Sunday, July 5
Sun 7/05 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall
116 Ninth St @ Mission
SF 94103]The Deconstruction Orchestra
San Francisco-based composer-bandleader
Josh Allen and his high-energy innovative 20+ piece Deconstruction Orchestra will perform a series of cell structure game compositions. Melding together post-modern, free jazz, non-idiomatic improvisation!
Larry Ochs on sopranino saxophone. Josh Marshall,
Aaron Bennett, Dave Slusser, and Sam Flores on Tenor Saxophone. Rory Snyder,
John Ingle, Nick Obando, and
Rent Romus on alto saxophone.
Dan Plonsey on bari saxophone. George Moore on trumpet. Collette McCaslin on cornet. Matt Gaspari on flugel horn. Matt Streich on trombone. Scott Sterling on bass trombone.
Ron Heglin on tuba.
John Finkbeiner on guitar. Kurt Ribak on bass. Tim Orr, and
William Winant on drums
More... Monday, July 6
Mon 7/06 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: EGW Trio (improvised music for trio)
Francis Wong-sax,
Jordan Glenn-dms,
Karl Evangelista-g
Set #2: Ryan Pate (contemporary jazz guitar)
Ryan Pate-g, Kenley Jung-as,
Mark Clifford-vib, Malcolm Campbell-p, Safa Shokrai-b, Britt Ciampa-dms
Set #3: Nathan Clevenger Group (all-star modern jazz ensemble)
Cory Wright-ts, Ian Carey-tpt,
Rachel Condry-cl, Sam Bevan-b, Jon Arkin-dms, Jason Levis-dms, Nathan Clevenger-gtr
More... Wednesday, July 8
Wed 7/08 5:00 PM Hyde Street Pier and surrounding area [San Francisco]95 RITUALSTuesday-Saturday, July 7-11, 5-8pm
No two showings the same; audience can come & go, or stay for the entire event.
The Hyde Street Pier normally closes at 5pm and will stay open late for the free 95 Rituals performances
More... Thursday, July 9
Thu 7/09 5:00 PM Hyde Street Pier and surrounding area [San Francisco]95 RITUALSTuesday-Saturday, July 7-11, 5-8pm
No two showings the same; audience can come & go, or stay for the entire event.
The Hyde Street Pier normally closes at 5pm and will stay open late for the free 95 Rituals performances
More... Thu 7/09 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Opening reception for a new exhibit of American Gamelan instruments created by Daniel Schmidt in the last five years. The exhibit will be on display through August in The Window Gallery.
More... Thu 7/09 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [998 Market St.
SF]8:00pm
Return of Uncle Ted's Photosspontaneous non-notational composition using conduction technique created by Butch Morris
Ann O'Rourke (percussion, voice); Chaz Feathers (tenor sax); Cindy Webster (musical saw, accordion); Eric Saxby (ukulele); Jack Madden (bass trombone); Laurie BK (voice, frame drum); Sam Genovese (voice, pineapple, laptop); Ken Prokuski (conduction)
9:00pm Jaroba/Corcoran
Jaroba - woodwinds and invented instruments and electronics.
Kevin Corcoran - percussion and textural sounds
More... Friday, July 10
Fri 7/10 5:00 PM Hyde Street Pier and surrounding area [San Francisco]95 RITUALSTuesday-Saturday, July 7-11, 5-8pm
No two showings the same; audience can come & go, or stay for the entire event.
The Hyde Street Pier normally closes at 5pm and will stay open late for the free 95 Rituals performances
More... Fri 7/10 10:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]10:00 PM: Oa
Hugh Behm-Steinberg: Voices/electronics
Matt Davignon: Voices/electronics
11:00 PM: Talk More
Aaron Oppenheim: Laptop-instrument
Shanna Sordahl: Cello and electronics
Andrew Weathers: Guitar and electronics
More... Saturday, July 11
Sat 7/11 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St
SF]Saturday July 11 || NOON SHARP until 2pm @Noisebridge Hackerspace
gourmet vegan pancakes served
XOME (Sacramento)------\the Nothing/ (Roseville)------The Fathers------Heroic Arrow (Old Million Eye & Infinite Plastic Internal++)------The Blues
More... Sat 7/11 5:00 PM Hyde Street Pier and surrounding area [San Francisco]95 RITUALSTuesday-Saturday, July 7-11, 5-8pm
No two showings the same; audience can come & go, or stay for the entire event.
The Hyde Street Pier normally closes at 5pm and will stay open late for the free 95 Rituals performances
More... Sat 7/11 7:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street
Berkeley]Doug Lynner and Rduck appear as Bloop-Quack. Analog synthesizers, the latest computer modular synth, guitars, effects and more navigated by these South Bay and Santa Cruz electronic musicians.
