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10/15/2015 - 11/28/2015

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...
Friday, October 30
Fri 10/30 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Norwegian composer/performer (French horn and electronics) Hild Sofie Tafjord presents a concert of her work, and new music developed with Mills students.  More...
Fri 10/30 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Rova Saxophone Quartet: Pre-Tour Concert

"Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Larry Ochs, Jon Raskin - saxophones Leaving next week for 15 city European tour to Belgium, Germany, Austria and Italy, Rova comes to the Center to rev up, playing new works from 2015 as well as some terrific older works commissioned by Rova over the past 25 years, but not heard in the Bay Area in this decade. SMOKING!! "  More...
Saturday, October 31
Sat 10/31 5:00 PM Ohmega Salvage [2400 & 2407 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, California 94702]
Hallow's Eve Concert At Ohmega Salvage with Ol Silver Tongue~Golda~Two Aerials~Bill Baird~DunkelpeK~neem  More...
Sat 10/31 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Jaap Blonk with CORAL REMAINS

As a special Halloween treat, we bring you the acclaimed vocal artist and interpreter of avant garde sound works, Jaap Blonk. Blonk will perform Antonin Artaud's seminal 1947 radio art shocker "To Have Done with the Judgement of God." Banned instantly by French radio Artaud's blackened and cathartic masterpiece retains the power to shock and remains an atavistic totem of human barbarity. Blonk uses Artaud's fragments of phonetic poetry as a basis for improvisations, duelling with unpredictable live electronics. He will also perform from his own “Songs of Little Sleep."  More...
Sunday, November 1
Sun 11/01 7:00 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
Instrument Inventor Jay Kreimer, from Lincoln, Nebraska will be performing with Bryan Day and David Michalak as Seeded Plain for the opening of Day's visual art show 'Ventilated Overflows.' Also performing with be the local post-industrial ensemble Collision Stories (Day, Jorge Bachmann, Michael Gendreau, Mason Jones) feauturing painted and collaged 16mm films by Lori Varga.  More...
Sun 11/01 7:49 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents Akiyama / Eubanks / Kahn / Nakamura

An electro-acoustic quartet comprising four major figures in the late-1990s development of eai/onkyo/lowercase improvisation, now abrasively extending beyond its accrued boundaries: Tetuzi Akiyama // guitar - Bryan Eubanks // saxophone, electronics - Jason Kahn // drums, percussion - Toshimaru Nakamura // no-input mixing board  More...
Monday, November 2
Mon 11/02 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
OAKLAND FREEDOM JAZZ SOCIETY :: Monday Nights
Ryan Scott Long + Tom Djll/Jordan Glenn + Room 47  More...
Tuesday, November 3
Tue 11/03 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion) and Michel Doneda (saxophone) with Phillip Greenlief (saxophone)

Tatsuya Nakatani is an old friend, having played at Tom's Place in 2014 and 2012. This time, in addition to meeting up with his old duo partner Phillip Greenlief, he will be bringing Michel Doneda with him.  More...
Thursday, November 5
Thu 11/05 6:00 PM Mills College Student Union [5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA]
Concert premiering instruments for hearing and nonhearing audiences alike created by artist Tarek Atoui in collaboration with UC Berkeley faculty and students, CNMAT, and Meyer Sound. With musicians William Winant, James Fei, and others.  More...
Thu 11/05 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
FREE opening reception for "Tune for Minimum Smoke II" by Sudhu Tewari- demonstration and chat at 7
Sudhu Tewari has been called a professional bricoleur, junkyard maven and young audio-gadgeteer.   Sudhu builds electronic audio devices, electro-acoustic musical instruments, kinetic sculpture, interactive installations, wearable sound art, mechanical televisions, physical models of astrophysical phenomena, and sound sculpture.  More...
Thu 11/05 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street @ 6th St San Francisco, CA]
8pm: Phillip Greenlief - saxophone
9pm: Christian Pincock (trombone, electronics)  More...
Friday, November 6
Fri 11/06 12:00 AM KPFA [1929 M.L.K. Jr Way, Berkeley, CA 94704]
Linda Mac & Michael LaBash feature shaman performance artist Frank Moore’s work
Barb Golden's Crack O Dawn radio show, KPFA 94.1 Berkeley
Thursday, November 5th, midnight to 3am  More...
Fri 11/06 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Hocket: Four Hands

