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02/04/2015 - 03/20/2015

Wednesday, February 4
Wed 2/04 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
An evening of unaccompanied flute works that have redefined the sonic possibilities of the instrument. From the standard repertoire by Berio and Hosokawa, to subsonic, and nearly silent techniques of Sciarrino and Holliger. A representation of the different styles and trends from different parts of the world, explained by the performer himself.  More...
Wed 2/04 8:00 PM Yoshi's Oakland [510 Embarcadero West Oakland]
After more than a decade as a co-leader of the internationally acclaimed trio Minsarah, bassist Jeff Denson is forging into new territory with his trio that features Dan Zemelman on piano and Jon Arkin on drums.  More...
Wed 2/04 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Jazz in the present tense.

We kick off New Frequencies Fest with a really killer offsite kickoff party at Duende, the popular restaurant and music club in Downtown Oakland. The band features Scott Amendola on drums, and special guests violinist Jenny Scheinman, guitarist Jeff Parker, and bassist John Shifflett. Tickets can be purchased directly through Duende’s website at www.duendeoakland.com.  More...
Wed 2/04 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents Chen/Shelton/Rankin-Parker plus McCowen/Djll/Bruckmann  More...
Thursday, February 5
Thu 2/05 6:30 PM Contemporary Jewish Museum [736 Mission St San Francisco, CA]
Sun Ra’s musical afro-futurist film, Space is the Place (1972, 85min)  More...
Thu 2/05 7:30 PM Southern Exposure [3030 20th St. San Francisco, CA 94110]
Rain Ragas
In North India, music regularly ushers in the monsoon season. Join the LADWM for a concert of traditional and experimental ragas on sarode and tabla. Alam Khan, sarode player and son of Ali Akbar Khan, encourages precipitation with these rain-inspiring ragas.
This event is part of Sets, three two-week projects of process-based, video and performance work by Bay Area artists Christy Chan, Chris Kallmyer and Olivia Mole.  More...
Thu 2/05 7:30 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
A Lecture by Composer MORTON SUBOTNICK:
The Tape Recorder, the Transistor and the Credit Card: The Technological Big Bang A Personal History  More...
Thu 2/05 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
SFMusic Thursdays: Duo Camaraderie (sponsored by SFFCM)

Duo Camaraderie, along with guest artist clarinetist Rebecca D’Alessio, collaborate in Liebermann’s “Night Music” and Larsen’s “Barn Dances”. Local award-winning composer Omid Zoufonoun’s piece “By Shadow, By Light” will be premiered by the group as well. Enjoy an evening of exciting new music!  More...
Thu 2/05 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
Oa CD Release show:

8:15: Glou Glou (Gretchen Jude: Voice/Koto/Electronics, and Arjun Mendiratta: Electronics/Violin/Rocks)
8:45: Oa (Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Matt Davignon: Electronically-treated voices.)
9:30: Parties
Joe Morgan (The Late Virginia Summers), P.D. Wilder (Hotel Hotel & More States) and Andrew Weathers  More...
Thu 2/05 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater [701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103]
Henry Threadgill Double-Up, Tribute to Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris  More...
Thu 2/05 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Scott Amendola Band with Jenny Scheinman, Nels Cline, Jeff Parker, and John Shifflett  More...
Thu 2/05 9:00 PM Winter's Tavern [1522 Francisco Blvd Pacifica, CA]
Reconnaissance Fly Live at Winters Tavern  More...
Friday, February 6
Fri 2/06 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Join improvisation mavens Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari in a perfomance on homemades and guitar-like objects.  More...
Fri 2/06 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
New Frequencies Fest
DOUBLE BILL: SATOKO FUJII DUO / RUDY ROYSTON'S 303  More...
Fri 2/06 9:00 PM Winters Tavern [1522 Francisco Blvd Pacifica, CA]
Tri-Cornered Tent Show Returns to Winters Tavern  More...
Fri 2/06 9:30 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Ben Goldberg Trio with Trevor Dunn and Kenny Wollesen  More...
Fri 2/06 10:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
New Frequencies Fest
MATANA ROBERTS
Coin Coin Chapter Two: Moonchile  More...
Saturday, February 7
Sat 2/07 3:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
New Frequencies Fest
DOUBLE BILL: ROGER KIM’S ELLIOTT SMITH HOUR / Karl Evangelista’S GREX  More...
Sat 2/07 4:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
New Frequencies Fest
JENNY SCHEINMAN
Solo Fiddle for Growing Boys and Girls  More...
Sat 2/07 5:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
New Frequencies Fest:
Lisa Mezzacappa'S BAIT & SWITCH: avantNOIR
Aaron Bennett, tenor sax
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Jordan Glenn, drums
with special guests William Winant, percussion and Tim Perkis, electronics  More...
Sat 2/07 6:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Serge Modular 40 Year Reunion Concert

