The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2006

Fri, Jan 27 - Sun, Jan 29
8:00pm
$12 [$7 students/seniors/underemployed]

Cinema for the Ear
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2006

January 27-29, 2006
8pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th St (@ Shotwell)
San Francisco

$12 [$7 students/seniors/underemployed] each night
$24 [$14 students/seniors/underemployed] for festival pass
Box Office: 415-863-9834 [2pm-5pm, Wed-Sat]
To purchase tickets online: www.ticketweb.com/user? =

region=3Dsfbay&query=3Dschedule&venue=3Dodctheater

sfsound.org/tape

The New San Francisco Tape Music Center returns to ODC Theater for =

its annual Festival. This three day event of fixed media audio art =

features an impressive and meticulously placed arrangement of sixteen =

speakers, immersing the audience in an exploratory and experimental =

sound environment focused on the listening experience. Highlights =

include classics by Toru Takemitsu, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Herbert Br=FCn, =

Louis and Bebe Barron, Jackson MacLow and a complete evening =

celebrating the work of Luc Ferrari (1929-2005), including a video =

profile by Veronique Larcher and ELSA Productions. Featured local =

composers include Cenk Erg=FCn, Maggi Payne, Joseph Anderson, Ava =

Mendoza, Cliff Caruthers, MaryClare Brzytwa, Thom Blum, and Matt =

Ingalls. In an era when 'surround sound' has become commonplace, =

these artists' development of sound diffusion as a compositional =

technique creates a sonic experience you won't soon forget. Come and =

enjoy this cutting edge art form at its best.

SF Classical Voice: "mind and ear expanding"
Computer Music Journal: "a rich and flowing sonic environment"
California Report: "crazy quilt collages of found sound"
SF Weekly: "strange and beautiful"
East Bay Express: "cinema for the ear"


PROGRAM

Friday, January 27th, 8pm

Frank Lambert - Talking Clock [1878]
MaryClare Brzytwa - Maxy Waxy [2005]
Marc Ainger - Shatter [1998]
Herbert Br=FCn - U-TURN-TO [1980]
Trevor Wishart - Tongues of Fire [1994]
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Tetsu Inoue and Carl Stone - @.fine [2001]
Ilhan Mimaroglu - And Yet, There Could Be Love [1971]
Horacio Vaggione - Schall [1995]
Jackson MacLow - 1st Milarepa Gatha [1993]
Joseph Anderson - St. Cutherbert's Parish Church, Edinburgh [2005]
Triptych
Ballard Locks, Seattle
Hermitage of Braid, Edinburgh
Maggi Payne - Motor Rhythms [2005]


Saturday, January 28th, 8pm

John Young - Allting runt omkring [1998]
Toru Takemitsu - Vocalism Ai [1956]
Ava Mendoza - To the Larynx! Metastasis [2005]
Josh Goldman - Language [2003]
Cenk Erg=FCn - Excerpts from =C7al ( bir + pilak-m=FCzik + Trio for Video )=
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[2005]
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Thom Blum - Squelch [2006]
Louis and Bebe Barron - excerpts from Forbidden Planet Soundtrack [1956]
Cliff Caruthers - Blue Sky [2006]
Bernhard Gal - It's Like [2001]
Curtis Roads - Volt Air, Parts I-IV [2003]


Sunday, January 29th, 8pm
A celebration of the work of french composer Luc Ferrari (1929-2005)

A video profile by Veronique Larcher and ELSA Productions [2006]
Etudes Aux Sons Tendus [1958]
selections from Cycle Des Souvenirs [2002]
Strathoven [1985]
Tautologos 1 [1961]
Place des Abbesses [1977]
Les Anecdotiques [2004]

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About Tape Music and nSFTMC

In the early part of the 20th century when the idea of recorded =

sounds was still novel, a new kind of music began to emerge. This =

music did not treat the recording medium as a stand-in for an absent =

performer, or a document of a musical performance, but as a vital and =

unique territory for exploration in and of itself. Tape music does =

not depend upon the posturing of performers. It does not worship the =

technology with which it was produced, or the physical medium in =

which it is contained. It is a sonic inquiry, sculpting a new kind =

of music from the entire palette of sound.

The New San Francisco Tape Music Center (nSFTMC) began seven years =

ago in true underground fashion in a warehouse in East Oakland. They =

wired the space with speakers, borrowed professional equipment and =

threw a concert. Since then they have become one of the premiere =

presenters of fixed media composition on the West Coast. They have =

deliberately assumed the name and model of the 1960's San Francisco =

Tape Music Center. In doing so they recognize the history of the =

Tape Music Center and their past contributions to electronic music =

while looking and listening to the future.

For more information please visit sfsound.org/tape

Venue:

ODC Theater
3153 17th St (@ Shotwell)
San Francisco
415-863-9834
http://www.odctheater.org/

Additional Info:


http://sfsound.org/tape