:: welcome
sfSoundSeries is a concert series in the San Francisco
Bay Area featuring contemporary and experimental music. Our programs reach from the
latest music of the European Avant-Garde to the grittiest sounds of
the West Coast Improv-Underground, encompassing the latest trends in
instrumental technique, conceptual art, music theater, and electronic sound.
:: news
sfSound has been awarded a 2008 ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming by Chamber Music America!
:: concerts
Sunday, October 12, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
:: sfSoundSeries :: 351 shotwell st, san francisco

Local percussionist Gino Robair performs Potluck Percussion (You bring anything, & he'll "play" it - GUARANTEED!) and presents a realization of his improv-opera I, Norton with sfSound augmented by laptops and voices. The program also includes two giant works from the 1980's: Gérard Grisey's Talea (1986) and the U.S. premiere of Mathias Spahlinger's Aussageverweigerung / Gegendarstellung: Zwei Kontra-Kontexte für Doppelquartett (1981) in addition to and the premiere of a new work written for sfSound by local composer Erik Ulman.
Performers include:
Stacey Pelinka - flutes,
Matt Ingalls - clarinets,
Jonathan Russell - clarinets,
John Ingle - saxophones,
Jon Raskin - bari saxophone,
Andy Strain - trombone,
Loren Mach - percussion,
Gino Robair - percussion,
Matthew Goodheart - piano,
Christopher Jones - piano/bassoon/conductor,
Hadley McCarroll - piano/voice,
Erik Ulman - violin,
Alexa Beattie - viola,
Karlyn DeSteno - viola,
Monica Scott - cello,
Richard Worn - contrabass, Tom Duff - voice, Aurora Josephson - voice, Chris Brown - computer, Kristin Miltner - computer , and Wobbly - electronics.
October 19, 2008 Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco

San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music presents a "Day of Chamber Music"
Sunday, November 9, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
:: sfSoundSeries :: 351 shotwell st, san francisco

Featuring sfSound's saxophonist John Ingle in a recital of new solo and ensemble compositions, improvisations, and a concerto by local composer Josh Levine. Plus, NYC-based percussion duo Hunter-Gatherer (Russell Greenberg and Ian Antonio) perform the West Coast premiere of a new work by David Lang, David Bithell's Whistle From Above for percussion and robotics, the West coast premiere Table of Contents, a new work by 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang, and Gérard Grisey's Stele for 2 bass drums.
Saturday, November 15, 2008 : 5p Old First Concerts
1751 sacramento st, san francisco

Gérard Grisey's Talea (1986). Part of ChamberBridge's Messiaen Illuminated Festival
December 7, 2008 Stanford University
New Works by Graduate Composers
January 30, 31 & February 1, 2009 Cell Space
2050 bryant st, san francisco
San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2009
Our annual festival presenting new and classic electroacoustic works performed in complete darkness through a 20+ channel surround-sound loudspeaker array. It's cinema for your ears!
February 6 & 7, 2009 San Francisco State University
knuth hall, 1600 holloway ave, san francisco

Music by Elliott Carter and Olivier Messiaen
April 1-5, 2009 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
sfSoundResidency #2
Spring, 2009
sfSoundTour
:: musicians
The concerts showcase some of the Bay Area's finest musicians,
bringing together talented young improvisers, composers, and performers
committed to the full range of contemporary musicmaking. more>>
:: history
sfSound has been producing concerts since 1999. more>>
:: radio
Many recordings of past concerts, as well as featured works on upcoming concerts can be heard on sfSoundRadio. Tune in!
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