Breaking the Sound is a diverse and bi-coastal offering of contemporary musics featuring electro free jazz from Aram Shelton and Philip White, experimental performance/chamber music from Jessie Marino and the sonic architecture of Danishta Rivero and Chuck Johnson’s Blood Wedding. Aram Shelton is an avant jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, improviser and composer. Originally from southeast Florida, […]
Out of a Lyrical Darkness
Acclaimed Postmodernist composer, pianist and multimedia visual artist, David Thomas Roberts, performs his most recent as well as earlier works for piano and synthesizer. With affinities for both Neo-romanticism and Minimalism, Roberts’ music evinces an encompassing and overtly expressive, sensuous sound world. The “Out of a Lyrical Darkness” program features such works as “The Window,” “DeBorgia […]
RESOLUTIONS: New Year's Eve 2014
[one_fourth] PC Muñoz art-funk schematics [/one_fourth] [one_fourth] Three Times Bad bluegrass string band [/one_fourth] [one_fourth] Les Gwan Jupons vintage Caribbean party music [/one_fourth] [one_fourth_last] The Jon Raskin New Rhythm Plus Band avant-jazz trio [/one_fourth_last] Set breaks by DJ Desperate Pedestrian of “Pitch a Fit” on KPFA 94.1 FM $30 general – $25 members – […]
In from the Cold: Lessons and Carols for 2013
Based on the traditional form of Lessons and Carols, an ecclesiastical service celebrating Christmas through hymns and readings from the bible, In From the Cold is a celebration of song and word for the modern age. The artists’ selections reflect their diverse musical interests and feature their own arrangements of traditional and eclectic holiday music, […]
Discussion Forum: Music Distribution in the 21st Century
You’re making a recording, so what’s your distribution plan? Come to share knowledge and discuss the pros and cons of all the different ways your fellow musicians and producers are getting their music out into the world. Bring your questions, concerns, and frank and open comments to this roundtable discussion about labels, digital distribution, licensing, […]
Steven Lugerner & Darren Johnston SOLO/DUO
Multi-reedist Steven Lugerner appears at C4NM in his first performance back in San Francisco, for the West Coast debut of his new solo works. Joining him will be local trumpeter Darren Johnston, also performing solo works and teaming with Lugerner towards the end of the night in an improvised duo setting. This night also […]
David Hatt, piano
David Hatt presents two sets of solo piano music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The program includes the First Sonata of Charles E. Ives, academic works by Gregory Kosteck and Homer Keller, creative oddities by Barney Childs, Arthur Farwell and Jim Fox, and other pieces, including Mr. Hatt’s own The Continuous Life. Biography […]
Steve Adams – TrisKoTronica and Duo with Scott Walton
TrisKoTronica is Steve Adams’s solo project of the music of Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz, radically new versions of these jazz masterpieces realized on sax, bass flute and electronics. The recording of TrisKoTronica was recently released on Sensitive Skin. The Steve Adams/Scott Walton Duo plays recent compositions by Steve that include electronics as an interactive […]
duo B: Music for Films, Humans
duo B: Jason Levis, percussion Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass Plus special guests: Noah Phillips, electric guitar Cory Wright, clarinets Rob Ewing, trombone John Finkbeiner, electric guitar Films by: Mark Wilson Sylvia Schedelbauer “…mysterious, complexly textured improvisations that sometimes take shape as the aural equivalent of abstract expressionist paintings, whether the ethereal, mystical canvasses of Mark […]
Winter Comes
RTD3 (Ron Heglin, Tom Nunn, Doug Carroll) presents an evening of improvised music celebrating the arrival of WINTER. Heglin’s unique vocal and trombone styles and Carroll’s focused attention to minute sonic details and melodic excursions combine with Nunn’s intense exploration of his original instruments, the Skatchbox, the Crustacean, the Lukie Tubes and the electroacoustic percussion […]