Sunday, April 30
Sun 4/30 3:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell
SF]TOUCH BASS is a new collaboration of choreographer Risa Jaroslow with bassist and composer
Lisa Mezzacappa. The work features three dancers, three bassists and three double basses in an exploration of our physical and emotional vulnerabilities—using the fragility of a big, beautiful string instrument as a metaphor for our own real and imagined limitations. With
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass + Matt Small, bass + Eric Perney, bass
More... Tuesday, May 2
Tue 5/02 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Inbal Segev: Cello & Electronics by Women Composers Featuring Music by Anna Clyne, Missy Mazzoli, Gity Razaz, & Augusta Read Thomas
New York-based cellist Inbal Segev, known for her "glowing, burnished tone" (The Washington Post) will perform a concert celebrating music for solo cello by women composers, including works by Anna Clyne, Augusta Read Thomas, Missy Mazzoli, and the West Coast premiere of a concerto for cello and electronics written for Segev by Gity Razaz called Legend of Sigh. Before Segev’s performance of Legend of Sigh, Donato Cabrera, Music Director of the California Symphony and Las Vegas Philharmonic, will read the Azerbaijani folktale on which the piece is based. Segev is in California to perform the world premiere of composer Dan Visconti's cello concerto written for her, Tangle Eye, with the California Symphony on Sunday, May 7. Equally committed to new repertoire and masterworks, Segev brings interpretations that are both unreservedly natural and insightful to the vast range of music she performs.
More... Thursday, May 4
Thu 5/04 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr.
Stanford]Burnt Dot is an experimental noise and improvisation ensemble founded by Sarah Belle Reid (trumpet) and Ryan Gaston (modular synthesizer). Join us for the release of our cassette Constant Ballet and the premiere of a new audiovisual work Rare Earth for Desert Plant, with digital artist Sahir Khan.
The Rare Earth hypothesis states that complex life is the product of an intricate series of coincidental cosmic conditions. The unlikelihood for these precise circumstances to align suggests that intelligent life is rare elsewhere in the universe—if it exists at all. But perhaps complex life is more varied than we know to look for. It might even be all around us, undetected or simply unnoticed.
An audiovisual performance piece inspired by the emergence of organized systems in chaotic environments, Rare Earth for Desert Plant is a ritual plea for interstellar contact. Using augmented trumpet, modular synthesizers, interactive visuals, and ceremonial objects, a beacon for intelligent communication is formed and activated.
more info: http://www.burntdot.com/rare-earth
More... Friday, May 5
Fri 5/05 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]MicroFest North: Opening Reception, Iconoclast Centennials
Panel discussion and demonstrations with Larry Polansky,
William Winant, Daniel Schmidt and Jonathan Glasier. Join for a celebration of alternate tuning with works by Harrison, Colvig, and Darreg, all of whom would have turned 100 this spring.
More... Fri 5/05 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St.
SF]Clarinet Thing
Sheldon Brown, Eb, Bb, bass clarinets;
Beth Custer, Bb, A, alto, bass clarinets;
Ben Goldberg, Bb, contralto clarinets; Harvey Wainapel, Bb, bass clarinets
More... Fri 5/05 8:00 PM Episcopal Church of St. John [1661 15th St]Wild Rumpus presents premieres by Brian Baumbusch and Carolina Heredia plus music by Lou Harrison and J.L.Adams; featuring handmade puppetry, just intonation guitar, and homemade percussion!
More... Fri 5/05 8:00 PM The ROOM Series (at Royce Gallery) [2901 Mariposa St
between Harrison & Alabama
SF]Pamela Z and
Donald Swearingen will perform a 3-night run of Pascal’s Triangle
A new work of electroacoustic music and live interactive media inspired by the beauty, ubiquity, and indispensability of mathematics – Pascal’s Triangle uses sampled text and sounds, voice & electronics, spatialized multi-channel audio, and interactive video. The movements of this evening-length work will employ numbers, patterns, and structures derived from mathematical principles – vignettes that evoke the poetic elegance of numbers.
Tickets here... More... Fri 5/05 9:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St.
SF]Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Novi_sad at the 2017 Gray Area Festival
On Friday night of the Gray Area Festival, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Novi_sad join us for an evening of auditory painting and sculptural soundscapes.
More... Saturday, May 6
Sat 5/06 8:00 PM The ROOM Series (at Royce Gallery) [2901 Mariposa St
between Harrison & Alabama
SF]Pamela Z and
Donald Swearingen will perform a 3-night run of Pascal’s Triangle
A new work of electroacoustic music and live interactive media inspired by the beauty, ubiquity, and indispensability of mathematics – Pascal’s Triangle uses sampled text and sounds, voice & electronics, spatialized multi-channel audio, and interactive video. The movements of this evening-length work will employ numbers, patterns, and structures derived from mathematical principles – vignettes that evoke the poetic elegance of numbers.
