Mon 8/31 9:30 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
Avant-Jazz & Experimental Noise Every Monday featuring Evangelista/Atwal/Obando plus Spirituals in Dialogue  More...

Wed 9/02 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Anniversary Show  More...

Thu 9/03 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series @ 509 Cultural Gallery [509 Ellis Street SF]
8pm Logan Hone/Greg Uhlmann Duo
9pm Shadow Revolutions (Sharkiface & Fletcher Pratt)
Duo of Sharkiface and Fletcher Pratt doing noisy horror soundtracks and ghostly chopped n screwed remix jams.

Two of Los Angeles’ most creative young musicians, multi-instrumentalist Logan Hone and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann, will team for a California tour in September 2015. The duo will present a dynamic set of music that combines song with elements of free improvisation and blurs the lines between jazz, indie rock, and avant-garde.  More...

Fri 9/04 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Vernacular Visions

A 35mm slideshow of found photographs from the Vernacular Visions archive featuring live improvised musical accompaniment by Jake Head, Jon Leidecker, Corey Hucks and Tania Chen.  More...

Fri 9/04 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Logan Hone & Greg Uhlmann  More...

Fri 9/04 8:00 PM Turquoise Yantra Grotto [32 Turquoise Way SF]
Righteous Intonation:
Chris Brown- 6Primes- piano works in limit 13 just intonation
Stephen Parris/Daniel Schmidt- Gamelan Encinal- just slendro tuning

6Primes (2014)
Six Pieces for Piano in 13-limit Just Intonation
by Chris Brown

The first four pieces will be played at this concert.

1: 13-7-6-4
subsections: 7-6, 7-4, 6-4, 13-4, 13-7-6, 13-7-4, 7-6-4, 13-6, 13-6-4,13-7-6-4, 13-7 2: 11-7-6-4
subsections: 11-7, 11-7-6, 11-6, 11-6-4, 11-4, 6-4, 7-6-4, 7-6, 11-7-4, 7-4, 11-7-6-4
3: 13-6-5-4
subsections: 13-5-4, 13-4, 13-6-5-4 (13 bars), 6-5-4, 6-5, 6-4, 13-6-5-4(13 bars),
13-6-5, 13-5, 5-4, 13-6-5-4 (13 bars), 13-6, 13-6-4
4: 7-6-5-4
subsections: 7-5, 7-5-4, 7-4, 5-4, 6-5-4, 6-5, 6-4, 7-6, 7-6-4, 7-6-5, 7-6-5-4  More...

Fri 9/04 9:00 PM Amnesia [853 Valencia St San Francisco]
The Nightingales (U.K.), Surplus 1980

The kick-off for the US West Coast tour of the UK-based post-punk band The Nightingales together with Surplus 1980!  More...

Sat 9/05 7:00 PM Gaspar Brasserie [185 Sutter St @ Kearny San Francisco CA 94109]
Terrence Brewer Trio will be playing this Saturday at Gaspar Brasserie. Come out for some music, vintage cocktails and a weekly prix fixe menu, served alongside our full menu  More...

Sun 9/06 5:00 PM Actual Cafe [6334 San Pablo Avenue Oakland]
John Schott – electric guitar, Dan Seamans, double bass, and John Hanes, drums play original and imaginative music that moves from moody to exuberant, with swing and honesty.  More...

Sun 9/06 5:00 PM UB RADIO SALON [Streamed live via www.DFM.NU]
Sept. 6, 2015, 5-7PM UB RADIO SALON
streamed live via www.DFM.NU
Polly Moller and Amanda Chaudhary will be joining hosts Ninah and dAS of UB RADIO SALON for a live improv-experimental radio session! Streamed live via www.DFM.NU 5-7PM PDT.  More...

Sun 9/06 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence #9 (open participation improv workshop) featuring Matt Ingalls.

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 be a full set by Matt Ingalls.  More...

Mon 9/07 8:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

Monday, September 7, 8pm (8:30pm start)

Set #1: Sound Etiquette (powerful trio improvisation)
(Aaron Levin-dms, Nick Obando, sax, Eli Wallace-keys)

Set #2: Past-Present-Future (Bay Area creative music veterans)
(Myles Boisen-gtr, John Hanes-dms, Lisa Mezzacappa-b)

Set #3: IJKL (lyrical, compelling ensemble jazz)
(Ian Carey-tpt, Kasey Knudsen-sax, Jon Arkin-dms, Lisa Mezzcappa-b)  More...

Mon 9/07 9:30 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
Avant-Jazz & Experimental Noise Every Monday featuring NEEM (k. kipperman / Gabby Fluke-Mogul)  More...

Tue 9/08 7:30 PM Omni Oakland Commons [4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series Presents: John Bischoff, Las Sucias, Miranda Hill  More...

Wed 9/09 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
For our first show of the Meridian Composer's in Performance series at Canessa Gallery in North Beach, we are excited to present guitarist Henry Kaiser.  More...

Thu 9/10 7:00 PM SFEMF [See event for address]
SFEMF Opening Night at the Exploratorium
Alessandro Cortini
http://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/electronic-music-festival-opening-night-9-10-2015  More...

Thu 9/10 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series @ 509 [509 Ellis Street @ Leavenworth San Francisco]
8pm: Tim DeCillis - Percussion, Hamir Atwal - Percussion, Alex Cohen - Guitar
9pm: Ori Barel - electronics  More...

