sfSoundSeries: our History

sfSoundGroup has been actively concertizing in the Bay Area since 1999; highlights of its work to date include extended improvisations, theatrical performances (Miya Masaoka's performance The Sound of Naked Men and Hugh Livingston's opera The Underground Gardens), and a cycle of concerts presenting classic works by Earle Brown, John Cage, and Morton Feldman.

sfSoundSeries brings together the curators of the ACME Observatory series in Berkeley and the strictly Ballroom series in Palo Alto; together these projects have presented more than 100 concerts of contemporary music since 2000. There are archives of past concerts by the sfSoundGroup, at ACME Observatory, and at strictly Ballroom.

Past events in the sfSoundSeries include:

2008 overview

2007 overview
12.01.2007 [Cardew, Ingle, Ulman, sfSound]
11.13.2007 [Applebaum, Stanford Graduate Composers, Carter, Dusapin, Ingalls]
11.04.2007 [Avram, Burns, Cardew, Carter, Dusapin, sfSound]
10.07.2007 [sfSound, Ingalls]
9.20.2007 [KZSU "day of noise"]
8.26.2007 [Webern, Allbee, Applebaum, Burns, Cremaschi, Fei, Goodheart, Ingalls, Ingle, Jimenez, Jones, Leidecker, Na, Oliveros, Plonsey, Raskin, Scott, Staiano, Ulman, Watkins]
7.22.2007 [Druckman, Reich, Carter, Jones, Burns, Ingalls]
6.24.2007 [Varese, Lachenmann, Bithell, Jones, sfSound]
5.25.2007 [Lowell High School composers]
4.22.2007 [Yang, Sigman, Ireland, and other Stanford composers]
3.19.2007 [Xenakis, Ustvolskaya, Leo Smith, Goodheart, sfSound]
3.18.2007 [Ingalls, Xenakis, Leo Smith]
3.11.2007 [sfSound, Ingalls, Leo Smith]
1.26-28.2007 [San Francisco Tape Music Festival]

2006 summer season overview
11.13.2006 [Bischoff, Feldman, Ingalls, Ingle, Nono]
10.02.2006 [Ingalls/Ingle, Joseph, Leach, Tenney]
8.28.2006 [Babbitt, Burns, Lucier, Riley, sfSoundGroup]
8.07.2006 [Bruckmann, Bryars]
7.17.2006 [Andriessen, Ashley, Feldman, Rosenberg]
6.26.2006 [Bithell, Boehringer, Globokar, Jones, Lindberg]
5.06.2006 [Cage, Grisey, Kagel, sfSoundGroup, Webern]

2006 season overview
2.18.2006 [Bithell, Burns, Ingalls, Ingle, Jones]
1.27-29.2006 [San Francisco Tape Music Festival]
11.21.2005 [Babbitt, Bithell, Miller, sfSoundGroup]

2005 summer season overview
8.01.2005 [Cage, Ingalls, Satie, Schoenbeck, Shiurba]
6.27.2005 [Erickson, Ingalls, Oliveros, Penderecki, Wolff]
5.30.2005 [Ingle, Bithell, sfSoundGroup, Reich]

2005 season overview
4.11.2005 [Ingle, Jimenez, Rodriguez, sfSoundGroup, Ulman]
2.28.2005 [Blume, Lachenmann, Neuwirth, Spahlinger, Stockhausen]
1.20-22.2005 [San Francisco Tape Music Festival]
1.10.2005 [Bithell, Braxton, Cage, Webern]

2004 summer season overview
9.25.2004 [Burns, Feldman, Huber, Kan-no, sfSoundGroup, Xenakis]
8.28.2004 [Bruckmann, Dench, Dillon, Finnissy, Jones]
8.7.2004 [Andriessen, Glass, Lucier, Reich]

2003-2004 season overview
6.5.2004 [Omaggio a Berio]
3.19.2004 [Lachenmann portrait]
2.20-22.2004 [San Francisco Tape Music Festival]
2.7.2004 [Bithell, Burkhardt, Fluxus, Gaburo, Globokar, Kagel, Ovsepyan]
1.10.2004 [Burns, Ferneyhough, Finnissy, Hills, Reynolds]
11.23.2003 [Boulez, Ingalls, Jones, Nono]
10.18.2003 [Bithell, Cage, Sciarrino, Tenney, Xenakis]
9.13.2003 [Hans Grusel, sfSoundGroup, Zeek Sheck]

overview of earlier sfSoundGroup concerts