January 5 – 7, 2018 (Friday – Sunday)
Victoria Theater
2961 16th Street
San Francisco, CA
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 30 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 2018 Festival's first two concerts showcase the
entire range of the fixed media artform; the Saturday late-night show presents
longer, "cinema for the ear", and ambient tape pieces; and the Sunday
concert features an entire concert of audio postcards and sound walk
compositions. Throughout the festival, composers from the "empreintes
DIGITALes" (https://www.empreintesdigitales.com/en/accueil) label will be
highlighted.
Remembering the pioneering work of one of the fathers of
musique concrète, PIERRE HENRY (1927-2017), the festival presents a performance
of his seminal work, "Variations for a Door and a Sigh" (1963). Other
tape music classics include KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN'S quadraphonic "Gesang
der Jünglinge" (1956) and JAMES TENNEY'S proto-plunderphonic composition,
"Collage No.1 (Blue Suede)" (1961).
Recent works by international artists HILDEGARD
WESTERKAMP, JONTY HARRISON, FRANCIS DHOMONT, NATASHA BARRETT, and others will
be performed alongside bay area composers THOM BLUM, CLIFF CARUTHERS, NATHAN
CORDER, MATT INGALLS, FERNANDO LOPEZ-LEZCANO, MAGGI PAYNE, ADAM SOHN, SOPHIA
SHEN / GABBY WEN, TIM WALTERS, and CHAMBERLAIN ZHANG.
Cost: $60
