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... 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... Thursday, April 30
Thu 4/30 8:00 PM Cowell Theater [Fort Mason Pier 2
San Francisco, CA 94123]Terry Riley Weekend
The Complete String Quartets of JOHN ZORN featuring JACK and Tony Arnold (4/30/15).
More... Thu 4/30 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford - walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]Karen Stackpole & Drew Webster: Machine Shop & Electric Shaman - An evening of total sonic immersion with Machine Shop: Live Amplified Gong Experience and The Electric Shaman Psychoacoustic Sound Immersion Experience. Machine Shop is
Karen Stackpole and Drew Webster coaxing harmonics from large gongs while herding transduced vibrations through analog effects and mixing it all together to bring the listener into the a transcendent world of layered sound. The Electric Shaman is Kyle Bouchard, an audio engineer and musician from the Pacific Northwest and a member of Portland’s Creative Music Guild. Bouchard is trained in psychoacoustics, bioacoustics, sound synthesis, composition, and performance.
More... Thu 4/30 9:00 PM The Knockout [3223 Mission St, San Francisco, California 94110]Hedersleben// St. James & The Apostles ( Philly) // Inner Ear Brigade
More... Friday, May 1
Fri 5/01 12:00 PM City Hall [San Francisco]Ritual 4-6: ascent
Creating three more rituals of a total 95 RITUALS (for Anna Halperin) with Dana and Shinichi Iova-Koga, (choreographed by Molissa Fenley and Wanjiru Kumuyu),
Dohee Lee and musicians Jason Ditzian, Max Baloian, Tim Kim, Katherine McDonald and Dan Gottwald.
This performance features members of an expansive creative collective developing and performing a monumental set of works informed by Anna:
“Ritual is another word that needs a new definition… Ritual, as I use the term, refers to an artistic process by which people gather and unify themselves in order to confront the challenges of their existence.”
More... Fri 5/01 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]8:00 PM Che Guevarra Memorial Marching (and Stationary) Accordion Band
structured and conducted improvisations for large ensemble.
http://www.publiceyesore.com/catalog.php?pg=3&pit=085
9:00 PM Cornelious Cardew Choir
14th anniversary concert with works by Takuji Kawai, Bob Marsh, Pauline Oliveros, Rae Diamond and
David Samas.
More... Fri 5/01 8:00 PM Cowell Theater [Fort Mason Pier 2
San Francisco, CA 94123]Terry Riley Weekend
Kala Ramnath
Kala Ramnath (5/1/15) is Grammy nominated for her album 'Miles from India', recognized as one of the fifty best instrumentalists of the world by the prestigious 'Songlines' Magazine, Album 'Kala' selected again by 'Songlines' magazine as one of the 50 best recordings of the world, the first Indian violinist to be featured in the violin Bible, 'The Strad', a solo essay in the 'Encyclopedia - Rough Guide to World Music' for her contributions in the field of violin in music, frequently featured in Hollywood soundtracks including the Oscar nominated "Blood Diamond" and many more such recognitions, Maestro Kala Ramnath with her 'Singing Violin' stands among the best instrumentalists of the world.
More... Fri 5/01 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Amy X Neuburg: Jerry Hunt’s “Song Drapes”
Amy X Neuburg was commissioned by the Cultural Department of Cologne, Germany, to create and perform a new interpretation of Jerry Hunt’s “Song Drapes,” originally a collaboration between Jerry and the performance artist Karen Finley. In homage to the intense and slightly disturbing nature of the original, and to the frantic occult-based compositions of Jerry Hunt (and his tragic end by suicide), Amy’s version is a one-hour song-and-rant cycle about aging, death, and suicide (but also kitties and flowers and rainbows). Jerry’s wild electronic textures serve as a backdrop to Amy’s lyrics, wide ranging vocalisms, electronic percussion, and choreography. One hour before the concert at 7:00 PM, excerpts of films by and about Jerry will offer some context and insight into his work and life.
