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05/27/2016 - 07/10/2016

Friday, May 27
Fri 5/27 6:00 PM Presidio Officer's Club [50 Moraga Ave SF]
PRESIDIO SESSIONS - Sarah Cahill

Tickets are free but a reservation is required at http://www.sffcm.org/presidio-sessions/  More...
Fri 5/27 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Koto Music

Shoko Hikage, Noriko Tsuboi and Yuki Yasuda will perform koto music works by Chappell Kingsland, Hyo-shin Na, and Tadao Sawai.  More...
Fri 5/27 8:00 PM SF Eagle [398 12th St San Francisco]
LOADED with BOB OSTERTAG  More...
Fri 5/27 9:00 PM Legionnaire Saloon [2272 Telegraph Ave. oakland, CA]
Voltage Drop - Industrial / Electronics Dance Club Presents

V:4 with live sets by

NINE (Nihar Bhatt / Surface Tension)
https://soundcloud.com/niharb/nine-live-set-preview

MAYA SONGBIRD (Ratskin Records / Holy Rocket Ships)
https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/maya-songbird-queen-of-darkness-ep

CHATTY MANDRIL (Zachary James Watkins)
(sample coming soon)

Resident Selectors: BONUS BEAST / MALO / KOZI

Visuals by FLOWER PATTERN'S GHOST

Doors at 9pm • $5 before 10pm / $7 after • 21 & over  More...
Saturday, May 28
Sat 5/28 12:00 PM Amnesia [853 Valencia St. San Francisco]
One Man Band Orchestra #0 led by Josh Pollock  More...
Sat 5/28 3:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture [Chapel 2 Marina Blvd SF]
Wooden Fish Ensemble -

The Wooden Fish Ensemble plays Hyo-shin Na and Boudewijn Buckinx!

The Wooden Fish Ensemble will play a program of music for violin, koto, and bass koto by Hyo-shin Na and Boudewijn Buckinx that will include two exciting world premieres - a work for violin solo by Buckinx and a work by Na for violin and koto.  More...
Sat 5/28 8:30 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture [Gallery 308 2 Marina Blvd SF]
Dada Explodes

Gallery 308

Capturing the avant-garde world of the Dada Movement, “Dada Explodes: A Burst of Sound, Light, and the Absurd” will feature a surreal carnival for the senses. Featuring the music of experimental rock band Impuritan — a blend psychedelic, ambient, punk, noise, shoegaze, and surf/post/space rock — and visuals by filmmaker Anna Geyer, the performance is curated by composer/sound artist David Molina.  More...
Sunday, May 29
Sun 5/29 7:00 PM Episcopal Church of the Incarnation [1750 29th Ave SF]
Join assistant concert master of the San Francisco Symphony, Mark Volkert, violist Nancy Ellis and double bassist Charles Chandler, also from the San Francisco Symphony, and Jan Volkert, principal cellist from the Marin Symphony, in a unique chamber music concert for strings and double bass!  More...
Sun 5/29 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]
8pm Phillip Greenlief - alto and tenor saxophones; Jordan Glenn - percussion 9 pm Nathan Clevenger Group: Nathan Clevenger - guitar, compositions; Kasey Knudsen - alto saxophone; Cory Wright - tenor saxophone/clarinet/flute; Rachel Condry - bass clarinet/clarinet; Sam Bevan - bass; Jon Arkin - drums/percussion; Jason Levis - drums/percussion  More...
Sun 5/29 9:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
UNSEEN series | Resonant Luminance

For Gray Area's fourth UNSEEN we bring you Resonant Luminance: a night of collaborative video and sound performances with Allison Leigh Holt, Kadet Kuhne, Abandoned Footwear, and Sarah Brady!  More...
Tuesday, May 31
Tue 5/31 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Bryan Day will perform with some new robotic instruments - Displacement Rails and Rotowhisker - and a spherical tape loop machine called the Accumulation Sphere.  More...
Wednesday, June 1
Wed 6/01 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Netmoiré creates an energetic and mercurial experience that blends avant-garde free improvisation with electronic, beat-driven music. This performance features Jason Charney and Josh Simmons on laptops, reinterpreting improvisations with saxophonist Nick Zoulek and generative, audio-responsive animation.  More...
Thursday, June 2
Thu 6/02 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Snail Meets West is the free jazz duo of indie spacerock musician Azalia Snail of NYC and multi-instrumentalist music maestro Dan West of Los Angeles. The project is inspired by and a tribute to the late great Ornette Coleman. Dan West, who was a student of Grammy Award winning composer/arranger Clare Fischer, has played with Maynard Ferguson, Paula Kelly and Joe Williams. He is a graduate of Cal State Northridge and an alumni of Cal Arts. Snail has learned from studying the great free jazz drummers~~ amongst them, William Hooker and Denardo Coleman.  More...
Thu 6/02 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm: Aaron Oppenheim (electronics)
9pm: Matt Davignon (electronics) and Suki O'Kane with possibly another person  More...
Thu 6/02 8:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture [2 Marina Blvd SF]
Duets in the Key of Dada: Ackamoor/Molina Duo, Yvette Janine Jackson, David Molina at SFIAF  More...
Thu 6/02 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Minsky Duo plays Violin, Piano, and Drums

