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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Optical Sound – DATE CHANGE
The first in new OPTICAL SOUND series at C4NM. In this monthly series, guest curator Benjamin Tinker will assemble a new ensemble every month to perform to a film, most likely an early silent, but not necessarily. Performer bios: Bruce Ackley was born in Rochester, New York in 1948. Following in his father’s footsteps, he […]
Optical Sound – DATE CHANGE
The first in new OPTICAL SOUND series at C4NM. In this monthly series, guest curator Benjamin Tinker will assemble a new ensemble every month to perform to a film, most likely an early silent, but not necessarily. Performer bios: Bruce Ackley was born in Rochester, New York in 1948. Following in his father’s footsteps, he […]
Tonal Masher meets Bari Blaster: Aram Shelton & Jon Raskin + John Bischoff Solo Electronics
Raskin’s Bari Blaster meets Shelton’s Tonal Masher in their first meeting as a duo. This set aspires to shed light on innovative ways in which the saxophone can be used. This will be a no rules event. As Bari Blaster, Jon Raskin plays a chimera synth through his Baritone saxophone as an amplification device, with and without the […]