Performances by Kevin Braheny Fortune, Paul M. Young, Jill Fraser with Anne Graham, Stephen Golovin, Sergei Tcherepnin, Todd Barton, Doug Lynner, Slope 114, Jorge Bachmann, LX Rudis, Citizen Kylee.  More...
Sat 2/07 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
New Frequencies Fest
ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO  More...
Sat 2/07 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Morton Subotnick, one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and multi-media performance and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems, returns to Mills College for a week-long visit as Jean Macduff Vaux Composer-in-Residence and a concert performance of his music.  More...
Sat 2/07 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
“All Caps No Space” is the concert version of a multimedia work-in-progress. This performance will showcase the culmination of a two-week collaboration and residency at The MilkBar among the talented and unique Addleds musicians Kyle Bruckmann, oboe/English horn; Tony Dryer, double bass; and Jacob Felix Heule, percussion and composer Linda Bouchard.  More...
Sat 2/07 8:00 PM Emerald Tablet [80 Fresno St, San Francisco, CA, 94133]
Oa CD release concert at Emerald tablet
Oa = Matt Davignon & Hugh Behm-Steinberg (pre-recorded voices and electronics)  More...
Sat 2/07 10:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
New Frequencies Fest
Myra Melford, JOËLLE LÉANDRE & NICOLE MITCHELL TRIO  More...
Sat 2/07 11:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
Ben Goldberg's ORPHIC MACHINE
with Nels Cline, Carla Kihlstedt, Greg Cohen, Ches Smith, Ron Miles, and Myra Melford  More...
Sunday, February 8
Sun 2/08 11:00 AM Maybeck Studio for the Perforiming Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. North Berkeley]
Sneak preview of Grammy-winning bassoonist Paul Hanson’s new JMF commission Homecoming, with
Grammy-nominated guitarist John Schott and bassist Jeff Denson. Come for a schmooze, shmear, and chance to hear stunning sounds in a perfect space.  More...
Sun 2/08 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 Ninth St @ Mission SF 94103]
7:30 9 Fingers
Andrew Jamieson/David Douglas
8:30 8:30 Brett Carson/Mia Bella D'Augelli  More...
Sun 2/08 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Guitarist Seth Josel presents a program of music by Berlin-based composers celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  More...
Sun 2/08 8:00 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
New Music at VAMP presents HAY FEVER plus JOHN McCOWEN(solo) plus CARTOON JUSTICE-DIAMORPH ENTROPIC ARCHITECTURE UNIT  More...
Sun 2/08 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Shapeshifters Cinema: Cheryl E. Leonard with Rebecca Haseltine and Oona Stern.
Expanded cinema works inspired by hydrology and Yosemite's frozen lakes performed live by Cheryl Leonard (music) and Rebecca Haseltine (video). Plus two pieces about climate change and the polar oceans created by Oona Stern and Cheryl Leonard.  More...
Monday, February 9
Mon 2/09 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA 94305]
Electroacoustic musicians and sound sculptors Adam Tinkle and Joe Mariglio - henceforth collectively known as Creosota - explore the visual, sonic, and theatrical potentials of projected light, vibrated fluids, and laser microphony, in works inspired by Inferometrics.  More...
Mon 2/09 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
A new quartet, Existence, brings together Berlin-based artists, Satoko Fujii and Kappa Maki with Rova’s Bruce Ackley, and Bay Area percussionist, Jordan Glenn. The group is a convergence of distinct approaches to making thoughtfully crafted improvisations.  More...
Wednesday, February 11
Wed 2/11 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
Starting by sending a diptych of visual score postcards by mail to musician Kevin Corcocan and dancer Peiling Kao and ending in a trio performance, composer Gretchen Jude will explore in new ways the lines between improvisation and composition, dance and music.  More...
Wed 2/11 7:57 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Mazen Kerbaj

sfSoundSalonSeries: Beirut improviser Mazen Kerbaj performs a extended trumpet improvisations with local improvisers.  More...
Thursday, February 12
Thu 2/12 7:00 PM Explatorium [Pier 15 San Francisco, CA]
Resonance: Susie Ibarra  More...
Thu 2/12 7:30 PM Southern Exposure [3030 20th St. San Francisco, CA 94110]
American Rainmaker: A Weather Opera
A weather expert discusses weather modification in California and the LADWM, featuring Andrew Tholl and Archie Carey, perform the autotuned story of Charles Hatfield, an early experimental rainmaker.
This event is part of Sets, three two-week projects of process-based, video and performance work by Bay Area artists Christy Chan, Chris Kallmyer and Olivia Mole.  More...
Thu 2/12 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford - walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]
Joelle Leandre (France) - contrabass; Phillip Greenlief - woodwinds - Leandre and Greenlief will present their long-standing duo at Berkeley Arts! The duo has been working together since 2005, and recorded THAT OVERT DESIRE OF OBJECT, a series of improvised duets and solo pieces for the Relative Pitch label in 2009. This is their first performance since 2011. They will play two sets, starting at 8 pm  More...
Thu 2/12 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [998 Market St. (corner of market & Taylor) SF]
8pm Eric Glick Rieman and friends
Nava Dunkelman: percussion.
Stephanie Neumann: saxophones and voice.
Jakob Pek: guitars and percussion.
Eric Glick Rieman : uncharacteristically on modular synthesizer and box board
9pm Loop 2.4.3's Time-Machine_music - Thomas Kozumplik (aka Loop 2.4.3)
combines man's oldest instruments (percussion and voice) with electronics and time-based effects to create an other-worldly musical journey.  More...
Friday, February 13
Fri 2/13 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Switchboard Presents: David Wegehaupt & The Athletics and Big Butter & the Eggmen

On Second Fridays at the Center for New Music, the Switchboard Presents concert series features split bills drawn from a roster of Switchboard alumni, Festival artists, and other acts who fall between genre lines.  More...
Fri 2/13 8:00 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento]
Ma series and Outsound Presents:
Shanna Sordahl+ Sharmi Basu + Shani Aviram  More...
Fri 2/13 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
A rare Bay Area performance from the noted composer Arnold Dreyblatt, who is visiting from Berlin. A pre-concert lecture will immediately precede the performance.
Program: Nodal Excitation, 1979 and Spin Ensemble, 2011
Dreyblatt has been composing music for his own and other ensembles for over thirty years. Often characterized as the most rock-oriented of American minimalists, Dreyblatt has cultivated a strong underground fan base for his transcendental and ecstatic music with his "Orchestra of Excited Strings".  More...
Fri 2/13 9:00 PM Life Changing Ministries [Oakland, CA]
Bill Nace/Jessica Rylan - Chiara Giovando - A Magic Whistle - Voicehandler  More...
Fri 2/13 10:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Studio Grand Presents Ackamoor + Molina in Ritual of the Collective Breath

