Friday, March 18
Fri 3/18 6:00 PM Presidio Officer's Club [50 Moraga Ave
SF]Wild Rumpus
The flexible and dynamic Wild Rumpus Collective continues to bridge musical divides with impassioned performances of work by radical young and emerging composers from around the world.
More... Fri 3/18 7:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Sparrows and Ortolans: Laetitia Sonami and
James FeiJames Fei and Laetitia Sonami started their improvisational collaboration in 2013. While the materials and techniques used by the two musicians differ significantly, both employ tactile interface coupled with electronic systems that exhibit complex behavioral response.
More... Fri 3/18 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Transient Beings: Jamal R. Moore
Depth perception of creative arts. A performance of sonic healing through intergalactic visualization and lo-‐fi frequencies.
More... Saturday, March 19
Sat 3/19 8:00 PM 142 Throckmorton Theatre [142 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA]Afro-Weston – A Musical Tribute to Legendary Pianist/Composer Randy Weston by Ian Dogole Multipercussionist/bandleader/recording artist Ian Dogole will pay tribute to a true giant in the history of Jazz and “World” music – pianist/composer Randy Weston. Entitled, “Afro-Weston,” the program will feature new arrangements of Randy Weston’s most highly acclaimed Afro-infused Jazz compositions, with a special focus on pieces that blend the hypnotic and intoxicating instruments and rhythms of the Gnawa people from Morocco.
More... Sat 3/19 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Edward Schocker: The Crossing (work in progress showing)
The Crossing -exploring alternate communications through ecstatic group improvisation. The goal of the project is to create a crossing between the “
Spirit” and material world and create a space where audiences feel a direct connection with both.
More... Sunday, March 20
Sun 3/20 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Composer Reading Session
This year's C4NM Ensemble in Residence, Friction Quartet, will read and workshop up to six works for string quartet. Composers may submit up to five minutes of music for this opportunity, and will receive 20-30 minutes of time with the quartet, and a recording of the entire session.
More... Sun 3/20 7:00 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission
SF]Edgetone Records 25th Anniversary Showcase Series
Scott R. Looney,
T.D. Skatchit (
Tom Nunn,
David Michalak),
C.O.M.A. (California Outside Music Associates),
Tri-Cornered Tent Show**Performances celebrating twenty five years of independent music from Edgetone Records**
Edgetone Records was founded by musician/producer, Rent Romus. The label took shape in 1991 to support his group’s original jazz recordings. After being on a long hiatus Rent re-opened Edgetone in January 2000 and expanded it to support avant-garde and experimental music and recordings crossing the genre boundaries specifically for D.I.Y. (do it yourself) artists looking for a ground base and community label identity.
More... Monday, March 21
Mon 3/21 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Composer-Performer Meetup
This meetup is open to anyone! We will have three to four presenters -- both composers and performers (or performer-composers) offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. Come to share, listen, explore, and meet new colleagues and collaborators.
More... Mon 3/21 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents
Cosmists
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Collette McCaslin - trumpet/percussion
Mark Pino - percussion
Andrew Joron - thermin
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The Sound Effekt
More... Thursday, March 24
Thu 3/24 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street
SF]8:00PM
West Coast Chamber Jazz Trio Andrea Centazzo - Percussion , Mallet Kat & Sampling, Ellen Burr - Flute, Piccolo Flute, Bass Flute, Alto Flute, Jeff Schwartz - Double Bass
9:00PM - neem Kelley Kipperman - bass, Gabby Fluke-Mogul - violin
"… Sort of like Braxton Circle meets Coleman Trio meets Zappa! … challenging and consistently fascinating… a variety of surprises with layers of complex writing and inspired solos. Centazzo's music is in between modern jazz and contemporary classical music. The balance between writing and the quirky solos is just right." -BLG, Downtown Music Gallery, NY
More... Friday, March 25
Fri 3/25 7:30 PM Point Richmond Jazz [Point Richmond United Methodist Church, 201 Martina St.
