Wednesday, June 18
Wed 6/18 7:30 PM Second Act [1727 Haight Street]Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Schurt Kwitters, Diagram: A, Horaflora, Waxy Tomb - EARLY SHOW
Come smash your bubbles on the bow of a new SF venue. Formerly the Red Vic, SECOND ACT will host monthly experimental music. Use this space or lose it your face. Featuring beer from Magnolia, $5 cover, and...
More... Thursday, June 19
Thu 6/19 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Formed in 2012, The New Trio delivers the kind of powerful, challenging music we have come to expect from each new departure by Fujii. It’s a daring, exploratory band, whose members are disciplined, attentive and unafraid to move in any direction the music indicates. The music is by turns, lyrical and longing, percussive, powerfully expressive and vibrantly alive.
More... Friday, June 20
Fri 6/20 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Switchboard Presents: Friction Quartet + Jeff Anderle, Makeunder
Switchboard expands beyond its yearly festival with the addition of Switchboard Presents. On the third Friday of every month, the Switchboard Presents concert series features split bills drawn from a roster of Switchboard alumni, 2014 Festival artists, and other acts who fall between musical lines.
More... Saturday, June 21
Sat 6/21 5:00 PM Chapel of the Chimes [4499 Piedmont Avenue
Oakland, CA]Garden of Memory
The Garden of Memory, a magical walk-through event at the Chapel of the Chimes columbarium in Oakland, is held every June 21st from 5pm to 9pm to celebrate the Summer Solstice. Some of the early confirmed performers include Rova, Kitka, Del Sol String Quartet, Pamela Z, Henry Kaiser, Carl Stone, Amy X Neuberg, Paul Dresher & Joel Davel, The Living Earth Show, Tim Phillips, Theresa Wong, Laura Inserra, Willie Winant, Orchestra Nostalgico, Sarah Cahill, Cardew Choir, Luciano Chessa, Jaroba & Keith Cary, Maggi Payne and many more to come.
More... Sunday, June 22
Sun 6/22 2:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St
SF]Sunday, June 22, at 2:00 p.m. Angels with Gongs at the Nunnery - Ron and Michelle Angel will join
Karen Stackpole and
Tom Nunn in presenting an afternoon of music for, with and about gongs.
More... Sun 6/22 3:00 PM St. Andrew's Episcopal Church [1600 Santa Lucia Avenue in San Bruno]Winner of a 2014 grant from the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music for a commission by composer, Garret Shatzer, the Black Cedar Trio brings recent compositions to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in San Bruno.
More... Wednesday, June 25
Wed 6/25 7:49 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]In conjunction with the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, sfSoundSalonSeries is pleased to present Italian virtuoso Irene Russo in a program of solo works for piano spanning the entire 20th century to the present, with works by Debussy, Malipiero, Takemitsu, Procaccini, and Widmann.
She'll be followed by
Tom Djll's HackMIDI, piano music that unplayable by any physical piano: wildly out-of-range pitches, instantly shifting ambiances and attacks, long strings of repeated hammerings whose frequencies traipse into the audio range, competing melodic and rhythmic lines.
More... Wed 6/25 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]8 pm Tim Perkis - electronics, Karen Stackpole, gongs, percussion 9 pm
Aaron Bennett - saxophone, Teddy Rankin-Parker - cello, Matt Montgomery - bass, Daniel Pearce, drums
More... Wed 6/25 8:00 PM First Congregational Church of Oakland [2501 Harrison St.
Oakland, CA]Heaven Down Here is a unique chamber opera project by Andrew Jamieson that brings together sounds of avant-garde and experimental improvisation with traditional songs of the black gospel tradition and the Pentecostal church. It is also a re-presentation of Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple and both the great hope and great abuse that was found there. The first two performances will take place on June 25th and June 28th at 8:00pm at First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St. Oakland CA and tickets are $20/$10.
