San Diego New Music is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which presents the annual soundON Festival of Modern Music
and hosts its ensemble-in-residence, NOISE
Your tax-deductible support to San Diego New Music keeps the soundON Festival and NOISE going strong. Your donations give us the ability to commission young and established composers to collaborate with NOISE and develop exciting new repertoire. Donations may also help with needs such as guest artist fees, tech support for concerts, publicity mailings, and administrative support. If you would like to make your contribution by check, made out to San Diego New Music, please send it to:
San Diego New Music
PMB 316
9700 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-5010
We accept secure on-line donations via Paypal.
Thank you for your generous support!
San Diego New Music
Christopher Adler, Executive Director
Lisa Cella, Artistic Director
Christopher Penney, Secretary/Treasurer
Mission and Vision
MISSION
San Diego New Music is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the public performance of notated music of the highest integrity and artistic caliber from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We seek to advance the art form by promoting music composed with conceptual rigor, passionate energy, and singular artistic vision. SDNM enriches the artistic culture of San Diego through the presentation of the annual soundON Festival of Modern Music, and through the fostering of its resident performing ensemble, NOISE.
NOISE
NOISE is an ensemble of accomplished soloists with a deep commitment to chamber music. NOISE presents concerts that are energetic and engaging as well as intellectually stimulating and technically sophisticated. We believe that music which is sometimes called complex, difficult, or avant-garde is accessible to any audience when performed with passion and conviction. The repertoire of NOISE is focused on three artistic trajectories, their histories, and their intersections:
1. new complexity and threshold performative challenges
2. high-intensity grooves and minimalism
3. imaginative textures and soundscapes
As the ensemble-in-residence of San Diego New Music, NOISE organizes and presents the soundON Festival of Modern Music, conducts residencies upon invitation from academic and performing arts institutions, and records repertoire through collaboration with composers.
Our vision for NOISE is to develop new repertoire through collaboration with an ever widening pool of composers, both established and emerging, through residencies across the United States and internationally, and to professionally record the repertoire of composers to whose work we are particularly committed.
The soundON Festival of Modern Music
With the presentation of the soundON Festival of Modern Music, we strive to bring outstanding repertoire to a diverse audience through a variety of events and formats. Combining roundtable discussions, workshops for non-musicians and students, open rehearsals, and concerts, the Festival provides ample opportunities for our audiences to interact with composers and performers in a variety of settings. The Festival brings together the repertoire of NOISE with works presented by world-class guest artists and works solicited through an annual international call for scores.
Our vision for the festival is to continue to present the highest-caliber of artistic work and to reach out to young artists and audiences through interactive workshops that will build a new generation of new music supporters and artists. We intend to commission composers of international significance and to implement a second annual Festival event on the east coast.
We accept secure on-line donations via Paypal.
NOISE
c/o San Diego New Music
PMB 316
9700 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-5010
(858) 232-3388
sdnm@yahoo.com
musical excerpt:
Illuminaciones, by Juan Campoverde Q.
photos by Supeena Insee Adler