Jonah Parzen-Johnson is a saxophonist living in Brooklyn, NY. He writes lofi music for solo saxophone and analog synth about the feeling of joyful melancholy that comes from leaving stuff behind as the world conspires to push us away from our memories. His impressive use of extended techniques including circular breathing, multi-phonics and almost impossibly […]
Camilla Hannan / Van Sowerwine / Martine Corompt + Private Language, presented by 23five Incorporated
Camilla Hannan (sound), Martine Corompt & Van Sowerwine (image) will be presenting the multi-media project Dark Night, Bright Light. Journey into the night, where sound overtakes and images are glimpsed. Meanings are mixed and metaphors dominate. Cacophony, silence, disruption and crescendo. Camilla Hannan’s sound work sits upfront and centre, taking you to places that are […]
Import/Export: electro-acoustic music for flute and piano
Australian pianist Jacob Abela and Bay Area flutist Meerenai Shim perform a concert of new electro-acoustic works. Program includes world premieres by Emma O’Halloran (Ireland), Isaac Schankler (USA), and Lachlan Hughes (Australia). […]
Thollem McDonas: Presently living peripatetic pianist
Nomads Of Infinity are compositions influenced by experiences gathered from his perpetual travels throughout his lifetime. Howled Ground is a non-stop athletic torrent of sounds and ideas. Thollem has been traveling freely for most of his adult life and touring perpetually for the last 7 years, gathering as many experiences as possible through this extreme […]
Trading Spaces: An Evening in the Sensory-Saturation Tank
SmellLab (Motoko Honda: piano and electronics; Theresa Wong: cello, electronics, and voice) present its second performance of pieces from “The Nose Suite,” a laboratory for primal investigative research into the special, magical, and extraordinary in the everyday and commonplace. This set of pieces incorporates texts, images, improvisation, and notation to guide the two performers in […]
shudder + Mimmo/Blunt Duo
“A wonderful collaboration … both of them switching between lyricism and extended noise-making fluidly, echoing each other and taking time out to listen. I spent half of their set in a semi-conscious mystical state.” — This Place at This Time blog The Bay Area welcomes the extraordinary duo of Italian soprano saxophonist Gianni Mimmo and […]
Del Sol String Quartet: “Soundings” No. 3
This is the third and final concert in the Del Sol String Quartet’s 2013-14 Home Season “Soundings” Project–a series of three, innovative performances by the Quartet at the Center for New Music in San Francisco in November, March and May. For this project Del Sol presents newly-commissioned works from three Bay Area emerging artists, each […]
Best Coast Jazz Composers Series #7: Jacob Zimmerman
Seattle-based alto saxophonist and composer Jacob Zimmerman returns to the Bay Area for a concert of duos with a cast of compelling Bay Area musical characters. In an homage to the “Improvised Duos” series area keyboardist Michael Coleman has organized for several years, Zimmerman premieres eight new duo compositions, and performs them with local instrumentalists […]
Wild Rumpus: Migrations
Wild Rumpus presents Migrations, a program of reinterpreted and reinvented materials. The concert includes the world premieres of Eliza Brown’s …in hora mortis nostrae, which covers, extends, and reinterprets a 17th-century Ave Maria, and Lee Weisert’s Minutiae, which translates Weisert’s own intricate sketches into sound. Instrumental ensembles are reimagined as unique hybrids in Daniel Wohl’s […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Larry Polansky and Paul Hoskin
Paul Hoskin Larry Polansky Recently relocated to Santa Cruz, composer/guitarist Larry Polansky presents recent work, including the premiere of “Approaching the Azimuth” for solo clarinet written for Matt Ingalls. The program also includes works for solo guitar, a work for solo saxophone, and new structured and free improvisations with sfSound. From Seattle, improvisor Paul Hoskin […]