sfSoundSeries: upcoming Concerts

We begin 2007 with the San Francisco Tape Music Festival - three nights of electronic music and audio art diffused live over a sixteen-channel sound system. Then we follow up with four concerts pairing 20th-century classics with the latest music from around the Bay Area and around the globe....

Friday-Sunday, January 26-28, 2007, 8 pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th Street (@ Shotwell)
admission $12 ($7 student/senior)
festival pass $24 ($14 student/senior)

The 2007 San Francisco Tape Music Festival is a retrospective of electronic music for tape and a survey of the state of the art; this year's concerts feature a complete performance of Stockhausen's Hymnen and a new work by electronic music visionary Brian Eno. As always, concerts are presented in sixteen-channel audio, making for an extraordinary experience of sound in space.

Sunday, March 11, 2007, 8 pm
San Francisco Community Music Center
544 Capp Street
admission $10

Improvised music from France with percussionist Lê Quan Ninh and pianist Frédéric Blondy. sfSoundGroup opens with new improvisation-based compositions.

Monday, March 19, 2007, 8 pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th Street (@ Shotwell)
admission $5

Iannis Xenakis' Akanthos, Wadada Leo Smith's Emmeya and Tawhid, Galina Ustvolskaya's Grand Duett, and premieres by Matthew Goodheart and sfSoundGroup.

Sunday, June 24, 2007, 8 pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th Street (@ Shotwell)
admission $5

Featuring Edgard Varese's classic ensemble work Integrales (1925), Christopher Jones performing Helmut Lachenmann's monumental Serynade for solo piano, and premieres of chamber pieces by David Bithell and Christopher Jones. Plus an improvisation by George Cremaschi, John Ingle, and Kjell Nordeson.

Sunday, July 22, 2007, 8 pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th Street (@ Shotwell)
admission $5

Two classics for soloist with electronics - Jacob Druckman's Animus I for trombone and tape, and Steve Reich's Reed Phase for clarinet and computer. Plus Elliott Carter's gripping song cycle Tempo e Tempi, the Chris Jones performing the bay area premiere of "Separate Machines" for solo piano, and new electro-acoustic works by Christopher Burns and Matt Ingalls.

Sunday, August 26, 2007, 8 pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th Street (@ Shotwell)
admission $5

Anton Webern's Concerto op. 24 and a host of new short works written especially for sfSoundGroup, by composers including Liz Allbee, Mark Applebaum, David Bithell, Christopher Burns, George Cremaschi, Dina Emerson, James Fei, Matthew Goodheart, Matt Ingalls, John Ingle, Marisol Jimenez, Christopher Jones, Jon Leidecker, Hyo-shin Na, Pauline Oliveros, Dan Plonsey, Jon Raskin, Monica Scott, Moe! Staiano, Erik Ulman, Zachery Watkins, and others.