Sat 10/11 3:00 PM AFTERNOON / Musicians Union Hall [116 9th Street, San Francisco, California 94103]
AFTERNOON / the concert series: David Leikam/zBug featuring Sheila Bosco, Fred Malouf, Timothy Orr, Rent Romus, and others ... industrial jazz.  More...

Sat 10/11 5:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
A/B Duo brings more "bouncy, strange, interesting, and fun" music to the Center for New Music. This time, the flute and percussion duo will premiere new works for contrabass flute and percussion by Andrea La Rose and Ned McGowan.  More...

Sat 10/11 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Brutal Sound Effects Festival #79

Bran..POS-----Kanoko Nishi-Smith ----Raven Chacon (NM)-----Ebony Cubbie Hole (L.A.)------Dominic Cramp-----Beast Nest-----Rust Worship-----Failure Cock----Bloop-Quack-----Messiahcide  More...

Sat 10/11 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]
8 pm Evelyn Davis - piano; Fred Frith - guitar; Phillip Greenlief - saxophones - 9 pm NegativWobblyland Jon Leidecker - electronics; Peter Conheim - electronics  More...

Sat 10/11 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Artist-in-Residence/ Sung Kim w/Key West  More...

Sun 10/12 4:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Jenny Q Chai, piano/keyboard sampler/live electronics  More...

Sun 10/12 5:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Mobius Trio's program will represent some of the most exciting contemporary Bay Area composers as it unveils the incredible possibilities of what a guitar trio is capable of. This beautiful and wild music is pleasantly difficult to anticipate as it flows from lyrical bluegrass-classical fusion to post-minimalist mayhem on both acoustic AND electric guitars.  More...

Sun 10/12 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
8 pm The Lost Trio - MONKWORK CD release party! Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums - 9 pm Nathan Clevenger Group: Kasey Knudsen - alto saxophone; Cory Wright - tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute; Aaron Novik - bass clarinet, Bb clarinet; Sam Bevan - bass; Jon Arkin - drums; Jordan Glenn - vibraphone, percussion; Nathan Clevenger - guitar, compositions  More...

Sun 10/12 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
OU, Amy Denio, Trance Mission Trio  More...

Mon 10/13 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Jenny Q Chai's “Piano Steampunk” program explores the relationships between piano and electronics, beginning with the earliest development of music for this pairing. Computers and electronics have interested and influenced composers for as long as they have existed, and have changed many composers’ approach to writing solo piano music, even those who have not worked with electronics, leading them to open new dimensions of the piano’s sound. This program traces the pre-history and development of music for piano and electronics across an international arena, with antennae tuned both to the past and the future.  More...

Mon 10/13 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Eric Vloeimans' Oliver's Cinema

Oliver's Cinema is Eric Vloeimans' latest project. He's an improvising Dutch trumpeter and one of the finest, most versatile - and busiest - performers in Europe. Accordeonist Tuur Florizoone from Belgium with charisma and joy in performing. Classically trained German cellist Jörg Brinkmann adds a third magical timbre to this trio.  More...

Tue 10/14 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
As part of their West Coast tour composer and laptop performer Neil Rolnick will play some of his recent solo work and improvisations, as well as a new piece for piano and computer, featuring New York piano Diva Kathleen Supové.  More...

Tue 10/14 7:53 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Jonathan Zorn presents two compositions for speech and electronics.  More...

Tue 10/14 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series: Glou Glou + Jordan Glenn's BEAK + SL Morse  More...

Wed 10/15 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Composer and laptop performer Neil Rolnick will play some of his recent solo work, as well as a new piece for piano and computer, featuring New York piano Diva Kathleen Supové.  More...

Wed 10/15 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]
8 pm Moe! Staiano, solo percussion - 9 pm Dapplegray
Nava Dunkelman - percussion; Jeannie Aprille Tang - electronics, plexi-glass; Tara Sreekrishnan - piano  More...

Wed 10/15 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Presents: A Night w/ Chris Brown and Friends  More...

Thu 10/16 4:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
Join us for our monthly ConVerge.

4-8 PM, Grand Lobby: Featuring ADDLEDS, a performance by Christine Bonansea and collaborators, which explores and manifests the tension in space through body and sound material, creating spatial interaction and sonic abstraction in between the different bodies.


7-9 PM, Youth Arts Lounge: Simultaneously, author Dan Taulapapa McMullin will be reading excerpts from his poetry collection, Coconut Milk in our Youth Arts Lounge. The first collection by Samoan writer and painter Dan Taulapapa McMullin, the poems evoke both intimate conversations and provocative monologues that allow him to explore the complexities of being a queer Samoan in the United States.  More...

Thu 10/16 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
~~SoundSpeak~~
8:10 pm Jakob Pek, poetry, guitar
8:40 pm CJ Borosque poetry, electronics
9:25 pm Elizabeth Costellowith Sheila Bosco  More...

Thu 10/16 8:00 PM Turquoise Yantra Grotto [32 Turquoise Way SF]
On THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16th,  The Y2K14 International Live Looping Festival will occur in San Francisco at The Turquoise Yantra Grotto with a special 
show,  "THE EXPERIMENTAL SIDE of the Y2K14 LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL"  featuring a wonderful collection of 'new' musicians from Slovakia, Italy, France and the United States performing.

8:00-David Kollar and Paolo Raineri
8:30-John Connell
9:00-Lucid Brain Integrative Project (Emmanuel Reveneau) 
9:30-Shores of Latency (Emmanuel and Laurie) 
10:00-Laurie Amat 
10:30-Nelly Meunier  More...

Thu 10/16 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
John Schott's Actual Trio  More...

