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MAY 2013
Friday, May 24
Fri 5/24 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Center For New Music presents new music for duos focusing on harmonic tunings and hybrid scores by composer Zachary James Watkins.
Fri 5/24 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street, Oakland, CA 94618]
2nd ANNUAL SF OFFSIDE FESTIVAL - Night 2
Leading-edge local jazz
HOWARD WILEY TRIO
MADS TOLLING QUARTET
Saturday, May 25
Sat 5/25 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Voicehandler performs their song cycle - open scores inspired by mythology and literature - on voice, percussion, electronics, and the Hydrophonium (an electroacoustic percussion instrument).
Zeek Sheck will be performing music from the fifth and final part of their musical narrative, JOINUS, about a young man trying to find his way out of a vast and complex underground maze.
Sat 5/25 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF, CA 94110]
2nd ANNUAL SF OFFSIDE FESTIVAL - Night 3
“The traveler hastens toward the town…”
DAVE MIHALY & THE SHIMMERING LEAVES ENSEMBLE
SHELDON BROWN GROUP
LIZA MEZZACAPPA-STEVE ADAMS DUO
Sunday, May 26
Sun 5/26 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Alee Karim solo + Evelyn Davis & Jeanie-Aprille Tang
8 pm
Alee Karim - guitar
Solo space rock for daydreamers
www.aleekarim.com/sounds
9 pm
Evelyn Davis - piano
Jeanie-Aprille Tang - electronics, percussion
electro-acoustic improvisation - natural and synthetic worlds collide in psychoacoustic space
Tuesday, May 28
Tue 5/28 7:30 AM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
T.D. Skatchit & Co. Ear of the Storm CD Release Show
T.D. Skatchit/Aurora/Gino Robair/Bruce Ackley in performance plus a surround sound playback of the title piece!
Tue 5/28 7:49 AM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries! - Selected Compositions by Maggi Payne, John Ingle, and Edgard Varèse
Wednesday, May 29
Wed 5/29 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
N. Clevenger's Book of Exits + K. Evangelista's Song & Dance Trio
Book of Exits
8 pm
Nathan Clevenger - guitar
Kasey Knudsen - alto saxophone
Crystal Pascucci - cello
Sam Bevan - bass
Book of Exits is a new project from composer/guitarist Nathan Clevenger. The group will perform new material and spacious reductions of material from Clevenger's long-standing sextet.
9 pm
Song and Dance Trio
Karl Evangelista - guitar
Cory Wright - reeds
Jordan Glenn - drums
Exploring the nexus between free improvisation, rock elements, and noise music, the Song & Dance Trio synthesizes its influences into songs that are unique, surprising, and yes - fun and danceable.
Thursday, May 30
Thu 5/30 7:30 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
NO MORE TWIST!, the art duo of Charles Celeste Hutchins and Polly Moller will share the evening with special guest from Berlin, KONGRAD SPRENGER, who has composed a piece for self-tuning electric guitar.
Thu 5/30 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8pm Andrew Jamieson/Robert Lopez duo
9pm Julian Valdi-Vieso EnsembleJulian Valdi-vieso - Synthesizers and guitar , Lucy Trepla - Bass & percussion, Manuel Barenboim - Video projection
Thu 5/30 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St (@Capp St.) SF, CA 94103]
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the International Noise Conference is a sometimes touring event masterminded by veteran noise dude, Rat Bastard, and headlined by his band the Laundry Room Squelchers. For each stop on the tour, Rat selects a local curator to put together a bill of performers who each perform for 15 minutes or less.
JUNE 2013
Saturday, June 1
Sat 6/1 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
EROTIC RISK FOR DEEP LOVE
a ritual audience participation experience experiment
The Long-Running Underground Hit!
Frank Moore, world-known shaman performance artist, will conduct improvised passions of musicians, actors, dancers, and audience members in a laboratory setting to create altered realities of fusion beyond taboos. Bring your passions and musical instruments and your senses of adventure and humor. Other than that, ADMISSION IS FREE! (But donations are encouraged.)
ARE YOU HUMAN ENOUGH FOR THIS?
Sunday, June 2
Sun 6/2 4:00 PM Starry Plough [3101 Shattuck Ave @ Prince Berkeley]
ArtBeat Foundation presents STUDENT WORK: an afternoon of music and storytelling with Daniel Popsicle, the large creative ensemble led by composer Dan Plonsey and Bay Area K-12 educators sharing stories from the classroom
free show | all ages | food & bar | homework assistance for math students K-postDoc
Sun 6/2 7:30 PM SIMM Series [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm John Vaughn project
duos, trios and quartets for two saxophonists: John Vaughn - saxes / Rent Romus - saxes
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute / Jim Peterson - alto sax, flute / Bill Noertker - contrabass / Dave Mihaly - drums
Sun 6/2 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Pet the Tiger: Rusty Sonatas
Peter Bonos, horns; Ian Saxton, percussion; David Samas, inventions w/ special guests Tom Nunn and Bryan Day, invented instruments.
