Sat 7/26 6:00 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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22nd Annual Outsound New Music Summit

Gumby's Junk, Ologist, Lunar Mistake, Tri-Cornered Tent Show, Modesty
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Sat 7/26 7:00 PM Lloyd’s Records [3824 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
3 sets and a DJ at Lloyd’s: Paul Sakai and Lulu West (NYC), Fornax Linteum, Sundawg, and DJ Elias FS  More...

Sat 7/26 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium VI: Rewind  More...

Sat 7/26 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
An evening of cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated, digital maps in dialogue with composed and improvised soundtracks.  More...

Sat 7/26 8:00 PM Ugra Deva Loka [1035 22nd Ave. Unit 14 Oakland, CA 94606]
SHARKIFACE: Project of experimental artist Angela Edwards from the Bay Area in California.
Bryan Day: Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is known for his work with noise, electroacoustic music, and free improvisation, often utilizing salvaged electronics, repurposed materials, and constructivist sound sculptures.
JORDAN BLANKENSHIP: No frills harsh noise from Modesto. Channeling the energy of classick japan sounds
SHUTTERED: Brutal noise violence from M. Donofrio  More...

Sun 7/27 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
A rare concert consisting of piano trios only, by major Bay Area composers. Pianist Paul Dab, violinist Michael Long, and cellist Sung Choi!  More...

Sun 7/27 3:00 PM Oaktown Jazz Workshops [55 Washington St. Oakland, CA]
ATOM Ensemble

Drawn together by their shared interest in exploring diaspora through music, ATOM Ensemble integrates their multifaceted musical and cultural heritages to create new cultural pathways. Featuring Roopa Mahadevan (vocals), Erika Oba (piano/flute), Chris Trinidad (bass), and Kevin Amos (drums).  More...

Sun 7/27 4:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Open attendance free improvisation workshop led by Josh Allen and Tim Duff. Bring your instrument or voice and come and improvise with us! And talk about improvising!  More...

Sun 7/27 7:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Charlie Hunter/Scott Amendola Duo  More...

Sun 7/27 7:00 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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22nd Annual Outsound New Music Summit

Doctor Bob & the Out Patients, Ari Micich
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Sun 7/27 7:00 PM NorCal Music & Arts Center [761 El Camino Real Sunnyvale CA 94087]
Christmas in July 2025 Holiday Party featuring #FREEJAZZHOUSEPARTY, You, Me, + The Whales, sander777  More...

Sun 7/27 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
ERNST KAREL presents his multichannel, ongoing iterative work, "Atmospheric Rivers."
THE GLITCH BLOOM (Eda Er & DANNIEL RIBEIRO) operates in an indefinable musical territory where the lines between composed work, improvisation, and multimedia blur into a distinctive sonic fusion.
SADA is a vocal duo between Sarah Grace Graves and Eda Er, both singers and composers.  More...

Tue 7/29 8:00 PM KZSU 90.1 FM [Stanford, CA 94305]
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A weekly radio journey into musical sculpting, live in basements studios of KZSU. Every show is handcrafted to absorb your day and show it to you inverted, upside down and from the inside out.  More...

Wed 7/30 7:30 PM Opening Ears Concert Series [1026 Pleasant Oaks Dr 94523]
House concert featuring the duo of Brett Carson (piano) and David Israel Katz followed by the trio of Nathan Nakadagawa-Lee (reeds) Nick Reeves (Cello) and Ari Brown (trumpet)  More...

Thu 7/31 6:00 PM San Francisco Public Library - Main [100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA]
Del Sol String Quartet: part of “Everybody’s Project”
The Jingwei Bird, with SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim  More...

Thu 7/31 7:00 PM Black Cat Jazz Supper Club [400 Eddy St San Francisco, CA 94109]
Fresh off his sold-out GENESIS Tour across Europe—with packed shows in Paris, Dublin, London, and Newcastle—JustKing brings that same transformative energy to Black Cat for a powerful three-night residency that promises both celebration and healing. These nights aren’t just concerts—they’re revivals.  More...

