some new writing on some new music
My latest missive on the musical goings on about town here in San Francisco is up at New Music Box, with the wonderful and guffaw-inspiring headline "Are We Not Men? We Are Po-Min" (thanks Randy). And a review of the recent Paul Taylor performance at Yerba Buena Center is due to go up on their site next week.
Also, I've got some reviews, and a feature on John Bischoff in the new e/i Magazine (in paper), due out next month. The CD's I got to hear for this edition of e/i were actually all pretty amazing, especially new works by Berlin-based rm74 and Washington's Doublends Vert. rm74 just screams Berlin, with its "messy mud-wrestling ring of sound." And Doublends Vert's CD Cistern is a serious exercise in site-specific recording, the music, by an acoustic ensemble, was all recorded in a two million gallon underground reservoir in Fort Worden, a de-commissioned military base overlooking the entrance to the Puget Sound. Whoever thinks contemporary music is a bore just isn't listening to the right stuff.
Comments
Post-minimal? How lovely. Thanks for the review.
Posted by: Siona | April 14, 2006 3:53 PM
i'm always happy to work for the common good. ;) sorry i missed you at boca a few weeks ago, we ended up not going because there was a mix-up about the tickets at the door, and the difficulty of communicating with the seemingly developmentally disabled doorperson was just more than we could handle...
Posted by: roddy | April 15, 2006 2:00 PM
The show was great, and I'd say that it's too bad that you missed it, but in truth it sounds as though you're doing quite well as far as taking advantage of SF music-related nightlife is concerned. I was planning on going to - and asking whether you were interested - the Rx Gallery last night, but ended up in Half Moon Bay instead. But no matter. I'm sure we'll bump into each other one of these days.
Posted by: Siona | April 16, 2006 1:11 PM
doublends vert rocks.
Posted by: Anonymous | April 30, 2006 2:41 PM