sfSoundFestival
[ NOTATIONS | ORIENTATIONS ]
experimental music 1938 to the present
http://sfsound.org/festival
A three-concert celebration of 20th and 21st century music covering a wide range of graphical notation performed by some of the most passionate interpreters of such music in the Bay Area.
SEE COMPLETE PROGRAM BELOW
This year the festival pays tribute to PIERRE BOULEZ, who passed away in January, with two large works for soloists - one for violin with electronics and one for clarinet with chamber orchestra. Both pieces include aleatoric elements where the performers select certain aspects of the music to play from an array of given choices. sfSound’s violinist BENJAMIN KREITH and clarinetist MATT INGALLS are featured soloists.
From the American experimental tradition, we feature two composers from the New York School: rarely heard box-notation works for large ensemble by MORTON FELDMAN and graphical and modular pieces by EARLE BROWN.
Special guest composer-performer LUCIE VÍTKOVÁ visiting from the Czech Republic will present her Piece for Accordion and Tap Shoes, in which physical movement is informed by sound -- and sound by physical movement.
Also included are compositions that continue (and pre-date) the American and European traditions from the 1950s to the present day with influences from Jazz, Electronic Music, Indie-Pop, Modern Art, and Psychoacoustics: pieces by JOHANNA BEYER, KYLE BRUCKMANN, JOHN CAGE, MATT INGALLS, PHILL NIBLOCK, PAULINE OLIVEROS, KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI, STEVE REICH, GREG SAUNIER, SALVATORE SCIARRINO, JAMES TENNEY, IANNIS XENAKIS, and improvisations by SFSOUNDGROUP.
** FRIDAY JULY 8, 2016 . 9 PM **
JOHN CAGE - Cartridge Music (1960)
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI - Actions for Free Jazz Orchestra (1971)
IANNIS XENAKIS - Charisma (1971)
JAMES TENNEY - Critical Band (1988/2000)
JOHANNA BEYER - Music of Spheres (1938)
LUCIE VÍTKOVÁ - Piece for Accordion and Tap Shoes (2015)
KYLE BRUCKMANN - Following Orders (2014)
MATT INGALLS - Study for Hilbert Transforms (2016)
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016 )
** SATURDAY JULY 9, 2016 . 9 PM **
PIERRE BOULEZ - Étude 1 (1951)
PIERRE BOULEZ - Anthèmes 2 (1997)
STEVE REICH - Reed Phase (1966)
EARLE BROWN - December 1952 (1952)
SALVATORE SCIARRINO - Esplorazione del bianco II (1986)
GREG SAUNIER - Secret Mobilization (2010/2016)
PHILL NIBLOCK - Disseminate (1998)
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016)
** SUNDAY JULY 10, 2016 . 8 PM **
PIERRE BOULEZ - Domaines (1968/1969)
MORTON FELDMAN - Marginal Intersection (1951)
MORTON FELDMAN - Out of “Last Pieces” (1961)
EARLE BROWN - Available Forms I (1961)
PAULINE OLIVEROS - The Inner/Outer Sound Matrix (for sfSound) (2007)
PAULINE OLIVEROS - Sound Patterns (1961)
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016)
** MUSICIANS **
Lucie Vitková, accordion (special guest from Czech Republic)
Tom Bickley, recorder
Diane Grubbe, flutes
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe, english horn and electronics
Jesse Canterbury, bass clarinet
Phillip Greenlief, clarinet and saxophone
Matt Ingalls, clarinets and electronics
John McCowen, clarinet
Shawn Jones, bassoon
Joshua Allen, tenor saxophone
John Ingle, saxophones and conductor
Jon Raskin, saxophone
Armando Castellano, horn
Tom Dambly, trumpet and electronics
Tom Djll, trumpet and electronics
Kevin McLaughlin, trumpet
Theodore Padouvas, trumpet
Hall Goff, trombone
Don Kennelly, trombone
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone and electronics
