The Eleventh Annual Outsound New Music Summit July 15 – 21, 2012
KFJC FM 89.7 co-presents
The Annual Bay Area festival for underground and experimental jazz, electronics, noise art, spoken word & more!
Community Music Center
544 Capp Street (btwn 20th & 21st Streets),
San Francisco, CA
All Ages | Wheelchair Accessible
Parking: New Mission Bartlett Garage (21st Street, between Mission and Valencia Streets)
Public Transportation: MUNI lines 14, 33 & 49, BART 16th or 24th Street Station
July 15 – free admission, July 16 – free admission
July 18- 19: $12 General ($10 advance) / $10 Student July 20- 21: $15 General ($12 advance) / $10 Student Festival Pass $45 ($38 advance)
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Sunday July 15: Touch the Gear Expo! 7-10pm Free Admission
A hands-on experience of sound producing gear and instruments! Touch the Gear is a hands-on, family-friendly event that allows the public to roam among 25-30 musicians and inventors with their various different configurations of “gear.” -- Everything from oscillators to planks of wood with strings attached. Everyone gets to ask questions, make sound and experience how these set-ups work. It’s an environment that demystifies technology while inspiring creativity.
Monday July 16: Composers Symposium 7-9pm Free Admission
Compositional Process and Changing the Rules
2012 composers John Shiurba, Christina Stanley, Benjamin Ethan Tinker, and Matthew Goodheart will discuss the elements of their compositional styles and how they navigate the worlds of modern compositional techniques, combined with individual forms of experimentation. There will be a Q&A segment for attendees of this free public event.
Wednesday July 18: Sonic Poetry Unique word and sound fusions and fissions poets:
Ronald Sauer, rAmu Aki, Carla Harryman Musicians: Jacob Felix Heule, Jordan Glenn, Karl Evangelista, Jon Raskin, Gino Robair In a special Outsound presentation, three leading Bay Area poets collaborate with some of music’s top improvisers to create new word and sound compositions in this evening of visionary literary experimentation.
Thursday July 19: The Composers Muse
World debut performances from some of the Bay Area’s most adventurous composers Christina Stanley's Skadi Quartet, Matthew Goodheart’s recursive physical object electro-acoustics John Shiurba's 9:9
Friday July 20: Thwack, Bome, Chime an evening of structured percussion
Dave Douglas' The Walls Are White With Flame Benjamin Ethan Tinker's “Seems An Eternity” Falkortet Showcasing the wide and wild world of modern percussion in all shapes, sizes, and sounds.
Saturday July 21: Harmolodics Workshop w/ Dave Bryant 2-4pm Free Admission
Pianist Dave Bryant will present material gleaned from his years of performance and study with Ornette Coleman on Harmolodic Theory and practice.
Saturday July 21: Fire & Energy Masters of improvisation from East & West Coast meet for the Summit Finale
Jack Wright Dave Bryant Trio Vinny Golia Sextet Tony Passarell's Thin Air Orchestra A massive blowout of seasoned veterans of the improvised-jazz-inspired-music collide on this final night of the 11th Annual Outsound New Music Summit.
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The 11th Annual Outsound New Music Summit is made possible through the Musical Grant Program, which is administered by the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, and supported by Heller Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation and San Francisco Grants for the Arts.
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Leadership support for New Music USA’s MetLife Creative Connections program is generously provided by MetLife Foundation. Additional support is provided by ASCAP, BMI Foundation, Inc., Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Jerome Foundation, mediaThe foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation and the Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd.
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Funding for the 11th Annual Outsound New Music Summit is also provided by Zellerbach Family Foundation, and W & F Hewlett Foundation.
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