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 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 AckamoorIdris 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 ChaudharyAmanda 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 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 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 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 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, 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... Saturday, March 21
Sat 3/21 4:00 PM St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley [2727 College Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705]2015 is the 50th anniversary of the founding in Chicago of the legendary Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and African American organization that has had an extraordinary effect on Contemporary music in American and Abroad. Thomas Buckner and pianist Joseph Kubera will perform works written for them by founding members of the AACM over the past 35 years, along with viola, cello, flute and percussion.
More... Sat 3/21 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Rova:Arts Presents Matches, Night 1:
Steve Adams with Vinny Golia, woodwinds //
Jon Raskin with Teddy Rankin-Parker, cello
Over two nights, Rova members will team up with long-time associates and first-time co-conspirators to present 4 sets of duo performances. Hear the Rovas work outside their ‘comfort’ zones to investigate new possibilities with their fellow travelers.
Steve Adams with Vinny Golia, woodwinds
Jon Raskin with Teddy Rankin-Parker, cello
More... Sunday, March 22
Sun 3/22 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Rova:Arts Presents Matches, Night 2: Ochs-Robinson Duo //
Bruce Ackley –
Tania Chen Duo
Over two nights, Rova members will team up with long-time associates and first-time co-conspirators to present 4 sets of duo performances. Hear the Rovas work outside their ‘comfort’ zones to investigate new possibilities with their fellow travelers.
Larry Ochs, with Don Robinson, drums
Bruce Ackley, with
Tania Chen, piano, keyboards, electronics + objects
More... Thursday, March 26
Thu 3/26 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]SFMusic Thursdays: Vocallective (sponsored by SFFCM)
Vocallective performs contemporary vocal chamber music in this concert featuring Unwritten by Mohammed Fairouz and Far Away Songs by Nico Muhly, as well as music by Samuel Barber and Maurice Ravel. These pieces were chosen specifically for their ethereal character and because all of the instruments, including the voice, play as equals. Joining Vocallective founder and director Indre Viskontas, flutist Meerenai Shim, and the Town Quartet.
More... Friday, March 27
Fri 3/27 6:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Open Salon with Wild Rumpus
Wild Rumpus and the Center for New Music are partnering to offer a free, open reading session and salon! Composers can sign up for spots to have their works read by the ensemble, and Wild Rumpus will also share works-in-progress, including new commissions! Have a drink and some snacks and hear some new music get made!
More... Fri 3/27 7:30 PM St Mark's Lutheran Church [1111 O'Farrell St, San Francisco 94109]Violinist Hye-Jin Kim who received First Prize at the 2004 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition when she was only nineteen and guitarist João Luiz, well known here as a member of the Brasil Guitar Duo, team up for a classically-rooted, dance-inspired program that includes original arrangements of traditional folksongs from their native cultures—Korea and Brazil. “… heart-stopping, unrivaled beauty… supremely musical playing, well-thought out, yet of the moment.” The Strad
Complete Information Here: omniconcerts.com/concerts/hye-jin-kim-joao-luiz/
More... Fri 3/27 8:00 PM The Ridge Space [634 15th st. Oakland, CA 94612]A night of improvisation and experimental music with Architect/Enchantress and RTD3 at The Ridge Space.
$10 - 15 Sliding scale at the door.
More... Fri 3/27 8:00 PM Fort Mason Center Southside Theater [Fort Mason Center Building D
2 Marina Boulevard
San Francisco, CA 94123]SPAN, a multimedia electro-acoustic chamber work by composer/performer
Pamela Z and video artist Carole Kim, is scored for a six-member chamber ensemble of voice & electronics, brass, gongs and low strings and performed within an immersive projection installation created by Carole Kim. Friday, Saturday, Sunday March 27 - 29, 2015, 8:00pm
More... Fri 3/27 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd
SF]YBCA presents: Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble - On Behalf of Nature
If nature were to rise up and speak in defense of itself, its voice might sound like a Meredith Monk theater piece.” —Charles T. Downey, The Washington Post, May 2013
More... Fri 3/27 10:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]RDL+: From Classical to Free Jazz with Ruthie Dineen and Doug Lee
RDL+ debuts several new original compositions, with influences from classical to free jazz. Always present, always grooving.
