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The San Francisco Tape Music Festival

The Victoria Theater
San Francisco, CA

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sfSound.org/tape

...an enthralling survey of experimental proclivities..." -- East Bay Express
"Cinema for your ears." -- SF Weekly
"Lliterally surrounded by sound." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"Tape Capsule" -- The New York Times

America's only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival features four distinct concerts of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 26 local and international composers. Hear members of the SF Tape Music Collective, along with guest composers, shape the sound live over a pristine surround system (24 high-end loudspeakers) with the audience seated in complete darkness. It's a unique opportunity to experience music forming - literally - around you.

The 2017 Festival features two concerts showcasing the entire range of the fixed media artform, including "Then" (2014) by CURTIS ROADS. The Saturday late-night concert features longer and ambient tape pieces, including excerpts from the 1977 Soundtrack to DAVID LYNCH'S "ERASERHEAD." The Sunday evening concert is devoted to the tape music of PAULINE OLIVEROS (1932 - 2016).

The festival also performs classic works by San Francisco Tape Music Center technical director BILL MAGINNIS (1938 - 2016), computer music pioneer JEAN-CLAUDE RISSET (1938 - 2016), and Denmark's "Grandmother of Electronic Music," ELSE MARIE PADE (1924 - 2016). Compositions created with DON BUCHLA'S (1937 - 2016) original BUCHLA 100 SERIES SYNTHESIZER by Bay Area Composer WARNER JEPSON (1930 - 2011) and others will also be presented.

Recent works by international composers will be performed alongside local tape musicians DONALD SWEARINGEN, MAGGI PAYNE, KRISTIN MILTNER, THEO MATHIEN, KENT JOLLY, MATT INGALLS, CLAIRE HAAS, MATTHEW GOODHEART, SIVAN ELDAR, CLIFF CARUTHERS, THOM BLUM, and KYLE BRUCKMANN.

PROGRAM

Friday January 6, 2017 (9pm)
JEAN-CLAUDE RISSETSud (1986)
WARNER JEPSONselections from Tulliam (1969)
MARIE-HELENE BREAULT/MARTIN BEDARD Replica (2013)
THOM BLUM (2016)
KYLE BRUCKMANN Predictable Epiphanies (2016)
MAXIME CORBEIL-PERRON Cubic (2016)
SIVAN ELDAR On Air | Behind Glass (2013)
MATT INGALLS Buchla Piece (2017)

Saturday January 7, 2017 (8pm)
CURTIS ROADS THEN (2014)
BILL MAGINNIS Sweet & Flight (1965)
ELSE MARIE PADE Rejsen til Bloksbjerg og Valborgsnat (from Faust Suite) (1962)
MAGGI PAYNESferics (2016)
BRONA MARTIN A bit closer to home (2014)
PAOLO PASTORINO Dimensione aggiuntiva (2016)
CLIFF CARUTHERS Last Breaths (1996)
CLAIRE HAAS Crossing Under (2002)
KENT JOLLY Mirrors (1995)
THEO MATHIEN Throatsong to the Four-leggeds (2013)

Saturday January 7, 2017 (11pm)
DAVID LYNCH'S "ERASERHEAD" SOUNDTRACK excerpted (1977)
PETE STOLLERY Three Cities (2012)
MATTHEW GOODHEART Berlin Head Metal - I (2016)
LUIGI MARINO Hau: a form of bistability (2013)
NICOLAS MARTY Une des chambres n'aurait presque pas de fenêtre (2015)
KRISTIN MILTNER (2017)
DONALD SWEARINGEN In The Kitchen (1992)

Sunday January 8, 2017 (8pm)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Time Perspectives (1961)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Bye Bye Butterfly (1965)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Rock Symphony (excerpt) (1965)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Big Mother Is Watching You (1966)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Alien Bog (1967)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Lions Tale (excerpt) (1989)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Sayonara Sirenade (2001)

funded in part by
The San Francisco Grants for the Arts and individual contributions
equipment kindly provided by The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University and sfSound.

Please visit sfSound.org/tape for complete program details.

Location

The Victoria Theater
2961 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States

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