Thu 9/10 8:00 PM The General's Residence [Fort Mason San Francisco]
FORT MASON CENTER PRESENTS -- Lenora Lee Dance: Fire of Freedom
The General's Residence — Sep 10th through Sep 20th  More...

Thu 9/10 9:00 PM Hemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street SF]
3 Leafs, Impuritan, and IMA  More...

Fri 9/11 7:00 PM Studio Valencia [455A Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94103]
A music concert featuring visionary avant-cellist-vocalist Madigan Shive and an exclusive excerpt from the in-progress documentary about her life and music, Whisper Rapture: A Bonfire Madigan Suite by filmmaker Ken Paul Rosenthal. Shive will perform unreleased selections from her highly anticipated forthcoming album, Covert Constellations.  More...

Fri 9/11 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Switchboard Presents: Ambient Happy Hour & In C ReDo

Switchboard Presents launches their 2015-2016 concert season with an ambient happy hour curated by Danny Clay and an audience-participation performance of the In C ReDo.  More...

Fri 9/11 7:30 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento]
Skeleton Wire (Phillip Greenlief, GE Stinson and Steuart Liebig) & Amy Reed/Collette McCaslin  More...

Fri 9/11 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Avenue Winds

Melanie Keller, flute; Adrienne Malley, oboe; Ginger Kroft, clarinet; Daniel Wood, horn; Charles Moehnke, bassoon

Avenue Winds presents an international program delving into the intricate and passionate woodwind quintets of Danish composer, Carl Nielsen, as well as Romanian composer, György Ligeti. The ensemble will also perform Jean Francaix's Quatuor à vents as well as additional selections featuring local San Francisco Bay Area composers.  More...

Fri 9/11 8:00 PM SFEMF [See Announcement for address SF]
SFEMF Night Two at Brava Theater
Lawrence English
Surabhi Saraf
Horaflora
Note: John Chantler will not be performing due to Visa issues.  More...

Sat 9/12 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St SF]
G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S
Noon-2pm SHARP/////Sept 12 SATURDAY

@NoiseBridge

Magnetic Stripper------Windowpain Industries------Beauty School-----------  More...

Sat 9/12 7:00 PM Gaspar Brasserie [185 Sutter St @ Kearny San Francisco CA 94109]
George Cotsirilos Trio will be playing this Saturday at Gaspar Brasserie. Come out for some music, vintage cocktails, and a weekly prix fixe menu, served alongside our full menu  More...

Sat 9/12 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
I Sing Words: The Poetry Project – Jill Morgan Brenner & Anne Rainwater

Jill Morgan Brenner (soprano) and Anne Rainwater (pianist) present a concert of world premier art songs and song cycles by local composers setting music to living poets.  More...

Sat 9/12 8:00 PM SFEMF [See Announcement for address SF]
SFEMF Night Three at Brava Theater
2781 24th Street (at York)
San Francisco, CA

Robert Rich
Charles Cohen
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
www.SFEMF.org  More...

Sat 9/12 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
New electronic music by Chad McKinney and Curtis McKinney, John Bischoff, Maggi Payne, Chris Brown and James Fei.  More...

Sun 9/13 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 Ninth St @ Mission SF 94103]
7:30pm Gestaltish
Rachel Condry - clarinet
Gretchen Jude - voice
Jakob Pek - guitar
Jennifer Wilsey - percussion
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - saxes, flute
Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jason Levis - drums  More...

Sun 9/13 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Dapplegray - Skeleton Wire  More...

Sun 9/13 8:00 PM SFEMF [See Announcement for address SF]
SFEMF Night Four at Brava Theater:
Olivia Block
Doug Lynner
Kevin Blechdom & Aqulaqutaqu
www.SFEMF.org  More...

Sun 9/13 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Shapeshifters Cinema

« Silence on the SevensubRadio Salon: ‘Fraid o’ Freyja »
Sitting in on low floor tom and balafon as Steven Dye and Alfonso Alvarez immerse the Temescal Art Center in light and sound. Steve’s trio includes him on ukulele, Maat Valkyr on sitar, Suki O'Kane, and several alternate tunings that tend to hypnotize.  More...

Mon 9/14 6:00 PM Berkeley Community Media [2239 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd]
September 14th marks the birthday of two contemporary musical legends: Amy Winehouse and Nasir Jones, better known as Nas. Winehouse and Jones revolutionized their respective genres of R&B and Hip-Hop and, as destiny would have it, came together to collaborate in Ms. Winehouse's final years. To celebrate the late Amy Winehouse and Nas, an ensemble of local vocalists, scholars, emcees, musicians and poets will be performing a tribute medley accompanied by a live band and DJ.  More...

Mon 9/14 9:00 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
Avant-Jazz & Experimental Noise Every Monday featuring Tim Perkis/Steuart Liebig plus Tom Djll  More...

Wed 9/16 7:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda: ke i te ki

Japanese sound artists Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda present a unique opportunity to experience the innovative artists’ sonic and spatial explorations. Though they differ in generation and performance practice, the NYC-based Onda (b. 1967) and the Kyotango-based Suzuki (b. 1941) share an astonishingly inventive, open-ended, and spontaneous approach to the infinite and variegated possibilities of sound. Since initiating a collaborative relationship in 2005, the duo have embarked on a number of tours in Europe and Asia, exploring site-specific locations ranging from an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Brussels to an underground parking lot in Glasgow. Suzuki and Onda released their first album “ma ta ta bi” on ORAL_records in 2014.  More...

