The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2009
January 30, 31 & February 1
CELLspace 2050 bryant st san francisco
http://sfsound.org/tape/

$12 [$7 underemployed] each night
$24 for festival pass
Advanced tickets — http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/52645 <http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/52645> 
Web site — http://sfsound.org/tape <http://sfsound.org/tape> 
E-mail — tapefest@sfsound.org <mailto:tapefest@sfsound.org> 

The 2009 San Francisco Tape Music Festival, curated by sfSound’s SF Tape Music Collective, will take place this January 30th, 31st, and February 1st at CELLspace. The three night Festival of audio art will feature classic as well as recent and new fixed media compositions by 30 local and international composers. The expansive venue is uniquely suited to shaping the sound which will be diffused live over a pristine surround system consisting of 20+ speakers. Seated in the dark, it’s a unique opportunity to experience music forming, literally, around you. This year marks both 50- and 60-year anniversaries, being 50 years since many now-classic “tape music” pieces had their world premieres, and being 60 years since Pierre Schaeffer presented “Concert de Bruits,” the first concert of musique concrète. So over the three nights of the Festival, works from these periods by Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, Pierre Schaeffer, Edgard Varèse, Iannis Xenakis, as well as more recent pieces by Paul Lansky, Paul McCartney, and others will be presented. And in honor of Olivier Messiaen’s 100th birth year his sole tape piece “Timbres-Durées” (1952) will be presented. As in past annual SF Tape Music Festivals, this year will also feature new works by several local composers, including Ashley Bellouin, Kyle Bruckmann, George Cremaschi, Janis Mercer, Maggi Payne, Moe! Staiano, Jon Leidecker/Wobbly, Aaron Ximm, and premieres by SFTMC’s own Thom Blum, Cliff Caruthers, Matt Ingalls, and Kent Jolly. The annual SF Tape Music Festival — it’s cinema for your ears!


Program*

:: Friday, January 30, 2009 8pm ::
Pierre Schaeffer – Étude Aux Sons Animés (1958)
György Ligeti – Artikulation (1958)
Vladimir Ussachevsky – Linear Contrasts (1958)
Paul Lansky – Six Fantasies On A Poem By Thomas Campion (1978)
Ashley Bellouin – Black Hole (SF Bay Area)
Thom Blum – [new commission] (SF Bay Area)
Kyle Bruckmann & Olivia Block – Untitled (SF Bay Area / Chicago)
Dugal McKinnon – Catalogue with Analogues (New Zealand)
Janis Mercer – Amsterdam (SF Bay Area)
Aaron Ximm (aka Quiet American) – [new work] (SF Bay Area)


:: Saturday, January 31, 2009 8pm ::
The Fireman (aka Paul McCartney and Youth) – Untitled (2008)
Luciano Berio – Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (1958)
John R. Pierce – Stochatta (1959)
Geraud Bec – buzzz (France)
Cliff Caruthers – [new commission] (SF Bay Area)
George Cremaschi – Winter Light (for Ingmar Bergman) (SF Bay Area)
Kent Jolly – [new commission] (SF Bay Area)
Jon Leidecker/Wobbly – Chart Tempo & World Retrograde (SF Bay Area)
Zhiye Li – Dimanche Détendu (China/New Orleans)
Felipe Otondo – Ciguri (Chile / UK)
Maggi Payne – Arctic Winds (SF Bay Area)
Goran Vejvoda – Pre-fader: Highly reverberant states (France)


:: Sunday, February 1, 2009 8pm ::
Edgard Varèse – Poème Électronique (1958)
Iannis Xenakis – Concret PH (1958)
Olivier Messiaen – Timbres-Durées (1952)
Matt Ingalls -[new commission] (SF Bay Area)
Jon Nelson – objet sonore/objet cinétique (Texas)
Moe! Staiano – Tape Piece No.2: Extraordinary Path of Being (SF Bay Area)
Lisa Whistlecroft – Walking with Ghosts (UK)


* may be subject to change

Presented by the San Francisco Tape Music Collective and sfSound. Funded in part by Meet The Composer and Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.


We have a number of upcoming events this week related to the San Francisco Tape Music Festival:



RADIO APPEARANCES
Monday, Jan 26, ~6:45p-8p
Pirate Cat Radio, 87.9fm San Francisco
http://www.piratecatradio.com
live stream: http://www.piratecatradio.com/pcr.m3u

Thom Blum and Matt Ingalls interview


Friday, Jan 30, 3p-4p
KUSF, 90.3fm San Francisco
http://kusf.org
live stream: http://kusf.org

Guest DJ: SF Tape Music Collective presents a festival preview radio concert.


