Victoria Theatre
2961 16th Street San Francisco

The San Francisco Tape Music Festival

America's only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival features four distinct concerts of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 26 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 (24 high-end loudspeakers) with the audience seated in complete darkness. It's a unique opportunity to experience music forming - literally - around you.

The 2017 Festival features two concerts showcasing the entire range of the “fixed media” artform, including "Then" (2014) by CURTIS ROADS. The Saturday late-night concert features longer and ambient tape pieces, including excerpts from the 1977 Soundtrack to DAVID LYNCH'S "ERASERHEAD." The Sunday evening concert is devoted to the tape music of PAULINE OLIVEROS (1932 - 2016).

The festival also performs classic works by San Francisco Tape Music Center technical director BILL MAGINNIS (1938 - 2016), computer music pioneer JEAN-CLAUDE RISSET (1938 - 2016), and Denmark's "Grandmother of Electronic Music," ELSE MARIE PADE (1924 - 2016). Compositions created with DON BUCHLA'S (1937 - 2016) original BUCHLA 100 SERIES SYNTHESIZER by Bay Area Composer WARNER JEPSON (1930 - 2011) and others will also be presented.

Recent works by international composers PETE STOLLERY (UK), PAOLO PASTORINO (Italy), NICOLAS MARTY (France), BRONA MARTIN (Ireland), LUIGI MARINO (Italy), MAXIME CORBEIL-PERRON (Canada), MARIE-HELENE BREAULT (Canada), and MARTIN BEDARD (Canada) will be performed alongside local tape musicians DONALD SWEARINGEN, MAGGI PAYNE, KRISTIN MILTNER, THEO MATHIEN, KENT JOLLY, MATT INGALLS, CLAIRE HAAS, MATTHEW GOODHEART, SIVAN ELDAR, CLIFF CARUTHERS, THOM BLUM, and KYLE BRUCKMANN.


PROGRAM DETAILS

Friday January 6, 2017 (9pm)
JEAN-CLAUDE RISSET Sud (1986)
WARNER JEPSON selections from Tullium (1967)
MARIE-HELENE BREAULT/MARTIN BEDARD Replica (2013)
THOM BLUM (tba)
KYLE BRUCKMANN Predictable Epiphanies (2016)
MAXIME CORBEIL-PERRON Cubic (2016)
SIVAN ELDAR On Air | Behind Glass (2013)
MATT INGALLS Boxed Buchla (2017)


Saturday January 7, 2017 (8pm)
CURTIS ROADS THEN (2014)
BILL MAGINNIS Sweet & Flight (1965)
ELSE MARIE PADE Lyd & Lys (1960)
MAGGI PAYNE Sferics (2016)
BRONA MARTIN A bit closer to home (2014)
PAOLO PASTORINO Dimensione aggiuntiva (2016)
CLIFF CARUTHERS Last Breaths (1996)
CLAIRE HAAS Crossing Under (2016)
KENT JOLLY Mirrors (1995)
THEO MATHIEN Throatsong to the Four-leggeds (2013)


Saturday January 7, 2017 (11pm)
DAVID LYNCH'S "ERASERHEAD" SOUNDTRACK excerpted (1977)
PETE STOLLERY Three Cities (2012)
MATTHEW GOODHEART Berlin Head Metal - I (2016)
LUIGI MARINO Hau: a form of bistability (2013)
NICOLAS MARTY Une des chambres n'aurait presque pas de fenêtre (2015)
KRISTIN MILTNER (2017)
DONALD SWEARINGEN In The Kitchen (1992)


Sunday January 8, 2017 (8pm)
tentative program, subject to changee
PAULINE OLIVEROS Time Perspectives (1961)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Bye Bye Butterfly (1965)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Rock Symphony (1965)
PAULINE OLIVEROS I of IV (1966)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Alien Bog (1967)
PAULINE OLIVEROS A Little Noise in the System (1970)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Lion’s Tale (1989)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Sayonara Sirenade (2001)


$10 underemployed
$15 general
**$25 "sweet spot" seating**
$60 fest pass (includes "sweet spot" seating for all 4 concerts)

advance ticket purchase: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2727436
or at the door (cash only) the day of show after 7pm
underemployed tickets can only be purchased at the door

A "Sweet Spot" ticket guarantees a seat in the reserved middle section of the audience.
Any "Sweet Spot" seats that are unclaimed 15 minutes before the concert starts will be offered to all ticket holders.
Seating is limited -- we strongly suggest purchasing "Sweet Spot" tickets and Festival Passes in advance!

Cost: $10/15/25/60