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 35 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 2020 Festival features contemporary “fixed media” compositions by eighteen international composers, including FRANCIS DHOMONT, NATASHA BARRETT, ROBERT NORMANDEAU, and BARRY TRUAX alongside tape classics by PIERRE SCHAEFFER, PAULINE OLIVEROS, and TORU TAKEMITSU. Bay area artists KENNETH ATCHLEY, BRUCE BENNETT, KYLE BRUCKMANN, BRAN(...)POS, THOM BLUM, CLIFF CARUTHERS, MATT INGALLS, DOUGLAS MCCAUSLAND, KRISTIN MILTNER, MICHELLE MOELLER, MAGGI PAYNE, and KEN UENO will also be presenting their works.
Saturday's 9:30pm concert features late-night-appropriate works that lean towards ambient and long-form-exploration.
In a special collaboration with SFSOUNDGROUP, the Sunday program features works for instruments and spatialized electronics, including the premiere of Ghosts of Ancient Hurricanes, a new comission by KEN UENO, the North American premiere of Force Fields by JONTY HARRISON, and DENIS SMALLEY'S classic Clarinet Threads.
The festival also pays tribute to MARIO DAVIDOVSKY (1934-2019) and KEN NORDINE (1920-2019).
P R O G R A M
Saturday January 11, 2020 (9:30pm) TORU TAKEMITSU -
Vocalism Ai (1956) KENNETH ATCHLEY -
bay sky hills fog (2019) BRUCE BENNETT -
Stretch (2001) SAVANNAH AGGER -
Undercurrents (2016) LÉA BOUDREAU -
Quatre machines pour sauver le monde (2019) NICOLA GIANNINI -
Eyes Draw Circles of Light (2019) TROND LOSSIUS -
Listening understood as inhabiting (2015)Sunday January 12, 2020 (7:00pm) a special 3-set concert of works for instruments and fixed media featuring sfSoundGroup KEN UENO -
Ghosts of Ancient Hurricanes (2020)- interval -
DENIS SMALLEY -
Clarinet Threads (1985) MARIO DAVIDOVSKY -
Synchronisms #2 (1964) MATT INGALLS &
SFSOUND -
Blue Sedan (2020) - interval -
JONTY HARRISON -
Force Fields (2006) MARIO DAVIDOVSKY -
Synchronisms #3 (1964) KYLE BRUCKMANN -
Clutterfields (2019)P E R F O R M E R S
Diane Grubbe, flutes
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe & english horn
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
John Ingle, saxophone, conductor
Tom Dambly, trumpet
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone
Hadley McCarroll, piano
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Benjamin Kreith, violin
Gabby Fluke-Mogul, violin
Natalia Badziak, viola
Monica Scott, cello
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Ken Ueno, voice
$20 general ($10 Sat 9:30 concert)
$10 balcony/underemployed
$50 fest pass (general seating all concerts)
Advance Ticket Purchase: https://sftmf2020.bpt.me/
Cost: $10/15/50