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.
activemusic.wordpress.com
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.
More... Thursday, July 31
Thu 7/31 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]A live performance and release party for guitarist Giacomo Fiore’s iv: american electric guitars, featuring music by Christian Wolff, Larry Polansky, Eve Beglarian, and Anthony Porter.
More... Thu 7/31 8:00 PM The ROOM Series (at Royce Gallery) [2901 Mariposa Street (near Harrison), San Francisco, CA]ROOM: The Body Electroacoustic. The ROOM Series presents an evening of electroacoustic music by composer/performers
Donald Swearingen, Jon Leidecker,
Pamela Z, and Kadet Kuhne, with special guests
Suki O'Kane and Giselle Eastman.
Donald Swearingen translates gesture into sound via a series of sensor-based instruments of his making. Jon Leidecker (
Wobbly) inscribes gestures on a tablet to generate sonic events.
Pamela Z's hand and vocal gestures deliver and transform live and sampled sounds. Kadet Kuhne layers electroacoustic material while
Suki O'Kane and Giselle Eastan's dexterous gestures excite sonorities from vibraphone, bass drum, and clarinet.
More... Friday, August 1
Fri 8/01 7:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street
SF]13th Annual Outsound New Music SummitConstructions a night that bring two extremes together
Teddy Rankin-Parker/Daniel Pearce DuoThe Deconstruction OrchestraJosh Allen, conductor, composer and tenor saxophone
Saxophones:
Aaron Bennett-alto, Sam Flores-tenor,
John Ingle-baritone,
Matt Ingalls-alto/clarient, Josh Marshall-tenor, Dave Slusser-tenor, Vinny Golia-soprano/tenor,
Rent Romus-alto,
Cory Wright-baritone
Brass: Peter Bonos-trpt, Collete McCaslin-coronet, Matt Gaspari-Flugel,
Ron Heglin-tuba, Jeff Hobbs-trpt, George Moore -trpt, Matt Streich-trombone
Rhythm:
Henry Kaiser-guitar,
John Finkbeiner-guitar
Timothy Orr-drums,
William Winant-drums,
Lisa Mezzacappa-bass
Advance Tickets @ Brownpapertickets More... Saturday, August 2
Sat 8/02 7:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street
SF]13th Annual Outsound New Music SummitImprovisations improvisers exploring the language of the unknown
Jill Burton TrioTim Perkis - electronics,
Doug Carroll - cello, Jill Burton - voice/movement
Emergency String (X)tetViolins: Mia Bella D'Augelli, Jeff Hobbs,
Christina StanleyCellos:
Doug Carroll, Shanna Sordahl,
David Michalak - lap steel guitar,
Kanoko Nishi-Smith - bass and koto, Bob Marsh - cello, composer
Obstreperous DovesBill Noertker - bass,
Nava Dunkelman - percussion,
Christina Stanley - violin/pedals,
Karl Evangelista - guitar/pedals,
Dave Mihaly - drums
Advance Tickets @ Brownpapertickets More... Sat 8/02 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Australian concert pianist and composer Van-Anh Nguyen’s debut in San Francisco, performing selections of Tchaikovsky/Pletnev’s The Nutcracker Suite, her own compositions as well as works by Chopin, Mozart, Swedish House Mafia, Sam Smith, Katy Perry and more for piano and electronica.
More... Sunday, August 3
Sun 8/03 1:15 PM Japantown Peace Plaza [Post and Buchanan
San Francisco]The Francis Wong Unit will perform at the Nihonmachi Street Fair this Sunday at 1:15 - the Japantown Peace Plaza at Post and Buchanan
More... Sun 8/03 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street
SF]On Sunday August 3rd at 8pm at the Community Music Center, The Luna Ensemble will premier Decoding Phonography, a new music project that will premier six pieces by
Jennifer Wilsey,
Rachel Condry, Daniel Steffey,
Crystal Pascucci, Sam Withrow and Christopher Luna/Diego Villaseñor. Inspired by the Luna Ensemble’s mission, the composers were commissioned to translate field recordings from three Bay Area landmarks: The Port of Oakland; Embarcadero-West Oakland BART; Redwood Regional Park, into notated scores for the ensemble.