Wed 9/16 7:45 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
Matt Ingalls & Ken Ueno, Mazawa & Oakland, dyemark & Maat Valkyr, Gerritt & Knowles

Matt Ingalls & Ken Ueno
Witness first-hand the entanglement of two skyrmions in a space roughly the size of the Large Hadron supersaturated vapor chamber.

Julia Mazawa & Oakland
Always already collaborating, Julia Mazawa is an improviser, illustrator, sculptor and recordist who lives life with play and record buttons both mashed flat.

dyemark & Maat Valkyr
Blending the classical sounds of Tenor Ukulele and Sitar, dyemark is pleased to share the stage with Maat Valkyr.

Gerritt Wittmer & Paul Knowles
Not seen since their amazing 2011 performance at the Berkeley Art Museum, this singularly confounding duo can extinguish sound and set fire to silence.  More...

Wed 9/16 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Rova Saxophone Quartet + Henry Kaiser + Kyle Bruckmann: Steve Lacy’s “Saxophone Special”

Reprising their sextet show from July 2015 in Oakland, Rova and friends perform the classic 1974 recording by Steve Lacy called “Saxophone Special,” in preparation for a studio recording of same.  More...

Thu 9/17 7:30 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Free World ~ 3rd Thursdays

Curated by India Cooke, violin and Lewis Jordan, saxophone  More...

Thu 9/17 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series @ 509 Cultural Gallery [509 Ellis Street SF]
8:00pm Perfect Center (From LA): Lucas Gorham - lap steel guitar, electric guitar, electronics and vocals
9:00pm Chris Corsano - solo drums

Chris Corsano toured extensively throughout Europe, USA, and Japan. He spent 2007 and '08 as the drummer on Björk's Volta world tour, all the while weaving in shows and recordings on his days off with the likes of Evan Parker, Virginia Genta, and C. Spencer Yeh. Moving back to the U.S. in 2009, Corsano returned focus to his own projects, including solo work, duos with Michael Flower, Joe McPhee, Nate Wooley, and Mette Rasmussen and the trio Rangda with Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny.  More...

Fri 9/18 6:00 PM Presidio Officer's Club [50 Moraga San Francisco]
sfSound presents a program of graphic scores, structured improvisation, minimalism, and extended techniques to the PRESIDIO SESSIONS, a concert series of informal, free performances in the Presdio Officers’ Club. Works by Cornelius Cardew, Frederic Rzewski, Dan Joseph, Monica Scott, John Ingle, and Matt Ingalls  More...

Fri 9/18 7:30 PM City of Refuge United Church of Christ [8400 Enterprise Way, Oakland, CA]
Solo, duo and ensemble arrangements from Andrew Jamieson's Heard the Voice solo album.  More...

Fri 9/18 7:30 PM Faye Spanos Concert Hall [3601 Pacific Avenue Stockton, CA]
The Electronic Muse Concert featuring Alessandro Cortini (of Nine Inch Nails and How to Destroy Angels), Todd Barton, and the Conservatory's very own Robert Coburn. This concert is a celebration of the opening of the University of the Pacific's Conservatory of Music's new Analog-Digital Modular Studio.  More...

Fri 9/18 7:30 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
Amendola vs. Blades: From Avant Garde to Funk, Bebop to Rock  More...

Fri 9/18 8:00 PM Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists [1924 Cedar Street Berkeley, CA 94709]
"Play that Thing or Throw It Away" Larry Ochs - Darren Johnston - Gino Robair  More...

Sat 9/19 3:00 PM Magazine A-168 [Railroad Ave. & Mercado Ct. Mare Island, Vallejo]
RE:SOUND presents Touch: co-presented by 23five Incorporated. The performances take place in a decommissioned concrete munitions storage magazine measuring 55’ x 10, featuring Simon Scott (Slowdive), Steve Roden, Mark van Hoen (Locust, Seefeel), and Mike Harding (Touch) along with a screening of Liquid Music by Jon Wozencroft scored by Christian Fennesz.  More...

Sat 9/19 7:00 PM Gaspar Brasserie [185 Sutter St @ Kearny San Francisco CA 94109]
Eric Markowitz Trio will be playing this Saturday at Gaspar Brasserie. Come out for some music, vintage cocktails and a weekly prix fixe menu serves alongside our full menu  More...

Sat 9/19 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Erik Jekabson Quintet  More...

Sat 9/19 8:00 PM Studio 55 in San Rafael [1455 East Francisco Blvd. San Rafael]
Sangita Moskow (electric sarod and voice)  More...

Sat 9/19 8:00 PM Life Changing Ministries [Oakland]
Corsano/Rylan, Orcutt, Voicehandler, SL Morse  More...

Sat 9/19 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Lina Bahn/Steve Antosca/Ken Ueno

Recent works for Solo Violin and Electronics

Lina Bahn, violin
Steve Antosca, computer
Ken Ueno, computer  More...

Sun 9/20 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Composer Meetup & Member Party

C4NM hosts a two-part day of community fun: the monthly composer meetup runs from 2 to 4 PM, followed by a reception for current and prospective members.

