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09/15/2015 - 10/29/2015

Wednesday, September 16
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...
Thursday, September 17
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...
Friday, September 18
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...
Saturday, September 19
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...
Sunday, September 20
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...
Monday, September 21
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...
Tuesday, September 22
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...
Wednesday, September 23
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...
Thursday, September 24
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...
Friday, September 25
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...
Saturday, September 26
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...
Sunday, September 27
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...
Monday, September 28
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...
Tuesday, September 29
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...
Wednesday, September 30
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...
Thursday, October 1
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...
Friday, October 2
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...
Saturday, October 3
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...
Sunday, October 4
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...
Monday, October 5
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...
Tuesday, October 6
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...
Wednesday, October 7
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...
Thursday, October 8
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...
Friday, October 9
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...
Saturday, October 10
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...
Sunday, October 11
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...
Monday, October 12
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...
Tuesday, October 13
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...
Wednesday, October 14
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...
Thursday, October 15
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...
Friday, October 16
Fri 10/16 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Vernacular Visions #22

A 35mm slideshow of found photographs will be projected while two small groupings of musical improvisers interpret & accompany the images with a live soundtrack. At the end of the night there will be a collaborative set between all of the musicians (who have never performed together prior and most likely do not even know each other).  More...
Fri 10/16 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Wild Rumpus

Wild Rumpus presents a program of genre-bending works of chamber music expressing a wide variety of reflections on life in the 21st century. Echoes and repetition are two threads weaving themselves throughout this program.  More...
Fri 10/16 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...
Saturday, October 17
Sat 10/17 7:00 PM ODC Dance Commons, Fisher Family Studio [351 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110]
StoreFrontLab Presents: Dohee Lee Performing 巫 - MU

Artist Dohee Lee will perform her piece, 巫 - MU, considering its connection with Sack's book, Seeing Voices, in which deafness is illuminated through the examination of vibration and body language.  More...
Sat 10/17 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Luo Chao Yun (pipa) with Kyle Bruckmann (ob), Tim Perkis (elec) and Gino Robair (perc)  More...
Sat 10/17 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
IMPROVISATION: JACQUES DEMIERRE–FRED FRITH–URS LEIMGRUBER and DAPPLEGRAY – The trio of Jacques Demierre (piano), Fred Frith (electric guitar), and Urs Leimbruger (saxophone) share an evening of improvised music with Dapplegray (Nava Dunkelman, percussion; Tara Sreekrishnan, piano; Jeanie-Aprille Tang, electronics).  More...
Sat 10/17 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...
Sat 10/17 9:00 PM Thee Parkside [1600 17th St San Francisco, California 94107]
Thomas Dimuzio, Aria Rostami + Daniel Blomquist, CTRL-Z and Bryan Von Reuter  More...
Sat 10/17 10:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
TALK MORE + BEAST NEST + THE NORIEGAS

An evening of experimental composition and improvisation, textural exploration, and sound sculpting. Three Bay Area projects that share a common aesthetic of fractured accessibility take you on a journey toward liberation and bliss.  More...
Sunday, October 18
Sun 10/18 3:00 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...
Sun 10/18 7:00 PM Episcopal Church of the Incarnation [1750 29th Ave SF]
Direct from France, join spinto soprano Paula Wilder-Gaubert, in a program of songs of nymphs, forest spirits, mermaids, water spirits, oceans, and rivers. The solo song recital will feature music of Debussy, Poulenc, Honegger, Britten, Prokofiev, Louis Vierne, and Finnish composer Toivo Kuula. Ms. Gaubert will be accompanied by Daniel Lockert on the piano. Ms. Gaubert has sung leading roles in the US with the Utah Lyric Opera, West Bay Opera, Berkeley Opera, Santa Barbara Opera, as well as concertized extensively in France.  More...
Sun 10/18 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence #10 (open participation improv workshop) featuring Les Trois Chapeaux (Tania Chen, Kevin Corcoran, & Jaroba)  More...
Sun 10/18 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Chamber Cartel: Play

