America's only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival features four distinct concerts of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 46 local and international composers. Hear members of the SF Tape Music Collective, along with guest composers, shape the sound live over a pristine surround system (24 high-end loudspeakers) with the audience seated in complete darkness. It's a unique opportunity to experience music forming - literally - around you.
The 2023 Festival remembers composers VANGELIS (1943-2022) and ENNIO MORRICONE (1928-2020), KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (1933-2020), ALVIN LUCIER (1931-2021), and JON APPLETON (1939-2022).
Contemporary and classic “fixed media” compositions by international composers will also be featured. Works byGYÖRGY LIGETI, ROBERT FRIPP, FRANCIS DHOMONT, JOSEPH ANDERSON, PANAYIOTIS KOKORAS,ANDREW LEWIS, LEAH REID, FULYA UÇANOK, JOHN YOUNG, the CECIA TEAM, and many others will be projected live through the loudspeaker array.
Bay area artists T.D. SKATCHIT [TOM NUNN (1946-2022) / DAVID MICHALAK], THOM BLUM, JAEHOON CHOI,NATHAN CORDER, MATT INGALLS, JON LEIDECKER, CHERYL E LEONARD, DOUGLAS MCCAUSLAND, KATIE MCCUTCHEON, KRISTIN MILTNER, MAGGI PAYNE, SOUTHEAST OF RAIN, SUDHU TEWARI, and MICHAEL ZELNER will also be presenting their works.
Saturday's 9:30pm concert features late-night-appropriate works that lean towards ambient and long-form-exploration.
$10 balcony (underemployed et al.)
$50 fest pass (general seating all concerts)