sfSoundSalonSeries!a new bi-tuesday series dedicated to MUSIC
Selected Compositions by
Maggi Payne,
John Ingle, and
Edgard Varèse Local composer, flutist, and electronic music instructor
Maggi Payne performs selected compositions, including works for flutes (live and pre-recorded), multi-channel tape, and video. In addition, members of sfSound will join Maggi in a performance of
Shh, a work for chamber ensemble commissioned by sfSound that features "acoustic spatial diffusion".
Straight from Hunter's Point, sfSound's own
John Ingle presents a new improvisatory solo for alto saxophone. The concert concludes with a reprisal of their recent "radical transcription" project premiered on Berlin's
Faithful! Festival.
Quadrande is a deconstruction of
Edgard Varèse's Octandre that synthesizes the original material with sfSound's unique sound palette with a nod to early minimalism. sfSound performers include
Monica Scott,
Matt Ingalls, and
Kyle Bruckmann.
Maggi Payne is Co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she teaches recording engineering, composition, and electronic music. She also freelances as a recording engineer/editor and historical remastering engineer.
In her works she architects/sculpts the acoustic space so that the sounds build a geometric shape, then reorient, contract, or expand to an entirely different shape, shrink to a pinpoint, then stretch again to form yet another “world,” etc. At times multiple spaces coexist. There is always a sense of “place,” an atmosphere, in these acoustic constructs. The sounds are choreographed, as if they are dancers in three-dimensional space, with no walls, ceilings, or floors to constrain them.
Her electroacoustic works often incorporate visuals, including dancers outfitted with electroluminescent wire and videos she creates using images ranging from nature to the abstract. She has composed music for dance, theatre, and video, including the music for Jordon Belson's video Bardo. She has collaborated for several years with video artist Ed Tannenbaum in his Technological Feets performances.
Her works have been presented in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Australasia. She has received Composer's Grants and an Interdisciplinary Arts Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and video grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships Program, and has received four honorary mentions from Bourges and one from Prix Ars Electronica. Her works appear on Innova, Starkland, Lovely Music, Root Strata, Music and Arts, Centaur, Ubuibi, MMC, CRI, Digital Narcis, Frog Peak, Asphodel, and/OAR, Capstone, and Mills College labels.
Saxophonist/composer/improviser
John Ingle is originally from Memphis, TN and now resides and works in San Francisco. His music is informed and influenced by contemporary concert music, improvised music, electronic music, jazz, various Asian folk music traditions, and the blues and gospel of his native Southeast US. He collaborates with electronics innovator Laetitia Sonami, and in duo with NYC-based composer/dulcimerist Dan Joseph and is a founding member of the sfSoundGroup. John's solo saxophone music emphasizes multiphonics, vocal harmonics and subtle control of extended saxophone techniques, while his chamber music explores such musical parameters as spiral time, linear pulse, and non-linear harmony, and indulges in both simple resonance as well as complex timbre and auditory sleights-of-hand.
Cost: $10/7