C4NM staff and board will offer exciting announcements, and introduce the first Ensemble in Residence. There may be games as well!  More...

Sun 9/20 2:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St SF]
2 Solos @ The Nunnery - Rent Romus - saxophones & flutes "swings like death and hell", Tom Djll - trumpet, electronics - “Djll has taken the trumpet as far beyond its silver, snarling vernacular as it is possible to go."  More...

Sun 9/20 4:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Karl Evangelista's Taglish @ Which Way West? Sunday Concert Series

Filipino American composer and improviser Karl Evangelista is joined by a slew of Bay Area jazz stalwarts to present Taglish, a musical journey through 21st century immigrant culture.

Karl Evangelista-guitar, Rob Ewing-trombone, Francis Wong-tenor/soprano saxophones, Cory Wright-baritone saxophone, Rei Scampavia-keys, John-Carlos Perea-bass, Jordan Glenn-drums  More...

Sun 9/20 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Martin Hackett from England  More...

Sun 9/20 9:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
CHRIS CORSANO + OKKYUNG LEE + BILL ORCUTT

Chris Corsano: drums
Okkyung Lee: cello
Bill Orcutt: guitar  More...

Mon 9/21 9:30 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
Avant-Jazz & Experimental Noise Every Monday featuring Vijay Anderson/Steve Adams plus Rent Romus / Donald Robinson  More...

Tue 9/22 7:30 PM Aggregate Space Gallery [801 West Grand Avenue Oakland, CA 94607]
Aggregate Space Gallery is pleased to present the work of cellist and noise artist Okkyung Lee in this one night only solo performance event.  More...

Tue 9/22 7:30 PM PianoFight [144 Taylor St SF]
ELECTRIC SHADOW THEATER: FILM TRUTH + SURREAL SOUND BY FUSHIGI KENKYŪKAI (不思議研究会)

◉ Silent films by Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов), Man Ray, and Maya Deren ◉ with music by Jorge Bachmann, Beth Custer, Tom Djll, Joe Lasqo, David Michalak, & Tom Nunn.



Fushigi Kenkyūkai (不思議研究会) means "Paranormal Research Society". The truth is out there… 
The program uses a classic from the "Film Truth" (Кино-Правда) movement of early 20th century Russia and two classic surrealist shorts to find it.



◉ Line-up: Jorge Bachmann (electronics) — Beth Custer (bass & other clarinets, vocals) — Tom Djll (surrealist prepared trumpet)
 — Joe Lasqo (keyboards | laptop | objects) — David Michalak (skatchbox | lap steel guitar | film curator) — Tom Nunn (invented instruments)


◉ Part 1: Surrealist Shorts (20 min)
— Man Ray: Return to Reason (Retour à la raison).
— 
Maya Deren: At Land
◉ Part 2: Mind-altering Main Feature (68 min)
— Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов): Man With A Movie Camera (Человек с киноаппаратом).  More...

Tue 9/22 7:48 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Willful Devices: sfSoundSalonSeries presents Scott Miller & Pat O’Keefe

Willful Devices is an electroacoustic improv duo, born of the collaboration between composer/computer musician Scott Miller and clarinetist/bass clarinetist Pat O’Keefe. Their name refers to the willful nature of the tools they manipulate to produce sound, because despite their best efforts, these devices are never fully under their control.  More...

Wed 9/23 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Christin Schillinger — Diaphonic: New Sounds for Bassoon

New Music specialist Christin Schillinger performs new works for bassoon by California composers Kyle Hovatter, Jenni Brandon, John Steinmetz, Adrienne Albert, & Alex Shapiro. She is joined by collaborative pianist Jed Moss.  More...

Wed 9/23 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Tender Buttons (Tania Chen, piano; Gino Robair, modular synthesizers, and Tom Djll, modular synthesizer and circuit bent instruments) lay down a thick ear-cushioning wall-to-wall carpet of minimalist throwback-60's modernism via intense improvisatory practice.  More...

Wed 9/23 9:00 PM Starline Social Club [645 West Grand Avenue Oakland]
SAUL WILLIAMS + BLACK SPIRITUALS

SAUL WILLIAMS
After living abroad for four years, Saul Williams returned to America and found his head twirling with thoughts on everything from race, class, and gender, to finance, freedom, and guns, to cooking shows, dog shows, superheroes, not-so-super politicians, and everything else that makes up our country.

BLACK SPIRITUALS
Black Spirituals, of Oakland CA, are a locally venerated electro-acoustic duo of creative sound-makers who articulate meaning at the ecstatic intersection of tone-generating electronics & the heart-thumping, acoustic percussion technologies. www.blackspirituals.com  More...

Thu 9/24 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series @ 509 Cultural Gallery [509 Ellis Street San Francisco]
8:00pm Adam Hirsch - solo alto saxophone/voice/electronics
8:45pm Scott Cazan - electronics (Los Angeles)
9:30pm Carmina Escobar - voice/electronics (Los Angeles)  More...

Fri 9/25 6:30 PM Matatu Festival [645 West Grand Avenue Oakland]
Robinson/Spirit/Trammell/Tacuma: DEMOCRATICS // Decolonizing the Imagination #MATATU15  More...

Fri 9/25 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills Music Now: DARIUS MILHAUD: MÉDÉE (1938)
A tragic opera on the subject of Medea from Greek mythology.  More...

