Tag: Electronic music
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San Francisco Bay Area Scene
From BayImproviser: Thursday, October 13, 8pm Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market St. (@ 6th St.), San Francisco OutSound presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series Full Moon Concerts: Blood Moon with Light a Fire (guest curation) * 8pm Trio: Matt Chandler (electric bass), Karl Evangelista (electric guitar), Jacob Felix Heule (drums) * 9pm Moe!kestra! with…
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Los Angeles Scene
From SASSAS: Wednesday, October 12, 8pm Human Resources LA, 410 Cottage Home St., LA SASSAS and Human Resources LA present: AD HOC #3: Tim Feeney, Vic Rawlings, and Casey Anderson Tim Feeney and Vic Rawlings have performed together as a duo since meeting within Boston’s “lowercase” improvising community in 2005. Their music explores an unpredictable…
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San Francisco Bay Area Scene
From BayImproviser Thursday, October 6, 7:30pm Tuesdays at Tom’s Place, 3111 Deakin St., Berkeley * Tony Buck (percussion) and Magda Mayas (piano) * Annette Krebs (prepared guitar) * Grosse Abfahrt – Tom Djll (trumpet), Matt Ingalls (clarinet), Tim Perkis (electronics), Gino Robair (electronics, percussion), John Shiurba (electric guitar.) Thursday, October 6, 8pm Luggage Store Gallery,…
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Los Angeles Scene
From Angel City Arts Wednesday, October 5, 8pm Royal T, 8910 Washington Blvd., Culver City Slumgum with Special Guest Dwight Trible Vocalist Dwight Trible collaborates with Slumgum, for an memorable evening of adventurous music. Slumgum is: Jon Armstrong, Tenor Sax; Rory Cowal, Piano; Dave Tranchina, Bass; Trevor Anderies, Drums. From FaceBook Events Thursday, October 6,…
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Los Angeles Scene
From California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Friday, Sept. 30, 11am CalArts, Main Gallery Conference Room, 24700 McBean Pkwy, Valencia CalArts Office of International Relations presents: CalArts Plays Itself @ PACT Zollverein in Essen, Germany Live U-Stream of the Performance Program: * DARK FARE is an experimental performance trio comprising Chiara Giovando (film/video), Kristín Þóra…
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San Francisco Bay Area Scene
From Bay Improviser and Squid’s List Tuesday, Sept. 27, 8pm The Lab, 2948 16th St., SF 23five Incorporated, swissnex San Francisco, & The Lab present: Infrasound (Oakland), Jason Kahn (Switzerland), Francisco Meirino (Switzerland) On September 27, 23five celebrates 10 years of Infrasound, the acclaimed collaborative project between Scott Arford and Randy Yau. These two sound…
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Twelfth Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
From SFEMF: Thursday, September 8th, 7 PM SFMoMA: An evening of live and fixed media works for sound and video including works by Les Stuck & Sonsherée Giles, Sarah Howe, Tim Perkis/ Tom Djll, Alba G. Corral / Kadet Kuhne, and a performance of Milton Babbitt’s “Philomel” by Dina Emerson. Friday September 9th, 8 PM…
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For Pierre Boulez, It’s Still About the Music
Pierre Boulez via last.fm From NYTimes.com: IN a maroon turtleneck and loose-fitting gray suit, eyes on his score, Pierre Boulez took turns one late August morning here rehearsing the soloists for “Répons.” Written in 1981 for six soloists, chamber orchestra and live electronics, it is the first major work he wrote using the electronic-music institute…
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Is Avant-Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp His Own Worst Enemy?
