:: concerts
Sunday, August 10, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
:: sfSoundSeries :: 351 shotwell st, san francisco

:: sfSoundDoubleFeature :: A sampling of theatrical compositions from the 1960's San Francisco Tape Music Center by Pauline Oliveros (George Washington Slept Here, Too), Morton Subotnick (Play! No.1 for winds, piano, tape and a film by Tony Martin), Ramon Sender (In The Garden for clarinet, viola, tape, and visual projections), Robert Moran (Divertissment No.1), and others. !!! JUST ANNOUNCED !!! The recently-released book documenting the SFTMC, The San Francisco Tape Music Center 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde (UC Press - David W. Bernstein, editor) will be sold in the lobby during the concert. Brian Ferneyhough's In nomine a 3 (2001), Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Intercommunicazione (1967), Christopher Burns's Double Negative (2007), and the premiere of a new work written for sfSound by local composer Erik Ulman. Performers include: Diane Grubbe - flute/piccolo, Kyle Bruckmann - oboe, Matt Ingalls - clarinet, John Ingle - alto saxophone, Tom Dambly - trumpet, Andy Strain - trombone, Christopher Jones - bassoon/conductor, Hadley McCarroll - piano, Ann Yi - piano, Graeme Jennings - violin, Alexa Beattie - viola, Monica Scott - cello. Ramon Sender & Christopher Burns - visual projection.

August 17, 2008 Meridian Gallery
Toyoji Tomita Memorial Concert - work(s) by John Cage, improvisations, and more.




September 3-7, 2008 Theater Artaud

sfSound is resident ensemble in this year's San Francisco Electronic Music Festival

Sunday, September 14, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
:: sfSoundSeries :: 351 shotwell st, san francisco

Morton Feldman's 80+ minute composition, For John Cage (1982) performed by violinist Graeme Jennings, and pianist Christopher Jones.

September 25-28, 2008 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
sfSoundResidency #1




Sunday, October 12, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
:: sfSoundSeries :: 351 shotwell st, san francisco

Local percussionist Gino Robair performs Potluck Percussion (You bring it, he'll play it - Guaranteed!) and presents ensemble pieces with sfSound augmented by laptops and voices. The program also includes two giant works from the 1980's: Gérard Grisey's Talea (1986) and Mathias Spahlinger's Aussageverweigerung / Gegendarstellung: Zwei Kontra-Kontexte für Doppelquartett (1981).

October 19, 2008 Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco
San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music presents a "Day of Chamber Music"
sfSound performs Gérard Grisey's Talea (1986)




Sunday, November 9, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
:: sfSoundSeries :: 351 shotwell st, san francisco

Featuring sfSound's saxophonist John Ingle in a recital of new solo and ensemble compositions, improvisations, and a concerto by local composer Josh Levine. Plus, NYC-based percussion duo Hunter-Gatherer (Russell Greenberg and Ian Antonio) perform the West Coast premiere of a new work by David Lang, David Bithell's Whistle From Above for percussion and robotics, the West coast premiere of a new work by 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang, and Gérard Grisey's Stele for 2 bass drums.

November 14,15,16, 2008 Theater Artaud
:: sfSoundSeries :: San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2008
Our annual festival presenting new and classic electroacoustic works performed in complete darkness through a 20+ channel surround-sound loudspeaker array. It's cinema for your ears!




December 7, 2008 Stanford University
New Works by Graduate Composers




April 1-5, 2009 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
sfSoundResidency #2


Spring, 2009
sfSoundTour