Guitarist GIACOMO FIORE presents a pair of just intonation works: CATHERINE LAMB'S point/wave (2015) and LARRY POLANSKY'S freeHorn (2004). Both pieces harness electronics to generate novel harmonic spaces for the guitar to inhabit and ornament, weaving cyclical arc-like patterns in Lamb, and freely following a progression between related harmonic series in Polansky.
SFSOUNDGROUP performs two iconic 20th century works of chamber music: GÉRARD GRISEY'S bracing Talea(1986) and the premiere of a transcription of BRUNO MADERNA'S rarely performed, beguiling Serenata N.2(1956).
P R O G R A M
LARRY POLANSKY (b. 1954) - freeHorn (2004) for electric guitar and electronics
BRUNO MADERNA (b. 1920) - Serenata N.2 (1956) arranged for quintet
GÉRARD GRISEY (b. 1946) - Talea (1986) for quintet
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CATHERINE LAMB (b. 1982) - point/wave (2015) for steel string guitar and electronics
Italian-born guitarist and musicologist GIACOMO FIORE has premiered more than two dozen new works for justly-tuned, electric, and classical guitars, and released several recordings for Populist, Cold Blue, Pinna, Spectropol, Paper Garden Records, and his own impressum. As a scholar his research focuses on U.S. experimental music, intonation, and performance; he has published articles in Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of the Society for the American Music, and TEMPO, and writes occasionally for Classical Guitar and SFCV. He teaches a wide range of historical and practical music courses at the University of San Francisco and UC Santa Cruz.
The "house band" for the Mosswood Sound Series, SFSOUNDGROUP is a unique collection of performer-composers that have presented their own compositions, improvisations, new commissions, electronic music, and standard avant-garde repertoire for over two decades. With a mix of works from the European, American, and contemporary Californian avant-garde, their concerts explore the continuum between notated composition and free improvisation, often sounding more “electronic” than “acoustic.”
Musicians performing on this program are:
Sam Weiser, violin
Monica Scott, cello
Hadley McCarroll, piano
Matt Ingalls, clarinet
Diane Grubbe, flute