(Premiered March 21, 2015, in Cologne, Germany; produced and funded by reiheM / Kulturamt der Stadt Köln.)
More... Saturday, May 2
Sat 5/02 4:00 PM Finnish Kaleva Hall [1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley, California 94702]~~Annual Vappu Spring Festival May Day Celebration Matinee Concert~~
Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble CD release concert of "The Otherworld Cycle"
A New Music Odyssey inspired by Ancient Finnish Mythology
The Life's Blood Ensemble:
Ron Heglin•Voice,
Jason Hoopes•Bass,
Heikki Koskinen•Recorder, E-trumpet, Kantele,
Joshua Marshall•Tenor saxophone, Bob Marsh•Voice,
Bill Noertker•Bass,
Suki O'Kane•Percussion,
Timothy Orr•Drums, Mark Pino•Percussion,
Mika Pontecorvo•Flutes,
Rent Romus•Alto saxophones, Kantele, Flutes, Bells, Shanna Sordahl•Cello
Buy tickets for the Annual Vappu Spring Festival May Day CelebrationIn Advance or at the door
More... Sat 5/02 7:00 PM Sweets Ballroom [1933 Broadway Oakland, Ca.]Fifty Foot Hose - One of the first bands to fuse rock music with electronic instruments and avant-garde compositional ideas. All proceeds benefit Oakland School for the Art's Theatre students' trip to Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer to perform
More... Sat 5/02 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]ANIMALS AND GIRAFFES: “JULY” RELEASE PARTY
Animals and Giraffes, a collaboration between Poet/Critic Claudia La Rocco and Composer/Musician
Phillip Greenlief, celebrates the debut release of JULY with a performance at the Center for New Music involving many of the finest SF Bay Improvisers.
The recording features poetry by La Rocco combined with improvisations and re-imagined in the recording studio. The result is a collage of language, virtuosic improvisation and the use of the recording studio as a compositional tool. Musicians featured: David Boyce,
Jon Raskin,
Aurora Josephson,
Tim Perkis,
Karen Stackpole,
John Shiurba, Evelyn Davis, and Dapplegray.
Tickets: $15 General, $10 Members
Tickets available at the door only
More... Sat 5/02 8:00 PM Cowell Theater [Fort Mason Pier 2
San Francisco, CA 94123]Terry Riley Weekend
Thollem McDonas (5/2/15) from the San Francisco Bay Area, has been a perpetually traveling musician since 2006. He shares his time between North America and Europe, performing/recording as a soloist, in collaboration with many other individuals and groups, as well as leading large ensemble improvisation/collaboration workshops. His music is diverse, approaching each concert and project uniquely, resulting in dramatically new and different outcomes.
More... Sunday, May 3
Sun 5/03 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Lateral Thinking: Expanded Video Performance by Andrew Puls, Kit Young and viDEO sAVant
Electrons meet the orgone in this overflowing smorgasbord of live sound, hybrid analog/digital video jamming, feedback loop freak outs and robotic puppet show spectacle run amuck—promising to fill Cinematheque’s Center for New Music project space with performers, projectors and gadgets galore.
More... Sun 5/03 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford - walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]Tim Berne's SNAKE OILL Tim Berne - alto saxophone; Oscar Noriega - clarinet, bass clarinet; Matt Mitchell - piano; Ches Smith - drums
More... Monday, May 4
Mon 5/04 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: Biggie Vinkeloe Roughtet (Joe Lasqo-MSP/pno/objects,
Donald Robinson-dms,
Biggi Vinkeloe-sax, fl, Lisle Ellis-b) (electro-acoustic music)
Set #2: Love, Devotion, Surrender (
Karl Evangelista/
Ross Hammond-gtr,
Eli Wallace-keys, Alex Reiff-b, Bob LaDue-dms) (raging guitar jazz)
Set #3: Crickets (Ila Cantor-gtr,
Kasey Knudsen-sax, John Wiitala-b, Hamir Atwal-dms) (modern jazz)
More... Thursday, May 7
Thu 5/07 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector: Instruments from the Kronos Quartet and Terry Riley collections – Opening Reception
Kronos Quartet and Terry Riley began their decades-long friendship at Mills College in 1980. Since then, Kronos has commissioned 28 works from Riley, more than from any other composer in the group’s history. This exhibit offers a peek into the sound worlds composer and quartet continue to create together, including original instruments by Walter Kitundu, vintage synthesizers, and shamanic plants.