Fri 9/25 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Scott Cazan and Carmina Escobar

Visiting composer/performers Scott Cazan (Los Angeles) and Carmina Escobar (Mexico City) present a night of works for live electronics and voice including two new works by Cazan and Escobar and opening with a performance of the seminal work “La Fabrica Illuminata” by Luigi Nono for multi-channel electronics and voice (performed live by Carmina Escobar).  More...

Sat 9/26 4:30 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Tribute to Ornette Coleman
Change of the Century - a musical tribute to Ornette Coleman
organized by Myles Boisen

7 outstanding local acts interpreting the music of Ornette Coleman!  More...

Sat 9/26 7:00 PM Gaspar Brasserie [185 Sutter St @ Kearny San Francisco CA 94109]
Patrick Wolff Trio will be playing this Saturday at Gaspar Brasserie. Come out for some music, vintage cocktails and a weekly prix fixe menu, served alongside our full menu  More...

Sat 9/26 7:30 PM Lafayette Library Community Hall [3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd. Lafayette, CA 94549]
“Gypsy” opens the Gold Coast Chamber Players’ 2015-16 series, with works inspired by Gypsy exoticism. Gold Coast Chamber Players and Artistic Director/violist Pamela Freund are the recipients of the 2015 Arts Recognition Award by the Contra Costa County Arts and Culture Commission. Joining her is one of the leading violinists in the US, Geoff Nuttall, along with Robert Howard, cello, and Jeffrey LaDeur, piano. The concert will be held on Saturday, September 26 at 7:30 PM, with a pre-concert talk at 7:00 PM. Tickets are available at www.gcplayers.org and by phone at (925) 283-3728. Limited seating, please reserve early.  More...

Sat 9/26 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
William Basinski

The Lab presents William Basinski in a solo performance of his two new albums, Cascade and The Deluge.

“William Basinski's unfailingly beautiful musical oeuvre is so familiar that with each new album there's always a certain trepidation that he will be retreading old ground and rehashing ideas he's already expounded upon. What Cascade and its live incarnation The Deluge prove, is that even in such circumstances, his magic touch is very much of the Midas variety. Whilst the piano loop that he draws upon was first recorded in 1982 and appeared as recently as 2009 on 92982, the way he has embarked upon reworking it imbues it with new emotional depth and fresh energy that it feels like hearing the loop for the first time.” – Joseph Burnett, The Quietus  More...

Sun 9/27 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Optical Sound #2 ~ Dementia (1955) ~ Frith•Custer•Stanley

"The second in a monthly series of improv music to soundless films at The Center For New Music. Benjamin Ethan Tinker is curating this series with Center For New Music curator Tania Chen. This evening the film will be the dialouge-less "Dementia (aka Daughter of Horror)" (1955) by John Parker. "May be the strangest film ever offered for theatrical release." – Variety Come hear the ecstatic sounds of the trio of Fred Frith, Beth Custer, and Christina Stanley!  More...

Mon 9/28 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613]
Rafael Toral: Space Studies

Melodic without notes, rhythmic but without a beat, familiar but strange, meticulous but radically free, "Space Studies" are exercises in "post-free jazz electronic music".  More...

Mon 9/28 9:30 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
Avant-Jazz & Experimental Noise Every Monday featuring Moe! Staiano plus Ryan Pate/ Eli Wallace /Britt Ciampa  More...

Tue 9/29 7:51 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Not Electronic Music: sfSoundSalonSeries presents Rafael Toral + sfSoundGroup

Rafael Toral is not an electronic musician, but an incendiary and idiosyncratic Lisbon-based musician who employs electronic instruments to perform music. Formerly known for his drone/ambient work with guitar and electronics and acclaimed records such as Wave Field (1994) or Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance (2000), he has radically renewed his approach to music, launching the jazz-inspired and alien-sounding Space Program in 2004. http://rafaeltoral.net  More...

Wed 9/30 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Silver Keys Trio – All American Music

The Silver Keys Trio consists of flutist Christina Guenther, bassoonist Susan Nelson, and pianist Geneva Fung. Working together at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas from 2010-2012 led to a fast friendship and many musical collaborations, and the trio has been performing together ever since. We are very excited to be sharing a program that includes world premieres of new works by two American composers on our 2015 California tour!  More...

Wed 9/30 8:00 PM Turquoise Yantra Grotto [32 Turquoise Way SF]
Inventor’s Quorum:

Neil Feather/Rosie Langabeer- Two To Tutu Too
Tom Nunn/ Kevin Corcoran/ David Samas- Pet the Tiger

Sound Mechanic Neil Feather has been creating radical and unusual musical instruments since 1970 and is increasingly known outside of Baltimore as one of the most original musical thinkers of his day. His instruments each embody uniquely clever acoustic and engineering principles, and are visually arresting. The music he plays on the instruments is equally original, embodying new principles and resulting in a nearly alien idiom of music.  More...

Wed 9/30 8:00 PM Life Changing Ministries [Oakland]
Rafael Toral w/Gino Robair, Marc Kate, Tonal Masher  More...

Thu 10/01 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Thingamajigs presents another year of exciting new musical works for homemade instruments, found objects, DIY inventions, and alternate tunings by some of the Bay Area’s most innovative artists. Instrument inventors are a rare breed; but at this year’s 18th annual Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, a dozen of the finest experimental instrument builders will be entertaining all ages crowds at the Center for New Music.  More...

