Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/10/2020
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Location
Victoria Theatre
Category(ies)
- Music
- Audio
- Avant-Garde
- Classical
- Ensemble
- Experimental
- Festival
- International
- New Music
- Premiere
- Sonic
- Tribute
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America’s only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival features four distinct concerts of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 35 local and international composers. Hear members of the SF Tape Music Collective, along with guest composers, shape the sound live over a pristine surround system (24 high-end loudspeakers) with the audience seated in complete darkness. It’s a unique opportunity to experience music forming – literally – around you.
The 2020 Festival features contemporary “fixed media” compositions by eighteen international composers, including: Francis Dhomont, Natasha Barrett, Robert Normandeau, and Barry Truax alongside tape classics by Pierre Schaeffer, Pauline Oliveros, and Toru Takemitsu. Bay Area artists: Kenneth Atchley, Bruce Bennett, Kyle Bruckmann, bran(…)pos, Thom Blum, Cliff Caruthers, Matt Ingalls, Douglas McCausland, Kristin Miltner, Michelle Moeller, Maggi Payne, and Ken Ueno will also be presenting their works.
Saturday’s 9:30pm concert features late-night-appropriate works that lean towards ambient and long-form-exploration.
In a special collaboration with sfSoundGroup, the Sunday program features works for instruments and spatialized electronics, including the premiere of Ghosts of Ancient Hurricanes, a new commission by Ken Ueno, the North American premiere of Force Fields by Jonty Harrison, and Denis Smalley’s classic Clarinet Threads.
The festival also pays tribute to electronic music pioneer Mario Davidovsky (1934-2019) and selected text-sound works by Ken Nordine (1920-2019).
SF Tape Music Festival Program
Friday, January 10, 2020 | 8:30PM
- Pierre Schaeffer – Étude pathétique [Étude aux Casseroles] (1948)
- Pauline Oliveros – Poem of Change (1992)
- Barry Truax – The Garden of Sonic Delights (2016)
- Robert Normandeau – Tunnel azur (2016)
- Maggi Payne – Heat Shield (2018)
- bran(…)pos – martian brine pool (2019)
- Cliff Caruthers – New Work (2020)
- Matthew Barnard – Woche (with apologies to Ruttmann and Brock) (2011)
- Parazon – Opaque Fragments (2017)
- Leah Reid – Sk(etch) (2018)
Saturday, January 11, 2020 | 7PM
- Ken Nordine – selected works
- Francis Dhomont – Here and There (2003)
- Natasha Barrett – Urban Melt in Park Palais Meran (2017)
- Thom Blum – (work TBD)
- Douglas McCausland – Isolate (2019)
- Kristin Miltner – New Work (2020)
- Cecilia Castro – Roma III: The Ruin (2018)
- Sangwon Lee – Torturing Piano (2019)
- Michelle Moeller – Spoke (2019)
- Felipe Otondo – Irama (2012)
- Danielle Savage – Schizo Phonia (2018)
- Fulya Uçanok – Assembly (2017)
Saturday, January 11, 2020 | 9:30PM
- Toru Takemitsu – Vocalism Ai (1956)
- Kenneth Atchley – bay sky hills fog (2019)
- Bruce Bennett – Stretch (2001)
- Savannah Agger – Undercurrents (2016)
- Léa Boudreau – Quatre machines pour sauver le monde (2019)
- Nicola Giannini – Eyes Draw Circles of Light (2019)
- Trond Lossius – Listening understood as inhabiting (2015)
Sunday, January 12, 2020 | 7PM
a special 3-set concert of works for instruments and fixed media featuring sfSoundGroup
— set order subject to change —
- Ken Ueno – Ghosts of Ancient Hurricanes (2020)
- Denis Smalley – Clarinet Threads (1985)
- Mario Davidovsky – Synchronisms #2 (1964)
- Matt Ingalls and sfSound – Blue Sedan (2020)
- Jonty Harrison – Force Fields (2006)
- Mario Davidovsky – Synchronisms #3 (1964)
- Kyle Bruckmann – Clutterfields (2019)
Performers
- Diane Grubbe – flutes
- Kyle Bruckmann – oboe and english horn
- Matt Ingalls – clarinets
- John Ingle – saxophone, conductor
- Tom Dambly – trumpet
- Brendan Lai-Tong – trombone
- Hadley McCarroll – piano
- Kjell Nordeson – percussion
- Benjamin Kreith – violin
- Natalia Badziak – viola
- Monica Scott – cello
- Lisa Mezzacappa – bass
- Ken Ueno – voice
IMAGE: Pierre Schaeffer