Scott Thornton, trombone
Emily Laurance, harp
Anne Rainwater, piano and keyboards
Mark Clifford, percussion
Jacob Felix Heule, percussion
Jason Levis, percussion
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Scott Siler, percussion
Giacomo Fiore, guitar
John Shiurba, bass guitar
Benjamin Kreith, violin
Thea Farhadian, violin
Erik Ulman, violin
Derek Katz, viola
Linda Green, viola
Dylan Mattingly, cello
Monica Scott, cello and electronics
Lisa Mezzacappa, contrabass
Scott Walton, contrabass
Thom Blum, electronics
Sam Nichols, electronics
gray area grand theater
2665 mission st san francisco
$15 [$10 underemployed] each concert
$30 festival pass
underemployed tickets only available at the door
box office/doors open one hour before concert start time
Produced with kind support from
The Earle Brown Music Foundation
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
San Francisco Grants for the Arts
and Individual Contributors
show less
[ NOTATIONS | ORIENTATIONS ]
experimental music 1938 to the present
http://sfsound.org/festival
A three-concert celebration of 20th and 21st century music covering a wide range of graphical notation performed by some of the most passionate interpreters of such music in the Bay Area.
SEE COMPLETE PROGRAM BELOW
This year the festival pays tribute to PIERRE BOULEZ, who passed away in January, with two large works for soloists - one for violin with electronics and one for clarinet with chamber orchestra. Both pieces include aleatoric elements where the performers select certain aspects of the music to play from an array of given choices. sfSound’s violinist BENJAMIN KREITH and clarinetist MATT INGALLS are featured soloists.
From the American experimental tradition, we feature two composers from the New York School: rarely heard box-notation works for large ensemble by MORTON FELDMAN and graphical and modular pieces by EARLE BROWN.
Special guest composer-performer LUCIE VÍTKOVÁ visiting from the Czech Republic will present her Piece for Accordion and Tap Shoes, in which physical movement is informed by sound -- and sound by physical movement.
Also included are compositions that continue (and pre-date) the American and European traditions from the 1950s to the present day with influences from Jazz, Electronic Music, Indie-Pop, Modern Art, and Psychoacoustics: pieces by JOHANNA BEYER, KYLE BRUCKMANN, JOHN CAGE, MATT INGALLS, PHILL NIBLOCK, PAULINE OLIVEROS, KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI, STEVE REICH, GREG SAUNIER, SALVATORE SCIARRINO, JAMES TENNEY, IANNIS XENAKIS, and improvisations by SFSOUNDGROUP.
** FRIDAY JULY 8, 2016 . 9 PM **
JOHN CAGE - Cartridge Music (1960)
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI - Actions for Free Jazz Orchestra (1971)
IANNIS XENAKIS - Charisma (1971)
JAMES TENNEY - Critical Band (1988/2000)
JOHANNA BEYER - Music of Spheres (1938)
LUCIE VÍTKOVÁ - Piece for Accordion and Tap Shoes (2015)
KYLE BRUCKMANN - Following Orders (2014)
MATT INGALLS - Study for Hilbert Transforms (2016)
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016 )
** SATURDAY JULY 9, 2016 . 9 PM **
PIERRE BOULEZ - Étude 1 (1951)
PIERRE BOULEZ - Anthèmes 2 (1997)
STEVE REICH - Reed Phase (1966)
EARLE BROWN - December 1952 (1952)
SALVATORE SCIARRINO - Esplorazione del bianco II (1986)
GREG SAUNIER - Secret Mobilization (2010/2016)
PHILL NIBLOCK - Disseminate (1998)
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016)
** SUNDAY JULY 10, 2016 . 8 PM **
PIERRE BOULEZ - Domaines (1968/1969)
MORTON FELDMAN - Marginal Intersection (1951)