Thu 10/01 8:00 PM LSG Creative Music Series @ 509 Cultural Gallery [509 Ellis Street SF]
NorCal Noise Fest in San Francisco
8:15pm THIRTEEN HURTS (Colorado)
8:40pm KOMPRIPIOTR (Italy)
9:10pm X-BAX (Long Beach,CA)
9:35pm CHESTNUT (Los Angeles)

NorCal Noise Fest teams up with Outsound to present a night of touring noise artists  More...

Thu 10/01 8:00 PM Brava Theater Center [2781 24th St., San Francisco, CA]
Composer and bassist Lisa Mezzacappa presents the Bay Area premiere of Glorious Ravage, a panoramic song cycle featuring a large ensemble of California improvisers with new film, video and animation by Janis Crystal Lipzin, Kathleen Quillian, Alfonso Alvarez and Konrad Steiner. With: Fay Victor, Myra Melford, Mark Dresser, Nicole Mitchell, Vinny Golia, Michael Dessen, Darren Johnston, Kyle Bruckmann, Cory Wright, Dina Maccabee, Kjell Nordeson, Jordan Glenn, John Finkbeiner, Tim Perkis, and Mezzacappa.

Tickets here  More...

Fri 10/02 7:30 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
ACKAMOOR/MOLINA DUET: A Ritualistic Musical Journey Improvised With Traditional & Invented Instruments

Using a multitude of traditional acoustic and invented instruments, ACKAMOOR/MOLINA DUET creates a ritualistic, improvised musical journey that takes the listeners through various sonic territories, including ambient, experimental, jazz, American folk, and more.  More...

Fri 10/02 8:00 PM Brava Theater Center [2781 24th St., San Francisco, CA]
Composer and bassist Lisa Mezzacappa presents the Bay Area premiere of Glorious Ravage, a panoramic song cycle featuring a large ensemble of California improvisers with new film, video and animation by Janis Crystal Lipzin, Kathleen Quillian, Alfonso Alvarez and Konrad Steiner.

With: Fay Victor, Myra Melford, Mark Dresser, Nicole Mitchell, Vinny Golia, Michael Dessen, Darren Johnston, Kyle Bruckmann, Cory Wright, Dina Maccabee, Kjell Nordeson, Jordan Glenn, John Finkbeiner, Tim Perkis, and Mezzacappa.

Tickets: https://www.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e=5e1ce71be7886ce2230f61b906cc4e66  More...

Fri 10/02 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Thingamajigs presents another year of exciting new musical works for homemade instruments, found objects, DIY inventions, and alternate tunings by some of the Bay Area’s most innovative artists. Instrument inventors are a rare breed; but at this year’s 18th annual Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, a dozen of the finest experimental instrument builders will be entertaining all ages crowds at the Center for New Music.  More...

Fri 10/02 10:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
The Lost Trio + The Empty Cage Quartet  More...

Sat 10/03 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Thingamajigs presents another year of exciting new musical works for homemade instruments, found objects, DIY inventions, and alternate tunings by some of the Bay Area’s most innovative artists. Instrument inventors are a rare breed; but at this year’s 18th annual Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, a dozen of the finest experimental instrument builders will be entertaining all ages crowds at the Center for New Music.  More...

Sat 10/03 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Ben Goldberg School  More...

Sat 10/03 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Yoshi Wada & Tashi Wada

Renowned composer, instrument builder, and Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada and his son composer Tashi Wada present an expansive duo performance using a loose structure and a unique mixture of acoustic and electronic instruments that includes: sirens, alarm bells, audio generators, bagpipe and reed organ. In Yoshi Wada’s own words: "I search for deep and ringing sound that travels deep into my cells. Where does this sound exist?"  More...

Sun 10/04 4:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
NORTHERN WINDS & VOICES
New and old Finnish tribal folk songs arranged exploring the universal connections between immigrants and their motherlands. Featured musicians: Heikki Koskinen (pno&winds), Kati Pienimäki Schenker (vocals), Rent Romus, (winds), Steve Heckman (winds), Noah Schenker (bass)  More...

Sun 10/04 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Thingamajigs presents another year of exciting new musical works for homemade instruments, found objects, DIY inventions, and alternate tunings by some of the Bay Area’s most innovative artists. Instrument inventors are a rare breed; but at this year’s 18th annual Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, a dozen of the finest experimental instrument builders will be entertaining all ages crowds at the Center for New Music.  More...

Sun 10/04 7:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
GYANI Indo Jazz ~ Cutting-edge East West Collaboration
World class musicians share their passion for exploring and expanding the possibilities of classical Indian raga and jazz in cutting-edge improvisation of global traditions and rhythms. Binay Pathak, Indian Vocal and Harmonium, Osam Ezzeldin, Keyboard, Jesse Sheehan, Saxophone, Vishal Nagar, Tabla, Abbos Kosimov, Doira. Breathtaking vocal and instrumental dialogues between musicians.  More...

Sun 10/04 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 Ninth St @ Mission SF 94103]
7:30pm Dan Plonsey solo
8:30pm Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs/Bill Noertker - contrabass  More...

