Other Minds Festival 27

Composers from five countries convened for the 27th Other Minds Festival, an international annual showcase for composers held at San Francisco’s Taube Atrium Theater November 15-18, 2023 and at Gray Area on November 14 and 19, 2023.

• Premiere of Subotnick: Portrait of an Electronic Music Pioneer, an official bio-documentary on revered avant-garde music composer Morton Subotnick directed by Robert Fantinatto.
• Swedish sound artist and composer Ellen Arkbro
• Improvised set by the American pianist and composer Craig Taborn
• Morton Subotnick performed As I Live & Breathe, video artist Lillevan
• Canadian-American composer Linda Bouchard
• Mary Kouyoumdjian’s They Will Take My Island, a string octet
• American premieres by leading Armenian composer and pianist Artur Avanesov performed by the composer with Recenia Quartet
• Works by American composer Carl Stone by Sarah Cahill, Paul Dresher, Ned Rothenberg, and Artur Avanesov
• Norwegian composer and polymath Eivind Buene
• Bora Yoon performed a multimedia set for live electronics, voice, and violin with visual collaborator Joshue Ott
• Neil Rolnick presented his monumental Lockdown Fantasies, a work for piano and electronics performed by Geoffrey Burleson
• Carl Stone‘s Re:gendo, live computer-based electronics with sounds distributed throughout the space with Akaihirume, Japanese singer as part of the performance

COMING UP:
April 8, 2024: Neil Rolnick – Lockdown Fantasies, a major work, in 5 movements, extending over 40 minutes. It chronicles the variety of my emotional states through the first couple of years of the pandemic: the fear and isolation we all felt, as well as some self discovery and new connections. One of the featured performances on Other Mind’s Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/914612679