Trumpeter/composer Erik Jekabson brings together many different influences with his “Stringtet”; modern jazz, classical, New Orleans traditional jazz, funk, improvised music and latin jazz. With violin, viola, sax, trumpet, bass and drums doubling on vibes, the music can veer into many different sonic territories but always does so with an ear towards lyrical melodies and […]
Echo Wild with Geneva Jacuzzi – Live in the Tenderloin
Introducing John Grigo of Coco Remote from 1987. Coming from the bebop psychedelia of the Sunset Strip is now merging with the eccentric wild-at-heart Seahorse Liberation Army, John Grigo, coming from Chicago, Illinois combines flourishing cadenzas of Art Tatum and the R Stevie Moore kaleidoscope. What is house arrest to bedroom rock, what is to […]
Ted Allen and The Incendiary Cycle
The Incendiary Cycle is music about California. It is music about conflict, transformation, nostalgia and loss. Borrowing from free jazz, minimalism, and no wave, the music of The Incendiary Cycle is dynamic and energetic, sometimes evolving gradually, sometimes changing dramatically in a sudden tectonic displacement. In California we live in a metastasizing industrial civilization, yet […]
Oklnd-Bklyn Dble Bill: Battle Trance Sax Quartet (NYC) + Mark Clifford’s Dirty Snacks Ensemble
Battle Trance Mark Clifford Extreme New York tenor saxophone quartet Battle Trance, led by virtuoso sax experimentalist Travis LaPlante and including longtime Bay Area resident Matt Nelson, makes its Bay Area debut with a complete performance of its acclaimed new recording, Palace of Wind, out on New Amsterdam Records. Battle Trance explores densely layered sound […]
Piano Fitness Fundraiser
Join us for an evening of live piano performances featuring some of our most notable Bay Area pianists: composer and electronics innovator Chris Brown, the prolific and “passionately mercurial” (Village Voice) pianist Sarah Cahill, versatile and accomplished composer-performer-scholar Luciano Chessa, and the dynamic young artist Joseph M. Colombo. We’re kicking off our second full year of […]
Wild Rumpus: Darkness & Light
Wild Rumpus presents a program of opposites, juxtaposing harmony and noise, movement and stillness. Gritty, kinetic energy reigns supreme in our take on Louis Andriessen’s Workers Union and in the clattering theatrics of David Coll’s Position, Influence. Harmonious stillness characterizes Jacob Cooper’s serene haiku Silver Threads and Arvo Pärt’s modern-day classic Fratres. Delicately poised between […]
Michael Mizrahi’s The Bright Motion: New Piano Works for the 21st Century
Michael Mizrahi (Photo: Steven Taylor) (Artwork: David Stith) In the early years of a new century, composers are returning to the piano. For centuries the piano has been a popular sounding board for new compositional ideas and styles—the ingenious explorations of compositional technique in Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, the pathbreaking musical ideas set forth in Beethoven’s […]
Experimental Music from Mills College
Mills College graduate students composers enrolled in Guillermo Galindo’s “Composition Seminar” and John Bischoff’s “Seminar in Computer Music” will present new electronic and instrumental works. The concert will feature both solo and small ensemble pieces incorporating scored and improvised musical actions, computer-generated sound, and unique combinations of musical resources. The concert will be curated and […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Quadraphonic Compositions by Bhob Rainey/Chris Cooper & Karlheinz Stockhausen
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 […]