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Pierre Schaeffer
MUSIC | 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 35 local and international composers.

San Francisco Tape Music Festival – Night 1

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Date(s) - 01/10/2020
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Location
Victoria Theatre

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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 35 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 2020 Festival features contemporary “fixed media” compositions by eighteen international composers, including: Francis Dhomont, Natasha Barrett, Robert Normandeau, and Barry Truax alongside tape classics by Pierre Schaeffer, Pauline Oliveros, and Toru Takemitsu. Bay Area artists: Kenneth Atchley, Bruce Bennett, Kyle Bruckmann, bran(…)pos, Thom Blum, Cliff Caruthers, Matt Ingalls, Douglas McCausland, Kristin Miltner, Michelle Moeller, Maggi Payne, and Ken Ueno will also be presenting their works.

Saturday’s 9:30pm concert features late-night-appropriate works that lean towards ambient and long-form-exploration.

In a special collaboration with sfSoundGroup, the Sunday program features works for instruments and spatialized electronics, including the premiere of Ghosts of Ancient Hurricanes, a new commission by Ken Ueno, the North American premiere of Force Fields by Jonty Harrison, and Denis Smalley’s classic Clarinet Threads.

The festival also pays tribute to electronic music pioneer Mario Davidovsky (1934-2019) and selected text-sound works by Ken Nordine (1920-2019).

SF Tape Music Festival Program

Friday, January 10, 2020 | 8:30PM

Saturday, January 11, 2020 | 7PM

Saturday, January 11, 2020 | 9:30PM

Sunday, January 12, 2020 | 7PM

a special 3-set concert of works for instruments and fixed media featuring sfSoundGroup
— set order subject to change —

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IMAGE: Pierre Schaeffer

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