NEXMAP is proud to present Los Angeles based new music piano duo HOCKET in a concert of eclectic repertoire for piano-four hands and toy pianos. This evening’s program features newly commissioned pieces as well as masterworks from select leading voices of American composition.  More...
Fri 11/06 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
Ensemble Intercontemporain

Nearly 40 years after it was founded by Pierre Boulez, the revered Ensemble Intercontemporain is still the benchmark for excellence for new music ensembles the world over.  More...
Fri 11/06 8:00 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
VAMP music • art • consignment welcomes you to another fantastic FIRST FRIDAY PARTY! Featuring live music by The ORR \ ALLEN DUO & a dance party courtesy of ON THE REAL SIDE!!!

****DO NOT MISS!!! The ORR \ ALLEN duo who will perform at 9pm.

The ORR \ ALLEN duo
Josh Allen (tenor saxophone)
Timothy Orr (drums and percussion).

Devoted to the exploration of indeterminate sound, noise and sonic timbres. The music and musicians straddle the line between jazz and rock, new music and esoteric microtonal traditions, and skronk -- balancing the weird, serious, and outrageous.  More...
Saturday, November 7
Sat 11/07 3:30 PM Berkeley Piano Club [2724 Haste Street Berkeley, CA]
ZO-FO PIANO DUET/Eva Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi

GRAMMY NOMINATED, PRIZE WINNING STEINWAY ARTIST ENSEMBLE--ONE OF ONLY A HANDFUL OF DUOS WORLDWIDE DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PIANO DUETS-IS BLAZING A BOD NEW PATH FOR PIANO-FOUR-HANDS GROUPS.  More...
Sat 11/07 4:00 PM Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley [UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720]
Concert premiering instruments for hearing and nonhearing audiences alike created by artist Tarek Atoui in collaboration with UC Berkeley faculty and students, CNMAT, and Meyer Sound. With musicians William Winant, James Fei, and others. Part of BAMPFA’s exhibition Tarek Atoui: MATRIX 258. Followed at 5 p.m. by a panel discussion with Tarek Atoui, Jeff Lubow, Perrin Meyer, and Greg Niemeyer, moderated by BAMPFA curator Apsara DiQuinzio.  More...
Sat 11/07 6:00 PM Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley [Hearst Memorial Mining Building UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720]
Concert premiering instruments for hearing and nonhearing audiences alike created by artist Tarek Atoui in collaboration with UC Berkeley faculty and students, CNMAT, and Meyer Sound. With musicians William Winant, James Fei, and others. Part of BAMPFA’s exhibition Tarek Atoui: MATRIX 258. Preceded at 5 p.m. by a panel discussion with Tarek Atoui, Jeff Lubow, Perrin Meyer, and Greg Niemeyer, moderated by BAMPFA curator Apsara DiQuinzio  More...
Sat 11/07 7:00 PM The Innovation Hangar [Palace of Fine Arts Exhibition Hall 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA]
Real Future Fair

Pamela Z will give a brief solo performance for voice and electronics followed by an onstage interview as part of the REAL FUTURE FAIR at The Innovation Hangar at 7pm in San Francisco, CA USA.  More...
Sat 11/07 7:30 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Dan Plonsey's Backyard

Dan Plonsey's Backyard, with: John Schott and John Shiurba, guitars; Steve Lew, bass; Suki O'Kane, drums; and several special guests. Plus a string duo will play two short pieces.  More...
Sat 11/07 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Empyrean Ensemble – Newly Written, Here & There

An evening of chamber music with the Empyrean Ensemble – Newly Written, Here & There featuring new works by composers rarely heard in the Bay Area.  More...
Sat 11/07 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
Ensemble Intercontemporain

Nearly 40 years after it was founded by Pierre Boulez, the revered Ensemble Intercontemporain is still the benchmark for excellence for new music ensembles the world over.  More...
Sat 11/07 9:00 PM The Hatch [402 15th Street, Oakland, CA]
Grex w/Gentleman Surfer, Mwahaha, Efft @ The Hatch