More... Saturday, March 28
Sat 3/28 8:00 PM Fort Mason Center Southside Theater [Fort Mason Center Building D, 2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco, CA 94123]SPAN, a multimedia electro-acoustic chamber work by composer/performer
Pamela Z and video artist Carole Kim, is scored for a six-member chamber ensemble of voice & electronics, brass, gongs and low strings and performed within an immersive projection installation. Friday, Saturday, Sunday March 27 - 29, 2015, 8:00pm
More... Sat 3/28 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd
SF]YBCA presents: Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble - On Behalf of Nature
If nature were to rise up and speak in defense of itself, its voice might sound like a Meredith Monk theater piece.” —Charles T. Downey, The Washington Post, May 2013
More... Sat 3/28 9:00 PM The Boat [MLK & Macarthur Oakland]Saturday March 28th, 2015
9 pm
Kiran Arora
Jim Haynes
F.T.P.
Glow Worm
The Boat, Oakland
More... Sunday, March 29
Sun 3/29 5:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd
SF]YBCA presents: Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble - On Behalf of Nature
If nature were to rise up and speak in defense of itself, its voice might sound like a Meredith Monk theater piece.” —Charles T. Downey, The Washington Post, May 2013
More... Sun 3/29 5:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Ritual #1: FluxGathering
Drawing from her experience in Fluxus and religious ceremonies, Amy Foote curates and performs a concert ritual of Flux events and chance based refrains, culminating in a sermon: John Cage's Lecture on Nothing. This is the first performance in Miss Foote's Human Works series and is curated in part by SF based composer, Danny Clay. Please bring your own mug for various communal offerings throughout the performance.
More... Sun 3/29 7:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus
near corner of College and Bancroft
Berkeley]Project TenFourteen: Concert #4 - The final Project Ten Fourteen concert presents the World Premiere of Koji Nakano’s, Time Song V: Mandala; Lei Liang’s Luminous, with featured guest bassist Mark Dresser; a work by legendary Chinese composer Chou Wen-chung; the third World Premiere commissioned work by George Crumb, Xylophony, and a special performance of Edgard Varèse’s Ionisation by an all-star percussion ensemble!
More... Sun 3/29 7:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]Sung Kim // Closing Reception + Performance w/Special Guests
Join us to celebrate Sung Kim's 7-month artist residency at Studio Grand. He will be joined by a group of great musicians and experimenters for an evening stunning art and performance.
This will be the last day to see Sung's work hung at Studio Grand.
More... Sun 3/29 8:00 PM Fort Mason Center Southside Theater [Fort Mason Center, Building D, 2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco, CA 94123]SPAN, a multimedia electro-acoustic chamber work by composer/performer
Pamela Z and video artist Carole Kim, is scored for a six-member chamber ensemble of voice & electronics, brass, gongs and low strings and performed within an immersive projection installation. Friday, Saturday, Sunday March 27 - 29, 2015, 8:00pm
More... Wednesday, April 1
Wed 4/01 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Weston Olencki and Athletics: [HEAVY MATTER]
SF-based trombonist Weston Olencki will present [HEAVY MATTER], a program of radical solo and chamber works featuring world premieres by Peter Ablinger (Austria), Joan Arnau Pàmies (Catalonia), and Pablo Santiago Chin (Costa Rica), with North American premieres from Bernhard Lang (Austria) and Ann Cleare (Ireland). Olencki will also be joined by Eric Wubbels (piano), and Jessie Marino (cello).
More... Friday, April 3
Fri 4/03 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]Legendary percussionist/composer Andrea Centazzo performs his compositions with violin (Murray Campbell), cello (
Crystal Pascucci), and bass (Jeff Schwartz). This new ensemble presents a wide range of forms, styles, and textures, melodies, grooves, and noise.
