9th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
On Friday, July 23rd, I’ll be performing with the Cornelius Cardew Choir at the 9th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, which is being presented at the Community Music Center, at 544 Capp Street (between 20th and 21st Streets), in San Francisco. (Please see other details below.)
The Cornelius Cardew Choir will be sharing the program, entitled MultiVox, with Amy X Neuburg, and Reconnaissance Fly.
The Cardew Choir will perform three original compositions by notable Bay Area New Music composers:
El Morro, by composer, musician and conductor Tom Bickley, Director and a co-founder of the choir, a work for voice and electronically processed ambient recordings, based on historic inscriptions in the rocks of the El Morro mountain range in New Mexico;
Genesis for Twelve Improvisers, by Polly Moller, a composer and multi-instrumentalist who works with other Bay Area ensembles. Moller recently directed an all-instrumental performance of this work, whose ambitious theme is no less than the birth of a new universe; this will be the first performance that features approximately a dozen simultaneous, patterned vocal parts, along with percussion, to be performed by Amar Chaudhary, and a flute part (representing the new universe), to be performed by Moller herself in the July 23rd performance; and
That Alphabet Thing, by composer, author and vocalist Joseph Zitt, a long-time member of the choir who moved to Ohio in the past two years. This is a Cardew Choir signature piece, in which the choir vocalizes by using the phonetics of each letter of the alphabet in unexpected ways—and it may not always be limited to the English alphabet.
Members of the Cornelius Cardew Choir who will perform at the 9th Annual Outsound New Music Summit include:
Tom Bickley, Director and Co-Founder
Bob Marsh, Co-Founder
Polly Moller
Amar Chaudhary
Nancy Beckman
Katherine Setar
Brad Fischer
Marianne Tomita McDonald
Cathryn Hrudicka
Dave Cowen
Rachel Wood-Rome
Eric Theise
Sarah Rose Stiles
Jaime Robles
Ann O’Rourke
Tom Duff
Susan Angst
For updates in their performance schedule, visit the Cardew Choir Facebook page.
For information about all the concerts in the Outsound performance series, visit http://www.outsound.org. Details about the 9th Annual Outsound New Music Summit are available at http://www.outsound.org/summit/index.html.
Calendar Information:
9th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
at the Community Music Center
544 Capp Street (between 20th and 21st Streets)
San Francisco
All ages welcome. Wheelchair accessible.
Artist Q&A: 7:30 p.m.
Music Performances start at 8:15 p.m.
Admission: $12 General; $10 Advance; $8 Students
Festival Pass: $45 ($40 Advance)
Advance tickets at In Ticketing:
http://www.inticketing.com/events/97125