Three Trapped Tigers: 14th and 21st century recorder music
Ton Bickley and David Barnett, recorders
Tiger in the Tall Grass: Digitalia and Analogues
Amar Chaudhary, aps and electronics; David Samas, voice
Monday, June 3
Mon 6/3 8:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Makeout:
Mark Clifford's Dirty Snacks Ensemble (Shelton-Van Loon-Brown-Clifford-Harrison-McGinn-Cumberland)
Karl Evangelista's Grex (Evangelista-Scampavia-Lopez)
Moe! Staiano's Surplus 1980 (Staiano-Wolter-Melne-Lew-Chaudhary-Scandura)
Tuesday, June 4
Tue 6/4 10:00 PM Amnesia [853 Valencia St San Francisco, CA 94110 ]
The Explorist International presents AWESOME TIMES at Amnesia #1
Key West ( triumphant freedom jazz! )
&
BreakArts (how low [frequency] can a post-punk get?)
plus DJ's Kit Clayton and Phengren Oswald
Thursday, June 6
Thu 6/6 6:00 PM Exploratorium [Pier 15 San Francisco, CA 94111]
The Exploratorium’s After Dark returns June 6, 2013 with a special music- and art-focused evening featuring performances by acclaimed cellist Zoë Keating, and highlighting works by artists throughout the museum. One part theater, one part cabaret, one part gallery and one part Happy Hour, After Dark is a unique way to experience one of San Francisco’s most beloved museums. After Dark is for adults 18 years and older. Tickets are $15; $10 for members.
Thu 6/6 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8:00pm Alex Jenkins/Randy Stark duo
World percussion & improvisation
8:45pm Charles Celeste Hutchins - laptop
9:15pm Joey Molinaro - solo violin/electronics
"Discordance-Axis-inspired songs, overdriven poetry, and glitched-out electronics"
Thu 6/6 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St @ Capp St. SF]
The Organ Spectacular shows have been held at underground dens since 1997 and are surfacing into the ground zero of The Lab! The following musicians have prepared semi-improvised opulence, clanglorious classics and a smattering of blotpolished battletech electronics to settle over the keys. Musicians: Eli Wallace, Tara Sreekrishnan and Nava Dunkelman, Christina Stanley, and KROB. There will also be films to accompany and POPCORN!
Thu 6/6 8:00 PM Jewish Community Center SF Kanbar Hall [3200 California St @ Presidio Ave SF]
Rovaté 2013
Rova’s ever-exploratory and inquisitive saxophonists are teaming up with world renowned visual artist, Ikue Mori, and composer and multi-instrumentalist Gino Robair to create an ambitious collaborative work, The Grand Electric Skull.
Friday, June 7
Fri 6/7 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St @ Capp St. SF, CA 94103]
In anticipation of a November 17, 2013 performance of Rhys Chatham's A Secret Rose for 100 electric guitars at the Craneway Pavilion (Richmond, CA), Other Minds has teamed up with the Lab for an exciting preview event! Announcement of the official application and call for guitarists
A discussion with Rhys Chatham on the history of his 100-200 guitar ensemble pieces
Performance of his groundbreaking work Guitar Trio (1977)
A chance to meet and talk to the artists, including Rhys Chatham
Fri 6/7 8:00 PM Jewish Community Center SF Kanbar Hall [3200 California St @ Presidio Ave SF]
Rova’s ever-exploratory and inquisitive saxophonists are teaming up with world renowned visual artist, Ikue Mori, and composer and multi-instrumentalist Gino Robair to create an ambitious collaborative work, The Grand Electric Skull.
Sunday, June 9
Sun 6/9 12:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St (@Capp) SF]
Not just ready to face the light of day on Sunday afternoon? Come to the Lab for another edition of Noise Pancakes, where you can cleanse your ears, palates, and not have to deal with sun or parklets.
Sun 6/9 5:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
ZOFO Duet presents excerpts from the four works below in a 60-minute program without intermission. The short movements from Urmas Sisask’s Spiral Symphony will serve as a rocket ship to help us get from one planet/star to the other. This is an imaginary journey through space – not a logical one…
Sun 6/9 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
are you fish? + The Blue Cranes
8 pm
are you fish?
phillip greenlief - saxophones
steuart liebig - electric bass, effects
dax compise - percussion
are you fish? is a trio unit that skirts the microscopic detail associated with electro-acoustic improvisation and expressionist elements found in free jazz.