More... Sat 7/11 8:00 PM The Ridge Space [634 15th St
Oakland]MUTED CINEMA: A Maya Deren Tribute
An Intimate Night of Sound + Film.
Muted Cinema is a (bi)monthly sound and film series. To display and bring together distinguish sounds from different sonic subcultures, selected works in silent/muted films are presented with live scores performed by existing ensembles + projects of experimental, chamber, electronic compositions + improvisations.
More... Sat 7/11 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Punto G: Los dos Guillermos
Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Guillermo Galindo (gal*in_dog) present a rare evening of “real time” electronic music composition, wild spoken word & performance art.
More... Sat 7/11 8:00 PM Awaken Cafe [1429 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612]Grex, Cash Pony + Denny Denny Breakfast @ Awaken Cafe
Set #1:
Denny Denny Breakfast - oddball pop (Eli Wallace-keys,
Karl Evangelista/Will Redmond-gtrs, Jason Gillenwater-sax, Theo Padouvas-tpt, Matt Hettich-elec, Bob LaDue-vox/perc, Andrew Maguire-perc)
Set #2:
Grex - art rock/psychedelic/free jazz (
Karl Evangelista-gtr/vox, Rei Scampavia-keys/vox,
Robert Lopez-dms)
Set #3:
Cash Pony - prog rock/experimental rock
More... Wednesday, July 15
Wed 7/15 7:52 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]sfSoundSalonSeries: Cartilaginous Music: sfSoundGroup + Chris Burns and Weston Olencki
For sfSound's mid-summer freakout, they brazenly problematize instrumentalism, embodiment, and the piece-hood of a piece. Co-founder-made-good Chris Burns and post-trombone monster Weston Olencki join sfSoundGroup in a program of works by Burns, Pierluigi Billone, and Evan Johnson, culminating in an irresponsible evocation of John Cage's ghost for a free fantasia on Cartridge Music (1960).
More... Saturday, July 25
Sat 7/25 7:30 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]Kallie Ciechomski, violist
NY City violist on tour. Repertoire features solo unaccompanied works for viola that have all been written in her lifetime, with an emphasis on composers who are women.
More... Sat 7/25 7:45 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Black Spirituals, Charles Barabé, Jean-Sébastien Truchy, Black Givre the best of the Bay Area and Montreal's experimental music and video scene will descend on San Francisco's Center For New Music, Saturday, July 25, $5-$10 sliding/FREE for members of CNM.
More... Sat 7/25 8:00 PM Diablo Valley College Music [Viking Dr, Pleasant Hill, CA]Opus 31: Eine Grosse Sommernachtsmusik
More... Sunday, July 26
Sun 7/26 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]BRUTAL SOUND EFFECTS FESTIVAL #81
Pulsating Cyst (L.A.)-----OHMn---Conscious Summary (L.A..)------Omnivorous Scencilium------Marshall Dunkelpek--Mod Life Crisis------
Christina Stanley------Tujurikkuja
More... Tuesday, July 28
Tue 7/28 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]sfSoundSalonSeries: Séverine Ballon / Andrew C. Smith: resonance, order, and chaos
New and recent works exploring resonance, order, and chaos for solo cello and solo piano by Elizabeth Adams, David Kant, Andrew C. Smith, Ma'ayan Tsadka, and K.C.M. Walker, curated by Indexical.
More... Friday, July 31
Fri 7/31 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St.
SF]On Friday, July 31st at 8pm at Old First Church in San Francisco, CA, cellist Hannah Addario-Berry premieres four new works by young composers commissioned in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Zoltán Kodály’s Sonata for Solo Cello. Hannah has created a program that showcases the 1915 Sonata alongside newly commissioned works by the dynamic young composers Lisa Renée Coons, Brent Miller, Eric KM Clark, and Alisa Rose.
More... Monday, August 3
Mon 8/03 7:30 PM Bethel Community Presbyterian Church [14235 Bancroft Avenue, San Leandro, California 94578]Sacred music and improvisations by keyboardists Andrew Jamieson and Ben Zucker.
More... Mon 8/03 9:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St
SF]The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--
Set #1:
Moe! Staiano (incendiary percussion hysterics)
Set #2: Marco Eneidi's Shattered (virtuoso free jazz/creative music)
(Marco Eneidi: as,
Lisa Mezzacappa: b, Vijay Anderson: dms)
Set #3: Will Redmond's Transcontinental Blow-Up Telethon (explosive Bay Area guitar music)
(
Rob Pumpelly: dms,
Robert Lopez: perc, Bob LaDue: perc, Eli Wallace: keys, wnr: gtr, kalimba)
More... Tuesday, August 4
Tue 8/04 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Bodyscape by Luca Forcucci with
Cheryl E. Leonard and Crystal Sepulveda
Bodyscape is a composition and a performance by Luca Forcucci exploring the body as a sonic landscape. Microphones and sensors collect and measure the data generated by a dancer’s touch, spatial perception, and biofeedback. This piece is a work in progress that will change during its three-day installation in the gallery at The Lab, where it is performed by Focucci alongside musician Cheryl Leonard and dancer Crystal Sepúlveda.
