About Bill Wesley Bill Wesley is unique. He is a microtonal tuning theorist, Instrument Inventor, creator of multiple new arrangements for keyboard interfaces, a historian and a visual artist who’s work explores the most consonant and harmonious relationships. Sound always intrigued Bill and as a young man he took a course at the Naval Electronics […]
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This concert is a ticketed (pre-sale only), live-streamed event. Pre-sale tickets will be available until 45 minutes before showtime. 30 minutes before showtime, ticket buyers will be sent a private link to the YouTube video of the live-streamed concert. Janis Mercer plays selections from her new CD commemorating the 75th anniversary of the death of […]
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Broadcast on YouTube Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB9MAvG5xjg This concert is free! Donations suggested $20-40, to be split between Boots and C4NM. In October 2010, Cornelius completed and self-published a full solo repertoire for one of the world’s rarest and most difficult musical instruments: Taimu shakuhachi. This is a wide-bore bass variant of the vertical bamboo flute of […]
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A recital of songs for voice and piano from “Trinity,” a song cycle by Joseph Collins Wicht, featuring Jesse Barrett (tenor), Samuel Brondfield (tenor), and Terrence McLaughlin (bass), with Wicht on piano. “Trinity” is unique in that Wicht has chosen to set multiple poet’s works to music, with the only constant being himself. Works presented […]
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Join us as guest interviewer Jon Raskin discusses Lexicographies with Cheryl Leonard. Raskin and Leonard join us virtually via Zoom which will be broadcast out to C4NM’s Facebook page and website. To join, just a few minutes before start time simply log on to C4NM’s Facebook page, YouTube page, or view from this event page. […]
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With a passion for gospel music, Andrew Barnes Jamieson is the music director at Pacific School of Religion, and plays organ and piano for City of Refuge, UCC. With a passion for free improvisation and experimentation, he created the polytonal “Ives Band,” and is active in the Bay Area free improvisation community. He studied experimental […]
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Join instrument inventors Alan Tower, Hans Houkes, and C4NM curator Bart Hopkin at a live online event featuring artist talks, demonstrations, and performances. Tower and Houkes innovative instruments “The Innate” are three-chambered flutes intentionally designed in a way that allows all levels of musicians, from novice to expert, to be able to have rich musical […]
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The Center for New Music hosts an online Zoom launch event with the cast and creators of The Electronic Lover, a new podcast opera by Bay Area composer Lisa Mezzacappa and Brooklyn writer Beth Lisick, on Friday, August 14 at 7pm. The Electronic Lover is a serial audio drama set in Internet chatrooms in the […]
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Cellist, Natalie Raney & Helia Music Collective present a vivid program of new and established works written by women for solo cello, each piece drawing inspiration from spring and nature. The program will feature newly-commissioned works by Elizabeth A. Baker, Julie Barwick, Emma Logan, and Belinda Reynolds. Included on the program is Kaija Saariaho’s striking […]
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This solo, earthy concert presentation will feature a “greatest hits” and a thorough introduction to the new repertoire called Bamboo Gospel. Ranging from virtuosic and energetic to meditative and subtle, this music emerges from the breath-laboratory of local woodwind iconoclast and composer-performer Cornelius Boots. An ex-bass clarinet monster, Boots has been focusing his fearlessly creative […]
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