More... Sat 5/06 11:00 PM KPFA RADIO 94.1 [Berkeley]Steve McQuarry Presents Tribu live on KPFA RADIO 94.1 on the B.A.J.A.B.A. showcase on JaZzline, May 6th from 11pm until midnight. Tribu also plays in Oakland at the Chalaca Annexo nightclub on May 13th and May 27th from 7-10pm.
More... Sunday, May 7
Sun 5/07 11:00 AM KFJC 89.7 FM [www.kfjc.org]"The Eternal Question" - The Don Preston Special
4 hour overview of the career of keyboardist Don Preston, from the 1950s to today.
More... Sun 5/07 5:00 PM SAFEhouse Arts [1 Grove St.
SF]Strange Thoughts Salon Night
EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE / VOICEHANDLER
SPOKEN WORD / SCOTT HAWKINS & TRAVIS DAVIS
VIDEO INSTALLATION & ART TALK / JESUS AGUILAR & AMY HO
SCREENING & LECTURE ON THE DARK REALM OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC/ COURTNEY COULSON
TAROT READINGS / DELLA WATSON
More... Sun 5/07 7:00 PM Incarnation Episcopal church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]An evening of almost all-German music for violin, viola, cello and double-bass. The program will include works by Beethoven, Kerzenmacher, Grunau, and Kreisler.
More... Sun 5/07 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]MicroFest North: An Evening with
Sarah Cahill, Lou Harrison on the Piano
"Equal temperament destroys everything and is not for the human ear," Lou Harrison once said. While the equal-tempered piano was not his favorite instrument, he composed a dazzling range of solo piano music. Sarah plays his Summerfield Set, several movements from the Suite, two Cembalo Sonatas, the early Jig and Range- Song, and several unpublished and rarely performed works.
More... Sun 5/07 8:00 PM The ROOM Series (at Royce Gallery) [2901 Mariposa St
between Harrison & Alabama
SF]Pamela Z and
Donald Swearingen will perform a 3-night run of Pascal’s Triangle
A new work of electroacoustic music and live interactive media inspired by the beauty, ubiquity, and indispensability of mathematics – Pascal’s Triangle uses sampled text and sounds, voice & electronics, spatialized multi-channel audio, and interactive video. The movements of this evening-length work will employ numbers, patterns, and structures derived from mathematical principles – vignettes that evoke the poetic elegance of numbers.
More... Monday, May 8
Mon 5/08 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus
near corner of College and Bancroft
Berkeley]Eco Ensemble/BNMP | premiere of new work for oboe & electronics by Maija Hynninen
More... Mon 5/08 9:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Presents 9:30 pm - The Holly Martins: Lorin Benedict, voice; Kasey Knudsen, alto saxophone; Eric Vogler, guitar - The Holly Martins is a trio dedicated to playing structured improvisations which make heavy use of jazz underpinnings, but which lack the trappings of a traditional rhythm section. 10:30 pm
Phillip Greenlief solo - performs the west coast premiere of THE FIFTY STATES - a map score in four parts
More... Tuesday, May 9
Tue 5/09 7:00 PM Cyprian's Center [2092 Turk St]EVENT CANCELLED -- EVENT CANCELLED -- EVENT CANCELLED -- EVENT CANCELLED
The Lingua Incognita Session Nights is CANCELLED...there will be no event tuesday evening...an unforeseen injury will delay the event -- should return in the Fall
Apologies to those who were planning on coming.
More... Wednesday, May 10
Wed 5/10 7:00 PM KFJC Radio [89.7 FM www.kfjc.org]Vibrations of Fallen Angels: The Heliocentrics and their Music
The Heliocentrics are a London based psychedelic music collective who have broken the boundaries between funk, rock, electronic, ethnic traditions, and experimental music. We?ll explore their new kind of psychedelia as we share the best of all their releases from the very first to the latest.
More... Wed 5/10 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St
SF]For our first of two May events at Canessa Gallery we are excited to present an evening of abstract electronic music by Medial Ages (London), Kio Griffith (Los Angeles) and Eurostache (San Francisco)
More... Friday, May 12
Fri 5/12 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]Help KYN celebrate the one year anniversary of their release of their debut EP, Worlds. The night kicks off with an opening performance from Will Gluck, followed by a listening party of the EP accompanied by live visuals from Taurin Barrera. Afterwards, KYN will perform a set of new music exploring new sonic landscapes inspired by their recent trip to Berlin.