Thu 7/31 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
We Travel the Spaceways
SUN RA ARKESTRA
THU-SUN, Jul 31-Aug 3
MINER AUDITORIUM

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Fri 8/01 6:00 PM San Jose Museum of Art [110 S Market St, San Jose, CA 95113]
Trevor O'Loughlin Trio with Patrick Talesfore, Jr. and Nima Hafezieh at San Jose Museum of Art  More...

Sat 8/02 2:00 PM Indexical [1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
A guide through the history of biofeedback art from the 1960s to the present and an overview of the main approaches to live representation of biological data  More...

Sun 8/03 2:00 PM Indexical [1050 River St #119, Santa Cruz, CA 95060]
A hands-on introduction to making music with biofeedback.  More...

Sun 8/03 3:00 PM The Tiger Garage, a private studio in south Berkeley [south Berkeley, near Ashby BART]
Pleasant Coolness in the Heat/Solace in the Midst of Woe:
Sarah Grace Graves, voice. Eric Theise, video and electronics, Nancy Beckman, Shakuhachi, Tom Bickley, recorder and electronics
Composer - performer Sarah Grace Graves joins performance cartographer and musician Eric Theise, and musicians Nancy Beckman and Tom Bickley for an afternoon of composed and improvised performance with sound and video.

Seating is limited. To reserve a spot, email Tom Bickley tbickley@gmail.com  More...

Sun 8/03 5:00 PM The Knockout [3223 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
SUNDAY AFTERNOON MATINEE SHOW WITH MUSIC BY YAMA UBA + SONGS FOR SABOTAGE (NYC / L.A.) + VAGUE LANES + STEILACOOM | DOORS 5PM | SHOW 530PM TO 9PM | $10 | 21+ | FILL YOUR SUNDAY WITH SOME DARKWAVE, POST PUNK, AND A LITTLE ALT DREAM POP  More...

Sun 8/03 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe, Ben Davis, cello, and NIKITA MANIN, clarinet are musicians sitting in the gap between the notated and improvised music worlds.
Filipino-American guitarist/composer Karl Evangelista ranks among the vanguard of musicians pushing the traditions of jazz and experimental music into the future. He is joined by local stalwarts Francis Wong (saxophone) and Jordan Glenn (drums) in a trio of free improvisations.  More...

Sun 8/03 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

Monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center. Bring your instrument or come to listen. Movement and other disciplines encouraged. No advance notice needed — just show up.

Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. Set up before 8:00 and be as ready to play as possible. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm.  More...

Wed 8/06 8:00 PM Lloyd's Records [3824 Telegraph Avenue Oakland]
CSTMR
Matias E.A. & Jordan Glenn duo
Matt Chandler + Chris Cooper + Jacob Felix Heule  More...

Thu 8/07 6:30 AM Mercury Cafe [201 Octavia Blvd SF, Ca]
Mihaly's Shimmering Leaves Ensemble. Improvisations and sound excursions.
Dave Mihaly: drums, piano, vox...David Boyce: reeds....Jeff Hobbs: strings and horns.....David James: guitar and effects.
Energizing, confrontational, curious, and spontaneous improvisations on forms and purely improvised forms by a band of underground renown. Come say hello.  More...

Thu 8/07 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland]
Do-Over Music Series @ Shapeshifters Cinema
with Rent Romus, Suki O'Kane, Kevin Robinson, Rob Ewing Jordan Glenn with film manipulation by Shapeshifters hosts.  More...

Thu 8/07 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
The new August Return the Gift curated series starts off with two great sound artists featuring Thomas Carnacki, and Ven Voisey.

Ven Voisey is a sculptor, composer, and designer who creates rituals, tools and circumstances as a means of exploring the relationship between internal and external space; between the spiritual and physical.

Thomas Carnacki is a multi-headed entity engaged in the creation of the subtle, the textural, the disquieting, and the unsettling. This is a whole other world where art and the afterlife briefly touch.  More...

