Dresher Ensemble Studio

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Subtle colors, quiet nuances and intense communication - György Kurtág and Leos Janáček's music for pianos and strings will draw you into a magical world where every sound, every gesture conjures up memories or heightens awareness of the present. Cellist and composer MONICA SCOTT has transcribed Janáček's piano work The Overgrown Path for violin, viola and […]

Carl Stone returns to the Bay Area for a solo electronic music concert, followed by a special collaborative set with Paul Dresher. Carl Stone, one of the pioneers of live computer music, returns to the Bay Area for an intimate performance of solo electronic music. The Village Voice has hailed Carl as “the king of […]