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THE SAN FRANCISCO TAPE MUSIC COLLECTIVE presents their 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.
In the perfect environment for close listening, the two cellos and saxophone TRIO BEN DAVIS - FRED LONBERG-HOLM - LARRY OCHS invite you, the avid listeners, to join the musicians in enjoying their spontaneous but carefully sculpted music as it happens, in real time. Through repeated performances, musical discussions after shows and rehearsals, this music […]
Splinter Reeds Works by Zachary James Watkins and Karola Obermüller, and new commission Brume by Jean Carla Rodea Commissioned by Splinter Reeds with support from a Musical Grant Program award by Intermusic SF, Brume is an immersive multimedia performance created by Jean Carla Rodea during her Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency. Drawing inspiration from breath in […]
ERNST KAREL: ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS ERNST KAREL presents his multichannel, ongoing iterative work, Atmospheric Rivers. This piece’s subject is a key component of the global water cycle: the enormous streams of concentrated water vapor which flow through the sky from the tropics towards the poles, releasing heavy rain in high wind, particularly in the western U.S, and […]
Other Minds presents scenes in workshop from the work-in-progress, I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment, by American composer Joseph Bohigian, Lebanese-Armenian vocalist Khatchadour Khatchadourian, and the music-technology group Ensemble Decipher. The free workshop performance will take place on Friday, July 25, 2025, at 7:30 pm at the Paul Dresher Ensemble Studio in […]
LISA MEZZACAPPA 5(ISH) Bassist and composer LISA MEZZACAPPA (acoustic bass) brings her newest ensemble to the WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES in advance of its NYC debut at The Stone later this month. Mezzacappa's previous works have drawn inspiration from Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster's lean noir crime novels and Italo Calvino's hilarious and poignant Cosmicomics stories. Now she's […]
Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area, dNaga Dance Co., directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma, presents Tastes Like Bitterness, Moves Like Love, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland, July 10-12th, 2025. Join us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co., providing a unique pairing of dance, bites, […]
Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area, dNaga Dance Co., directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma, presents Tastes Like Bitterness, Moves Like Love, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland, July 10-12th, 2025. Join us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co., providing a unique pairing of dance, bites, […]
Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area, dNaga Dance Co., directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma, presents Tastes Like Bitterness, Moves Like Love, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland, July 10-12th, 2025. Join us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co., providing a unique pairing of dance, bites, […]
Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area, dNaga Dance Co., directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma, presents Tastes Like Bitterness, Moves Like Love, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland, July 10-12th, 2025. Join us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co., providing a unique pairing of dance, bites, […]
This evening’s performances will showcase two forms of dance within the Odissi repertoire — Nritta or pure dance, usually a lyrical composition celebrating a season or a mood, and Nritya or expressive dance where the dancers use movement and expression to narrate a story, usually from Hindu mythology. The dancers will perform a mix of […]
Adam Lion (Solo Vibraphone) sfSoundGroup performs Lucier and Erickson Adam Lion: Los Angeles-based percussionist presents his new vibraphone album "When a Line Bends," a study on acoustic phenomena and the possibilities of sound. sfSoundGroup: Performing Alvin Lucier's "Two Circles" (2012) and Robert Erickson's "Pacific Sirens" (1969), featuring performers Sam Weiser (violin), Monica Scott (cello), Kjell […]