Chamber Cartel is on their first cross country tour to find their inner child; performing works that mesmerize, inspire, and celebrate the joy of play.  More...
Monday, October 19
Mon 10/19 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Monday Nights with Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents Adria Otte + Julie Moon  More...
Tuesday, October 20
Tue 10/20 9:00 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
VAMP presents NAAN VIOLENCE(Memphis, Tenn) plus SHARMI BASU plus THE PURE FINDER plus JOHN McCOWEN / ADAM ADHIYATMA  More...
Tue 10/20 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
The Van Allen Belt (Pittsburgh), Denny Denny Breakfast + The Mark Clifford Ensemble  More...
Wednesday, October 21
Wed 10/21 6:30 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music [50 Oak St. SF]
SFCMP Concert X-SCAPE Series: Grisey, Lang, Hyla, Bruckmann, Ueno + Guest Soprano, Alice Teyssier

X-SCAPE
new spaces for new music
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
45th Anniversary, 2015-16 Season

X-scape is a season dedicated to exploring new spaces — both literal and metaphorical. By replacing “X” we are able to look at important spaces: from SongScape, an examination of the nature of utterance and communication; to XeriScape, which begs the question of the role of art in a discussion of climate change; to Oscuroscape, the nature of darkness.

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Wed 10/21 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA 94305]
Thomas Dimuzio is a musician, composer, improviser, sound designer, mastering engineer, label proprietor, and music technologist residing in San Francisco, California. Inspired as much by John Cage as Led Zeppelin, Dimuzio's music is like a sonic excursion that transports the listener into other worldly aural realms. “His work has a narrative, filmic tug that will draw you into its dark corners, ears alert… brilliant and rarely less than entertaining.” —Peter Marsh, BBC

Thomas describes his performance:

"Sonic spatialization is the movement and positioning of sound within an array of speakers; a component of music composition for me that is equally important as the sound itself. Tonight’s performance will be presented in quadraphonic sound and centered around the Buchla 200e modular synthesizer with texture and spatial loopers/processors that I’ve designed in Max/MSP and Kyma. Together these comprise a palette for improvisation and real-time composition within time and space."  More...
Wed 10/21 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Improvised duos by Fred Frith and Phillip Greenlief.  More...
Wed 10/21 7:45 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
Wiggwaum
No use for second thoughts after the paper has already hit your tongue, this is the handshake with heart-muscle grip and once it's started you're in for a heavy haul you won't soon forget. The return of Wiggwaum features Loren Means (electric Trombone/vocals), Douglas Katelus (hammond organ), Randylee Sutherland (percussion).
http://www.douglaskatelus.com/wiggwaum.html

Ettrick
Electronics free, apocalypse-ready, go ahead and cut the power because Ettrick will wrench the furthest possible sounds from their instruments through brute force, screaming through saxophones, and getting impolite with their drums. This show marks the ten-year anniversary of Jacob Felix Heule and Jay Korber's jazz/black metal drum and sax assault.
http://ettrick.org/

Tainted Pussy
Think Ciccone Youth, throw in some pussy print & pom-poms and you might find once you have climbed those stairs, they lead to nowhere... Miss Meow Mix- vocalizations & cat moves, Crystal Nails- electronic witchery, and Smoke Persian - bass & vocals, celibrate (not celibate) ten years of the taint, tonight!
https://www.facebook.com/TaintedP/

The Edomites
Drums underfoot and synth high overhead floating your head right in between, Puzzle Abalos and Mike Reed layer live drum breaks with MPC3000, Modular Synth, Moog Opus, Bass, and pedal effects. The Edomites take the stage first, so don't dally in the alley, and their long-awaited tape release hits at this show!
https://myshiteatstapes.bandcamp.com/album/mset10-the-edomites  More...
Thursday, October 22
Thu 10/22 6:00 PM Maude Fife Room in Wheeler Hall #315 [UC Berkeley Campus]
Larry OchsDonald Robinson Duo

Performing from 6PM to 6:30 PM as opening for the ongoing UC Berkeley Poetry Series in Maude Fife Room  More...
Thu 10/22 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery [1007 Market Street SF]
The Experimental Side of the Y2k15 Live Looping Festival
http://y2kloopfest.com/

