Here’s the map for the performances at the 2014 Garden of Memory!
There will be a food truck stationed outside the main entrance plaza on Piedmont Ave to tide you over during the event. No food or drink is allowed inside the building, however. )Although you should feel free to bring a water bottle as it does get crowded inside, and water fountains are few and far between.) Ebbetts Good to Go
For the most part, there are no schedules at all. Occasionally you will find a posted schedule up by the entrance to a room. Most of the performers, scattered through the building, will be performing for the entire four hours. However, they will be taking breaks – so if you stumble on a silent room filled with incomprehensible instruments, cords, an empty chair – please try to retrace your steps later to come back when that room will be swelling with sounds.
There are a few chapels which do have schedules: the large chapels on the main floor – The Chimes Chapel and the Julia Morgan Chapel. In addition, Effulgence on the top floor corner, the outdoors Pacific Plaza on the upper level, and a few other rooms shared by multiple performers. We will update the schedules as we learn them. (For the pieces these groups will be playing – please refer to our Performers Program Notes Page.)
The Chimes Chapel:
5-5:20 – William Winant Percussion Group: music by John Cage
5:25-6:05 – Left Coast Chamber Ensemble: music by Laurie San Martin
6:10-6:35 Kitka: music by Eric Banks
6:40-7:05- Del SolString Quartet: music by Peter Sculthorpe with Stephen Kent
7:05 to 7:20- Sarah Cahill: music by Mamoru Fujieda
7:25-7:50- Kitka: music by Eric Banks
7:55 to 8:05- Sarah Cahill: music by Mamoru Fujieda
8:10 to 8:35 -Del Sol String Quartet: music by Peter Sculthorpe with Stephen Kent
8:35 to 9- Kitka: music by Eric Banks
Effulgence
5-6:30 Del Sol String Quartet
6:45-7:15 Willie Winant Percussion Ensemble
7:20-8:00 Del Sol String Quartet
8:15-8:30 Willie Winant Percussion Ensemble
Julia Morgan Chapel
Carl Stone
Amy X Neuburg
Paul Dresher & Joel Davel
Pacific Plaza
5-6 Orchestra Nostalgico
6-7 Dan Plonsey and Friends
7-8 Orchestra Nostalgico
8-9 Dan Plonsey and Friends
Garden_2013_program_PRESS – A downloadable pdf of the program with a map showing the performers. Takes some skill to follow. But this is one place you want to get lost!
Here are some of the schedules we know:
Chimes Chapel
5 to 5:20- William Winant Percussion Group
5:30 to 6- Elements Trio
6:05 to 6:25- Sarah Cahill
6:30 to 6:50- Del Sol Quartet and Stephen Kent
7 to 7:20- William Winant Percussion Group
7:25 to 8:10- Elements Trio
8:15 to 8:35- Sarah Cahill
8:40 to 9 pm– Del Sol Quartet and Stephen Kent
Effulgence
5-6 Del Sol Quartet
7:15-8:15 Del Sol Quartet
8:15-9pm – Wild Rumpus New Music Collective
Benevolence West
Ben Tinker 5:00PM – 6:00PM
Silvia Matheus 6:30PM – 7:30PM
Ben Tinker 7:30PM – 8:30PM
Silvia & Ben 8-30PM – 9-00PM
Here is some information about what some of the artists have planned:
Monique Buzzarté Sarah Cahill The Cardew Choir Del Sol Quartet Guillermo Galindo, Surabhi Saraf & Lisa Sangita Moskow Wayne Grim Henry Kaiser Juraj Kojs The Living Earth Show Maggi Payne Tim Phillips Sabbaticus Rex Santomieri-Farhadian Duo Jason Victor Serinus Benjamin Tinker The Willam Winant Percussion Group
Monique Buzzarté, trombonist/composer, is an avid proponent of contemporary music who commissions and premieres many new works for trombone alone and with electronics in addition to creating her own compositions. She loves the Garden of Memory summer solstice concert because of the opportunity a diverse audience has to sample a smorgasbord of new music possibilities. This year she’ll be performing a series of pieces inspired by inner and outer soundscapes. More info at www.buzzarte.org
Photo by Daniel Fries
Sarah Cahill will be playing in the Chimes Chapel:
The US premiere of “Patterns of Plants Collection 23 Pattern B” by Mamoru Fujieda
Benjamin Tinker plays an old modular analog synth, an Arp 2600, with a tape delay system, footprint is about 4x3feet. “I often enjoy working with acoustic musicians, taking their signal and processing it live. Violinist Christina Stanley and saxophonist Joshua Marshall agreed to each do duo sets with me, so I was thinking playing some solo synth, and then one of the soloists would join me, and then the other, with some possible more solo synth improv sets between & after.”
