Bhob Rainey Karlheinz Stockhausen PROGRAM Karlheinz Stockhausen – Gesang der Jünglinge (1956) Bhob Rainey/Chris Cooper – Axon Ladder (2014) Axon Ladder is a quadrophonic piece developed by Chris Cooper (Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Fat Worm of Error, etc.) and Bhob Rainey (Nmperign, The BSC) over the past two years. The composers embraced their love for sci-fi / horror, utilizing utopian and dystopian […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Tim Hodgkinson
Chris Brown Tim Hodgkinson Visiting from the UK, clarinetist and lap steel guitarist Tim Hodgkinson performs solo and in a duo with local pianist Chris Brown. Increasingly lauded as a composer, with works featured at international contemporary music festivals, and two sets of pieces for ensemble out on the Mode label, Tim Hodgkinson has an equally powerful commitment to intense […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Nate Wooley & Carol Robinson Premiere Eliane Radigue & Denis Doufour
Nate Wooley and Carol Robinson premiere new works by Eliane Radigue and Denis Doufour As part of a nationwide tour that offers a rare opportunity to hear new French works played by the cutting edge performers they were made for, clarinetist Carol Robinson and trumpeter Nate Wooley will give American and world premiere performances of new works by iconoclastic French composers […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: An evening of Experimental Music and Film
An evening of Experimental Music and Film: Annie Lewandowski and Tim Feeney with films by Michael Ashkin & Craig Shepard, Larry Polansky, and David Kant with a film by Beth O’Brien Finding a shared interest in works of abandonment and stasis, improvisers Tim Feeney (percussion) and Annie Lewandowski (piano/electronics) began a collaboration with artist Michael Ashkin […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Jonathan Zorn
Jonathan Zorn presents two compositions for speech and electronics. Language as Dust, an essayistic sound poem exploring the consequences of electronic mediation within spoken and written language. The text of the piece freely repurposes sources relating to the history of vocal technologies as well as psychoanalytic and philosophical theories of the voice, including: Aristotle’s De […]
One Great City: Impulses
San Francisco based two guitar and voice duo One Great City premieres pieces by Eric Choate and Shahab Paranj, and performs Meditation for guitar by Judah Adashi. The San Francisco Examiner declares, “One Great City brings a journey of discovery to every recital they prepare.” The concert is part of a documentary currently being filmed […]
Mobius Trio
Mobius Trio’s program will represent some of the most exciting contemporary Bay Area composers as it unveils the incredible possibilities of what a guitar trio is capable of. This beautiful and wild music is pleasantly difficult to anticipate as it flows from lyrical bluegrass-classical fusion to post-minimalist mayhem on both acoustic AND electric guitars. This […]
SFMusic Thursdays: Firesong (sponsored by SFFCM)
Mad Queenes: Women on the Verge explores the maddening highs and lows of women in the throes of passion through the music of Schoenberg, Messiaen and Ned Rorem. FIRESONG is a Bay-Area based ensemble dedicated to innovative programming of the 20th Century vocal chamber repertoire and to the commissioning of the next generation of vocal […]
SFMusic Thursdays: Ignition Duo (sponsored by SFFCM)
The San Francisco based guitar ensemble Ignition Duo will perform a program of works recently composed for the group. Featured will be the world premiere performance of Heena Yoon’s Voice and a Fountain Pen, a guitar duet inspired by Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s novel The Shadow of the Wind. The program will also include works for […]
Areon Flutes
Areon Flutes, a professional flute chamber music ensemble, provides audiences a fresh new outlook on traditional chamber music. Noted for innovative programming and collaborations, Areon is quickly establishing itself in the USA as a premier chamber music ensemble. The group’s performances are notable for creatively engaging its audiences with unique staging, theatrics, choreography, and using all […]