8pm: Sarah Rose Stiles and Rachel Wood-Rome
9:20 pm: INSTAGON - The Noise Trio
An evening of experimental and contemporary chamber works by composers Rachel Wood-Rome and Sarah Stiles, plus the INSTAGON noise trio.
The night will feature the Premiere of Stiles’ TreengSquaretette for String Quartet, a multi-movement dash of varying characters, performed by the vivacious Picasso Quartet (http://www.picassoquartet.com/). Three Choirs, a Soundbank, and a Conductor, is a soundscape experimental piece composed for the Cornelius Cardew Choir (http://www.metatronpress.com/artists/cardewchoir), and conducted by the composer herself. Layered with existential questioning and animal nature, it has been known to lure impulsive audience participation. Do if you dare! The piece ends with a fruity essence.
Wood-Rome’s Dancing with Myself is an experimental solo clarinet-electronics tribute to Billy Idol. Autobiohumneo is an exploration into the songs that narrate our interior lives, also performed by the Cornelius Cardew Choir. The World is a song for soprano and steel drum accompaniment set to a poem by Lawrence Ferlingetti.
Rachel Wood-Rome was born in Hartford and spent her formative years in Queens. She studied French horn performance and composition at the Aaron Copland School of Music, CUNY with David Jolley and Jeff Nichols, respectively. Now she lives in the East Bay, where she teaches music to adults with developmental disabilities, plays her horn with the improvised music ensemble The Auricle and writes the chamber music you will/are/have listened to this evening.
A native of Sonoma County CA, composer Sarah Stiles began her musical endeavor at a very young age as a classical pianist. Stiles’ ambitions stuck with the piano until she discovered the innovative music of the 20th century, at which point she was spurred to also compose. Primarily self-taught, Stiles continued to compose solo while studying at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a B.A. in Music. In May 2008, Stiles received a Master's of Music in Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory. Performances of Stiles’ ouvre include premieres with San Francisco Composers’ Circle, the New Keys Concert Series, the New Music Ensemble of the San Francisco Conservatory, the Conelius Cardew Choir, the Temescal Experiment, the Outsound Series at the Luggage Store Gallery, and self-produced concerts. Stiles enjoys performing with the Cornelius Cardew Choir, an avant-garde ensemble of composer-performer improvisers. Stiles held an Artist in Residence position at SOTA (San Francisco School of the Arts) where she taught music theory and musicianship. Currently she teaches around the Bay Area private lessons in composition, theory, musicianship, and piano. http://www.SarahStiles.com.
INSTAGON was started in 1993 as a musical experiment in thee United States, by members ov Thee Temple of Psychick Youth North America (TOPYNA), to becoum counter-part to thee UK TOPY ensamble called Psychick TV (PTV). Shortly there after PTV disbanded and thee networking between thee two groups became fuedal. Members ov thee TOPY North America Access Point called BABYLON ov this era are responsible for thee birth ov thee deamon, Instagon, although artist/creatist LOB tends to be held as the founder or creator ov thee project.
Cost: $6-10