her main instrument is her voice; with it, she makes atmospheric and ethereal music that is deeply rooted in Mexican tradition. Liz Ruvalcaba is a singer, […]
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Oort Smog (Patrick Shiroishi & Mark Kimbrell) are celebrating the release of their second album, Every Motherfucker is Your Brother, with a tour of the west coast. Zachary James Watkins, an incredible sound creator, will be opening the show. Oort Smog aims to continue the sax-drum duo tradition, inspired by early formations such as John […]
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Megan Cullen and The Opus Project Ensemble perform the 96th works of composers throughout the years! Featuring the music of: Johann Baptiste Cramer Freidrich Schneider Homer Newton Bartlett Gabriel Faure Théodore Lack Isaac Albeniz Alexander Glazunov Jean Sibelius Casa del Sarto Ralph Vaughan Williams Charles Ives Camille Zeckwer Igor Stravinsky Joaquin Turina Sergei Prokofiev Dmitri […]
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The performing arts have a deep and significant footing in queerness and while performing arts spaces are not inherently queer, they are essentially other than ordinary and quite often fabulous. Music is a queer art, it has no gender, and arouses feelings beyond gender and relationship boundaries. Music is the drag our feelings wear when […]
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Australian bass-clarinetist, Ros Dunlop, presents a program of audio-visual works by contemporary Aussie composers Margery Smith/Penelope Lee; Hollis Taylor; Felicity Wilcox; and Martin Wesley-Smith. These pieces explore the connections between sound, place, time and identity. Ros Dunlop is an Australia clarinetist/bass clarinetist. She has been a strong advocate of new music for the clarinet & […]
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