After the successful release of “best when lived” in 2008, Glass Brick Boulevard stripped down as a lean piano trio featuring composer/pianist Greg Johnson, bassist Rob Fordyce, and drummer Jimmy Sage. After a health related hiatus, Glass Brick Boulevard resurfaced. GBB-an original contemporary jazz power trio with a delicate touch that will make you dance […]
Addleds Sound Laboratory #3
Addleds – the brutally minimal improvising quartet of Kyle Bruckmann (oboe/English horn), Tony Dryer (contrabass), Jacob Felix Heule (percussion), and Kanoko Nishi (koto) – explores counterintuitive cross-genre collaboration in a mini-series supported by the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music’s Musical Grant Program. Night 3, the finale, features two varied chamber-jazz groupings: special out-of-town guests […]
Addleds Sound Laboratory #2
Addleds – the brutally minimal improvising quartet of Kyle Bruckmann (oboe/English horn), Tony Dryer (contrabass), Jacob Felix Heule (percussion), and Kanoko Nishi (koto) – explores counterintuitive cross-genre collaboration in a mini-series supported by the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music’s Musical Grant Program. Night 2 features the numinous electro-acoustic dronescapes of Ben Bracken and Ashley […]
Addleds Sound Laboratory #1
Addleds – the brutally minimal improvising quartet of Kyle Bruckmann (oboe/English horn), Tony Dryer (contrabass), Jacob Felix Heule (percussion), and Kanoko Nishi (koto) – explores counterintuitive cross-genre collaboration in a mini-series supported by the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music’s Musical Grant Program. Night 1 is a cassette release party featuring the theatrically surrealist noise […]
Miniatures for Reed Quintet and Electronics
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sfSoundSalonSeries: Goggle and John Ingle/Kjell Nordeson
Goggle consists of four accomplished composer/performers who have worked for years together, inspiring and challenging one another deeply in terms of innovation of compositional structure and instrumentalism. The resulting music is unique, heartfelt, quirky and complex, drawing from a wide array of musical styles and ideas. Goggle Quartet will be performing throughout the summer in […]
Shelley Hirsch and Fred Frith duo
Fred Frith Composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist, has situated himself for more than thirty years in the area where rock music and new music meet. Co-founder of the British underground band Henry Cow (1968-78), he moved to New York in the late seventies and came into contact with many of the musicians with whom he’s since […]
LAByrinths: Audio-Visual-Kinetic I
For this rare engagement, Bay Area artists Erika Tsimbrovsky (dance/movement), Vadim Puyvandaev (live painting/sculpture), and Lucas Krech (video/lighting design) join Korea-based composer Alexander Sigman for an immersive audio-visual-kinetic performance. As an installment in their evolving multimedia Minotaur project, LAByrinths integrates dance, sculpture, live painting, live video, electronics improvisation, and audio design into a continuously expanding […]
Happy Hour with A/B Duo
The bi-coastal A/B Duo (flutist Meerenai Shim from the SF Bay and percussionist Chris Jones from Rochester, NY) will premiere new works commissioned from Drew Baker, Ivan Trevino and Matthew Joseph Payne in a cabaret-style setting. Enjoy complimentary drinks and snacks while you listen to the new and surprising works. The program will […]
The Memory Table
As part of the San Francisco Center for New Music’s incubation agenda, C4NM and curator Linda Bouchard present new incubating work by Ian Winters, Evelyn Ficarra, & paige starling sorvillo / blindsight. In The Memory Table (v2): Mnemonics devise character-A (yellow) with a side of chance,Winters, Ficarra, and sorvillo are slowly reverse-engineering Character A from fragmentary evidence found within […]