Composer and improviser Sten Sandel has been an influential force on the European and Scandinavian new music scene for three decades. His solo performances often combine piano with his own highly developed system of sound poetry. His regular groups include Mats Gustafsson, Raymond Strid, Nina de Heney, and Sofia Jernberg. However, Sandell has collaborated with […]
New Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
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FILM @ C4NM: beyond coltrane
co-sponsored by Rova:Arts ELECTRIC ASCENSION in person! filmmaker John Rogers and musicians Larry Ochs & Jon Raskin An ensemble of gifted improvisers let loose with a rearrangement/reimagination of Coltrane’s masterwork. With Larry Ochs, Jon Raskin, Nels Cline, Ikue Mori, Carla Kihlstedt, Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, and more. (dir: John Rogers 2013 68 min.) More about […]
FILM @ C4NM: sonic experimenters double bill
THE REACH OF RESONANCE Jon Rose, Miya Masaoka, John Luther Adams, Bob Ostertag: Four contemporary artists guaranteed to open up your ears. (dir: Steve Elkins 2010 118 min.) The Reach Of Resonance Teaser from Candela Films on Vimeo. THE SENSUAL NATURE OF SOUND Four major musical pioneers, superstar women all: Pauline Oliveros; Meredith Monk, Tania […]
FILM @ C4NM: avant rock
FRANK ZAPPA: PHASE II – THE BIG NOTE Rarely screened, this doc features ‘pronouncements’ by Zappa himself, archival performances, plus appearances by Captain Beefheart, Edgard Varèse, Pierre Boulez, the Zappa kids . . . and more! (dir: Frank Scheffer 2002 90 min.) APPROXIMATELY NELS CLINE Wilco’s lead guitarist and wild musical accomplices rip it up […]
FILM @ C4NM: improvapalooza!
ON THE EDGE: IMPROVISATION Three hours of the legendary miniseries about improvisation. Everything from Asian musics to free jazz experiment to Jerry Garcia. Guitarist Derek Bailey hosts. Required viewing! (dir: Jeremy Marre UK 1992 150+ min.) FILM @ C4NM is 6-week series screening some of the most compelling new music documentaries and performance films of […]
FILM @ C4NM: musical culture gets funky
FABRICATING TOM ZE Ever hear “Smoke on the Water” as a samba? Brazilian musical iconoclast Tom Zé turns your head around. With David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. (dir: Decios Matos Jr. 2007 89 min.) BRASS UNBOUND Musicians in Nepal, Suriname, Indonesia, and Ghana liberate the military instruments the colonialists left behind. […]
FILM @ C4NM: jazz masters
THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO: LIVE Raucously entertaining, the Art Ensemble raises the roof of Chicago’s Jazz Showcase. (dir: Bruce Ricker 1981 60 min.) WHO’S CRAZY? Paris, 1966: We’re in the studio as Ornette Coleman’s trio records a movie soundtrack. (dir: Dick Fontaine 1966 28 min.) plus! additional clips of the Art Ensemble FILM @ […]
Triple Bill! mchtnchts (Bruckmann/Grabmiller) + John Shiurba's 3-3 + Crystal Moon Cone
mchtnchts Kyle Bruckmann & Lance Grabmiller, modular analogue electronics “Mchtnchts use music to redefine…music. Bent circuits and lots of analogue sounds is a different means to break free from the yoke of tradition and how we perceive music. In a way, I feel like Mchtnchts would say “I don’t need to know an E minor […]
SF Cinematheque presents Choreographies of Creation and Destruction: The Live Cinemas of John Davis and Greg Pope
Choreographies of Creation and Destruction: The Live Cinemas of John Davis and Greg Pope Joshua Churchill, John Davis, and Greg Pope In Person In Apparent Motion 2012—the performance cinema centerpiece to that year’s CROSSROADS film festival—British artist Greg Pope brought down the house with the 16mm Cipher Screen, his two-projector masterwork of erasure and construction. […]