Join members of Kronos Quartet to celebrate the installation of this unique instrument exhibit.
More... Thu 5/07 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford - walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]8 pm
The Lost Trio: Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums; Special Guest: Scott Foster: guitar - performs music by Greenlief, Seamans, Monk, Strayhorn 9 pm Do Tell: Dan Clucas (LA) - cornet; Mark Weaver (Albuquerque) - tuba; Dave Wayne (LA) - come catch this brass-based trio on their west coast tour
More... Thu 5/07 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]A TALE OF TWO DUOS: CHRISTOPHER LUNA & DIEGO VILLASEÑOR + IMA (JEANIE-APRILLE TANG &
Nava Dunkelman)
A night of free and not so free improvisation featuring two wildly different duos interacting with each other.
More... Friday, May 8
Fri 5/08 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Switchboard Presents: Meerenai Shim and New Match Arc
Switchboard Presents adventurous flutist Meerenai Shim with guests David Wegehaupt (saxophone) and live visuals by VCO Vault, plus Oakland vibraphonist
Mark Clifford and his new project New Match Arc.
Meerenai’s program:
60.8 for bass flute and electronics (2014) by Douglas Laustsen*
Loose Debris for flute with electronics and saxophone (2015) by Ryan Rey*
Chapter One, Page One for flute and live audio processing (2008) by Ian Dicke
Fractus III: Aerophoneme for flute and quadraphonic electronic sound (2011/2012) by Eli Fieldsteel
More... Saturday, May 9
Sat 5/09 7:30 PM The Emerald Tablet [80 Fresno St
SF]Join us on Saturday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m. for an experiment in arts and lectures, combining performance and presentation in the form of Call and Response: a specialist in any field gives a presentation—of any kind—in their area of expertise, followed by an informal Q&A, and a musical response by some of the Bay Area’s finest creative musicians.
This month features the music of pianist and electronic musician
Chris Brown, and the work of evolutionary biologist Arnaud Martin.
More... Sat 5/09 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]8 pm - Biggi Vinkeloe (sweden) & Phillip Greenlief - alto saxophone duo - 9 pm Inky Lee (Korea) Waiting for a passenger / ship to go to sea - new (modern) choreography for five dancers
More... Sat 5/09 8:00 PM First Presbyterian Church San Anselmo [72 Kensington Rd
San Anselmo, CA 94960]The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Karl Jenkins, with Director Daniel Canosa and the chancel choir & orchestra, will be presented on Saturday May 9th, 8 PM, at First Presbyterian Church, 72 Kensington Rd, 94960.
More... Sat 5/09 8:00 PM First Congregational Church of Berkeley [2345 Channing Way
Berkeley]!BAMM! 2015
An exciting night of WORLD PREMIERES!
A premiere performance by
Ken Ueno and The Living Earth Show. New works by Nick Vasallo and Jen Wang performed by Wild Rumpus. Debut performances by The Guerrilla Ensemble featuring by Danny Clay and Nick Benavides. Plus a world premiere from new Co-Artistic Director Ryan Rey and the 1st annual student composer !BAMM! winner Ursula Kwong-Brown.
Tickets online here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/867475
More info here: http://composersinc.org/?page_id=38
More... Sat 5/09 8:01 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]sfSoundSalonSeries: David Bithell plus sfSoundGroup performs Erik Satie’s silent film score, Entr’Acte
DAVID BITHELL returns to the Bay Area to perform a set of original works combining theater, performance art, and interactive electronic music. With works described "like a wordless Samuel Beckett play with a score by John Cage”, Bithell’s artistic language makes meaning out of the relationships between sound, image, and action. PLUS: sfSoundGroup performs Erik Satie’s silent film score, Entr’Acte.