Fri 10/17 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94720]
Longtime friends and musical collaborators Andy Cabic (Vetiver) and Devendra Banhart grab a couple of guitars and turn our atrium gallery into an intimate performance space. These two singer-songwriters formed the vanguard of an experimental and folk-influenced aesthetic that emerged in the Bay Area around the turn of the millennium. They will perform both individually and together, in a casual mix of older and newer material from their deep catalogs.
Programmed by Andy Cabic.  More...

Fri 10/17 7:30 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St SF]
Zeek Sheck, Black Spirituals, Space Burn, The Fathers

$5
21+ Wine + Magnolia Beer on offer.

Zeek Sheck
Join us in the incubator and witness the final regeneration of the legendary ZS as they hatch the live show destined for national tour in support of the FINAL Zeek Sheck album, "JOINUS" a 2xLP available now on Resipiscent Records. Music to make the body feel wild.

Black Spirituals
Celebrating the release of their debut- LP on Sige Records, set in the intimate resonant confines of Second Act. Zachary James Watkins on sines, Marshall Trammell on skins. Tiny room made big... only tell your bestest.

Space Burn
Serious analog engines, but the upholstry is pure digital. Space Burn are Brian Tester and Steven Santa Maria, well-loved for their work with Triangle, Chen Santa Maria, Love chains, Wave and Particle, and more.

The Fathers
These two were tinkering in the garage out back, typical Dad stuff, trying to fix everything with twine. If you try to help you're immediately perplexed, drawn into a paralyzing weird dad smell wondering what's in front of you and why it's making sound. Members of Coagulator and Headboggle.  More...

Fri 10/17 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Kathleen Supové is one of America's most acclaimed and versatile contemporary music pianists, known for continually redefining what a pianist/keyboardist/performance artist is, in today's world. Ms. Supové will offer her DIGITAL DEBUSSY PROJECT, along with electroacoustic piano works in joint appearances with composer Neil Rolnick.  More...

Fri 10/17 8:00 PM Berkeley Hillside Club [2286 Cedar St. Berkeley, CA 94709]
Beth Custer's Clarinet Thing  More...

Fri 10/17 8:00 PM Awaken Cafe [1429 Broadway Oakland]
The Gomorrans with La Dee Da + Wild Hen  More...

Fri 10/17 9:00 PM LeQuiVive [1525 Webster Oakland]
DunkelpeK and Alex Christie, Kristina Dutton, Teddy Rankin-Parker trio  More...

Fri 10/17 9:00 PM Starry Plough [3101 Shattuck Ave @ Prince Berkeley]
Inner Ear Brigade, Dean Martian, and The Grandpa Paws  More...

Sat 10/18 7:00 PM St.Mark's Lutheran Church [1111 Ofarrell St. San Francisco]
New music and Shostakovich  More...

Sat 10/18 7:30 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St SF]
FOG RAISER – AN AMAZING NIGHT OF DIVERSE FOG MUSICS

An amazing night of diverse live electronic and electro-acoustic music featuring four different performances that have been commissioned to present their own interpretation of Fog Music. This is a special event to raise funds for the San Francisco Fog Music Festival 2015 that will be held at the Second Act January 28-31, 2015

7:30pm - Carolyn Fok

8:00pm - Matt Dean

8:30pm - Jack Hertz & rizorkestra

9:00pm - Viv Corringham & Transbay Multimedia Consort (Nancy Beckman, Tom Bickley, Nan Busse, Joe Lasqo. Suki O'Kane, Bill Thibault, Jennifer Wilsey)  More...

Sat 10/18 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Littlefield Concert Hall

JOHN DRISCOLL
(David Tudor Composer-in-Residence)
Electronic composer/sound artist John Driscoll’s work involves rotating robotic loudspeakers, compositions for unique architectural spaces, and sound installations.  More...

Sat 10/18 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Klaxon Mutant Jazz All Stars  More...

Sat 10/18 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Theresa Wong and Dean Santomieri will be playing solo pieces and duets  More...

Sat 10/18 9:30 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Jessica Lurie Ensemble  More...

Sun 10/19 2:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St SF]
Viv Corringham & Crew - NY-based British vocalist, composer and sound artist Viv Corringham, joined by a Transbay consort of Deep Listening practitioners and neogaku kaiju.

Ron Heglin & Kattt Atchley - a vocal mix of melody, harmony, perfectly and closely tuned pitches.  More...

Sun 10/19 3:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Dan Plonsey - Daniel Popsicle  More...

Sun 10/19 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
We’re kicking off our second full year of exciting new music performances at the Center and are looking for your help to keep our pianos in shape.

Enjoy drinks and sweet treats along with performances by local artists Chris Brown, Sarah Cahill, Luciano Chessa, and Joseph M. Colombo. Proceeds from the event will go towards maintaining the Center’s pianos over the next year.  More...

Sun 10/19 7:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Elliott Smith Hour plus Inner Ear Brigade  More...

Sun 10/19 7:30 PM SIMM Series [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Room 47
gabby fluke-mogul - violin / Adam Hirsch - reeds
8:30pm Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs, percussion / Bill Noertker - contrabass  More...

Sun 10/19 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]
Sonic Body Series #7 - 8 pm Phillip Greenlief - saxophone; Leyya Tawil - movement 8:45 pm Improvisation Group with: Phoebe Osborn, Sophia Wang, Rosemary Hannon and Christine Bonansea - movement; Tom Djll - trumpet; Jacob Felix Heule - percussion; Kanoko Nishi-Smith - koto; Suki O'Kane - percussion; Kyle Bruckmann - oboe, english horn; Tim Perkis - electronics; Zachary James Watkins - electronics  More...

Mon 10/20 7:30 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills College Ensemble Room
ANNIE LEWANDOWSKI & TIM FEENEY
Finding a shared interest in works of abandonment and stasis, Tim Feeney (percussion) and Annie Lewandowski (piano/electronics) improvise to the short videos of artist Michael Ashkin.  More...

