This is information for those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Howard
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Subject: Re: High Tides: San Francisco Festival of New Music
Date: 22 Feb 1993 23:28:13 GMT
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High Tides: San Francisco Festival of New Music
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415)626-2787
High Tides - San Francisco New Music Festival of Bay Area Composers, will
be held at the Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, CA from March 3 -
6, 1993. The festival will highlight the diverse and vital new music
activity here in the San Francisco Bay Area -- a community of sound artists
characterized by broad cultural and stylistic diversity.
This annual week long event will be held each year at the Intersection for
the Arts in San Francisco. 1993's events are scheduled from Tuesday
through Saturday evening with special events held on Thursday and
Saturday afternoons of the festival week.
An entire evening in concert will be given over to each sound artist. In
addition to the concert series, a panel discussion will be held on the state
of New Music in the Bay Area, entitled High Tides: New Music in the Bay
Area. This panel discussion will meet on the Saturday afternoon of the
festival week. Panel members will include Bay Area composers and
performers as well as the featured artists scheduled to perform during the
festival. Attendance to this panel discussion is free and open to the general
public.
Admission to each concert is $8.00 with a special rate of $20.00 for all four
evenings. Call (415)626-2787 for information and reservations.
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Obsidian Songs
Victor Mario Zaballa
Wednesday, March 3, 8:00 PM
Victor Mario Zaballa is a composer, performance artist, and visual artist
who uses the living elements of Pre-Columbian and popular art and the
oral tradition of Mexico as a foundation for his work. Victor and his
ensemble, Ed Tywoniak (electronics, and Rito Padille (sound design) will be
playing a variety of pre-columbian and electronic instruments for this evening's
performance. Victor will perform using English, Nahuatl and Spanish texts.
He has performed with Chico MacMurtrie, Ed Twoniak and Friends, El
Teatro Campesino and El Teatro Familia Aztlan. Outside the Bay Area
Victor has had performances at the Tucson Museum of Art; Coconino
Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ; Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA;
Stanford University; Teatro de Arquitectura; Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City. He is presently an Affiliated Artist with
the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
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Beth Custer & Friends
Thursday, March 4, 8:00 PM
Beth Custer, composer and clarinetist, will be performing a series of new
works for this concert. Some of the pieces being performed include "The
Lips That Kiss the Paper", "Rig", and "The Fall of the Imperialist" for
amplified clarinet and cello, electric guitar and percussion, and "Train
Song" for 11 clarinets, double percussion, cello and guitar. In addition to
performing on B flat, bass and alto clarinet, she performs using saxophone,
Mexican clay flutes, and Indonesian bamboo flutes, the soulong and the
kan. She has performed with and written music for the Club Foot
Orchestra, Kamikaze Ground Crew, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Elbows
Akimbo, Soon 3, Finger Palace Ensemble, Trance Mission, and is founder of
Clarinet Thing.
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Forth and Back
John Distefano & Kalonica McQuesten
Friday, March 5, 8:00 PM
John Distefano and Kalonica McQuesten will be premiering "Forth and
Back," an evening-long work using John's electronically extended
percussion setup of Western, Asian, and found percussion instruments and
Kalonica's vocals and performance on various Western and Asian wind
instruments. John and Kalonica began their eight year association in the
InterArts Department at SFSU and were founding members of Elbows
Akimbo in 1985. As friends and fellow adventurers they have travelled
extensively in Indonesia, Southeast Asia and central and Northern India
furthering their musical knowledge and experience and making extensive
field recordings which are often incorporated into their work.
Recent achievements include compositions for video artist Lynn Hershman,
and music for Elbows Akimbo's 1990 production of Carne Vale. Since 1987
John and Kalonica have created soundtracks for Paul Kwan and Arnold
Igers mutimedia productions including The Anatomy of a Springroll. This
last production is a soon to be released work to be broadcast over National
Public Television in 1993.
*****************************************************************************
Timeless Pulse
George Marsh , Jennifer Wilsey, and John English
Saturday, March 6, 8:00 PM
Timeless Pulse, the performing ensemble lead by George Marsh, and
including Jennifer Wilsey and John English will premier an hour-long piece
featuring tuned glass marimbas, tuned and untuned percussion, and
double bass. The second half of the evening will feature "on body"
drumming, a therapeutic technique to be performed on volunteers from
the audience.
George Marsh is a drumset player, percussionist, composer, author and
teacher. He has performed and recorded in a wide range of musical
settings with people such as Terry Riley, David Grisman, Chuck Berry,
Kronos Quartet, Denny Zeitlin, and Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening Band.
He is currently teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz and at
Sonoma State University. Jennifer Wilsey is a percussionist exploring the
healing dimensions of sound through the use of percussion and voice. She
received her musical training at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She performs with George Marsh, Stuart Dempster and Pauline Oliveros.
*****************************************************************************
High Tides: New Music in the Bay Area
(panel discussion)
Saturday, March 6, 2:00 PM
Free and open to the public
This panel discussion on the state of New Music in the Bay Area will
include the above mentioned artists as well as other Bay Area composers
and musicians that are part of the New Music culture of the San Francisco
Bay Area.