Point Richmond, CA 94801]Sara Caswell, one of the country's finest jazz violinists, will be performing with mandolinist Joe Brent their group 9 Horses at point Richmond Jazz - the East Bay's premiere jazz violin concert series. Sara and 9 Horses will also lead a workshop on "Finding your Own Voice," at the same venue at 11 am Saturday morning, Mar. 26. Register for that event at https://cjc.edu/workshops/?eid=11499
More... Fri 3/25 7:45 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]New Music Open Mic
A showcase for composers and performers who want to try something new or have a polished work to share but do not have enough material for an entire show. We usually have a wide variety of performers and styles including solo instrumental works, fixed media pieces, and live multimedia pieces.
More... Saturday, March 26
Sat 3/26 7:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Chris Mann: things i’d like to have said
"Chris Mann is really a composer of extreme rhythmic complexities that have deeper meaning than words can ever deliver." —Alvin Lucier
Chris Mann is an Australian poet, writer, performer and improviser specialized in the emerging field of compositional linguistics, which the artist describes as "the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do.” Mann's works for voice are based on complex texts, freely composed to allow a play of wit and humor. He explores the textures and gestures of speech, with its rhythms and qualities of color, pitch, intonation and emphasis. Mann's unique style of reading these incredibly dense, parenthetical texts at a high speed has brought him recognition as a unique performer and recording artist.
Reserve Tickets Here More... Sat 3/26 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]** POSTPONED **Eine Kleine Henze Fest - This event has been postponed.
A celebration of the chamber music of Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012), including a performance of his early masterpiece, "Kammermusik 1958" for Tenor, Guitar, and 8 solo instruments.
More... Friday, April 1
Fri 4/01 8:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Drive
Stanford
CA 94305]hk&tcs (helen newby, bethanne walker, weston olencki) are Bay Area based musician playing a wide ranging repertoire who perform chamber music and a lot of objects, texts, images, words, and things that explore power relationships and extreme semiotic confusion.
***PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN START TIME - NOW 8.30PM***
Their program for April 1st:
Helmut Lachenmann - Pression
Bernhard Lang - Monadologie XVI
Andrew Greenwald - a thing is a hole in a thing it is not (VI)
Kaija Saariaho - oi kuu
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Salvatore Sciarrino - Come venmo no prodotti gli incantesimi?
Charlie Sdraulig - few
Kurt Isaacson - radiant species
Weston Olencki - casting
More... Saturday, April 2
Sat 4/02 1:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St
SF]Meet the Samalan
Special engagement for musicians to encounter and explore the Samalan at Tom Nunn’s workshop/venue the Nunnery in SF’s Mission District. Bow it, stroke it, lie inside it and give instrument inventor Alan Tower your feedback. This is a FREE and friendly social engagement for the Bay Area instrument inventing and extended technique community. Free-improv may occur….
More... Sat 4/02 8:00 PM Foothill College [12345 El Monte Rd
Los Altos Hills, CA]Tape music of Charles Amirkhanian,
Thomas Dimuzio on the Buchla 200e modular synthesizer, and the premiere of a new composition by Eric Kuehnl for voice and electronics featuring Milissa Carey.
More... Sunday, April 3
Sun 4/03 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Swift Rose: Mazz Swift & Alisa Rose
The first West coast collaborative performance of Mazz Swift and Alisa Rose -two fiery fiddlers from opposite sides of the country! The program will consist of expressive duets and solo violin music of their own creation as well as a few morsels of classical repertoire.
More... Sun 4/03 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St.
SF]The Wooden Fish Ensemble will present a program of traditional music from Asia and recent music by Hyo-shin Na along with music by European masters Schoenberg and Mozart.