Saturday, Jan. 31
Weekend America Public Radio
http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org
not on any bay area terrestrial station, but can be heard on many internet or satellite stations:
http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/about/list.php

Produced segment: interview with Thom Blum


KFJC, 89.7fm Los Altos Hills
no specific broadcasts, per-se,
but we are grateful to have this year’s festival co-presented by KFJC!


sfSoundRadio
http://sfsound.org/radio.html
LISTEN NOW!!<http://200.35.148.107:8000/listen.pls>

you can listen to many pieces from past festivals now on sfSoundRadio
— after the festival, tune in to hear highlights from the 2009 fest!




DIFFUSION WORKSHOPS
The festival will be hosting two free lunchtime workshops open to the public.

Wednesday, January 28, Noon-1p
Thursday, January 29, Noon-1p
CELLspace (2050 bryant st, SF)

A demonstration and introduction to the basics of sound diffusion. Participants will also be given the opportunity to try out their skills on the festival’s sound system. We will have some example pieces on hand, but participants are free to bring their own music. email tapefest@sfsound.org<mailto:tapefest@sfsound.org> for more information.

International Conference EMS09
(Electroacoustic Music Studies Network 2009)

22nd – 25th June, 2009 Centro Cultural Borges

Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero – Buenos Aires, Argentina

Deadline for reception of proposals:
Friday January 16, 2009, at 6:00 pm (Argentina’s time)

The EMS Network has been organised to fill an important gap in terms of electroacoustic music, namely focusing on the better understanding of the various manifestations of electroacoustic music. Areas related to the study of electroacoustic music range from the musicological to more interdisciplinary approaches, from studies concerning the impact of technology on musical creativity to the investigation of the ubiquitous nature of electroacoustic sounds today. The choice of the word, ‘network’ is of fundamental importance as one of our goals is to make relevant initiatives more widely available
   

Presenting EMS 09 Main Theme

Heritage and future
   

During recent years the electroacoustic community has been celebrating different dates related to the birth of electroacoustic music. Such moments are often a time for analysis and reflection, which is very important for a better understanding of our past, and allows us to review our present and to think about our future.

It also make us wonder: how do we imagine the future of electroacoustic music? And at the same time, what do we wish for the future of electroacoustic music?

At this point, many other questions arise, all of them connected to the same root: what is the role of musical education in this path? To what extent is our heritage significant in terms of our seeking to extend our sound-music boundaries or, instead, to what extent does this heritage generate barriers which limit our imagination?

Are we looking to develop a self-sustained electroacoustic art or do we think that electroacoustic music would be best integrated with other disciplines in the future?

Will technical developments limit our future steps or have we reached a stage of maturity which allows us to seek in the technology that which we need?

Is it possible to think about new languages (or derived new ones), starting from what is already known today as electroacoustic music?


Conference Committee

– Marc BATTIER (MINT-OMF, Universit de Paris-Sorbonne, France)
– Ricardo DAL FARRA (CEIArtE – UNTREF, Argentina / Concordia University, Canada)
– Leigh LANDY (MTI, De Montfort University, UK)
– Raúl MINSBURG (CEIArtE – UNTREF, Argentina)
– Daniel TERUGGI (INA/GRM, France)
 

22-25 June, 2009 – Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero,
Centro Cultural Borges (Buenos Aires, Argentina)


More information and details at http://www.ems-network.org/ems09/index.html
Call for submissions: http://www.ems-network.org/ems09/call.html

CALL FOR ELECTROACOUSTIC WORKS BY WOMEN COMPOSERS Postmark Deadline: January 15th, 2009
8th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ELECTROACOUSTIC LISTENING ROOM PROJECT (WEALR)
8th Annual New Music Festival

“In Celebration of the Composer-Performer in the 21st Century “

Cal State Fullerton
March 18th-March 21st, 2009

Featuring:
Anne LaBerge, Flute/Composer/Electronics
Jane Rigler, Flute/Composer/Electronics
Paul Dresher Ensemble
Pamela Madsen, Composer/Pianist/Voice/Electronics
The Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room Project

http://faculty.fullerton.edu/pmadsen

The International Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room Project (WEALR) announces the 8th Annual Call for electroacoustic works by women composers, Maximum length of proposed work: 12 minutes. The International Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room Project features day-long playback of works by women in electroacoustic music, plus live electroacoustic performances, live lecture-demonstrations of electroacoustic music and lecture/panel/discussions on new music. This year the Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room focuses on the theme of the Composer-Performer with guest electroacoustic composer/flutists Anne LaBerge and Jane Rigler in residence. Submit proposed CD recording of electronic/electroacoustic work, or link to upload recording of your proposed work. For Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room (WEALR) proposals include: title of work, name of composer, length of work, program notes, short bio, contact information: email, mailing address, websitePlease submit all proposals and information by email to: pmadsen@fullerton.edu OR send by regular mail to: Dr. Pamela Madsen, Music Department, Cal State Fullerton, P.O. Box 6850, Fullerton, CA 92834-6850