Sun 10/04 8:00 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
ELECTRIC SHADOW THEATER: FILM TRUTH + SURREAL SOUND BY FUSHIGI KENKYŪKAI (不思議研究会)

◉ Silent films by Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов), Man Ray, and Maya Deren ◉ with music by Jorge Bachmann, Beth Custer, Bryan Day, Thomas Dimuzio, Tom Djll, & Joe Lasqo.

Fushigi Kenkyūkai (不思議研究会) means "Paranormal Research Society". The truth is out there… 
The program uses a classic from the "Film Truth" (Кино-Правда) movement of early 20th century Russia and two classic surrealist shorts to find it.

◉ Line-up: Jorge Bachmann (electronics) — Beth Custer (bass & other clarinets, vocals) — Bryan Day (invented instruments)
 — Thomas Dimuzio (electronics) — Tom Djll (surrealist prepared trumpet) — Joe Lasqo (laptop/MSP | piano | objects)


◉ Part 1: Surrealist Shorts (20 min)
— Man Ray: Return to Reason (Le retour à la raison).
— Maya Deren: At Land
◉ Part 2: Mind-altering Main Feature (68 min)
— Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов): Man With A Movie Camera (Человек с киноаппаратом).  More...

Mon 10/05 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: Patrick Cress's Telepathy (powerhouse modern jazz)
(Patrick Cress-sax, Michael Bello-ts, Sam Bevan-b, Jeff Marrs-dms)

Set #2: ROVA (legendary Bay Area saxophone quartet)
(Larry Ochs, Jon Raskin, Steve Adams, Bruce Ackley)

Set #3: Tim DeCillis's Harbinger (percussion powered creative music)
(Theo Padouvas-tpt, Cory Wright-winds, Safa Shokrai-b, Alex Cohen-gtr, Tim DeCillis-dms/pc)  More...

Mon 10/05 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Monday Nights with Oakland Freedom Jazz Series Presents Barrera + Sreekrishnan  More...

Tue 10/06 3:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
New Music and Community Re-defined (this story takes place in the Tenderloin)

As part of the the NewCo Bay Bridge Festival, C4NM hosts a session exploring how the Center is building a community for musicians in the Tenderloin by harnessing the ethics of the sharing economy, unlocking musical creativity, and modeling how the most experimental creatives can thrive in the midst of a neighborhood, a city, and a music industry undergoing major renovation.

This session will explore what new music is, and who makes it, as well as why artists need a community.

Full information available from NewCo  More...

Tue 10/06 7:41 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents: Tone Ramblings – Eric Mandat + friends

For more than 35 years, clarinetist/composer Eric Mandat has been at the forefront of clarinet extended performance techniques exploration, particularly multiphonics, microtones, and timbral modulations. He will perform mixed improvisations and compositions along with Tom Djll, John McCowen, and members of sfSoundGroup.  More...

Wed 10/07 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
For our October installment of the Meridian Composers In Performance series we present Duluth, MN instrument inventor Tim Kaiser and Berkeley's Thomas Carnacki.  More...

Wed 10/07 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Presents Adams/Boisen/Rowe + Jaroba/Norton/ Robinson  More...

Thu 10/08 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series @ 509 Cultural Center [509 Ellis Street SF]
8:10pm Adam Adhiyatma solo
8:40pm Bad Jazz w/Bryan Day, Tania Chen and others!
9:25pm Chinese Fire Drill
Dave Dave Dupuis-nunshorn, Sung Kim-nunshorn, Brian Pedersen-clarinet/sax  More...

Thu 10/08 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
Molly Holm, vocalist/composer and her band: Frank Martin, piano; Jeff Chambers, acoustic bass; special guest Antonia Minnecola, vocal percussion; Charles McNeal, saxophones; Deszon Claiborne, drums; and special guests Tim Kim, violin and voice; Julie Moon, piano and voice. Molly describes her music as “extended jazz.” Her repertoire features her original compositions as well as less-often heard jazz tunes from straight-ahead, modal and “free jazz” genres (such as works by Charles Mingus, Joe Zawinul, and Leon Thomas/Pharoah Sanders). Molly’s performances also include elements of North Indian raga singing, “other worldly” music coming out of free-form improvisation that is laced with experimental vocal techniques, and some twists and turns on traditional folk and contemporary pop songs.  More...

Thu 10/08 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
New Keys Season 11

New Keys; newfangled music for piano is excited to present a concert of all minimalist works in honor of Terry Riley’s big 80th Birthday Year. Sarah Cahill, Kate Campbell, Anthony Porter, Anne Rainwater and Regina Schaffer will play works by Riley, Glass and a new commission by Ruby Fulton.  More...

Fri 10/09 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Switchboard Presents: Matt Linder and HK&tCS

Matt Linder of Mobius Trio performs a new solo work for electric & acoustic guitar developed in collaboration with Danny Clay, followed by the debut of HK&tCS (Hella Khords & the Consonant Tones), a new quartet of trombone, cello, flute, and electronics featuring Helen Newby, Bethanne Walker, Weston Olencki, and Chris Wood.  More...

Fri 10/09 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
John Schott – electric guitar, Dan Seamans, double bass, and John Hanes, drums play original and imaginative music that moves from moody to exuberant, with swing and honesty.

Celebrating the release of their Debut CD on Tzadik.  More...

Sat 10/10 6:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
The 5th Annual Yerba Buena Night

6pm – 10pm  More...