MORTON FELDMAN - Out of “Last Pieces” (1961)
EARLE BROWN - Available Forms I (1961)
PAULINE OLIVEROS - The Inner/Outer Sound Matrix (for sfSound) (2007)
PAULINE OLIVEROS - Sound Patterns (1961)
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016)
** MUSICIANS **
Lucie Vitková, accordion (special guest from Czech Republic)
Tom Bickley, recorder
Diane Grubbe, flutes
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe, english horn and electronics
Jesse Canterbury, bass clarinet
Phillip Greenlief, clarinet and saxophone
Matt Ingalls, clarinets and electronics
John McCowen, clarinet
Shawn Jones, bassoon
Joshua Allen, tenor saxophone
John Ingle, saxophones and conductor
Jon Raskin, saxophone
Armando Castellano, horn
Tom Dambly, trumpet and electronics
Tom Djll, trumpet and electronics
Kevin McLaughlin, trumpet
Theodore Padouvas, trumpet
Hall Goff, trombone
Don Kennelly, trombone
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone and electronics
Scott Thornton, trombone
Emily Laurance, harp
Anne Rainwater, piano and keyboards
Mark Clifford, percussion
Jacob Felix Heule, percussion
Jason Levis, percussion
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Scott Siler, percussion
Giacomo Fiore, guitar
John Shiurba, bass guitar
Benjamin Kreith, violin
Thea Farhadian, violin
Erik Ulman, violin
Derek Katz, viola
Linda Green, viola
Dylan Mattingly, cello
Monica Scott, cello and electronics
Lisa Mezzacappa, contrabass
Scott Walton, contrabass
Thom Blum, electronics
Sam Nichols, electronics
gray area grand theater
2665 mission st san francisco
$15 [$10 underemployed] each concert
$30 festival pass
underemployed tickets only available at the door
box office/doors open one hour before concert start time
Produced with kind support from
The Earle Brown Music Foundation
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
San Francisco Grants for the Arts
and Individual Contributors
sfSoundFestival
[ NOTATIONS | ORIENTATIONS ]
experimental music 1938 to the present
http://sfsound.org/festival
A three-concert celebration of 20th and 21st century music covering a wide range of graphical notation performed by some of the most passionate interpreters of such music in the Bay Area.
SEE COMPLETE PROGRAM BELOW
This year the festival pays tribute to PIERRE BOULEZ, who passed away in January, with two large works for soloists - one for violin with electronics and one for clarinet with chamber orchestra. Both pieces include aleatoric elements where the performers select certain aspects of the music to play from an array of given choices. sfSound’s violinist BENJAMIN KREITH and clarinetist MATT INGALLS are featured soloists.
From the American experimental tradition, we feature two composers from the New York School: rarely heard box-notation works for large ensemble by MORTON FELDMAN and graphical and modular pieces by EARLE BROWN.
Special guest composer-performer LUCIE VÍTKOVÁ visiting from the Czech Republic will present her Piece for Accordion and Tap Shoes, in which physical movement is informed by sound -- and sound by physical movement.
Also included are compositions that continue (and pre-date) the American and European traditions from the 1950s to the present day with influences from Jazz, Electronic Music, Indie-Pop, Modern Art, and Psychoacoustics: pieces by JOHANNA BEYER, KYLE BRUCKMANN, JOHN CAGE, MATT INGALLS, PHILL NIBLOCK, PAULINE OLIVEROS, KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI, STEVE REICH, GREG SAUNIER, SALVATORE SCIARRINO, JAMES TENNEY, IANNIS XENAKIS, and improvisations by SFSOUNDGROUP.
