A collaboration between poets, composers, and performers alike; soprano Jill Morgan Brenner will be premiering an evening of art songs with pianist Anne Rainwater. The composers include; Danny Clay, Joseph M. Colombo, Kyle Hovatter, and Emma Logan. The composers have set music to poets Heather Christle, J.A. Nowak, Matthew Zapruder, and Chelsea Martin respectively. […]
Optical Sound #2 ~ Dementia (1955) ~ Frith•Custer•Stanley
The second in a monthly series of improv music to soundless films at The Center For New Music. Benjamin Ethan Tinker is curating this series with Center For New Music curator Tania Chen. This evening the film will be the dialouge-less “Dementia (aka Daughter of Horror)” (1955) by John Parker. “May be the strangest film ever […]
Optical Sound #2 ~ Dementia (1955) ~ Frith•Custer•Stanley
The second in a monthly series of improv music to soundless films at The Center For New Music. Benjamin Ethan Tinker is curating this series with Center For New Music curator Tania Chen. This evening the film will be the dialouge-less “Dementia (aka Daughter of Horror)” (1955) by John Parker. “May be the strangest film ever […]
Optical Sound #3: Metropolis
An all electronic ensemble: Tania Chen Tom Djll Laetitia Sonami Jeanie Aprille Tang Benjamin Tinker Ryan Page w/ voice accompaniment: Josephine Torio The third in an ongoing, monthly series in which local and/or touring improvisors perform along with films and or videos, utilizing the narrative and/or image as a guided improvisational score. This time […]
Optical Sound #3: Metropolis
An all electronic ensemble: Tania Chen Tom Djll Laetitia Sonami Jeanie Aprille Tang Benjamin Tinker Ryan Page w/ voice accompaniment: Josephine Torio The third in an ongoing, monthly series in which local and/or touring improvisors perform along with films and or videos, utilizing the narrative and/or image as a guided improvisational score. This time […]
Switchboard Presents: Ambient Happy Hour & In C ReDo
Switchboard Presents launches their 2015-2016 concert season with an ambient happy hour curated by local composer extraordinaire Danny Clay and an audience-participation performance of the In C ReDo. The In C ReDo was commissioned from 51 composers in honor of the 50th anniversary of Terry Riley’s original In C. Bring your own instrument! […]
Switchboard Presents: Ambient Happy Hour & In C ReDo
Switchboard Presents launches their 2015-2016 concert season with an ambient happy hour curated by local composer extraordinaire Danny Clay and an audience-participation performance of the In C ReDo. The In C ReDo was commissioned from 51 composers in honor of the 50th anniversary of Terry Riley’s original In C. Bring your own instrument! […]
Silver Keys Trio – All American Music
Silver Keys Trio Christina Guenther, flute Susan Nelson, bassoon Geneva Fung, piano California Tour, Fall 2015 Program I Might Speak (2015)* Kyle Hovatter (b.1986) 1. I Might Speak 2. With Tongues of Angles 3. Yet Without Love 4. I 5. Have Now Become 6. A Clanging Symbol 7. Resounding Trio for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano […]
Silver Keys Trio – All American Music
Silver Keys Trio Christina Guenther, flute Susan Nelson, bassoon Geneva Fung, piano California Tour, Fall 2015 Program I Might Speak (2015)* Kyle Hovatter (b.1986) 1. I Might Speak 2. With Tongues of Angles 3. Yet Without Love 4. I 5. Have Now Become 6. A Clanging Symbol 7. Resounding Trio for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano […]
Not Electronic Music: sfSoundSalonSeries presents RAFAEL TORAL + ERIC GLICK RIEMAN, CHRIS COOPER, HORAFLORA
Rafael Toral plays electronic music today as a jazz musician would play his instrument, applying jazz discipline and working practices to his abstract electronics. The result is truly evolutionary music, once described as “a brand of electronic music far more visceral and emotive than that of his cerebral peers”. Melodic without notes, rhythmic without a […]