More... Saturday, April 4
Sat 4/04 7:30 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]7:30pm Jeffrey Young's Magical Kingdom of Dust (NY) - violin and Ableton Live
8:15pm Three Thirds (LA) - folk band with guitar, bass, English horn, viola, & lush vocal harmonies
9pm
Moe! Staiano (OAK) - percussion solo set, followed by group improv
7:30pm to 10pm, 2133 University Ave
More... Sat 4/04 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland]X-SOUND FESTIVAL: Womyn making Experimental Sound–The annual X-Sound Festival of new electronic music and sound art by undergraduate seniors at Mills this year features original works by composer/performers Besan Zidan, Ana Recto, and Rachel Austin. Queer Palestinian-American experimental electronic composer Besan Zidan performs with black queer womyn drummer Imogen Teasley-Vlautin in a set of four pieces for guitars, percussion, voice, and electronics. Ana Recto performs a solo set of her contemplative songs that combine technology with ancient and contemporary vocal traditions, including Moog synthesizer tracks and live electronic processing. Finally, composer/vocalist Rachel Austin will perform "10 Movements for Intuition & Computer," a solo performance juxtaposing abstraction and meaning featuring live interactive processing of her voice.
More... Sunday, April 5
Sun 4/05 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues this Sunday. Bring your instrument or just your ears. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names, and there will be a full set by Avant Red (
Eli Wallace, keys; Bob Marsh, guitar).
More... Monday, April 6
Mon 4/06 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland]Monday, April 6, 2015, 7:30 pm - Ensemble Room
MARK APPLEBAUM
Stanford composer Mark Applebaum presents recent works on the fringe of musical ontology--a concerto for florist, a 72-foot pictographic score without instruction, a work for peripatetic chamber instrumentalists who do not produce sound, notations appearing on the face of custom wristwatches, electroacoustic sound--sculptures made of junk, and a live performance of a piece consisting of hand gestures—as well as musically exoteric creative enterprises.
More... Thursday, April 9
Thu 4/09 12:30 PM Market Street [Between 6th and 7th St
San Francisco]C4NM @ Market Street Prototyping Festival: Mark Helias’s Open Loose
On April 9 and 10, C4NM curates special free outdoor performances on Market Street, in front of The Hall (between 6th Street and 7th Street).
Thursday's 1pm show features Mark Helias's Open Loose Trio, who will also be performing a full program in the evening at C4NM. Open Loose will perform streetside in a special "Show Box," designed and built by CounterPULSE and Jensen Architects as part of the Market Street Protoyping Festival.
More... Thu 4/09 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street
Berkeley]permutations040915: Taka Kigawa
NYC based piano virtuoso, Taka Kigawa, returns to the bay for a very rare performance of works for solo piano and electronics, including works by Marco Stroppa and Georg Friedrich Haas
More... Thu 4/09 8:00 PM Brava Theater [2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110]In celebration of THE MEDEA PROJECT: THEATER FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY Brava! For Women in the Arts and Cultural Odyssey present “BIRTHRIGHT?”, a collaboration between Artistic Director, Rhodessa Jones, and her Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women and Planned Parenthood Northern California.. All performances will be at Brava Theater Center, 2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110 running Thursdays through Sundays, April 9 – April 19, 2015. Bay Area new music icon, IDRIS ACKMAOOR< will perform the score for the theater piece "LIVE"! Improvisor DAVID MOLINA, will also provide a "soundscape" for the show.
More... Friday, April 10
Fri 4/10 12:30 PM Market Street [Between 6th and 7th St
San Francisco]C4NM @ Market Street Prototyping Festival: Helen Newby
On April 9 and 10, C4NM curates special free outdoor performances on Market Street, in front of The Hall (between 6th Street and 7th Street).
Friday's 1pm show features up and coming cellist Helen Newby, who will offer a sneak preview of her upcoming concert at C4NM. Newby will perform streetside in a special "Show Box," designed and built by CounterPULSE and Jensen Architects as part of the Market Street Protoyping Festival.
