Active Music Festival Blooms in Oakland
The San Francisco Bay Area has long been a friendly and nurturing environment for musicians “without a home” – operating between and outside of genres. For those shut out of…
Let’s Ask Christina Stanley
Christina Stanley a violinist and vocalist who received her MFA in Music Performance and Literature from Mills College, and her Bachelor of Music degree from San Francisco State University where…
Let’s Ask John Shiurba
John Shiurba is a composer and guitarist based in Oakland, California whose artistry embraces improvisation, art-rock, composition and noise. In his composer capacity, he’s headlining the second night of the…
Think fast!
Composers and sound artists have only got a few days – until May 31st – to answer the annual Vox Novus call for 60-second recorded works for the 60×60 Project.…
Big Band
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jazz
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San Francisco
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2012 Outsound Summit lineup revealed
The San Francisco Bay Area’s underground music scene will come together this coming July in an annual celebration of its tremendous range of styles, its love of improvisation, and its…
Bass
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Concerts
Contemporary Classical
Experimental Music
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Improv
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Piano
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San Francisco
Women composers
Let’s Ask Kanoko Nishi
San Francisco Bay Area composer/performer Kanoko Nishi wraps up our series of interviews with composers who are premiering new works at the 10th Annual Outsound New Music Summit in San…
Chamber Music
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Contemporary Classical
Electro-Acoustic
Experimental Music
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Improv
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San Francisco
Sound Art
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Let’s Ask Krys Bobrowski
Krys Bobrowski is up next in our series of interviews with composers who are premiering new works at the 10th Annual Outsound New Music Summit in San Francisco on Friday,…
Chamber Music
Composers
Concerts
Contemporary Classical
Electro-Acoustic
Festivals
Improv
Interviews
Premieres
San Francisco
Saxophone
Let’s Ask Andrew Raffo Dewar
Here’s the first in a series of interviews with composers who are premiering new works at the 10th Annual Outsound New Music Summit in San Francisco on Friday, July 22nd.…
Chamber Music
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Electro-Acoustic
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Music Events
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San Francisco
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Women composers
2011 Outsound New Music Summit lineup announced
Once upon a time in 2000, there was a brand-new underground music collective in the San Francisco Bay Area, presenting a monthly concert series named “Static Illusion/Methodical Madness”. The SIMM…
Composers
Experimental Music
Festivals
Improv
Just Intonation
Microtonalism
Opportunities
San Francisco
Sound Art
Call for Proposals: Music for People and Thingamajigs, 2011
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a sizable community of sound artists, instrument inventors, and intonation innovators who spend all their time developing original and never-before-heard ways of…