More... Saturday, May 13
Sat 5/13 7:00 PM Chalaca Annexo [428 3rd St. (@ Broadway)]Steve McQuarry Presents Tribu live in Oakland at the Chalaca Annexo nightclub on May 13th and May 27th from 7-10pm. Tribu fuses Latin rhythms with West Coast Jazz, re-interpreting the traditional sounds of Mongo Santamaria and Machito, accented by fresh Peruvian cuisine at Chalaca Annexo, 428 3rd St. (@ Broadway) in Oakland near Jack London Square. There is no cover charge.
More... Sat 5/13 8:00 PM First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley [2407 Dana St.
Berkeley, CA 94709]COMPOSERS INC.
The 4th annual !BAMM! (Bay Area Modern Music) concert.
More... Wednesday, May 17
Wed 5/17 6:00 PM Prelinger Library [301 8th Street, Room 215, San Francisco, CA.]MUSIC RESEARCH STRATEGIES presents Indexical Moment/um, a hybrid, "performing-ethnomusicology" series featuring Black Creative Musicians translating Improvisation with Music Research Strategies founder and Prelinger Library researcher-in-residence
Marshall Trammell.
RSVP via windvswindows@gmail.com
More... Wed 5/17 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street, SF, CA 94117]Spider Compass Good Crime Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZoPlkkwxmg
Omniverous Sensillium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksw12lN7dlA
CL0NER
https://soundcloud.com/lonercloner
Braingoat
https://myspace.com/braingoat
Wed, May 17 at Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight
$5 Doors 7:45pm, bands 8-10:30pm, 21+
More... Thursday, May 18
Thu 5/18 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr.
Stanford]Join us for a multimedia, robotic, and generally chaotic doubleheader concert with artists Bryan Jacobs and On Structure.
The Portal is a fully staged multimedia performance created, designed and performed by the performance duo On Structure (Natacha Diels and Jessie Marino). This 30 minute work of choreographed performance rituals uses live electronic sound, video projection, and DIY animatronics to stage a joyfully chaotic world which use folkloric songs, televised dramas, and amusement park scenography to tell the hidden mythologies of the Uncanny Valley. The Portal is a performance platform; part Video Game, part Ritual Alter, part Twilight Zone. On stage, the two heroines are jostled between the analog and digital worlds - preparing, practicing and perfecting their choreographed rituals as they move through different visual mediums, electronic sound worlds, and dreamscapes. Their playful actions respond to, mimic, or comment on their visual surroundings creating playfully menacing dramatic spaces where the line between reality and virtual reality is flickering in and out of focus.
Bryan Jacobs will present a menagerie of robotic and mechanical instruments - for more information on his various creatures see: http://bryanjacobsmusic.com.
More... Friday, May 19
Fri 5/19 8:00 PM St. John's Episcopal Church [14 Lagunitas Rd
Ross, CA 94957]Marin Baroque Presents:
AGAVE BAROQUE
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2933049
The Fantastical Mr. Biber: the experimental harmonies, virtuosity, and modernism of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
More... Fri 5/19 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Aluminati – David Samas,
Tom Nunn, Ian Saxton and Derek Drudge - presents its premiere performance using all metal instruments including aluminum rods suspended on inflated balloons (harmonic rods), stroke rods, end-struck rods, heat-bent rods (zing trees), bowls, chaseplate and other metallic paraphernalia. The harmonic and enharmonic chorus of tones are heard through varyingly dense harmonic/percussive textures with melodic elements, hocketing and other contrapuntal relationships, within an architectural compositional context.
RTD3 - Ron Heglin (trombone, voice),
Tom Nunn (original instruments) and Doug Carroll (cello) - have played together for decades. Ron speaks, sings and chants songs and stories from unrecognizable languages. Tom brings his own unique sounds of an alien kind of music with his original instruments. Doug celloistically sings the melodies of a mind and soul divested of any sense of normalcy!
More... Sunday, May 21
Sun 5/21 12:00 PM KFJC 89.7 and kfjc.org [kfjc.org
89.7 FM]A & G w/ Friends
A + G w/ Friends live in the pit. A (Anna Homler) and G (
Gino Robair) with Friends (talking dolls, styrofoam cups, children's toys, bent circuitry and more) perform their brand of rebellious improvisation. Sound never heard so good. LIve, on the air, with webcam viewing. kfjc.org
More... Sun 5/21 7:00 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]A concert with trumpeter Ari Micich and friends. Ari Micich has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony and many Bay Area orchestras and ensembles. He has toured internationally and has held positions with the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic in Durban, South Africa and the Berkeley Symphony in Berkeley California.