Nate Bartley (violin) and Monica Chew (piano) present a a wide-ranging program inspired by folktunes to ragtime, with a side of neoclassicism and new music from Aaron Andrew Hunt.  More...
Thu 6/02 8:30 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
Chuck Johnson-guitar

Ben Goldberg, Sheldon Brown, Vijay Anderson  More...
Friday, June 3
Fri 6/03 7:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
NextNow's ALL TOMORROWS' AFTER PARTIES 2016 benefit/festival - the New/Creative Music Community raising funds to help the homeless and mentally disabled. 3 nights and 2 days of diverse music and sonic arts with some of the best performers locally and internationally...the 4rd year of bringing together the creative spirit giving to a very worth cause. Avant-Rock, Experimental Chamber, Jazz, Improvised, Electro-Acoustic, Neo-Folk, Progressive Post-modern are among the varied style you'll hear.  More...
Fri 6/03 7:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture [Gallery 308 2 Marina Blvd SF]
Borromeo String Quartet - Percussion Quintet

The award-winning Borromeo String Quartet, lauded for its “edge-of-the-seat performances” by the Boston Globe, will present the world premiere of Bay Area composer Hi Kyung Kim’s Percussion Quintet. Featuring guest percussionist William Winant, the performance is sure to further cement Borromeo String Quartet’s standing as one of the most important ensembles of our time.  More...
Fri 6/03 7:00 PM Grace Cathedral [1100 California St San Francisco]
The Climate Music Project at Grace Cathedral  More...
Fri 6/03 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Lau Nau with Dire Wolves and Paul Clipson  More...
Fri 6/03 8:00 PM Royce Gallery [2901 Mariposa St SF]
ROOM: RoomKeys

The 2016 ROOM Series begins with an evening of Bay Area keyboard virtuosi playing contemporary music on a variety of black and white keys.

Hadley McCarroll, rob reich, Eric Glick Rieman, Donald Swearingen, Pamela Z  More...
Fri 6/03 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Celloscape Collective: San Francisco Debut

CELLOSCAPE COLLECTIVE will feature SF Bay Area cellists performing works composed for cellos and electronics by Sándor Balassa, Kaija Saariaho, and local composers: Phi Bui, Kyle Randall, Amadeus Regucera, and Scott Rubin. Cellists featured: Brady Anderson, Laura Gaynon, James Jaffe, Jeffrey Li, Natalie Raney, Saul Richmond-Rakerd, and Mosa Tsay.  More...
Fri 6/03 8:00 PM THe Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave, Berkeley, CA]
Danny Allen's High Diving Horses, Val Esway + El Mirage, Karry Walker (ultralash)  More...
Fri 6/03 9:30 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture [Gallery 308 2 Marina Blvd SF]
Del Sol String Quartet - Del Sol String Quartet

Featuring music of composers from around the world, the concert examines themes that bring us together as human beings. With music by Australian legendary composer Peter Sculthorpe we look to the increasingly distressing issues of global warming and environmental destruction.  More...
Saturday, June 4
Sat 6/04 12:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture [2 Marina Blvd SF]
Peter Whitehead - Musical Mini Marathon

Composer, instrument builder and musician Peter Whitehead will stage an eight hour Musical Mini Marathon consisting of himself and a series of invited guests playing a large, varied collection of musical instruments built by Mr. Whitehead. He will remain on the stage throughout the performance with guests joining him every hour for half hour collaborations. Audience will come and go and stay for as long as they choose.  More...
Sat 6/04 2:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
NextNow's ALL TOMORROWS' AFTER PARTIES 2016 (fri-sat-sun June 3,4,5 @ berkeley arts festival Ca) - Mika Pontecorvo curated Benefit Festival celebrating New innovative Music to raise funds for Homeless Action Center, and the SF Coalition on Homelessness..
with Guest of Honor Finnish Experimental Folk Artist Lau Nau  More...
Sat 6/04 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA]
The Happy Valley Band is a cover band like you've never heard before. They play strictly notated machine deconstructions of popular tunes, filtered through the brain of a computer. You'll hear James Brown backed by a simmering Sun Ra Arkestra, Madonna with a jittery freak-out synth rhythm section, and Herb Alpert with a Tijuana Brass that must have been led by Charles Ives. Join us for the madness!  More...
Sat 6/04 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
NOTE: This show has been cancelled

Two Icons of the San Francisco arts scene join Rova for some exquisite structured improvisation. Rova Saxophone Quartet plus Dohee Lee in Set 1 with a structure by Larry Ochs. Rova Saxophone Quartet plus Wobbly in set 2, with structures arranged by Steve Adams.