More... Fri 4/10 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]In the run-up to Rova’s major show “Rovaté 2015” taking place on June 29 at ODC Theater, this is the first of two concerts at C4NM where Rova will introduce musical units of the June orchestra. Tonight in set 1, we introduce Rova String Quartet, one-third of the Rovate orchestra:
Christina Stanley (violin), Tara Flandreau (viola), Alex Kelly (cello), Scott Walton (bass). Set 2: Rova itself, improvising on themes and ideas, and using visual cues for improvising that all will be fleshed out during Rovate with the orchestra.
More... Fri 4/10 8:00 PM Brava Theater [2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110]In celebration of THE MEDEA PROJECT: THEATER FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY Brava! For Women in the Arts and Cultural Odyssey present “BIRTHRIGHT?”, a collaboration between Artistic Director, Rhodessa Jones, and her Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women and Planned Parenthood Northern California.. All performances will be at Brava Theater Center, 2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110 running Thursdays through Sundays, April 9 – April 19, 2015. Bay Area new music icon, IDRIS ACKMAOOR< will perform the score for the theater piece "LIVE"! Improvisor DAVID MOLINA, will also provide a "soundscape" for the show.
More... Saturday, April 11
Sat 4/11 3:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Composer Meetup & Member Party
C4NM hosts a two-part day of community fun: the kick-off of a new series of composer meetups from 3 to 5 PM, followed by a reception for current and prospective members.
C4NM staff and board will offer exciting announcements, and we'll have special prizes for anyone who renews their membership or joins at the party!
More... Sat 4/11 7:03 PM CCRMA [The Knoll
660 Lomita Dr.
Stanford, CA 94305]SF-based Weston Olencki presents a program of boundary-pushing and radical works for trombone
More... Sat 4/11 7:30 PM St Mark's Lutheran Church [1111 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94109]Guitarist Eliot Fisk is known worldwide as a charismatic performer famed for his adventurous and virtuosic repertoire. He is also celebrated for his willingness to take art music into unusual venues (including schools, senior centers,logging camps and prisons). After 45 years before the public he remains as his mentor Andres Segovia once wrote, “at the top line of our artistic world.”
For complete information visit http://omniconcerts.com/concerts/eliot-fisk/ For tickets call (415)242-4500 or visit http://www.cityboxoffice.com/ordertickets.asp?p=7144
More... Sat 4/11 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]"
Black Cedar has done a wonderful job of making the case that chamber music can involve approaches to instrumentation not usually expected." – San Francisco Examiner, March 2015
"Hats off to them…their connectivity with each other was most apparent…as was their ability to convey their joy to the audience." – Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 2015
Black Cedar is the only chamber music ensemble devoted to music for flute, cello, and guitar, and they are the winners of a 2014 grant from San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music. This concert includes works from their upcoming debut album: two new commissions by Bay Area composers Garrett Shatzer and David Smith, music by one of the Bay Area’s most popular composers, Durwynne Hsieh, plus works by Cambodian composer Chinary Ung and Germany’s Klaus Hinrich Stahmer.
Kris Palmer on wood flute and alto flute, Nancy Kim on cello, and Steve Lin on guitar
www.blackcedar.biz
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1279973
More... Sat 4/11 8:00 PM Brava Theater [2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110]In celebration of THE MEDEA PROJECT: THEATER FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY Brava! For Women in the Arts and Cultural Odyssey present “BIRTHRIGHT?”, a collaboration between Artistic Director, Rhodessa Jones, and her Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women and Planned Parenthood Northern California.. All performances will be at Brava Theater Center, 2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110 running Thursdays through Sundays, April 9 – April 19, 2015. Bay Area new music icon, IDRIS ACKMAOOR< will perform the score for the theater piece "LIVE"! Improvisor DAVID MOLINA, will also provide a "soundscape" for the show.
More... Monday, April 13
Mon 4/13 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Topographies: Tenor Saxophone solo recital
This recital presents some of the major existing works for tenor saxophone. They both develop a coherent and deep musical discourse and push the instrumental limitations of the instrument, helped by the use of extended playing techniques.