Tue 10/21 7:45 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
An evening of Experimental Music and Film:
Annie Lewandowski and Tim Feeney with films by Michael Ashkin & Craig Shepard, Larry Polansky, and David Kant with a film by Beth O'Brien  More...

Tue 10/21 8:30 PM Stork Club [2330 Telegraph Avenue Oakland]
Celebrating “Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio” - w/Martin Bisi, Grex, Steve Mackay, and Savage Riposte

A new documentary on Martin Bisi’s legendary BC Studio screens at The New Parkway Theatre on October 21 (7pm), and Bisi has assembled a special bill to celebrate the film’s release (Stork Club, 8:30pm, $5), featuring Bay Area art rock trio Grex, Steve Mackay of the Stooges (with his Third Thursday Band), French punk band Savage Riposte, and improvisations with Mark Miller (Toy Killers) and Fred Frith (Massacre).  More...

Tue 10/21 9:00 PM Winters Tavern [1522 Francisco Blvd Pacifica, California]
Respectable Citizen

Bruce Bennett, piano
Bill Langton, drums
Jeff Ridenour, bass
Michael Zbyszyński, winds  More...

Wed 10/22 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Since 1990 Satoko Inoue has been commissioning new piano music and performing new works to sold out audiences in Japan and throughout Europe. Her playing brings a sensitive and evocative form of expression to new music, sometimes surprising listeners with its beauty. Now she makes her first trip to the west coast bringing new compositions by Jo Kondo, Yuji Itoh, Yori-aki Matsudaira, Satoshi Tanaka, and Robert Coburn, as well as works by John Cage and others. Her annual concert series in Tokyo, "Music Documents - nothing but music", and her featured performances at the Tokyo Opera City play to enthusiastic audiences and her recordings of music by Feldman, Ferrari, and Kondo are highly regarded.  More...

Wed 10/22 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]
8 pm Ape Like Impact: Britt Ciampa, drums; Jake Leckie, bass; Ryan Pate, guitar https://soundcloud.com/ape-like-impact 9 pm Host Family: Karl Evangelista & Nathan Clevenger - guitar; Jason Hoopes - electric bass; Jordan Glenn - drums  More...

Thu 10/23 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Alcyone Ensemble is excited to be a part of the Thursday night series at the Center for New Music. Their program will showcase 4 dynamic works for two flutes and piano by Ian Clarke, Yuko Uebayashi, Carol Barnett, and Daniel Felsenfeld.  More...

Thu 10/23 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8:00pm Ricardo D'Orlando
8:40pm Ear Spray
Carlos Jennings - Electronics and Conduction
Ann O'Rourke - Vocals, Videos, Vdeo and Audio Processing, Percussion
Mark Pino - Percussionist
9:20pm Dani Cardevore & Mark E. Miller
Electronics & Drums  More...

Thu 10/23 8:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Little Nicky's presents: Chuck Johnson + Special Guest Clarinetist Ben Goldberg  More...

Thu 10/23 8:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Solo sets by clarinetist Ben Goldberg and guitarist Chuck Johnson.  More...

Fri 10/24 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94720]
This all-star quintet of Bay Area musicians breathes new life into contemporary music for woodwinds and blows audiences away. Not your grandmother’s woodwind quintet, Splinter Reeds adds bass clarinet and saxophone to the mix to create a more robust and dynamic sound. They premiere a new work by composer Marc Mellits, among other music written specifically for the ensemble.
Programmed by Sarah Cahill.  More...

Fri 10/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Rova Sax Quartet (Steve Adams, Bruce Ackley, Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs) returns to CNM distilling and evolving its 3+ hours of music performed at the Garden of Memory in Oakland from June 21, 2014. (This show will be shorter! About 60 to 80 minutes, tbd…) At the Garden of Memory, the band used simple structures created out of its “Radar” music vocabulary to perform extended “structured improvisations” with all kinds of subtly added nuance included in the performances at Chapel of the Chimes. Expect the Unexpected. www.rova.org  More...

Sat 10/25 2:00 PM ROBOTSPEAk [589 1/2 Haight St, San Francisco, California 94117]
Please join us on Saturday October 25th from 2 ill 6PM for the Northern California/Bay Area Synth meet at ROBOTSPEAk! In addition to checking out the latest synths & modules, there will be killer live electronic music next door from Kurt Kurasaki, Pete Von Tews, James Cigler, Dimmer (Thomas Dimuzio Joseph Hammer ), Amanda Chaudhary, Jorge Bachmann, JD. Northrup, LX Rudis, Carson Day, Paul Appliancide, Candescent, AC LYON and Slope114.  More...

Sat 10/25 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Irregular Resolutions

This concert presents an eclectic variety of new chamber music, composed variously for strings, strings and electronics, mixed ensemble, and woodwinds. It features two locally renowned string quartets and a number of guest artists.  More...

Sat 10/25 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music & Outsound Presents
The Other World Cycle - visions of the Kalevala land of my grandmothers
A new music odyssey inspired by the ethos of Finnish cultural mythology
featuring The Life's Blood Ensemble:
Ron Heglin•Voice Jason Hoopes•Bass Heikki Koskinen•Recorder, E-trumpet, Kantele Bob Marsh•Voice Bill Noertker•Bass Suki O'Kane•Percussion Timothy Orr•Drums Crystal Pascucci•Cello Mark Pino•Percussion Mika Pontecorvo•Flutes Rent Romus•Saxophones, Kantele, Flutes, Bells Shanna Sordahl•Cello

Buy tickets for The Other World Cycle - visions of the Kalevala  More...

Sat 10/25 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Ornetteology

Steve Adams - alto saxophone
Myles Boisen - guitar
John Finkbeiner - guitar
Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone
John Hanes - drums
Darren Johnston - trumpet
Lisa Mezzacappa - bass  More...

