On December 19, 2021, and as part of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players 2021-22 season’s in the COMMUNITY offerings, SFCMP presented works hailing from UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies.
Synthetic Body-reality an online digital art exhibition presented by MEET Digital Culture Center and Fondazione CARIPLO (MILAN) runs from February 25, 2021 to March 25, 2021, and features the virtual installation Alice Inside - 2021 (link to exhibition) by Artist and CNMAT affiliate, Claudia Hart, with music by CNMAT Director, Edmund Campion. Curated by Julie Walsh, a Chicago-bas
From Tom Buckner:
Dear Friends,
It is my great pleasure to announce the release today on Chant Records of a new recording of duo improvisations, Voicescapes, by the wonderful Danish singer Randi Pontoppidan and myself. Recorded on the beautiful island of Møn, Denmark in 2018 with no preconceived musical material, no overdubs and no sound sources other than voices, Voicescapes documents the spontaneous music of two kindred souls.
Sincerely, Tom
RANDI PONTOPPIDAN & THOMAS BUCKNER
VOICESCAPES
DIGI, CD, VINYL Chant Records CR2101RA
Discovering and Composing with Logos
by John Campion
Text insists on bringing its high-mindedness into the daily grind of the social, political, topological—
the conscious. Divested of its music and image, poetry is an exploration of the logos oriented towards
the whatness of things—held by the four-corned architecture and holding a mirror to a lived-in world.
Often understood to be without logos and operating outside these rude concerns, the art of music is
