Blog – Page 33 – Center for New Music

Composer Meetup

Present what you’ve been working on, ask for feedback, hear what others are up to, discuss relevant new music topics, and spend time with colleagues and good company! The composer meetup is open to anyone. Bring a score or recording to share, or just be ready to chat about new music. If sharing music, you […]

OboeTronics: Direction of Disturbance -canceled-

**Due to recommendations from the CA Department of Public Health related to the Coronavirus outbreak, we are canceling this event.** Oboist and Center for New Music Curator, Dr. Glenda Bates, performs a concert of works for oboe and electronics, interwoven with visual projections. Electroacoustic works for solo oboe/English horn by Diana Syrse, Daria Semegen, and […]

RGB Arts Festival presents: Songfest

The RGB Arts Festival is proud to present the third annual Songfest. This concert is a cross-department collaborative effort at San Francisco State University, featuring new works of art song. Student composers work with poets from the creative writing department, and the pieces are performed by student vocalists and accompanists. […]

Technology and the Post Human -canceled-

**Due to recommendations from the CA Department of Public Health related to the Coronavirus outbreak, we are canceling this event.** What if our physical bodies become nothing more than a shell to host our technologies? Are technological advances reducing what makes someone an individual? Will complete distributed intelligence lead to absolute homogeneity? Works featured in […]

Taylor Ho Bynum Quartet -canceled-

**Due to recommendations from the CA Department of Public Health related to the Coronavirus outbreak, we are canceling this event.** Cornettist and composer Taylor Ho Bynum makes a rare visit to the Bay Area, performing with a quartet featuring Hafez Modirzadeh (tenor sax), Motoko Honda (piano), and Keshav Batish (drums, tabla). Bynum has spent his […]

Jacob Swanson – wired. in concert

Hailed as a “soloist with impeccable taste,” and praised by audiences and composers for his “gorgeous, lyrical tone, spectacular technique, and heartfelt musicality …” for presenting “the soprano saxophone at the height of its beauty,” Jacob Swanson has performed throughout North America and Europe on concert series, television, and radio. Swanson performs regularly as a […]

Desert Magic and Meg Baird -canceled-

**This event has been canceled due to concerns related to the Coronavirus outbreak.** Desert Magic is a music collective founded in 2015 by Alex Wand, Steven Van Betten, and Logan Hone. In 2015, the group released their debut album piecemeal on the solstices and equinoxes on a-round-the-sun.com and in 2018, they composed “Dance of the […]

Harmonic Brewing: All Vinyl Everything + Beer Release – offsite –

Harmonic Brewing and Center for New Music are bringing together some incredible Bay Area vinyl DJ’s & Collectors for a Beer Week event like none other! Bring your vinyl to sell/trade, bring cash to pick up some awesome new & used vinyl, or just come through for the ALL VINYL DJ sets for an epic […]

SSSS: Surround Sound Salon Series #2

Surround Sound Salon Series (SSSS) #2 Featured composers: Chris Brown – Brian Reinbolt – Kyle Bruckmann The second edition of this monthly, informal series at CNM features three local electronic music composers who present their fixed media and/or live electronic music through the 8-channel surround system, generously provided by Meyer Sound. The composers mix their […]

Rory Cowal plays George Lewis, Kris Davis, and Anthony Davis -canceled-

**Due to recommendations from the CA Department of Public Health related to the Coronavirus outbreak, we are canceling this event.** This solo piano program features music by composers who are also master improvisers and draw from the avant-garde jazz tradition in their work. Cowal will perform pieces by George Lewis, Kris Davis, Anthony Davis, and […]