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Some Other Fields: Music for Unaccompanied Cello
Other Minds is proud to present the West Coast premiere of four new works for Unaccompanied Cello, commissioned by cellist Teddy Rankin-Parker.
Rumble Strip - Glenn Kotche
Book of Rounds - Jim O'Rourke
The Geometry of Thinking - Gene Coleman
Some Other Fields - Michael Beharie
Teddy Rankin-Parker is an American cello player based in Oakland CA, who specializes in improvisation and avant-garde music. He performs extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, and works in a wide variety of areas including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro acoustic music, and composition. Teddy is the touring cellist for bands Primus and Iron & Wine, and has performed, toured, and/or recorded with dozens of artists, including Glen Hansard, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Eighth Blackbird, Ensemble N_JP, the Chicago Sinfonietta, Joffrey Ballet, Chicago Folks Operetta, Opera Cabal, Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, Magik Magik Orchestra, and Nicole Mitchells Black Earth Ensemble. His current project, titled Some Other Fields, consists of commissioning, recording, and performing new works for the unaccompanied cello by Jim ORourke, Glenn Kotche, Richard Reed Parry, Gene Coleman, and Michael Beharie: release date(s) TBA in 2016/17. For more information, visit his website at http://www.teddyrp.com/
Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and director. He is the recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2013 Berlin Prize in Music Composition from The American Academy in Berlin. Since 2001 his work has focused on global culture and music's relationship with architecture, video and dance. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with experimental filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Ernie Gehr, and Robert Snyder for music. He was the William Penn Foundation composer in residence at the American Academy in Rome (Fall 2011) and has been composer in residence at Shofuso House (Philadelphia 2009), Westwerk (Hamburg, 2007), Taipei Artists Village (Fall 2007), Irtijal Festival (Beirut, 2005), Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin (2003-2004), Takefu Music Festival (Japan, 2002) and in Tokyo (2001 Japan-US Fellowship). Over the years he has collaborated with a wide range of musicians and composers; from Jim O'Rourke and Otomo Yoshihide to Helmut Lachenmann and George Crumb. Many groups have commissioned his music and film work and presented it around the world, including Ensemble N_JP, Klangforum Wien, The Japan Society New York, Trio Accanto and The Ernst von Siemens Foundation, Chamber Music America, Network for New Music, The Graham Foundation, I-House Philadelphia, Tom Buckner, Phace Ensemble, The Museum of Modern Art, The Crossing, Maerzmusik Festival, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Voxnova Italia and others. His most recent work "In the Midst of Things" is a collaboration with the celebrated artists Allora and Calzadilla and is performed over 150 times in the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Jim O'Rourke is an American musician and record producer. He has released albums of jazz, noise, electronica and rock music. O'Rourke has collaborated with Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Derek Bailey, Christian Wolff, Phill Niblock, Mats Gustafsson, Mayo Thompson, Brigitte Fontaine, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Merzbow, Nurse with Wound, Fennesz, Organum, Phew, Henry Kaiser, Flying Saucer Attack, and in 2006 mixed Joanna Newsom's album Ys. In 2009, he also mixed several tracks on Newsom's follow up Have One On Me. O'Rourke has produced albums by artists such as Sonic Youth, Wilco, Stereolab, Superchunk, Kahimi Karie, Quruli, John Fahey, Smog, Faust, Tony Conrad, The Red Krayola, Bobby Conn, Beth Orton, and U.S. Maple. He mixed Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album and produced their 2004 album, A Ghost Is Born, for which he won a Grammy Award for "Best Alternative Album". He has scored films by Werner Herzog, Olivier Assayas, Shinji Aoyama, Koji Wakamatsu and others. His own short films have been part of the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennial and the 2005 Rotterdam Film Festival. His recording of Toru Takemitsus Corona for pianists Tokyo Realization was awarded Japans Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival Award for Excellence in 2006.
Since 2001, Glenn Kotche has been the rhythmic anchor in Wilco, one of the most beloved rock bands on the planet. His first studio outing with the Chicago- based band was the breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and has continued over the course of five albums, including the Grammy-winning A Ghost Is Born and the critically acclaimed The Whole Love. He has appeared on over 80 recordings by artists as diverse as Andrew Bird, Edith Frost, Neil Finn and Radiohead's Phil Selway, and hes a founding member of two other bands Loose Fur, with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and longtime collaborator Jim ORourke, and On Fillmore, with upright bassist Darin Gray. He has also written music for classical and post-classical ensembles like Kronos Quartet, the Silk Road Ensemble, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, So Percussion, eighth blackbird and many more.
Michael Beharie is a producer and guitarist based in NYC. His latest efforts include Lace EP (Astro Nautico, 2015) and a score for Rashaun Mitchells evening length dance Light Years. Michael also plays in Tezeo (Dummy Records, Shinkoyo Records) and produces music for artists including Diamond Terrifier, Alexis Penney and Bunny Michael. He has made film scores for Laura Checkoways Lucky and Ben Greenes Survival Prayer. Michael has performed at venues including Issue Project Room, Le Poison Rouge, 285 Kent, The Stone, Zebulon, Bowery Ballroom, Matadero (Madrid) and Cafe De La Danse (Paris) among others.
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LocationSwedenborgian Church (View)
2107 Lyon Street (near Jackson Street)
San Francisco, CA 94115
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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