Idris Ackamoor and David Molina perform improvised, ritualistic, cleansing ceremonies in the form of music. They play a multitude of traditional acoustic and invented instruments, which are processed with electronics. Using modern technology, Molina creates sparse to dense layers, which can range from hauntingly beautiful and meditative, to dark and unnerving soundscapes. Ackamoor uses his array of instruments anchored by his signature alto and tenor saxophones emphasizing extended range, explosive multi-phonics, lyrical beauty, and intense “outside” playing.  More...
Saturday, February 14
Sat 2/14 2:00 PM Southern Exposure [3030 20th St. San Francisco, CA 94110]
Love, Thunder
Saturday, February 14, 2015, 2:00 – 4:00 PM
The LADWM’s annual Valentine’s Day celebration articulates a love letter from precipitation to the people of San Francisco. Thunder needs you and wants you back. Bring an umbrella and a friend. This event is part of Sets, three two-week projects of process-based, video and performance work by Bay Area artists Christy Chan, Chris Kallmyer and Olivia Mole.  More...
Sat 2/14 3:00 PM Re:Sound [Magazine A-168 Railroad Ave. & Mercado Ct. Mare Island, Vallejo CA]
RE:SOUND presents Migration
In conjunction with the SF Bay Flyway Festival, RE:SOUND presents two days of immersive site-specific sound performances on the theme of bird migration. The performances take place in a decommissioned concrete munitions storage magazine measuring 55’ x 110.  More...
Sat 2/14 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Eclectic Electric Emergency String (X)tet. --- Page/Marshall  More...
Sat 2/14 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN – Dewing Piano Recital

Pianist Marc-André Hamelin’s unique blend of musicianship and virtuosity brings forth interpretations remarkable for their freedom, originality, and prodigious mastery of the piano’s resources. He performs music by John Field, Franz Schubert, and Franz Liszt.  More...
Sat 2/14 8:00 PM Trinity Chamber Concerts [Trinity Chapel 2320 Dana Street Berkeley CA 94704]
Heart & Blood: Absolute mastery collides with non-conceptual intuition. Cornelius Shinzen (深禅) Boots performs on Taimu & jinashi shakuhachi flutes with Mark Deutsch on Bazantar (upright contrabass with dozens of sympathetic strings).  More...
Sat 2/14 9:30 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
The Lost Trio celebrates the release of MONKWORK with a West Coast Tour

Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums - The Lost Trio announces their 21st anniversary with a west coast tour celebrating the release of MONKWORK, their 5th release on Evander Music featuring an all Thelonious Monk program. The trio will also perform original compositions and selections from their near-surreal repertoire of over 600 songs. The Duende show will kick off the tour and lands on saxophonist Phillip Greenlief's birthday!  More...
Sunday, February 15
Sun 2/15 3:00 PM Re:Sound Migration [Magazine A-168 Railroad Ave. & Mercado Ct. Mare Island, Vallejo CA]
RE:SOUND presents Migration
In conjunction with the SF Bay Flyway Festival, RE:SOUND presents two days of immersive site-specific sound performances on the theme of bird migration. The performances take place in a decommissioned concrete munitions storage magazine measuring 55’ x 110.
re-sound.net  More...
Sun 2/15 4:00 PM Pacific Coast Brewery Company [906 Washington St Oakland, CA]
Myles Boisen's Past, Present Future  More...
Sun 2/15 5:00 PM The Emerald Tablet [80 Fresno Street, San Francisco]
Quiet Lightning has teamed up with Name Drop Swamp Records and The Emerald Tablet to produce a bimonthly series combining music and literature. Two musical performances, four authors. Lagunitas.  More...
Sun 2/15 7:00 PM In the Mood for Food [West Oakland. Address only given to those who are registered since this is a private home]
Joelle Leandre solo performance and 4 course gourmet meal.  More...
Sun 2/15 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Jaroslaw Kapuscinski multi media  More...
Monday, February 16
Mon 2/16 7:30 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
India Cooke ~ Joëlle Léandre duo  More...
Mon 2/16 8:00 PM Spice Monkey [1628 Webster St Oakland]
Chen / Mersereau / Oppenheim
and Shelton / Stewart-Robertson Duo  More...
Tuesday, February 17
Tue 2/17 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Tim Daisy, with Kyle Bruckmann and Aram Shelton. Chicago percussionist Tim Daisy visits the bay area to perform solo and in duo and trio with local improvisers Kyle Bruckmann and Aram Shelton.  More...
Tue 2/17 7:30 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Please join us for this celebratory improvisational music concert in memory of David Wessel.  More...
Tue 2/17 7:43 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Joana Holanda (BRAZIL) & Ignaz Schick (GERMANY)

sfSoundSalonSeries Joana Holanda performs new piano music from Brazil. sfSoundGroup performs compositions by electroacoustic composer/improviser from Berlin, Ignaz Schick.  More...
Wednesday, February 18
Wed 2/18 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
CANCELLED: Unfortunately Mr. Baker has been forced to cancel this performance. We hope to host him at a later date.

Duck Baker

Solo fingerstyle guitar concert of original tunes, improvisations, jazz standards and a few surprises.  More...
Wed 2/18 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Nava Dunkelman - Bruce Ackley Duo
Matthew Goodheart - Solo

Ackley and Dunkelman explore woodwind and percussion combinations and colors through improvised soundscapes.

Matthew Goodheart, recently back from a year in Europe, offers a set of improvised solo piano music.  More...
Wed 2/18 8:00 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
V.E.X. is Roxana and LuLu from Moira Scar doing industrial wave noise cabaret. Their implements include Farfisa and Kurzweil keys, drum machine, f/x, analog synth, sampler, and vox. Projections by Fred Rinne.

Thomas Dimuzio: This is the wizard the land of Oz wished for, boundless, benemalevolent, shrouded in torrents of sound, daring lions to speak and machines to feel. Come set your straw brains alight to melt your metal heart as your furry ears purr and yowl.

Eco Morti as AAH: Returns to SF this time in supernatural human form as AAH. Amanda Hendrix is a zoomancer, technician of the sacred, and experimental noise artist who carefully gathers and weaves endangered species sounds in pairs, disturbances and lullabys. Not to be missed!

