:: welcome
sfSoundSeries is a concert series in the San Francisco
Bay Area featuring contemporary and experimental music. Our programs reach from the
latest music of the European Avant-Garde to the grittiest sounds of
the West Coast Improv-Underground, encompassing the latest trends in
instrumental technique, conceptual art, music theater, and electronic sound.
:: news
sfSound has been awarded a 2008 ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming by Chamber Music America!
:: concerts
August 17, 2008 Meridian Gallery
Toyoji Tomita Memorial Concert - work(s) by John Cage, improvisations, and more.
- click here to listen to Toyoji "rapping" with Richard Miller about his run-ins with John Cage -
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
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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
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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) in addition to and the premiere of a new work written for sfSound by local composer Erik Ulman.
October 19, 2008 Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco
San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music presents a "Day of Chamber Music"
Sunday, November 9, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
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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
venue TBD
:: 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
:: musicians
The concerts showcase some of the Bay Area's finest musicians,
bringing together talented young improvisers, composers, and performers
committed to the full range of contemporary musicmaking. more>>
:: history
sfSound has been producing concerts since 1999. more>>
:: radio
Many recordings of past concerts, as well as featured works on upcoming concerts can be heard on sfSoundRadio. Tune in!
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