Some examples
Solo:
http://soundcloud.com/that-hideous-strength/lullaby-for-human-hurricanes
With Christina:
http://soundcloud.com/that-
http://soundcloud.com/that-
Jason Victor Serinus: Surprise! I will be whistling at the Chapel of the Chimes.
Music critic Jason Victor Serinus, “The Voice of Woodstock” in an Emmy-nominated Peanuts cartoon, brushes off his lips one more time for two sets in the chapel. He promises this year that he’ll do some of the pieces that earned him the title, “The Pavarotti of Pucker.” Dying to know more? See http://www.jasonserinus.com
Thea Farhadian: violin
Dean Santomieri: guitars and spoken word.
Santomeri-Farhadian Duo is an avant-garde chamber music group, whose structured and free improvisations for violin and guitar draw from the vocabulary of contemporary classical music, with influences from their collective backgrounds in rock, classical, and Middle Eastern musics. Duo and solo performances in the Chapel of Meditation.
Sound samples:
https://soundcloud.com/
Henry Kaiser will be playing solo guitar free improvisations.
Maggi Payne invites visitors to play a suped up Theremin interfaced to four devices: a Morpheus digital synthesizer and Aries analog synthesizer which produce sounds controlled by the Theremin, an IVL Pitchrider that converts pitches from the Theremin into MIDI note information for the Morpheus, and an M-Audio Trigger Finger, which enables players to change the sounds produced by the Morpheus.
You’ll be able to play a synthesized drum kit, vibes, piano, swirling and space sounds, etc. and the analog synth by moving your hand in the air towards and away from the vertical antenna on the right side of the Theremin, and to change the filter settings of the analog synth by moving your hand towards and away from the horizontal antenna on the left side of the Theremin.
Change the sounds by pressing prog/banks on the M-Audio Trigger Finger, then one of the 16 pads. Repeat to change to another sound.
The Cornelius Cardew Choir will offer a 4-hour version of The Heart Chant (2001) by Pauline Oliveros © 2001 Deep Listening Publications; performed by the choir and willing audience members. We invite you to join our performance of The Heart Chant. Once we have begun singing, you are welcome to find a place in our circle and intone the syllable “ah” in length-of-breath notes that resonate your heart and those of the person to your left in the circle. We’ll have choir members nearby (and straightforward printed directions) to help you enter and leave the circle as you wish. (No one of us sings for four hours!) For more information about the choir, please visit our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/
Photo by Michael Zelner June 21, 2012
Juraj Kojs: Slovakia is a set that combines Slovakian folk instruments and experimental live electronica. Dramatic rituals and powerful music will transport you to the mysterious world filled with ancient calls and voices.
is a composer, performer and multimedia artist from Slovakia who specializes on creating and performing experimental interactive music with conventional concert instruments, folk instruments, everyday objects and computer. Kojs has performed at festivals and conferences in Europe, the US and Latin America. Miami New Times described his muscle powered multimedia Neraissance as “striking and unforgettable.” www.kojs.net
“We will be showcasing 4 very large and curious instruments that physically embody the sounds they are creating; exploring a range of timbres and mechanisms. We’ll have the CHAPEL Bubble Organ and the CHIME Forest, bringing water and electricity together for your excitement. We’ll also have the calming, hypnotic Sound Swing, coupled with the unnerving and risky Stringtotter. Water, air, motors, glass, teeter totters, swings and golf balls should be enough to keep you entertained as we improvise with them to explore the unique soundscape of the Mausoleum. Find us downstairs by the Funeral Home Entrance in Integrity West. Musicians include: Tim Phillips, Claire Phillips, Dan Harrison, Nao Nakazawa & Sam Hernandez.
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The San Francisco based Del Sol String Quartet, two-time winner of the top Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, is breaking the boundaries of classical music in riveting performances of new music with a global pulse.
We will be hopping back and forth between two locations. Programs will include sneak peak at our next two CDs, as we will be busy recording these works immediately following the summer solstice.Looking forward to seeing you!
The Living Earth Show
Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze!
A meditation over Chapter 94
of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
By Luciano Chessa
For amplified quarter tone vibraphone and
quarter tone guitar
Written for and Dedicated to
The Living Earth Show in A.D. 2012
The William Winant Percussion Group will be playing a newly commissioned piece from the “Thingamajigs Festival” featuring instruments from the Lou Harrison Instrument Collection by Scott Siler, as well as a new piece for 4 Glockenspiels by Daniel Steffey.
Sabbaticus Rex
“Opening gateways of timelessness where thought can take a breather. Encouraging our instruments to commune together. We are really happy to contribute to this year’s Garden of Memory Summer Solstice event!”
Karen Stackpole: gongs
Cornelius Shinzen Boots: Taimu shakuhachi
Mark Deutsch: Bazantar
sabbaticusrex.com