Walter Funk's Hologlyphics plus Kwisp: Artist/Musician Walter Funk began Hologlyphics in 1994 attempting to merge music, video art and holography, leading to his pioneering use of volumetric displays and augmented reality for art. This is a special chance to witness hologlphics yourself and to lay ears on Funk's audiolectronics, electroacoustic gizmoids, and transformations.  More...
Wed 2/18 8:00 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento]
A night of acoustic improvisations with 12 string guitar and tabla.  More...
Thursday, February 19
Thu 2/19 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
SFMusic Thursdays: Sierra Ensemble: Persian Premier and European Gems (sponsored by SFFCM)

In the grant-winning Turkish American Composer’s Project of 2013, Sierra Ensemble collaborated with 12 Turkish composers, and Persian composer Aida Shirazi, whose “Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano,” will receive its North American premier this evening. In addition, Brahms’ “Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano,” in Eb Major, Opus 40, will be performed.  More...
Thu 2/19 7:30 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento]
The Lost Trio returns to Sacramento!!!!  More...
Thu 2/19 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [998 Market St. (corner of market & Taylor) SF]
Ad-Hoc Groups night

Bring an instrument for some group improv! Instrumentalists will have their names drawn from a Puppy Surprise into trios and quartets for short (7 minute) sets. Confirmed participants: Jorge Bachmann, Tom Bickley, CJ Borosque, Matt Davignon, Brian Day, Philip Everett, Joe Lasqo, Josh Marshall, Mark Pino, Eli Wallace  More...
Friday, February 20
Fri 2/20 8:00 PM Turquoise Yantra Grotto [32 Turquoise Way SF]
Odds and Ends
Join us for a playful evening of free improv, poetry, comedy, storytelling and song with oddball performers Jaroba, Dave Mihaly and David Samas.  More...
Fri 2/20 9:00 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
NEW MUSIC at VAMP presents The SOUND EFFECT plus YoYo MaMa  More...
Saturday, February 21
Sat 2/21 7:30 PM Episcopal Church of the Incarnation [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122 (between Noriega and Moraga)]
Join the Circadian String Quartet in a program of folk inspired chamber music from Persia and beyond. The program will include music by Sahba Aminikia, Reza Vali , Béla Bartók, Astor Piazzolla, and Joseph Haydn.  More...
Sat 2/21 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Steel Bridge Trio is a new music trio organized by Chicago percussionist Tim Daisy and includes two mainstays of the Bay Area improvising scene: Aram Shelton on alto saxophone and clarinet and Safa Shofrai on bass. The group was formed as a vehicle for Tim’s original compositions and is the first group which has him featured primarily on the vibraphone.  More...
Sat 2/21 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Talking with Spirituals by Andrew Jamieson  More...
Sunday, February 22
Sun 2/22 2:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St SF]
Amy X Neuburg & Thea Farhadian: Improvised duets and solos  More...
Sun 2/22 7:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
Project TenFourteen: Concert #3 - World Premieres of we turn in the night in a circle of fire by Laurie San Martin as well as a new work by Ken Ueno, Zetsu. Also on the program, two iconic works of the 20th century: Luciano Berio’s Linea and Luigi Nono’s Hay Que Caminar Soñando. Steven Schick leads the SFCMP ensemble. Cal Performances Hertz Hall, Berkeley – 7:00 pm (pre-concert talk 6-6:30)  More...
Sun 2/22 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 Ninth St @ Mission SF 94103]
7:30 Fistortion
Greg Gorlen - electronics, Jay Korber - drums, Sung Kim - ozukuri, Brian Pedersen - clarinet/sax
8:30 Goddess Aphonic
Britt Ciampa- Drums, Matt Chandler- Bass, Mike Forbes- Sax  More...
Sun 2/22 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Special concert: New Western instruments in today’s Indian classical music

Set 1, 8pm: North Indian Jugalbandi:

— Teed Rockwell: Chapman-stick®-based "Touchstyle Veena", Peter van Gelder: sitar, Samrat Kakkeri (सम्राट कक्केरी): tabla

Set 2m 9pm: Classic South Indian format: 

— Prasant Radhakrishnan (ప్రశాంత్ రాధాకృష్ణన్): sax & Rohan Krishnamurthy (ரோகன் கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி): mridangam  More...
Monday, February 23
Mon 2/23 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Monday, February 23, 2015 7:30 pm, Ensemble Room
PFL TRAJECT

The improbable meeting of three musicians—Pascal Pariaud (winds), Jean-Charles François (percussion), and Gilles Laval (electric guitar)—is at the origin of the creation of the group PFL TRAJECT in 2006. The terms “traveling" and “trajectory” in their plural dimensions are the constituent elements that best define the groups improvisatory music.  More...
Mon 2/23 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Ben Goldberg and Friends

An exceptional evening of improvised music with
Ben Goldberg - clarinet
Kirk Knuffke - cornet
Smith Dobson Jr. - drums
Hamir Atwal - drums  More...
Wednesday, February 25
Wed 2/25 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
Meridian Composers in Performance Presents: Andy Strain.
Our next concert will be a special tribute performance by Andy Strain in memory of our dear friend, the incredible trombonist Toyoji Tomita. Toyoji performed many times at Meridian and worked with the youth in the Meridian Interns Program to plan and build the garden in our former gallery space.  More...
Wed 2/25 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Probosci: Gyan Riley and Timba Harris  More...
Wed 2/25 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
PLF Traject is a trio from France - Pascal Pariaud, clarinet, pipes, singer, according, Jean-Charles Francois, percussion, and Gilles Laval, electric guitar - present an evening of improvised music. Within PFL Traject, improvisation is defined as different from composition, on the basis of a continuous process of collective creativity, which never leads to the identification of a definitive work. The improvisation concerns the details of the performance, which are never pre-planned, but the trio has developed a series of protocols used, prior to performances, with the objective to build together collective sounds through actual playing. These protocols are also used in pedagogical situations, which are an important part of the trio’s activity.
Each improvisation of PFL Traject is a voyage in the already constituted memory, a promenade in the garden of delights od what has already been cultivated. Each member brings his own repertoire of sounds, individual manner of proceeding, collections of instruments and heterogeneous objects, musical gestures exploring the multiple manners of making sound — blowing, strumming, beating and scraping…  More...
Thursday, February 26
Thu 2/26 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [998 Market St. (corner of market & Taylor) SF]
"Sound-Speak" Continues with another night of spoken word and experimental sounds...
8:00pm Nick Obando with Rob Pumpelly and Elijah Wallace
9:00pm "Pitta of the Mind" (electronic synth, and poetry-)  More...
Thu 2/26 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Double or Nothing: Double Reeds of the Bay