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Howard
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From: jcatalan@bugtree ()
Newsgroups: alt.artcom
Subject: Re: High Tides: San Francisco Festival of New Music
Date: 22 Feb 1993 23:28:13 GMT
Organization: U.C. College of Natural Resources
Lines: 126
Sender: jcatalan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <1mbnid$bc7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
NNTP-Posting-Host: bugtree.berkeley.edu
Keywords: experimental music, new music, Sna Francisco music
Stelnet louie.cc.utexas.edu 9999
******************************************************************************
High Tides: San Francisco Festival of New Music
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415)626-2787
High Tides - San Francisco New Music Festival of Bay Area Composers, will
be held at the Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, CA from March 3 -
6, 1993. The festival will highlight the diverse and vital new music
activity here in the San Francisco Bay Area -- a community of sound artists
characterized by broad cultural and stylistic diversity.
This annual week long event will be held each year at the Intersection for
the Arts in San Francisco. 1993's events are scheduled from Tuesday
through Saturday evening with special events held on Thursday and
Saturday afternoons of the festival week.
An entire evening in concert will be given over to each sound artist. In
addition to the concert series, a panel discussion will be held on the state
of New Music in the Bay Area, entitled High Tides: New Music in the Bay
Area. This panel discussion will meet on the Saturday afternoon of the
festival week. Panel members will include Bay Area composers and
performers as well as the featured artists scheduled to perform during the
festival. Attendance to this panel discussion is free and open to the general
public.
Admission to each concert is $8.00 with a special rate of $20.00 for all four
evenings. Call (415)626-2787 for information and reservations.
******************************************************************************
Obsidian Songs
Victor Mario Zaballa
Wednesday, March 3, 8:00 PM
Victor Mario Zaballa is a composer, performance artist, and visual artist
who uses the living elements of Pre-Columbian and popular art and the
oral tradition of Mexico as a foundation for his work. Victor and his
ensemble, Ed Tywoniak (electronics, and Rito Padille (sound design) will be
playing a variety of pre-columbian and electronic instruments for this evening's
performance. Victor will perform using English, Nahuatl and Spanish texts.
He has performed with Chico MacMurtrie, Ed Twoniak and Friends, El
Teatro Campesino and El Teatro Familia Aztlan. Outside the Bay Area
Victor has had performances at the Tucson Museum of Art; Coconino
Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ; Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA;
Stanford University; Teatro de Arquitectura; Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City. He is presently an Affiliated Artist with
the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
******************************************************************************
Beth Custer & Friends
Thursday, March 4, 8:00 PM
Beth Custer, composer and clarinetist, will be performing a series of new
works for this concert. Some of the pieces being performed include "The
Lips That Kiss the Paper", "Rig", and "The Fall of the Imperialist" for
amplified clarinet and cello, electric guitar and percussion, and "Train
Song" for 11 clarinets, double percussion, cello and guitar. In addition to
performing on B flat, bass and alto clarinet, she performs using saxophone,
Mexican clay flutes, and Indonesian bamboo flutes, the soulong and the
kan. She has performed with and written music for the Club Foot
Orchestra, Kamikaze Ground Crew, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Elbows
Akimbo, Soon 3, Finger Palace Ensemble, Trance Mission, and is founder of
Clarinet Thing.
*******************************************************************************
Forth and Back
John Distefano & Kalonica McQuesten
Friday, March 5, 8:00 PM
John Distefano and Kalonica McQuesten will be premiering "Forth and
Back," an evening-long work using John's electronically extended
percussion setup of Western, Asian, and found percussion instruments and
Kalonica's vocals and performance on various Western and Asian wind
instruments. John and Kalonica began their eight year association in the
InterArts Department at SFSU and were founding members of Elbows
Akimbo in 1985. As friends and fellow adventurers they have travelled
extensively in Indonesia, Southeast Asia and central and Northern India
furthering their musical knowledge and experience and making extensive
field recordings which are often incorporated into their work.
Recent achievements include compositions for video artist Lynn Hershman,
and music for Elbows Akimbo's 1990 production of Carne Vale. Since 1987
John and Kalonica have created soundtracks for Paul Kwan and Arnold
Igers mutimedia productions including The Anatomy of a Springroll. This
last production is a soon to be released work to be broadcast over National
Public Television in 1993.
*****************************************************************************
Timeless Pulse
George Marsh , Jennifer Wilsey, and John English
Saturday, March 6, 8:00 PM
Timeless Pulse, the performing ensemble lead by George Marsh, and
including Jennifer Wilsey and John English will premier an hour-long piece
featuring tuned glass marimbas, tuned and untuned percussion, and
double bass. The second half of the evening will feature "on body"
drumming, a therapeutic technique to be performed on volunteers from
the audience.
George Marsh is a drumset player, percussionist, composer, author and
teacher. He has performed and recorded in a wide range of musical
settings with people such as Terry Riley, David Grisman, Chuck Berry,
Kronos Quartet, Denny Zeitlin, and Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening Band.
He is currently teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz and at
Sonoma State University. Jennifer Wilsey is a percussionist exploring the
healing dimensions of sound through the use of percussion and voice. She
received her musical training at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She performs with George Marsh, Stuart Dempster and Pauline Oliveros.
*****************************************************************************
High Tides: New Music in the Bay Area
(panel discussion)
Saturday, March 6, 2:00 PM
Free and open to the public
This panel discussion on the state of New Music in the Bay Area will
include the above mentioned artists as well as other Bay Area composers
and musicians that are part of the New Music culture of the San Francisco
Bay Area.
******************************************************************************