** FRIDAY JULY 8, 2016 . 9 PM **
JOHN CAGE - Cartridge Music (1960)
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI - Actions for Free Jazz Orchestra (1971)
IANNIS XENAKIS - Charisma (1971)
JAMES TENNEY - Critical Band (1988/2000)
JOHANNA BEYER - Music of Spheres (1938)
LUCIE VÍTKOVÁ - Piece for Accordion and Tap Shoes (2015)
KYLE BRUCKMANN - Following Orders (2014)
MATT INGALLS - Study for Hilbert Transforms (2016)
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016 )
** SATURDAY JULY 9, 2016 . 9 PM **
PIERRE BOULEZ - Étude 1 (1951)
PIERRE BOULEZ - Anthèmes 2 (1997)
STEVE REICH - Reed Phase (1966)
EARLE BROWN - December 1952 (1952)
SALVATORE SCIARRINO - Esplorazione del bianco II (1986)
GREG SAUNIER - Secret Mobilization (2010/2016)
PHILL NIBLOCK - Disseminate (1998)
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016)
** SUNDAY JULY 10, 2016 . 8 PM **
PIERRE BOULEZ - Domaines (1968/1969)
MORTON FELDMAN - Marginal Intersection (1951)
MORTON FELDMAN - Out of “Last Pieces” (1961)
EARLE BROWN - Available Forms I (1961)
PAULINE OLIVEROS - The Inner/Outer Sound Matrix (for sfSound) (2007)
PAULINE OLIVEROS - Sound Patterns (1961)
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016)
** MUSICIANS **
Lucie Vitková, accordion (special guest from Czech Republic)
Tom Bickley, recorder
Diane Grubbe, flutes
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe, english horn and electronics
Jesse Canterbury, bass clarinet
Phillip Greenlief, clarinet and saxophone
Matt Ingalls, clarinets and electronics
John McCowen, clarinet
Shawn Jones, bassoon
Joshua Allen, tenor saxophone
John Ingle, saxophones and conductor
Jon Raskin, saxophone
Armando Castellano, horn
Tom Dambly, trumpet and electronics
Tom Djll, trumpet and electronics
Kevin McLaughlin, trumpet
Theodore Padouvas, trumpet
Hall Goff, trombone
Don Kennelly, trombone
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone and electronics
Scott Thornton, trombone
Emily Laurance, harp
Anne Rainwater, piano and keyboards
Mark Clifford, percussion
Jacob Felix Heule, percussion
Jason Levis, percussion
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Scott Siler, percussion
Giacomo Fiore, guitar
John Shiurba, bass guitar
Benjamin Kreith, violin
Thea Farhadian, violin
Erik Ulman, violin
Derek Katz, viola
Linda Green, viola
Dylan Mattingly, cello
Monica Scott, cello and electronics
Lisa Mezzacappa, contrabass
Scott Walton, contrabass
Thom Blum, electronics
Sam Nichols, electronics
gray area grand theater
2665 mission st san francisco
$15 [$10 underemployed] each concert
$30 festival pass
underemployed tickets only available at the door
box office/doors open one hour before concert start time
Produced with kind support from
The Earle Brown Music Foundation
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
San Francisco Grants for the Arts
and Individual Contributors
read more
[ NOTATIONS | ORIENTATIONS ]
experimental music 1938 to the present
http://sfsound.org/festival
A three-concert celebration of 20th and 21st century music covering a wide range of graphical notation performed by some of the most passionate interpreters of such music in the Bay Area.
SEE COMPLETE PROGRAM BELOW
This year the festival pays tribute to PIERRE BOULEZ, who passed away in January, with two large works for soloists - one for violin with electronics and one for clarinet with chamber orchestra. Both pieces include aleatoric elements where the performers select certain aspects of the music to play from an array of given choices. sfSound’s violinist BENJAMIN KREITH and clarinetist MATT INGALLS are featured soloists.
From the American experimental tradition, we feature two composers from the New York School: rarely heard box-notation works for large ensemble by MORTON FELDMAN and graphical and modular pieces by EARLE BROWN.
Special guest composer-performer LUCIE VÍTKOVÁ visiting from the Czech Republic will present her Piece for Accordion and Tap Shoes, in which physical movement is informed by sound -- and sound by physical movement.