Featuring double reeds in solo and chamber contexts, this concert includes new music on all four primary double reed instruments: oboe, English horn, bassoon, and contrabassoon. With a wide variety of instrumentations, the program includes a bassoon trio, a contrabassoon duet, a woodwind quintet, and additional pieces with viola, harp, singers, and guitar.  More...
Thu 2/26 8:00 PM ODD BALL FILMS [275 Capp Street, San Francisco]
Sonic Cinema Soiree - David Michalak and his sound score based experimental music group Reel Change share cinema insights and films. REEL CHANGE - Doug Carroll (cello), Tom Nunn (inventions), Andrew Voigt (winds) and David Michalak (lap steel). Presented by ODD BALL FILMS.  More...
Friday, February 27
Fri 2/27 7:30 PM Point Richmond Jazz [201 Martina St., Point Richmond, CA, 94801]
Zach Brock, currently based in Brooklyn, NYC, has been called the "the pre-eminent improvising violinist of his generation" by Chicago critic, Neil Tesser. He will appear at Point Richmond Jazz, 201 Martina St. in Point Richmond on February 27 at 7:30 with drummer, Mark Ferber, and keyboard/organist, Sam Barsh.  More...
Fri 2/27 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Guerrilla Composers Guild presents: Ignition Duo

The Guerrilla Composers Guild is joining forces with the Ignition Duo to explore, examine, and exponentially expand the repertoire for two electric guitars at the Center for New Music. Forged in 2011 by David Gonzales and Ramon Fermin, Ignition Duo has set out to create a new and vital repertoire for two guitars. The show will feature new works by Bay Area composers Nick Bacchetto, Julie Barwick, Nick Benavides, Danny Clay, Anthony Porter, Kyle Randall, Dan VanHassel, and Chace Wall. Each composer will write a work specifically for Ignition Duo in an intensely collaborative series of workshops, culminating in a genre-bending evening of music.  More...
Fri 2/27 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
CABBAGES, CAPTAIN, & KING

CD RELEASE CONCERT!!!

Jon Arkin, drums
Karl Evangelista, guitar
Eli Wallace, piano & compositions

with special guests:
Joshua Marshall, sax
Theo Padouvas, trumpet

Come join this boisterous yet purposeful free-jazz trio as they celebrate the release of their debut self-titled album. This group has made music together since 2013, and the album was recorded in 2014. With the assistance of Mark Allen-Piccolo (who engineered, mixed, and mastered the date) and Edgetone Records this music is ready to be available to the world - and for those who want to party with us on this night too. For this concert they will be playing repertoire from the CD, new tunes by Eli Wallace, and selections by guests Josh Marshall and Theo Padouvas. CABBAGES, CAPTAIN, & KING is elated to be joined by Josh and Theo, we’ll see what occurs with this collaboration.

photo by Peter B. Kaars  More...
Saturday, February 28
Sat 2/28 3:00 PM AFTERNOON / the concert series at Musicians Union Hall [116 9th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103]
David Leikam/zBug featuring Sheila Bosco, Sean Price with Nancy Davenport - poet // zBug is the premiere industrial jazz unit that presents structured improvisational compositional music sets, based on architecture.  More...
Sat 2/28 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin St, Berkeley, CA]
Korean Court and Shaman musics collide with free improvisation and Feldman-esque space tonalities

Tania Chen piano
Danielle DeGruttola cello
Henry Kaiser guitar
Soo-Yeon Lyuh haegum
William Winant percussion  More...
Sat 2/28 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Wild Rumpus presents a program of opposites, juxtaposing harmony and noise, movement and stillness. Gritty, kinetic energy reigns supreme in Ofir Klemperer’s punk-chamber Love Song and in the clattering theatrics of David Coll’s Position, Influence. Harmonious stillness characterizes Jacob Cooper’s serene haiku Silver Threads and Arvo Pärt’s meditative Spiegel Im Spiegel. Rounding out the program are new works written for Wild Rumpus by David Bird, Ben Richter, and artistic director Dan VanHassel, composers who make exquisite use of color and contrast in their work.  More...
Sunday, March 1
Sun 3/01 5:00 PM Actual Cafe [6334 San Pablo Avenue Oakland]
The first Sunday of every month at the Actual Cafe:
John Schott's Actual Trio, with John Hanes and Dan Seamans

Rowdy, groovin', original Jazz from the acclaimed guitarist.  More...
Sun 3/01 6:30 PM Doc's Lab [124 Columbus Ave SF]
Electric Squeezebox Orchestra  More...
Sun 3/01 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues this Sunday with a featured set by Aram Shelton (sax+electronics) & Owen Stewart-Robertson (guitar); and ad hoc trios randomly drawn from a hat.

Bring your instrument, & put your name in the hat. Audience & participants encouraged to donate some cash for space rental. Over by 10pm.  More...
Monday, March 2
Mon 3/02 8:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out
-The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music

Set #1: David Slusser's Lost Planet (space jazz)
David Slusser-reeds & keys, Len Paterson/Steve Clarke-gtr, Thomas Scandura-dms

Set #2: Electro-Kraken (Portland-based nuclear rock)

Set #3: Quintet (first time meeting of Bay Area improvisers)
Theo Padouvas-tpt, Jake Leckie-b, Eli Wallace-p, Bob LaDue-aux. perc et al, Hamir Atwal-dms  More...
Mon 3/02 8:30 PM Spice Monkey [1628 Webster St Oakland]
Nava Dunkelman with Architect/Enchantress (Mark Clifford, Jacob Felix Heule, Tim Kim, Aaron Oppenheim, Joshua Marshall, Jakob Pek, Rent Romus).  More...
Wednesday, March 4
Wed 3/04 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Presents the Hamir Atwal Group + Punch & Judy w/Crystal Pascucci & Tim DeCillis  More...
Thursday, March 5
Thu 3/05 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
SFMusic Thursdays: Salon Classique (sponsored by SFFCM)