Thu 8/07 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Carl With People
Panspermia goes both ways, don't miss this once per lifetime trip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oscYAq-zwo4

Mystic Commandos
Turret mounted synth and sax will be taken up by Jeff Vengeance (Alphastare) and David Boyce (Broun Fellinis)
https://ruclips.net/video/9rZVy-dy1Qg/mystic-commandos-live-at-dead-end-vintage-sf-2025.html

Mitchell Brown
The hypercephalic Mitchell Brown focuses his inky eye some time on the material world, the rest of the time a weather system roils within his mantle leaking into our world as waveforms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcSh6mcsSbk

Matias x Shatter
Trough turns to crest, your thirst swallows the shore.
https://archive.org/details/LandSea/03+Matias+x+Shatter.mp3  More...

Sat 8/09 1:00 PM Gray Area [2665 Mission St, San Francisco]
This workshop on biofeedback music offers an introduction to the theory and practice behind this innovative approach to utilizing physiological data to compose and perform music.  More...

Sat 8/09 6:00 PM Mr Tipple's [39 Fell St SF]
Chris Trinidad Collective featuring Bob Crawford (piano), Kevin Amos (drums), Kira Hooks (voice + percussion), and Ryan Ancheta (trumpet + flugelhorn) take the stage at Mr Tipple's Jazz Club on Saturday, August 9, 2025!  More...

Thu 8/14 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
The new August Return the Gift curated series at Temescal Arts Center continues with three great sound artists featuring Nathan Corder, Kevin Corcoran, and Marielle V. Jakobsons.

Nathan Corder is an Oakland-based composer of works for electronics, objects, and arrays of people. Focusing on translational procedures, transduction, and process-based composition, Corder’s music has been performed throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Kevin Corcoran is a San Francisco based percussionist focused on techniques which extend the sonic range of the drum by emphasizing texture, friction, sympathetic vibration, sustained tones, and the use of found objects.

Marielle V. Jakobsons is an award-winning composer and interdisciplinary artist known for creating immersive, transportive soundscapes. Blending lush synthesizers, expressive strings, and ethereal vocals, her music weaves together minimalistic patterns with deep, melodic emotion.  More...

Sun 8/17 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
In the perfect environment for close listening, the two cellos and saxophone TRIO Ben Davis - FRED LONBERG-HOLM - Larry Ochs invite you, the avid listeners, to join the musicians in enjoying their spontaneous but carefully sculpted music as it happens, in real time.

Eric Theise presents a set of performances and projections, solo and in collaboration with ABIGAIL HINSON (movement) and local musicians.  More...

Thu 8/21 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
The new August Return the Gift curated series at Temescal Arts Center continues with two great sound artists featuring Zachary James Watkins and Jean Carla Rodea.

Zachary James Watkins has performed in numerous festivals across the United States, Mexico and Europe and his band Black Spirituals opened for pioneering Minimal Metal band Earth during their 2015 European tour.

Jean Carla Rodea (b. Mexico City) is a research-based interdisciplinary artist and educator. Her/their work involves a variety of disciplines and mediums such as music, sound, vocal performance, poetry, performance art, photography, video, movement, and sculpture. Her artistic practice deals with spaces and instances where problematic socio-political and cultural constructs are rendered visible through multimedia installations and performances.  More...

Sun 8/24 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
WEST OAKLAND TAPE MUSIC FESTIVAL: SFTMC presents their summer east bay festival of fixed media works projected live over a 16-channel Meyer Sound System. Featuring a wide range of works by international composers and collective members.  More...

Thu 8/28 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
The new August Return the Gift curated series at Temescal Arts Center continues with two great sound artists featuring Merlin Coleman and Ava Koohbor.

Merlin Coleman is a multimedia artist making work ranging from a Gargling Chorus to a layered piece about a local quarry’s environmental degradation. Coleman holds an MFA in Composition from California Institute of the Arts.

Ava Koohbor is an experimental sound artist and instrument builder. Through an undetermined process she transforms the acoustical properties of everyday’s objects to create an immersive experience of sound in space.  More...

Sun 9/07 7:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [Richards Rd Oakland, CA 94613]
Other Minds welcomes pianists Sarah Cahill and Joseph Kubera to present a two piano recital of the music of “Blue” Gene Tyranny (1945–2020) and Robert Ashley (1930–2014) on Sunday, September 7, 2025, at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. This concert is part of Other Minds’s PastForward series, presented in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Music, Northeastern University and Mills Performing Arts.  More...