SFJAZZ Center
201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA
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in the LABORATORY series: Synergy and Synthesis - San Francisco Contemporary Music Players

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Concert 1: 2:30PM Pacific Concert

Concert 2: 4:00PM Pacific Concert

at Joe Henderson Lab, SFJAZZ, San Francisco

Live event limited seating. No door sales.

SFCMP’s final program of the regular season features three of our players as solo artists, tying together several strands of the season’s programming with synergistic works based on poetry, electro-acoustic interplay, and loop structures in time. Lou Harrison’s Solo to Anthony Cirone presents a beautiful sound-world emerging from just-tuned tenor bells, while Steed Cowart’s duo for percussion and voice presents another Bay Area composer’s treatment of text fragments extracted from Shakespeare sonnets. In Separación, Orlando Jacinto Garcìa uses drones and electronic refractions of pre-recorded English horn sound to alter our perception of sonic events and sound sources. And to round out our celebration of Steve Reich’s 85th birthday season, Hrabba Atladottir performs the Violin Phase, one of Reich’s earliest essays in the phasing technique, playing upon musical patterns heard in and out of phase with each other to alter our perceptions of the patterns themselves, simultaneity, and structured time.

Program

Lou Harrison – Solo to Anthony Cirone (1972), for just-tuned tenor bells

William Winant, percussion


Steed Cowart - [where late the sweet] BIRDS SANG (2019), for percussion & voice

I. air

II. love

III. stars

William Winant, percussion

Eric Dudley, tenor

Helen Grime – Arachne (2012), for solo oboe

Kyle Bruckmann, oboe

Orlando Jacinto García – Separación (2001), for solo english horn and electronics

Kyle Bruckmann, English horn

Steve Reich – Violin Phase (1967), for violin and pre-recorded tape

Hrabba Atladottir, violin

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