This concert features works for string quartet by Mendelssohn, Milhaud and Bloch and portrays Jewish classical music in Europe and its way to America.  More...
Thu 3/05 8:00 PM New Parish [1743 San Pablo Oakland, 94612]
Since their emergence more than 25 years ago, with nine albums behind them, the Grammy Award-winning Klezmatics have raised the bar for Eastern European Jewish music Considered the top Jewish roots band in the world today.  More...
Thu 3/05 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [998 Market St. (corner of market & Taylor) SF]
8pm Laurie Buenafe Krsmanovic - solo ambient drone
9pm Alan Ishii - solo loop voice  More...
Thu 3/05 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Spanning four days and taking place throughout the picturesque Mills campus, graduate students will be presenting a wide variety of new compositions, improvisations, and installations. Signal Flow is a celebration of innovative sound art in all its forms, and affords audiences the chance to experience the cutting edge of music. These performances by future luminaries of the field are not to be missed!  More...
Friday, March 6
Fri 3/06 6:00 PM Officers’ Club at the Presidio [50 Moraga Ave San Francisco]
Splinter Reeds  More...
Fri 3/06 6:00 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
RATSKIN RECORDS matinee show at VAMP Records !! MISS MOIST / ACRE & more  More...
Fri 3/06 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Other Minds 20th Anniversary Festival  More...
Fri 3/06 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Spanning four days and taking place throughout the picturesque Mills campus, graduate students will be presenting a wide variety of new compositions, improvisations, and installations. Signal Flow is a celebration of innovative sound art in all its forms, and affords audiences the chance to experience the cutting edge of music. These performances by future luminaries of the field are not to be missed!  More...
Saturday, March 7
Sat 3/07 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Other Minds 20th Anniversary Festival  More...
Sat 3/07 8:00 PM Temple Sinai [2808 Summit St. Oakland]
Cantor Jack Mendelson sings classical hazonos (Jewish liturgical music). Mendelson, the subject of the acclaimed 2005 documentary A Cantor’s Tale, and a master of the genre has dedicated his life to teaching, performing, and preserving the liturgical music tradition. Accompanied by Frank London of The Klezmatics and special guests.  More...
Sat 3/07 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Spanning four days and taking place throughout the picturesque Mills campus, graduate students will be presenting a wide variety of new compositions, improvisations, and installations. Signal Flow is a celebration of innovative sound art in all its forms, and affords audiences the chance to experience the cutting edge of music. These performances by future luminaries of the field are not to be missed!  More...
Sat 3/07 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Judith Shatin

This profile concert of music by acclaimed composer Judith Shatin will feature a mix of digital and electroacoustic music performed by Bay Area members of the adventuresome Wild Rumpus New Music Collective  More...
Sat 3/07 10:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Through Sung Kim's Sympathetic Resonators w/The Divine Horseman, Hora Flora + The Braying Mule  More...
Sunday, March 8
Sun 3/08 3:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Other Minds 20th Anniversary Festival  More...
Sun 3/08 4:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Spanning four days and taking place throughout the picturesque Mills campus, graduate students will be presenting a wide variety of new compositions, improvisations, and installations. Signal Flow is a celebration of innovative sound art in all its forms, and affords audiences the chance to experience the cutting edge of music. These performances by future luminaries of the field are not to be missed!  More...
Sun 3/08 6:30 PM Doc's Lab [124 Columbus Ave SF]
Electric Squeezebox Orchestra  More...
Sun 3/08 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 Ninth St @ Mission SF 94103]
7:30 PM Noah Phillips - solo guitar
8:30 PM Noertker's Moxie - Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute/Josh Marshall - tenor sax/Bill Noertker - contrabass/Jordan Glenn - drums  More...
Sun 3/08 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Dana Jessen, David Wegehaupt, and Jeff Anderle. 8:00 CNMAT. Works by Terry Riley, Simon Steen-Andersen, Sam Pluta, Peter V. Swednsen, S. Howard Rubin, Paula Matthusen.  More...
Monday, March 9
Mon 3/09 8:07 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Marco Fusi

Italian new music specialist Marco Fusi visits the bay area with a program of contemporary violin and viola works by some of the most innovative Italian composers working today: Billone, Perocco, and Sciarrino.  More...
Mon 3/09 8:30 PM Spice Monkey [1628 Webster St Oakland]
Avant-Jazz & Experimental Noise Every Monday featuring ADAMS/BOISEN/ROWE plus JOHN McCOWEN  More...
Tuesday, March 10
Tue 3/10 8:00 PM Leo's Music Club [5447 Telegraph Avenue Oakland]
Sway Machinery, a horn-driven sextet from New York, draws on a mélange of influences—from Afropop to Ashkenazi cantorial tropes. Fronted by Jeremiah Lockwood, formerly of Balkan Beatbox. In association with the Jewish Community Library.  More...
Wednesday, March 11
Wed 3/11 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
Grammy Award-winning jazz bassoonist and composer Paul Hanson explores his Jewish roots in this world premiere, one of the first large-scale Jewish pieces ever written for bassoon. Includes Moses Sedler, cello; Jeff Denson, bass; Mads Tolling, violin; Alan Hall, percussion and drums; and John Schott, guitar. Hanson, a Berkeley native, formerly played with the trend-setting band the Klezmorim as well as the group Davka. His four-year stint in Japan as a performer with Cirque du Soleil inspired him to explore his Jewish roots through this new work. Co-presented by the Contemporary Jewish Museum. In association with Lehrhaus Judaica and the Jewish Community Library.  More...
Thursday, March 12
Thu 3/12 6:00 PM Contemporary Jewish Museum [736 Mission St. San Fransisco]
Grammy Award-winning jazz bassoonist and composer Paul Hanson explores his Jewish roots in this world premiere, one of the first large-scale Jewish pieces ever written for bassoon. Includes Moses Sedler, cello; Jeff Denson, bass; Mads Tolling, violin; Alan Hall, percussion and drums; and John Schott, guitar. Hanson, a Berkeley native, formerly played with the trend-setting band the Klezmorim as well as the group Davka. His four-year stint in Japan as a performer with Cirque du Soleil inspired him to explore his Jewish roots through this new work. Co-presented by the Contemporary Jewish Museum. In association with Lehrhaus Judaica and the Jewish Community Library.  More...
Thu 3/12 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [998 Market St. (corner of market & Taylor) SF]
8pm: Jorge Bachman - microcosmic sounds
9pm: Paul Stapleton (Bonsai Sound Sculpture) & Rachel Austin (Voice)  More...
Thu 3/12 8:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [UC Berkeley]
Koret Recital Series

Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich, pianos - BOULEZ  More...
Friday, March 13
Fri 3/13 5:30 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [Screening Room] [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
Back by popular demand, this program takes you on an aural journey with the "movers and shakers" of jazz.