Sat 10/10 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills Music Now: KALA RAMNATH “The Singing Violin of Indian Classical Music”
Kala Ramnath, violin
Abhijit Banerjee, tabla
Kala is at the vanguard of the present generation of Indian instrumental super-stars. Due to her rigorous training in the classical tradition she comfortably forges musical alliances with artists of renown from different genres around the globe incorporating elements of Western Classical, Jazz, Flamenco and traditional African music into her rich and varied repertoire.  More...

Sat 10/10 8:00 PM Park Presidio United Methodist Church [4301 Geary Boulevard at 7th ave, San Francisco, CA 94118]
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra presents new orchestra compositions by Bay Area Composers.
Program:

Mark Alburger - Sejong the Great, Op. 235 (2015)
Allan Crossman - Impromptoodle (2015)
Michael Kimbell - Golden Gate Barcarole (2014)
Lisa Scola Prosek - Lucaria (2015)
Stardust - A la recherche des danses perdues (In Search of Lost Dances, 2015)
Martha Stoddard - Horse (2013)  More...

Sat 10/10 9:00 PM Starline Social Club [2236 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Oakland]
ROVA SPECIAL SEXTET with guests Scott Amendola + Gino Robair  More...

Sun 10/11 4:00 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
Jazz in the Neighborhood presents John Schott Actual Trio  More...

Sun 10/11 4:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Life's Blood Ensemble presents music from their forthcoming recording entitled "Haven"

Safa Shokrai - bass
Timothy Orr - drums
Heikki Koskinen - e-trumpet/flutes
Joshua Marshall - tenor saxophone
Rent Romus - alto saxophones/flutes  More...

Mon 10/12 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents Avant-Jazz & Experimental Noise Every Monday with

Tim Perkis -electronics
Steve Adams - saxophones

plus

John McCowen - clarinet/percussion
http://johnmccowen.bandcamp.com/  More...

Tue 10/13 7:30 PM CCRMA [Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics The Knoll, 660 Lomita Court Stanford California 94305]
Percussion and its Double: William Winant & Joe Lasqo - Two of the Bay Area’s most daring improvising musicians team up for a “percussion ++” evening of rhythmic and meta-rhythmic electro-acoustic improvs. William Winant is one of the foremost percussionist of era, equally at-home and sought after in both the wildest of avant-garde jazz and the most demanding of contemporary classical contexts. Joe Lasqo, bridges the worlds of electronics and acoustic music, using both laptop and piano, improv and AI techniques, to create a meta-percussive moiré. Both William Winant and Joe Lasqo trained as South Indian drummers, so the result is a compelling interplay of cutting-edge modernism and the world's most virtuosic rhythmic tradition.  More...

Tue 10/13 7:30 PM Omni Oakland Commons [4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland CA 94609]
Active Music Series presents: Wiener Kids - Tender Buttons - Ctrl-Z  More...

Tue 10/13 7:43 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Diamond Pulses: sfSoundSalonSeries presents Daniel Corral + sfSoundGroup featuring Brendan Lai-Tong

Diamond Pulses, by L.A.-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Corral combines just-tuned harmonies, driving minimalist rhythms, noisy ambiance, and electronic timbres. sfSoundGroup's opening set will feature trombonist Brendan Lai-Tong, performing frenetically virtuosic solo works by Brian Lynn and Christian Lindberg.  More...

Tue 10/13 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
Myra Melford Snowy Egret

celebrating stunning new album, Snowy Egret

Myra Melford, says the Wall Street Journal, “is one of the most interesting and underrated pianists in jazz today. Her work is both ambitious and accessible, full of bright, intense rhythms and complex harmonies.” Tonight, she brings her brilliant band, Snowy Egret, to the Freight to celebrate the release of their new album, also called Snowy Egret, inspired by Memory of Fire, the three-volume history of the Americas by the late Uruguayan master, Eduardo Galeano. The quintet’s sound is grounded in the roots music of both North and South America, jazz, blues, and Latin dance rhythms, as well as Myra’s abiding interest in Zen Buddhism and the “organic philosophy” of Frank Lloyd Wright. “The compositions on the album,” says the New York Times, “touch on brooding elegy, carnivalesque rhythm, and focused abstraction, with an internal bustle that ends up serving her larger designs.” With Ron Miles on cornet, Liberty Ellman on guitar, Stomu Takeishi on acoustic bass guitar, Tyshawn Sorey on drums, and Myra on piano, the band creates a whirlpool of rolling rhythms, bubbling undercurrents, and torrential energy.  More...

Wed 10/14 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Optical Sound #3: Metropolis

An electronic ensemble: Tania Chen, Tom Djll, Laetitia Sonami, Jeanie-Aprille Tang, Ryan Page & Benjamin Tinker w/ voice accompaniment: Josephine Torio perform a guided improvised soundtrack to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).  More...

Thu 10/15 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series @ 509 Cultural Center [509 Ellis Street SF]
8pm Ross Hammond - solo guitar
9pm Ruminations
Rent Romus - saxopones/flutes/objects, Mark Pino - percussion, Nathan Swedlow - double bass, Jeff Hobbs - violin, Karl Evangelista - guitar  More...

Thu 10/15 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
Paul Dresher and co. perform PACT - Scott Johnson's score for dance Resist/Surrender by Risa Jaroslow  More...