“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 […]
Quince Ensemble: This a Changin’ World
Inspired by the poetry, songs, and activism of Woody Guthrie, This A Changing World is a collection that conjures the wind, land, and stories of unplanned migration alongside songs about the American experience of loving and losing. The evening includes arrangements of Guthrie’s music alongside newly composed works by members of Quince and some of […]
Site: Yizkor, Andrew Conklin and Maya Ciarrocchi
Who honors the spaces left by the dead? How and why do people, cultures, and identities disappear, especially among marginalized communities? These questions animate Site: Yizkor, an ongoing interactive work for sound and video developed by the Bronx, NY interdisciplinary artist Maya Ciarrocchi and the Stockton, CA composer Andrew Conklin. Site: Yizkor explores the physical […]
Site: Yizkor, Andrew Conklin and Maya Ciarrocchi
Who honors the spaces left by the dead? How and why do people, cultures, and identities disappear, especially among marginalized communities? These questions animate Site: Yizkor, an ongoing interactive work for sound and video developed by the Bronx, NY interdisciplinary artist Maya Ciarrocchi and the Stockton, CA composer Andrew Conklin. Site: Yizkor explores the physical […]
C4NM 7th Birthday Bash
We’re 7! | C4NM Birthday Bash | September 28th, 6pm-9pm Happy birthday to us: We’re celebrating 7 years at C4NM! Celebrate with the Bay Area’s creative music community! The Center for New Music toasts to its seven-year anniversary as an organization, and to seven years of serving the new music community of the Bay Area […]
C4NM 7th Birthday Bash
We’re 7! | C4NM Birthday Bash | September 28th, 6pm-9pm Happy birthday to us: We’re celebrating 7 years at C4NM! Celebrate with the Bay Area’s creative music community! The Center for New Music toasts to its seven-year anniversary as an organization, and to seven years of serving the new music community of the Bay Area […]
Refracted Pathways: Dirt and Copper with Rebeca Bollinger
Dirt and Copper will be joined by artist Rebeca Bollinger for an evening of interdisciplinary works exploring the liminal spaces between sonic, textual, and visual modes of interpretation. Each piece is a sonic process generated / refracted in the visual field. In collaboration with composer and percussionist Tony Gennaro, three of Bollinger’s bronze instruments have […]
Refracted Pathways: Dirt and Copper with Rebeca Bollinger
Dirt and Copper will be joined by artist Rebeca Bollinger for an evening of interdisciplinary works exploring the liminal spaces between sonic, textual, and visual modes of interpretation. Each piece is a sonic process generated / refracted in the visual field. In collaboration with composer and percussionist Tony Gennaro, three of Bollinger’s bronze instruments have […]
Music by Ric Louchard and Michael Rothkopf
A program of music by featured composers Ric Louchard and Michael Rothkopf, performed by: Meerenai Shim, flute Hadley McCarroll, piano Ric Louchard, piano Richard Mix, bass voice Kevin Baum, baritone Rachel Condry, clarinet Cheryl Leonard, percussion Michael S. Rothkopf: “I focus much of my creativity on melodic line, counterpoint, color and clarity of form. My […]
Fay Victor and Myra Melford
Brooklyn, NY based sound artist/composer Fay Victor, honing a unique vision for the vocalist’s role in jazz and improvised music, is joined in duo performance and conversation by “stalwart of the new-jazz movement” pianist/composer Myra Melford, from across the Bay, in Berkeley. Co-presented with The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, as the first double-program […]