John Schott on John Schott
5:30-6:30 PM

Rova Channeling Coltrane: Electric Ascension Live
7-9 PM  More...
Fri 3/13 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Switchboard Presents: Elyse Weakley & Lip Service

On Second Fridays at the Center for New Music, the Switchboard Presents concert series features split bills drawn from a roster of Switchboard alumni, Festival artists, and other acts who fall between genre lines.

Pianist Elyse Weakly performs music by George Hurd, Mason Bates, and Anna Clyne. Brass ensemble Lip Service performs quintet & brass ensemble music led by Aaron Priskorn and Graham Taylor.  More...
Fri 3/13 8:00 PM Life Changing Ministries [1629 8th Street, Oakland]
ZE BIB! Tour Kickoff show with ZE BIB!, Tom Djll/Julie Mazawa, The (subnaught) Band and DJ Glochids  More...
Fri 3/13 8:00 PM The Emerald Tablet [80 Fresno St SF]
Sheldon Brown Quartet presents an evening of Sheldon's original music.  More...
Fri 3/13 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Eric Glick Rieman and Pet The Tiger  More...
Saturday, March 14
Sat 3/14 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St SF]
G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S

Pulsating Cyst (L.A.)-------Mchtnncts------Bloody Snowman------Tom Djill & Lx Rudis--------17 Veils of Flesh  More...
Sat 3/14 6:00 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
VAMP presents the work of Olivia Nevins Carbins

++++++++++++++++++ Live Music +++++++++++++++++

7-8pm Booker Long Duo
8-9pm Bayonettes
9-10pm Ends Meat' Catastrophe Jazz Ensemble  More...
Sat 3/14 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
An Evening of Jazz
featuring
BAD JAZZ with Bryan Day - invented instruments; Ben Solomon - invented instruments, feedback, percussion; Tania Chen, electronic toys, bells and piano.
WORSE JAZZ with Bob Marsh - piano; Sandra Yolles - electronic percussion; Joshua Marshall, saxophones
WORST JAZZ with Julia Mazawa - field recordings and pocket synthe; James Roemer - tape card sampler  More...
Sat 3/14 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
One Great City: Impulses

San Francisco based two guitar and voice duo One Great City premieres pieces by Eric Choate and Shahab Paranj, as well as a work by Judah Adashi. The San Francisco Examiner declares, "One Great City brings a journey of discovery to every recital they prepare.” The concert is part of a documentary currently being filmed about One Great City, the Center for New Music, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  More...
Sat 3/14 8:30 PM First Congregational Church [2501 Harrison St. Oakland]
Direct from Israel, Diwan Saz is a Jewish-Muslim-Christian ensemble performing a rich variety of music from throughout the Middle East. Featuring virtuosic performances of piyutim, or Jewish liturgical poems, Turkish folk songs, Rumi-inspired compositions and Bedouin folksongs by a 14-year-old prodigious singer.
Special Guest: Israeli ‘oud player, violinist and composer Yair Dalal, who weaves Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with influences ranging from the Balkans to India.  More...
Sunday, March 15
Sun 3/15 11:00 AM San Francisco Conservatory of Music [50 Oak St. SF]
Now in its fifth year, the Hot Air Music Festival is a student-organized marathon that focuses on new music, as composed and performed by students, faculty and alumni of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The festival presents eleven premieres showcasing SFCM composers and performers, guests including the legendary Mills College Gamelan Ensemble, and works by contemporary greats such as Steve Reich and Kaija Saariaho. Hot Air fills all Conservatory concert halls on March 15 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission is free. SFCM composer and graduate student Marko Bajzer delivers a pre-concert talk at 10:30 a.m. For complete festival details, please visit hotairmusicfestival.com.  More...
Sun 3/15 12:30 PM The New Parkway Theater [474-24th Street Oakland, CA 94612]
Film portrait of the French born, Oakland based electronic sound artist Laetitia Sonami.
Screening followed by Q&A with director and Laetitia Sonami

Advance tix: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1294153  More...
Sun 3/15 2:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St SF]
Electric Afternoon @ The Nunnery - 2 Duos - Tim Perkis/Ron Heglin, Bill Noertker/Mark Oi

Tim Perkis - electronics, Ron Heglin - voice, trombone
Bill Noertker - electric bass, compositions
Mark Oi - electric guitar, compositions  More...
Sun 3/15 6:30 PM Doc's Lab [124 Columbus Ave SF]
Electric Squeezebox Orchestra  More...
Sun 3/15 7:00 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
Larry Polansky and Giacomo Fiore at Second Act  More...
Sun 3/15 9:00 PM Brick & Mortar Music Hall [1710 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103]
Bay Area composer and percussionist Charles Xavier has released four CD’s on his label Happy Note Records and he is performing as The XMan with guitarist Russel Golub performing his eclectic music for creative minds…

The Xman’s next show in 2015 is on Sunday March 15th at the Brick & Mortar Music Hall opening for guitar sensation Nir Felder, called "the next big jazz guitarist" by NPR. I’m honored to open for fellow Berklee Alumni, guitarist Nir Felder who won the Jimi Hendrix award! The Xman performs his midi vibraphone with guitarist Russell Golub.