More... Sun 8/03 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]This event will be the first of a series of performances curated throughout August and September by TAC's 510 Resident Artist
Robert Lopez8:30pm
Mezzacappa/Lopez Duo is a pairing of improvisers which explore the terrain between propulsive intensity and textural fervor. The two initially performed together as a part of a large improvised ensemble conducted by Philip Greenleaf. Since then they have come to know each others voices by using specific improv strategies as well as by venturing into completely uncharted territory.
9:15pm
The Broken-Trap Ensemble—which features Teddy Rankin-Parker,
Kristina Dutton, Aram Shelton, and
Daniel Pearce—explores the group dynamic through the use of strings, reeds, and percussion, employing traditional and experimental techniques. The quartet creates a latticework of sounds whose origins are slyly dissembled, with one instrument reflecting the timbre and texture of another as the group burrows into a singular sound.
More... Tuesday, August 5
Tue 8/05 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Tim Perkis and Scott Walton comprise an improvising duo that’s sonically adventurous yet remarkably compatible with one another. Atonal flourishes, pops, smashes, sudden surprising torrid excursions, and low rumbles are tossed around between piano and electronics.
Eli Wallace performs a set of compositions that juxtapose divergent yet complimentary musical elements: 20th century classical compositional devices, idiomatic jazz vocabulary, and free improvisation. Specifically, he will debut a three movement piece entitled “Water Row,” and select other pieces from his repertoire.
More... Tue 8/05 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell
SF]Music Moves Festival: Bandelion
$15 Advance | $20 General | $35 Arts Patron
directions | tickets
Suki O'Kane experimenting on drone and drum with Bandelion, the moving musical ensemble emanating from Dandelion Dance Theater.
More... Tue 8/05 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]Drummer/percussionist/composer
Jordan Glenn presents a night of new acoustic music for improvisors and friends
Theresa Wong,
Jason Hoopes, and from Boston, Kaethe Hostetter. The beautifully hypnotic solo guitar work of Chuck Johnson will open the show.
Jordan Glenn- drums/percussion
www.jordanglennmusic.com
Kaethe Hostetter- violin
www.ethiopiansc.weebly.com
Theresa Wong- cello
www.theresawong.org
Jason Hoopes- bass
www.jasonhoopes.bandcamp.com
Chuck Johnson
www.chuckjohnson.net/music-projects/solo-guitar
Doors at 9:00pm, show at 9:30pm
More... Thursday, August 7
Thu 8/07 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Trio 180 (formerly New Pacific Trio), in residence at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, is quickly gaining recognition throughout the United States. This talented ensemble is made up of celebrated concert violinist Ann Miller, Grammy-nominated cellist Nina Flyer, and award-winning pianist Sonia Leong.
More... Thu 8/07 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery]8:00 PM
Andrew Jamieson - solo keyboard8:40 PM
Divine Circles9:15 PM
Elisa Faires"DIVINE CIRCLES keeps their sounds intimate and calm, slowly building the track in the round, with the violinist taking up the bow later on with gorgeous swells of arboreal melodies along with those slow dirgy guitars and some haunted female vocalizations." — Aquarius Records
"On 'Midwest,' Mulhearn’s voice is pure and gentle, hinting of Appalachia. It radiates warmth, inviting the listener to lean in closer to catch every breathy syllable and heartfelt lyric while the song itself rumbles softly beneath like oncoming thunder." -Kim Kelly/ Pitchfork
More... Thu 8/07 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]Lisa Mezzacappa'S INTERLOPERS (Pascucci - Campbell - Perkis - Mezzacappa - Finkbeiner)+ special guest Kaethe Hostetter + THE HOLLY MARTINS
adventurous improvisation meets irreverent chamber music in a concert featuring two iconoclastic local alt-jazz ensembles
More... Friday, August 8
Fri 8/08 6:45 PM California Shakespeare Theater [Main Grove, Bruns Amphitheater
100 California Shakespeare Theater Way
Orinda, CA 94563]This summer, the Center for New Music partners with Cal Shakes’ The Triangle Lab to present three special concerts at Fridays in the Grove: performances by the Bay Area’s best poets, musicians, comics, and more. The show will feature Les Gwan Jupons performing vintage party music from the French, Spanish and English-speaking Caribbean.