More... Sat 5/09 8:30 PM Angelicas [863 Main Street
Redwood City, CA 94063]Afro-Filipina vocalist Anna Maria Flechero’s voice has been described by jazz critics as “[a]n articulate and serious expression of vocal jazz at its finest.. creating a voyage from start to finish." The Palo Alto Daily News affirms, "San Francisco jazz singer Anna Maria Flechero delivers an outstanding set. The soul and sophistication of her voice brings new meaning to such standards as "Misty" and "I Wish You Love."
More... Sat 5/09 9:00 PM Leo's Music Club [5447 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland CA 94609]The Fuxedos are comin' across the Bay, and gettin' ready to slay!™ It’s our first East Bay show in over five years, and our last until ??? And it's gonna' be a veritable motherFuxer...with a set that'll include the NorCal premiere of our nifty new mini-musical, "Sign of the Mole."
Plus music from the most marvelous MoeTar, featuring our very own mighty
Matt Lebofsky on keys...and a set from one-man comedic prog Warr guitar virtuoso Brian Kenney Fresno.
"The Fuxedos are one of the most amazing, entertaining, enthralling, unique, hilarious and inspirational bands I have ever seen...[vocalist] Danny was a musical maniac onstage, donning masks, using crazy props, dancing up an astounding storm, singing dynamically, stomping, prancing, being riotously funny and crazed and mindblowing."
-- Paul Zollo, Sr. Editor, American Songwriter Magazine; author, "Songwriters on Songwriting"
More... Wednesday, May 13
Wed 5/13 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Workshop: San Francisco SuperCollider Meeting
Do you already use SuperCollider, or would you like to learn more about it? Are you a Pd or Max/MSP user considering to add SuperCollider to your sonic toolbox? This informal meet-up is free and open to anyone interested in SuperCollider. It’s a space for people to present their work, ask questions, discuss topics of interest, and anything else SC-related. The meeting starts at 7pm, but at 6:30pm we will have a short “get-started” tutorial for total beginners. For more info, contact
Bruno Ruviaro (bruviaro at scu dot edu).
More... Wed 5/13 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St
SF]Meridian Music: Composers in Performance will conclude its 2014-2015 concert season with a special interdisciplinary performance led by electronic musician Benjamin Tinker. Tinker will perform his original three-part composition, Paperwork/Condensed Cuke/Green-Eyed Monster, with cellist
Crystal Pascucci and dancer Kim Ip in a sequence of multi-tracked solo performances. In addition to this collaboration, Tinker will perform his composition Sugar Town, an immersive sound collage sourced from in and around the town of Crockett, CA that meditates on the relations between sonic travel and geographic space.
More... Thursday, May 14
Thu 5/14 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Composer Meetup
The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. Space is limited, so please
RSVP to Adam Fong if you plan to attend. No admission fees; potluck contributions appreciated!
More... Thu 5/14 7:30 PM The Emerald Tablet [80 Fresno St
SF]— Set 1, 7:30pm: The Godfather of instrument inventors, Bart Hopkin (solo)
— Set 2, 8:15pm: Master vibraphonist
Mark Clifford (solo)
— Set 3, 9:15pm: The
Biggi Vinkeloe Roughtet
◉ Swedish/German sorceress of avant / jazz wind energy, saxophonist / flautist
Biggi Vinkeloe◉ "Percussion dervish" (Coda Magazine)
Donald Robinson◉ Parallel universe laptopist/pianist Joe Lasqo
◉ Legendary Down Beat ✰✰✰✰✰ (The Ornette Coleman Songbook) bassist Lisle Ellis
◉ Algorithmic and improvisatory video hallucinations by Warren Stringer
→ Examiner.com review of
Biggi Vinkeloe Roughtet's 04 May show
here More... Friday, May 15
Fri 5/15 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Babes in Toy Land: A Night of Toys & Noise with Anna Homler,
Tania Chen and Scott Walton
Anna Homler and
Tania Chen met in London a few years ago and bonded over a love of toys and the unexpected. This premiere performance will be an exuberant exploration of sonic worlds created by toys, found objects, lo-fi electronics, and alien vocalese. They will be joined by the versatile double bassist and pianist, Scott Walton, for an evening of improvised duos and trios.
