Rovaté

Rova:Arts in conjunction with the
San Francisco International Arts Festival and Jewish Community Center San Francisco presents

Rovaté 2009: Fissures, Futures (for Buckminster Fuller)

May 22 + 23, 2009, 8PM
Kanbar Hall, JCCSF
3200 California Street
Tickets: 415.292.1233 or jccsf.org
$24 public | $21 JCCSF members | $16 students

Rova Saxophone Quartet returns to Kanbar Hall for another no-sounds-barred evening of improvisatory collaboration. Acclaimed Berlin-based multimedia artist/wunderkind Lillevan, joins international music giants from the field of improvised music to perform Fissures, Futures, a set of pieces dedicated to the visionary genius that was Buckminster Fuller. Live music and digital animation will lock themselves into a continuous feedback loop - with the music influencing the real-time films' creation and the film images inspiring the music. Not to be missed. Both shows will be recorded live for future DVD release.

Why Buckminster Fuller? [Click here for the explanation]

drawing by Buckminster Fuller

For information on a specific collaborator, click on his or her name below:

Lillevan [click here] for digital animation samples from Lillevan's recent DVD release Silence	Charlotte Hug viola	Lisle Ellis bass and circuitry
Joan Jeanrenaud cello	Kjell Nordeson percussion	Carla Kihlstedt violin
Thomas Lehn live-electronic music with analogue synthesizers	Buckminster Fuller architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary.	Bruce Ackley soprano & tenor saxophones
Jon Raskin baritone, alto & sopranino saxophones	Larry Ochs tenor & sopranino saxophones	Steve Adams alto & sopranino saxophones
Rovaté 2009 is sponsored in part by grants from Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Hewlett Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Goethe-Institut, The Swiss Helvetia Fund Inc. and The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.