Your basic June highlight.  More...
Sunday, June 5
Sun 6/05 1:00 PM Yerba Buena Gardens Festival [740 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103]
In the Spirit of Flying Eagle
Dr. Loco’s 75th Birthday Tribute to Jim Pepper

Native American tenor saxophonist Jim Pepper was a jazz giant whose spirit continues to reverberate across the scene. A stellar roster of Bay Area musicians celebrate the jazz fusion pioneer of Kaw and Creek descent who forged a singular synthesis of peyote chants, powwow beats, jazz, rock, and pop (exemplified by his hit “Witchi Tai To”). Co-sponsored by American Indian Movement (AIM) West and curated by José “Dr. Loco” Cuellar, the event includes performances by saxophonists Francis Wong, Hafez Modirzadeh, Melecio Magdaluyo, Dr. Loco, and special guests. The program also celebrates musician/educator/activist/legend Dr. Loco’s 75th birthday!  More...
Sun 6/05 2:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
NextNow's ALL TOMORROWS' AFTER PARTIES 2016 (fri-sat-sun June 3,4,5 @ berkeley arts festival Ca) the 3rd annual Benefit Festival celebrating New innovative Music to raise funds for Homeless Action Center, and the SF Coalition on Homelessness..Mika Pontecorvo curated,  More...
Sun 6/05 3:00 PM Berkeley Arts Festival [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
zBug Featuring Sheila Bosco, Timothy Orr, Sean Price – All Tomorrows’ After Parties | Nextnow Presents  More...
Sun 6/05 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Gwendolyn Mok & friends
Program Two: Music and the spoken word at a time of war

Diane Nicholeris, violin; Jay Liu, viola; David Goldblatt, cello; Gwendolyn Mok, piano; Robert Hass, poet; Yun Chu, violin  More...
Sun 6/05 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The concert will feature performances by Melody of China artists Yangqin Zhao on yangqin (hammered dulcimer and artistic director), Gangqin Zhao on guzheng (zither), Wanpeng Guo on sheng (mouth organ), Xian Lu on dizi (bamboo flutes) along with guest artists: Shenshen Zhang on pipa (lute), Jessie Marino on cello, along, Erik Ullman on violin, and Gene Coleman on bass clarinet.  More...
Sun 6/05 5:00 PM Actual Cafe [6334 San Pablo Avenue Oakland]
The Actual Trio – John Schott, Dan Seamans, and John Hanes  More...
Sun 6/05 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Davis/Hoopes/Wilsey: Evelyn Davis - piano/Jason Hoopes - bass/Jennifer Wilsey - percussion
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie: Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute/Theo Padouvas - cornet/Bill Noertker - contrabass  More...
Monday, June 6
Mon 6/06 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: Adams/Brown/Anderson (Sheldon Brown + Steve Adams-saxophones, Vijay Anderson-drums)

Set #2: Cramp/Davis/Glenn (Evelyn Davis-vox, Dominic Cramp-synth, JG-drums)

Set #3: Hummel (Brian Pedersen-sax, Sung Kim-strings, Timothy Orr-drums)  More...
Mon 6/06 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents Matt Renzi's Arm Sized Legging + Oluyemi Thomas  More...
Tuesday, June 7
Tue 6/07 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Del Sol String Quartet: Soundings 3.3 – Jack Body & Matt Gilbert

An intimate evening with the Del Sol String Quartet as they explore deeply one piece of music alongside a local visual artist. This evening features Jack Body’s tightly knit “Epicycle,” paired with Matt Gilbert, a young artist with a background in graphic design, an affinity for contemporary music and an interest in experimenting with materials, Gilbert makes tiny, motorized kinetic sculptures. This concert is performed in loving memory of the composer who passed away in August of 2015.  More...
Wednesday, June 8
Wed 6/08 9:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
UNSEEN series | Apertures

Maggi Payne is Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College and has been performing music, video, film and dance works internationally. Her music works are at once meticulous and visceral, and are couched in a sustained examination of pure sound and direct experience.  More...
Thursday, June 9
Thu 6/09 7:30 PM Exploratorium [Pier 15 Embarcadero at Green St SF]
Eric Glick Rieman

Composer/improviser Eric Glick Rieman collaborates with both animals and musicians in his wide-ranging pieces.  More...
Thu 6/09 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm Jaroba - bass clarinet/inventions
9pm Jakob Pek - solo guitar & preparations  More...
Friday, June 10
Fri 6/10 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Chris Brown: Branches, with Jakob Pek and Nava Dunkelman

Chris Brown performs Branches, an interactive piece for piano and computer; and an opening set of trio improvisations with Jakob Pek, guitar and Nava Dunkelman, percussion  More...
Fri 6/10 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St (@Capp Street) SF]
ANIMALS & GIRAFFES - Phillip Greenlief (reeds) & Claudia La Rocco (text, voice) created animals & giraffes as a way to explore how improvisation on and off the page can create a larger conversation between sound and text. Collaboration is central to animals & giraffes; for this concert Greenlief and La Rocco are joined by electronic musician John Bischoff and percussionist Karen Stackpole (who is one of many Bay Area improvisers featured on the duo’s debut album, JULY, forthcoming from Relative Pitch Records).  More...
Saturday, June 11
Sat 6/11 6:00 PM Re:sound A-168 [Railroad &Mercado Ct. Mare Island CA]
SCHIMPFLUCH Re:Sound A-168
Please join us for three solo performances by Dave Phillips, Rodolf Eb.er and Joke Lanz. The show will take place in a huge reverberant concrete munitions bunker.
https://www.ticketriver.com/event/20091  More...
Sat 6/11 6:00 PM The Peralta Station [3007 Peralta Street Oakland, CA 94608]
The Dirty Snacks Ensemble: Album Release Show, Jordan Glenn/Jason Hoopes Duo, Logan Hone (LA), California's Bellow (LA)  More...
Sat 6/11 8:00 PM Trinity Chapel [2320 Dana St., Berkeley, CA 94704]
Ensemble for These Times (soprano Nanette McGuinness and pianist Dale Tsang, joined by guest cellist Anne Lerner-Wright), celebrates the release of the ensemble's debut CD, Surviving: Women's Words, with a program of music and poetry by women artists. The concert will feature 3 world premieres of commissioned music by Judith Shatin, Martha Stoddard, and Emma Logan, selections from their CD, and more.  More...
Sat 6/11 8:00 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
GGIO - The Golden Gate Improvisers Orchestra's BIG BANG

