Receptacles Receptacles make music that disturbs easy categorization. While listeners may hear influences from no-wave, afro-beat, free jazz, funk or punk, Receptacles are not simply a mix of these styles. They have harnessed an essence of spontaneity and in doing so have created something unique and completely their own. Receptacles willfully instigate and manipulate an […]
Nadia Shpachenko: The Poetry of Places, 9 Premieres
CD Release Concert for multiple GRAMMY® nominated pianist Nadia Shpachenko’s new Reference Recordings album “The Poetry of Places”. This program will include 5 San Francisco premieres of architecture-inspired works by Amy Beth Kirsten, Hannah Lash, James Matheson, Harold Meltzer, and Jack Van Zandt from Shpachenko’s new CD, as well as 2 World Premieres and 2 […]
Nadia Shpachenko: The Poetry of Places, 9 Premieres
CD Release Concert for multiple GRAMMY® nominated pianist Nadia Shpachenko’s new Reference Recordings album “The Poetry of Places”. This program will include 5 San Francisco premieres of architecture-inspired works by Amy Beth Kirsten, Hannah Lash, James Matheson, Harold Meltzer, and Jack Van Zandt from Shpachenko’s new CD, as well as 2 World Premieres and 2 […]
EEP! Feeney Chaplin Sumner Trio & The HUB
Feeney Chaplin Sumner Trio Los Angeles-based Tim Feeney, Clay Chaplin, and David Sumner make ambient electroacoustic improvisation. They coax bass shakers, vibrating sheet metal, field recordings, synth tones, and tuning forks into evolving drones, disparate characters, and patient textures. Patient, but like a wall is patient. The HUB – Computer Network Music John Bischoff, Chris […]
EEP! Feeney Chaplin Sumner Trio & The HUB
Feeney Chaplin Sumner Trio Los Angeles-based Tim Feeney, Clay Chaplin, and David Sumner make ambient electroacoustic improvisation. They coax bass shakers, vibrating sheet metal, field recordings, synth tones, and tuning forks into evolving drones, disparate characters, and patient textures. Patient, but like a wall is patient. The HUB – Computer Network Music John Bischoff, Chris […]
EEP! Sally Decker & Brendan Glasson; Blectum from Blechdom
Sally Decker & Brendan Glasson Using different means and methodologies, Brendan Glasson and Sally Decker are interested in static musical structures that reveal texture, movement, and physicality. Their collaboration will explore chaotic events within controlled environments. Brendan uses organs, electric pianos, and electronics to create slow, expansive forms. Sally primarily uses feedback systems in performance […]
EEP! Sally Decker & Brendan Glasson; Blectum from Blechdom
Sally Decker & Brendan Glasson Using different means and methodologies, Brendan Glasson and Sally Decker are interested in static musical structures that reveal texture, movement, and physicality. Their collaboration will explore chaotic events within controlled environments. Brendan uses organs, electric pianos, and electronics to create slow, expansive forms. Sally primarily uses feedback systems in performance […]
EEP! Amina Kirby + Jess Tambellini and Monopiece + Rodolfo Cordova
Amina Kirby and Jess Tambellini, Handmade Electronic Instruments Amina Kirby and Jess Tambellini are recent Master’s degree graduates at Mills College where they developed their skills as composers, performers and technicians. Their duet performance features exclusively handmade electronic instruments of their own design and assembly built during their attendance at Mills. The instruments utilize sequencing, […]
EEP! Amina Kirby + Jess Tambellini and Monopiece + Rodolfo Cordova
Amina Kirby and Jess Tambellini, Handmade Electronic Instruments Amina Kirby and Jess Tambellini are recent Master’s degree graduates at Mills College where they developed their skills as composers, performers and technicians. Their duet performance features exclusively handmade electronic instruments of their own design and assembly built during their attendance at Mills. The instruments utilize sequencing, […]
EEP! Workshop: Handmade Electronic Instruments
EEP! Workshop: Handmade Electronic Instruments Amina Kirby will demo handmade instruments she invented and built, and discuss her strategies for making electronic music from scratch. This workshop is part of EEP! … an (E)lectronic (E)nsemble (P)erformance Weekend About EEP: Electronic music today is dominated by production, where musical flow is pre-recorded and we sing along slaved […]