New-Thaan - Bob Becker

New-Thaan is composed by Bob Becker for solo snare drum. The composition demonstrates Becker’s understanding and appreciation for the drumming styles of India. The performer plays through progressively intricate rhythmic ideas all set to the 16 beat cycle which is shown by the lehara (melodic accompaniment) and finger cymbals.

Nayoung Jung - Keyboard and Finger Cymbals

Mills College Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall

Music for Three Bongos - Steed Cowart

I. Brisk

II. Dirge

III. Son Cubano (with a nod to James Tenney)

Mills CollegePercussion Group

Mills College Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall

Shadow Box - Dirt and Copper w/ Laura Steenberge

Dirt and Copper presents new works in collaboration with Laura Steenberge, joined by artist Rebeca Bollinger, and performing amidst Dana Hemenway’s work in progress, The Color of Horizons. Program: The performance sparks sonic and visual action between players as they navigate among Hemenway’s installation. New works by Laura Steenberge, Matt Robidoux, Julie Herndon, and Tony Gennaro are interwoven with Bollinger and Hemenway’s live visuals, activating space and shadows.

The performance space is Hemenway's temporary studio at Space 124 in Project Artaud, which is being used to make a large scale artwork that will be installed in SFO's Terminal 1 in March. Dirt and Copper, Steenberge, and Bollinger create a performance alongside, enmeshed within, and responding to Hemenway’s in-progress work.

Project Artaud, Space 124

Tree No. 2 - John Ivers

In collaboration with María Elena González for her current exhibition Tree Talk, María Elena González invited composers John Ivers and Marc Zollinger to premier original scores generated from her birch tree rubbings. Ivers and Zollinger translate the visual, gestural, and topographic data found in the markings of birch tree bark into musical notation to be performed by their ensembles inside the museum. Each re-composition approaches the visual material in a variety of ways from strict graphical interpretations to differing conceptions of growth-time as the ensembles traverse open and diverse notations. Program Note: Tree #2 is split into four movements, each representing a season in the tree’s life-cycle and a unique approach to interpreting María Elena’s rubbings and generated piano roll data. In the opening movement (spring), the ensemble traverses the highest and youngest section of the tree. Invocations of wind and instability are voiced in tandem with youthful melodies derived from the tree rubbings. Movement two (summer) is highly energetic as performers branch into individual and idiomatic conversation with the tree. Movement three (fall) explores the more static, harmonic, and somber aspects of the tree as it extends from canopy to trunk. Finally, movement four (winter) synthesizes the fragile and piercing nature of ice with contours derived from the piano roll. The ensemble dramatically reestablishes itself before navigating into individual territory as the bark transitions into roots.

Dirt and Copper

Mills College Art Museum

Murmuration - Sarah Belle Reid

Murmuration is a multimedia performance inspired by string theory and the idea that every component of the universe is at once infinitely small, infinitely large, and infinitely complex. The piece takes place in a responsive environment in which performance data is collected in real time and used as a set of dynamic controls for the live electronics and video projection.

Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theatre