Saturday, Oct. 26: 10:00 am & 4:00 pm
Sunday, Oct. 27: 12:00 pm Crissy Field – Free public event
Performed on the historic and breathtaking Crissy Field, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Crissy Broadcast will be a 60-minute-long sonic-musical work that will engage multiple musical communities in San Francisco. Designed as a parallel event with Tempelhof Broadcast in Berlin, each event includes musicians from both cities. Crissy Broadcast will be performed three times in one weekend, at different times of day. Like the partner project in Berlin, it will be free to the public, and it will happen around and among the regular public uses of the park, without any added electrical equipment, seating or ticketing. All musicians will play acoustically, without amplification, in groups that will enliven the entire grassy area of the park.
With SFCMP as the lead ensemble, more than 800 professional, student and amateur musicians, experimental new-music groups in Berlin and in the US, thousands of music-lovers and unwitting park-goers, and people around the world witnessing the performance live online, will be touched by this event.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
8:00 p.m. | Preconcert talk at 7:15 p.m.
YBCA Lam Research Theater
Elena Langer’s Two Cat Songs (2010) for voice, piano, and cello and Michael Gordon’s 2010 work Timber – a percussive tour de force for six musicians playing amplified and processed lengths of lumber.
Monday, February 17, 2014 8:00 p.m. | Preconcert talk at 7:15 p.m. YBCA Forum
Features Aus.Weg, a 2010 work by Georg Freidrich Haas,Luciano Chessa’s 2013 work Set and Setting, for musicians and “youth delivering scents of lavender and jasmine,” and James Dillon’s large-scale 2012 work New York Triptych, for musicians, radio receiver and CD player.
Monday, March 24, 2014 8:00 p.m. | Preconcert talk at 7:15 p.m. YBCA Forum
Anton Webern’s 1934 masterwork Concerto for Nine Instruments is juxtaposed with the premiere of a commissioned inter-media work by Polish composer Jaroslaw Kapuscinski entitled Pointing Twice, with Korean guest choreographer Young-Doo Kim. Also Brian Ferneyhough’s La Chute D’Icare, and In Memoriam Jon Higgins by Alvin Lucier.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 7:30 p.m. at Fort Mason Center
SFCMP’s Sweet Thunder Festival opens with a concert by special guests JACK Quartet. Works will include Turgut Ercetin’s, String Quartet No. 1, a new work by Kevin Ernste, the West Coast premiere of Natacha Diels’Nightmare for JACK, and Jonathan Harvey’s, String Quartet No. 4.
Sweet Thunder: 2014 SFCMP Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music is supported in part with major funding from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.
Friday, April 25, 2014 7:30 p.m. at Fort Mason Center
ICE joins the Sweet Thunder festival, performing works by Rand Steiger, Nathan Davis, Marcos Balter, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
Sweet Thunder: 2014 SFCMP Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music is supported in part with major funding from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.
Friday April 25, 2014 10:00 p.m. at Fort Mason Center
The pioneer of electronica, Morton Subotnick, will perform his seminal work From Silver Apples of the Moon to a Sky of Cloudless Sulphur Revisited in a special concert.
Sweet Thunder: 2014 SFCMP Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music is supported in part with major funding from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.
Saturday, April 26, 2014 2:00 p.m. at Fort Mason Center
Solo works by important composers of the electro-acoustic tradition, including Steve Reich’s 1982 work Vermont Counterpoint, performed by ICE’s Claire Chase; Ken Ueno’s Talus (2007) performed by guest violist Wendy Richman; a 2011 work for clarinet by Matt Ingalls entitled CrusT, performed by the composer; Javier Alvarez’s 2001 Shekere, for solo percussion, and Roger Reynolds’s 1985 composition Transfigured Wind for solo piano.
Sweet Thunder: 2014 SFCMP Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music is supported in part with major funding from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.
Saturday, April 26, 2014 7:30 p.m. at Fort Mason Center
SFCMP is joined by guest performers in a journey through the history of electro-acoustic music, with works by Edgard Varèse (Poème Electronique, 1958; and Déserts, from 1954), as well as Mario Davidovsky’s 1992 Synchronisms No.10 for solo guitar performed by David Tanenbaum; Kaija Saariaho’s 1986 work Io, partnered with a new commissioned work from composer Ashley Fure (Companion to Io), and a special performance by SFCMP Artistic Director Steven Schick with Bay Area favorite Pamela Z in a new work.
Sweet Thunder: 2014 SFCMP Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music is supported in part with major funding from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.
Sunday, April 27, 2014 2:00 p.m. at Fort Mason Center
Sweet Thunder ends with a concert that includes Karlheinz Stockhausen’s 1964 composition Mikrophonie I, to a new work by Jamie Oliver. Also on the program, Luigi Nono’s 1979 work Con Luigi Dallapiccola, and a new iteration of George Lewis’ 1987 work Voyager, featuring SFCMP’s Kyle Bruckmann and other SFCMP improvisers.
Sweet Thunder: 2014 SFCMP Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music is supported in part with major funding from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.