Matthew Shipp via last.fm Spinner some of Shipp’s more controversial moments. The flip side of this confrontational approach is that Matthew Shipp is one of the most talented players of this era. Closing in on 50, he has released a string of dazzling solo and small-group recordings that range sonically from acoustic to electronic remix.…
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Telluric Currents, Series 3 to Take Place at Brooklyn’s I-Beam
Coming to the IBeam: Continuing the new concert series curated by Brooklyn-based composer/clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman, the thirdd installment of the Telluric Currents series will take place January 15th & 16th at Brooklyn’s I-Beam. Celebrating the diversity and creativity of New York’s underground musicians, each night of the series will present different groups of musicians who…
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Coming in Early 2010 from EMF Productions
Cover of Xenakis: Kraanerg [DVD Video] From New York’s EMF Productions: Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary October, 2009—March, 2010 Electronic Music Foundation and other organizations in New York present a series of extraordinary events showcasing the visionary interdisciplinary practices of this revolutionary composer/architect. In collaboration with Goethe Institute NYC Unsound Festival February 2—10, 2010 A…
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Mario Davidovsky: Celebrating One of the Synthethizer’s Pioneers at Merkin Hall
Mario Davidovsky via last.fm From NYTimes.com: In the early 1960s composers who had been fascinated with electronic music in the ’50s were seeking ways to combine the synthetic sounds they were producing on room-size computers and early synthesizers with the more familiar timbres of acoustic instruments. The Argentine-born American composer Mario Davidovsky, then in his…
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Jessica Pavone + Curhachestra + Scopa Trio at Zebulon Nov 12th
A free(?) show coming to New York’s Zebulon: November 12th 8:30 pm (free) Zebulon 258 Wythe Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211-3914 (718) 218-6934 Jessica Pavone presents: Wordless songs inspired by life’s cast of characters Jessica Pavone – violin, viola Brandon Seabrook – guitar Jonti Siman – eletric bass Harris Eisenstadt – drums Curha-chestra Brian Drye (farfisa…
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SFEMF 2009: 10th Anniversary Show Begins
The tenth annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival will take place Wednesday, September 16th through Saturday, September 19, 2009 at Brava Theater. This year, SFEMF consists of four evenings of stimulating performances by internationally recognized artists and musicians in the electronic music field. In celebration of it’s 10th Anniversary, the festival will feature four of…
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Lampo: Homeless Again
The Chicago Reader informs us about Lampo once again being without a space. Normally this is the time of year I look forward to learning Lampo’s fall lineup. One of the midwest’s greatest advocates for experimental music, Lampo has been presenting dynamic work, often in exclusive U.S. engagements, from some of the world’s most important…
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Telluric Currents at Brooklyn’s IBeam
From the IBeam: Continuing the new concert series curated by Brooklyn-based composer/clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman, the second installment of the Telluric Currents series will take place September 25th and 26th at Brooklyn’s I-Beam. Future installments will occur once every three months for three nights, three sets per night. Celebrating the diversity and creativity of New York’s…
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Alarm Will Sound: A Classical Approach to Electronic Sounds
From NYTimes.com: It is hard to tell whether Alarm Will Sound is finding itself or losing itself, but it may be a bit of both. A reasonably straightforward new-music band in 2001, when it made the jump from college orchestra (at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester) to professional ensemble, it has preserved its…
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CD Release: The Beginning Of Danish Electronic Music
A review of this recent release is available. This is a collection of historical recordings, dating back primarily to the sixties-seventies, with a selection that accomplishes meticulous research into early Danish electronic avant-garde. This CD collects experiments done with the help of seminal analog instrumentation, in studios where it was easy to find DIY mixing…
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Bill Horist, Jakob Riis, JP Jenkins in Portland
From Portland Eye and Ear Control: Portland New Music Society presents: Sunday, June 21st 8pm @ Enterbeing (ne 16th and Alberta) $5 donations Bill Horist-(Seattle)-unique prepared guitar improvisation Jakob Riis-(Denmark)-laptop and electronics. JP Jenkins – (Portland)-guitar & electronics Bill Horist (b. 1971, Washington DC, US) Since arriving in Seattle in the mid- nineties, Bill has…
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New From Planam
Planam has released three new recordings: CARDEW, CORNELIUS: Treatise LP (PLANAM CCC) 27.00 “Cornelius Cardew‘s opus magnus Treatise is a 193-page graphic score written between 1963 and 1967 while he was performing with the improvisation group AMM. RODER, KLAUS: Kristallisationen LP (PLANAM KRK) 27.00 “Klaus Röder is a guitar virtuoso and electronic music artist who…
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New Concert Series at Brooklyn’s IBeam
Inaugurating a new concert series curated by Brooklyn-based composer/clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman, the first installment of the Telluric Currents series will take place from June 19th-21st at Brooklyn’s IBeam. Future installments will occur once every three months for three nights, three sets per night. Celebrating the diversity and creativity of New York’s underground musicians, each night…
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This Weekend at Lampo
Marcus Schmickler (via last.fm) From Chicago’s Lampo: PETER REHBERG AND MARCUS SCHMICKLER MAY 9 9pm R/S—the duo—in its first live performance anywhere in the world. Peter Rehberg (b. 1968, London) co-founded the influential Mego label in 1994, and soon after began recording under the name Pita. His first solo release, “Seven Tons for Free,” came…
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Musique Machine Reviews
Edgard Varèse (via last.fm) From Musique Machine: Stirborg – Perceiving The World with Hate Perceiving The World with Hate is the next grim yet creative sonic chapter in Stirborg’s distinctive take on the black metal genre, it shows Stirborg repeating old tricks effectively but adding in a few new ones to the blacked pot too.…
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