ANNE RAINWATER performs San Francisco composer Danny Clay's "Ten Pages" for piano and electronics, written for her in 2016. The program also features Ian Power's "Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi," which takes a melody by the Italian composer and augments it and distorts it through meditative and penitent variations.
Eric Theise and KRYS BOBROWSKI present real time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps, and custom-built electro-acoustic instruments. Evenings of street grids, rivers, islands, and curiosities from the built environment. Saturated colors. Glitches in crowdsourced data. Orphaned information and free-floating symbology.
KRYS BOBROWSKI is a sound artist and musician. In addition to concert works, she has created interactive installations and designed day long performances. Krys often transforms natural and everyday objects such as kelp and bowls into musical instruments. As part of her residency in the Learning Studio, Krys played with air- and helium-filled balloons as resonators for her music, and with steel plates and electric conduit tubing as sound sources.
Bay Area pianist ANNE RAINWATER is a dexterous musician known for her vibrant interpretations of works from J.S. Bach to John Zorn. Recognized for her “boldly assertive rhetoric” (San Francisco Examiner) and “bright golden honeycomb for a brain” (Roy Doughty, poet), she appears as a soloist, chamber musician and lecture artist. Anne has performed in venues and festivals throughout the US and Europe, including the Donau Festival in Austria, Kampnagel in Germany, the Kennedy Center, Princeton University, University of California San Diego, Louisiana State University, and Le Poisson Rouge, among others. She holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Manhattan School of Music. Anne curates a monthly musical gathering, founded in 2016, called the Vernon Salon Series, which is currently streaming online. She has released 2 solo albums – J.S. Bach’s "Goldberg Variations" (2018) and "Anywhere But Here" (2020), featuring electronic keyboard works by Jude Traxler. Anne is a 2019 recipient of an InterMusic SF Grant. She is working on her first book, which explores the internal and external ecosystems that contribute to the understanding, practicing, and performing of music. Highlights of the 2022/2023 season include speaking and performing engagements at the University of Baltimore, San Francisco State, and UC Berkeley, as well as a joint, 4-school residency in the Philadelphia area and an appearance on the Cal Performances Series with the Eco Ensemble. When not at the piano or writing, she is playing tennis, reading, or obsessively watching baseball.
Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through video and realtime performance tools he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, op artists, and the light and space movement as new possibilities in the realm of digital cartography. His 16mm films have screened across North America and France; he’s held residencies at Hangar (Lisbon), Signal Culture. and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and he’s received grants from the Interbay Cinema Society, Bay Area Video Coalition, and Film Arts Foundation.
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale