Mike Patton to compose as ‘Noise Intoner’

by | Oct 10, 2009

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Mike Patton will be one of the many composers in “Futurism”, an avant-garde series hosted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The composers will perform with “noise intoners”, instruments that produce “noises, explosions, howls, buzzes, hisses — not typically employed in Western music.” Further information is as follows:

Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners
Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St., S.F.
When: 8 p.m. Oct. 16
Tickets: $15 to $20
Contact: (415) 978-2787, www.ybca.org

 

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