a weekly new music and experimental sound series every sunday
presented by new performance traditions and sfSound
dresher ensemble studio :: 2201 poplar street, oakland california
$10-$25 sliding scale (cash & venmo accepted at door - order advance here)
ample parking! please park perpendicular when past the trees on poplar
:: late arrivals follow instructions on door to get buzzed in ::
DOUBLE CD RELEASES SHOW!
CRACKING THE SURFACE (DAVID MICHALAK, instruments of skatch; SCOTT LOONEY, piano, hyper-piano, and THOMAS DIMUZIO, buchla 200E, processing) CD release show celebrating our new release recorded at Fantasy Studios with Tom Nunn, released by Chris Cutler's ReR Megacorp in the UK, Gench Music in the US. This was Tom Nunn's last recording.
"There’s real structural depth; no repetition, no settling into a groove, nothing obvious, but everything is in constant motion and there’s never any fat, or waiting for the next idea... an exemplary release, not least because these sounds are organic and mechanical and played interactively by people in real time and with a high level of musical sensitivity." -- Chris Cutler
The Bay Area duo of CHRIS BROWN (piano, electronics) and BEN DAVIS (cello) celebrates their four years of creative development with the CD release of Jongleurs on ArtifactRecordings. Inspired by the Medieval itinerant musicians who lived outside society, without fixed employment, and were “neither elitist nor monopolistic of creativity.” (Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music). Their music is developed primarily through free improvisation, but draws on their backgrounds in classical contemporary music with an emphasis on timbral diversity, from just intonation to noise that exploits extended techniques on their instruments, and live, interactive electronics. For this concert they will perform within an a newly developed aleatoric live sampling system that fragments and expands their improvisations projected through three loudspeakers that render instantly composed orchestral textures.
Offering “a tone so pure it is almost a sine-wave” (The Wire), ADAM LION is a percussionist/vibraphonist investigating enabling constraint, acoustics, repetition, surprise and coincidence. His experimental performances blur acoustic space, creating opportunities for new sonic frameworks to naturally emerge. Within this process new realities grow, encouraging listeners to investigate the hidden potential of reimagined sound. Based in Los Angeles, his work has been featured in The New York Times, Pitchfork Media, Artforum Magazine, and Bandcamp Daily.
His new vibraphone album When a Line Bends is a repetitious study on the possibilities of acoustic phenomena. Sound floods the room with music one would only expect from amplification or supplementary electronics. Bars are bowed for sustained durations producing an effect similar to a sine tone, and textural adjustments occur spontaneously. Slowly evolving ostinatos result in pulsating, dissonant overtones whose frequency beatings bring about scintillating clouds of polyrhythms. As bars are bowed, struck, scraped, and touched, Adam explores the vibraphone hoping to surprise himself.
SFSOUNDGROUP performs two iconic sound works for ensemble and tape:
ALVIN LUCIER'S Two Circles (2012)
ROBERT ERICKSON'S Pacific Sirens (1969)
PERFORMERS
Sam Weiser, violin
Monica Scott, cello
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Hadley McCarroll, piano
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone
John Ingle, saxophone
Matt Ingalls, clarinet
Diane Grubbe, flute
Tom Dambly, trumpet
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