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A Sounding Out California CONCERT |
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Sounding Out California was a NEXMAP state-wide competition that invited composers from a wide range of musical traditions to submit their music. The result was a first CD launched in 2008, celebrating notions of hybridity in the work of five emergent artists. On May 21st, 2009 NEXMAP proudly presented three of it winners. Their performance was part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival and the Luggage Store's New Music Series. » MORE ON SOUNDING OUT CALIFORNIA
Cheryl E. Leonard / Felix Macnee / Cliff Neighbors
Marielle Jakobsons (aka darwinsbitch)
Kevin Shea Adams / Stian Rasmussen (aka ReRunner)
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| Cheryl E. Leonard | ||
- 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 TimPerkis'sdocumentary 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. |
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| Marielle Jakobsons (aka darwinsbitch) | ||
- 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 receied the Elizabeth Mills Crawford award in Composition, received her MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media |
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| Kevin Shea Adams | ||
| - 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). » Back To Top |
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