Celebrate the holidays with your fellow members, staff, and volunteers of the Center for New Music! We’ll enjoy performances by C4NM staff and DJ Sinned, and savor tasty treats and cheerful drinks. Relax with complimentary chair massages, show us your best pose on our holiday photobooth and enjoy Matt Linder’s new music games, based on […]
SFMusic Thursdays: Gestaltish (sponsored by SFFCM)
Gestaltish is a Bay Area quartet that inhabits the border between integration and disintegration; a functional unit unidentifiable by the sum of its parts. Embracing tonality, rhythmic integrity or the absence of either, this free-improvising ensemble traipses deftly through space and time offering audience unique time-based sonic journeys. Rachel Condry (clarinet), Gretchen Jude (voice), Jacob […]
Drums + Saxophones: Rosaly / Ochs / Glenn / Shelton
Frank Rosaly Frank Rosaly visits the Bay area from Chicago and performs in various combinations with Aram Shelton, Larry Ochs, and Jordan Glenn. Utilizing and expanding the now-classic saxophone drum duet, over the course of the night they’ll perform improvisations in duo, trio and quartet format. Rosaly is a unique talent, performing regularly throughout the […]
Existence: Quartet Music for Improvisers
Satoko Fujii(photo by Kazue Yokoi) Kappa Maki(photo by Toru Sasaki) Jordan Glenn(photo by Carly Hoopes) Bruce Ackley Piano, trumpet, saxophones/clarinet, and percussion: 4 players using these instruments to bring sound worlds into existence. Pianist Satoko Fujii, and trumpeter, Kappa Maki have a long-standing musical relationship that spans many year, many groups, many musical genres, and […]
The Double Negative Ensemble
The Double Negative Ensemble is made up the following stellar musicians and master improvisers: John Bischoff – electronics, Nava Dunkelman – percussion, Matthew Goodheart – piano, Frank Gradkowski – clarinet/sax, Shoko Hikage – koto, Aurora Josephson – vocal, Elzbieta Potak – violin, Jon Raskin – clarinet/sax. The combined knowledge of this group of accomplished musicians […]
Pamela Z and Shinichi Iova Koga: Sound | Silence | Motion | Stillness
Composer/performer Pamela Z and physical theater/dance artist Shinichi Iova-Koga will perform together in a duo evening of improvisatory explorations of sound, movement, and image. The artists will engage in sonic and visual conversations combining movement (Iova-Koga) with voice, electronics, and video (Z). Pamela is best known for her solo works combining a wide range of […]
Open Salon With Wild Rumpus
Wild Rumpus and the Center for New Music are partnering to offer a free, open reading session and salon! Composers can sign up for spots to have their works read by the ensemble, and Wild Rumpus will also share works-in-progress, including new commissions! Have a drink and some snacks and hear some new music get […]
Enchanted by Grof
Kazakhstani artist and musician Katya Nikonorova presents her solo live performance that is an instant response to the Stanislav Grof “Expanding and Reenchanting the Psyche” conference, recently held by California Institute of Integral Studies. “After the event I found my notebook full of new doodles and sketches that I obviously made during the conference. This […]
Stanford's Chocolate Heads Ensemble + Nicole Mitchell
Creative flutist Nicole Mitchell will lead a collaborative evening with the Chocolate Heads Ensemble, as part of a short residency at Stanford University. A short conversation with contemporary dancer and Stanford faculty member Aleta Hayes will be followed by a solo set with Mitchell. The performance concludes with Mitchell leading the Chocolate Heads in a […]
Rova Sax Quartet: Rova meets Ryan Page
The Rova Sax Quartet has its first meeting with Ryan Page, a live video performer who uses circuit bent laserdisc players, prepared discs, and custom video mixing circuits to create a vibrant, mysterious visual language. Ryan brings the improvisational fluidity of a musician to the world of video, while finding the strange resonances that lie […]