Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Sun, Oct 12 2008 8:00 PM




sfSoundSeries
Local percussionist Gino Robair performs Potluck Percussion (You bring anything, & he'll "play" it - GUARANTEED!) and presents a realization of his opera, I, Norton with sfSound augmented by laptops and voices. The program also includes two giant works from the 1980's: Gérard Grisey's Talea and the U.S. Premiere of Mathias Spahlinger's Aussageverweigerung / Gegendarstellung: Zwei Kontra-Kontexte für Doppelquartett.


Local percussionist Gino Robair performs Potluck Percussion (You bring it, he'll play it - Guaranteed!) and presents a realization of his improv-opera I, Norton with sfSound augmented by laptops and voices. The program also includes two giant works from the 1980's: Gérard Grisey's Talea (1986) and the U.S. premiere of Mathias Spahlinger's Aussageverweigerung / Gegendarstellung: Zwei Kontra-Kontexte für Doppelquartett (1981) in addition to and the premiere of a new work written for sfSound by local composer Erik Ulman.

Performers include:
Stacey Pelinka - flutes, Matt Ingalls - clarinets, Jonathan Russell - clarinets, John Ingle - saxophones, Jon Raskin - bari saxophone, Andy Strain - trombone, Loren Mach - percussion, Gino Robair - percussion, Matthew Goodheart - piano, Christopher Jones - piano/bassoon/conductor, Hadley McCarroll - piano/voice, Erik Ulman - violin, Alexa Beattie - viola, Karlyn DeSteno - viola, Monica Scott - cello, Richard Worn - contrabass, Tom Duff - voice, Aurora Josephson - voice, Chris Brown - computer, Kristin Miltner - computer , and Wobbly - electronics.


Cost: $5
Audio samples in which musicians at this event play:
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Gino Robair and John Butcher, 2008