sfSoundSeries: 2005 Season

Our winter 2005 concerts continue our eclectic approach, bringing together virtuoso improvisation, expressive composition, and compelling combinations of electronic sound, theatrical concept, and incisive performance. Works by renowned composers like Anthony Braxton and Karlheinz Stockhausen appear alongside emerging artists like David Bithell and Philipp Blume, while a concert of new commissions from Bay Area composers presents a portrait of music-making around our community.

January 10 | January 20-22 | February 28 | April 11

Monday, January 10, 2005, 8 pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th Street (@ Shotwell)
admission $12 ($10 student/senior)

We premiere David Bithell's hour-length work Lumen, part trumpet concerto, part performance art exploration, with electronics, percussionists, and actors. Plus a classic work by John Cage for percussion and electronics, a creative transcription of Anton Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra, and Anthony Braxton's "Ghost Trance Music."
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Thursday-Saturday, January 20-22, 2005, 8 pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th Street (@ Shotwell)
admission $15
weekend pass $36

The new San Francisco Tape Music Center is California's foremost exponent of the live diffusion of tape music. They present Cinema for the Ear, a 3-day festival of fixed media audio art distributed in real-time across a sixteen-loudspeaker surround sound system. Featured works include classics by Morton Feldman, Gyorgy Ligeti, and Frank Zappa; audio dramas; 3D nature recordings; and new compositions by local and international composers, including the Bay Area premiere of FERN, a 16-channel theatrical sound piece by Merlin Coleman.
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Monday, February 28, 2005, 8 pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th Street (@ Shotwell)
admission $12 ($10 student/senior)

Violin virtuoso Mark Menzies joins us for a survey of thirty-five years of new music from Germany, starting with Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kurzwellen for instrumentalists with shortwave radios and electronics. Also featured are works by Mathias Spahlinger, Olga Neuwirth, Helmut Lachenmann, and Bay Area resident Philipp Blume.
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Monday, April 11, 2005, 8 pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th Street (@ Shotwell)
admission $12 ($10 student/senior)

Around the Bay: a concert of new works written especially for the sfSoundGroup by Bay Area composers, including John Ingle, Marisol Jimenez, Jake Rodriguez, Erik Ulman, and a new collaborative improvisational work by the group.
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