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Flutist Michelle Yom’s FALKOR

January 21, 2013 Chris Becker

(Houston, TX) This Sunday, Houston-based flutist, composer, and improviser Michelle Yom presents FALKOR, an interactive music and dance composition featuring Yom on flute and four dancers, Kriten Frankiewicz, Erin Reck,…

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Stretched perceptions: Mari Kimura & Elliott Sharp in concert

November 14, 2012 Steve Layton

Violinist Mari Kimura has built a career fearlessly taking the violin to places still little-explored. Interestingly, as music events embrace digital platforms, surprising sponsorship opportunities have emerged, including from online…

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Let’s Ask John Shiurba

July 10, 2012 Polly Moller

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…

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2012 Outsound Summit lineup revealed

May 14, 2012 Polly Moller

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…

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10th Annual Bay Area Outsound New Music Summit

July 28, 2011 Tom Djll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUO0_8D1yg0 San Francisco Community Music Center, July 20 – 23, 2011 The first sound of the festival’s Wednesday night show was, perhaps appropriately, nothing. Theresa Wong started offstage, down front,…

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Let’s Ask Kanoko Nishi

July 15, 2011 Polly Moller

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…

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Let’s Ask Krys Bobrowski

July 14, 2011 Polly Moller

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,…

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Let’s Ask Andrew Raffo Dewar

July 13, 2011 Polly Moller

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.…

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2011 Outsound New Music Summit lineup announced

May 2, 2011 Polly Moller

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…

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Call for Proposals: Music for People and Thingamajigs, 2011

April 21, 2011 Polly Moller

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…