More... Sun 5/21 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation workshop in free improvisation)
The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Audience & participants encouraged to donate some cash for space rental. Over by 10pm.
More... Sun 5/21 10:00 PM KFJC 89.7 and kfjc.org [kfjc.org
Foothill College
Los Altos Hills, Calif]KFJC's annual 28 hour birthday tribute to Sun Ran and his Arkestra. Astral exploration through the space and times of all things Sun Ra, music, poetry, art and philosophy. From the Afro-centric to the outer-galactic. Sunday, May 21, 10 pm until Tuesday, May 23, 2am.
More... Friday, May 26
Fri 5/26 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall Studio Space [327 Lasuen St
Stanford
CA 94305]Please join us as CCRMA presents 2 evenings of immersive spatial multichannel music at the Bing Concert Hall Studio Space on Friday/Saturday May 26th/27th at 7.30PM. We will deploy the CCRMA GRAIL - The Giant Radial Array for Immersive Listening - our full 3D surround speaker array for these events... Not to be missed by you or your ears!
Music by:
Natasha Barrett
Ake Parmerud
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Hans Tutscku
Constantin Basica
Bill Schottstaedt
Alex Chechile
Christopher Jette
And works by the students of Music 222 (Sound in Space) and Music 220C/D
More... Saturday, May 27
Sat 5/27 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall Studio Space [327 Lasuen Street
Stanford
CA 94305]Please join us as CCRMA presents 2 evenings of immersive spatial multichannel music at the Bing Concert Hall Studio Space on Friday/Saturday May 26th/27th at 7.30PM. We will deploy the CCRMA GRAIL - The Giant Radial Array for Immersive Listening - our full 3D surround speaker array for these events... Not to be missed by you or your ears!
Music by:
Natasha Barrett
Ake Parmerud
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Hans Tutscku
Constantin Basica
Bill Schottstaedt
Alex Chechile
Christopher Jette
And works by the students of Music 222 (Sound in Space) and Music 220C/D
More... Sat 5/27 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street
Berkeley]Grex Plays A Love Supreme, featuring
Song & Dance TrioGrex:
Karl Evangelista-guitar, Rei Scampavia-keys,
Robert Lopez-drums, w/Dan Clucas-trumpet
Song & Dance Trio:
Karl Evangelista-guitar,
Jordan Glenn-drums,
Cory Wright-baritone sax
Oakland art rock trio Grex and LA trumpeter Dan Clucas perform a powerful, drastic reworking of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, refracting the mighty saxophonist’s suite through a gauntlet of noise rock, alternative hip-hop, and other latter day musics.
Karl Evangelista's longstanding Song & Dance Trio--a bass-less blend of modern jazz textures and roving, garage-y energy--opens the evening.
More... Sat 5/27 9:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St
San Francisco]Due to extraordinary popular demand! (((folkYEAH!))) presents
A special encore performance of John Coltrane's masterpiece "A Love Supreme" by The Mattson 2
More... Sunday, May 28
Sun 5/28 7:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture - Gallery 308 [2 Marina Blvd
SF]Moe! Staiano Ensemble
Moe! Staiano is an Oakland-based composer/drummer whose large ensembles,
Moe! Staiano Ensemble and Moe!kestra!, have performed in both Europe and the United States. His dense, heavy and intense compositions often include unconventional instrumentation, such as sirens, u-bolts, prepared guitars and wine glasses, as well as traditional orchestral and rock instruments. His composition, "Away Towards the Light," is an exploration of tonal interplay and contrasting rhythms for nine electric guitars, bass and drums composed in three movements, and is his first composition for multiple electric guitars.
More info here... More... Friday, June 2
Fri 6/02 7:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture - Gallery 308 [2 Marina Blvd
SF]San Francisco International Arts Festival presents Edward Schocker and the Crossing Ensemble and Shih Yang Lee
The Crossing is a long-term project lead by Edward Schocker that creates a new form of ecstatic group improvisation through investigating ancient Asian musical genres, such as Japanese Gagaku and Korean shamanist ritual music, with the goal reaching a state of communication with spirit world.
More information... More... Fri 6/02 7:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture - Gallery 308 [2 Marina Blvd
SF]Shih Yang Lee (Taipei) Improvised Solo Piano
Composer, pianist and improviser Shih Yang Lee, who last appeared at the Festival in 2015 with performances with Horse Dance Theatre and Melody of China, returns to share an experimental concert with some of the Bay Area’s finest improvisers and experimental musicians.
