Wed 2/25 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St
SF]Meridian Composers in Performance Presents: Andy Strain.
Our next concert will be a special tribute performance by Andy Strain in memory of our dear friend, the incredible trombonist Toyoji Tomita. Toyoji performed many times at Meridian and worked with the youth in the Meridian Interns Program to plan and build the garden in our former gallery space.
More... Wed 2/25 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]PLF Traject is a trio from France - Pascal Pariaud, clarinet, pipes, singer, according, Jean-Charles Francois, percussion, and Gilles Laval, electric guitar - present an evening of improvised music. Within PFL Traject, improvisation is defined as different from composition, on the basis of a continuous process of collective creativity, which never leads to the identification of a definitive work. The improvisation concerns the details of the performance, which are never pre-planned, but the trio has developed a series of protocols used, prior to performances, with the objective to build together collective sounds through actual playing. These protocols are also used in pedagogical situations, which are an important part of the trio’s activity.
Each improvisation of PFL Traject is a voyage in the already constituted memory, a promenade in the garden of delights od what has already been cultivated. Each member brings his own repertoire of sounds, individual manner of proceeding, collections of instruments and heterogeneous objects, musical gestures exploring the multiple manners of making sound — blowing, strumming, beating and scraping…
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