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[microsound] San Francisco Tape Music Festival - LATE NOTICE

The "New" San Francico Tape Music Center
    & sfSoundSeries present:

THE SAN FRANCISCO TAPE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
     February 20, 21, and 22, 2004
       8:30pm
         Cellspace
            2050 Bryant Street
              San Francisco

$10/night, $25 for full Festival pass
    To reserve tickets call 415-614-2434.

tapecenter@xxxxxxxxxxx
    http://sfsound.org/tape.html
       (415) 614-2434

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The "New" San Francisco Tape Music Center, California's foremost
exponent of live diffusion of tape music, presents its 7th festival of
classic and contemporary fixed media compositions.  Projecting over
a network of 16+ speakers that will bathe you in hi fidelity sound, the
festival includes a wide range of "fixed media" works from 50 year old
classics to 5 day old creations on the cutting edge.

Over 22 works by local and international composers will be presented
during the three nights, including a few classic masterpieces.

STEVE REICH'S classic work of early minimalism, "It's Gonna Rain"
is based on tape loops of a recording of a Pentecostal preacher in
Union Square.  The first performance in January 1965 was in fact at the
ORIGINAL San Francisco Tape Music Center!   Keeping with its goal
of presenting classic works to modern audiences, the "New" San Francisco
Tape Music Center will be realizing an original multichannel projection
of this historical composition exclusively for this festival.

Another vocal-based work, LUCIANO BERIO'S "Thema (Omaggio a
Joyce)" is known to be one of the classic pieces of early tape music
from the 1950's. Composed in 1958, the piece consists entirely of
tape manipulations of Cathy Berberian reading the opening text
from the "Sirens" chapter of James Joyce's "Ulysses".  The festival
presents this monumental masterpiece as part of the year long
celebration of the 100th anniversary of "Bloomsday" as well as a
remembrance of Berio, who passed away last year.  It is also
a prelude to the "Omaggio a Berio" concert to be presented by the
sfSoundSeries on June 5

Tape music is not as marginal as one might think.  In fact Berio's
"Thema" was a notable influence on THE BEATLES after Paul
McCartney attended a 1966 lecture about the piece.  Even some
"legit" tape music pieces have appeared on pop albums, perhaps
the most famous being the Beatles' "Revolution 9".  Whether you have
either always skipped it over, or played it many times over and over,
now is your chance to hear this famous anomaly from the "White Album"
in surround sound!

But this festival includes much more than classic works! Of the modern
masters, the festival includes a 30 minute composition by LUC FERRARI,
a pioneer of musique concrete and one of the most important and intriguing
figures in electronic music of the last forty years. In addition, the festival
presents works by composer, radio artist and sound ecologist HILDEGARD
WESTERKAMP and acousmatic composer CHRISTIAN CALON.

Featured Bay Area composers include TIM PERKIS, FERNANDO LOPEZ-
LEZCANO, ROBI KAUKER, THE NOODLES (MICHAEL ZELNER+SUKI
O'KANE), THOM BLUM, and CLIFF CARUTHERS.

The Festival also includes composers from around the world, including
works created in Brazil, Canada, England, Italy, Greece, France,
Scotland, and Turkey.

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COMPLETE PROGRAM
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  [ visit http://sfsound.org/tape.html for bios, picts, and other info ]

*** Friday, February 20, 2004, 8:30pm ***

Steve Reich - "It's Gonna Rain" (1965)
Paulina Sundin [Norwich, England, UK] - "Electroclips" (2001)
Christian Calon [Montreal, QB, Canada] - "Vers les oiseaux" (2002)
Vivienne Spiteri [Paris, France] - "anahata" (2003)
Guto Caminhoto [Londrina, Brazil] - "Bandejas" (1997/98)
Erdem Helvacioglu [Istanbul, Turkey]
     - "Wandering around the city" (2003)
Thom Blum [San Francisco, CA] - "Cycle" (2004)
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano [Palo Alto, CA] - "iICEsCcRrEeAaMm" (1998)

*** Saturday, February 21, 2004, 8:30pm***

The Beatles - "Revolution 9" (1968)
Hildegard Westerkamp [Canada] - "Beneath The Forest Floor" (1992)
Helena Gough [Birmingham, England, UK] - "Ananke" (2003)
Panayiotis Kokoras [Katerini, Greece] - "Response" (2001)
Tim Perkis [Albany, CA] - "Transparent" (2002)
The Noodles [Michael Zelner/Suki O'Kane] [Oakland, CA]
  - "Tell Me What To Do" (2000/2004)
Cliff Caruthers [Oakland, CA] - "Natoma" (2003)

*** Sunday, February 22, 2004, 8:30pm***

Luciano Berio [Italy] - "Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)" (1958)
Luc Ferrari [Paris, France]
    - "Petite symphonie intuitive pour un paysage de printemps" (1973)
Adam Bowman [London, England, UK]
    - "At Home (Red Mullet, The Woodcock Of The Sea) (1999)"
Robert Dow [Edinburgh, Scotland, UK] - "Burnt Umber" (2002)
Arne Eigenfeldt [Vancouver, BC, Canada] - "Obsessions Délicates" (2002)
Laurie Radford [Edmonton, AB, Canada] - "les ponts de l'espace I" (2001)
Michael Thompson [Bowling Green, Ohio] "Miniatures" (1998-2000)
Robi Kauker [Albany, CA] - "Vessel" (2003)


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LINKS
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http://sfSound.org/tape.html
    (festival home page)

http://sfSound.org/tape/index.html
    (what is tape music?)

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2002-01-02/billboard.html/1/
index.html     (an article in the east bay express)

http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Computer-Music-Journal/Documents/
reviews/26-3/segel-berkeley.html
     (jonathan segel's review in computer music journal)

http://www.sfbg.com/36/47/x_the_mix.html
http://www.sfbg.com/36/46/x_8days.html
http://www.sfbg.com/AandE/8days.html
   (past bay guardian coverage)



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