More... Fri 8/08 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd
SF]Pushing beyond the boundaries of the performance stage towards a multidisciplinary celebration of some of the most exciting artistic voices in the Bay Area today.
Featuring contemporary music group sfSound, vocalists Antique Naked Soul, piano duo ZOFO, and dance company RAWdance.
More... Fri 8/08 8:30 PM Bottom of the Hill [1233 17th Street
SF]Cuz A Girl's Gotta Boogie!
Pachuco Cadaver Beefheart Musical Tribute, San Francisco
Pachuco Cadaver is dedicated to paying tribute to the musical genius of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. We are not a Beefheart cover band; nobody could realistically be expected to replicate the sound and texture of the Magic Band except the Magic Band, so we have created a horn-heavy ensemble with a decidedly unique way of arranging some classic Beefheart tunes, as if someone like Maceo Parker had been in charge.
Creating new arrangements and instrumentation is a way to introduce the Magic Band and Captain Beefheart to a new generation of live music fans who may not ever have heard of them.
Part of the fun of getting this ensemble together is playing some of the challenging music that has influenced each of us in different ways, trying to capture at least a taste of the thick sound of what Beefheart characterized as “musical painting.”
More... Saturday, August 9
Sat 8/09 11:00 AM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110]THIS SAT 11AM!
GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES SHOW!
Dried Up Corpse (WA)
Monochromacy (S.Diego)
Steve Flato (S.Diego)
G.S. Sultan & Earthmasters (NYC)
I-Doser Xenodrome
More... Sat 8/09 2:00 PM Classic Cars West [411 26th St, Oakland
California 94612]First Annual Mutant Soundwave Festival:
A D.I.Y. mini outdoor music festival featuring unusual, psychedelic, trance inducing, experimental, sound manipulating, noisy fun music of all styles.
More... Sat 8/09 7:30 PM Second Act [1727 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA]Handmade sound and vision! Wine and Magnolia Brewery on tap. Use or lose this superb sound space!
Gorgeous Suntan (NY)
Disorienting, musical, and humorous soundscapes. http://gorgeoussuntan.bandcamp.com/
Earthmasters (NY)
LED glare and murked fuzz of our unguessable future. http://narcearth.bandcamp.com/
Xambuca (NC)
With Chandra Shukla + underground megastars. http://erototoxdecodings.com/artists/xambuca/
Methyl Group
Refers to that one group which differentiates the hormones estrogen from testosterone.
https://soundcloud.com/julialcnalexcruse
More... Sat 8/09 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]The formidable Laura Bohn returns to the Bay Area for this special evening with Erling Wold, performing his songs old and new, prayers from A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil, and the “long and gorgeous monologue of Wagnerian intensity” (San Francisco Chronicle) from Certitude and Joy. Erling will also be premiering, for solo piano, The Knife Thrower, a piece celebrating truth both intimate and penetrative.
More... Sunday, August 10
Sun 8/10 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]Set 1, 8pm: Mountains In Space. Mountains in Space perform live ambient electronic music made with analog synths, custom algorithms, & field recordings. Their music is a time-dilated dive into fractal cosmic jello. Mountains in Space is Luke Dahl & Colin Sullivan who met at Stanford's CCRMA computer music lab & began collaborating musically in 2013.
Set 2, 9pm: Luciano Chessa & Benjamin Kreith perform pieces from their suite Garrett — Confusing Salon Music & Noise since 2013, for violin, piano, Vietnamese đàn bầu, bullhorn, saw, Aardvark synth app, harmonica & voice. A program consisting of Futurist sound poetry, original pieces, Erik Satie transcriptions, a Fluxus piece, delicate improvisations, and much more.
