Drummer/percussionist/composer Jordan Glenn presents works for his ensemble Mindless Thing, a unique chamber configuration that combines strings and percussion with the surreal, haunting spoken poetry and flute improvisations of fellow Oakland improviser Jim Ryan. Glenn’s music, for his stellar groups Wiener Kids, Mama Long Legs, Host Family, and most recently, the gloriously sprawling Wiener Kids […]
Dances, Lullabies and Visions of the Sea
Dances, Lullabies and Visions of the Sea is a program designed especially for the Center for New Music. It includes compositions by established American composers Elliott Carter and Alan Fletcher, as well as younger composers Kevin Siegfried and Jim Dalton. The second half of the program introduces my latest endeavor of performing music by Japanese […]
Chamber Jazz Double Bill: Erik Jekabson String-tet + Matt Renzi Cello Quartet
Matt Renzi Erik Jekabson Bay Area trumpet player Erik Jekabson and Rome-based reed player Matt Renzi present an evening of artful jazz composition featuring a cast of stellar local string players and one of the most creative, hard swinging rhythm sections around. Both bandleaders combine composition rooted in jazz and chamber music with collective improvisation, […]
Light Traps: LONGLEASH performs piano trios from Germany, Austria and the US
LONGLEASH’s Light Traps program is a musical display of the fascination, draw, and allure of light. The program is a collection of pieces evoking light in many forms and stages: blinding, refracted, dim, illusory. Light Traps draws on today’s vanguard of Austrian composers; Bay Area-based composer Ken Ueno; and New York-based composer Reiko Füting. Klaus […]
Free Workshop: Publicity for Independent Musicians
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Zoco Ensemble in Concert
Zoco Ensemble is an exciting new group that combines the unique sounds of the guitar, cello and oboe/English horn. Respected in their own rights as soloists and chamber musicians, Canadian Hannah Addario-Berry (cello), Australian Jacob Cordover (guitar) and American Laura Karney (oboe/English horn) have joined forces to present a collection works by contemporary America, Argentinean, […]
cords/strings/wires: Josephson-Victor-Mezzacappa-Walton-Perkis-Looney
Aurora Josephson, voice Fay Victor (Bklyn), voice Scott Walton, acoustic bass Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass Tim Perkis, electronics Scott Looney, piano The same, but different: a mix and match evening of improvised music featuring similar instruments and diverse musical personalities. The performance includes two sets of music that feature the full sextet, as well as […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: boris baltschun & serge baghdassarians: bodybuilding & Phill Niblock: Disseminate
Berlin-based artists boris baltschun & serge baghdassarians present bodybuilding, an hour-length theatrical piece for electronics, texts, electric fan, radio, table, hotplate, espresso maker, and fried chicken. bodybuilding retraces mathematician and astronomer Charles-Marie de La Condamine’s journey to South America, though instead of the tropical wilderness, it measures the urban jungle of Rio de Janeiro. The three-sided Largo do Guimarães on the hills of Santa Teresa becomes the […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Michal Rataj and Andy Claussen's Wishbone Project
From Prague, composer Michal Rataj presents a set of works for sound objects, writing desk, and live multi-channel electronics. Andy Claussen performs his Wishbone Suite, an extended work for improvising chamber ensemble of clarinet, accordion, trombone, piano and drums. The ensemble explores recurring folk-like themes as springboards into improvised material, creating “an alluring, whimsical, and just-plain-cool mix of jazz, classical, and experimental […]
New Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
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