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...field recordings, cinema for the ear, sound-design works, processed gamelan, samples of Tejano and synth-pop music, and a FRANK ZAPPA classic. We also present numerous recent works by international composers and locals BYRON EVORA, KENT JOLLY, and CHERYL LEONARD. In addition, Bay Area composer COLLIN MCKELVEY and San Francisco Tape Music Collective's own THOM BLUM premiere new works.
Frank Zappa - Nasal Retentive Calliope Music (1968)
Carla Scaletti - sunSergeAutomata (1987)
Kent Jolly - Bellbox (2003)
Francisco Eme - Cuerno de Chivo (2012)
Byron Evora - FLUX - Sound Re-Design (2012)
Matthew Schoen - Track #1 (2013)
David Arango-Valencia - giraSol~giraNada (2014)
Cheryl Leonard - Ablation Zone (2014)
James O’Callaghan - Bodies-Soundings (2014)
Pierre-Luc Senécal - Schrei (2014)
Collin McKelvey - Sufficient for a Head: Radio Edit (2015, WORLD PREMIERE)
Thom Blum - Walkways of the Hopeful and the Hopeless (2015, WORLD PREMIERE)
Cost: $15 [$10 underemployed], $40 fest pass