MAY 31 2026 7:15pm
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(FREE for students and financially challenged)
WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES' house new music ensemble, sfSoundGroup, presents a program traversing over 100 years of the avant-garde. The evening is anchored by ERIK SATIE'S minimalistic CINEMA (1926), performed live to RENÉ CLAIR’S landmark silent short Dada film, Entr’acte.
The concert features a trio of works by LARRY POLANSKY (1954 - 2024) that showcase his unique formal processes. The World’s Longest Melody employs a generative "morphing" technique to weave a single, continuous thread of sound through ever-shifting musical terrain. Approaching the Azimuth..., a short solo clarinet work written for Matt Ingalls, is a computer generated form with various distributions of the instrument's natural harmonics. freeHorn concludes the set with shimmering, resonant textures that invite an ensemble of improvisers to explore the natural physics of the harmonic series.
TOM DAMBLY premieres La trompette concrète 2, a new work for trumpet and multichannel electronics while MATT INGALLS reimagines the very first work written for the group, Fences(2001), a hybrid score of graphical and traditional notation with a heavy dose of improvisation.
PROGRAM
Erik Satie - CINEMA (1926)
with René Clair’s silent Dada short film, Entr’acte (1924)
Larry Polansky - The World’s Longest Melody (1993)
Larry Polansky - Approaching the Azimuth... (1998)
Larry Polansky - freeHorn (2004)
Tom Dambly - La trompette concrète 2 (2026)
Matt Ingalls - Fences (2001/2026)
MUSICIANS
Diane Grubbe, flute
Matt Ingalls, clarinet
John Ingle, saxophone
Tom Dambly, trumpet
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone
Giacomo Fiore, guitar
Hadley McCarroll, piano
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Monica Scott, cello
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass