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A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Matthew Goodheart explores a variety of contemporary music forms. His broad foundation, technical innovations, and sensitivity have allowed him to develop a solid reputation as both a solo performer, collaborative artist, and composer. He has toured extensively in the US , Canada, and Europe, has released several recordings under his own name, and appears as a collaborator on several others.

Sunday, Jul 25 2010 8:00 PM

Two sets of improvised music, this Sunday!

Ackley-Goodheart-Powell Trio

Bruce Ackley - sax
Matthew Goodheart - piano
Garth Powell - percussion

a flexible trio of strangely folded jazz-like noises

plus a debut performance:

DOPASO

Tara Flandreau - Violin, Viola
Myles Boisen - Guitars, Banjo
Scott Walton - Double Bass
Garth Powell - Drums, Percussion

eclectic sound with eclectic instruments

Community Music Center
544 Capp Street, btwn 20th and 21st
SF

Sliding Scale $5 - 10

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Spark Festival, 2010
September 29 - October 2

. . . silence of things secret . . .

installation for computer controlled gongs and cymbals
see this page for past versions of the installation

See the Spark Festival website for more info
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

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November 15
Songlines symposia on sound, nature, technology, and performance

Lecture/demonstration on computer controlled cymbals and gongs.

Songlines Symposia
Ensemble Room, Music Dept.
Mills College
Oakland, CA
Free

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NEW CD RELEASES:

TENRI/LIVE - live solo piano performance from Köln, Germany in June of 2009. This is the first release on my new web-based label evolving door music. Available trhough CDBaby., iTunes, Rhapsody, and many others.v

SIX - selections from six years of solo piano performances throught the US, Europe, and Turkey now available from Evander Music, as well as digital downloads coming soon.

QUODLIBET - The long awaited "jazz disc" from Zen Widow is now available at CDBaby. Digital downlaods are available on iTunes, emusic, Rhapsody, and others.

SONGS FROM THE TIME OF GREAT QUESTIONING - this album of live solo piano music from 1997 is now available in digital form at CDBaby, iTunes, emusic, Rhapsody, and others.

PUBLICATIONS:

Spectral World Musics - the proceedings from the Istanbul Spectral Music Conference, comes with a 2 disc set, with music and essays by Matthew Goodheart, Iancu Dumitrescu, Anna Marie Avram, Pieter Snapper, Kani Karaca, Curtis Rhodes, Eve McPherson, and many others. Available here and here.a

 

You can also check out my new blog over at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, which documents my research into transducer activated metal percussion instruments. Click here for my essay Lachenmann at Mills published in the March and April issues of the Transbay Music Calendar.Click here listen to the recent interview on "From the Banks of the Mainstream" with Jaqueline Sue