[microsound-announce] 2009 San Francisco Tape Music Festival

[Thom Blum]

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area at the end of this month,
check it out!

..Thom Blum


2009 San Francisco Tape Music Festival

January 30, 31 and February 1, 2009
8 PM
CELLspace
2050 Bryant Street (btwn 18th & 19th Streets)
San Francisco, CA

$12 [$7 underemployed] each night
$24 for festival pass
Advanced tickets -- http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/52645
Web site --  http://sfsound.org/tape
E-mail -- tapefest at sfsound.org <mailto:tapefest at sfsound.org>

The 2009 San Francisco Tape Music Festival, curated by sfSound's SF Tape 
Music Collective, will take place this January 30th, 31st, and February 
1st at CELLspace.  The three night Festival of audio art will feature 
classic as well as recent and new fixed media compositions by 30 local 
and international composers.  The expansive venue is uniquely suited to 
shaping the sound which will be diffused live over a pristine surround 
system consisting of 20+ speakers.  Seated in the dark, it's a unique 
opportunity to experience music forming, literally, around you.  This 
year marks both 50- and 60-year anniversaries, being 50 years since many 
now-classic "tape music" pieces had their world premieres, and being 60 
years since Pierre Schaeffer presented "Concert de Bruits," the first 
concert of musique concrète.  So over the three nights of the Festival, 
works from these periods by  Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, Pierre 
Schaeffer, Edgard Varèse, Iannis Xenakis, as well as more recent pieces 
by Paul Lansky, Paul McCartney, and others will be presented.  And in 
honor of Olivier Messiaen's 100th birth year his sole tape piece 
"Timbres-Durées" (1952) will be presented.  As in past annual SF Tape 
Music Festivals, this year will also feature new works by several local 
composers, including Ashley Bellouin,  Kyle Bruckmann, George Cremaschi, 
Janis Mercer, Maggi Payne, Moe! Staiano, Jon Leidecker/Wobbly, Aaron 
Ximm, and premieres by SFTMC's own Thom Blum, Cliff Caruthers, Matt 
Ingalls, and Kent Jolly.  The annual SF Tape Music Festival -- it's 
cinema for your ears!

Over the course of the Festival the San Francisco Tape Music Collective 
will present two sound diffusion workshops, thanks to a grant from Meet 
the Composer.  Members will talk about and demonstrate the art of of 
diffusion, and discuss approaches and solutions to composing music to be 
spatialized.  Attendees will have the opportunity to try out the 
diffusion mixing board with assistance from the members.  All 
participating composers will talk about and take questions regarding the 
Festival, tape music composition, and their works being presented in the 
Festival.  Check the Web site http://www.sfsound.org/tape for the 
workshop schedules and more details.


Program*

:: Friday, January 30, 2009 8pm ::
Pierre Schaeffer - Étude Aux Sons Animés (1958)
György Ligeti - Artikulation (1958)
Vladimir Ussachevsky - Linear Contrasts (1958)
Paul Lansky - Six Fantasies On A Poem By Thomas Campion (1978)
Ashley Bellouin - Black Hole (SF Bay Area)
Thom Blum - [new commission] (SF Bay Area)
Kyle Bruckmann & Olivia Block - Untitled (SF Bay Area / Chicago)
Dugal McKinnon - Catalogue with Analogues (New Zealand)
Janis Mercer - Amsterdam (SF Bay Area)
Aaron Ximm (aka Quiet American) - [new work] (SF Bay Area)


:: Saturday, January 31, 2009 8pm ::
The Fireman (aka Paul McCartney and Youth) - Untitled (2008)
Luciano Berio - Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (1958)
John R. Pierce - Stochatta (1959)
Geraud Bec - buzzz (France)
Cliff Caruthers - [new commission] (SF Bay Area)
George Cremaschi - Winter Light (for Ingmar Bergman) (SF Bay Area)
Kent Jolly - [new commission] (SF Bay Area)
Jon Leidecker/Wobbly - Chart Tempo & World Retrograde (SF Bay Area)
Zhiye Li - Dimanche Détendu (China/New Orleans)
Felipe Otondo - Ciguri (Chile / UK)
Maggi Payne - Arctic Winds (SF Bay Area)
Goran Vejvoda - Pre-fader: Highly reverberant states (France)


:: Sunday, February 1, 2009 8pm ::
Edgard Varèse - Poème Électronique (1958)
Iannis Xenakis - Concret PH (1958)
Olivier Messiaen - Timbres-Durées (1952)
Matt Ingalls -[new commission] (SF Bay Area)
Jon Nelson - objet sonore/objet cinétique (Texas)
Moe! Staiano - Tape Piece No.2: Extraordinary Path of Being (SF Bay Area)
Lisa Whistlecroft - Walking with Ghosts (UK)


* may be subject to change

Presented by the San Francisco Tape Music Collective and sfSound. Funded 
in part by Meet The Composer and Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel 
Tax Fund.

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