The London Improvisers Orchestra, formed by Steve Beresford, Evan Parker, & Ian Smith after their tour with Butch Morris in 1997, has continued for almost 30 years to use, refine, & extend Morris' conduction hand-signal language for large groups of improvisers. Prior outposts of the LIO language are the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, the Toronto Improvisers Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Improvisers Orchestra (Санкт-Петербургский оркестр импровизации), the Royal Improvisers Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Seattle Improvisers Orchestra, the Tokyo Improvisers Orchestra (東京インプロヴァイザーズオーケストラ), the Berlin Improvisers Orchestra (Ber.I.O.), and others.

Now a new outpost of this approach to conducting large-scale improvisations has started in the Bay Area: GGIO — The Golden Gate Improvisers Orchestra.

GGIO members for the Big Bang show will appropriately feature 3 master percussionists, among others, in a stunning line-up including: Aaron Bennett, Tom Djll, Ron Heglin, Joe Lasqo, Jason Levis, Scott R. Looney, Joshua Marshall, David Michalak, Suki O'Kane, Tim Perkis, Mika Pontecorvo, Donald Robinson, Rent Romus, John Shiurba, & Scott Walton  More...
Sat 6/11 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
John Schott Plays Ben Goldberg, Among Others

A concert of acoustic, resonator, and electric guitar solos, featuring compositions of Ben Goldberg, a piece each by Thelonious Monk and Carla Bley, as well as spur of the moment song choices.  More...
Sat 6/11 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Laraaji & Sun Araw

Please join us for a rare performance by ambient icon Laraaji and LA experimentalists Sun Araw, two colossal forces in contemporary electronic music.  More...
Sunday, June 12
Sun 6/12 3:00 PM 1st AME Zion Church San Jose [95 S 20th Street San Jose, California 95116]
zBug featuring Timothy Orr, Fred Malouf, Clifford Brown III, Doug Ellington – Curated by Eddie Gale | Spiritual Jazz Sundays – African American Journey Exhibit  More...
Sun 6/12 7:00 PM First Presbyterian Church San Anselmo [72 Kensington Road San Anselmo, CA 94960]
Echo Chamber Orchestra presents Mozart's Symphony # 40 in G minor & Overture from La Clemenza di Tito, Ginastera's Variaciones Concertantes.  More...
Monday, June 13
Mon 6/13 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents
Marshall/Allen/Spirit with special guest Scott Walton plus Walton/Boisen/Rowe  More...
Tuesday, June 14
Tue 6/14 7:30 PM Omni Oakland Commons [4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series Presents: Antimatter // Hamir Atwal + Dahveed Behroozi // Jon Arkin  More...
Tue 6/14 8:00 PM The Night Light [311 Broadway Oakland]
Surplus 1980, Sam Mickens, Ziemba  More...
Tue 6/14 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Denny Denny Breakfast and Honey Noble (Seattle)  More...
Wednesday, June 15
Wed 6/15 7:30 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
The Sky Is A Suitcase | Crystal Pascucci+Nava Dunkelman  More...
Wed 6/15 7:45 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
KrOB
Subholy priest of the subgenius, KrOB knows that sight and sound are united most when most they are exploding. Heads seem always to blossom in gore, pants burst timely into flame, and each babystroller leaps from its screaming caregiver right on cue. Come get your sweet spot pummeled by the best of the very best, the lowest of the unfathomable.
http://www.radiovalencia.fm/podcasts/?show=KrOB

bran(...)pos
Diehard fans have seen every interior of the bran(...)pos writhe into view via handbuilt multimodal apparatii of self-extrusion. From costumed dissumlations and facial piezoelectrics, to Great Oz-headed video, circuit-bent stiletto, mic swallowing and pharyngeal-cello right between the knees. But until now, the engine at the center of it all has remained hidden: the bubblegum. Keep your eye on the event horizon as the first wad hoves into view at this tape release show for The Bubblegum Forgeries, first in a four volume series.
https://branpos.bandcamp.com/album/the-bubblegum-forgeries-vol-1

Amanda Chaudhary
Modular synthesizers, kids' toys, and all manner of folk instruments combine to confound and awaken heretofore undiscovered sensibilities of her audiences. Chaudhary is also a photographer, fashion model, designs technology for creativity, and operates the foremost blog on cats and synthesizers, CatSynth.
http://www.amandachaudhary.com/

Passions Nouveau
Glen Park sound artist and Ka coach repurposing homemade electronic instruments as accompaniment to raw field recordings of degenerate ultra underground sex culture.
TorLink to dark stream available on request.  More...
Thursday, June 16
Thu 6/16 8:00 PM Zellerbach Playhouse [101 Zellerbach Hall, #4800 Berkeley, CA, 94720]
Ojai at Berkeley 2016: Kaija Saariaho
La Passion de Simone