More... Sun 4/03 5:00 PM R Kassman [843 Gilman Street, Berkeley, CA 94710]You are cordially invited to Michael Smolen's solo piano performance as part of the Sundays At The 88s series at R. Kassman Fine Pianos 843 Gilman St., Berkeley, Sunday April 3rd, 5:00 – 6:00p.m. Come hear unique arrangements of your favourite jazz gems, along with re-constructions of classical, spiritual, and pop works, all played by the veteran pianist/composer Michael Smolens. This very rare appearance is his first solo concert in decades. As an experienced ensemble leader and arranger, Michael is excited to unveil three brand new original pieces, including a Steve Reich-inspired pattern piece using multiple simultaneous time signatures. This one of a kind performance is not to be missed! Find out more at: http://www.rkassman.com/events/
Suggested at $20 - cash only at the door.
Reservations recommended.
Make sure to e-mail info@rkassman.com to reserve your spot.
More... Monday, April 4
Mon 4/04 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]HYO-SHIN NA’S MUSIC FOR ASIAN ZITHERS
Shoko Hikage, koto (Japanese zither) Kyungso Park, kayageum (Korean zither) JiHye Lim, kayageum.
Tickets available at the door only
More... Mon 4/04 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: ZE BIB! (5th dimensional electroacoustic music)
(
Robert Lopez-percussion, etc., Shanna Sordahl-cello, etc.)
Set #2: Ackley/Hammond/Walton Trio (contemporary improvisation)
(
Bruce Ackley-sax, Scott Walton-bass, RH-guitar)
Set #3:
Jakob Pek Ensemble (modern jazz/composition)
(
Jakob Pek, etc.)
More... Mon 4/04 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]Dancin' Baby
Brian Pedersen- baritone horn, Jeff Lievers- baritone horn, Courtney Sexton- baritone horn
https://dancinbaby.bandcamp.com/
Solo Organ
Douglas Katelus- Hammond Organ
https://soloorgan.bandcamp.com/releases
visuals by Kit Young
More... Friday, April 8
Fri 4/08 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Switchboard Presents: Dance: K A T E S + Sam Hertz & Maryanna Lachmann
Switchboard’s first dance performance! K A T E S, a dance-piano duo featuring Kate Campbell and Katelyn Halpern, followed by Sam Hertz, electronics, in collaboration with dance Maryanna Lachmann.
More... Fri 4/08 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell
SF]Sharp & Fine presents All Roads Are Lined With Teeth
an original dance play with live music - by Sharp & Fine with playwright Amber Hsu & composer Aram Shelton
More... Fri 4/08 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St.
SF]Sarah Cahill RESIDENCY AT OLD FIRST CONCERTS
Sarah performs a program of music written for her over the past several decades, including works by John Adams, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne, Kyle Gann, Paul Dresher, and others.
Tickets Here More... Saturday, April 9
Sat 4/09 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell
SF]Sharp & Fine presents All Roads Are Lined With Teeth
an original dance play with live music - by Sharp & Fine with playwright Amber Hsu & composer Aram Shelton
More... Sat 4/09 8:00 PM East Side Arts Alliance [2277 International Blvd
Oakland, California 94606]David Murray & Class Struggle
Performing at the EastSide Cultural Center on Saturday, April 9th David Murray & Class Struggle come to East Oakland with the intent to perform the music in Black communities to retain its historic and soulful roots.
Tickets Available Here More... Sat 4/09 8:00 PM The Ridge Space [634 15th St
Oakland
tickets available at
http://borderlessimaginary.brownpapertickets.com]A new work by MobileIntent featuring the collaborative work of artist Ann Schnake, videographer Robert Gomez, composer Linda Bouchard, violinist
Kristina Dutton, and dancers Natalie Greene and Carmen Serber. This is a site-specific installation of sculptural works, performance, music and video projection directed by Ann Schnake. This one-hour show, which bridges visual and performative art, explores the poetics of borders and distribution of resources, and the collision between tenderness and greed.
tickets available at
http://borderlessimaginary.brownpapertickets.com
More... Sat 4/09 8:30 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland]California Electronic Music Exchange Concert – a program of electronic musicians from Mills, Stanford, UCSD, Cal Arts, and UCSB. With a variety of styles, instruments, and techniques, this concert is a unique opportunity to see contemporary experimental electronic music!
