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Josh Berman & Friends: Jazz and Improvised Music from Chicago and the Bay Area
Josh Berman visits San Francisco! Continuing their decade long musical association, Chicago-based cornetist Josh Berman and Bay Area saxophonist Aram Shelton jointly lead a quintet featuring featuring local heroes Mark Clifford (vibes), Lisa Mezzacappa (bass), and Sam Ospovat (drums). Berman & Shelton met in 1999 in Chicago, in the basement of a house that was […]
Ackley/Coolidge/Mezzacappa Trio; Carla Harryman and Jon Raskin with Crystal Pascucci and Roham Shiekhani
Coolidge/Ackley/Mezzacappa This newly formed trio will create improvisations alternating with Clark Coolidge reading from recent work. The intention is that each sound source, reader and trio, will influence the other to present a flow of sonic information. The work of the 3 musicians is informed in a very critical way by writing. And, Coolidge’s long […]
Member Workshop: Works-In-Progress
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Shelton-Ochs Quartet with Mark Dresser and Kjell Nordeson
Playing together – when schedules permit -since 2010, Larry Ochs and Aram Shelton have developed an exciting repertoire of compositions for improvising musicians, probably most often associated with the avant-jazz world of music. Performing with the 2 Bay Area saxophonists are two musicians currently based in San Diego, but with very distinctive backgrounds. Bassist Mark […]
Festival of Contemporary Music
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CNM Community Event: Performance Workshop
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sfSoundSalonSeries: Grosse Abfahrt with Alfred Harth and Torsten Müller
Torsten Müller Alfred Harth Two German expatriates (Alfred Harth and Torsten Müller) living now in allies of America, adding to Grosse Abfahrt — a freely-improvising music continuum/community whose name means “great departure” — another departure of meaning. From out this departure of de-parts comes a salute to epic failure, a disaster in full-dress uniform, gold epaulets dangling off the corpse of Western culture. In solidarity […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Luciano Chessa and Benjamin Kreith: Garrett — Confusing Salon Music and Noise since 2013
Luciano Chessa Benjamin Kreith Local New Music Champions Luciano Chessa and Benjamin Kreith perform Garrett — Confusing Salon Music and Noise since 2013 for violin, piano, bullhorn, saw, piano, Aardvark synth app, harmonica and voice. A concert-length program consisting of original pieces, Erik Satie transcriptions, Futurist noise poetry, Robert Schumann, a Fluxus piece, Carlo Prosperi’s “Chant”, delicate improvisations, and Albeniz/Kreisler. […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Maggi Payne, Varèse, John Ingle, and sfSound
Local composer, flutist, and electronic music instructor Maggi Payne presents selected compositions, including works for flutes (live and pre-recorded), multi-channel tape, and video. In addition, members of sfSound will join Maggi in a performance of Shh, a work for chamber ensemble commissioned by sfSound that features “acoustic spatial diffusion”. Straight from Hunter’s Point, sfSound’s own […]