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VISUAL | THU, JAN 2 | San Francisco, California
Bringing in the New Year, Art Attack SF is excited to present AASF Artists: Attack!

This group exhibition bridges together past, present and future; showcasing the developing careers of our represented artists’ over the years, as well as debuting those whom have joined our gallery going forth into the future!
Guillermo Gregorio was born into a musical family. He became interested in experimental music in the early 1960s, culminating in his Unheard Music project (later released on the album Otra Música: Tape Music, Fluxus, and the Improvisation in Buenos Aires 1963-1970).

Mat Maneri, a leading improvisational voice of his generation, was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He began studying the violin at the age of five, but since borrowing a viola for a jam session at the 1998 ECM festival in Badenweiler, he has made the viola his instrument of choice.

Chicago based cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm has played and studied music in a variety of situations from the Juilliard School to the gutter. A former student of Anthony Braxton, Morton Feldman, Bunita Marcus and Pauline Oliveros, his primary projects are his Valentine Trio and The Lightbox Orchestra.

Michael Bisio, bassist/composer, has eighty five recordings in his discography, twenty four of these are split evenly between leader/co-leader, ten of them document his extraordinary association with modern piano icon Matthew Shipp.
Ron Jackson is NYC’s No. 1 7 string guitarist. He will be on tour in the Bay Area supported by The Gardenia Society, JAN 10-13, 2020. His expertise on the seven string continues in the jazz tradition of Bucky Pizzarelli and George Van Eps. As a side note: John Pizzarelli recently performed at Kuumbwa and Yoshi’s to near sell out audience. John will be coming back later in January to play at The Westin. John may be better known and widely publicized as both singer and 7 string guitarist than Ron. However, these small venues are ideal to get to know Ron personally and enjoy the music up close (and possibly for free … )
MUSIC | FRI, JAN 10 | San Francisco, California
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.

  • Pierre Schaeffer – Étude pathétique [Étude aux Casseroles] (1948)
  • Pauline Oliveros – Poem of Change (1992)
  • Barry Truax – The Garden of Sonic Delights (2016)
  • Robert Normandeau – Tunnel azur (2016)
  • Maggi Payne – Heat Shield (2018)
  • bran(…)pos – martian brine pool (2019)
  • Cliff Caruthers – New Work (2020)
  • Matthew Barnard – Woche (with apologies to Ruttmann and Brock) (2011)
  • Parazon – Opaque Fragments (2017)
  • Leah Reid – Sk(etch) (2018)
The workshop is based on the Barry Harris System of Improvisation (bebop-based) combined with guitarist Ron Jackson’s extensive experience teaching improvisation to students of all abilities. The goal of the workshop is to start improvising, using real jazz phrases (not blues phrases but bebop), on: “Jazz Blues,” “Rhythm Changes” and a jazz standard (“I’ll Remember April”). By the end of the workshop, you should be able to play jazz licks or phrases on any tune and develop confidence in this system of improvisation. Instructor will demonstrate with a jazz trio. Everyone must bring their instruments and play during the workshop. You will also have the opportunity to play with the trio and receive personal feedback. For guitarists in attendance, instructor will recommend specific ways to practice your scales and phrases on the fingerboard.
MUSIC | SAT, JAN 11 | San Francisco, California
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.

  • Ken Nordine – selected works
  • Francis Dhomont – Here and There (2003)
  • Natasha Barrett – Urban Melt in Park Palais Meran (2017)
  • Thom Blum – (work TBD)
  • Douglas McCausland – Isolate (2019)
  • Kristin Miltner – New Work (2020)
  • Cecilia Castro – Roma III: The Ruin (2018)
  • Sangwon Lee – Torturing Piano (2019)
  • Michelle Moeller – Spoke (2019)
  • Felipe Otondo – Irama (2012)
  • Danielle Savage – Schizo Phonia (2018)
  • Fulya Uçanok – Assembly (2017)
Ron Jackson is NYC’s No. 1 Seven String Guitarist. He will be on tour in the Bay Area supported by The Gardenia Society, JAN 10-13, 2020. His expertise on the seven string continues in the jazz tradition of Bucky Pizzarelli and George Van Eps. As a side note: John Pizzarelli recently performed at Kuumbwa and Yoshi’s to near sell out audience. John will be coming back later in January to play at The Westin. John may be better known and widely publicized as both singuer and 7 string guitarist than Ron. However, these small venues are ideal to get to know Ron personally and enjoy the music up close (and possibly for free … )
MUSIC | SAT, JAN 11 | San Francisco, California
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.

