(Mills College, Oakland, CA) Signal Flow, the annual festival of new works by Mills graduate students, is an opportunity to see the future in the making. Mills College Music Department has been since the 1930s, an incubator of many historic firsts in the field. Signal Flow is the place to take a peek at what the future has in store in the fields of electronic, experimental, and visionary music.
Many of the greatest composers of our age have passed through Mills, whether as teachers, as students or both. Some of these names include: Luciano Berio, Darius Milhaud, Morton Subotnick, Aaron Rosand, Angela Hewitt, AMM, Leo Smith, Warner Bartschi, Anne Queffélec, Susie Ibarra,
Kazue Sawai, Marilyn Crispell, Peggy Seeger, Hazel Dickens, Louis Lortie, Charles Rosen, Amy Denio, Laetitia Sonami, David Tudor, Luc Ferrari, Miya Masaoka, Janice Giteck, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Tetsu Saitoh, Robert Ashley, Annea Lockwood, Kitundu, Christina Kubisch, Carla Kihlstedt, Amelia Cuni, Neil Rolnick, Nicolas Collins, Louis Goldstein, Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne, John Bischoff, Les Stuck, Chris Brown and Terry Riley, to name a few.
Featuring everything from acoustic to electro-acoustic, electronic, mixed media, installations and sound design, signal flow is guaranteed to surprise, inspire and impress.
The Mills College Music Department proudly presents its annual offering to the world. Presented throughout Mills' lush campus, Signal Flow is always a memorable experience.
Cost: free