The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2015America's only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival features three distinct evenings of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 32 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 consisting of 16 high-end loudspeakers while the audience is seated in complete darkness. It's a unique opportunity to experience music forming - literally - around you.
See Festival Schedule Here...a cinematic “radio play”, sine wave synthesis, a collage of recordings made on optical film in the 1920's, Brownian motion sonification, oscillating filter bank drones, and manipulated bandoneón music. We perform a rare work by CONLON NANCARROW and an optical film piece by WALTER RUTTMANN that predates "tape music" by decades. We also premiere a new work by Stanford professor FERNANDO LOPEZ-LEZCANO and perform numerous recent works by international composers including the San Francisco based THEO MATHIEN. We also feature a tribute performance of Antony by UC Berkeley professor DAVID WESSEL, who unexpectedly passed away in October.
Walter Ruttmann - Wochenende (1930)
Conlon Nancarrow - Piece for Tape (1955)
David Wessel - Antony (1977)
Theo Mathien - A Trace of Finches (2011)
Jason Bolte - Putt'n Around (2012)
Diana Salazar - La Voz Del Fuelle (2012)
Isobel Anderson - Going Under: Above and Below The River Ouse (2014)
Gordon Delap - “Perpetual Jiggling”: Noise portrait of Richard Feynman (2014)
Jane Rigler - Mukta (2014)
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano - The Hidden and Mysterious Machinery of Sound (2015 WORLD PREMIERE)
Cost: $15 [$10 underemployed], $40 fest pass