Concert starts promptly at 8pm:
8:00) Future Cassette (AKA John Connell - modular synths)
8:30) Philip Zürcher (guitar, electronics) from Bern, Switzerland
9:00) Rick Walker
9:30) Aram Shelton / Tonal Masher (sax, electronics)  More...
Friday, October 23
Fri 10/23 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
Cal Performances presents: Eco Ensemble

KAIJA SAARIAHO
Notes on Light
feat. Anssi Karttunen, cello
The Tempest Songbook
feat. Jennifer Zetlan, soprano & Nikolas Nackley, baritone
Sept Papillons  More...
Fri 10/23 8:00 PM East Bay Media Center [1939 Addison St. Berkeley 94704]
MUSIC OF THE LOST CITIES
Music of the Lost Cities an electronically animated shadow-play,
inventing a futurist epic by drawing on the free association of sounds,
images and text.

Video by Johanna Poethig & Chris Brown
Solo electronic overture by Chris Brown  More...
Saturday, October 24
Sat 10/24 6:30 PM Jewish Community Center SF Kanbar Hall [3200 California St @ Presidio Ave SF]
Barrière & Saariaho

Concert begins at 7:30 PM
Pre-concert discussion at 6:30 PM

Two contemporary masters of multi-media, the composers Kaija Saariaho and Jean-Baptiste Barrière, are visiting the Bay Area in the 2015. SFCMP takes a close look at their most intimate works – solo pieces for instruments, electronics and (sometimes) video. From the lyrical to the visceral, these Saariaho and Barrière works run the gamut of sounds and emotions.

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Sat 10/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Improvised Hymnal: radical re-imaginations of sacred works: PC Muñoz & Alex Kelly

Acclaimed Art-Funk drummer/producer PC Muñoz and jaw-dropping cellist Alex Kelly present an evening of "interstellar grace"---cello and drum improvisations based on hymns and sacred works from various traditions.  More...
Sat 10/24 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
New works by Amber McZeal/Zander Brown, Ryan Pate and Bill Baird, exploring the meaning of jazz in the 21st century.  More...
Sat 10/24 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Karl Evangelista's Space Walk + Crystal Pascucci's Jade: The Hardness

An evening of new jazz and cutting edge composition, featuring the debut of Karl Evangelista's Space Walk project and the Oakland premiere of Crystal Pascucci's Jade: The Hardness.  More...
Sunday, October 25
Sun 10/25 12:00 PM Herbst Theatre & The Green Room [401 Van Ness Avenue (at McAllister) San Francisco, CA]
SFMUSIC DAY, is a musical festival unlike any other! This is a music festival full local ensembles that are internationally acclaimed, gathering for one day of nonstop music making. What really makes this festival different from any other, is that every performance is completely FREE and open to the public!

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Sun 10/25 2:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
ORNETTE!: A TRIBUTE TO ORNETTE COLEMAN — ① Films (2:30pm matinée)

Two acclaimed documentaries, curated by Peter Esmonde, filmmaker of TRIMPIN: the sound of invention:

— Ornette: Made In America (dir. Shirley Clark)
— Moffett, David, And Ornette (dir. Dick Fontaine)  More...
Sun 10/25 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708]
Jenny Maybee/Nick Phillips Trio @ Maybeck Studio (Berkeley), will be playing new music from their forthcoming album to be released in early 2016 on the Blue Coast Records label. Original songs and instrumentals spanning a range from free improvisation to lush, structured beauty. Fresh arrangements of favorite standards, and precision playing that focuses on space and silence! Seating is limited, RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED: http://tinyurl.com/nzho4z9  More...
Sun 10/25 5:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Altar para mi Muerte/Altar of my Passing | Exhibit Opening

Peruvian Bay Area-based artist Adrian Arias has curated Altar para mi Muerte/Altar of my Passing, a group show where twenty visual artists have been invited to create an altar for the dead. The artists were asked to adorn an altar with ephemera that captured what they imagine as an honoring of what their passing might contain.  More...
Sun 10/25 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
ORNETTE!: A TRIBUTE TO ORNETTE COLEMAN — ② Show