More... Saturday, May 16
Sat 5/16 7:00 PM WAVEFORMLESS [470E 49th Street
Temescal Alley
Oakland, CA 94609]John Hanes &
Jon Raskin Chimera Duo
The Chimera Duo came about because of a love the Chimera BC6 analog synthesizer- a small but very versatile device. John likes to use it for a sound source to slice and dice in software and use an iPad as a controller. Jon likes to setup a mini ensemble of small devices many of which have a physical controller element. All in all, you get a music that is a tail of serpent, a head of a goat and roars like a lion. Or it may all be an illusion.
More... Sat 5/16 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Ensemble sic + Giacomo Fiore: Plucked Strings and Struck Bars
New pieces for refretted resonator guitar in just intonation, retuned Fender Rhodes, pipa, oud, percussion, and electronics. Composed and performed by graduate students from UC Santa Cruz, featuring Giacomo Fiore.
More... Sat 5/16 9:00 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd
Sacramento]Eric Glick Rieman - Performing on a variety of instruments, including the prepared/extended Rhodes electric piano, as well as piano, melodica, celeste, organ, Waterphone, and toy piano, SF Bay Area composer/improviser
More... Sunday, May 17
Sun 5/17 7:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]Woodwind and Guitar Duets w/Mike Gamble & Josh Smith + Ila Cantor &
Ben GoldbergPortland based guitarist Mike Gamble joins Bay Area improvisors Josh Smith, Ila Cantor, and
Ben Goldberg for a night of woodwind and guitar duets.
Mike and Josh, both being Ohio natives, have worked together in various capacities since leaving the heartland. They will come together to share compositions and improvisations that will be sewn together by electro/acoustic manipulations and projections by Gamble. Ila and Ben have been performing together around the Bay Area for years. They will share a special duo performance featuring Ila's compositions.
More... Sun 5/17 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall
116 Ninth St @ Mission
SF 94103]7:30 PM
Huge Statue of JesusAdam Adhiyatma - guitars, clarinets, electronics, voice/Alex Cohen - guitars, tubes, percussion, voice/Kim Nucci - saxophones,clarinet, flute, electronics, voice
8:30 PM Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - saxes, flute/Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute/
John Vaughn - baritone sax, flute/
Bill Noertker - contrabass/
Dax Compise - drums
More... Sun 5/17 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues tonight. Bring your instrument or just your ears. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names, and there will be a full set by Angela Roberts + Scott Goff.
More... Tuesday, May 19
Tue 5/19 6:45 PM The Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St.
Oakland]Christopher Luna Mega & Diego Villaseñor de Cortina + DunkelpeK
More... Tue 5/19 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]IL PRETE ROSSO
Sarah Plum plays cutting edge music for violin alone and violin with electronics. Il Prete Rosso, a piece written for her by Charles Nichols for violin, live electronics and motion sensor is the centerpiece of this program.
More... Tue 5/19 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]8 pm Tim DeCillis' HARBINGER: Cory Wright - tenor saxophone, clarinet; Theo Padouvas - trumpet; Alex Cohen - guitar; Safa Shokrai - bass; Tim DeCillis - drums, composition 9 pm BARBED WIRE - 37 graphic scores for trio
performed by
Phillip Greenlief - alto saxophone;
John Shiurba - guitar;
Gino Robair - electronics, percussion
More... Thursday, May 21
Thu 5/21 6:00 PM Museum of Performance + Design [893 Folsom Street
SF]Ritual 7: words
“Ritual 7: words” is a conversation between Anna Halprin and Shinichi Iova-Koga on score-making and artistic legacy, moderated by Ellen Sebastian-Chang, with special guest Janice Ross. Presented in partnership with the Museum of Performance + Design, home to the archive of Halprin’s dance work and scores.