A rare evening of Bay Area art rock (Grex - Karl Evangelista/Rei Scampavia/Robert Lopez), no wave-y avant prog (Sacramento's Gentleman Surfer), psychedelia (Mwahaha), and majestic experimental pop (EFFT - Sarah E. Palmer, Noah Phillips).  More...
Sunday, November 8
Sun 11/08 3:15 PM JCC East Bay [1414 Walnut Street Berkeley]
Workshop on transforming Klezmer tumes to Blues, Reggae, Jazz and Beyond with Mikel "Moish" Estrin
Part of KlezCalifornia Festival Nov. 7 and 8 at the JCC East Bay  More...
Sun 11/08 7:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Percussion Groups

Pandeiro Repique Duo
DennyDennyBreakfast
Gamelon X  More...
Sun 11/08 7:00 PM Stranded [4929 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, California 94609]
Bill Orcutt / Jacob Felix Heule Record Release Party. Celebrating the release of Colonial Donuts LP, Stranded hosts a special in-store performance with Bill Orcutt and Jacob Felix Heule. Free and all ages!  More...
Sun 11/08 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 Ninth St @ Mission SF 94103]
7:30pm Noertker's Moxie (2 sets)
CD release for Blue Rider Suite, vol. 3
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute
Joshua Marshall - tenor sax
Brett Carson - piano
Jordan Glenn - drums  More...
Sun 11/08 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Shapeshifters Cinema
Greta Snider

Greta Snider is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who is particularly interested in experimental nonfiction and exploring the boundaries between documentary and document. She will present a set of all-new films and slide projects that explore the relationship between words, images, and bodies.  More...
Monday, November 9
Mon 11/09 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College Music Building 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613]
Dohee Lee

"MU" is a word for "shaman" in Korea. Deeply influenced by Korean shamanism, Dohee Lee incorporates both traditional and contemporary practices including Korean percussion, electronics and sensors to create a new ritual form. This performance will feature work from her upcoming project ARA.  More...
Mon 11/09 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Warp Trio

Warp Trio is NOT your typical piano trio. Lying at the intersection of a chamber music ensemble, rock band, and art project, Mikael Darmanie (Piano), Ju Young Lee (Cello), and Josh Henderson (Violin) are pushing the boundaries of music consumption through inter-disciplinary collaborations and eclectic programming that includes electrifying original material, dynamic interpretations of popular music, improvisation, and unique takes on classical repertoire.  More...
Mon 11/09 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Chinese Fire Drill with visuals by Kit Young

Dave Dupuis - Nuns Horn
Brian Pedersen - Bastard Tuba and Clarinet
Sung Kim - Ozukuri and Nuns Horn

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Tuesday, November 10
Tue 11/10 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Composer Meetup

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. Space is limited, so please RSVP to Adam Fong if you plan to attend. No admission fees; contributions appreciated!  More...
Tue 11/10 7:30 PM Omni Oakland Commons [4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents: IMA, Andrew Jamieson’s Trouble Ensemble, Felidae  More...
Thursday, November 12
Thu 11/12 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm New False Gods
Doug Lynner - Synth, Eli Pontecorvo - Bass, Jack Hertz - Percussion , R Duck - Guitar, Tom Djll - Trumpet
9pm Charles Xavier aka The Xman
midi mallet instrument, Yamaha MX49 synthesizer, acoustic percussive toys plus digital FX units
DownBeat Magazine calls Charles Xavier a “Rara Avis,” which is Latin for “rare bird.”  More...
Friday, November 13
Fri 11/13 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Switchboard Presents: MaryClare Bryztwa and Aunt Rose

Every second Friday of the month, Switchboard Presents a split bill of Festival artists past, present, and future, plus other members of the Bay Area music community. On November 13, MaryClare Brzytwa performs music for flute and electronic array, followed by Aunt Rose, a new trio from Jordan Glenn, Mark Clifford, and Crystal Pascucci performing composed & improvised music.  More...
Saturday, November 14
Sat 11/14 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St SF]
Godwaffle Noise Pancakes NOON

November 14th 2015- Saturday!

