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. […]
Contemporary Italian Opera: The Sadomasochist and the Sublime
In terms of opera, Italian composers are way ahead of the game. The rich heritage of the operatic medium has continued to transform over time, and Italian composers, Ada Gentile and Fabrizio de Rossi Re are at the forefront of this new generation. On October 3rd at the Center for New Music, Pianists Anthony Porter and Sarah Cahill, Soprano Amy Foote, […]
Chen-Hui Jen and Jacob David Sudol – New Music for Piano and Electronics
Concert Description Taiwanese composer/pianist Chen-Hui Jen and Miami-based composer/computer musician Jacob David Sudol present a concert of music for piano and electronics that explores, amplifies, and expands some of the poetic imagination and hidden acoustic beauty of the piano. Jonathan Harvey: Tombeau de Messiaen for piano and pre-recorded audio Kee Yong Chong: Time Flows II for piano and live […]
Workshop: Entertainment law – Practical tips for Composers and Musicians
Composer and Professor of Law, Toni Lester, leads an informal discussion and Q & A for musicians and composers on entertainment law issues such as copyrights, contracts, branding, and other relevant issues. Toni Lester is a writer, teacher, composer, activist and social entrepreneur. She composes jazz, contemporary art music, world music and electronic sound design. […]
Free Workshop: San Francisco SuperCollider Meeting
Do you already use SuperCollider, or would you like to learn more about it? Are you a Pd or Max/MSP user considering to add SuperCollider to your sonic toolbox? This informal meet-up is free and open to anyone interested in SuperCollider. It’s a space for people to present their work, ask questions, discuss topics of […]
Into the Thicket
Like a long walk through a thicket, our twenty-first century ears experience a variety of sensations over the course of a musical journey. Often there is plenty of familiarity mixed with the new, but sometimes the layers become so tangled that our auditory experience morphs into a thicket of sound. Once in the middle, there […]