Sat 10/25 8:00 PM Diablo Valley College Music Building [Viking Drive Pleasant Hill, CA]
THE OPUS PROJECT presents OPUS 22: Phantom of the Opus

A Multi-Media Event, with Alan Kingsley, Jill Wagoner, Geri Chang, Maria Reeves, Carolyn Lowenthal, John Yoon, Elizabeth Morrison, and The Opus Project Piano Trio, Quartets, Woodwind Quintet, and Orchestra  More...

Sat 10/25 8:00 PM Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut [671 24th St. Apt. 1 Oakland]
Matt Nelson solo/Jordan Glenn solo/Turn It Over/TFPP  More...

Sat 10/25 9:30 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
The Pyramids (Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Presents)  More...

Sun 10/26 12:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES

DINOSAURS WITH HORNS! (L.A.)-----+DOG+ (L.A.)----Damion Romero (L.A.)-----Rule 19 (L.A.)-----Coagualtor-----Zachary James Watkins------Dimmer----Chinese Fire Drill  More...

Sun 10/26 3:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
******Matinee Show******
San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music & Outsound Presents
The Other World Cycle - visions of the Kalevala land of my grandmothers
A new music odyssey inspired by the ethos of Finnish cultural mythology
featuring The Life's Blood Ensemble:
Ron Heglin•Voice Heikki Koskinen•Recorder, E-trumpet, Kantele Bob Marsh•Voice Lisa Mezzacappa•Bass Bill Noertker•Bass Suki O'Kane•Percussion Timothy Orr•Drums Crystal Pascucci•Cello Mark Pino•Percussion Mika Pontecorvo•Flutes Rent Romus•Saxophones, Kantele, Flutes, Bells Shanna Sordahl•Cello

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Sun 10/26 3:00 PM Subterranean Arthouse [2179 Bancroft Way Berkeley]
Black Cedar performs works from their upcoming debut album, including German composer Klaus Hinrich Stahmer’s Debussyana, a piece written in 1983 and inspired by some of Claude Debussy’s best orchestral works. This inventive free-flowing cadenza for three instruments will finally be released in a commercial recording on Black Cedar’s debut album in 2015.Giacomo Fiore is an Italian-born guitarist who is comfortable in a wide range of styles, from traditional music to the avant-garde. He will perform recent selections from his latest album “iv: american electric guitars” as well as a few surprises.  More...

Sun 10/26 5:00 PM ubuRadio [ubuibi.org]
Gino Robair & Jon Raskin Live on ubuRadio

Sunday, October 26, 5:00 - 7:00 PM

The working name of this electronics duo is "The Fab Lab". We will be playing a variety of electronic instruments, including Bugboard devices, Blippoo boxes, Chimera synths, Korg, Moog and others.

Ubuibi Radio  More...

Sun 10/26 7:30 PM SIMM Series [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Fall of Solo
7:30pm Jakob Pek - guitar
8:15pm Andrew Jamieson - piano
9:00pm Robert Lopez - drums  More...

Sun 10/26 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
As part of a special West Coast tour, Makino Takashi appears in person to present and perform live soundtracks for two recent works: Space Noise, “a duel between the all-dominant immaculate digital and the irregular organic material dissolves in multiple layers of chaos,” and Phantom Nebula, “a changeable ethereal gaseous mass with no definite form” (S8: Mostra de Cinema Periférico). Completing the program is an interstitial visitation from intergalactic travelers Rubber(()Cement!  More...

Sun 10/26 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]
8 pm Julie Moon - piano, Josh Casey - electronics; 9 pm Aaron Oppenheimer, laptop; Mark Clifford, vibraphone; Eli Wallace, piano  More...

Mon 10/27 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Songlines presents The Hub.

A rare opportunity to hear the band that pioneered laptop ensembles over twenty-five years ago. The Hub will perform a set featuring two new pieces as well as recent works such as "Partial Guidance," "Know-Nothing," "Lou Drift," and "Once."

Ensemble Room, Mills College  More...

Mon 10/27 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
The Luna Ensemble

Members of the group include: Rachel Condry (clarinet), Nava Dunkelman (percussion), Christopher Luna (piano/keyboards), Aaron Oppenheim (electronics), Crystal Pascucci (cello), Jakob Pek (electric guitar), Jeanie-Aprille Tang (electronics), and Jennifer Wilsey (percussion).  More...

Wed 10/29 8:00 PM Turquoise Yantra Grotto [32 Turquoise Way SF]
Hermit Thrushes (Philadelphia)

A Magic Whistle (Richmond)

Dylan Shearer(Berkeley)

Pet the Tiger (San Francisco)  More...

Wed 10/29 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
John Schott Concert

An evening with John Schott and friends  More...

Thu 10/30 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8pm VR Quartet Duo
John Vaughn- soprano/alto/tenor saxophones/electronics, Rent Romus - soprano/alto/c-melody saxophones/electronics
9pm Transient: Molina/Ackamoor
David Molina: classical and electric guitar, cello, autoharp, burmese harp, ukeline, bells, hand drum, flutes, spring machine, music boxes, Waterphone, and electronics.

Idris Ackamoor: Alto sax, Invented Cymbal tree and Chinese gongs. Invented Battery of instruments played simultaneously featuring a medium calypso box and a bass calypso box from Jamaica, a Russian hand painted zither, and a Mbira from Zimbabwe. Various percussions featuring Jamaican conch shell, sleigh bells, semsemia Egyptian harp, South African pan flute, nose flutes, musical spoons, train whistle, didgeridoo, New Orleans “musical washboard”, and harmonica. Invented “Ope” (a bamboo instrument with saxophone mouthpiece), various self – made bamboo flutes. Various small African balaphones and Cajon drum box.  More...

