Welcome to the Paul Dresher Ensemble
An evening of award-winning media art created by John Sanborn Media art created by John Sanborn, featuring four pairs of works, one from the 1980s and one from recent times. As the world has changed, the artist’s passions have not. During the two years of organizing a retrospective of my work at ZKM—Zentrum für Kunst […]
GIACOMO FIORE presents Lost Horse Wash Drone - a series of works composed after one week in residence at the Lou Harrison House in Joshua Tree, California, contemplating matters of tuning, improvisation, and our environment. The music is built on small just intonation modes, played on fretless electric and refretted resophonic guitar with live electronic […]
CHRIS BROWN (piano/electronics) and THEA FARHADIAN (violin/electronics) come together for their first time improvised duo performance. THEA FARHADIAN is a performer/composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work extends across a wide range of disciplines, including solo violin and interactive electronics, acoustic improvisation, solo laptop, radio art, and scoring experimental video. Her solo […]
EDA ER and DANNIEL RIBEIRO debut their dynamic duo, blending vocals, electronics, electric guitar, and video. Their work incorporates transducers and extended techniques within a structured improvisation setting, highlighting their shared exploration of sound, collaboration, and multimedia expression. Eda Er is a composer, multimedia artist, and vocalist based in the Bay Area. Her work integrates […]
As a duo, JON ARKIN (drums, live processing) and BEN GOLDBERG (clarinet) bring together an unprecedented diversity of organic and synthetic elements, forming a truly unique musical amalgam. Arkin’s self-designed hybrid electro-acoustic setup acts as both a support and foil to Goldberg’s singular improvisational voice, within the contexts of traditional composition, spontaneous composition, and algorithmic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recognized as one the foremost Brazilian musicians of their generation, FÁBIO PRESGRAVE (cello) and JOANA HOLANDA have been performing versatile and captivating programs with a wide range of aesthetic affiliations. Both musicians are faculty members at Federal University of Natal (UFRN) in Brazil. The duo performs Brazillian-born, Oakland composer BRUNO RUVIARIO'S Beatriz Suite(2024), a 13-movement work written for the duo. Using […]