Charming Hostess Jewlia Eisenberg’s Charming Hostess has been a groundbreaking mainstay of the avant-ethnic music scene for over two decades. The group is known to feature “voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. Their work grows from diaspora consciousness: both Jewish, Mid-Eastern, and African. Stylistically, Charming Hostess incorporates doo-wop, Pygmy counterpoint, Balkan […]
Composer Meetup & Member Party
C4NM hosts a two-part day of community fun: the kick-off of a new series of composer meetups from 3 to 5 PM, followed by a reception for current and prospective members. The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 3 to 5 PM. Space […]
C4NM @ Market Street Prototyping Festival: Helen Newby
On April 9 and 10, C4NM curates special free outdoor performances on Market Street, in front of The Hall (between 6th Street and 7th Street). Friday’s 1pm show features up and coming cellist Helen Newby, who will offer a sneak preview of her upcoming concert at C4NM. Newby will perform streetside in a special “Show […]
C4NM @ Market Street Prototyping Festival: Mark Helias's Open Loose
“Mr. Helias’s tightly structured works are launching pads for terrifically energetic sections … which can wander and expand and contract while still showing great discipline.” Ben Ratliff, New York Times (Saturday, February 15, 2003) On April 9 and 10, C4NM curates special free outdoor performances on Market Street, in front of The Hall (between 6th […]
Ritual #1: FluxGathering
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“Play that Thing or Throw It Away” (Larry Ochs – Darren Johnston – Gino Robair)
Larry Ochs and Darren Johnston will be out on tour all of May (in a trio with Chicago altoist Dave Rempis.) It made sense to see where their ESP will have evolved to over the month of May. Ochs and Robair made some really cool musical connections in a trio with Thollem Electric in January […]
SFMusic Thursdays: Sheldon Brown/Lorin Benedict/Jonathan Alford/Eric Vogler – Solos, Duos, Trios . . . (sponsored by SFFCM)
Sheldon Brown – Alto and Tenor Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet Lorin Benedict – Voice Eric Vogler – Guitar, Quarter-tone Guitar Jonathan Alford – Piano Sheldon Brown, Lorin Benedict, Jonathan Alford and Eric Vogler will be performing solo, duo and trio pieces, including: Quarter-tone Studies for Solo Alto Saxophone New Music for Alto Saxophone and Quarter-tone […]
Weston Olencki and Athletics: [HEAVY MATTER]
Timothy McCormack – HEAVY MATTER [2012] Peter Ablinger – Posaune und Rauschen [2014] world premiere Pablo Santiago Chin – From Afar [2014-15] world premiere Joan Arnau Pàmies – 1=∞ (EoM) [2015] world premiere – Ann Cleare – Paranoid Oneiroid [2006-7] us premiere Bernhard Lang – Differenz/Wiederholung 4.02 [2000] us premiere SF-based trombonist Weston Olencki will […]
Rova Power Trio vs. Rova String Quartet vs. ROVA!!!
Rova power trio: John Shiurba (el gtr.), Jason Hoopes (el. bass), Jordan Glenn (drums) Rova String Quartet: Christina Stanley (violin), Tara Flandreau (viola), Alex Kelly (cello), Scott Walton (bass). Rova Sax Quartet: Larry Ochs, Steve Adams, Jon Raskin, Bruce Ackley In the run-up to Rova’s major show “Rovaté 2015” taking place on June 29 at […]
Rova + Henry Kaiser + Kyle Bruckmann: Steve Lacy’s “Saxophone Special”
Rova: saxophones Henry Kaiser: electric guitar Kyle Bruckmann: electronics Steve Lacy was one of the trailblazing improvisers of the nineteen-sixties, seventies, and eighties. In 1974 he performed a one-time concert with 3 other saxophone players, electric guitarist Derek Bailey, and electronics improviser Micheel Waisvicz. This recording was one of those that led to the formation […]