Jacob Felix Heule Christine Bonansea (photo by Yvonne Portra) The Center for New Music is partnering with The Contemporary Jewish Museum to present four site-specific performances as part of the upcoming exhibition “Work In Progress: Considering Utopia.” The performances will be presented by improvising duos consisting of one musician and one dancer. […]
Ueno/Feeney/Ingalls Trio Halloween Party!
A recipient of the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize, Ken Ueno, is a composer/vocalist who is currently an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley. Ensembles and performers who have played Ken’s music include Kim Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky, Mayumi Miyata, Teodoro Anzellotti, Wendy Richman, Greg Oakes, BMOP, Alarm Will Sound, SFCMP, the Nieuw Ensemble, and […]
Reciprocity with Nico Couck, guitar
In Reciprocity Nico Couck explores the possibilities of the back-and-forth motion. Be it in physical energy, sounding textures, or even in the performer’s approach to the instrument. How can constantly interpolating gestures become relevant and substantial in musical practice? Simon Steen-Andersen’s work transforms musical information to visuals in the opposite way of Mark Applebaum’s work. Johannes Kreidler […]
Workshop: Anatolian Improvised Folk Music PLUS Welcome Reception
Special guest and artist-in-residence Nihan Devecioglu (Turkey) will share her knowledge and experiences in a range of international music styles, focusing on Anatolian folk music and connections to the devotional music of the Sufis. Nihan is in residence at the Center for New Music from October 11 through November 13, with support from CEC ArtsLink. […]
Sarah Cahill/Adam Tendler: Modern Piano Lineages
Sarah Cahill’s program: Sarah Cahill performs a set constructed around selections from Hans Otte’s Das Buch der Klange (The Book of Sounds), including Beat Furrer’s Voicelessness (The Snow Has No Voice) and works by Ann Southam and Annea Lockwood Book of Hours (1991). Sarah Cahill: sarahcahill.com Adam Tendler’s program: Robert Palmer Evening Music (1958) Three Preludes (1941) […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: An evening of music featuring closely-tuned frequencies
An evening of music featuring closely-tuned frequencies by Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, John Krausbauer , and others. If any “theme” has been established with this year’s sfSoundSalonSeries, it is contemporary music featuring simultaneous frequencies that are tuned (or de-tuned) close enough to create timbral effects like beating, phasing, and difference tones. This concert presents an entire evening of such sounds, with […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Quinteto Latino Latin American Chamber Music Festival
Part of Quinteto Latino’s first ever festival of Latin American Chamber Music, a concert featuring QL flutist Diane Grubbe, sfSound cellist Monica Scott, QL & sfSound oboist Kyle Bruckmann, Latin American composers/performersPatricia Martínez, Guillermo Galindo and Bruno Ruviaro, and other guests. Bruno Ruviaro’s “Panela de Pressão” is an improvisation piece created with Juan-Pablo Caceres. The duo has been working together since 2005, with long stretches of silence […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Hadley McCarroll/Janis Mercer & Kyle Bruckmann/James Fei
Pianists Hadley McCarroll and Janis Mercer celebrate 100 years of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” while exploring connections in the music of Sever Tipei (“Lament”), Anthony Braxton (“Composition #5”), Peter Eötvos (Himmelklavier/Erdenklavier), Luciano Berio (wassermusik), and Claude Debussy (Preludes, Book II “Brouillards”). Mercer and McCarroll perform Part I of the exhilarating version of “Rite of Spring” for one piano/four-hands in addition to provocative and moving music for solo piano from the last century. […]
Workshop: Music for Film, Video & Games
Panel discussion and mixer event on the art of successful collaborations between audio professionals and visual media artists […]
Workshop: Recording on a Budget
Local industry pros provide useful strategies low- to mid-budget recording projects; panel discussion followed by personal coaching and consulting. […]