Program:
Tre pezzi by Giacinto Scelsi (1956) (10')
Périple by Paul Méfano (1978) (10')
Hard by Christian Lauba (1988) (9')
Alter ego by Georges Aperghis (2001) (7')
Charon Schläft (...kein notturno) by Valentin Marti (2007) (12')
More... Wednesday, April 15
Wed 4/15 7:42 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Wired Breath/Strung Waves: Christian Pincock & Florent Collautti (sfSoundSalonSeries)
sfSound presents two perspectives on electroacoustic solo instrumental hyperextension. Christian Pincock (Albuquerque) is a composer/performer on trombone and electronics who uses custom-made controllers and software to play multiple parts simultaneously and create orchestral textures unaccompanied. Florent Coulautti composes and plays using a homebuilt instrument with electromagnetic bows piloted by computer and strings subsequently amplified and processed with Max/MSP.
More... Wed 4/15 7:45 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St.
SF]Fleshtone Aura is a licentious collaborator at the core of Toronto's underground. He co-founded the killer Bennifer Editions label and Gastric Female Reflex is his long celebrated noise duo. S. Glass, himself a known libertine (Glands of External Secretion, Bren't Lewiis Ensemble) created Bananafish magazine and Tedium House. Making it a threesome, unmatched visuals by W.hacking will illuminate the whole torrid affair.
Cleav'd Cleaver is Chicago-based Jason Soliday (J.Soliday/Coeurl/Gunshop/Enemy) on modular synth and Jake Rodriguez (bran(…)pos) of SF/Bay Area weirdness fame on mouth/vox. Savory electronics collide with face-twisting vocal exhortations in an acutely well controlled yet freely improvised (noisy) forms.
Marc Kate: In a detour from his post-punk/synthgaze project, Never Knows, Marc Kate is creating static experiments in synthesis that embody the opposite of New Age music. This performance marks the release of “File #08”, his debut for the San Francisco label, Computer Tapes.
Beast Nest
Beast Nest is the primary performance vehicle for Sharmi Basu, a queer South Asian woman of color focused on creating experimental music as a means of decolonizing musical language. One day, Sharmi aspires to have an ensemble called “Dog Divas,” which will feature her lying in the grass surrounded by Casio keyboards played by overexcited 6-week-old puppies.
More... Thursday, April 16
Thu 4/16 6:30 PM Italian Cultural Institute [814 Montgomery Street
San Francisco CA 94133]The musical evening that the Five O 'Clock Piano Duo offers the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco reflects the content of their recent album, ITALIAN CONNECTION
More... Thu 4/16 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]SFMusic Thursdays: Gestaltish (sponsored by SFFCM)
Please join Gestaltish for an evening of sonic exploration in celebration of their newly released EP. Embracing tonality, rhythmic integrity or the absence of either, this free-improvising ensemble traipses deftly through space and time offering audience unique listening experiences.
More... Thu 4/16 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [998 Market St. (corner of market & Taylor)
SF]Solo + Extension is an investigation, a cartographic excursion with hitherto-unknown tools, performed in a series of vignettes offering the widest possible sonoscopic and chromaural variety. Master musicians on their “traditional" instruments, these five intrepid composer/improvisers stretch out -- using attachments, toys, devices and appendages — bringing their musicality into unexpected and delightful realms of sonic art.
Aram Shelton — saxophone and electronics
John McCowen – amplified clarinet and floor tom
Shannah Sordahl — ‘cello and electronics
Kyle Bruckmann — oboe and electronics
Tom Djll — circuit-bent keyboards and analog electronics
More... Thu 4/16 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]Two (or three) solo sets
8:00 PM Andrea Pensado (Argentina) - sounds
9:00 PM Isolde Touch/Asha Sheshadri (So Cal and New England) - multimedia
More... Thu 4/16 8:00 PM Brava Theater [2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110]In celebration of THE MEDEA PROJECT: THEATER FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY Brava! For Women in the Arts and Cultural Odyssey present “BIRTHRIGHT?”, a collaboration between Artistic Director, Rhodessa Jones, and her Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women and Planned Parenthood Northern California.. All performances will be at Brava Theater Center, 2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110 running Thursdays through Sundays, April 9 – April 19, 2015. Bay Area new music icon, IDRIS ACKMAOOR< will perform the score for the theater piece "LIVE"! Improvisor DAVID MOLINA, will also provide a "soundscape" for the show.