9 pm
BLUE CRANES
Reed Wallsmith - alto saxophone
Joe Cunningham - tenor saxophone
Rebecca Sanborn - keyboards
Keith Brush - bass
Ji Tanzer - drums
Key players in the Portland, OR creative music/DIY scene The Blue Cranes have a singular musical voice grounded in melody and explosive improvisation, marking off their unique microcosmic territory in "post-jazz" circles.
They're on tour in support of their fourth full length album, Swim, produced by The Decemberists' Nate Query.
Tuesday, June 11
Tue 6/11 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Steve Adams (winds, electronics) and Scott Walton (contrabass)
Josh Allen (tenor sax) and Gino Robair (percussion)
Tue 6/11 7:49 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Local New Music Champions Luciano Chessa and Benjamin Kreith perform Garrett — Confusing Salon Music and Noise since 2013 for violin, piano, bullhorn, saw, piano, Aardvark synth app, harmonica and voice. A concert-length program consisting of original pieces, Erik Satie transcriptions, Futurist noise poetry, Robert Schumann, a Fluxus piece, Carlo Prosperi's "Chant", delicate improvisations, and Albeniz/Kreisler.
Tue 6/11 9:00 PM Uptown [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents Thomas Carnacki + Bryan Day + Robert Lopez Mateo Lugo
Thomas Carnacki is an East-Bay-based organism engaged in the dubious endeavour of concocting soundscapes that tread the path between the foreboding and the absurd.
Bryan Day (b. 1979) is a sound artist, musical instrument designer and conceptual artist based in Richmond, California. Day's sound work focuses on the subtle textural interplay of natural and electronic sounds generated by his invented instrumentation.
The Robert Lopez and Mateo Lugo duo aims to shock, is built on impulse synergy, and creates catharsis through composition and improvisation.
Thursday, June 13
Thu 6/13 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8pm: Crystal Pascucci presents Wild Hen
9pm: Robert Lopez & Mateo Lugo
Friday, June 14
Fri 6/14 8:00 PM Garden Gate Creativity Center [2911 Claremont Ave. @ Ashby Ave. in Berkeley CA ]
- Shoko Hikage in a portrait concert of Hyo-shin Na’s music –
Venue: Garden Gate Creativity Center
Date:Fri June 14, 2013 8:00pm
City: Berkeley
Email: info@listenforlife.org
Price Range: $15-$20
Tickets: 510 540 8136
Shoko Hikage, the distinguished Koto (Japanese zither) player, will give a recital of San Francisco based Korean composer Hyo-shin Na’s music. Thomas Schultz, pianist and Narae Kwon, kayageum (Korean zither) will join Hikage. The program will include Five Pieces on Yoshie Hikage's Poems (2012 - 2013) for koto solo, Koto Music (2011) for koto solo, Night Procession of the Hundred Demons (2011) for koto solo, Echos of Harmonious Music (2012) for koto and kayageum, Chrysanthemum Song (2012) for koto and kayageum, Song of the Firewood (2010) for kayageum solo, Near and Dear (2012) for piano solo, and Variations (1990) for piano solo.
Fri 6/14 8:00 PM Garden Gate Creativity Center [2911 Claremont Berkeley, California 94705 ]
Shoko Hikage in a portrait concert of Hyo-shin Na’s music
Tuesday, June 18
Tue 6/18 8:00 PM Yoshi's San Francisco [1330 Fillmore St SF 94115]
THE EAST WEST COLLECTIVE = Miya Masaoka - koto / Larry Ochs - saxophones / Xu Fengxia - guzheng / Sylvain Kassap - Bb and bass clarinets/ Didier Petit - cello and founder. The only Bay Area appearance by this "special project band". If you dig group improvisation, you must come by. A great venue within which to hear music and a great quintet of improvisers. This concert to be recorded live for probable inclusion on the Rogue Art label in December.
Wednesday, June 19
Wed 6/19 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck and Oxford - walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]
8 pm Randy McKean - reeds; John Finkbeiner - guitar; Jordan Glenn - drums 9 pm Karl Evangelista - guitar; Eli Wallace - piano; Jon Arkin - drums
Thursday, June 20
Thu 6/20 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8:00pm Headboggle: https://soundcloud.com/headboggle
8:30pm A.C. Way: http://acway.bandcamp.com/
9:00pm NIGHT WORSHIP: http://nightworship.blogspot.com/
9:30pm Kevin Gan Yuen: http://www.viraloptic.com/
Saturday, June 22
Sat 6/22 1:00 PM Yerba Buena Gardens Festival [760 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103]
“Letters to Home,” by composer Darren Johnston, with choreography by Erika Shuch, will be the inaugural piece for The Trans-Global People’s Chorus, a multi-generational choir that utilizes stomping, clapping and snapping along with vocal arrangements, and a stellar horn section.
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