Posts by diane
sfSound presents Tinnitus Insect Volume Knobs
Tuesday, August 8, 2014 8pm Yerba Buena Forums Bay Area Now 7’s core concept is to experiment with new approaches to traditional curatorial structures that highlight collaboration within our region’s cultural eco-system and which push beyond the boundaries of the performance stage towards a multidisciplinary celebration of some of the most exciting artistic voices in the Bay Area today. For this event, sfSound presents a new sonic work for amplified acoustic instruments as a continuation of their Tinnitus Insect Volume Knobs project that explores the psychoacoustic phenomena of “difference tones.” When two tones are played simultaneously, listeners can...
Read MoresfSound’s small packages
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8pm San Francisco Contemporary Music Players sfSound presents a new installment of “small packages,” a series of musical performances featuring Avant-Garde classics programmed alongside a group of new, shorter musical responses by living composers. Drawing large audiences, our previous “packages” combined established masterworks by György Ligeti, Earle Brown, and Anton Webern, alongside new contributions by Pauline Oliveros, Mark Applebaum, Greg Saunier, Dan Becker and Maggi Payne, among many others. This “small packages” features two classic works: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Kontra-Punkte, the quintessential...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 8pm sFsound Old First Concerts sfSound returns to Old First Concerts with an exciting program of works newly composed/revised within the last year, alongside two contrasting pieces from the 1960s. The concert features the west coast premiere of compositions by John Zorn, Hans Tutschku, and Christopher Burns. Rounding out the program are classics by Terry Riley, Mario Davidovsky, and a composition by sfSound’s Matt Ingalls based on the music of György Ligeti that is ABSOLUTELY NOT A COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. Old First Concerts 1751 Sacramento, San Francisco $17/14...
Read MoresfSoundOrchestra celebrates the 50th anniversary of Terry Riley’s “In C”
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 9pm sfSoundOrchestra celebrates the 50th anniversary of Terry Riley’s In C On November 2, 1964 at The San Francisco Tape Music Center, 321 Divisidero, Terry Riley essentially launched Minimalism with the premiere of In C. Performers included Jeannie Brecken, Steve Reich, Jon Gibson, Terry Riley, Warner Jepson, Stan Schaap, Sonny Lewis, Ramon Sender, James Lowe, Morton Subotnick, Tony Martin, Mel Weitzman, Pauline Oliveros and Phil Winsor. Although this classic work is often cited for its influence on composers like Glass, Reich and Adams, its use of open instrumentation and dynamic form determined individually during the performance is perhaps more...
Read MoreSweet Thunder: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music
Saturday, April 26, 2014 7:30m Sweet Thunder: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music http://sfcmp.org/sweet-thunder/
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Diane Grubbe has appeared as a soloist with the Siena Music Festival in Italy, the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra, L’Orchestre de Notre Dame in San Francisco and the Calabasas Chamber Orchestra in Southern California, with whom she recorded the Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto for their CD The Baroque Concerto.