sfSoundFestival July 8-10, 2016
[ NOTATIONS | ORIENTATIONS ]
experimental and contemporary music 1938 to the present
A three-concert celebration of 20th and 21st century music covering a wide range of graphical notation performed by some of the most passionate interpreters of such music in the Bay Area. Included are compositions that continue (and pre-date) the American and European traditions from the 1950s to the present day with influences from Jazz, Electronic Music, Indie-Pop, Modern Art, and Psychoacoustics
This year the festival pays tribute to PIERRE BOULEZ, who passed away in January, with two large works for soloists.
From the American experimental tradition, we feature two composers from the New York School: rarely heard box-notation works for large ensemble by MORTON FELDMAN and graphical and modular pieces by EARLE BROWN.
PROGRAM
PIERRE BOULEZ - Domaines (1968/1969 : 30m)
solo clarinet and six ensembles
EARLE BROWN - Available Forms I (1961 : ~10m)
chamber orchestra
PAULINE OLIVEROS - The Inner/Outer Sound Matrix (for sfSound) (2007 : ~7m)
chamber orchestra
PAULINE OLIVEROS - Sound Patterns (1961 : 4m)
voices (performed by sfSound chamber orchestra)
MORTON FELDMAN - Marginal Intersection (1951 : 6m)
chamber orchestra, oscillators, and sound effects of riveting
MORTON FELDMAN - Out of “Last Pieces” (1961 : 10m)
chamber orchestra
SFSOUNDGROUP - Improvisation (2016 : 10m)
MUSICIANS
Tom Bickley, recorder
Diane Grubbe, flutes
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe and english horn
Jesse Canterbury, bass clarinet
Phillip Greenlief, clarinet and saxophone
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
John McCowen, clarinet
Shawn Jones, bassoon
John Ingle, saxophones and conductor
Jon Raskin, saxophone
Armando Castellano, horn
Tom Dambly, trumpet
Tom Djll, trumpet
Kevin McLaughlin, trumpet
Hall Goff, trombone
Don Kennelly, trombone
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone
Scott Thornton, trombone
Emily Laurance, harp
Anne Rainwater, piano and keyboards
Mark Clifford, percussion
Jacob Felix Heule, percussion
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Scott Siler, percussion
Giacomo Fiore, guitar
Benjamin Kreith, violin
Thea Farhadian, violin
Erik Ulman, violin
Linda Green, viola
Derek Katz, viola
Dylan Mattingly, cello
Monica Scott, cello
Lisa Mezzacappa, contrabass
Scott Walton, contrabass
Thom Blum, electronics
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
avantNOIR, a suite of compositions for jazz quartet plus guests, is a musical companion to the crime novels of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster. All music by Lisa Mezzacappa.
The premiere, at the 2013 Outsound New Music Summit, of Wrack ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (made possible by the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commissioning program).
Tender Buttons at Second Act, SF, 2016; live video processing by Bill Thibault