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Thur. May 21 8pm
Cheryl E. Leonard, Marielle Jakobsons, Kevin Shea Adams (San Francisco)
Sounding Out California
The Luggage Store, 1006 Market Street (@ Sixth Street)
$6-$10 sliding scale; Buy tickets at door
Presented by NexMap.
Embracing the notion of hybridity, Sounding Out California was originally a NEXMAP 2007 state wide competition that invited composers from a wide range of musical traditions to send in their music. The result was a full CD featuring five emergent artists launched in 2008. This concert proudly presents three of its winners.
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ARTIST INFORMATION
Sourced from an old Wurlitzer organ, a nylon string guitar, vinyl pops, drum machines, gravel, branches and rocks, Currents consists of rhythmic phrases that invoke a sense of anchorless, as if pummeled around in heavy surf. Based in Oakland, CA, Kevin Shea Adams received an MFA from Mills College and an undergraduate degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley where studied computer programming and interactive musical systems at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT).
- Uzumaki, the Japanese word for whirlpool or eddy, is a composition inspired by and generated from spiral motions and vortices. Cheryl Leonard's compositions have been performed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Butoh Festival, the Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, SoundCulture 96, the National Conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music, and featured on KQED TV's local arts program Spark and in Tim Perkis's documentary film Noisy People. Based in San Francisco, Leonard has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, ASCAP, American Composers Forum, and Meet the Composer, and residencies at the Djerassi Program, Villa Montalvo, and Oberpfalzer Kunsterhaus.
- Sourced from a water harp, violin, sine waves, guitar, battery-powered fountain, metal pans, rocks, and wind-blown twigs, Already Forming Lake is a title taken from folklore about a glacier which has slowly retreated since the last Ice Age, revealing a vast underlying lake. A classically-trained violinist and pianist, Marielle V. Jakobsons performs regularly with many collaborators, her bands "myrmyr" and "TrioMetrik", and her solo project "darwinsbitch." She received the Elizabeth Mills Crawford award in Composition, received her MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, and before moving to Oakland, CA, spent a year in Paris, France composing computer music with Iannis Xenakis' UPIC machine at the CCMIX. www.mariplasma.com
Directed by composer Linda Bouchard, NEXMAP: New Experimental Music, Art, Performance is a non-profit organization dedicated to the production and appreciation of contemporary, experimental art.
NEXMAP: New Experimental Music, Art, & Performance
info@nexmap.org | 510.827.0592 | www.nexmap.org | Artistic Director: Linda Bouchard
NEXMAP, a non-profit corporation based in San Francisco, California, is dedicated to the production and appreciation of contemporary and experimental performing arts.
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