Slow Wave: San Francisco-based New Music trio, Slow Wave, presents an exciting program using the slower sound waves (i.e., low instruments) of the classical instrument canon. They will perform new works for this rarely heard instrument combination, including premieres by San Francisco composers Julie Barwick and Brett Austin Eastman, a recent work by Israeli composer […]
Friction Quartet with bass clarinetist Bruce Belton: October
Friction Quartet will be joined by bass clarinetist Bruce Belton at the Center for New Music for the Bay Area premieres of new quintets by Marc Mellits, Sebastián Tozzola, and Michael Torke. All three works being premiered were commissioned by Bruce Belton with the aim of broadening the repertoire for bass clarinet with string quartet. […]
Darius Jones: C4NM Benefit
Darius Jones is an extraordinarily gifted young alto saxophonist and composer living in New York. He makes modern, soulful, scintillating music. Jones makes a special Bay Area appearance at Center for New Music, the proceeds of which support our endeavors at C4NM, creating a space for new music to thrive. Reception hosted by the C4NM […]
Jesse Perlstein & Shinya Sugimoto + Glenda Bates/OboeTronics
Jesse Perlstein (of Sontag Shogun; US) & Shinya Sugimoto (JP) combine haunting vocals, field recordings, piano etudes, oscillator drones and digital algorithmic noise to create minimal soundscapes that blossom into lush nostalgia-tinged requiems. The balance between ambience and harmonic vox/keys swells give these improvised performances a feeling of intention and composition that reflects the long-standing […]
Jesse Perlstein & Shinya Sugimoto + Glenda Bates/OboeTronics
Jesse Perlstein (of Sontag Shogun; US) & Shinya Sugimoto (JP) combine haunting vocals, field recordings, piano etudes, oscillator drones and digital algorithmic noise to create minimal soundscapes that blossom into lush nostalgia-tinged requiems. The balance between ambience and harmonic vox/keys swells give these improvised performances a feeling of intention and composition that reflects the long-standing […]
The Chromelodia Project: Chris Brown-Theresa Wong-Kyle Bruckmann
The Chromelodia Project was formed in 2016 to explore just intonation, improvisation, and interactive electronics in a chamber music setting. Its members, Chris Brown, Theresa Wong, and Kyle Bruckmann, are classically trained musicians who also have well-established reputations as improvisors. The band provides a setting for them to expand the tonal pallette of their music through […]
The Chromelodia Project: Chris Brown-Theresa Wong-Kyle Bruckmann
The Chromelodia Project was formed in 2016 to explore just intonation, improvisation, and interactive electronics in a chamber music setting. Its members, Chris Brown, Theresa Wong, and Kyle Bruckmann, are classically trained musicians who also have well-established reputations as improvisors. The band provides a setting for them to expand the tonal pallette of their music through […]
Brainwave Curious?
Join Joshua W Bruner and special guest, Joe Patitucci (PlantWave founder) for a unique meditative listening experience at C4NM where we’ll practice ambient listening techniques while drifting to soundscapes created with an Electroencephalophone (EEG) and the PlantWave biofeedback device. In other words, this is a brain and plant music duet! Research into how our brain […]
Brainwave Curious?
Join Joshua W Bruner and special guest, Joe Patitucci (PlantWave founder) for a unique meditative listening experience at C4NM where we’ll practice ambient listening techniques while drifting to soundscapes created with an Electroencephalophone (EEG) and the PlantWave biofeedback device. In other words, this is a brain and plant music duet! Research into how our brain […]
FutureJazz: E. Doctor Smith, Peter McKibben & Laura Austin Wiley
“FutureJazz” (Edgetone EDT4171) is the latest work by drummer and electronic percussionist E. Doctor Smith (Brian Eno, Madonna, Facing East, Deep Energy Orchestra) and his seventh album on the Edgetone Records label. FutureJazz unites Smith with guitarist Peter McKibben (Savant Garde) and features flautist, Laura Austin Wiley (Resonance). Smith’s unique fusion approach with his Zendrum […]