More... Thursday, June 26
Thu 6/26 5:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street
Berkeley]It takes a village to raise a child: Maxine releases her first CD on pfMentum records!
featuring Maxine, improvising software agent with:
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe
Aram Shelton, saxophone
Theresa Wong, cello
Teddy Rankin-Parker, cello
Tom Djll, hacked keytar
Darren Johnston, trumpet
Louis Lopez, trumpet
Ritwik Banerji, saxophone
with opening set by Jeff Kaiser (trumpet/electronics) and pre-concert installation "Meet the Maxineans"
Concert at 8, installation from 5pm onwards
More... Thu 6/26 6:30 PM Italian Cultural Institute [814 Montgomery Street
94133 San Francisco CA]This voyage through the world of the classical guitar, taking us from the discovery of a very important manuscript dating from 1565 found in the archive of the Cathedral of Castelfranco to Angelo Gilardino’s contemporary music, sheds light on the many souls of the guitar. Among the most fascinating, mysterious and introspective of instruments, it can use plucked strings to invoke the polyphony of madrigals, or the piano virtuosi of the nineteenth century, or even the most modern experimental music.
More... Thu 6/26 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market St.
SF]8pm Pearce-Wallace-Marshall
Daniel Pearce, drums, Eli Wallace, piano and keyboard,
Joshua Marshall, saxophones
9pm Christopher Luna Ensemble
Nava Dunkelman, percussion
Jakob Pek, guitar
Aprille Tang, electronics
Jeniffer Wilsey, percussion
Christopher Luna, keyboard/conduction
Rachel Condry, clarinet
Aaron Oppenheim, electronics
More... Thu 6/26 8:00 PM The ROOM Series (at Royce Gallery) [2901 Mariposa Street (between Harrison & Alabama)
San Francisco, CA 94110]ROOM: Foot and Mouth
Multidisciplinary performance artists Christine Bonansea,
Dohee Lee, and Mary Armentrout in an evening of movement artists who use their voices in their work.
Pamela Z will join them for some duos and a tutti finale.
More... Saturday, June 28
Sat 6/28 6:00 PM The Emerald Tablet [80 Fresno St, San Francisco, CA, 94133, United States]The evening will begin with a presentation by composer and sound artist Brenda Hutchinson! She’ll be discussing some of her work in direct public engagement and presenting an interactive performance with the audience. After her talk we’ll have a Q&A, followed by a break. Then, the Johnston/Dutton/Rankin-Parker/Pearce Quartet will play a set of improvisational music inspired by Hutchinson’s presentation and the ensuing discussion.
More... Sat 6/28 8:00 PM First Congregational Church of Oakland [2501 Harrison St.
Oakland, CA]Heaven Down Here is a unique chamber opera project by Andrew Jamieson that brings together sounds of avant-garde and experimental improvisation with traditional songs of the black gospel tradition and the Pentecostal church. It is also a re-presentation of Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple and both the great hope and great abuse that was found there. The first two performances will take place on June 25th and June 28th at 8:00pm at First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St. Oakland CA and tickets are $20/$10
More... Sat 6/28 8:00 PM Berkeley Home of Harry Bernstein and Caren Meghreblian [1068 Spruce Street
Berkeley 94707]Rova Saxophone Quartet in an intimate “chamber concert” at the classic Berkeley home of Harry Bernstein and Caren Meghreblian. “We’ll have two sets of Rova, with an intermission during which time we’ll be serving wine, cheese and fruit. We hope some of you can make it!” Music including notation and improvisation. Featuring a suite of pieces by the late Steve Lacy plus an array of Rova-composed works. Rova =
Bruce Ackley,
Steve Adams,
Larry Ochs,
Jon RaskinContact email: Harry@fullplatemedia.com
Their home can accommodate up to 40 people. Reservations and payment via Paypal (or by check) in advance of the concert please. Go to Paypal.com and send payment to Harry at his email address; it’s a very, very simple process… Or mail a check to Harry Bernstein, 1068 Spruce Street, Berkeley 94707
More... Sunday, June 29
Sun 6/29 7:30 PM SIMM Series [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall
116 9th St @ Mission
SF]Jim Ryan @ 80: A celebration and concert with Bay Area sonic luminary, saxophonist, and poet...