Thu 10/30 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
An evening of improvised duos, with Fred Frith (guitar), Jason Hoopes (upright bass), and Annie Lewandowski (piano and electronics).  More...

Thu 10/30 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Django Mack  More...

Fri 10/31 6:00 PM Presidio Officers' Club [50 Moraga Ave San Francisco]
Telegraph Quartet  More...

Fri 10/31 7:15 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St SF]
Ghost in the House Duo will perform tonight at the Nunnery @ 7:15.  More...

Fri 10/31 9:30 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Eric Revis Quartet

Eric Revis - bass; Bill McHenry - tenor sax; Darius Jones - alto sax; Ted Poor - drums  More...

Sat 11/01 2:00 PM Asian Art Museum [200 Larkin Street San Francisco]
Del Sol String Quartet

“The Artist Sessions @Asian Art Museum”  More...

Sat 11/01 4:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
Renowned clarinetist Ben Goldberg introduces audiences to his seminal project Orphic Machine, a ten movement song-cycle based on the poetical writings of Allen Grossman.  More...

Sat 11/01 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
IN CELEBRATION OF ROBERT ASHLEY (1930-2014)

A concert honoring the life and work of Robert Ashley, composer, performer, teacher, and Mills faculty (1969-1981). Works include: The Wolfman, in memoriam … CRAZY HORSE (symphony), She Was A Visitor, String Quartet Describing the Motions of Large Real Bodies, others. Pre-concert slide, audio, and video presentations.  More...

Sat 11/01 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
RTD3 and newly formed Know Crystal Nun, two trios, will present an evening of improvised music with traditional and experimental instruments finding common ground. RTD3 is Ron Heglin, voice/trombone, Doug Carroll, cello, and Tom Nunn, experimental instruments. Know Crystal Nun is Gary Knowlton, experimental instruments, Crystal, homebuilt analog modular synth, and Tom Nunn.  More...

Sat 11/01 8:00 PM The Foundry Nights Gallery [835 Carleton Street Berkeley]
Moe! Staiano appears again at the Foundry Gallery, this time bringing his solo percussion show. Also on the Foundry's evening of music are: Zeek Sheck, Styrofoam Sanchez, Los Angeles band Harassor and the Bob Ross Band.  More...

Sun 11/02 5:00 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
Caracol Carnívoro (Free Jazz from L.A/Mexico)

DunkelpeK

Bandaid Army  More...

Sun 11/02 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Sacramento’s modern chamber ensemble Citywater is excited to be making their C4NM debut! Currently Ensemble-in-Residence at CSU-Sacramento, Citywater has been hailed as “a top-flight interpreter of contemporary classical music” (Sacramento Bee) and is in their 7th year of performance. This concert will feature a series of world premieres for sextet, including works by Garrett Shatzer and Nick Deyoe.  More...

Mon 11/03 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Shudder: Phillip Greenlief, Kyle Bruckmann, Lance Grabmiller
Mills College Ensemble Room  More...

Mon 11/03 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: Tonal Masher (Aram Shelton, electroacoustic improvisation)
Set #2: Swimming in Bengal (Jed Brewer/Tony Passarell/Dave Mihaly, pan-ethnic jazz from Sacramento)
Set #3: Ben Goldberg's Brainchild (Cast of Thousands, improvised big band music)  More...

Tue 11/04 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Creative flutist Nicole Mitchell will lead a collaborative evening with the Chocolate Heads Ensemble, as part of a week-long residency at Stanford University. A short conversation with contemporary dancer and Stanford faculty member Aleta Hayes will be followed by a solo set with Mitchell. The performance concludes with Mitchell leading the Chocolate Heads in a full ensemble performance.  More...

Wed 11/05 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
BATTLE TRANCE SAX QUARTET (NYC) + Mark Clifford’S DIRTY SNACKS ENSEMBLE

Extreme New York tenor saxophone quartet Battle Trance, led by virtuoso sax experimentalist Travis LaPlante and including longtime Bay Area resident Matt Nelson, makes its Bay Area debut with a complete performance of its acclaimed new recording, Palace of Wind, out on New Amsterdam Records. Battle Trance explores densely layered sound worlds with extended techniques and circular breathing, creating “a floating tapestry of fascinating textures made up of tiny musical motifs, and a music that throbs with tension between stillness and agitation, density and light” (The New York Times). The Dirty Snacks Ensemble, led by Oakland composer and vibraphonist Mark Clifford, opens the evening, with lush pop-inflected chamber music that combines thoughtfully-constructed long form compositions with far-ranging improvisational possibility, informed by influences ranging from Kool Keith to Bela Bartok.  More...

Wed 11/05 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Presents: Evangelista | Hui | Obando | Pumpelly  More...

Thu 11/06 5:30 PM Richmond Art Center [2540 Barrett Avenue Richmond,CA]
Del Sol String Quartet

Musical Reflections on Diebenkorn  More...

Thu 11/06 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8pm Tania Chen, Tom Djll, Gino Robair
9pm Caracol Carnívoro (From LA: Martín Escalante - sax and Oliver Steinberg - bass)  More...

Thu 11/06 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
All India Permit + The Sound Quartet  More...

Fri 11/07 7:00 PM Mills College Art Museum [5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland]
Hanes/Adams with Shinichi Iova-Koga
Steve Adams – laptop computer
John Hanes – laptop computer
Shinichi Iova-Koga – movement  More...

Fri 11/07 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Katya Nikonorova extends her “2nd biennale” project with a performance of improvised psychedelic piano at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. The concert is inspired by the work of Stanislav Grof, currently honored as the subject of the CIIS conference “Expanding and Re-enchanting the Psyche: The Pioneering Thought of Stanislav Grof.” Katya Nikonorova is a 2014 CEC ArtsLink Fellow in residency from her native Kazakhstan.  More...