More... Friday, April 17
Fri 4/17 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Rova Sax Quartet:
Larry Ochs,
Steve Adams,
Jon Raskin,
Bruce Ackley.
New pieces by
Larry Ochs,
Bruce Ackley,
Steve Adams and
Jon Raskin for Rova. Plus the premiere of Phillip Greenlief's "San Francisco". Over the past few years, sequential collaborations and other side projects, plus the fact that the group’s improvising skills have been getting more and more magical on their own, led to there being less time for individual compositions. Except from the pen of
Steve Adams, there were not many new quartet pieces being introduced into the band. Elaborate structures for improvising with – yes – but not the more composed works. With several touring concerts on the horizon in late April and early May and with a temporary lull in the collaborative projects, it seemed a good idea to “deadline” April 17 as the point where new pieces for the quartet and by the quartet would be presented. Sure to be an exciting night.
More... Fri 4/17 8:00 PM Brava Theater [2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110]In celebration of THE MEDEA PROJECT: THEATER FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY Brava! For Women in the Arts and Cultural Odyssey present “BIRTHRIGHT?”, a collaboration between Artistic Director, Rhodessa Jones, and her Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women and Planned Parenthood Northern California.. All performances will be at Brava Theater Center, 2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110 running Thursdays through Sundays, April 9 – April 19, 2015. Bay Area new music icon, IDRIS ACKMAOOR< will perform the score for the theater piece "LIVE"! Improvisor DAVID MOLINA, will also provide a "soundscape" for the show.
More... Fri 4/17 8:00 PM Third Street Hydroponics [636 3rd St, Oakland, California]French Radio / Grale / lazyboy / Thomas Carnacki / Sheila Bosco
French Radio / Grale / lazyboy / Thomas Carnacki / Sheila Bosco
An evening honestly displaying the incestuous interconnectedness of multiple, supposedly disparate projects. With the addition, subtraction, or replacement of individual musicians, each project on the bill will metamorphose into the next without preamble, warning, or fanfare. An unofficial amalgam of Alethiometer Records, Petit Mal Music, and Quadruped Media.
More... Saturday, April 18
Sat 4/18 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St
SF]GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES
Andrea Pensado (Boston)----Isolde Touch (San Diego)-----Amma Ateria------Dumptruck-----Fistortion-----Born To Kill (last bay show this decade)
More... Sat 4/18 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Tenney Project @ Tangents Guitar Series
A retrospective of the complete guitar works of James Tenney: Harmonium II, Septet, Water on the mountain…Fire in heaven, and Spectrum 4
More... Sat 4/18 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland]Rozalie Hirs is a contemporary Dutch composer and poet. Her poetry and music are lyrical as well as experimental. The principal concerns of her work are the adventure of listening, reading, and the imagination. Her music consists of vocal, orchestral, and electronic compositions. She often combines traditional instruments with electronic sounds. Her poetry includes both printed collections and digital poetry: interactive poems created in collaboration with visual artists, and graphic designers.
More... Sat 4/18 8:00 PM Brava Theater [2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110]In celebration of THE MEDEA PROJECT: THEATER FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY Brava! For Women in the Arts and Cultural Odyssey present “BIRTHRIGHT?”, a collaboration between Artistic Director, Rhodessa Jones, and her Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women and Planned Parenthood Northern California.. All performances will be at Brava Theater Center, 2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110 running Thursdays through Sundays, April 9 – April 19, 2015. Bay Area new music icon, IDRIS ACKMAOOR< will perform the score for the theater piece "LIVE"! Improvisor DAVID MOLINA, will also provide a "soundscape" for the show.
