Experiments in Sonic Potential: Lisa Mezzacappa and Kara Davis at the Contemporary Jewish Museum Musicians from the Bay Area’s rich improvisational jazz scene perform live music in conversation with Annabeth Rosen’s ceramic sculptures. Experiments in Sonic Potential was developed in a special partnership between the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) and the Center for New Music. […]
D. Riley Nicholson: "Resurrection" Album Release Party
D. Riley Nicholson: “Resurrection” Album Release Reception: 6pm Album Release and Live Performance: 7pm Celebrate the release of D. Riley Nicholson’s latest album “Resurrection of Everyday People” in a special event benefiting Raices, a non-profit that provides free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees. The music “Resurrection of Everyday People” […]
FEEDBACK: In Response
Composer Brett Austin Eastman and flutist Jessie Nucho bring to you the first of a three-concert series on the theme of Feedback. Often overlooked, feedback is one of the most important aspects of life. It exists not just in music but in everything we do and experience, from something as simple as call-and-response to processes […]
Nomad Trio: Grdina, Mitchell, & Black | Amendola & Greenlief Duo
Nomad Trio Gordon Grdina has managed to place a finger in every corner of the jazz/world fusion room. —Pop Matters Complex, intricate, idiosyncratic, and rockin’—those are the adjectives that best describe this cross-border collaboration between Vancouver guitarist Gordon Grdina, and New York’s Matt Mitchell piano, and Jim Black drums. Juno Award winner Grdina’s compositions give […]
Mark Helias + Ben Goldberg: 2 Solos and a Duo
Mark Helias and Ben Goldberg present an evening of schemes, diatribes, unholy postmortems, and fractured analysis, scored for Solo Bass, Solo Clarinet, and finally a Duo of Bass and Clarinet. Imaginative music for troubling times, and a beautiful melody that you almost thought you couldn’t remember to forget. […]
Closing Reception: Dragging the Right Chord by Taro Hattori
Taro Hattori: Dragging the Right Chord Doors and Reception, 6pm Artist Talk and Demonstration, 7pm Artist Statement “Dragging the Right Chord” is a functioning harpsichord made of corrugated cardboard and installed on a bicycle trailer. I have been thinking about how singing allows us survive through a difficult time. When our egocentric desire hypertrophies and […]
Mobius Trio: Bon Voyage Release Party
Finally – after one million actual years, Mobius Trio releases album #2: Bon Voyage. We’ll have snacks for you to munch on, beer and wine for you to drink, Bon Voyage CDs for all the folx who ordered physical copies, and we’ll be blasting the album all night. We’d love to have you there and […]
Raskin-Brown-Tarasov-Hoopes Quartet
VLADIMIR TARASOV, The incredible drummer/composer/artist from Vilnius, is joining local musicians Chris Brown (piano & electronics), Jason Hoopes (electric bass) and Jon Raskin (saxophones) for an evening improvised music. Tarasov was a member the of Ganelin Trio and has performed with Andrew Cyrille, the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Anthony Braxton, Lauren Newton, and Josef Nadj. CHRIS […]
Global Arts Bridges: Inception Part II
Global Art Bridges: Inception Part II Global Art Bridges is a collaborative project uniting various musical and artistic traditions of the world in concerts of original music. Started by Leo Iogansen and Sasha Burdin in the Spring of 2019, the project Global Art Bridges was born in a series of discussions of a common vision: […]
C4NM Holiday Party
Holiday Party at C4NM! 6-9PM Join your fellow Center for New Music enthusiasts, members, staff, and volunteers for holiday fun! Free for members and volunteers, others are welcome with a $5 suggested donation. We’ll share drinks and a bites, toast/commiserate to the holidays, the end of 2010’s, and whatever other occasion you might like […]