Two clever, judgmental narrators. A landscape of shifting, sliding tones and sounds. The hidden language of emojis. Departure Duo is excited to perform a program of recent commissions showcasing the wide range of sonic possibilities for soprano and double bass. Emily Koh’s energetic and colorful “emojicons” humorously probes the wordless nuances of emojis, ranging from […]
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The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present instrumental and vocal chamber music written by its members and performed by outstanding Bay Area’s musicians. The concert will be presented to a live audience at the Center for New Music in San Francisco on Saturday, April 9, 2022, at 8:00pm. Tickets to view the […]
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Celebrating their very first concert together as an ensemble, Stolen Time presents a program paying tribute to its name – the radical, revolutionary act of reclamation that is artistic creation in modern life. Opening the program is Missy Mazzoli’s Still Life with Avalanche, a work depicting a cascading freefall of material generation brutally interrupted by […]
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“Never Ending Artist” is an improvisation performance by Isabella Heigl (Painting) and Agustín Castilla-Ávila (Electric Guitars) inspired by the songwriting and philosophy of Bob Dylan, and proposing a interdisciplinary approach to artistic practice. The performance consists of an improvised painting and music springing from the themes, quotations, and insights of Bob Dylan. The goal of […]
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In “Expedition #5: Spirals and Echoes,” Ninth Planet journeys through sonic shape and texture in a program featuring 2019 and 2020 winning compositions of the Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Award. Selim Göncü’s “Widerklang” for bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello (Ettelson 2020), presents a distorted, noisy, and quasi-improvisational sound world, exploring the connection between […]
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The Artists Ken Ueno A recipient of the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize, Ken Ueno (b. 1970), is a composer/vocalist/sound artist who is currently a Professor at UC Berkeley, where he holds the Jerry and Evelyn Hemmings Chambers Distinguished Professor Chair in Music. Ensembles and performers who have played Ken’s music include Kim Kashkashian […]
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Join us for a virtual reception celebrating Aaron Soloway’s exhibit “somewhere else” at the Window Gallery. Watch the discussion here: somewhere else is meant to take you out of your current setting, out of your current moment, out of your current focus to somewhere else. It is designed to be experienced only from outside […]
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Tim Berne and Gregg Belisle-Chi Tim Berne – Alto Sax Gregg Belisle-Chi – Acoustic Guitar Tim Berne has been performing internationally since 1982 with various ensembles including Caos Totale, Fractured Fairy Tales, Bloodcount and Snakeoil among others. He has made over 50 recordings as a leader for labels such as Soul Note, Sony, JMT, ECM […]
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This event will be live-streamed from the Center for New Music. YouTube link will be emailed to ticket holders. NACUSAsf will present music for voice, winds, guitar, and piano written by members of the Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA and performed by some of the Bay Area’s outstanding musicians. The performance will be live-streamed from […]
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Please note: Audience capacity is reduced, so purchase your tickets early! Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan returns to C4NM in a solo concert titled ‘Inward Expanse’, which explores one’s position in daily life from a mystical, scientific, and cerebral perspectives with music for guitar and electronics, acoustic solos of night. Steps and Leaps by Tom Flaherty […]
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