Welcome to the Paul Dresher Ensemble
In celebration of Guru Shri Kelucharan Mohapatra’s birth centenary, Odissi Vilas, in association with the Consulate General of India, San Francisco, presents: Athaah by Arushi Mudgal Like the ocean, Indian arts are athaah – deep, and abundant with boundless possibilities for creative expression. Athaah is a reimagination of the traditional Odissi repertoire, exploring newer possibilities […]
Directed by Michael Socrates Moran Music composed by Paul Dresher Oakland Theater Project and New Performance Traditions are thrilled to present their most ambitious co-production to date: a bold, music-infused production of William Shakespeare’s epic tragedy King Lear, featuring a cast of 30; and music composed by Paul Dresher and performed live by the Dresher|Davel […]
Directed by Michael Socrates Moran Music composed by Paul Dresher Oakland Theater Project and New Performance Traditions are thrilled to present their most ambitious co-production to date: a bold, music-infused production of William Shakespeare’s epic tragedy King Lear, featuring a cast of 30; and music composed by Paul Dresher and performed live by the Dresher|Davel […]
JAMES FEI performs his "The Nerve Meter, where microphones distributed in the performance space are connected to two Frequency Shifters and fed back through loudspeakers. During the course of the performance, the output of the Frequency Shifters increasingly modulate each other, creating inherently unstable patterns that are dependent on interactions of the electronics as well […]
Directed by Michael Socrates Moran Music composed by Paul Dresher Oakland Theater Project and New Performance Traditions are thrilled to present their most ambitious co-production to date: a bold, music-infused production of William Shakespeare’s epic tragedy King Lear, featuring a cast of 30; and music composed by Paul Dresher and performed live by the Dresher|Davel […]
Directed by Michael Socrates Moran Music composed by Paul Dresher Oakland Theater Project and New Performance Traditions are thrilled to present their most ambitious co-production to date: a bold, music-infused production of William Shakespeare’s epic tragedy King Lear, featuring a cast of 30; and music composed by Paul Dresher and performed live by the Dresher|Davel […]
Directed by Michael Socrates Moran Music composed by Paul Dresher Oakland Theater Project and New Performance Traditions are thrilled to present their most ambitious co-production to date: a bold, music-infused production of William Shakespeare’s epic tragedy King Lear, featuring a cast of 30; and music composed by Paul Dresher and performed live by the Dresher|Davel […]
Directed by Michael Socrates Moran Music composed by Paul Dresher Oakland Theater Project and New Performance Traditions are thrilled to present their most ambitious co-production to date: a bold, music-infused production of William Shakespeare’s epic tragedy King Lear, featuring a cast of 30; and music composed by Paul Dresher and performed live by the Dresher|Davel […]
JAAP BLONK performs his own compositions, improvisations, and historical sound poems. Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Netherlands) is a self-taught composer, performer, poet and visual artist. His unfinished studies in mathematics and musicology mainly created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organized systems. In […]
Pianist-composer JARED REDMOND performs MORTON FELDMAN'S 1981 masterpiece Triadic Memories for piano solo. Described by the composer as "the biggest butterfly in captivity", Triadic Memories typifies Feldman's late style: a dreamlike work woven of hypnotically shifting, mosaic-like patterns, unrelentingly fragile and quiet, and of great length. Influenced deeply by the abstract visual art of his time, Feldman uses resonance, repetition, […]
SUBCONSCIOUS LIFE LARRY OCHS (tenor and sopranino saxophones) offers up a deeply felt set of improvised music, created by this stellar ensemble of San Francisco Bay Area improvisers BEN DAVIS (cello); DARREN JOHNSTON (trumpet); LISA MEZZACAPPA (acoustic bass)... and we invite you, the creative listeners, to dig in to our spontaneous but thoughtfully sculpted music […]
MATT ROBIDOUX presents the Bay Area premiere of The Spiral Worker, developed during his Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency (DEAR). The Spiral Worker, is a new work that operates as a connector within a rhizomatic network, fundamentally distinct from tree-like hierarchical structures that impose predetermined order. Drawing from Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the rhizome and […]