7:30pm
Jordan Glenn's
Mindless Thing featuring poetry by
Jim RyanJordan Glenn- conductor, composer, percussion,
Robert Lopez- vibes, percussion, Michael Coleman- piano, percussion, Damon Waitkus- dulcimer, percussion,
Karl Evangelista- guitar, percussion
8:30pm
Jim Ryan 4tet
Scott R. Looney piano,
Jason Hoopes double bass,
Jordan Glenn drums,
Jim Ryan flute&sax
21st Century New Cool and Free Style Jazz
Come experience Poet, writer, philosopher and musician, Jim Ryan who turns eighty on sunday June 29th. He is an original member of the exploratory family of artists of the 20th century. His powerful playing style and truly original voice permeates the San Francisco Bay Area with vibrant spirit. More... Sun 6/29 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]8 pm Kris Tiner (Bakersfield) - trumpet;
Motoko Honda - piano; Elizabeth Schenck - saxophone 9 pm Tiberius: Dominique Cramp - electric piano, electronics; Mike Guarino - drums; special guest:
Phillip Greenlief, alto & tenor saxophones
More... Wednesday, July 2
Wed 7/02 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]8 pm Hamir Atwal will be presenting a set of improvised music on the drum set. 9 pm Joshua Smith-tenor saxophone;
Michael Coleman-piano The duo utilizes both traditional jazz improvisation as well as free playing and move freely between song forms and open sections.
More... Thursday, July 3
Thu 7/03 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Cheryl Leonard performs at the opening reception of her exhibition "Of Land and Sea: Natural-Object Instruments." Leonard crafts music out of micro sounds from amplified sand, bone, rock, and wood in a performance inspired by martial arts and the five elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water) from Chinese philosophy. A short interview and Q & A will follow the peformance. The reception runs 6-8pm and the performance is at 7pm.
More... Saturday, July 5
Sat 7/05 8:00 PM The Hillside Club [2286 Cedar St
Berkeley, CA 94709]A performance of original music by renowned double bassist/composer/vocalist, Jeff Denson with his quartet, Secret World. The group features extraordinary trumpeter, and former member of the Pat Metheny Group, Cuong Vu, as well as Dahveed Behroozi on piano and Jon Arkin on drums.
Jeff is an exceptional musician who is a creative force on the double bass and has an original approach and voice on the instrument.
-Lee Konitz
More... Sunday, July 6
Sun 7/06 4:30 PM Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society [311 Mirada Rd
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019]A performance of original music by renowned double bassist/composer/vocalist, Jeff Denson with his quartet, Secret World. The group features extraordinary trumpeter, and former member of the Pat Metheny Group, Cuong Vu, as well as Dahveed Behroozi on piano and Jon Arkin on drums.
Jeff is an exceptional musician who is a creative force on the double bass and has an original approach and voice on the instrument.
-Lee Konitz
More... Tuesday, July 8
Tue 7/08 8:30 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave
Oakland]Active Music Series presents SFSound In C + Malocculsion + Gosling
sfSoundOrchestra celebrates the 50th anniversary of Terry Riley’s “In C” and the “App Release Party” of “In C” for iPad created by sfSound’s
Matt Ingalls and Henry Warwick from Ryerson University (Toronto) http://sfsound.org
Malocculsion uses voice, tapes, loops, homemade electronics, and field recordings to create a dark mirror of the unknown through audio and visual trap door psychosis and high tension performances.
Danishta Rivero (Voicehandler,Blood Wedding) and Sarah Elena Palmer (EFFT, Lutra Lutra) are Gosling; an electro-acoustic soundscape project that uses analog machines and acapella effects.
Active Music Series – Second Tuesdays at the Uptown
Music at 9 No cover, donations accepted.
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More... Thursday, July 10
Thu 7/10 8:00 PM The ROOM Series (at Royce Gallery) [2901 Mariposa Street (near Harrison), San Francisco, CA]ROOM: Upright, an evening of Bay Area piano virtuosi playing contemporary music on the Royce Gallery's old Melville Clark upright piano (and
Pamela Z's Schyling foetal grand.) Pianists
Sarah Cahill, Luciano, Chessa, and Joe Lasqo, will perform solos and/or works in various ensemble configurations (2 hands, 4 hands, 6 hands, and 8 hands) acoustically and processed, prepared and neat, shaken and stirred. Composer/performer
Pamela Z will join them for a tutti finale.