◉ Set 1: John Ingle / Kjell Nordeson Duo • sax/percussion pas de deux in hyperspace
◉ Set 2: Aram Shelton’s Marches (Aram Shelton, Cory Wright, Steve Blum, Safa Shokrai (صفاء شکری), Britt Ciampa, Jordan Glenn) • double reed / double drum power in action
◉ Set 3: Joe Lasqo’s Tomorrow Is The Meta-Body (Lisle Ellis, Darren Johnston, Joe Lasqo, Donald Robinson) • réprise of bass/piano dialog from Ellis’ Ornette Coleman Songbook (Downbeat ✰✰✰✰✰), now expanded with trumpet, drums, & laptop. With visuals by Bill Thibault.  More...
Sun 10/25 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 Ninth St @ Mission SF 94103]
7:30 RTD3
Tom Nunn - metal and cardboard, Ron Heglin - voice/trombone, Doug Carroll - cello
8:30 Ritual I-X (ten graphic scores grapples)
Joshua Marshall - saxophone, Theo Padouvas - trumpet
Eli Wallace - piano, Rob Pumpelly - drumset  More...
Monday, October 26
Mon 10/26 7:30 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
ORNETTE, LACY, & POINTS BEYOND...

◉ Set 1: ROVA Saxophone Quartet • compositions by Ornette associates Steve Lacy and John Carter, as well as a piece each by Rova member Jon Raskin, and British composer John Butcher.

◉ Set 2: Joe Lasqo’s Tomorrow Is The Meta-Body (Lisle Ellis, Darren Johnston, Joe Lasqo, Donald Robinson) • réprise of bass/piano dialog from Ellis’ Ornette Coleman Songbook (Downbeat ✰✰✰✰✰), now expanded with trumpet, drums, & laptop. With visuals by Bill Thibault.  More...
Mon 10/26 7:30 PM Mills College Chapel [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
lucky cloud music series featuring solo performances by Sophie Dickinson, Kaori Suzuki, and Andrew Weathers.  More...
Mon 10/26 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents

The VFW Trio

Cory Wright - alto saxophone
John Finkbeiner - guitar
Vijay Anderson - drums

plus

Gabby Fluke-Mogul - violin
Nava Dunkelman - percussion  More...
Wednesday, October 28
Wed 10/28 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE KRYSTLE AHMADYAR
Ruby Mountain with special guests

Ruby Mountain is a solo project of Artist-in-Residence Krystle Ahmadyar. On this night, she will be mixing vocals, field recordings from Afghanistan, found sounds, and electronic noise creating new works-in-progress.  More...
Thursday, October 29
Thu 10/29 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
An intimate evening with the Del Sol String Quartet in their Soundings 3.0 series in which they explore the interface between new music and visual art. This performance will feature "Mythic Birds Waltz" by Terry Riley, in his 80th birthday year, alongside work of Kate Rannells (http://katerannells.com), an Oakland-based artist who focuses on a sense of place in mixed media works using paint, wax, and found and natural objects.  More...
Thu 10/29 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA 94305]
We are delighted to present an evening of music and video works by Jean-Baptiste Barrière and Kaija Saariaho. Both artists are in residence in the Bay Area this fall presenting a large number of performances and lectures, and we are very pleased that they have managed to fit a visit to CCRMA into their busy schedules. Jean-Baptiste Barrière will also present a preconcert talk - open to the public - early in the day at 5.00PM on the CCRMA Stage  More...
Thu 10/29 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm SLOW slow LORIS
Slow Slow Loris is an experimental/avant-garde melodic noise-music duo based in Berlin, Germany; a collaboration of ANY and G6PD. Using voice and electronic devices, they reveal the melody within the discord.
9pm Instagon
Instagon is an invoked musical entity that is called upon by the deamon rider Lob and whomever he has asked to undertake this task with him for the current excursion.
Lob
Thomas Dimuzio
CJ Borosque
Ryan Tomasello (Blood Into Water)
Robbie Martin (Fluorescent Grey)
Leland Vandermuelen (Bay area experimental guitarist)  More...
Thu 10/29 9:00 PM Bottom of the Hill [1233 17th Street SF]
The Ex & Ken Vandermark ~ Surplus 1980 ~ Apogee Sound Club  More...