Emergent Sound Practices presents The Oakland Reductionist Orchestra.
A moment of improvised sound within and with the Redwoods.
Feel free to bring a chair, snacks, a blanket, or whatever you may need to make yourself comfortable for listening and wandering.
Performance will unfold over the course of an hour or so.
Oakland Reductionist Orchestra is a supergroup of Bay Area musicians with a predilection for lowercase, fricative, and reductionist improvisation that often sounds more electronic than acoustic. The ensemble comes out of a rich tradition of “American reductionist” music that blossomed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Many of the members studied at Mills College, which has had an extraordinary and foundational influence on the Bay Area’s new music scene, particularly in experimental, electronic and improvised music, and other forms of sound exploration.
Join us as Oakland Reductionist Orchestra performs with and within Joaquin Miller Park, Saturday, September 26, not far from the Redwood Glen trailhead at 3pm
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Cost: $5-25
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