More... Friday, July 11
Fri 7/11 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum [2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720]Experience Gabriel Saloman’s densely atmospheric, reverb-drenched, minor-mode soundscapes filling BAM/PFA’s interior space. Salomon, best known for his work as half of Yellow Swans, is a Vancouver-based musician and artist who has been performing experimental, conceptual, and freely improvised music for over fifteen years. Moving from twisted psychedelic pop into darker sonic exploration, the duo Father Murphy (Rev. Freddie Murphy and Chiara Lee) utilizes kabbalistic chanting, chiming bells, and tinny drones played on toy keyboards to create the sound of “Italian Cult Psychedelia.”
More... Fri 7/11 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Australian pianist Jacob Abela and Bay Area flutist Meerenai Shim perform a concert of new electro-acoustic works. Program includes world premieres by Emma O’Halloran (Ireland), Isaac Schankler (USA), and Lachlan Hughes (Australia).
More... Fri 7/11 8:00 PM Jupiter [2181 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley]Mr. Joy
This is a group brought together by the amazing pianist
Michael Coleman focusing on the legacy and canon of Paul Bley -- of course this means a chance to play a bunch of really gorgeous songs by Annette Peacock and Carla Bley. The group is Michael,
Ben Goldberg, Rob Adkins on bass, and Smith Dobson on drums.
More... Fri 7/11 9:30 PM Duende [468 19th Street
Oakland]Rova:Arts presents STEVE LACY'S SAXOPHONE SPECIAL
ROVA SAX QUARTET
Henry Kaiser - el gtr
Kyle Bruckmann - electronics
40 years after the groundbreaking performance of Lacy’s “Saxophone Special”, Rova, Kaiser and Bruckmann present a re-imagining of this seminal work for saxophone quartet, electric guitar and electronics—ground zero for the formation of Rova, and carrier of the DNA that continues to generate a proliferation of unorthodox instrumental groupings in post-jazz improvised music.
More... Saturday, July 12
Sat 7/12 7:00 PM KALA ART INSTITUTE [2990 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley CA]Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art
@ KALA ART INSTITUTE
Every Saturday in July: 5, 12, 19 & 26
7pm–9pm
presented in association with Kala Art Institute and San Francisco Cinematheque
curated by John Davis
More... Sat 7/12 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]East Bay guitarist, composer and bandleader Nathan Clevenger creates smart, dreamily layered and extremely ambitious music that grooves and floats, expands and contracts to accommodate the stellar musical personalities in his ensembles. For this performance, Clevenger presents a wide range of new and recent works, including a series of pieces for solo wind instruments, performed by
Cory Wright; an extended work for a new quartet, Book of Exits; and new music for his signature ensemble, the Nathan Clevenger Group.
More... Sat 7/12 8:00 PM Intersection for the Arts [925 Mission Street, Suite 109
(at 5th Street)
SF]The Astonishing Sea, experimental audio/visual performances revealing hidden worlds happening on our water planet. Music duo Mem1 performs ‘Mascaret’, featuring one of North America’s few tidal bores.
Cheryl E. Leonard and Oona Stern present sound and videos works inspired by the polar oceans with special guest musician
Phillip Greenlief. Elia Vargas conjures ‘Liquid Landscapes,’ a performance installation where audiences walk through projected mist and sound that meld the digital and the natural. More details at http://www.soundwavesf.com/6/july12/
More... Saturday, July 19
Sat 7/19 7:00 PM KALA ART INSTITUTE [2990 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley CA]Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art
@ KALA ART INSTITUTE
Every Saturday in July: 5, 12, 19 & 26
7pm–9pm
presented in association with Kala Art Institute and San Francisco Cinematheque
curated by John Davis
More... Sat 7/19 9:00 PM SOMArts [934 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA 94103]Now in its fourth year, Night Light utilizes SOMArts’ post-industrial indoor space and grounds, including the garden path, street-side loading bay, theater, Bay Gallery and Main Gallery to display a multitude of applications of light in art. This year the spectacle includes two new curatorial subsections—Signal Flow and Projected Personae— and live performances by:
Jen Cohen
Sofía Córdova
Jeff Ray’s Taser Island
Mary Franck & Kadet Kuhne
PINE & Elia Vargas
Andy Puls
Pamela Z More... Sunday, July 20
Sun 7/20 2:00 PM Chapel of the Chimes [4499 Piedmont Ave
Oakland, CA 94611]NUVO Chamber Trio is an ensemble that effortlessly bridges the gap between jazz and classical styles, world music and free improvisation, acoustic and electronic sensibilities. The group is comprised of multi-instrumentalist/vocalist, composer/arranger and educator Michael Smolens, touring cellist, composer and educator Sam Bass, and the highly versatile percussionist Brian Rice.