Fri 11/07 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley]
Dalalæða: Music for Cellos & Electronics  More...

Fri 11/07 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait & Switch premieres avantNOIR, new music for jazz quartet inspired by the crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster
Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone
John Finkbeiner, electric guitar
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass
Jordan Glenn, drums
with special guests! William Winant, percussion + Tim Perkis, electronics  More...

Fri 11/07 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Tim Hodgkinson, clarinets, guitar; Ken Ueno, vocals; Matthew Goodheart, piano & metal percussion;  More...

Fri 11/07 8:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
Cultural Odyssey & OUTSOUND Presents a special concert by the Pyramids as part of their LAST BAND STANDING 2014-15 TOUR!!

Idris Ackamoor - saxes and percussion
Kenneth Nash – drums, voice, & percussion
Heshima Mark Williams - bass
Sandy Poindexter - violin

IDRIS ACKAMOOR & THE PYRAMIDS completed their 7th tour of Europe in December 2013 mesmerizing audiences throughout the continent. The highlight of the tour was the performance at the leading underground music show The Boiler Room in London where the presenter remarked, “One of the most enthralling performances we’ve ever seen!” The band features.
THE PYRAMIDS was co -founded in the summer of 1972 in Paris by Idris Ackamoor and after performances throughout Holland and a cultural odyssey throughout Africa, the group independently produced three albums "Lalibela" (1973), "King of Kings" (1974), and "Birth Speed Merging" (1976).  More...

Sat 11/08 3:00 PM Maybeck Recital Hall [1537 Euclid Ave., Berkeley, CA]
Ben Goldberg/Myra Melford Duo  More...

Sat 11/08 7:51 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Nate Wooley and Carol Robinson premiere new works by Eliane Radigue and Denis Doufour

As part of a nationwide tour that offers a rare opportunity to hear new French works played by the cutting edge performers they were made for, clarinetist Carol Robinson and trumpeter Nate Wooley will give American and world premiere performances of new works by iconoclastic French composers Eliane Radigue and Denis Dufour.  More...

Sat 11/08 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
TIM HODGKINSON AND DANS LES ARBRES – English clarinetist, composer, and improviser Tim Hodgkinson and Dan les arbres, an improvising quartet of Xavier Charles, Ivar Grydeland, Christian Wallumrød, Ingar Zach, share a program of improvised and composed music.  More...

Sat 11/08 8:00 PM Homeish [605 Lancaster St. Oakland, CA]
Battle Trance
Travis Laplante, Jeremy Viner, Matthew Nelson, Patrick Breiner


Nava Dunkelman and Jordan Glenn- percussion duo  More...

Sat 11/08 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Dependent Origination - Audacious Love Tour

Alex Cline - percussion
Peter Kuhn - clarinets, saxophone
Dave Sewelson - baritone and sopranino sax
Scott Walton - bass
Dan Clucas - flute, cornet, misc  More...

Sat 11/08 9:00 PM L.C.M. [1629 8th St. Oakland, CA]
Marcia Bassett of Double Leopards/Hototogisu will be performing her solo guitar work as Zaimph for her only West Coast appearance this year. Jessica Rylan of Can't will be performing as well - her second performance of the year.  More...

Sun 11/09 7:30 PM SIMM Series [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Custer-Dimuzio-Lasqo
Beth Custer - clarinet, vocals / Thomas Dimuzio - synthesizer sifu / Joe Lasqo - neogaku laptop, piano
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute / Joshua Marshall - tenor sax / Bill Noertker - bass / Dax Compise - drums  More...

Sun 11/09 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
New York City based contemporary music quartet loadbang will perform a program titled ‘LUNGPOWERED’ at The Center for New Music that will feature music for the ensemble by composers including Charles Wuorinen, Evan Johnson, Alex MIncek, David Lang and others. Loadbang has been called ‘cultivated’ by The New Yorker, 'inventive' by the New York Times, ‘exhilarating’ by the Baltimore Sun and 'a formidable new music force' by TimeOutNY.  More...

Sun 11/09 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Endangered Species (Emily Asher, rob reich, Tom Abbott)  More...

Mon 11/10 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Experimental Music from Mills College  More...

Tue 11/11 7:54 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Visiting from the UK, clarinetist and lap steel guitarist Tim Hodgkinson performs solo and in a duo with local pianist Chris Brown.  More...

Tue 11/11 8:00 PM Hotel Utah [500 Fourth Street @Bryant SF]
Effortless Good Looks / Perfect Loss / Baddest Beams  More...

Wed 11/12 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Friendly Galaxies - An Evening of Celebrating Sun Ra at 100

— Set 1: Reconnaissance Fly (Amanda Chaudhary: keyboard/electronics; Rich Lesnik: reeds; Polly Moller: voice, flutes, guitar; Larry the O: drums, and Tim Walters: bass/electronics) perform a mixture of Sun Ra tunes & originals

— Set 2: Techno-griots Electropoetic Coffee (poet NSAA + guitarist Ross Hammond) continue and extend Sun Ra's tradition of Afro-Futurist poetry+music madness

— Set 3: UBU RA BIG BAND, assembled from the luminous gas remnants of the Beanbenders supernova & other far corners of the universe, travels through the sonic space of Sun Ra's repertoire, w video by Warren Stringer. Line-up: Steve Adams, Aaron Bennett, Myles Boisen, Phillip Greenlief, John Hanes, Joe Lasqo, Lisa Mezzacappa, Dan Plonsey, Jon Raskin, David Slusser. Space songtresses: Barbara Golden & Kattt Atchley. Astro-Terspichorean dancers: Evangel King & Nan Busse. VIdeo artist: Warren Stringer.  More...

