Five Bay Area Composers join forces to create a varied evening of new music for Five Instruments and Voice. Trios, Quartets, and Quintets are the exciting results Five by Five presents five new compositions for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Voice by Bay Area Composers. John Beeman’s “Sprites” is inspired by an unusual weather […]
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Together, Sarah Grace Graves, Ron Heglin and Ric Louchard improvise delicate, emotive chamber music, filled with open spaces and some dense clusters. Sarah Grace uncovers surprising sounds in her explorations of voice and body, Ron speaks and sings in imagined languages, and Ric plays chromatic structures spaced widely to leave space for the singers. The music […]
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Brent Miller performs as HARJOalone. Solo electric guitar that explores volume, density, and timbre as meditation. As I have gotten older I have realized two things about ritual in my life: 1. My creative process is heavily dependent on ritual. I make my coffee. I sit and read my journaled thoughts from the previous […]
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This Thursday evening, June 1st, at the Center for New Music in San Francisco, the opening reception for the Maker Music Festival exhibit will take place. We’ve assembled a group of projects from the large body of works submitted over the past three years. The exhibit runs through the months of May and June. At […]
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This concert marks the birth of the newly launched duo between Sarah Grace Graves and Eda Er, both singers and composers in the composition PhD program at UC Berkeley who each stumbled upon experimental music somewhat unexpectedly: Graves began her artistic path as a choral singer, Er as an actor. In combining Graves’ innocent virtuosity […]
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Electronic musician/composers r beny and George Hurd will perform individual sets of deeply emotional and personal ambient music. They use machines to create intricate and intensely human music, filled with towering walls of harmony, entrancing melody, and immersive visuals. r beny’s mastery of modular synths is widely celebrated across numerous beloved records, drawing inspiration from […]
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Gabriel Zucker – piano, synth, voice Aaron Edgcomb – drums Gabriel Zucker is a pianist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist from New York, whose work combines maximalist compositions with the progressive improvisation of New York’s creative music scene. At the Center for New Music, Zucker presents a new duo with drummer Aaron Edgcomb, interspersing Zucker’s evocative and […]
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Matt Sargent (b. 1984) is a composer, guitarist, recording engineer, and music technologist based in upstate New York. His music grows from interests of resonance, acoustic phenomenon, tuning, memory, computational models of musical thinking, and the making/breaking of long-form patterns. His compositions have been described as “bringing a sharpened sense of the transcendental into the […]
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Patrick Galvin will be performing works from his album, Violin Alone, which was completed in 2022. Patrick will then be joined by composer Michael Rosin to play an excerpt from Rosin’s new piece, Compass, for violin and piano. […]
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Reception and concert featuring digitally manipulated photographic works, artist interview, and live music. Interviewing Tom Djll: Gino Robair. Live acoustic music performance by Brittle Feebling: Jacob Felix Heule, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, and Tom Djll. SPEED OF SILENCE is a chronicle in pictures and sounds of the passing of the world as we move through it. Photographs […]
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