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Thursday, June 9, 2016 • 7:30 p.m.
Composer/improviser Eric Glick Rieman collaborates with both animals and musicians in his wide-ranging pieces.
Thursday, April 14, 2016 • 7:30 p.m.
Oren Ambarchi shares his unique sound-world of fragile and visceral abstraction.
Thursday, February 11, 2016 • 7:30 p.m.
Galindo and his ensemble perform "Resonant Shadows/ Circular Calls" on instruments made from immigrants’ personal belongings found along the border between Mexico and the United States.
Thursday, December 10, 2015 • 7:30 p.m.
Performer and composer A.J. Racy presents music from the Arab world.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 • 7:00 p.m.
French musician Colleen’s atmospheric compositions range from mysterious and contemplative to kinetic and playful. For Resonance, Colleen will perform selections from her new album, Captain of None.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 • 7:00 p.m.
For more than 40 years, the Kronos Quartet—David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to continually re-imagining the string quartet experience.
Thursday, March 12, 2015 • 7:00 p.m.
One of ballet’s most visionary choreographers, Alonzo King, and pioneering natural soundscape artist Bernie Krause, offer a sneak preview of their collaborative work-in-progress, and discuss their shared creative vision.
Thursday, February 12, 2015 • 7:00 p.m.
Percussionist Susie Ibarra draws on polyrhythmic traditions from her Filipino heritage and from cultures across Asia and Africa to create avant-garde compositions evoking narrative, imagery, and the natural rhythms of life.
Thursday, December 11, 2014 • 7:00 p.m.
Baltimore-based musician and composer Dan Deacon hooks listeners with strong melodic lines, immersed in a sea of competing rhythmic structures, distorted sound samples, and synthesized and acoustic textures. Deacon will build his Resonance performance around the Disklavier player-piano, influenced by the work of composer Conlon Nancarrow, who used player-pianos to explore music unplayable by human hands.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 • 7:00 p.m.
The second season of Resonance kicks off with Oakland-based sound-making duo Black Spirituals. Their music is an ecstatic intersection of the tone-generating electronics and guitars of Zachary James Watkins, and the heart-thumping acoustic percussion of Marshall Trammell.
Thursday, June 12, 2014 • 7:00 p.m.
Join us for the fifth event in the series, this time featuring Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, an artist and multi-instrumentalist who works with voice to create spontaneous and ecstatic musical compositions.
Thursday, April 10, 2014 • 7:00 p.m.
Join artist, musician, and composer Jem Finer as he performs "Original Soundtracks #5," which inverts the usual supporting role of the soundtrack, and "Starfield," which is based on the unique spectrum of light frequencies found in every star.
Thursday, February 13, 2014 • 7:00 p.m.
Join video artist Anne McGuire and collagist Wobbly (Jon Leidecker), collectively the Freddy McGuire Show, as they present a performance that's part Hollywood musical, part documentary, part horror film, and part nature study.
Thursday, December 12, 2013 • 7:00 p.m.
Join musician, composer, and jazz innovator Roscoe Mitchell, a founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, as he performs "Angel City" with James Fei on woodwinds and William Winant on percussion.
Thursday, October 10, 2013 • 7:00 p.m.
Join us as we kick off the five-event Resonance series with composer/instrument builder Cheryl E. Leonard performing Selections from Antarctica: Music from the Ice with Phillip Greenlief.