New music collective sfSound comes to Old First Concerts this week with music by Mathias Spahlinger, a German composer of highly intense modernist music; Brian Ferneyhough; and Ferneyhough students Erik Ulman, an sfSound resident composer; and Matthew Shlomowitz, an Australian composer and student of Ferneyhough who, like his mentor, makes abstract, complexly-patterened music. For all you adventurers out there who like an intellectual challenge, this is the antidote to the easy listening summer pops season you’ve been waiting for.
Michael Zwiebach is the senior editor/content manager for SFCV. He assigns all articles and content, manages the writing staff, and does editing. A member of SFCV from the beginning, Michael holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of California, Berkeley.