SLUSSER-----Antimatter-----Fletcher Pratt-----FSLUX-----Fognozzle  More...
Sat 11/14 8:00 PM The ROOM Series (at Royce Gallery) [2901 Mariposa St between Harrison & Alabama SF]
ROOM: Combinatory Duets Pt. 1

Jorge Bachmann, Lisa Mezzacappa, Amy X Neuburg, and Teddy Rankin-Parker (w/Pamela Z joining for the finale) play the first of two evenings each featuring four Bay Area contemporary/creative musicians performing improvised duets in every possible combination at The Royce Gallery at 8pm in San Francisco, CA  More...
Sat 11/14 8:00 PM Turquoise Yantra Grotto [32 Turquoise Way SF]
Join us for an evening of endless sounds with the legendary invented instrument composer/performer Paul Dresher. Your night begins wandering through the Grotto, encountering unique self playing instruments from Larnie Fox based on cranks (analog looping) and continuous bowing. Master woodworker and inventor Sung Kim will play solo on his evolutions of the hurdy gurdy as seen in the Window Gallery at the Center for New Music SF.  More...
Sat 11/14 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Optical Sound #4 ~ New York Ghetto Fish Market 1903 (2006) ~ Orcutt•Heule•Rivero

The fourth in a monthly series of improv music to soundless films at The Center For New Music. This evening the film will be New York Ghetto Fish Market 1903 (2006) by Ken Jacobs. The ensemble will be: Bill Orcutt, Jacob Felix Heule, and Danishta Rivero.  More...
Sunday, November 15
Sun 11/15 3:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
THREE'S COMPANY—MUSIC FOR MULTIPLE HARPSICHORDS – An Early Music concert with Belle Bulwinkle, Phebe Craig, and Katherine Westine performing music by J.S. Bach, W.F. Bach, Rameau, Soler, and Mattheson.  More...
Sun 11/15 4:00 PM Fort Mason Center [2 Marina Boulevard BUILDING B Studio 301 San Francisco]
Del Sol String Quartet - Mason Music: November (San Francisco)

Mason Music is a new musical experience presented by the Del Sol Quartet in the intimacy of a private art studio at the historic Fort Mason. Come sample handcrafted, curated music that include a variety of musical artisans.  More...
Sun 11/15 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence #11 (open participation improv workshop) featuring GIF Problem (Basu/Marshall/Oppenheim)  More...
Sun 11/15 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Heikki Koskinen's Northern Winds & Voices
**70th Birthday celebration performance**
Kati Pienimäki Schenker - vocals, Steve Heckman - saxes, flutes & clarinets, Rent Romus - saxes, flutes & kantele, and Noah Schenker - bass Heikki Koskinen - piano, e-tpt, tenor recorder, kantele  More...
Sun 11/15 7:45 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
New Music Open Mic

On our third New Music Open Mic, we will have a wide variety of performers and styles including solo instrumental works, fixed media pieces, and live multimedia pieces. If you are interested in performing, please email Meerenai Shim at flutemusic@gmail.com. The lineup for the November show will be posted at http://meerenai.com/nmom one week before the show.  More...
Monday, November 16
Mon 11/16 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College Music Building 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613]
JUDY DUNAWAY

Virtuoso of the latex balloon Judy Dunaway will present improvisational works on balloons of various shapes and sizes, as well as her audience participation piece “Balloon Symphony No. 2.”  More...
Mon 11/16 9:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
MONDAY NIGHTS
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Presents:

Life's Blood Ensemble performs "Haven" a meditation of music on the subject of haven, what we all seek from within and without featuring Heikki Koskinen, Joshua Marshall, Safa Shokrai, Scott Walton, Timothy Orr, Rent Romus

ALSO Jennifer Wilsey with Jakob Pek duo

DOORS AT 9PM, SHOW AT 9:30PM
$10-$15 sliding scale  More...
Tuesday, November 17
Tue 11/17 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA 9430]
David Kant and Andrew C. Smith rework and reinterpret pieces by David Dunn, Larry Polansky, and Robert Ashley. David Kant performs David Dunn’s “Thresholds and Fragile States,” for a network of eight chaotic oscillators, using his digital implementation of the original analog circuits. Andrew C. Smith performs Larry Polansky’s solo piece "Piano Study #5” for just intonation Fender Rhodes, drawing on Polansky’s performance history and archival recordings of the piece. Finally, the duo performs “The Park” from Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives, with saxophone, Rhodes, and electronics, following the composer’s instructions that the “score” for the piece is the text itself.  More...
Wednesday, November 18
Wed 11/18 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Adam Hirsch / Alex Christie duo Plus OMMO

East Bay composer/improvisers Adam Hirsch and Alex Christie re-imagine together the extended languages of the saxophone and the computer through duo improvisations.

