Other Minds Festival 29

Thursday–Sunday, October 16–19, 2025

Thursday–Saturday, Panels at 7pm, Concerts at 8pm

Sunday, Panel at 3pm, Concert at 4pm

Thursday–Saturday, Installation in the Dance Studio from 430pm

A panoply of composers will assemble for the 29th Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, an international annual showcase for composers held at the Brava Theater Thursday–Sunday, October 16–19, 2025. Join us for multi-generational musical connections, multimedia masterpieces, and contrasting takes on the fusion of gamelan and American musical traditions.

The festival opens with a performance by composer/performer/media artist Pamela Z of her Simultaneous, an intermedia composition for voice, electronic processing, chamber ensemble, speech samples, gesture control, and projected video, and Peter Garland’s Songs of Exile and Wine, a beguiling song written while the composer was living in self-imposed exile in Tlacotalpan, Mexico.

Composer Samuel Adams presents a set of solo and chamber pieces, including the world premiere of a piece commissioned by pianist Sarah Cahill dedicated to Adams’ mentor Ingram Marshall, whose Dark Waters will also be performed.

Nancy Karp choreographs a new work set to James Tenney‘s Three Pieces for Drum Quartet; Norwegian composer Kristine Tjøgersen presents Piano Piece, a work for piano, electronics, and live camera using recordings of a spruce forest on the south coast of Norway; and composer/harpist Zeena Parkins and percussionist William Winant perform Parkins’ Modesty of the Magic Thing, based on the drawings of Jay DeFeo and Lou Harrison’s American Gamelan tuning. To close the festival, Balinese gamelan musicians Putu Septa and I Kadek Janurangga of Nata Swara performs an intercultural set with the piano duo ZOFO.

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