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June 14-16, 2012 | The sixth annual soundON FESTIVAL OF MODERN MUSIC The soundON Festival needs your support! San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library join to present the sixth annual soundON Festival of Modern Music, San Diego’s premiere independent exploration of the best in modern masterworks and contemporary music by living composers. Composers from around the world join with nation’s finest experts in contemporary music performance in an inviting and informal setting, allowing the audience ample opportunity to get the know the music and an artists. And the public has the unique opportunity to join with the artists for the Community Workshop to gain first hand experience in the performance of experimental music. This year we feature the extremes of ethereal soundscapes and danceable grooves—the polar opposites of modern music in the U.S. today. Featured composers Evan Johnson, from Massachusetts, and Judd Greenstein from New York. “It takes fearsome intelligence and a worldview that recalls the Renaissance cabinet of curiosities and combines them with a deep sensitivity to musical traditions, techniques and philosophies that are often seen as opposite, even aggressively antagonistic to one another.” —Tim Rutherford-Johnson on Evan Johnson. Featured composer Judd Greenstein champions the emerging post-classical music scene, combining the energy and accessibility of popular music with the virtuosity of chamber music artistry through his label New Amsterdam Records, called “emblematic of an emerging generation” by the New York Times. Our featured guest artist is internationally acclaimed bassist, improviser and composer Mark Dresser, whose innovations in amplified double bass performance are featured on over 20 CDs on all the major contemporary music labels. He will perform solo improvisations and will join San Diego New Music’s ensemble-in-residence NOISE for groovy works by Judd Greenstein and Frederick Rzweski. “Mark Dresser is a giant in the free jazz / new music continuum and has been so for years.” —All About Jazz And the finale of the concert will be Salvatore Sciarrino's haunting portrayal of a 16th-Century Italian mystic, Infinito Nero, starring soprano Stephanie Aston. Performers on soundON 2012: Composers on soundON 2012: The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library All-festival pass: $40 (Athenaeum members), $50 general SCHEDULE Thursday, June 14, 10:00 a.m. Thursday, June 14, 2:00 p.m. Thursday, June 14, 7:30 p.m. pre-concert talk at 7:00 p.m. Evan Johnson, Quintet, camera lucida Friday, June 15, 7:30 p.m. pre-concert talk at 7:00 p.m. Andrew McIntosh, A Secular Calvinist Creed Saturday, June 16, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Community workshop Workshop in extended techniques and the preparation of contemporary music scores. Saturday, June 16, 2:00 p.m. Saturday, June 16, 7:30 p.m. FInal concert pre-concert talk at 7:00 p.m. Judd Greenstein, At the End of a Really Great Day |
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