More... Sunday, April 10
Sun 4/10 2:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell
SF]Sharp & Fine presents All Roads Are Lined With Teeth
an original dance play with live music - by Sharp & Fine with playwright Amber Hsu & composer Aram Shelton
More... Sun 4/10 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]The Fête Concert Series Celebrates Living Women Composers
Part two in a series honoring women from music's history, present, and future. This recital features works by Elinor Armer, Belinda Reynolds, Emma Logan, and Rebecca Larkin performed in intimate pairings of piano, flute, and soprano.
More... Sun 4/10 4:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street
Berkeley]The Holly Martins
Named after the main character in the classic postwar film, The Third Man, The Holly Martins is a trio of Bay Area musicians dedicated to exploring the boundaries of jazz-infused improvised music, but without the trappings of a traditional "rhythm section".
More... Monday, April 11
Mon 4/11 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus
near corner of College and Bancroft
Berkeley]Brooklyn trios TIGUE and Concert Black make their West Coast debuts, combining to perform SHELTER, Ravi Kittappa’s improvisatory deconstruction of the Rolling Stones classic Gimme Shelter. The piece saw it’s premiere on permutations092714 at the Dimenna Center for Classical music in NYC. In addition to SHELTER, each ensemble will perform selections from their commissioned and original repertoires.
More... Mon 4/11 9:00 PM The Night Light [311 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607]Ings, Grex, and Dead Recipe at the Night Light
A one of a kind evening of outre pop and noisy rock, featuring:
Ings (w/Carmen Rothwell-b, Chris Icasiano-dms) (alternative, Seattle)
Grex (
Karl Evangelista-g, Rei Scampavia-keys,
Robert Lopez-dms) (art rock/free, Oakland)
Dead Recipe (noise/avant rock, Santa Cruz)
More... Mon 4/11 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Presents Neem, Tainted Pussy, + Maladama
Neem - a queer improvisational duo focusing on issues of identity, bodies, gender, sexuality, feminism, eroticism, & more within the music continuum.
Tainted Pussy - Performing noisy & remixed & kitty inspired cover songs.
Maladama - Experimental Electroballads by Regina Larre Campuzano
More... Wednesday, April 13
Wed 4/13 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St
SF]Meridian Music Presents: Bob Ostertag & Bising Documentary. We are excited to present Bob Ostertag in his first Bay Area performance since returning from a year-long tour across the globe. Also will be the San Francisco debut of Adyhtia Utama & Riar Rizaldi's documentary BISING covering the Indonesian noise and experimental music scene.
More... Wed 4/13 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Play or Die 2016 #2: REMPIS – JOHNSTON – OCHS plus: EAT THE SUN
The string trio Meet the Sun with
Jason Hoopes (bass) Noah Phillips (gtr) and Gretchen Jude (koto) opens with another sublime set of collective string sounds, followed by SPECTRAL aka Dave Rempis (sax),
Darren Johnston (tpt), and
Larry Ochs (sax). Now in their fifth year and evolving into one of the finest horn trios in improvised music. Concert celebrates the digital release of Spectral's 2015 live concert from Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY. These two bands should complement each other beautifully. Don't miss it.
More... Thursday, April 14
Thu 4/14 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr.
Stanford, CA 94305]Praised for her diverse talents, bassoonist Dana Jessen is highly active as a soloist, chamber musician, improviser and new music specialist. At CCRMA she will present an exciting program of recent works written for bassoon and electronics.
More... Thu 4/14 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Hybrid Modalities: Mills grad students in electroacoustic performance
Grad students in the "Seminar in Electronic Music Performance" taught by John Bischoff at Mills College will present an evening of recent work. Pieces will feature myriad sound sources and technologies including contact mics, custom circuits, traditional and non-traditional instruments, and laptops configured in various combinations.