Tickets  More...
Thu 6/16 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Sound exploration of the strange, unique worlds of spectral processing
8:00pm Jorge Bachman
9:00pm Botched Facelift  More...
Thu 6/16 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Eine Kleine Henze Fest

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...
Thu 6/16 9:00 PM SF Eagle [398 12th St San Francisco]
Murder Murder, Mane, F-71, Looose  More...
Friday, June 17
Fri 6/17 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Mobius Trio: Prescription Drug Nation + Blind Date

On 6/17 Mobius Trio will premiere the first half of Prescription Drug Nation, a program-length piece for music and dance by young stud Aaron Gervais. Also on the program is the second-ever performance of Luciano Chessa's Blind Date, a spellbinding multimedia extravaganza by the noted scholar and Sardinian composer/mischief maker.  More...
Saturday, June 18
Sat 6/18 1:00 PM Brava Theater [2781 24th Street San Francisco]
The Switchboard Music Festival, an eight-hour showcase of innovative music from the Bay Area and beyond.

Includes performances by Tyondai Braxton, the San Francisco Girls Chorus, Aaron Novik’s O+O+, the Del Sol String Quartet, violinist Alisa Rose, Religions Girls, Tonal Masher, Dominique Leone’s San Francisco, ZOFO piano duo, Majel Connery & Ken Ueno, and performances of Julius Eastman’s Stay On It and JacobTV’s GRAB IT!

Tickets: $20 advance at switchboardmusic.com; $20 students/$25 general at the door  More...
Sat 6/18 4:00 PM Explorist International Records [3174 24th St, San Francisco, California 94110]
The two piece band Electronic Death Registry will perform a free afternoon show at Explorist International Records in SF. Electronic Death Registry (EDR) is KellyAnn Nelson (Feverwitch, etc) and Wendy Farina’s (T.I.T.S., Towel, etc) two-piece minimal sandwich wave band. They play stripped-down wavy star beach goth with drums, vocals, a synthesizer, and a wooden flute. They are both SF Bay Area natives. Bandcamp is here: https://electronicdeathregistry.bandcamp.com/ and FB is here: https://www.facebook.com/Electronic-Death-Registry-931003470306108/  More...
Sat 6/18 7:00 PM First Presbyterian Church San Anselmo [72 Kensington Road, San Anselmo, CA 94960]
Marin Baroque presents CALEXTONE in an outdoor concert: Solatium, Music for the Summer Solstice. Works by Dufay, Ciconia, da Perugia.  More...
Sat 6/18 8:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Claudia Quintet
John Hollenbeck drums, percussion
Chris Speed clarinet, tenor saxophone
Red Wierenga accordion
Matt Moran vibraphone
Drew Gress double bass  More...
Sat 6/18 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Music For Hard Times (Paul Winstanley, electric bass; Tom Nunn; inventions) is joined by New Zealand composer/instrument maker/sound artist Phil Dadson in a reunion of these musicians to present an evening of sonic adventure. Phil will give a solo performance set; MFHT will play a duo set; and the three will perform a brief trio to end the concert.  More...
Sunday, June 19
Sun 6/19 7:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Secret Drum Band + Jackie-O Motherfucker

Portland-based percussion and noise ensemble Secret Drum Band will present their first ever Oakland performance at Studio Grand. The ensemble recently completed their first studio album, and a special tour EP which previews the album will be available at the show on cassette and digital download. Jackie-O Motherfucker opens up the night with experimental music.  More...
Sun 6/19 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Edgetone 25th Anniversary Showcase Series
7:30pm Jess Rowland
8:30pm Moe! Staiano 9-piece Guitar Ensemble
A new piece for multiple guitars that will feature Bill Wolter, Alee Kari,, Drew Wheeler, Jay Korber, Damon Waitkus, Charles Lloyd, Matt Montgomery, Peter Conheim, and Robin Walsh with Moe! on drums and (somehow) conducting.

**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...
Sun 6/19 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation improv workshop)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or just come to listen. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names, and there will also be a large-group set with all participants. Audience & participants encouraged to donate some cash for space rental. Over by 10pm.  More...
Sun 6/19 8:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Claudia Quintet
John Hollenbeck drums, percussion
Chris Speed clarinet, tenor saxophone
Red Wierenga accordion
Matt Moran vibraphone
Drew Gress double bass  More...
Monday, June 20
Mon 6/20 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Full: Duos
Three musical pairs: Overmorrow Duo (viola & cello), DunkelpeK (percussion & guitar/piano), and Kate Petersen & Russell Norman (soprano & piano).  More...
Mon 6/20 8:00 PM Finnish Kaleva Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
Mobile InTent presents; Borderless Imaginary
A summer solstice ritual, installation, performance and video
Installation, direction by Ann Schnake
Music by Kristina Dutton
Movement by Carmen Serber
Sounds by Guillermo Gallindo
Short videos by Robert Gomez Hernandez  More...
Mon 6/20 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Kokou (Djll/Heule/McCowen/Nishi-Smith) & Dial and Key (A.Palmer/S.Kim)  More...
Tuesday, June 21
Tue 6/21 5:00 PM The Chapel of the Chimes [4499 Piedmont Ave. Oakland]
The Garden of Memory is held every June 21st from 5pm to 9pm to celebrate the solstice at The Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California.  More...
Tue 6/21 9:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA, 94110]
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog

