SILVIA MATHEUS (computer and electronic music composer, sound artist, and improviser) teams up with RIC LOUCHARD (pianist, composer, and improviser) to create The VisitoR, a performance where electronics and acoustics meet and interact. LISA MEZZACAPPA: MUSIC FOR MORE THAN A FEW OF US Bassist and composer LISA MEZZACAPPA presents a set of new and newly-arranged […]

Bay Area flutists DIANE GRUBBE and MEERANAI SHIM perform solo and duo works by Robert Dick, Mario Davidovsky, Dai Fujikura, Alyssa Aska, and The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker. THE HOLY MARTINS is KASEY KNUDSEN (alto saxophone), LORIN BENEDICT (voice), and ERIC VOGLER (guitar). They have been playing in this configuration for over 15 years, during which time the group has explored a broad range of […]

Celebrate Diwali—The Festival of Lights—with an exceptional evening of Odissi, one of India’s oldest and most sacred dance forms. Witness mesmerizing performances by Samir Panigrahi and Santosh Ram of India’s renowned Rudrakshya Foundation alongside the talented ensemble of Odissi Vilas from California. This Festival of Lights invites you on a journey through ancient rhythms and […]

RIC LOUCHARD is a Bay Area composer, pianist, improviser, writer and story teller. His stories strive to find the universal in the very personal. His music is emotive and, well, romantic, or at least on the Dionysian side of the fence. It tends towards chromaticism, atonality or quirky tonality. Motivic with sometimes complex rhythms. His musical […]

THE STINSON TRIO is the restless electric improvising union of drummer TIM BULKLEY, guitarist DAVID DVORIN, and reeds player RANDY MCKEAN. Using drum and cymbal, amps and effects, high and low saxes/clarinets, they fashion instant jigsaw superstructures from composite layers of sound and rhythm. The Stinson project came about after trombonist and fellow Flounder band member Cliff Childers’ unexpected […]