OMMO is an electro-acoustic duo comprised of Julie Moon and Adria Otte.  More...
Wed 11/18 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Judy Dunaway: Balloon Music

Judy Dunaway performs avant-garde compositions and free improvisations on amplified latex balloons played as musical instruments. She plays a variety of shapes and sizes of balloon instruments, each with it’s own special qualities, pushing the extremes of both pitch range and artistic limits. Known internationally for the past 20 years as a “virtuoso of the balloon,” she has presented her work at many major venues and festivals throughout North America and Europe.  More...
Wed 11/18 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble plays works by John Bischoff, Frederick Rzewski, Christian Wolff, and others.  More...
Thursday, November 19
Thu 11/19 7:30 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Free World ~ 3rd Thursdays

with
CONJURE!
con·jure: make (something) appear unexpectedly or seemingly from nowhere as if by magic
India Cooke, violin
Lewis Jordan, saxophone, word
Joe McKinley, contrabass
Kele Nitoto, percussion
Donald Robinson, set drum  More...
Thu 11/19 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm Josh Allen - tenor saxophone
9pm Tom Weeks Trio
Curt Brown - electronics, Sam Genovese - electronics
Tom Weeks - alto & bartitone saxophone  More...
Thu 11/19 8:00 PM The Golden Bull [412 14th St, Oakland, CA]
STACIAN - Tainted Pussy - Between Youth  More...
Thu 11/19 9:00 PM Winters Tavern [1522 Francisco Blvd, Pacifica, CA 94044]
Tri-Cornered Tent Show and Pachuco Cadaver share the bill at Winters Tavern to present a truly creative and unusual night of musical excursion.  More...
Friday, November 20
Fri 11/20 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Angels and Watermarks: Flight into the Unknown

Faythe Vollrath, hailed by the Wall Street Journal for her “subtly varied tempo and rhythm that sounds like breathing,” proposes an exciting concert of twenty-first century repertoire for solo harpsichord, including recently commissioned works.  More...
Saturday, November 21
Sat 11/21 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Vernacular Visions #22

The third and final installment in a series of screenings that Vernacular Visions* will be doing as part of a 3 month residency at the Center for New Music (September - November), co-curated by Justin Rhody and Tania Chen. At each performance a 35mm slideshow of found photographs will be projected while two small groupings of musical improvisers (from both Oakland and San Francisco) 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...
Sat 11/21 8:00 PM The ROOM Series (at Royce Gallery) [2901 Mariposa St between Harrison & Alabama SF]
Crystal Pascucci, Tim Perkis, Ken Ueno, and Pamela Z play the second of two evenings each featuring four Bay Area contemporary/creative musicians performing improvised duets in every possible combination. Each concert will end with an improvised tutti finale.  More...
Sunday, November 22
Sun 11/22 2:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St SF]
John McCowen new works for clarinet and contrabass clarinet.
Viv Corringham's "Life Is Clearer Seen Through Smoke" New Rebetika tour with Nancy Beckman Tom Bickley, Nan Busse, Anna Geyer, Joe Lasqo  More...
Sun 11/22 4:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Lisa Mezzacappa's avantNOIR:
Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone
John Finkbeiner, electric guitar
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass and sampler
Jordan Glenn, drums
William Winant, vibraphone and Foley
Tim Perkis, electronics  More...
Sun 11/22 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 Ninth St @ Mission SF 94103]
7:30Marshall/Allen/Spirit/Walton
Joshua Marshall - tenor saxophone, Joshua Allen - tenor saxophone, Spirit - drums, Scott Walton - bass
8:30 Harbinger
Cory Wright - tenor saxophone, clarinet, Theo Padouvas - trumpet, Alex Cohen - guitar, Safa Shokrai - bass, Tim DeCillis - drums, composition  More...
Sun 11/22 7:33 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents: Splinter Reeds / sfSoundGroup dual CD release party (!)
$20 General, $15 Members (includes both CDs)  More...
Sun 11/22 8:00 PM Amnesia [853 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA]
Seaweed Sway presents Grex, EFFT, Lillie Lemon

