“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 […]
Topographies: Tenor Saxophone solo recital
Always fascinated by the instrument which symbolizes the ultimate saxophone, (John Coltrane’s voice) the choice of tenor saxophone corresponds to the passion for a unique mode of expression and a medium for uncompromising experimental music at the crossroads of multiple influences. This recital presents some of the major existing works for tenor saxophone which allow […]
Mark Helias' Open Loose
Open Loose Fact Sheet: • Open Loose was established in 1996 with Ellery Eskelin and Tom Rainey as a smaller offshoot of my quintet, Attack The Future. • In 1999, Ellery Eskelin, being too busy with his own group, gave way to Tony Malaby as the tenor player in the band. • To this day […]
Reed and Slide: François Houle & Samuel Blazer
Canadian clarinetist François Houle and Berlin-based trombonist Samuel Blazer have been collaborating for a few years on developing a repertoire for this unique combination of instruments. Taking as a point of departure Gérard Grisey’s classic Solo pour deux, Houle and Blazer are blurring the aesthetic boundaries between new music and improvisation. […]