A free/punk/funk/experimental collective, featuring Marc Ribot (John Zorn, Tom Waits, etc etc), plus two of the best young players on the new york/california underground improv/experimental rock scene, Shahzad Ismaily - bass/electronics (Ben Frost, Carla Kihlstedt, Sam Amidon) and Ches Smith - drums (Xiu Xiu, Secret Chiefs 3, Trevor Dunn, Carla Bozulich).  More...
Wednesday, June 22
Wed 6/22 7:00 PM Finnish Kaleva Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
The Eighth Annual Wednesday a little more than a month before Outsound Presents Fund Drive & Benefit Dinner Concert featuring Gestaltish
Rachel Condry - clarinet, Gretchen Jude - voice, Jakob Pek - guitar, Jennifer Wilsey - percussion
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Fascinating sounds and great food!  More...
Thursday, June 23
Thu 6/23 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Porpl Surpie! (Puppy Surprise open improvisation night)

Bring an instrument for some group improv! Instrumentalists will have their names drawn from a puppy surprise into quartets and quintets for short (7 minute) sets.  More...
Friday, June 24
Fri 6/24 7:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
Paul Dresher collaborates with composer-vocalist Amy X Neuburg on an electroacoustic song cycle, They Will Have Been So Beautiful, performed by the Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band and Amy X. They Will Have Been So Beautiful features new works by composers Lisa Bielawa, Jay Cloidt, Conrad Cummings, Fred Frith, Guillermo Galindo, Carla Kihlstedt, Ken Ueno, Pamela Z, Dresher and Neuburg. Post-concert reception hosted by New Music USA.  More...
Fri 6/24 7:00 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento]
Gold Lion Arts Summer Festival
Performances by:
Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble, Snake or Man (Steuart Liebig and Dax Compise)
Amy Reed and Collette Jay McCaslin, Grex  More...
Fri 6/24 8:00 PM ROOM Series [2901 Mariposa St SF]
Room: Still Burning (Violagate Revisited). The ROOM Series bravely presents another viola-centric evening featuring Del Sol violist Charlton Lee, Classical Revolutionary Charith Premawardhana, violist/composer Nils Bultman, and (a virtual appearance by) musician and technologist JHNO (John Eichenseer). They will be joined by composer/performer and series host Pamela Z (voice & electornics) in an ensemble finale.  More...
Fri 6/24 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
UNSEEN series | Broken Solar/City of God

Join us for the sixth iteration of our UNSEEN series with collaborative performances by Chris Duncan (live score), Sarah Rara (film), and Sean Smith (an audio-visual project, LFZ)!  More...
Saturday, June 25
Sat 6/25 3:30 PM Re:sound A-168 [Railroad & Mercado Ct. Mare Island, Vallejo CA, 94592]
Re:Sound SUN
Daniel Menche (Portland) http://danielmenchemain.blogspot.com/
Mem1 (Rhode Island) http://www.mem1.com/
Chris Duncan (Oakland) http://christopherrobinduncan.virb.com/
Zachary James Watkins (Oakland) http://www.zacharyjameswatkins.com/  More...
Sat 6/25 7:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF, CA 94110]
Paul Dresher collaborates with composer-vocalist Amy X Neuburg on an electroacoustic song cycle, They Will Have Been So Beautiful, performed by the Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band and Amy X. They Will Have Been So Beautiful features new works by composers Lisa Bielawa, Jay Cloidt, Conrad Cummings, Fred Frith, Guillermo Galindo, Carla Kihlstedt, Ken Ueno, Pamela Z, Dresher and Neuburg.  More...
Sat 6/25 7:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture [Fort Mason San Francisco, CA 94123]
Come experience a one-of-a-kind event and get up close and personal with participating performing and exhibiting artists discussing their works-in-progress for the Soundwave ((7)) Biennial. Featuring a panel moderated by Elia Vargas between Jason Kelly Johnson, founder of Future Cities Lab, sound artist Anna Friz, and designer Nathan John from Envelope A+D on the topic of Sound and Architecture, followed by exclusive Soundwave performances by Matthew Ganucheau and BUZZ Award recipient Andrew Blanton. There will be refreshments and hors d’oeuvres available. Donations start at 20 dollars.  More...
Sat 6/25 7:00 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento]
Gold Lion Arts Summer Festival
Performances by: Vinny Golia and Ross Hammond
LIbrary of Musclandria (Linda Michelle Hardy and Rachel Freund)
Alex Jenkins Trio (w/ Luis Albert Clifford Childers and Kerry Kashiwagi)
Randy McKean and Jon Bafus Duo  More...
Sat 6/25 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Morton Feldman Chamber Players present: Andy Costello

Under the banner of Morton Feldman Chamber Players, pianist Andy Costello brings works of Feldman, Cage and Earle Brown to the west coast, alongside recently commissioned works of Marielle Groven and Kurt Isaacson. Costello will be joined by prominent contemporary chamber players of the Bay Area.  More...
Sat 6/25 9:00 PM Starry Plough [3101 Shattuck Ave @ Prince Berkeley]
Grex, 3 Leafs, Dire Wolves

A special night of songs and sounds at once exploratory, beautiful, and strange, featuring local psych improv project 3 Leafs, industrial free rock band Dire Wolves, and the debut of a brand new "two man band" version of Oakland art rock powerhouse Grex.

