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 […]
Christin Schillinger — Diaphonic: New Sounds for Bassoon
Fox Bassoons Performing Artist Christin Schillinger, known for her ‘natural interpretations’ and ‘perfect musical choices’ within new music, specializes in the accessibility of the avant-garde. Her latest album, Bassoon Transcended {MSR Classics/Swineshead Productions}, explores music for bassoon by active women composers. With collaborative pianist Jed Moss, Schillinger continues this research on the stage performing concerts […]
Christin Schillinger — Diaphonic: New Sounds for Bassoon
Fox Bassoons Performing Artist Christin Schillinger, known for her ‘natural interpretations’ and ‘perfect musical choices’ within new music, specializes in the accessibility of the avant-garde. Her latest album, Bassoon Transcended {MSR Classics/Swineshead Productions}, explores music for bassoon by active women composers. With collaborative pianist Jed Moss, Schillinger continues this research on the stage performing concerts […]
Willful Devices: sfSoundSalonSeries presents Scott Miller & Pat O'Keefe
Willful Devices is an electroacoustic improv duo, born of the collaboration between composer/computer musician Scott Miller and clarinetist/bass clarinetist Pat O’Keefe. Their name refers to the willful nature of the tools they manipulate to produce sound, because despite their best efforts, these devices are never fully under their control. Willful Devices celebrates this, since […]
Willful Devices: sfSoundSalonSeries presents Scott Miller & Pat O'Keefe
Willful Devices is an electroacoustic improv duo, born of the collaboration between composer/computer musician Scott Miller and clarinetist/bass clarinetist Pat O’Keefe. Their name refers to the willful nature of the tools they manipulate to produce sound, because despite their best efforts, these devices are never fully under their control. Willful Devices celebrates this, since […]
Judy Dunaway: Balloon Music
Judy Dunaway performs avant-garde compositions and free improvisations on amplified latex balloons played as musical instruments. She is known internationally as a “virtuoso of the balloon.” She plays a variety of shapes and sizes of balloon instruments, each with it’s own special qualities, pushing the extremes of both pitch range and artistic limits. Her large […]
Judy Dunaway: Balloon Music
Judy Dunaway performs avant-garde compositions and free improvisations on amplified latex balloons played as musical instruments. She is known internationally as a “virtuoso of the balloon.” She plays a variety of shapes and sizes of balloon instruments, each with it’s own special qualities, pushing the extremes of both pitch range and artistic limits. Her large […]
Vernacular Visions
The first installment in a series of screenings that Vernacular Visions* will be presenting at the Center for New Music (September through November). At each performance a 35mm slideshow of found photographs will be projected while two small groupings of musical improvisors (from both Oakland and San Francisco) interpret & accompany the images with a […]
Vernacular Visions
The first installment in a series of screenings that Vernacular Visions* will be presenting at the Center for New Music (September through November). At each performance a 35mm slideshow of found photographs will be projected while two small groupings of musical improvisors (from both Oakland and San Francisco) interpret & accompany the images with a […]
Cadenza: Pierrot Lunaire
“Pierrot Lunaire” is a melodrama by Arnold Schoenberg, set to poems by Albert Giraud and translated into German by Otto Erich Hartleben. “Pierrot Lunaire” consists of three groups of seven poems – In the first group, Pierrot sings of love, sex and religion; in the second, of violence, crime, and blasphemy; and in the third […]