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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Note to Self: Find that FM Radio

May 25, 2009 Polly Moller

I write that note to myself about four times a year, and I forget every time, and every time I miss out on a key aspect of the Illuminated Corridor…

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Rova Saxophone Quartet and friends channel Buckminster Fuller

May 18, 2009 Polly Moller

San Francisco is famous for its innovations, its open minds, and its spirit of protest. In 2005, according to Rova Saxophone Quartet member Larry Ochs, “our government was committing all…