More... Sunday, April 19
Sun 4/19 3:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]My Blue Piano and Beautiful Wonders (New Music with the Jewish Music & Poetry Project)
World premieres of newly-commissioned works by David Garner (Mein Blaues Klavier—My Blue Piano) to texts by Elsa Lasker-Schueler and by Kurt Erickson (Die Schoenen Wunder—Beautiful Wonders) to poetry by Gertrud Kolmar, plus the American premiere of Lajos Delej’s lost Scherzo for cello.
More... Sun 4/19 3:00 PM Brava Theater [2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110]In celebration of THE MEDEA PROJECT: THEATER FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY Brava! For Women in the Arts and Cultural Odyssey present “BIRTHRIGHT?”, a collaboration between Artistic Director, Rhodessa Jones, and her Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women and Planned Parenthood Northern California.. All performances will be at Brava Theater Center, 2781-24th Street at York, San Francisco, CA 94110 running Thursdays through Sundays, April 9 – April 19, 2015. Bay Area new music icon, IDRIS ACKMAOOR< will perform the score for the theater piece "LIVE"! Improvisor DAVID MOLINA, will also provide a "soundscape" for the show.
More... Sun 4/19 7:30 PM The Emerald Tablet [80 Fresno Street, San Francisco]A new series pairing presentation and performance - this month features the music of Addleds -Kyle Bruckmann (oboe/english horn), Jacob Felix Huele (percussion), Tony Dryer (double bass), and Kanoko Nishi (koto )- with a presentation by internationally celebrated photographer and environmentalist Camille Seaman.
More... Wednesday, April 22
Wed 4/22 7:00 PM Santo Studio [2565 West St.
Oakland, CA]Flying Hair, Earth Blind, and Waveformless at Santo Studio in Oakland for a night of Psych, Experimental, and Ambient music.
More... Thursday, April 23
Thu 4/23 7:30 PM CCRMA [The Knoll
660 Lomita Dr.
Stanford, CA 94305]Waxy Tomb - [Julia Litman-Cleper] live electronics and video set at CCRMA.
More... Thu 4/23 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]OPEN REHEARSAL WITH WESTERN HEMISPHERE ORCHESTRA - The Western Hemisphere Orchestra and Western Hemisphere Voices perform a wide variety of jazz and popular music from the Americas. On this tour the music will range from Jelly Roll Morton, Chicago, Radiohead, Thelonious Monk, and much more. These groups recently collaborated with the legendary Allen Toussaint, and will perform some of his iconic music as well. Hailing from the beautiful Mid-Willamette Valley in Oregon, these groups are two of the premiere ensembles from Western Oregon University.
More... Friday, April 24
Fri 4/24 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Songs for the Ancestors: Poetry & Music in Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide
Jewlia Eisenberg's Charming Hostess has been a groundbreaking mainstay of the avant-ethnic music scene for over two decades. The group is known to feature "voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence."
They'll be followed by the Bay Area's own Kugelplex, who specialize in their own original brand of Klezmer, East European, Mid East, and Modern Chamber music. In honor of the April 24th Armenian Martyrs Day, they have teamed up with the spoken word of James Baloian for a brand new collaboration
More... Fri 4/24 7:30 PM Point Richmond Jazz [201 Martina St., Point Richmond, CA, 94801]Point Richmond Jazz, continues their exciting and eclectic concert series highlighting the best in violin-based jazz and improvisational music. On Friday, April 24, 2015 Point Richmond Jazz will present Peabody Conservatory trained 5-string violinist, Enion Pelta-Tiller and her guitarist and mandolinist husband, David Pelta-Tiller’s unique group, TAARKA, described by Synthesis Magazine as a combination of “Roma, Klezmer and jazz, infusing their rousing and exciting tunes with breakneck Zappa-esque breakdowns and insurmountable gusto. Regardless of your particular musical tastes, Taarka is a band that simply must be witnessed.”
