With Pulsations [Bitumen], the Swiss composer-performer Marcel Zaes sets out to redefine the conventional concert performance. He presents a transcontinental music project which is an intriguing fusion of electronic and classical sound. Pulsations [Bitumen] presents the least featured of all string instruments, the viola, with exceptional players, and extends the violas’ sound with generative digital […]
Marcel Zaes – Pulsations [Bitumen]
With Pulsations [Bitumen], the Swiss composer-performer Marcel Zaes sets out to redefine the conventional concert performance. He presents a transcontinental music project which is an intriguing fusion of electronic and classical sound. Pulsations [Bitumen] presents the least featured of all string instruments, the viola, with exceptional players, and extends the violas’ sound with generative digital […]
muto infinitas, Cloudseeding, Oliveros, Lucier
Two visiting pairs of accomplished experimental performers bring an ambitious program of solo and duo works to the Bay Area: from LA, Christine Tavolacci and Scott Worthington perform muto infinitas, a new hour-long work by Catherine Lamb for bass flute and double bass. Red Desert presents Cloudseeding 4 by Devin Maxwell, for solo bass clarinet […]
Robert Howard & Elizabeth Schumann
Robert Howard will perform Ligeti sonata for solo cello (1944) and Penedercki Per Slava (1987). Then Elizabeth Schumann joins him performing Messiaen’s Louange from the famous Quartet (1940), followed by Britten’s sonata for cello and piano (1961). […]
Robert Howard & Elizabeth Schumann
Robert Howard will perform Ligeti sonata for solo cello (1944) and Penedercki Per Slava (1987). Then Elizabeth Schumann joins him performing Messiaen’s Louange from the famous Quartet (1940), followed by Britten’s sonata for cello and piano (1961). […]
Ian Dicke & Alexander Elliott Miller: SOUTH
https://youtu.be/o5S47877qVQ SOUTH presents two Los Angeles composers, Ian Dicke and Alexander Elliott Miller***, showcasing large multimedia works that explore the space between mythology and history, from east to west, of our Southern United States. Ian Dicke’s Cowboy Rounds is a song cycle for piano/vocalist and live electronic processing. This work “remixes” pre-existing source material culled […]
Ian Dicke & Alexander Elliott Miller: SOUTH
https://youtu.be/o5S47877qVQ SOUTH presents two Los Angeles composers, Ian Dicke and Alexander Elliott Miller***, showcasing large multimedia works that explore the space between mythology and history, from east to west, of our Southern United States. Ian Dicke’s Cowboy Rounds is a song cycle for piano/vocalist and live electronic processing. This work “remixes” pre-existing source material culled […]
The Nouveau Classical Project: Currents
“Currents” features works composed for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and electronics by Olga Bell, Gabrielle Herbst, and Isaac Schankler, commissioned by The Nouveau Classical Project. The Nouveau Classical Project (NCP) is a New York-based, all-women contemporary classical music ensemble. NCP collaborates with visual artists and fashion designers and has been hailed for “bringing a […]
The Nouveau Classical Project: Currents
“Currents” features works composed for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and electronics by Olga Bell, Gabrielle Herbst, and Isaac Schankler, commissioned by The Nouveau Classical Project. The Nouveau Classical Project (NCP) is a New York-based, all-women contemporary classical music ensemble. NCP collaborates with visual artists and fashion designers and has been hailed for “bringing a […]
Heating Up: Hot Air Music Festival Preview Concert
Now in its ninth year, the Hot Air Music Festival is a new music marathon that focuses on world premieres, collaborations by young composers and performers, and music written in the past 50 years. Hot Air is proud to present Heating Up, a preview concert featuring performances by Nicholas Denton-Protsack and Siroko Duo. Be sure […]