Grex: Karl Evangelista-gtr/vocals/drums, Rei Scampavia-keys/vocals/drums

3 Leafs: Warren Huegel, Josh Pollock, Diego Gonzalez, Tim Cohen, et al.

Dire Wolves: Sheila Bosco-drum kit, Brian Lucas-bass, Kelly Ann Nelson-vocals + wooden flute, Jeffrey Alexander-guitarmagoria + wooden sax, Arjun Mendiratta-violin  More...
Sunday, June 26
Sun 6/26 1:30 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St SF]
Three Solos @ The Nunnery Summer Festival - Collette McCaslin, Nava Dunkelman and Jakob Pek  More...
Sun 6/26 7:00 PM Royce Gallery [2513 Blanding Avenue Alameda]
Award-winning ensemble Caminos Flamencos presents Nuevas Tendencias, a groundbreaking show that seamlessly blends flamenco, Latin and jazz in both music and dance. With world-class artists from around the country assembled by Artistic Director Yaelisa and an emphasis on new music by virtuoso guitar player Jason McGuire, “El Rubio,” the show brings together an eclectic cast rooted in a variety of musical genres. An innovative and boundary-pushing approach to contemporary flamenco, this performance and the company received two nominations from the prestigious Izzie Dance Awards in 2015.  More...
Sun 6/26 7:00 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento]
Gold Lion Arts Summer Festival
Performances by: Bad Luck
Nun Other Than (Ross Hammond, Scott Amendola and Steuart Liebig)
Nagual Shiva X (Tony Passarell, Jim Frink and Robert Kuhlmann)  More...
Sun 6/26 8:30 PM Stork Club [2330 Telegraph Avenue Oakland]
Barbara Golden's Birthday Party

Tania Chen, Tim Perkis, and others  More...
Monday, June 27
Mon 6/27 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents...

Brett Carson's Mysterious Descent

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Nathan Clevenger Group  More...
Thursday, June 30
Thu 6/30 7:30 PM Radius Gallery [1050 River St #127 Santa Cruz, CA 95060]
Composer-performers Lucie Vítková and David Kant look toward this dictum of cybernetics: that biological and mechanical systems both influence their being and organization through their operation. Lucie Vítková’s Piece for Accordion and Tap Shoes explores the mechanics of the instrument in relation to the kinetics of her body, with the sound and movement influencing one another. David Kant’s Thresholds and Fragile States Revisited is a digital reconstruction of composer/sound-artist David Dunn’s seminal work for analog chaotic networked oscillators, reconstructed through digital modeling of the original circuits and presented in eight-channel surround sound.  More...
Thu 6/30 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm Sound Underground (Miami FL)
Jonah Udall - guitar David Leon - saxophones, Alec Aldred - trumpet
9pm Wiggle Room
Bruce Ackley - saxophones, Cheryl E. Leonard - natural instruments, Tom Djll - electronics/trumpet  More...
Friday, July 1
Fri 7/01 7:30 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
This is a rare Bay Area performance by New York-based multi-instrumentalist Avram Fefer and the rhythm team of Vijay Anderson and Dan Seamans. Avram's explosive trio work with Chad Taylor and Eric Revis has been well documented over the years with critically acclaimed albums and international tours. Drawing from the musical worlds of Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Ethiopiques, and Charles Mingus, he has forged a highly original sound within a modern jazz context. “I think of my music as 21st century street-jazz,” says Fefer, “Organic music that can be appreciated on several different levels.”  More...
Fri 7/01 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Phi Bui and Christopher Whitley: Unnoticed Moments

Phi Bui and Christopher Whitley present new works for electronics. Each will perform an individual set followed by a duo performance.  More...
Saturday, July 2
Sat 7/02 12:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture [Marina Blvd. and Buchanan Street, San Francisco, CA]
The entire event kicks-off with a free, opening night party for Aural Spacial Infinite Exhibition on July 1, 6-10 p.m.; complete with drinks and music from Sung Kim, Shanna Sordhal, and Dan Gottwald.  More...
Sunday, July 3
Sun 7/03 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Lucie Vítková: Composer, improviser and performer (accordion, harmonica, voice and tap dance) from the Czech Republic.  More...
Monday, July 4
Mon 7/04 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: Phillip Greenlief/Thomas Dimuzio (Bay Area free improvisation)

Set #2: Sound Underground (modern jazz from Miami)
(Alec Aldred - tpt, David Leon - as, Jonah Udall - gtr)

Set #3: Gold Age (avant jazz)
(Aram Shelton - as, bcl, Mark Clifford - vib, Safa Shokrai - b, Britt Ciampa - dms)  More...
Tuesday, July 5
Tue 7/05 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Minsky Duo plays Violin, Piano, and Drums

Nate Bartley (violin) and Monica Chew (piano) present a wide-ranging program inspired by folktunes to ragtime, with a side of neoclassicism and new music from Aaron Andrew Hunt.  More...
Tue 7/05 9:30 PM The Knockout [3223 Mission St San Francisco]
Murder Murder, Jooklo, Black Spirituals, Doug Katelus solo organ  More...
Wednesday, July 6
Wed 7/06 8:00 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
Set 1: Phillip Greenlief's BARBEDWIRE, with Evelyn Davis & gabby fluke-mogul, @ 8pm. Set 2: meta-tap digital tango w Lucie Vítková, Joe Lasqo, Lisa Mezzacappa, & Bryan Day Wed 06 Jul @ Canessa Gallery, SF

BARBEDWIRE is a series of 37 new graphic scores, composed by Phillip Greenlief in Dec 2014 during a composing retreat in coastal Maine; performed tonight by:

Phillip Greenlief (reeds) — Evelyn Davis (voice | electronics) — gabby fluke-mogul (violin).

