Polly Moller

Composers Conductors Electro-Acoustic Experimental Music Festivals Improv Interviews Music Events Opera San Francisco

Let’s ask Gino Robair

September 15, 2009 Polly Moller

The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this week. On the final festival night, Saturday, September 19th, the program will include a special all-electronic performance of the…

Composers Electro-Acoustic Experimental Music Festivals Interviews Performers San Francisco

Let’s ask Donald Swearingen

September 10, 2009 Polly Moller

The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (SFEMF) kicks off next week, and several of its original founders will be performing in celebration of the festival’s tenth anniversary. One of them,…

Composers Concerts Contemporary Classical Electro-Acoustic Film Music Opera Premieres San Francisco

Let’s ask Jack Curtis Dubowsky

September 7, 2009 Polly Moller

San Francisco-based composer, conductor, writer, educator, and filmmaker Jack Curtis Dubowsky is a very busy man. This Wednesday night, September 9th at 7:30 p.m., he’ll take the stage along with…

Cello Chamber Music Concerts Electro-Acoustic Exhibitions Experimental Music Music Events San Francisco

Good herb!

August 21, 2009 Polly Moller

That’s what early settlers said about the wild mint growing all over the peaceful hills and oceanside that would one day be paved over and known as San Francisco. In…

Experimental Music Music Events San Francisco Video

New music and intermedia – the life of the party

August 3, 2009 Polly Moller

Making the pronouncement, “Oakland is to San Francisco as Brooklyn is to Manhattan”, is the quickest way to start an argument on either side of the Bay (or in the…

Chamber Music Composers Concerts Contemporary Classical Electro-Acoustic Experimental Music Improv Music Events San Francisco

Outsound New Music Summit kicks off on Sunday

July 15, 2009 Polly Moller

San Francisco’s Mission District, home of so much that is cool, is a natural neighborhood for the arts. The San Francisco Community Music Center located at 544 Capp Street is…

Concerts Electro-Acoustic Experimental Music Improv Just Intonation Music Events Percussion San Francisco

Performances next week at the Lab celebrate 25 years of oddity

June 29, 2009 Polly Moller

I’ve been working so hard today I’ve forgotten to eat, and it’s in that spirit of lightheadedness and poor impulse control that I share with you the following San Francisco…

Concerts Contemporary Classical Electro-Acoustic Experimental Music Improv Music Events San Francisco

Summer Solstice in the Bay Area means the Garden of Memory

June 17, 2009 Polly Moller

The San Francisco Bay Area has a unique way of celebrating the first day of summer. Our most popular new music event, the Garden of Memory, comes around every summer…

Contemporary Classical

Monday night mind-blowing

June 11, 2009 Polly Moller

If, like me, you’re a San Franciscan who’d rather have your mind blown than numbed on a Monday night, Other Minds is hoping you’ll turn out for a benefit movie…

Contemporary Classical

Matthew Sperry: Gone but Never Forgotten

June 2, 2009 Polly Moller

On June 5, 2003, SF Bay Area musician Matthew Sperry was killed by an inattentive driver while riding his bicycle to work. Grieving friends in the Bay Area music community…

Let’s ask Gino Robair

Let’s ask Donald Swearingen

Let’s ask Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Good herb!

New music and intermedia – the life of the party

Outsound New Music Summit kicks off on Sunday

Performances next week at the Lab celebrate 25 years of oddity

Summer Solstice in the Bay Area means the Garden of Memory

Monday night mind-blowing

Matthew Sperry: Gone but Never Forgotten

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