More... Friday, August 7
Fri 8/07 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna: A “Through the Looking Glass” Approach to Irish Music
Brooklyn-based fiddler/violinist Dana Lyn and guitarist Kyle Sanna bring their inventive arrangements and nuanced interpretations of traditional Irish music to the Center for New Music. Hailed as “ground-breaking” by noted folklorist and NEA Award-recipient Mick Moloney and “bursting with creativity” by renowned fiddler Kevin Burke, Lyn and Sanna connect the dots between their experience as composers and improvisers and their deep admiration for traditional music. This concert will celebrate the release of their second album, “The Great Arc”.
More... Fri 8/07 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]Diego Villasenor--Videcoic One
Musicians:
Diego VIllasenor, Voice, Samples & "Composition"
Danishta Rivero, Voice
Andrew Jamieson, Piano
Jakob Pek, Guitar
Nava Dunkelman, Percussion
Jeanie-Aprille Tang, Electronics
Aaron Oppenheim, ElectronicsDiego Villasenor--Videcoic One
Musicians:
Diego VIllasenor, Voice, Samples & "Composition"
Danishta Rivero, Voice
Andrew Jamieson, Piano
Jakob Pek, Guitar
Nava Dunkelman, Percussion
Jeanie-Aprille Tang, Electronics
Aaron Oppenheim, Electronics
More... Saturday, August 8
Sat 8/08 7:00 PM Gaspar Brasserie [185 Sutter St @ Kearny, San Francisco CA 94109]This Saturday, the Vijay Anderson Trio will be playing at Gaspar Brasserie. Come out to listen to some live Jazz accompanied by Vintage cocktails and a weekly $45 prix fixe menu, alongside our full menu
More... Sat 8/08 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Alma Sangre w/ Plastic Persons
Alma Sangre, from Boyle Heights in LA, will be performing their hybrid of Spanish rhythm and dance. This is their first performance in San Francisco. Plastic Persons will be supporting as a guitar/sax duo.
More... Wednesday, August 12
Wed 8/12 7:45 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St.
SF]Nate Young
A Michigan carpenter specializing in pole barn framing, Young is also a musician and confirmed shapeshifter. As when coming out to see an orca in a tank far too small to contain it, don't be late and expect to get wet and eaten. https://soundcloud.com/nate-young
Three Legged Race
Hair Police was a riot and his soundtrack for Takeshi Murata bugged out the inner eye, but Three Legged Race, solo project of Kentucky's Robert Beatty, is something perfectly spare as is best for sounds crafted to span solipsistic chasms. Should these long sounds find you, step off to follow. http://www.ubu.com/film/murata_silver.html
Group Rhoda
Here is an interior music not for escape but for deeper dwelling, an infinite nestling that lowers you further to a darker ever more-distant surety, not comfort or ease but fearlessness. And there's voice in her song, that clearest closeness, word and open thought. http://grouprhoda.com/
More... Wed 8/12 9:00 PM Elbo Room [647 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110]Uterozzzaaa (Osaka), 444CAPSULE (Osaka), No Statik (Oakland), Pig Heart Transplant (Oakland) – Japanese Electro Punk Brutality | Bodyshock Presents
More... Thursday, August 13
Thu 8/13 8:00 PM 509 Cultural Center [509 Ellis Street
SF]8pm: neem (gabby fluke-mogul, kelley kipperman)
neem is what we create together. a queer improvisational duo focusing on issues of identity, bodies,
gender, sexuality, feminism, eroticism, & more within the music continuum...
9pm Zachary Mariano - trombone/interactive electronics
More... Saturday, August 15
Sat 8/15 7:00 PM Gaspar Brasserie [185 Sutter St @ Kearny, San Francisco CA 94109]Scott Larson Trio will be playing this Saturday at Gaspar Brasserie. Come out for some vintage cocktails and a weekly prix fixe menu, alongside our full menu
More... Sat 8/15 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Transient Canvas: East to West [don’t be a stranger #2]
The Boston-based marimba and bass clarinet duo Transient Canvas presents a bi-coastal program of new works from composers David Coll, Joseph Colombo, Brenna Noonan, Beau Kenyon, Adam Roberts, and Andy Vores.
More... Sat 8/15 10:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]Quattuor Elephantis CD release show
Join us for the official CD release show of Quattuor Elephantis on Edgetone Records! The group will be playing a set comprised of the compositions from the album. Also performing is saxophonist
Joshua Marshall who will be playing a solo set.
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