  • Toru Takemitsu – Vocalism Ai (1956)
  • Kenneth Atchley – bay sky hills fog (2019)
  • Bruce Bennett – Stretch (2001)
  • Savannah Agger – Undercurrents (2016)
  • Léa Boudreau – Quatre machines pour sauver le monde (2019)
  • Nicola Giannini – Eyes Draw Circles of Light (2019)
  • Trond Lossius – Listening understood as inhabiting (2015)
The workshop is based on the Barry Harris System of Improvisation (bebop-based) combined with guitarist Ron Jackson’s extensive experience teaching improvisation to students of all abilities. The goal of the workshop is to start improvising, using real jazz phrases (not blues phrases but bebop), on: “Jazz Blues,” “Rhythm Changes” and a jazz standard (“I’ll Remember April”). By the end of the workshop, you should be able to play jazz licks or phrases on any tune and develop confidence in this system of improvisation. Instructor will demonstrate with a jazz trio. Everyone must bring their instruments and play during the workshop. You will also have the opportunity to play with the trio and receive personal feedback. For guitarists in attendance, instructor will recommend specific ways to practice your scales and phrases on the fingerboard.
MUSIC | SUN, JAN 12 | San Francisco, California
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.

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

  • Ken Ueno – Ghosts of Ancient Hurricanes (2020)
  • Denis Smalley – Clarinet Threads (1985)
  • Mario Davidovsky – Synchronisms #2 (1964)
  • Matt Ingalls and sfSound – Blue Sedan (2020)
  • Jonty Harrison – Force Fields (2006)
  • Mario Davidovsky – Synchronisms #3 (1964)
  • Kyle Bruckmann – Clutterfields (2019)
Ron Jackson is NYC’s No. 1 7 string guitarist. He will be on tour in the Bay Area supported by The Gardenia Society, JAN 10-13, 2020. His expertise on the seven string continues in the jazz tradition of Bucky Pizzarelli and George Van Eps. As a side note: John Pizzarelli recently performed at Kuumbwa and Yoshi’s to near sell out audience. John will be coming back later in January to play at The Westin. John may be better known and widely publicized as both singer and 7 string guitarist than Ron. However, these small venues are ideal to get to know Ron personally and enjoy the music up close (and possibly for free … )
The gender and genre-bending operatic event that took New York City by storm in the summer of 2017 now makes landfall in San Francisco. Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times describes it as “an excitingly contemporary production” while The New Yorker praises the production “a smashing success.” Co-produced with National Sawdust, this harrowingly intimate re-imagination stars original cast members Anthony Roth Costanzo as Galatea and Davóne Tines as Polifemo, with Lauren Snouffer joining as Aci.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

  • Wednesday, January 22 @ 8:30 pm | Diane Wilsey Center for Opera, San Francisco (Opening Night Gala)
  • Friday, January 24 @ 8 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
  • Saturday, January 25 @ 8 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
  • Sunday, January 26 @ 3 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
  • Tuesday, January 28 @ 8 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
  • Wednesday, January 29 @ 8 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
  • Friday, January 31 @ 8 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
  • Saturday, February 1 @ 8 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
THEATRE | THU, JAN 23 | San Francisco, California
There’s a door in front of you — are you on the right side? A countdown clock methodically ticks its way towards zero — what happens when time’s up? Your heart palpitates, your palms itch — but, do you move? Can you move? In a rare collaboration, four visionary emerging artists co-create an out-of-body theater experience around disassociation: the detachment of the “you” you feel and the “you” we see. Ways to Leave a Body asks, are we our bodies, a kismet match, or are these bodies our unfriendly containers?
Under the direction of the inimitable Pinchas Zukerman, now in his eleventh season as the ensemble’s principal guest conductor, Britain’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is hailed for the polish and nuance of its performances. Zukerman leads the orchestra in Beethoven’s regal Egmont Overture and Tchaikovsky’s dramatic and dynamic Fifth Symphony. He also lends his burnished tone and commanding presence as a soloist to a signature work, Mozart’s radiant Fifth Violin Concerto. “He combined tenderness (without sentimentality) with passion, his sweet tone lending aristocratic grace” (Bachtrack).
MUSIC | SUN, FEB 2 | Petaluma, California
From China to Iceland, and all over the U.S., Dirty Cello brings the world a high energy and unique spin on blues and bluegrass. Led by vivacious cross-over cellist, Rebecca Roudman, Dirty Cello is cello like you’ve never heard before. From down home blues with a wailing cello to virtuosic stompin’ bluegrass, Dirty Cello is a band that gets your heart thumping and your toes tapping!
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