Welcome to the Paul Dresher Ensemble
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 […]
The movies shown at the Brainwash Movie Festival are a great mix of original humor, experimental art movies, innovative animation, and short live-action stories with high production values. The moviemakers are unique and skillful storytellers, and the movies themselves pack a real punch into anywhere from 5 to 18 minutes. Externalities – Dan McHale 2:35 […]
The movies shown at the Brainwash Movie Festival are a great mix of original humor, experimental art movies, innovative animation, and short live-action stories with high production values. The moviemakers are unique and skillful storytellers, and the movies themselves pack a real punch into anywhere from 5 to 18 minutes Spheres – Martin Gerigk 5:52 […]
Eva-Maria (piano), Graham (percussion), Dayu Mang (gamelan), and guests present musical creations from the international gamelan community. KREASI KONTEMPORER (contemporary creation) will feature an eclectic array of solo and chamber music, from dense, notated contemporary solos to free explorations, all drawn from prominent composers, performers, and practitioners on the global gamelan scene. Piano, percussion, gamelan, […]
Solo Electric Bassoon with Loops/Effects; Duo with pianist Unpil Baek. Originals by Paul plus music by Glen Campbell, Wayne Shorter, Sting, Tigran Hamasyan & Ralph Towner. Paul Hanson has spent more than three decades expanding the vocabulary of the bassoon and challenging expectations of what the instrument can do. From his roots as an award-winning […]