Set 2, 9pm: Lucie Vítková and friends: meta-tap digital tango

An evening of balancing chairs and turning somersaults on the ethereal tightrope of free improv… whilst tap-dancing (at least in Lucie’s case). Part of a too-rare Bay Area tour of one of Europe's most sparkling young composer/improvisers.

— Lucie Vítková (accordion | tap dance | voice | electronics) — Bryan Day (invented instruments) — Joe Lasqo (MSP/laptop | synth) — Lisa Mezzacappa (bass)  More...
Thursday, July 7
Thu 7/07 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Larnie Fox: Cranks and Other Noisemakers

Join Larnie Fox to celebrate his new exhibit of invented instruments, "Cranks and Other Noisemakers," on display in the Window Gallery through August 31. Talk and demonstration will begin at 7 PM.  More...
Thu 7/07 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
"A night of ppp - FFF"
8pm Lucie Vítková - accordion
9pm Jooklo Duo vs Dancin' Baby (two bands melding as one)
Virginia Genta-saxophone, clarinet, David Vanzan-drums, percussion
Brian Pedersen-baritone horn, Jeff Lievers-baritone horn, Kit Young-video  More...
Thu 7/07 8:00 PM Oakland.Secret [Oakland.Secret 577 5th St. Oakland]
Surplus 1980. Cash Pony. Dantel Hood  More...
Friday, July 8
Fri 7/08 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Dan Thorpe :: Homecoming (three years later)

Australian composer/performer Dan Thorpe presents a new work about loss and healing for prepared piano, electronics and field recordings. Supported by bay area dream-pop wizards GENUIS.  More...
Fri 7/08 8:00 PM Santo Recording [2565 West, Oakland Ca]
Bill Orcutt & Jacob Felix Heule

Jooklo Duo

Hummel  More...
Fri 7/08 8:00 PM The ROOM Series [2901 Mariposa St SF]
Pamela Z Arts presents Z Program 60

Come celebrate a milestone birthday for Pamela Z (and the 10th year of the ROOM Series) with an evening featuring a collage piece called "60 Minutes" in which Pamela and many of her dear friends, colleagues, and collaborators perform 60 mini-movements tightly scored to a time clock. Ms. Z will also present a short set of works for voice, electronics and video to open the program.  More...
Fri 7/08 9:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
sfSoundFestival: Xenakis, Cage, Tenney, Penderecki, Beyer, Vitkova, Bruckmann, Ingalls, sfSound  More...
Saturday, July 9
Sat 7/09 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
SOUNDSMITHS: Celebrating Instrumental Invention – The second annual C4NM window gallery fundraiser

The second annual window gallery fundraiser!!!!

Celebrate the Bay Area instrument inventing community, with a full roster of performances featuring Phil Dadson, Paul Dresher, Cheryl Leonard, and others, plus a silent auction of one-of-a-kind instruments.  More...
Sat 7/09 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Following the release of their acclaimed, nationally-charting album Haiku, Jenny Maybee (piano, vocals) and Nick Phillips (trumpet) are joined by Dan Feiszli (bass) and David Rokeach (drums) to perform new music including choice selections from Haiku, lauded by the press as “a thrilling, intimate, very delicate dialogue…close to perfection” and “an 11-track rarity of pristine playing, beautiful vocals and original compositions” that is “in the same league” as jazz legends Billie Holiday and Chet Baker.  More...
Sat 7/09 8:00 PM The ROOM Series [2901 Mariposa St SF]
Pamela Z Arts presents Z Program 60

Come celebrate a milestone birthday for Pamela Z (and the 10th year of the ROOM Series) with an evening featuring a collage piece called "Sixty" in which Pamela and many of her dear friends, colleagues, and collaborators perform 60 mini-movements tightly scored to a time clock. Ms. Z will also present a short set of works for voice, electronics and video to open the program.  More...
Sat 7/09 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
8 pm
Phillip Greenlief - solo saxophone improvisations

9 pm
The Miscreants
Ben Goldberg - clarinet
Trevor Dunn - acoustic bass
Scott Amendola - drums  More...
Sat 7/09 9:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
sfSoundFestival: Reich, Boulez, Sciarrino, Brown, Niblock, Saunier, sfSoundGroup  More...
Sunday, July 10
Sun 7/10 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Dunkelman/Fluke_Mogul
Gabby Fluke-Mogul - violin/Nava Dunkelman – percussion
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute/Theo Padouvas - cornet/Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute/Bill Noertker – contrabass/Jason Levis - drums  More...
Sun 7/10 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
sfSoundFestival: Feldman, Boulez, Oliveros, Brown, sfSoundGroup  More...
Sun 7/10 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Suki O'Kane premiering a piece “Sweeping, Swept, Out of My Head” for quartet of brooms and hand-held projections at the most awesome Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland’s monthly series for expanded cinema.  More...