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Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard Street, San Francisco
8:00 p.m.
New compositions by Mike Patton, Text of Light, Blixa Bargeld, Carla Kilstedt and Mattias Bossi, Elliott Sharp, Ulrich Krieger, Ellen Fullman, James Fei, Luciano Chessa, John Butcher and Gino Robair, Pablo Ortiz, Theresa Wong, and the sfSoundGroup.
Performances by the ensemble players from Magik*Magik Orchestra and others.
Futurist sound artist Luigi Russolo constructed special hand-cranked instruments to realize an expanded field of orchestral sound. Called intonarumori (noise intoners), these instruments could produce noises — explosions, howls, buzzes, hisses — not usually employed in Western music. Luciano Chessa, a Bay Area-based composer and Russolo scholar, has overseen the recreation of 16 intonarumori and has curated this concert of original and newly commissioned scores.
