Community Music Center
544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF
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The 7th Annual Edgetone New Music Summit
SonicExplore
Q&A Session 7:15 -7:30 pm
Performance Starts @ 8:15 pm

Extended & Explorative sculpted sound
Birgit Ulher Trio w/Gino Robair & Tim Perkis
(the) giants of gender (from Ohio)
Shudder w/special guest from The Netherlands Jorrit Dijkstra







(The) Giants of Gender(performing works by Kyle Farrell, Adam Lahm, Sundar Subramanian, and Zachary Zukowski)
The unique instrumentation and approach of (The) Giants of Gender have attracted the attention of several composers.
(The) Giants of Gender are an improvisational group that formed in 2006 in Youngstown, Ohio. Through the use of improvisation in an open-ended format, the members of the group have allowed themselves to explore latent sounds within each of their instruments, thus producing a diverse amalgamation of both characteristic and non-idiomatic sounds. While maintaining a focus on improvisation, the group also incorporates original composed material. The instrumentation features Kyle Farrell on vibraphone and percussion, and Jenna Barvitski on violin and viola. The group has toured nationally and has performed most often in the Cleveland and Columbus areas. They previously curated a concert series in Youngstown at the McDonough Museum of Art that featured artists such as Ryan Jewell, James Ilgenfritz, Thollem McDonas, Larry Marotta, Ben Bennett, Madame P, Jack Wright, and Michael Johnsen. The group collaborated with choreographer Kathleen Larrick on a work for music and dance that was premiered at Tulsa’s New Genre Festival XV in March 2008. They were featured at the Second Annual Conference of the International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) and were selected to appear on ISIM’s compilation album (2007). Their most recent album was released by Edgetone Records.

Birgit Ulher Trio w/ Gino Robair & Tim Perkis
(sponsored by The Goethe Institute)
Born 1961 in Nuremberg, Birgit Ulher studied the visual arts, which still have an important influence on her music. Since moving to Hamburg in 1982 she has been involved in free improvisation and experimental music. Since then she has “established a distinguished grammar of sounds beyond the open trumpet”, jazzdimensions.de. She performs solo, with dancers, working ensembles, and one-time collaborations with musicians from around the world.
She has been organising the festival of improvised music Real Time Music Meeting for over ten years.
She has performed with artists like John Edwards, Michael Zerang, Damon Smith, Lou Mallozzi, Gino Robair, Martin Blume, Ute Wassermann, Albert Márkos, Sven Ake Johansson, Gene Coleman, Ernesto Rodrigues, Heddy Boubaker, Tim Perkis, Nate Wooley, Bryan Eubanks, Christoph Schiller and Sean Meehan just to name a few.

Gino Robair is a percussionist, music journalist, and published composer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Gino frequently tours North America and Europe as a soloist and often improvises in ad-hoc groups. He has performed and/or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Tom Waits, John Butcher, LaDonna Smith, Otomo Yoshihide, Eugene Chadbourne, John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Myra Melford, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, The Club Foot Orchestra, and he is a founding member of the Splatter Trio.

Tim Perkis has been working in the medium of live electronic and computer sound for many years, performing, exhibiting installation works and recording in North America,Europe and Japan. His work has largely been concerned with exploring the emergence of life-like properties in complex systems of interaction.In addition, he is a well known performer in the world of improvised music, having performed on his electronic improvisation instruments with hundreds of artists and groups, including Chris Brown, John Butcher, Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Frith, Gianni Gebbia, Frank Gratkowski, Luc Houtkamp, Yoshi Ichiraku, Joelle Leandre, Roscoe Mitchell, Gino Robair, ROVA saxophone quartet, Elliott Sharp, Leo Wadada Smith and John Zorn. Ongoing groups he has founded or played in include the League of Automatic Music Composers and the Hub -- pioneering live computer network bands -- and Rotodoti, the Natto Quartet, Fuzzybunny, All Tomorrow's Zombies and Wobbly/Perkis/Antimatter.

Shudder (w/special guest from The Netherlands Jorrit Dijkstra)
Formed in 2004 for the purpose of playing for a Matt Gonzales for Mayor fundraising event, Shudder works with compositions and improvisation to explore and develop a language for acoustic instruments that can exist easily in the realm of electronic music. shudder features Kyle Bruckmann and Phillip Greenlief on wind instruments; Lance Grabmiller performs on laptop/Audiomulch. Electro-acoustic innovation, deep listening-informed group communication and an ear for dynamics and austere details, shudder provides one of more rewarding listening experiences available to San Francisco Bay Area audiences.
The music of saxophonist and composer Jorrit Dijkstra draws from the jazz tradition in spirit and sound, but has crossed stylistic and cultural borders in order to express a strong, evolving personal vision. He spent his formative years in Amsterdam’s vibrant improvisation community, playing jazz, free improvisation, contemporary opera, and African, Celtic and Balkan music. Since moving to the United States in 2002, Dijkstra has deepened his affinity with the experimental forces of American music, while staying in touch with his Dutch musical roots.
Kyle Bruckmann - oboe, english horn; Lance Grabmiller - laptop, audiomulch; Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone, Bb clarinet
special guest
Jorrit Dijkstra - alto saxophone, lyricon


Cost: $12/$6

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