James Tenney (1934–2006) was one of America’s most inventive and influential experimental composers. His music explored alternative tunings and algorithmic procedures, creating bewildering harmonic soundscapes. A special collaboration featuring Tangents Guitar Series, SFSound, the SFCM Guitar Ensemble, and Larry Polansky; made possible with support by SFFCM and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. […]
Seth Josel @ Tangents Guitar Series
Guitarist Seth Josel presents a program of music by Berlin-based composers celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. […]
Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari @ Tangents Guitar Series
Normal is Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari, playing manually & electronically manipulated home-made instruments. Not really instruments in the sense of beautifully crafted art objects requiring Extended Techniques, so much as crude de-constructions patched together using the simplest of means, and requiring only minimal exertion to produce sound. Fred’s “planks of wood with strings” were […]
Autoduplicity
Autoduplicity is an exploration of music for bodies and speech – our shared instruments – and investigates how these ordinary sounds can be transformed into powerful musical ideas reflective of the human experience. The program also probes themes of blurred identities and realities, questions of sanity, the movements of our bodies, and the rhythms of […]
Weston Olencki/Katherine Young/Architeuthis Walks On Land
Both recepients of fellowship prizes from the 2014 Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Weston Olencki and Katherine Young will team up in a duo concert to present the second performance of Puddles and Crumbs, an expansive, tripartite work for trombone and analog processing developed in close collaboration over the previous year. The concert will also feature Young […]
Reception & Artist Talk with Instrument Inventor Dan Gottwald
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Thollem/Robair Trio Music Minus One with Special Guests
To celebrate their duo album on Setola di Maiale “Trio Music Minus One (For Dennis Palmer)”, Thollem Electric and Gino Robair have invited some local sonic inspirators for a round of trios that will vary dramatically in timbre and character over the course of the concert. The first half the duo will be joined by […]
Jen Shyu’s “Solo Rites: Seven Breaths”, directed by Garin Nugroho (performance and pre-concert screening of fieldwork footage)
Jen Shyu’s Solo Rites: Seven Breaths directed by Garin Nugroho Jen Shyu: Composition, vocals, dance, Taiwanese moon lute, piano, gayageum Garin Nugroho: Director Danang Pamungkas: Choreographer Kristen Robinson: Set & Props Designer Solomon Weisbard: Original Lighting Designer Ghia Javaqueen / Kristin Isola: Costume Designers Sonic, visual, and visceral rites and reflections upon pilgrimage throughout Taiwan, East Timor, Indonesia […]
Spontaneous Music by Performer-Composers from The Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts
A trio of performer-composers from The Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts will present an evening of improvisatory music at the San Francisco Center for New Music on Saturday, December 6, 2014, 8 PM. Michael Jon Fink, Ulrich Krieger, and David Rosenboom, with Joshua Carro and Derek Stein, will explore […]
SFMusic Thursdays: Aaron Bennett’s “Horn of Plenty” (sponsored by SFFCM)
Horn of Plenty is Jon Raskin – Baritone Sax, Aram Shelton – Alto Sax, and Aaron Bennett – Tenor Sax. We will be performing re-engineered sound track music from Bollywood films, blues, original music and perhaps some hard rock. http://www.aarondavidbennett.com http://www.jonraskin.com/ http://www.aramshelton.com/ […]