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 […]
Bloom (Rent Romus & Thollem McDonas), Set 2: Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Nava Dunkelman, Joe Lasqo, Cheryl E. Leonard, Thollem McDonas + Nan Busse (dancer)
An evening of electro-acoustic free improv so pure it has a unique blue color… Set 1: Long standing duo Bloom (Rent Romus: saxes & Thollem McDonas: piano) Set 2: Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Nava Dunkelman, Joe Lasqo, Cheryl E. Leonard, Thollem McDonas + Nan Busse (dancer) Spontaneously interweaving double trios, triple duos, and high-energy vapor […]
Hyejin Jun: Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines are the simplest elements in art. Dots may be big, small, thick, thin, in color or in black and white. Lines may be straight, curved, vertical, horizontal, zigzagged, parallel, weaved, perpendicular, or angular. Dots and lines are the building blocks of art, the main ingredients of a recipe. They may be connected […]
Within A Day—Thingamajigs Performance Group and sfSound perform works by Robert Moran
Members of Thingamajigs Performance Group (TPG) and sfSound join forces to perform works of Robert Moran. A new work entitled “Within A Day” will be created in a collaborative manner between Robert Moran and TPG, to be premiered at the concert. This concert is the culmination of a working residency between esteemed American composer Robert […]