San Francisco Contemporary Music Players closes out its 2021-2022 season with in the LABORATORY series “Synergy and Synthesis,” a program featuring SFCMP’s Artistic Director (and tenor) Eric Dudley, percussionist William Winant, oboist Kyle Bruckmann ad violinist Hrabba Altadottir. The program will be presented in two concerts on Sunday, May 22nd (2:30 and 4:00 PM) in the Joe Henderson Lab at SFJazz (201 Franklin street, San Francisco).
SFCMP’s final program of the regular season features three of our players as solo artists, tying together several strands of the season’s programming with synergistic works based on poetry, electro-acoustic interplay, and loop structures in time. Lou Harrison’s Solo to Anthony Cirone presents a beautiful sound-world emerging from just-tuned tenor bells, while Steed Cowart’s duo for percussion and voice presents another Bay Area composer’s treatment of text fragments extracted from Shakespeare sonnets. In Separación, Orlando Jacinto Garcìa uses drones and electronic refractions of pre-recorded English horn sound to alter our perception of sonic events and sound sources. And to round out our celebration of Steve Reich’s 85th birthday season, Hrabba Atladottir performs the Violin Phase, one of Reich’s earliest essays in the phasing technique, playing upon musical patterns heard in and out of phase with each other to alter our perceptions of the patterns themselves, simultaneity, and structured time.
Tickets for Synergy & Synthesis are $15 for in-person attendance or $5 for video access (available for viewing 4-5 days after the live concert in an edited format for a 7-day period). SF Contemporary Music Members have free access to in-person attendance and digital streaming.