The San Francisco Tape Music Center , or SFTMC , was founded in the summer of 1962 by composers Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick as a collaborative, "non profit corporation developed and maintained" by local composers working with tape recorders and other novel compositional technologies, which functioned both as an electronic music studio and concert venue. Composer Pauline Oliveros , artist Tony Martin and technician William Maginnis eventually joined the SFTMC.
11-719: The SFTMC was an active and important hub for experimental music and interdisciplinary art in the Bay Area from 1962 to 1966. Before the SFTMC was officially established, it began as a small music studio built in the attic of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music by Ramon Sender in October 1961. The studio was minimally equipped and housed little else than the conservatory's two-channel Ampex tape recorder, but Sender and fellow Sonics composers creatively explored
22-415: A collaborative live improvisations. The sixth and last concert of the series took place on June 11, 1962. The premiere of Terry Riley's seminal minimalist composition In C was performed at (and organized by) the SFTMC on November 4 and 6, 1964. It was performed by Riley, Steve Reich , Jon Gibson , Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster , Morton Subotnick, Warner Jepson and others, while Tony Martin operated
33-439: A final audition to get to know the faculty, and perform for their chosen major's instructor. Once that is clear, the student is either accepted or denied admission into the conservatory. Some areas of the conservatory are more competitive than others, such as composition [which only admits 8-10 students a year out of hundreds of applicants], and the strings department. The faculty values the applicant's personality and musicianship in
44-739: A touch that adds a milky visual depth ..." As of 2021, the Bowes Center was envisaged to fully open to the public in February 2022. In 2020, SFCM announced a partnership with the talent management company Opus 3 Artists , and in May 2022 it acquired the Dutch classical music label, Pentatone , funded by a private donor. The music website "Classical Voice" described this "combination of a music-education organization with two professional music businesses" as "unusual." In SFCM's audition process, Many of
55-780: The Mills Performing Group, where it eventually became the Mills Tape Music Center. Pauline Oliveros, Tony Martin and William Maginnis collectively served as directors for the new center, which is now the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM). San Francisco Conservatory of Music The San Francisco Conservatory of Music ( SFCM ) is a private music conservatory in San Francisco , California , United States. As of 2024, it had more than 440 students. The San Francisco Conservatory of Music
66-458: The areas needed to enroll feature a "prescreening" round (which consists of essays, video recordings of them playing, transcripts, and for composition majors - portfolio of works), including composition, voice studies, strings, conducting, TAC (technology and applied composition)...etc. A student can be denied or accepted based of the pre-screening results. Once the student is accepted beyond the prescreening round, they are called to San Francisco for
77-553: The light show or "visual environment". The SFTMC members, particularly Morton Subotnick, were instrumental in the creation of the Buchla analog modular synthesizer. Over the course of four years, the SFTMC changed locations twice, first to 1537 Jones Street and then to 321 Divisadero Street , before the Rockefeller Foundation awarded a $ 200,000 grant to Mills College to bring the SFTMC to Mills and merge it with
88-448: The limitations of the studio by using contact microphones to augment their recordings in an experimental manner. The concert series that also paved the way to the creation of the SFTMC, titled Sonics, was organized by Sender and Pauline Oliveros, a fellow composition student of Robert Erickson . The first Sonics concert of December 1961 consisted of original tape compositions by Oliveros, Sender, Terry Riley and Philip Winsor as well as
99-441: The new Bowes Center at 200 Van Ness Avenue (across from Davies Symphony Hall ), a 12-story building that includes dorms (eight floors) with acoustic insulation for 400 of its students, 27 rent-controlled apartments for residents of the older building that was replaced by the construction, and some public performing spaces, including a penthouse concert room with views towards the north and west. The Bowes Center's $ 200 million cost
110-671: Was founded in 1917 by Ada Clement and Lillian Hodghead as the Ada Clement Piano School. In 1923, the name was changed to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In 1956 the Conservatory moved from Sacramento Street to 1201 Ortega Street, the home of a former infant shelter. It resided there for fifty years, before moving to its next location at 50 Oak Street in 2006. In 2020, the SFCM added
121-462: Was largely funded by donors, including $ 46.4 million from the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation. The San Francisco Chronicle's architecture critic John King characterized the building's design as "[pushing] against the strict rules of the historic district but [respecting] the air of gravitas. For starters, the building is skinned in translucent glass that conceals insulation and the structural frame —
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