<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2014</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; "><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">Friday January 3, 2014 (8pm)</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">Saturday January 4, 2014 (two performances of same program: 7pm & 9:30pm)</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">Sunday January 5, 2014 (7pm) </font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; "><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">Z Below Theater</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">470 Florida</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">San Francisco</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; "><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">$15 [$8 underemployed] each night</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">$35 festival pass</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">To purchase advance tickets: </span></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/930218">https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/930218</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">“Cinema for your ears.”</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> -- </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">SF Weekly</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">“…literally surrounded by sound.”</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> -- </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">San Francisco Chronicle</span></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; "><div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">“Tape Capsule” -- The New York Times </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">America's only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, <b>The San Francisco Tape Music Festival</b> features three distinct programs of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 20 local and international composers. Hear members of the SF Tape Music Collective, along with guest composers, shape the sound live over a pristine surround system consisting of 24 high-end loudspeakers while the audience is seated in <i>complete darkness</i>. It's a unique opportunity to experience music forming - literally - around you. </font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; "><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">The 2014 Festival features classic works by François Bayle, Willem de Ridder with The Hafler Trio, Denis Smalley, Hildegard Westerkamp, and Iannis Xenakis. Other highlights include a recorded invocation from sound pioneer Alexander Graham Bell, <i><b>Melodica</b></i>, a rarely-heard tape-loop piece by Steve Reich from 1966, and a presentation of <b>The Sounds of Earth</b>, collaborative sound collage from Voyager's Golden Record, now traveling through interstellar space.</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; "><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman">In addition there will be pieces by international and local composers, including Jacob Felix Heule, Aaron Oppenheim, Maggi Payne, and Bruno Ruviaro, and a variety of premieres and established pieces by members of the San Francisco Tape Music Collective, Matt Ingalls, Cliff Caruthers, Thom Blum, and Joseph Anderson.</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; "><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; "><font face="Times New Roman">Visit our website for specific programs for each night.</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://sfsound.org/tape/">http://sfsound.org/tape/</a></font></div></body></html>