Welcome to the Paul Dresher Ensemble
The Sky Is A Suitcase (from Seattle) Mike Gebhart - drums Carmen Rothwell - bass Levi Gillis - tenor sax Ray Larsen - trumpet The Sky is a Suitcase is dedicated to improvisation. Their songs are personal – about dreams, places, people and memories. These memories manifest their mood in the melodies and rhythms the […]
FF (Fuck Fascists) is the collaboration of SHARKIFACE and AVA KOOHBOR, who met at Mills College. They use electronics, noise, and spoken word to enact resistance and reject fascism and patriarchy. They make sound as protest, performance as refusal, and noise as a space for collective action. SHARKIFACE, aka Angela Edwards, is an Oakland-based performer blending […]
The Northwest Experimental Guitar Orchestra is a Seattle-based ensemble of musicians from diverse performance backgrounds. They perform new works that explore alternative methods of scoring, conducting, and technology integration. By favoring approaches that avoid traditional Western music notation, they make participation accessible to everyone, regardless of background, training, or education. They will perform a suite […]
Jean Carla Rodea (voice/electronics) brings an electroacoustic quartet featuring Kyle Bruckmann (oboe), Kanoko Nishi-Smith (koto), and Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello). The ensemble explores spontaneous composition and collective improvisation in response to Rodea’s sound design and scores. Drawing from each musician’s extensive background in free improvisation and experimentalism, the evening unfolds as an unpredictable multilogue. Aine Nakamura […]
Oakland musicians Nathan Clevenger, Jordan Glenn, and Cory Wright share a long and entwined history of collaboration across various projects, including Wiener Kids, Ashen Cleric, and Fellow Hominids. Formed in 2021, the trio has released 3 albums and initiated a series of collaborations with guest artists, including Kasey Knudsen, Crystal Pascucci, Phillip Greenlief, Marié Abe, […]
The San Francisco Tape Music Collective presents its summer East Bay festival of fixed-media works, projected live over a 16-channel Meyer Sound system. Featuring a wide range of works by international composers and collective members, classic musique concrète pieces will be presented alongside newly created acousmatic compositions. More information coming soon.
Domi, Kaitlin McSweeney, and K. Francis Messer are an experimental trio blending electro-acoustic composition and improvisation with prepared drums, scrap metal, cello, movement, voice, amplifiers, and salvaged resonant objects. Out of a receptive summoning, distinct voices emerge and impress upon each other, moving with and in contrast, interpenetrating and gravitating toward a common orbit of […]
The Geryon Trio performs Random Ruminations. Drawing on themes of absurdity, chance, and fluidity, JOHANNA POETHIG'S text, image, and oracle project intersects with an aleatoric performance by CHRIS BROWN and RAFFI GARABEDIAN to form a collaborative exploration of chance, divination, and spontaneous creation. Prompted by Lyn Hejinian’s inquiry into constructive absurdity, Poethig weaves together texts, […]
The Glissando Flute is a normal orchestral flute with Robert Dick’s invention, the “Glissando Headjoint®” (inspired by the electric guitar’s “whammy bar"), making the flute more flexible and liquid. Long-time sfSound flutist DIANE GRUBBE has asked six Bay Area composers to let their creative energy go wild with the possibilities of the instrument and her […]
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 […]
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, […]