A (rare) evening of outre rock in San Francisco, featuring art rock/improv trio Grex (Karl Evangelista/Rei Scampavia/Robert Lopez), experimental indie duo EFFT (Sarah E. Palmer/Noah Phillips), and touring electro group Lillie Lemon.  More...
Monday, November 23
Mon 11/23 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College Music Building 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613]
DAVID JAFFE - "Bits, Birds and Bluegrass"

David A. Jaffe will perform and discuss his "radically-inclusive" musical language that carries forward the American experimentalism of his close friend, Henry Brant. From a human/bird hybrid to a Kentucky Paganini to a plucked Golden Gate bridge, he engineers impossible animals and then sets them free.  More...
Mon 11/23 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
OAKLAND FREEDOM JAZZ SOCIETY :: Monday Nights
◉ Set 1: Neem (Gabby Fluke-Mogul & K. Kipperman)
◉ Set 2: Viv Corringham's "Life Is Clearer Seen Through Smoke" tour — Electronic, radicalized, multimedia New Rebetika (Ρεμπέτικα Νέα) — w Viv Corringham (vocals | electronics), Nancy Beckman (shakuhachi), Tom Bickley (EWI wind synth | contrabass recorder), Nan Busse (dance | didgeridoo), Anna Geyer (film & light abstractions), Joe Lasqo (laptop | piano | synth | objects)  More...
Tuesday, November 24
Tue 11/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Double Divas of avant vocal art — Pamela Z & Viv Corringham

◉ Set 1: Pamela Z presents a multimedia suite of solos for voice, electronics, including excerpts from recent works Memory Trace and Closed Loop.

◉ Set 2: Viv Corringham's "Life Is Clearer Seen Through Smoke" tour — Electronic, radicalized, multimedia New Rebetika (Ρεμπέτικα Νέα) — w Viv Corringham (vocals | electronics), Nancy Beckman (shakuhachi), Tom Bickley (EWI wind synth | contrabass recorder), Nan Busse (dance | didgeridoo), Anna Geyer (film & light abstractions), Joe Lasqo (laptop | piano | synth | objects)  More...
Wednesday, November 25
Wed 11/25 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
Radicalized New Rebetika (Ρεμπέτικα Νέα) with Viv Corringham's West Coast "Life Is Clearer Seen Through Smoke" Tour + CCRMA composers & instrument inventors Eoin Callery & Romain Michon

◉ Set 1: CCRMA composers & instrument inventors Eoin Callery & Romain Michon

◉ Set 2: Viv Corringham's "Life Is Clearer Seen Through Smoke" tour — Electronic, radicalized, multimedia New Rebetika (Ρεμπέτικα Νέα) — w Viv Corringham (vocals | electronics), Nancy Beckman (shakuhachi), Tom Bickley (EWI wind synth | contrabass recorder), Nan Busse (dance | didgeridoo), Anna Geyer (film & light abstractions), Joe Lasqo (laptop | piano | synth | objects)  More...
Wed 11/25 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Tessa Seymour and Jiyeon Kim: Five Faces of Modernity

Tessa Seymour and Jiyeon Kim explore aesthetic modernity in a duo concert of contemporary cello and guitar works, including those by Reich, Vasks, Falla, and the premiere of a duo by award-winning acoustic and electronic composer William Gardiner.  More...
Saturday, November 28
Sat 11/28 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Endangered Temperaments: Bertamo Trio / Edward Schocker / Dennis Aman [don’t be a stranger #4]

A concert of works for baroque trio (harpsichord, recorder, viola da gamba) using meantone tempearament, including two new commissioned pieces conceived for this tuning by Edward Schocker and Dennis Aman.  More...