DownBeat has called Charles Xavier a “Rara Avis,” which is Latin for rare bird.  More...
Monday, March 16
Mon 3/16 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Monday, March 16, 2015, 7:30 pm - Ensemble Room

CARL LUDWIG HUEBSCH

Huebsch's playing is focused on music as a structure in time--all intent is on the genesis of the moment. Through the use of avant-garde and self-invented performance techniques, the tuba acquires completely new characteristics as a brass instrument. As an array of unexpected sounds is heard, the instrument is seen from a fresh perspective, and the audience is confronted with a novel way of perceiving time.  More...
Mon 3/16 8:00 PM Spice Monkey [1628 Webster St Oakland]
Avant-Jazz & Experimental Noise Every Monday - BRIDGE OF CROWS - where Indigenous Roots Noise intersects Electro-Acoustic Chamber Improv -- with special guests Bob Marsh/cello,voc, and Gretchen Jude/koto.. And EAT THE SUN - Free Improving Musicians Traversing the Terrain of Noise and Tonality  More...
Wednesday, March 18
Wed 3/18 7:26 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Carl Ludwig Hübsch & Radical 2

German composer/tubist Carl Ludwig Hübsch performs a duo with clarinetist Matt Ingalls and a selction of his compositions for improvisers with members of sfSoundGroup. Brooklyn-based percussion duo RADICAL 2 performs a program of theatrical compositions for percussion and electronics.  More...
Wed 3/18 8:00 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
Idris Ackamoor, Voicehandler, Amanda Chaudhary, IMA

Idris Ackamoor
Idris Ackamoor is a living legend: multi-instrumentalist, master tap dancer, composer and leader of SF’s famed afro-futurist free jazz ensemble, The Pyramids.

Voicehandler
Danishta Rivero and Jacob Felix Heule comprise the singular duo, Voicehandler.https://soundcloud.com/voicehandler

Amanda Chaudhary
Amanda Chaudhary's gaze, her custom software synths, her modular synthesizers, kids' toys, and all manner of folk instruments combine to confound and awaken the heretofore undiscovered sensibilities of her audiences.
http://www.amandachaudhary.com/

IMA
IMA is the electro-percussive duo of Nava Dunkelman and Jeanie-Aprille Tang.
http://ammaateria.com/ima  More...
Thursday, March 19
Thu 3/19 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St. San Francisco]
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance welcomes the Chicago-based duo Coppice in their first performance on the West Coast. Members Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer will perform their original composition, Compound Form, for pump organ, two tape processes, transmitters, and acoustic filters. Coppice will be joined by two Vancouver based sound artists, Mathieu Ruhlmann and Joda Clément, for a special collaboration.  More...
Thu 3/19 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
On Thursday, March 19 at 7:30pm, Tom's Place presents

Carl Ludwig Hübsch (tuba) with Kyle Bruckmann (oboe) and Gino Robair (percussion)
and
Per-Anders Nillson (electronics) with Phillip Greenlief (sax) and Gino Robair (percussion)  More...
Thu 3/19 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Fast Forward and Eyvind Kang share a program featuring their recent works. Using an array of kitchen hardware and assorted artifacts, Fast Forward will perform his latest composition for alternative instrumentation. Composer and violist Eyvind Kang’s work draws from a variety of classical, traditional, and popular styles.  More...
Thu 3/19 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [998 Market St. SF]
"There are always two!" A night of duos with:
8pm Collette McCaslin/Sheila Bosco duo
9pm Brian Pedersen/Sung Kim duo  More...
Thu 3/19 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Little Nicky's Presents Chuck Johnson + Laetitia Sonami and James Fei: Sparrows and Ortolans

Little Nicky's is a monthly series curated by Noah Phillips and Chuck Johnson. Each installment features a set by a Bay Area artist or group whose sound will complement the special atmosphere of Studio Grand, a multi-use arts space with intimate and lush acoustics. Guitarist and composer Chuck Johnson will open each show with a solo performance. This month we're joined by Laetitia Sonami and James Fei.  More...
Friday, March 20
Fri 3/20 7:30 PM The Emerald Tablet [80 Fresno St SF]
Call and Response: Dr. Indre Viskontas + Sound Quartet  More...
Fri 3/20 8:00 PM Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists [Cedar Street Berkeley, CA]
THE Beth Custer ENSEMBLE is a crème de la crème of Bay Area musicians and includes Jan Jackson on drums, (Will Bernard, Curtis Bumpy), guitarist/vocalist David James (Afro Funk Experience, The Coup, Spearhead), Chris Grady on trumpet (Tom Waits, Grassy Knoll, Jewel), Vicky Grossi on bass (Mitch Marcus, Bitches Brew), vocalist Diana Mangano (Jefferson Airplane) and Beth Custer, clarinets/vocal (Club Foot Orchestra, Trance Mission, Eighty Mile Beach, Clarinet Thing).  More...
Fri 3/20 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Eyvind Kang

Eyvind Kang will present recent research into the dynamics of thoughts, time, and sound in the context of solo viola improvisations.  More...
Fri 3/20 8:00 PM Turquoise Yantra Grotto [32 Turquoise Way SF]
PIANO CIRCUS:
Tom Djill, Tania Chen, Eli Wallace
@ Turquoise Yantra Grotto

3 Pianists : 7 Acoustic Keyboard Instruments;
New compositions and Contemporary Canonical Works
for invented, extended, prepared, and retuned “pianos”
in exotic, historical and standard tunings  More...
Fri 3/20 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Scott R. Looney - Carl Ludwig Hubsch

Phillip Greenlief - saxophones
Carl Ludwig Hubsch - tuba (Germany)
Scott R. Looney - piano

The German tubaist Carl Ludwig Hübsch meets bay area reed player Phillip Greenlief and pianist Scott R. Looney. Instant language. Sound Exploration. Morphed pitch. Gestalt in exchange. Contact in play. Instrumental research. Joy in noise.  More...
Fri 3/20 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford - walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]
European Improviser Meets Bay Area free jazz brutes: Carl Ludwig Hubsch - tuba (Germany)
with Phillip Greenlief, saxophones & Scott Looney - piano  More...