More... Sun 7/20 2:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St
SF]Skatch & Violin - T.D. Skatchit and Joey Molinaro - amplified angular violin and foot percussion at the Nunnery
More... Sun 7/20 3:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]“From Me To You”: Lisa Moore, voice and piano
Australian pianist and vocalist Lisa Moore, described as "beautiful, impassioned, brilliant and searching" (New York Times), performs works by Bresnick, Glass, Hearne, Newman and Rzewski, including the legendary "De Profundis" (based on Oscar Wilde's text) and "Ishi's Song" (based on a melody sung by Californian Native-American Ishi).
More... Sun 7/20 4:00 PM The Forte House [1498 24th Avenue
San Francisco 94122]The award-winning
Black Cedar at the Forte House of San Francisco
Winners of a 2014 grant from the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and an affiliate ensemble with SFFCM,
Black Cedar brings music from their upcoming debut album to San Francisco audiences in an event complete with cocktails, h'ordeurves, and great live music. “A curious trio explores a path less trod…and brilliantly performed,” writes the Berkeley Times. The San Francisco Examiner says, "They bring a solid academic foundation to their performances...a delightful introduction to early repertoire, presented with historically-informed performances on modern instruments." The South Bay Guitar Society writes, “They perform beautifully together: perfect synchronization of subtle rhythms and phrases.”
Black Cedar is the only chamber ensemble devoted to the unique instrumentation of cello and guitar combined with a variety of flutes – wood flute, alto flute, bass flute, and recorder.
More... Wednesday, July 23
Wed 7/23 7:30 PM Second Act [1727 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117]EARLY SHOW at SecondACT (formerly Red Vic movie house)
Noise, demons, drums, bats, bass, cardboard mainframe with...
Desert Center (CJ Boyd, John Horner)
White Pee
Rubber O Cement
Demonsleeper
More... Wed 7/23 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street
Berkeley]Tom's Place is pleased to present an evening with Andrea Centazzo (percussion, electronics) and
Jon Raskin (sax), aided Charles Sharp (woodwinds) and Jeff Schwartz (contrabass). This will be a Company-style evening, mix-and-matching various combinations of the evening's artists.
All four artists have solid free-jazz backgrounds, so I expect a certain amount of ripping it up.
More... Thursday, July 24
Thu 7/24 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Gojogo is an unusual quartet that combines the Western sounds of classical and jazz with the rhythmic traditions of India. Founded in 2003, they are dedicated to creating innovative music that is accessible and captivating. Gojogo performs original music composed collaboratively by the four performers, each drawing upon a different musical tradition and training. Compositions feature improvisation over structured forms, creating opportunities for spontaneity and a medium to present each unique instrument. The result is a sound that defies the borders of any specific genre.
More... Friday, July 25
Fri 7/25 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Aaron Novik is among the most prolific and startlingly original voices to emerge from the Bay Area's independent/underground music scene in the past decade. With influences ranging from klezmer and Balkan music to chamber minimalism to heavy metal, Tropicalia and indie rock, Novik has developed a cohesive, expansive and extremely personal body of work for a variety of ensembles, working with avant-music heroes like Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi, Fred Frith, William Winant, Cornelius Boots, Ches Smith and many others.
More... Saturday, July 26
Sat 7/26 7:00 PM KALA ART INSTITUTE [2990 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley CA]Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art
@ KALA ART INSTITUTE
Every Saturday in July: 5, 12, 19 & 26
7pm–9pm
presented in association with Kala Art Institute and San Francisco Cinematheque
curated by John Davis
More... Sat 7/26 8:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St
San Francisco]3 nights of music celebrating the music of local composer Aaron Novik for his 40th birthday.
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