MOSSWOOD SOUND SERIES
a new weekly experimental sound series every Friday evening
presented by sfSound
ON THE NATURE OF SOUND (#4)
THE OAKLAND REDUCTIONIST ORCHESTRA
The premiere performance of a new supergroup of local musicians with a predilection for lowercase/fricative/reductionist acoustic improvisation that often sounds more electronic than acoustic. This ensemble grows out of a rich tradition of "American reductionist" music that emerged (re-emerged?) in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Previous projects like
Tom Djll's Grosse Abfahrt and The Jack Wright Large Ensemble Eight By Nine document the Bay Area's contribution to the genre. Could there be a renaissance of this music in the near future? (shhhhhhhhhhhyyyiiiiieeeeyowwwwwsssssss.s..s.....s......)
PERFORMERS
Hallie Smith, violin
Monica Scott, cello
Danishta Rivero Castro, voice
Kanoko Nishi-Smith, koto
Joshua Marshall, saxophone
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
Jacob Felix Heule, percussion
Andy Guthrie, french horn
Tom Djll, trumpet
Kevin Corcoran, percussion
Kevin CK Lo, violin/flute
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe
As part of his "opening set residency," Oakland musician
Matt Ingalls performs his decades-in-the-making, 30-minute-continuous-micro-timbre-circular-breathing-tour-de-force clarinet solo. Exploring extended techniques that interact with the acoustic space, he often acoustically synthesizes difference tones that are perceived to originate inside the listener's ear.
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
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).
Tender Buttons at Second Act, SF, 2016; live video processing by Bill Thibault