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. […]
Waffle Opera: The Magic Flute
This will be Mozart’s classic opera as you have never seen it before, stripped to its bare essentials and explored in fresh and exciting ways. This production features brand-new English dialog written by director Ted Zoldan, with the original incredible music. Tickets include a reception with the cast featuring our world famous Waffles. Waffle Opera […]
Waffle Opera: The Magic Flute
This will be Mozart’s classic opera as you have never seen it before, stripped to its bare essentials and explored in fresh and exciting ways. This production features brand-new English dialog written by director Ted Zoldan, with the original incredible music. Tickets include a reception with the cast featuring our world famous Waffles. Waffle Opera […]
Waffle Opera: The Magic Flute
This will be Mozart’s classic opera as you have never seen it before, stripped to its bare essentials and explored in fresh and exciting ways. This production features brand-new English dialog written by director Ted Zoldan, with the original incredible music. Tickets include a reception with the cast featuring our world famous Waffles. Waffle Opera […]
CANCELED: Hoods, Chamber opera mashup of the Red Riding Hood and Hekabe Stories
THIS PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN CANCELED Hoods is a chamber opera based on Euripides’ Hekabe and Little Red Riding Hood, parallel stories of women in extremis. Setting myth and fairytale in the context of late empire and perpetual war, the opera explores themes of violence, gender, and metamorphosis. Three singers each play three roles from two […]
Ned Rothenberg w/ Chris Brown
Ned Rothenberg’s April 12 performance at C4NM will include a solo set, plus duos with local electronic music luminary, Chris Brown. Ned Rothenberg composes and performs on saxophones, clarinets, flute and shakuhachi (an end blown Japanese bamboo flute). He has been internationally acclaimed for his solo music which he has presented for over 30 years […]
Ned Rothenberg w/ Gino Robair
Ned Rothenberg’s April 11 performance at C4NM will include a solo set, plus duos with Bay Area percussion wizard Gino Robair. Ned Rothenberg composes and performs on saxophones, clarinets, flute and shakuhachi (an end blown Japanese bamboo flute). He has been internationally acclaimed for his solo music which he has presented for over 30 years […]
Shackle: Anne La Berge, flute/electronics + Deckard, laptop, plus Alex Christie
Shackle is Anne LaBerge on flute and electronics and Deckard on laptop-instrument. Their aim is to explicitly and subtly exploit shackling in both concept and material. shackle |ˈ sh akəl| 1. used in reference to something that restrains or impedes. 2. a metal link, typically U-shaped, closed by a bolt, used to secure a chain […]