Transparent Tape Music Festival 2

[Thom Blum at Muscle Fish <thom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE            July 25, 2002

FILE:           Music / Electronic / Experimental

EVENT:          The Transparent Tape Music Festival 2

WHEN:   Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
                August 16, 17, and 18, 2002
                8:30pm

TICKETS: $7 one night / $15 festival pass
                ( email/phone reservations suggested )
        
WHERE:  Transparent Theater
                1901 Ashby
                Berkeley, CA USA

CONTACT/INFO/RESERVATIONS:
                (415) 614-2434
                tapecenter@xxxxxxxxxxx
                http://sfSound.org/tape.html

PROGRAM:

3 nights of fixed-media sound works diffused over a 20+ loudspeaker
surround sound system.  THE TRANSPARENT TAPE MUSIC
FESTIVAL 2 is presented by The "New" San Francisco Tape Music
Center, together with sfSound, ACME Observatory Contemporary
Music Series, and the Transparent Theater.

The festival offers a unique balance of new and classic works for
the medium.  Highlights include:

Pierre Schaeffer - "Quatre etudes de bruit" (1948, 1971 revision)
        [ one of the first 'musique concrete' compositions ]

John Cage/Larry Austin - "Williams [re]Mix[ed]" (1951/2001)
        [ a remastered 8-channel version of Cage's Famous
        "Williams Mix" together with a new piece by Larry Austin
        based on the same chance operations used in the Cage work]

Morton Subotnick - "Until Spring" (1975)
        [ a founder of the "classic" San Francisco Tape Music Center, we
          present a well-known work of Subotnick's rarely heard in the
          quadraphonic original version ]

Francis Dhomont - "Objects retrouves" (1996)
Barry Truax - "Pendlerdrum"  (1997)
Curtis Roads - "Sculptor" (2002)
Maggi Payne "breaks/motors" (2001)
Jonty Harrison - "Unsound Objects" (1995)
        [ all leading composers in the field ]

In memory of John R. Pierce's recent passing, we will present a handful
of short Early Computer Music Pieces by
        Max V. Matthews, John R. Pierce, and Newman Guttman including:
        Guttman's "The Silver Scale" (1957) [the first computer music
ever!]
        Matthew's "Bicycle Built for Two" ~2min (1961)
                [as made famous by the film: '2001']

Royoji Ikeda "C" (1998)
        [ a work that has had profound influence over 'glitch' music ]

6 Premieres of New Works by local composers.

Many more pieces by composers from all over the world.


Please see http://sfSound.org/tape.html for program details, notes
about specific compositions, and links to composers.