More... Thu 5/21 7:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]Karate Mountain + The Lily Project + Farewell Typewriter. Bay Area-based instrumental indie band Karate Mountain, plus Sacramento's The Lily Project, a vocal-led quintet that sets poetry to composition and improvisation, with Alameda-based band Farewell Typewriter.
More... Thu 5/21 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Black Cedar releases its debut album early next year with a grant from the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music. An affiliate ensemble with SFFCM, it is the only ensemble entirely devoted to creating, discovering, and re-imagining chamber music for flute, cello, and guitar. This concert at the Center for New Music features music from their album, including three new commissions by Garrett Shatzer, Durwynne Hsieh, and David Smith. Also on the program is Klaus Hinrich Stahmer’s never-recorded "Debussyana" (1985), Nathan Kolosko’s "Hungarian Trio" (2012.), Chinary Ung’s “Luminous Spirals” (1997), and Toru Takemitsu’s “Toward the Sea” (1981).
“
Black Cedar has done a wonderful job of making the case that chamber music can involve approaches to instrumentation not usually expected.” San Francisco, 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
More... Thu 5/21 7:30 PM Cafe Claude [7 Claude Lane
San Francisco]Vijay Anderson Quartet @ Cafe Claude - May 21st, 2015 7:30-10:30pm
No Cover
More... Thu 5/21 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]microspoke is a new duo project from
Phillip Greenlief and
Tim Perkis that uses quiet, microscopic noise as a landscape to explore highly detailed electro-acoustic improvisation. the duo made their west coast premiere at this year's KZSU's Day of Noise.
More... Friday, May 22
Fri 5/22 6:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]NextNow presents ALL TOMORROWSl AFTER-PARTIES 2015 - a benefit festival celebrating creative new experimental music :: this is to benefit The Homeless Action Center...MAY 22-23-24, at Berkeley Arts 2311 University Ave Berkeley Ca...Perfect Memorial day weekend STAY-CATION.... wilt Music Projects all day long and wildcard Improvisation Sets drawn from the best and most creative players in the bay area...And, each evening is Synesthete PotLuck, these special evenings involve live music with video, choreography, and/or performance art. 87artists x 39 projects x 3days
http://nextnow.edgebuzz.tv
More... Fri 5/22 7:00 PM Heron Arts [7 Heron St.
San Francisco]One Found Soundpresents
sight.taste.sound
In less than a week (this Friday!) these Guerrilla Composers Guild alumni will be featured at this year's One Found Sound fundraising gala!
Mark Ackerley, Nick Benavides, Eric Choate, Danny Clay, Lucas Floyd, Matthias McIntire, Andrew Vickers
More... Sunday, May 24
Sun 5/24 12:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]Next Now
All Tomorrows After-Parties Two - a Benefit/Festival
A Celebration of the Creative Music and Arts Community to benefit the Homeless Action Center
Friday-Saturday-Sunday (May 22-23-24)
More... Sun 5/24 2:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St
SF]— Set 1, 2pm: Unfolding modernist string structures like a form of light for the ears
◉ Adam Fong: contrabass
◉ Brent Miller: electric guitar
— Set 2, 3pm: The
Biggi Vinkeloe Roughtet
◉ Swedish/German sorceress of avant / jazz wind energy, saxophonist / flautist
Biggi Vinkeloe◉ "Percussion dervish" (Coda Magazine)
Donald Robinson◉ Parallel universe laptopist/pianist/synthist Joe Lasqo
◉ Brutally skilled & piquantly tasteful bassist Scott Walton
→ Examiner.com review of
Biggi Vinkeloe Roughtet's 04 May show
here More...