Welcome to the Paul Dresher Ensemble
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 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 (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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]