TAARKA has just released a new CD “Making Tracks Home.” Their home is in Lyon, Colorado, a small town that was almost wiped out in 2013 with a well-publicized flood that destroyed their home. Left homeless, they headed for David’s childhood home in Virginia, where, (according to Colorado Public Radio https://www.cpr.org/news/story/lyons-flood-devastated-folk-band-taarka-also-fed-its-creativity) they began writing songs inspired by the flood and its aftermath. Enion was inspired by older flood songs, like Bessie Smith’s “Backwater Blues” about the 1927 Mississippi River flood. “I took that as sort of a model,” says Enion, who wrote her own flood song, “River’s Eddy Blues,” for the album.
More... Saturday, April 25
Sat 4/25 7:30 PM St Mark's Lutheran Church [1111 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94109]
Hailed by Washington Post as “among the most gifted guitarists on the planet” Polish guitarist, Marcin Dylla is a rare phenomenon in recent history of Classical Guitar. Many music critics, connoisseurs and music lovers certify that Marcin Dylla is among the world’s elite of classical guitar players. He has earned this position, among others, to unparalleled number of awards including 19 First Prizes from 1996-2007 at the most prestigious international music competitions around the world. His last triumph was the Gold Medal of the ‘2007 Guitar Foundation of America International Competition’ in Los Angeles known as the most prestigious guitar contest in the world followed by tour of over 50 cities in North America, Mexico and Canada during 2008-09 season, live recital video recording for Mel Bay Publications and CD recording for Naxos that reached the Naxos ‘Top 10 Bestselling Albums’ in September 2008. His live recital DVD “Wawel Royal Castle at Dusk” was nominated for 2010 Fryderyk Award (equal to American Grammy) in the category of Solo Classical Music Album of the Year. For complete information visit http://omniconcerts.com/concerts/marcin-dylla/ For tickets call (415)242-4500 or visit http://www.cityboxoffice.com/ordertickets.asp?p=7145
More... Sat 4/25 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]PERFORMANCE WITH WESTERN HEMISPHERE ORCHESTRA (Salem, OR) - The Western Hemisphere Orchestra and Voices perform jazz and popular music from the Americas. On this tour the music will range from Jelly Roll Morton, Chicago, Radiohead, Thelonious Monk, and more. These groups recently collaborated with the legendary Allen Toussaint, and will perform some of his iconic music as well. For the second set, Phillip Greenlief will serve as guest conductor, leading the group through Anthony Braxton's COMPOSITION 255
More... Sunday, April 26
Sun 4/26 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94708]Eli Wallace at the Maybeck, solo piano
For this concert he will be going back and forth between new compositions, older established repertoire, and will weave these pre-conceived ideas together via spontaneous improvisations.
Seating is limited. Please be sure to reserve your spot here if you wish to attend:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eli-wallace-solo-piano-tickets-16258831603
More... Sun 4/26 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]The Plath Project
The Plath Project is the debut concert of the Firesong ensemble’s commission project supported by the 2014 SFFCM Musical Grant Program. The concert presents the work of five living composers whose music features the poetry of Sylvia Plath.
More... Sun 4/26 7:00 PM First Presbyterian Church San Anselmo [72 Kensington Rd
San Anselmo, CA 94960]Marin’s new Echo Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Canosa, presents their debut concert at 7 PM, Sunday April 26th, at First Presbyterian Church San Anselmo, 72 Kensington Rd, San Anselmo 94960. Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and Symphony #4 & Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite are on the program. Tickets are available at the door: $10 seniors, $15 general, $30 family admission. Students are free with ID. Call 415-300-7962 for more information. info@echorchestra.com
More... Tuesday, April 28
Tue 4/28 6:30 PM Top of the Mark [999 California Street (at Mason Street)
San Francisco, CA 94108]Celebrating the Beats at Top of the Mark
The Beat Museum partners with Top of the Mark at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins to Present Poetry & Jazz Series This Spring
ruth weiss and CompanyHerb Caen called her “The Beat Generation Goddess”—ruth weiss performs with Doug O’Connor (acoustic bass),
Rent Romus (saxophone), and Hal Davis (percussion)
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