More... Tuesday, August 12
Tue 8/12 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave
Oakland]Active Music Series presents Mwahaha | Fibers with Gargantius Effect | mchtnchts Mwahaha. Psychedelic ebb & flows, electronic undercurrents, and elated pop flourishes bring into focus an attention to detail that's staggering. Fibers + Gargantius Effect. Combinations of free improvisation, Balkan swing, chamber jazz, texture and tone with Murray Campbell, violin, oboe & electronics; Randy McKean, reeds; Wes Steed, electronics and Kevin Corcoran, percussion. mchtnchts. Lance Grabmiller and
Kyle Bruckmann create music that is delightfully nasty, unapologetically invoking a mutual love of vintage electronic music and old-school industrial crunch.
Active Music Series: Second Tuesdays at the Uptown. activemusic.wordpress.com
More... Friday, August 15
Fri 8/15 5:00 PM Meridian Gallery [535 Powell Street
SF]Neither Confirmed Nor Denied
Part of the public installation, and transparent decision-making, of performers for
Gino Robair's Saturday performance of his instrumental opera of coded information inspired by the mysterious "number stations" heard on shortwave radios throughout the world since the late '40s.
More... Fri 8/15 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]The
Darren Johnston Trio includes violin virtuoso Matt Szemela (Quartet San Francisco), bass powerhouse Doug Stuart (Bell's Atlas) and
Darren Johnston on trumpet. As part of an ongoing residency with the Oakland Freedom Jazz Society, the trio has presented many concerts featuring guest improvisers in the "plus one" format, including William Winant, Steven Lugener, and Jordan Glenn. For this evening's concert, the trio reunites with one of their favorite guests, pianist and koto player
Kanoko Nishi-Smith. The music can move from sparse and textural to dense and driving, from intricate melodies to static sonic clouds.
Seattle trumpeter and bandleader Samantha Boshnack synthesizes a dazzling array of musical influences in her sophisticated yet fun, highly original compositions – from intricate chamber writing to lush jazz panoramas and funky brass band-inspired grooves. Her quintet features some of Seattle’s most accomplished improvisers, and makes its Bay Area debut hot on the heels of an acclaimed new CD.
More... Fri 8/15 9:00 PM LeQuiVive [1525 Webster
Oakland]NEW MUSIC at LeQuiVive presents
Oluyemi &
Ijeoma Thomas' Positive Knowledge
Oluyemi Thomas - Bass Clarinet/Saxophone
Ijeoma Thomas - Voice/Percussion/Poetry
plus
Earth Blind
Nick Obando - Saxophone/Electronics
Michael John Dale - Keyboards/Electronics
Aaron Levin - Drums
plus
DJ Free Pete Smith & Fernando Carpenter will be spinning new spirituals from there personal record collection.
Doors open at 9pm
$10
More... Saturday, August 16
Sat 8/16 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]The music of Oakland-based reed player and composer
Cory Wright encompasses an astonishingly broad range of sounds anyone would call jazz - fiery swing, beautifully intricate horn writing, and a sensitivity to both fun and brainy ways of driving the music foreword with collective improvisation, asymmetric grooves and dazzlingly virtuosic soloing. At times playfully irreverent and at others lovingly sympathetic to jazz traditions past and present, Wright’s music also embraces texture and abstraction and formal experimentation, and he is truly an innovator in creating novel ways for improvising musicians to interact in the moment. Among the Bay Area’s first-call musicians on saxophones and clarinets, here Wright is joined by his stellar ensemble, performing selections from his latest release “Apples and Oranges” and new compositions for duo, trio and quintet configurations.
More... Sat 8/16 8:00 PM Meridian Gallery [535 Powell Street
SF]This instrumental opera is inspired by the mysterious “number stations” that have broadcast on shortwave radios throughout the world since the late ‘40s, which are widely believed to provide coded messages between government intelligence agencies and their spies. Composer
Gino Robair models the opera’s musical score after the individual characteristics of these stations by giving each performer a set of coded instructions to interpret musically or through movement.
More...