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Kronos Quartet: Open rehearsal with Mary Kouyoumdjian
The singular Kronos Quartet is joined by Mary Kouyoumdjian, recipient of the most recent Kronos: Under 30 Project commission, for an open rehearsal at c4nm. A New York City resident, Kouyoumdjian was chosen from a call for composers that yielded nearly 400 applicants in 43 countries on five continents, the largest response in the program’s […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Jack Wright Large Ensemble
Jack Wright’s “Limited Sedition” release, “Eight by Nine” (2000), featuring a large ensemble of local improvisers, has been hailed as “one of American reductionism’s landmark recordings” by Dan Warburton (Paris Transalantic). For this concert, Wright assembles an ensemble of like-minded bay-area improvisers in what should be a meeting of similar historic proportions. Musicians include Bob […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: George Cremaschi, Katherine Young, and sfSoundGroup
George Cremaschi works as a composer, performer, teacher and organizer. Using mostly contrabass and electronics, and working with free improvisation and a wide variety of non-idiomatic compositional approaches and techniques, his work attempts to dissolve the boundaries between music, sound art and noise, and extend their existing language, vocabulary and discourse. He has worked with, […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Chris Newman
Chris Newman (*1958 London) is an experimental interdisciplinary artist using the medium of music, painting, video, drawing and literature. From 1976 to 1979 he studied music at King’s College London, taking a Bachelor of Music. During this time he met the Russian poet Eugene Dubnov and started to translate Russian poets (Osip Mandelstam, Velimir Khlebnikov), […]
Alden Jenks: HAMMERED
New works by Alden Jenks Hammered for piano and laptop, and Oh It’s You for actress/singer and laptop will receive their premieres this evening. In addition three songs on poems by Jim Harrison, and a country ballad about a desperate housewife for actress, singer, and piano; “Unrestful Sleep” for piano, to keep you awake; and […]
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett and Ryan Muncy: Personified Landscapes
In their San Francisco debut, soprano Amanda DeBoer Bartlett and saxophonist Ryan Muncy of Ensemble Dal Niente, a Chicago based new music collective described as “supermusicians” by the Chicago Tribune, perform a program of music for voice, saxophone, and electronics based on the sonic personifications of various geographic locations – the sounds of rainy Scotland […]
SFCMP Players Show: Splinter Reeds
SFCMP’s Kyle Bruckmann, Bill Kalinkos and Jeff Anderle join their collaborators in the Splinter Reeds quintet in presenting a scintillating concert – the third in our SFCMP Players Show Series. Featured composes are Terry Riley, Matthew Shlomowitz, Roshanne Etezady, and Ned McGowan – along with arrangements from Tom Johnson’s Rational Melodies and Bach’s Art of […]