Sun 11/16 4:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]The Vex Collection, a remarkable trio employing non-western instruments to startling & intensely beautiful effect, perform in the intimacy of a house concert. The eatures Mat Muntz (Croatian/Bulgarian bagpipes, bass and electronics); gamin (the Korean woodwinds piri, taepyeongso, saenghwang); and Vicente Atria (drums and electronics).
The Vex Collection uses unheard-of combinations of traditional instruments, newly devised musical contraptions, and a philosophy of mad-scientific experimentation in their pursuit of ancient and futuristic sounds. The Vex Collection grew from Mat and Vicente’s shared fascination with the double reed, an ancient musical technology developed by virtually every culture on Earth in order to produce loud, brilliant, and beautifully intense sounds. On their self-titled debut, the striking presences of traditional instruments from Scotland, Korea, and the Balkans are not softened or altered so as to better blend with one another; they are allowed to clash thunderously in one moment and synthesize miraculously in the next, imagining some forgotten past where these sounds could have emerged as part of an organic folk tradition.
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Dresher Ensemble Studio
Oakland]The Rainwater-Shim Duo (pianist
Anne Rainwater and flutist MEERENAI SHIM) performs duos and solos, including Pencilled Wings for flute, piano, and electronic playback by Emma O'Halloran, Caroline Ansink's Greener Grass and Elliott Carter's 90+ for piano, and Miniatures Book 4: Preset Etudes for flute and electronics by Brent Miller.
THOMAS CARNACKI, in the performance arena, has numbered as many as seven individuals, and as few as zero. Primary aesthetic concerns tend to revolve around uneasy textures, nuance, organicity, and peculiarity. Repeat offenders down the years have included the late Jim Kaiser, Gregory Hagan, Jesse Burson, and Sheila Bosco; this evening's incarnation consists of
Cheryl E. Leonard and GREGORY SCHARPEN alongside AGNES SZELAG. Carnacki music has accompanied dance pieces, films, plays, and outdoor installation spectacles across the continent and internationally. The most recent recorded documents to have been released into the world are the sibling albums Cadavre Isolé and Rencontre Fortuite, both derived from a formal exercise of inspired happenstance in the middle of lockdown.
More... Sun 11/16 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Félicia Atkinson + Jon Porras
In a mid-renovation performance within The Lab’s cavernous space, before permanence sets in, we invite you to experience work by Félicia Atkinson and Jon Porras.
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