The 2007 San Francisco Tape Music Festival$12 [$7 students/seniors/underemployed] each night
$24 [$14 students/seniors/underemployed] for festival pass
Box Office: 415-863-9834 [2pm-5pm, Wed-Sat]
The 2007 San Francisco Tape Music Festival returns to ODC Theater with three distinct programs of audio art over a pristine 16-speaker surround sound system. Seated in complete darkness, experience new and classic compositions by local and international artists, including a world premiere from rock innovator
Brian Eno, three classic pieces by
György Ligeti, a new multichannel realization of
James Tenney's seminal work, "For Ann Rising", and a rare performance of
Karlheinz Stockhausen's epic multichannel work, "Hymnen". Featured local
composers include
Thom Blum,
Jen Boyd,
MaryClare Brzytwa,
Cliff Caruthers, George Cremaschi,
Kent Jolly, Moe! Staiano, and
Matt Ingalls. These artists' development of sound diffusion as a compositional technique creates an immersive sonic experience unique in the Bay Area. Come and enjoy this cutting edge art form at its best.
SF Classical Voice: "mind and ear expanding"
Computer Music Journal: "a rich and flowing sonic environment"
California Report: "crazy quilt collages of found sound"
SF Weekly: "strange and beautiful"
East Bay Express: "cinema for the ear"
Sponsored by ODC, Goethe-Institut San Francisco, American Composers Forum San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (Subito), The San Francisco Tape Music Collective, and sfSound.Friday's Program [ subject to change ]
Matt Ingalls (Oakland)
Fingerlingette (2002)
Jen Boyd (Oakland)
Rain Blossom (2006)
Suk-Jun Kim (South Korea)
Kotmun (2005)
Thom Blum (San Francisco)
Nomen Plaid (2003)
Jason Rabb (Salt Lake City)
Hum Vamp (for Snap) (2004)
James Tenney (1934-2006)
For Ann (rising) (1969) [ New 16 channel realization ]
-- intermission --
Moe! Staiano (Oakland)
Tape Piece No.1: Collapse of Travel and Time (2006)
George Cremaschi (Oakland)
Our Blood Was Boiling (2006)
György Ligeti (1923-2006)
Pièce Électronique no.3 (1957) |
Glissandi (1957) |
Artikulation (1958)
Jonty Harrison (UK)
Unsound Objects (1995)
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About Tape Music and SFTMF
In the early part of the 20th century when the idea of recorded sounds was still novel, a new kind of music began to emerge. This music did not treat the recording medium as a stand-in for an absent performer, or a document of a musical performance, but as a vital and unique territory for exploration in and of itself. Tape music does not worship the technology with which it was produced, or the medium in which it is contained. It is a sonic inquiry, sculpting a new kind of music from the entire palette of sound.
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival began eight years ago in true underground fashion in a warehouse in Oakland. A small collective of composers wired the space with their own equipment to hear their favorite works in surround sound and experiment themselves with multichannel composition. Since then they have become one of the premiere presenters of fixed media music on the West Coast.
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