San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2009 - 2009 San Francisco Tape Music Festival
January 30, 31 and February 1, 2009
8 PM
CELLspace
2050 Bryant Street (btwn 18th & 19th Streets)
San Francisco, CA
$12 [$7 underemployed] each night
$24 for festival pass
Advanced tickets -- http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/52645
Web site -- http://sfsound.org/tape
E-mail -- tapefest@sfsound.org
The 2009 San Francisco Tape Music Festival, curated by sfSound's SF Tape Music Collective, will take place this January 30th, 31st, and February 1st at CELLspace. The three night Festival of audio art will feature classic as well as recent and new fixed media compositions by 30 local and international composers. The expansive venue is uniquely suited to shaping the sound which will be diffused live over a pristine surround system consisting of 20+ speakers. Seated in the dark, it's a unique opportunity to experience music forming, literally, around you. This year marks both 50- and 60-year anniversaries, being 50 years since many now-classic "tape music" pieces had their world premieres, and being 60 years since Pierre Schaeffer presented "Concert de Bruits," the first concert of musique concrète. So over the three nights of the Festival, works from these periods by Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, Pierre Schaeffer, Edgard Varèse, Iannis Xenakis, as well as more recent pieces by Paul Lansky, Paul McCartney, and others will be presented. And in honor of Olivier Messiaen's 100th birth year his sole tape piece "Timbres-Durées" (1952) will be presented. As in past annual SF Tape Music Festivals, this year will also feature new works by several local composers, including Ashley Bellouin, Kyle Bruckmann, George Cremaschi, Janis Mercer, Maggi Payne,
Moe! Staiano, Jon Leidecker/Wobbly, Aaron Ximm, and premieres by SFTMC's own Thom Blum, Cliff Caruthers,
Matt Ingalls, and Kent Jolly. The annual SF Tape Music Festival -- it's cinema for your ears!
Over the course of the Festival the San Francisco Tape Music Collective will present two sound diffusion workshops, thanks to a grant from Meet the Composer. Members will talk about and demonstrate the art of of diffusion, and discuss approaches and solutions to composing music to be spatialized. Attendees will have the opportunity to try out the diffusion mixing board with assistance from the members. All participating composers will talk about and take questions regarding the Festival, tape music composition, and their works being presented in the Festival. Check the Web site http://www.sfsound.org/tape for the workshop schedules and more details.
Program*
Edgard Varèse - Poème Électronique (1958)
Iannis Xenakis - Concret PH (1958)
Olivier Messiaen - Timbres-Durées (1952)
Matt Ingalls -[new commission] (SF Bay Area)
Jon Nelson - objet sonore/objet cinétique (Texas)
Moe! Staiano - Tape Piece No.2: Extraordinary Path of Being (SF Bay Area)
Lisa Whistlecroft - Walking with Ghosts (UK)
* may be subject to change
Presented by the San Francisco Tape Music Collective and sfSound. Funded in part by Meet The Composer and Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
Cost: $12/7 ($24 fest pass)