Events
Merlin Coleman and Amy X Neuburg present multi-channel audio works
Dresher Ensemble Studio 2201 Poplar Street, Oakland, CA, United States
Morning Ragas performed by
Indradeep Ghosh (violin)
Sudhakar Vaidyanathan (tabla)
Where the Bow Meets the Soul – A rare concert Morning Ragas performed by virtuoso North Indian violinist Indradeep Ghosh with Sudhakar Vaidyanathan on tabla. Join us for a unique opportunity to hear an intimate recital of Hindustani morning ragas in the Dhrupad Style, Baaj, from the Maihar tradition. This is the tradition that gave […]
Sarah Cahill celebrating Terry Riley
“Ninety Trips Around the Sun”
To celebrate the ninetieth birthday year of Terry Riley, Sarah Cahill performs some of his remarkable music. The program will include Keyboard Studies, Be Kind to One Another, The Walrus in Memoriam,Fandango on the Heaven Ladder, and The Great Beauty, along with Circle Songs by Danny Clay and Shade Studies by Sam Adams, both composed […]
Micheal Schumacher
Marc Perez + Jeff Schwartz
MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER (New York) presents various “immersive/dispersive” fixed media works, composed for his portable 8 channel system and adapted for Dresher Studio's multi-channel Meyer sound system. Utilizing a radically inclusive palette of sounds, the pieces wrap the audience in webs of potential associations, making listening as vital to the creation of meaning as the […]
Neil Rolnick + Alex Olivia
Plonsey Scheme
NEIL ROLNICK performs So Many Me's, with choreographer and dancer ALEX OLIVA (and her 8 foot ladder). measuring ... selling ... falling apart ... acting out ... surrender ... Neil also performs the score to Barbara Hammer's 1990 experimental film Sanctus, featuring a host of x-ray skeletons playing trumpets, drinking, shaking hands, shaving, putting on lipstick, all […]
ANTIMATTER + Jacob Felix Heule
Diane Grubbe + Meerenai Shim
ANTIMATTER (xopher Davidson, analog / digital electronics) and JACOB FELIX HEULE (percussion): Wave Function Collapse, resting upon the threshold between a state of limitless potentials and one of decoherence-that which cannot be measured, quantified, simulated or collected as data. Forever drifting over time, a spectral bass-relief sculpted by entropy. MEERENAI SHIM and DIANE GRUBBE team […]
QT Viet Collective present Ordinary People
Dresher Ensemble Studio 2201 Poplar Street, Oakland, CA, United StatesMembers of the QT Viet Collective present Ordinary People, an audio-visual story layered with live narration, instrumentation, voices from Việt Nam, animation, photography and song. In a world that distances us from our truest selves, this performance invites us to reflect on our present moment and the deep desire to live fully. Moving across time […]
QT Viet Collective present Ordinary People
Dresher Ensemble Studio 2201 Poplar Street, Oakland, CA, United StatesMembers of the QT Viet Collective present Ordinary People, an audio-visual story layered with live narration, instrumentation, voices from Việt Nam, animation, photography and song. In a world that distances us from our truest selves, this performance invites us to reflect on our present moment and the deep desire to live fully. Moving across time […]
sfSoundGroup
PROGRAM Erik Satie - CINEMA (1926) with René Clair’s silent Dada short film, Entr’acte (1924) Larry Polansky - The World’s Longest Melody (1993) Larry Polansky - Approaching the Azimuth... (1998) Larry Polansky - freeHorn (2004) Tom Dambly - For Trumpet and Electronics (2026) Matt Ingalls - Fences (2001/2026) MUSICIANS Diane Grubbe, flute Matt Ingalls, clarinet […]
RAGA & RAGINI
Indian Classical Concert of Vocal & Sarod
Enchanting Hindustani classical evening with vocalist Sohini Mojumdar, sarodist Sougata Roy Chowdhury, tabla & harmonium accompaniment: Gaurav Kale (tabla) & Rajdeep Singh (harmonium). Sougata Roy Chowdhury is a distinguished sarod player from India, known for his expressive artistry, deep grounding in the Hindustani classical tradition, and performances that have moved audiences across the US and […]
ROVA
Gongwoman
ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET presents two sets of original compositions. First, commissioned works and recent Rova compositions for the quartet, including Music for Mouths by MIYA MASAOKA, The Knot Gallery by JOHN BUTCHER, I, Norton by GINO ROBAIR and pieces by quartet members. In the second half, Rova joins by KAREN STACKPOLE (Gongwoman) for a set of Rova […]