Also included are compositions that continue (and pre-date) the American and European traditions from the 1950s to the present day with influences from Jazz, Electronic Music, Indie-Pop, Modern Art, and Psychoacoustics: pieces by JOHANNA BEYER, KYLE BRUCKMANN, JOHN CAGE, MATT INGALLS, PHILL NIBLOCK, PAULINE OLIVEROS, KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI, STEVE REICH, GREG SAUNIER, SALVATORE SCIARRINO, JAMES TENNEY, IANNIS XENAKIS, and improvisations by SFSOUNDGROUP.
** FRIDAY JULY 8, 2016 . 9 PM **
JOHN CAGE - Cartridge Music (1960)
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI - Actions for Free Jazz Orchestra (1971)
IANNIS XENAKIS - Charisma (1971)
JAMES TENNEY - Critical Band (1988/2000)
JOHANNA BEYER - Music of Spheres (1938)
LUCIE VÍTKOVÁ - Piece for Accordion and Tap Shoes (2015)
KYLE BRUCKMANN - Following Orders (2014)
MATT INGALLS - Study for Hilbert Transforms (2016)
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016 )
** SATURDAY JULY 9, 2016 . 9 PM **
PIERRE BOULEZ - Étude 1 (1951)
PIERRE BOULEZ - Anthèmes 2 (1997)
STEVE REICH - Reed Phase (1966)
EARLE BROWN - December 1952 (1952)
SALVATORE SCIARRINO - Esplorazione del bianco II (1986)
GREG SAUNIER - Secret Mobilization (2010/2016)
PHILL NIBLOCK - Disseminate (1998)
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016)
** SUNDAY JULY 10, 2016 . 8 PM **
PIERRE BOULEZ - Domaines (1968/1969)
MORTON FELDMAN - Marginal Intersection (1951)
MORTON FELDMAN - Out of “Last Pieces” (1961)
EARLE BROWN - Available Forms I (1961)
PAULINE OLIVEROS - The Inner/Outer Sound Matrix (for sfSound) (2007)
PAULINE OLIVEROS - Sound Patterns (1961)
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016)
** MUSICIANS **
Lucie Vitková, accordion (special guest from Czech Republic)
Tom Bickley, recorder
Diane Grubbe, flutes
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe, english horn and electronics
Jesse Canterbury, bass clarinet
Phillip Greenlief, clarinet and saxophone
Matt Ingalls, clarinets and electronics
John McCowen, clarinet
Shawn Jones, bassoon
Joshua Allen, tenor saxophone
John Ingle, saxophones and conductor
Jon Raskin, saxophone
Armando Castellano, horn
Tom Dambly, trumpet and electronics
Tom Djll, trumpet and electronics
Kevin McLaughlin, trumpet
Theodore Padouvas, trumpet
Hall Goff, trombone
Don Kennelly, trombone
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone and electronics
Scott Thornton, trombone
Emily Laurance, harp
Anne Rainwater, piano and keyboards
Mark Clifford, percussion
Jacob Felix Heule, percussion
Jason Levis, percussion
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Scott Siler, percussion
Giacomo Fiore, guitar
John Shiurba, bass guitar
Benjamin Kreith, violin
Thea Farhadian, violin
Erik Ulman, violin
Derek Katz, viola
Linda Green, viola
Dylan Mattingly, cello
Monica Scott, cello and electronics
Lisa Mezzacappa, contrabass
Scott Walton, contrabass
Thom Blum, electronics
Sam Nichols, electronics
gray area grand theater
2665 mission st san francisco
$15 [$10 underemployed] each concert
$30 festival pass
underemployed tickets only available at the door
box office/doors open one hour before concert start time
Produced with kind support from
The Earle Brown Music Foundation
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
San Francisco Grants for the Arts
and Individual Contributors
show less
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