EYE-FULL FILMS presents A NIGHT OF SILENTS, Pt. 1 A NIGHT OF SILENTS, Pt. 1 features two rarely seen progressive “silent films” by David Michalak: Not Quite Right and the “poetic and hypnotic…” Face of a Stranger. “My idea was to allow gesture and expression to reveal the characters inner feelings and relay the narrative.” […]
Nonetheless Spring Returns
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present instrumental chamber music of beauty, searching, hope, written by its members and performed by outstanding Bay Area musicians. The concert will be presented to a live audience at the Center for New Music in San Francisco on Saturday April 13, 2023, 8:00PM. The […]
3 Encounters
An evening of 3 short sets: Amanda Chaudhary (electronics) , Zachary Watkins (guitar and electronics), followed with a duo with Thea Farhadian (violin & electronics) with Silvia Matheus (electronics). Three 25-minute sets by three musicians/composers based in the Bay Area. Amanda Chaudhary opens the evening with her blend of experimental electronic sounds with jazz, funk, […]
Concetta Abbate: Sound and Memory
Violinist and Composer Concetta Abbate presents a program of music for solo violin and voice to showcase her new music and arts organization Sound & Memory. After completing her Death Doula certification in 2021 Concetta saw a need to incorporate music into contemporary rituals for both grief and death, as tradition evolves over time. She […]
Thomas Schultz Plays 40 Years of Hyo-shin Na’s Music for Piano
Thomas Schultz, pianist and Hyo-shin Na, composer have been collaborating since the mid-1980s. Schultz has played her music in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Ghent, Amsterdam, Seoul, Taipei, Kyoto, San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles. Na has twice been awarded the Korean Composer’s Prize and has been commissioned by the Fromm Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, […]
Nathan Clevenger Trio + Phillip Greenlief & Marié Abe
The Nathan Clevenger Trio, featuring Jordan Glenn & Cory Wright, celebrates the release of their new album, ‘Unsettled by the Ocean.’ For tonight’s performance, the trio is joined by Phillip Greenlief & Marié Abe. Oakland musicians Nathan Clevenger, Jordan Glenn, and Cory Wright share a long and entwined history of collaboration across various projects, including […]
Sarah Saviet
Sarah Saviet performs works that choreograph sound for the violin- the hands moving through space, the arc of an elbow, the resistance of fingers pulling threads and strings. This program includes a classic- Xenakis’ Miika, a new work by Saviet, and two recent works by Lisa Streich and Tim McCormack. Sarah Saviet is a violinist […]
The Spoken Word Show – films by David Michalak, Usufruct
Eye-Full Films presents – The Spoken Word Show – featuring films by David Michalak including Life is a Serious Business (w/George Kuchar), The Spoken Word (“an in-genius and often hilarious 22 minute satire of one family’s’ addiction to the platitudes of canned advice…” Robert Taylor) Once A Face, Start Talking and Tales You Lose. All […]
C4NM & Arab.AMP presents Donia Jarrar’s BUTCHER – Night 2
BUTCHER Concept album and live performance work by Dr. Donia Jarrar Bay Area collaborators include Christian McLaurin, Lara Aburamadan, Manan Kocher This hybrid opera is based on Jarrar’s own experiences with domestic violence, in which she takes on the persona of a vigilante and antihero doling out punishments through the power wielded to her via […]
C4NM & Arab.AMP presents Donia Jarrar’s BUTCHER – Night 1
BUTCHER Concept album and live performance work by Dr. Donia Jarrar Bay Area collaborators include Christian McLaurin, Lara Aburamadan, Manan Kocher This hybrid opera is based on Jarrar’s own experiences with domestic violence, in which she takes on the persona of a vigilante and antihero doling out punishments through the power wielded to her via […]