More... Friday, April 15
Fri 4/15 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Guerrilla Composers Guild presents: Areon Flutes
Local champions Areon Flutes perform a set of brand new works in collaboration with the Guerrilla Composers Guild. Featured composers include Nick Benavides, Patrick Castillo, Eric Choate, Emma Logan, and Ryan Rey.
More... Fri 4/15 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St.
SF]Mobius Trio
Robert Nance, guitar; Mason Fish, guitar; Matthew Holmes-Linder, guitar
Danny Clay a place that inhabits us
Belinda Reynolds Edges
Brendon Randall-Myers Making Good Choices
Anthony Porter needle-play
Robert Nance Plexus
Maurice Ravel, arr. Winton White String Quartet in F major – mvt. II. Très vif
Sergio Assad Kindergarten
Tickets Here More... Saturday, April 16
Sat 4/16 5:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr.
Stanford, CA 94305]The 2016 series of California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts will be held at the campuses of UCSD, UCSB, Mills, Stanford, and CalArts. The Stanford leg of the exchange will be held on Saturday 16th with a slecetion of pieces from all the participating institutions.
More... Sat 4/16 8:00 PM All Saints Episcopal Church [555 Waverley St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301]Starlit Circumstances: Music for Voices, Electronics, and Kelp - The San Francisco Bay Area Chamber Choir, led by Anthony Pasqua will sing, hum, whisper, speak, and exclaim works by some of the most famous modern and contemporary composers. The centerpiece of the program will be Nereocystis III, a new piece for mixed voices, kelp horn, and electronics that the choir has commissioned from Bay Area composer, sound artist, and professor Krystyna Bobrowski.
More... Sat 4/16 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St.
Berkeley]Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom
With her band Boom Tic Boom, she’s put together exactly the right group, featuring
Myra Melford on piano, Jenny Scheinman on violin,
Todd Sickafoose on bass, and occasional special guests like Steven Bernstein, Erik Friedlander, Rachel Friedman, and Ara Anderson.
More... Sunday, April 17
Sun 4/17 7:00 PM St. Mark's Episcopal Church [2300 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94704]Starlit Circumstances: Music for Voices, Electronics, and Kelp: The San Francisco Bay Area Chamber Choir will sing, hum, whisper, speak, and exclaim works by some of the most famous modern and contemporary composers. The centerpiece of the program will be Nereocystis III, a new piece for mixed voices, kelp horn, and electronics that the choir has commissioned from Bay Area composer, sound artist, and professor Krystyna Bobrowski.
More... Sun 4/17 7:00 PM PianoFight [144 Taylor St
SF]ELECTRIC SHADOW THEATER: FILM TRUTH + SURREAL SOUND BY FUSHIGI KENKYŪKAI (不思議研究会)
◉ Films by Jean Cocteau and Robert Florey / Slavko Vorkapić
◉ Music:
Steve Adams (electronics) —
Bryan Day (invented instruments) —
Thomas Dimuzio (electronics) —
Tom Djll (surrealist prepared trumpet | electronics) — Joe Lasqo (synth | MSP/laptop | objects) — John McCowen (dada prepared clarinet + drum resonator) —
David Michalak (skatchbox | lap steel guitar | film curator)
The name Fushigi Kenkyūkai (不思議研究会) means "Paranormal Research Society". The truth is out there… beyond normal reality. The program uses two surrealist film classics to find it:
🎥 Robert Florey / Slavko Vorkapić: The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra: (13 min, followed by brief reel change…)
🎥 Jean Cocteau: Orphée: (95 min). Part 2 of the Orphic Trilogy.
For ticket prices, discount codes, online purchase, etc., click through to details….