Wed 11/12 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Tania Chen (piano) works by Lawrence Crane, Chris Newman and Tania Chen
Andrew Raffo Dewar (reeds) with Tom Djll (tpt), Tom Nunn (perc) and Tim Perkis (elec)  More...

Wed 11/12 8:00 PM Life Changing Ministries [Between Peralta and Campbell on 8th st, Oakland]
::vtol:: from Moscow makes robotic/multichannel/electroacoustic instruments from circuit bent toys to computer controlled stringed things, to personal multichannel diffussion umbrellas(!). He is supported by Bryan Day and Sung Kim, others to be announced.  More...

Wed 11/12 9:00 PM KZSU [540 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA]
Grex on KZSU's Wednesday Night Live

Bay Area art rock trio Grex (Karl Evangelista-guitar/vox, Rei Scampavia-keys/vox, Robert Lopez-drums) plays a special extended set of brand new compositions. Grex's blend of psych rock, pop, no wave, and free jazz has been called an "otherworldly experience" (Eugene Weekly) and "essential current-and-future listening" (Tiny Mix Tapes). Grex' set streams at KZSU Live and broadcasts at 90.1FM (Stanford).  More...

Thu 11/13 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Composer, performer, and installation artist James Fei will present a solo show of The Nerve Meter and Sine of Merit III at CCRMA. Both of these fantastic pieces are based on the interaction of acoustic phenomena with live electronics. Fei is currently Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Mills College and is an extremely active member of the Bay Area music scene.  More...

Thu 11/13 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Mad Queenes: Women on the Verge explores the maddening highs and lows of women in the throes of passion through the music of Schoenberg, Messiaen and Ned Rorem. Firesong is a Bay-Area based ensemble dedicated to innovative programming of the 20th-century vocal chamber repertoire and to the commissioning of the next generation of vocal chamber works.  More...

Thu 11/13 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8:00pm The Ruminations
Christina Stanley - violin, Mark Pino - percussion, Jakob Pek - guitar, Rent Romus - saxophones/toys/etc, Gabby Fluke-Mogul - violin
9:00pm Eat the Sun
"The Djerassi Sessions" album release performance
Jason Hoopes, Gretchen Jude, Noah Phillips  More...

Fri 11/14 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Switchboard Presents

SOLO CELLO + ELECTRONICS featuring three different treatments of the same instrumentation:

Crystal Pascucci - improvised music for solo cello and electronics

Theresa Wong – cello, voice, and electronics

Shawn Alpay - original songs for solo cello, electronics, and voice  More...

Fri 11/14 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley]
Composer/performer/producer Jeremy Harris, founder of Quest Coast Quarterly, explores the intersection of cyclical minimalist rhythms and extended classical harmonies in a series of partially composed, partially improvised songs and instrumental pieces. You’ll hear Harris singing and playing several instruments, accompanied by visual projections from collaborator Paul Clipson.  More...

Fri 11/14 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
Dohee Lee - "MAGO" WORLD PREMIERE
November 14 & 15, 8 PM  More...

Fri 11/14 8:00 PM The Garage [715 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA]
New Choreography by Iu-Hui Chua and Christine Germane & Joyce Lu.
Iu-Hui Chua presents "Collecting Rocks," a new full-length solo work with live music by Cheryl E. Leonard.  More...

Fri 11/14 8:30 PM Milk Bar #36 [Sunshine Biscuit Factory Oakland]
Dance/Video/Music/Installation  More...

Sat 11/15 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
Dohee Lee - "MAGO" WORLD PREMIERE
November 14 & 15, 8 PM  More...

Sat 11/15 8:00 PM The Garage [715 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA]
New Choreography by Iu-Hui Chua and Christine Germane & Joyce Lu.
Iu-Hui Chua presents "Collecting Rocks," a new full-length solo work with live music by Cheryl E. Leonard.  More...

Sun 11/16 1:00 PM Winters Tavern [Winters Tavern 1522 Francisco Blvd Pacifica, CA]
The Fog Music Concert is coming to Pacifica Sunday November 16th from 1-6 pm. Join us for a day of live electronic music and sounds featuring ten different acts that have been commissioned to present their own interpretation of Fog Music.  More...

Sun 11/16 2:00 PM La Commune Bookstore at the Omni Collective [4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland]
Poet Michael McClure reads his work solo and in collaboration with Ouroboros, a free-improv quartet consisting of Sheldon Brown on clarinet & sax;Clark Coolidge on drums; Andrew Joron on theremin; Joseph Noble on flute & sax. After McClure reads, Ouroboros will provide a set of pure music.  More...

Sun 11/16 7:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
DYNOSOAR + RTD 3

RTD3 AND DYNASOAR COMBINE TRADITIONAL AND INVENTED INSTRUMENTS IN EXTENDED TECHNIQUES AND IMPROVISATIONAL STRUCTURES TO PRODUCE A GESTALT OF TIMBRAL, GESTURAL, AND ARCHITECTURAL SONIC SPACE.  More...

Mon 11/17 6:00 PM Saul's Delicatessen [1475 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley]
re-imagining bartok and the folk tradition
two sets of music from 6 - 8 pm

Phillip Greenlief – Bb clarinet
Cory Wright – Bb clarinet  More...

Mon 11/17 7:00 PM Artists' Television Access [992 Valencia SF]
CatSynth in the Window  More...

Mon 11/17 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Ken Ueno

Mills College Ensemble Room  More...

Tue 11/18 7:30 PM The Emerald Tablet [80 Fresno Street, San Francisco, CA]
Call and Response: Cheryl E. Leonard talks about her Antarctic music and performs a short solo set. Plus a group improvisation by Sheila Bosco, Jesse Burson, Kristina Dutton and Cheryl Leonard.  More...

