On Tuesday, September 30th at 11am, Sparkle Motion welcomes back composer and Other Minds programmer, Joseph Bohigian, to preview and discuss this year’s Other Minds Festival 29 taking place at the San Francisco Brava Theater on October 16th – 19th.
The Festival opens with a performance by the composer/performer/media artist Pamela Z. She will present Simultaneous, an intermedia composition for voice, electronic processing, chamber ensemble, speech samples, gesture control, and projected video.
Opening night will also feature American composer Peter Garland‘s Songs of Exile and Wine, performed by vocalist Maria Tegzes and pianist Geoffrey Burleson, a beguiling song cycle with texts by multiple authors written in 2000 while the composer was living in Tlacotalpan, Mexico.
On Night 2, composer Samuel Adams will present a set of solo and chamber pieces performed by Friction Quartet, violinist Helen Kim, percussionist Haruka Fujii, and pianists Conor Hanick and Sarah Cahill.
Night 3 opens with the world premiere of a new choreographed work by Nancy Karp set to composer James Tenney‘s 1975 piece Three Pieces for Drum Quartet. Norwegian composer Kristine Tjøgersen will present Piano Piece, a work for piano, electronics, and live camera using recordings of a spruce forest on the south coast of Norway performed by pianist Ellen Ugelvik and visual artist Evelina Dembacke. To close the evening, composer/harpist Zeena Parkins and percussionist William Winant will perform Parkins’ Modesty of the Magic Thing.
At the final concert of Other Minds 29, Putu Septa, leader of the ensemble Nata Swara, will perform an intercultural set of music for gamelan instruments and piano with fellow Balinese musician I Kadek Janurangga and ZOFO, the Bay Area piano duo of Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi.