More... Sun 4/17 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]Poetry in Motion/Words on Music
Muyassar Kurdi w/
David Samas: new works for mouth and movement
Luciano Chessa
+ Brothers’ Quarrel (
David Samas & Ian Saxton)
As I Lie Naked feat. burlesque legend Isis Starr
& Philandering Moon feat. poet Tom Clark
More... Monday, April 18
Mon 4/18 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland]JENNIFER IVERSON
Music theorist Jennifer Iverson will give a talk titled "Invisible Collaboration: The Dawn of Electronic Music at the WDR," which makes visible the engineers and technicians who helped the composers during a formative time in electronic music history in Cologne in the 1950s.
Monday, April 18, 2016 7:30 pm, Ensemble Room
More... Tuesday, April 19
Tue 4/19 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr.
Stanford
CA 94305]Qubit and CCRMA presents Chaise Èlectrique: An evening-length recital featuring French soloist, Séverine Ballon, with her interpretation of five adventurous works for violoncello and electronics.
“Electric Chair Music”, the working title for Brian Ferneyhough’s landmark Time and Motion Study II for singing cellist and electronics, was written in 1973-76. Already nearly forty years old, where is the medium of violoncello and electronics now? How is a younger generation of composers responding to this most traditional of instruments when confronting it with alien worlds of electronic sound?
More... Wednesday, April 20
Wed 4/20 8:00 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St.
SF]Neha Spellfish, Demonsleeper, Thoabath, Malocculsion
Four twenny in the Haight Ashbury? Yup. If smoke makes the best sunsets, the banks of Golden Gate Park will be blowin' up as Neha Spellfish, Malocculsion, play the final show with Demonsleeper and Thoabath before they hang ten off a dank ring blowing out toward San Juan, Puerto Rico where they'll opena new venue for experimental live sound. Come see them off with...
More... Wed 4/20 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]The Joel Futterman New Alchemy Trio
The Joel Futterman New Alchemy Trio featuring reed player
Ike Levin and drummer
Donald Robinson is dedicated to exploring new directions in the art of “in the moment” collectively composed and improvised music. Futterman is making one of his infrequent appearances in the San Francisco Bay Area so don’t miss this rare opportunity to listen and experience this remarkable musician in live performance. Buckle up, close your eyes, let your own preconceptions fade away, and get ready to go on a musical journey of varied impressions, images, and emotions.
More... Thursday, April 21
Thu 4/21 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) [2155 Center Street
Berkeley, CA 94720]An encounter with homemade and experimental instruments. Composer and instrument builder Paul Dresher brings his “omnivorous sensibility” (San Francisco Chronicle) to bear on works for his Quadrachord, joined by innovative percussionist Joel Davel on his Marimba Lumina. In addition, Edward Schocker performs on his own updated version of the glass harmonica, and multi-instrumentalist Laura Inserra creates a rich tapestry for the ears with instruments from around the world.
More... Thu 4/21 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street
Berkeley]Qubit presents Chaise Èlectrique: An evening-length recital featuring French soloist, Séverine Ballon, with her interpretation of five adventurous works for violoncello and electronics. “Electric Chair Music”, the working title for Brian Ferneyhough’s landmark Time and Motion Study II for singing cellist and electronics, was written in 1973-76. Already nearly forty years old, where is the medium of violoncello and electronics now? How is a younger generation of composers responding to this most traditional of instruments when confronting it with alien worlds of electronic sound?
More... Saturday, April 23
Sat 4/23 7:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170
Oakland]Gold Age & Quattuor Elephantis
Gold Age plays avant jazz informed by their collective backgrounds and mutual interest in challenging traditional concepts of jazz through the use of adventurous harmonics and inventive forms.
Quattuor Elephantis represents an intelligible entirety, dynamic and volatile, perceived through the kaleidoscopic effluence of the Four Cosmic Pillars.
More... Sunday, April 24
Sun 4/24 2:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St
SF]John Hanes/
Steve Adams - electronics duo - secret musical impulses in free-ranging improvisations.
Ross Hammond - guitar equal parts jazz, folk, blues, spirituals and world music.