More... Saturday, June 3
Sat 6/03 8:00 PM The Sound Room [2147 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612]Jenny Maybee’s “eloquent and heart stopping” piano playing and vocals have been hailed as “expertly balanced,” with her voice described as “exquisite” and “in the same league” as Billie Holiday, and her piano stylings compared to Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, and Cecil Taylor. Jenny’s trio, featuring John Wiitala (bass) and Hamir Atwal (drums), will bring an evening of innovative music to The Sound Room. Rooted in the jazz and classical traditions, yet always breaking new ground, the trio will present original compositions and arrangements of favorite jazz standards.
More... Sat 6/03 9:30 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture - Southside Theatre [2 Marina Blvd
SF]Richard Marriott with I Made Subandi
VOYAGE is a ritual music drama, composed by Richard Marriott and Made Subandi, with
Pamela Z, Carla Fabrizio and Sarah Willner, utilizing video and interactive electronics. VOYAGE follows the structure of a Balinese ritual called Calonarang, and is about crossing over the boundaries between nations, the crossroads between cultures, and the territory between life and death.
More... Sunday, June 4
Sun 6/04 2:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture [2 Marina Blvd
SF]Richard Marriott with I Made Subandi
VOYAGE is a ritual music drama, composed by Richard Marriott and Made Subandi, with
Pamela Z, Carla Fabrizio and Sarah Willner, utilizing video and interactive electronics. VOYAGE follows the structure of a Balinese ritual called Calonarang, and is about crossing over the boundaries between nations, the crossroads between cultures, and the territory between life and death.
More... Sun 6/04 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St.
SF]E4TT and guest cellist Anne Lerner-Wright will close their season with a concert comprised of music by 2016 Call for Scores winners Derek Jenkins, Molly Joyce, Sam Krahn, Eden Lonsdale, Daniel Mehdizadeh, Weiwei Miao, Stephen Mitton, Justin Henry Rubin, Alexander Skripko, Grace Xu Schott, and Christopher Wicks. Also programmed is San Francisco composer, Alden Jenks. World Premiere of New Work by Martyna Kosecka.
More... Monday, June 5
Mon 6/05 8:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St
SF]The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--
Set #1:
Darren Johnston (solo trumpet excursions)
Set #2:
Exploring Miles (explosive jazz/rock from Bay/Sacramento)
(Tony Passarell-cornet, sax, keys,
Karl Evangelista-gtr, Dave Thomas-gtr, Robert Kuhlmann-b, Tim Orr-dms, Todd Temby-congas)
Set #3: Next Music (jazz-reggae)
(Jason Levis-dms, Rob Ewing-b, Steve Blum-keys, Max Miller-Loran-tpt)
More... Sunday, June 11
Sun 6/11 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]DAVE REMPIS Solo Premiere plus SCOTT WALTON -
Tim Perkis DUO
Prolific Chicago-based saxophonist Dave Rempis (Rempis Percussion Quartet, Ballister, Rempis/Abrams/Ra, The Engines, Rempis-Johnston Ochs Trio) will present a set of new and developing solo pieces as part of his sprawling solo journey around the United States and Canada, taking place from April 16 thru June 26, 2017. He will be joined by the rarely heard Scott Walton -
Tim Perkis Duo, a duo of Walton on piano and Perkis on electronics. Their newly released CD will be featured at the show!
More... Sun 6/11 9:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]Cinepimps
Reprising the collaging quartet that kicked off Shapeshifters Cinema five freaking years ago, with Alfonso Alvarez and Keith Arnold (on projectors) and
Suki O'Kane and
Wayne Grim (on electroacoustics). Keith called it: we’re performing the new piece 1000 Vaults Plundered (for One Mighty Show). Layering found footage, processed optical tracks, and the occasional abandoned brass instrument, we intend to create immersive, environmental fields of light and sound.
More... Monday, June 12
Mon 6/12 7:00 PM Finnish Kaleva Hall [1970 Chestnut St.
Berkeley]“The Monday a little more then a month before”
2017 Outsound Fund Drive & Benefit Dinner
Join us at the Finnish Kaleva Hall downstairs in the Helsinki Cafe for our Benefit Dinner event!!
Music by ZeBib! featuring Shanna Sordahl and
Robert Lopez in addition to a delicious menu and dessert provided by Slippery Fish Catering for all preferences.
Visit our fund drive at our Indiegogo Generosity Campaign
https://igg.me/at/5yo13PZmapM More... Mon 6/12 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Action and Music
Action and Music presents a continuum of works by Stanford student composers. Bring a sounding object along with you and be ready for an adventure! Music is ours. Everybody is welcome to participate.
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