San Francisco Tape Music Festival

America's only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, features four distinct concerts of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 35 local and international composers. Hear members of the SF Tape Music Collective, along with guest composers, shape the sound live over a pristine surround system (24 high-end loudspeakers) with the audience seated in complete darkness. It's a unique opportunity to experience music forming - literally - around you.

The 2020 Festival features contemporary "fixed media" compositions by eighteen international composers, including FRANCIS DHOMONT, NATASHA BARRETT, ROBERT NORMANDEAU, and BARRY TRUAX alongside tape classics by PIERRE SCHAEFFER, PAULINE OLIVEROS, and TORU TAKEMITSU. Bay area artists KENNETH ATCHLEY, BRUCE BENNETT, KYLE BRUCKMANN, BRAN(...)POS, THOM BLUM, CLIFF CARUTHERS, MATT INGALLS, DOUGLAS MCCAUSLAND, KRISTIN MILTNER, MICHELLE MOELLER, MAGGI PAYNE, and KEN UENOwill also be presenting their works.

Saturday's 9:30pm concert features late-night-appropriate works that lean towards ambient and long-form-exploration.

In a special collaboration with SFSOUNDGROUP, the Sunday program features works for instruments and spatialized electronics, including the premiere of Ghosts of Ancient Hurricanes, a new comission by KEN UENO, the North American premiere of Force Fields by JONTY HARRISON, and DENIS SMALLEY'S classic Clarinet Threads.

The festival also pays tribute to electronic music pioneer MARIO DAVIDOVSKY (1934-2019) and selected text-sound works by KEN NORDINE (1920-2019).



P R O G R A M

Friday January 10, 2020 (8:30pm)

PIERRE SCHAEFFER
PAULINE OLIVEROS
BARRY TRUAX
ROBERT NORMANDEAU
MAGGI PAYNE
BRAN(...)POS
CLIFF CARUTHERS
MATTHEW BARNARD
PARAZON
LEAH REID




Saturday January 11, 2020 (7:00pm)

KEN NORDINE
FRANCIS DHOMONT
NATASHA BARRETT
THOM BLUM
DOUGLAS MCCAUSLAND
KRISTIN MILTNER
CECILIA CASTRO
SANGWON LEE
MICHELLE MOELLER
FELIPE OTONDO
DANIELLE SAVAGE
FULYA UÇANOK




Saturday January 11, 2020 (9:30pm)

TORU TAKEMITSU
KENNETH ATCHLEY
BRUCE BENNETT
SAVANNAH AGGER
LÉA BOUDREAU
NICOLA GIANNINI
TROND LOSSIUS



Sunday January 12, 2020 (7:00pm)

a special 3-set concert of works for instruments and fixed media featuring sfSoundGroup
-- set order subject to change --


KEN UENO
DENIS SMALLEY
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
MATT INGALLSSFSOUND
JONTY HARRISON
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
KYLE BRUCKMANN




P E R F O R M E R S

Diane Grubbe , oboe & english horn
Matt Ingalls , saxophone, conductor
Tom Dambly , trombone
Hadley McCarroll , percussion
Benjamin Kreith , viola
Monica Scott , bass
Ken Ueno