More... Sun 4/24 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Adam Marks: De Profundis
New York pianist Adam Marks launches his term as a curator at the Center For New Music with a diverse program. Featured composers include Ted Hearne, Andy Akiho, Jason Charney and Lia Cimaglia. Closing the program will be Frederic Rzewski's epic oratorio for speaking pianist, "De Profundis."
More... Wednesday, April 27
Wed 4/27 5:30 PM PianoFight [144 Taylor St
SF]Jazz & Asteroids piano residency
Joe Lasqo solo piano at this great new venue in SF's Central Market Arts District.
The cool energy of classics by Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Oliver Nelson… plus the fresh compositions of today’s Bay Area greats like Darren Johnston, Steve Adams, Larry Ochs, and others, provide the jazz backbone of the repertoire on offer.
Every now and then a bit of India/Bollywood, Stockhausen, Komitas (Կոմիտաս), and other outer asteroids will come into orbit as bases for improvisation.
Listeners who’ve heard Joe's residency in the erstwhile piano series at Viracocha (21st & Valencia, SF) will find this repertoire familiar but also containing much beautiful new material.
5:30pm to 8pm++
More... Thursday, April 28
Thu 4/28 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr.
Stanford
CA 94305]Please join us as Juraj Kojs preforms E-Slovakia T. This is an interdisciplinary work combining sound and movement in a real-time controlled environment, contemplating the experiences from Juraj's native Slovakia. A set of wireless sensors (developed at Aarhus University, Denmark) are attached to the body of the performer, assisting in a creation of a unique artistic content. Slovakian ancient bass-pipe fujara, insistent vocalizations and folk-inspired piano tune are interwoven into a story of an immigrant. Ancient soundscapes unfold—poignantly, into a technology-infused presence.
More... Thu 4/28 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Now Hear Ensemble: Not for the Ears Alone
The Now Hear Ensemble will present the first installment of the "Not for the Ears Alone" series, featuring music that exploits the potential for creativity using both the stage space and the performers’ bodies. These works make powerful musical statements, yet they are best experienced with eyes wide open. For this show, we will make use of chalkboards, a boombox, animated videos, sandpaper, samplers, and toy guitars.
More... Thu 4/28 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street
SF]8pm Rachel Austin - voice, electronics
9pm French Radio
Andrew Way - anti-turntables, efx, etc, Jim Kaiser - bicycle wheel, Bruce Anderson - guitars(MX80)
"two turntables, a guitar, lots of effects, a bicycle wheel and a reel-to-reel deck conspiring to make something dirty, hypnotic, like the aftermath of a homicide spied through smudged and smashed windows." - S. Kalem, East Bay Express
More... Thu 4/28 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd
SF]Pamela Z's MEMORY TRACE
Pamela Z performs her intermedia perfomance work Memory Trace as part of YBCA’s New Frequencies Festival at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts at 8pm in San Francisco, CA
Memory Trace is a solo performance work exploring various aspects of memory through voice and electronics, multi-channel video, sampled text fragments, and gestural movement. This work, which grew out of an interactive media installation of the same name, was workshopped in a three-night run in the intimate Royce Gallery in summer of 2015, and now a large-scale version will be mounted at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum space in April of 2016.
More... Thu 4/28 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]Steel Bridge Trio and Ochs Robinson Duo.
Steel Bridge Trio: Aram Shelton, Safa Shokrai, Tim Daisy
Ochs Robinson Duo:
Larry Ochs, Tenor and Sopranino Saxophone / Don Robinson, Drums
More... Friday, April 29
Fri 4/29 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]New Playlist: Nicholas Phillips plays American piano music
Wisconsin-based pianist and fierce new music advocate Nicholas Phillips presents an evening of recent American piano music, including works by Muhly, Greenstein, Snider, and Garrop, as well as local composers Lucas Floyd and Mark Winges.