Tue 11/18 7:50 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
A concert of quadraphonic compositions by Bhob Rainey/Chris Cooper & Karlheinz Stockhausen  More...

Wed 11/19 7:30 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
NegativWobblyland
A collaboration between Peter Conheim of the sampling art collective Negativland and Jon Leidecker of Wobbly.
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For tonight's show, Peter and Jon will be joined by the human drummer Jordan Glenn, whose drumming will be converted to control voltage signals and used to vary and disrupt the Boopers' output. Who will win?

Ruidobello
Multi-disciplinary mixed-media and sound artist, Jorge Bachman, has been exploring the strange, unique and microcosmic sounds of everyday life since the early 80s.

Horseflesh
Dereck Donohue's signature psych-rhythmic strangeness pervades his projects and collaborations including Ozmadawn, Zovernment, and Darvaz.

Fslux
Fslux focuses on manipulation of both every day sound and simple (lo-fi) instrumentation.  More...

Wed 11/19 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Patrick Cress' Telepathy

Patrick Cress' Telepathy is an original jazz quartet that creates unique compositions and highly energized improvised music.  More...

Thu 11/20 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
SF Music Thursdays: Join award-winning soprano Nanette McGuinness and van-Cliburn competitor pianist Dale Tsang (the Jewish Music & Poetry Project) premiere commissioned works by Laura Schwendinger (Kay Ryan Songs), Kurt Erickson and David Garner, plus songs by James Primosch, Elena Ruehr, and Dallapiccola.  More...

Thu 11/20 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8pm Adam Adhiyatma - guitar
9pm Odeya Nini - Vougheauxyice (Voice)

Compositions and improvisations for solo voice, investigating extended vocal techniques integrated with movement and field recordings. Vougheauxyice (Voice) explores the arc from silence to noise and from tender texture to the grandeur of melody.  More...

Thu 11/20 8:00 PM Subterranean Arthouse [2179 Bancroft Way Berkeley]
The improvising chamber music ensemble Elliott Smith Hour will perform an arrangement of Brahms's 3rd Symphony. JR;NB is a nasty R&B duo formed by Jacob Richards and Nathan Bickart, two supreme players and composers.  More...

Fri 11/21 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
A spectacular bridge into the surreal and time travel. Noise piano pop jazz ensemble Echo Wild plays in collaboration with Geneva Jacuzzi in a Dadaist Thanksgiving Day prayer, to the dead... Come to a night of wonder and watch a live Bauhaus-jive performance, a hot jazz fusion function wildly oscillating into the dark mysticism of Tropicalia Neo Concretist sounds. We're taking music to make drugs to.  More...

Fri 11/21 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley]
Pauline Oliveros, a leader in the musical avant-garde for five decades, returns to Berkeley to collaborate with like-minded local seekers Thingamajigs Performance Group. Together they will create a new piece of music during a week of workshops and open rehearsals, leading up to the premiere at this landmark L@TE event. Prepare to be transported by masterful improvisation, sonic meditation, and experiments in deep listening.  More...

Fri 11/21 7:30 PM Fortress Callosum [750 Natoma St San Francisco]
Suzuki Junzo, Mason Jones + Mike Shoun, Bryan Day + Cheryl Leonard + Tom Djll  More...

Fri 11/21 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Two Videos, a Duo with Tom Bickley and The Emergency String (X)tet

Videos by Eric Glick-Rieman and Kevan Jensen, Eric Glick-Rieman and Tom Bickley, and the Emergency String (X)tet with David Michalack, lap steel guitar, Doug Carroll, cello and Bob Marsh cello.  More...

Fri 11/21 9:00 PM LeQuiVive [1525 Webster Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents-

Britt Ciampa's Ape Like Impact

Aram Shelton/Owen Stewart-Robinson/Jordan Glenn Trio  More...

Sat 11/22 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Pianist Anne Rainwater presents an evening of vocal and piano music by three friends including Ian Power’s hauntingly beautiful Ave Maria, based on a Scelsi theme, and Jude Traxler’s setting of Theodore Roethke’s poem The Waking. Also on the program is a world premiere by Danny Clay, a setting of the poetry by local writer Roy Doughty.  More...

Sun 11/23 2:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St SF]
The Jon Raskin Variety Show plus T.D. meets T.D. with Tom Djll. Jon Raskin performs on saxophone, various small synths, concertina and jaw harps. Tom Djlls hackMIDI meets the skatchbox.  More...

Sun 11/23 3:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Trumpeter/composer Erik Jekabson brings his chamber­jazz group to play music from his recording “Anti­Mass”, which was inspired by artwork from the DeYoung Museum. The “String­tet” consists of Trumpet, saxophone, violin, viola, bass and drums doubling on vibraphone.  More...

Sun 11/23 3:30 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. San Francisco]
Turns of Centuries, Program II
Hadley McCarroll, piano; Monica Scott, 'cello

Matthew Goodheart - “for piano and cello(s)” 2014
Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major, Op. 102/2 1815
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Sonata for Cello and Piano 1900  More...

Sun 11/23 7:30 PM SIMM Series [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 PM Emily Hay/Motoko Honda/Biggi Vinkeloe
flutes, voice, piano
8:30 PM Time is Now Not Money performs "Origins and Originals"
Bishu Chatterjee - bass, Lorin Benedict - voice, Aaron Bennett - saxophone, Scott R. Looney - piano, Surya Prakash - drums/percussion  More...

Sun 11/23 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance Series presents internationally acclaimed composer, educator, and electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros.  More...

Mon 11/24 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
In The Incendiary Cycle, vigorous horn lines contend with a profusion of guitar, electronics and percussion. The instrumental dynamic evokes the natural and industrial processes that cyclically renew the California landscape.  More...