Birgit Ulher is one of our favorite improvisers. It's been more than 4 years since the last time she was here, and we're delighted to have her back.
Birgit works mainly on extending the sounding possiblities of the trumpet by using splitting sounds, multiphonics and granular sounds and has developed her own extended techniques and preparations for producing these sounds. At this concert she will be joined by an all-star ensemble comprised of
Kyle Bruckmann (oboe),
Jacob Felix Heule (percussion), Tony Dryer (contrabass) and
Tom Nunn (percussion) for a Company-style night of short improvisations by various groupings of the gathered company.
Presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut San Francisco.
Cost: Free, donations accepted.
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Invented Instruments , at the High Zero festival September 22nd 2012 , Baltimore Maryland
Jacob Felix Heule, Clarke Robinson, Matt Ingalls
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).