More... Fri 4/29 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd
SF]Theresa Wong: The Unlearning / Edward Schocker: The Crossing Pt. 1
Friday's performances feature cellist/composer
Theresa Wong and found object/instrument makers Edward Schocker & Thingamagigs Performance Group. "The Crossing" invites its audience to physically experience sound as they move from a space immersed in music to a place of quiet and calm. Composed of former Thingamajigs members and artists from both sides of the Pacific, the group was specifically assembled for this project. Together they combine form with improvisation in a performance that contrasts contemporary practices with ancient Korean music.
Theresa Wong performs the West Coast premiere of The Unlearning inspired by the war-focused etchings of 19th century Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The Berkeley-based cellist and composer wrote the piece with renowned violinist Carla Kihlstedt in mind. The music will resonate with audiences as it acknowledges today’s currents of war and violence.
More... Saturday, April 30
Sat 4/30 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave.
Berkeley]Nicholas Phillips: New Playlist
Music for solo piano written in the last 10 years by Stacy Garrop, Judd Greenstein, Nico Muhly, Mark Olivieri, Carter Pann, Jonathan Pieslak, and Sarah Kirkland Snider, plus a brand new work written for the pianist by San Francisco-based composer Lucas Floyd.
Seating is limited. Get your required online reservation
here.
More... Sat 4/30 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr.
Stanford, CA 94305]The Now Hear Ensemble will present the first installment of the Not for the Ears Alone series, featuring music that exploits the potential for creativity using both the stage space and the performers’ bodies. These works make powerful musical statements, yet they are best experienced with eyes wide open. For this show, we will make use of chalkboards, a boombox, animated videos, sandpaper, samplers, and toy guitars.
More... Sat 4/30 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Puncture Tones
Puncture Tones (2016), is a new composition by Chiara Giovando for voice, strings and subwoofers. Puncture Tones plays with the psychoacoustics phenomena of sonic masking, or the presence of a sound that partially or completely masks the perception of another sound. Using sculpture, graphical notation and a play between electronic and acoustic sound, Puncture Tones explores the concept of the mask as a reflective surface for subjectivity.
More... Sat 4/30 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Opus 40: Mechanical / Organic
A multimedia event with flutist Alan Kingsley, oboist Stardust, trumpet Michael Cox, soprano Jill Wagoner, mezzo-soprano Harriet March Page, pianist Feona Lee Jones, violinist Monika Gruber, cellist Elizabeth Morrison, and the Opus Project Orchestra, conducted by Mark Alburger. The concert will feature selections and excerpts from the Opus 40 compositions of Arnold Schoenberg, Sergei Prokofiev, Paul Hindemith, Dmitri Shostakovich, Samuel Barber, Alan Hovhaness, Benjamin Britten, and new music composers Mark Alburger, Stardust, and others. The Opus Project is a project of the Ritual Art Troupe.
More... Sat 4/30 8:30 PM 1962 Harrison [1962 Harrison St.
San Francisco, CA]FINITE: a quarterly concert series focusing on showcasing weird music and sound.
Who: Rene Hell (A/V) [PAN, Type, NNA Tapes] - Portland
easysimple [Apollo, Ilian Tape, JukeTrax] - Detroit
The Friend [How to Kill, Clan Destine] - Detroit
Cullen Miller & Gabriel Dunne (A/V) [FINITE] - San Francisco
Equilet [FINITE] - Oakland
More... Sunday, May 1
Sun 5/01 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Av, Berkeley, CA]Celebrate the Cardew Choir's 15th Anniversary with a concert of works by Cardew, Oliveros, Hutchinson, Marsh, and Bickley.
More... Sun 5/01 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]Mayday Celebration at Berkeley Arts - Cornelius Cardew Choir
Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the first rehearsal of the Cornelius Cardew Choir! Paragrah 7 of the Great Learning by Cardew, Wind Horse by Pauline Oliveros, Frog Haiku by Brenda Hutchinson, Tuning Fork Mosquitos by
Tom Bickley, Transmission Conduction by Bob Marsh. $10 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
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