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...

Sat 11/29 8:00 PM Diablo Valley College Music Building [Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA]
THE OPUS PROJECT presents

OPUS 23: Jazzed!

A Multi-Media Event, with Alan Kingsley, Amanda Mello, Jill Wagoner, Geri Chang, Feona Lee Jones, John Yoon, Aaron Urton, and The Opus Project Piano Trio, Quartet, Sextet, and Orchestra  More...

Sun 11/30 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Company-style electroacoustic improv with Håvard Skaset (ac. guitar) and Guro Skumsnes Moe (double bass) from Oslo. Featuring Fred Frith, Tom Djll, Jacob Felix Heule, and John McCowen.  More...

Mon 12/01 8:30 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St San Francisco, CA]
The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

◉ Set 1, 8:30pm: Lewis Jordan Trio (introspective chamber jazz)
(Lewis Jordan-sax, poetry, Karl Evangelista: gtr, Nava Dunkelman: perc)

◉ Set 2, 9:30pm: Heikki Koskinen Quartet (new compositions by Bay Area experimentalists)
(Heikki Koskinen: E tpt etc., Adam Lowdermilk: b, Timothy Orr: dms, Rent Romus: winds)

◉ Set 3, 10:30pm: Aaron Bennett's Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra (large group improvisation)
(Aaron Bennett: sax, leader, comp., Bishu Chatterjee (বিশু চ্যাটার্জি): b, Kristina Dutton: vln, Karl Evangelista: gtr, Jeff Hobbs: vln, Darren Johnston: tpt, Joe Lasqo: MSP/laptop & synth)  More...

Wed 12/03 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Guerrilla Composers Guild presents Teleformation: the symbiosis of early and new musical styles and ideas. Local composers (Nick Benavides, Danny Clay, Joseph Colombo, Sam Withrow) are collaborating with dynamic Bay Area performers Vijay Chalasani (viola), Crystal Pascucci (cello), and Chris Whitley (violin), to produce a show that intertwines the forms of the vintage masters with the styles of rising local talent.  More...

Wed 12/03 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Sarah Cahill and Adam Tendler Play Luciano Berio  More...

Wed 12/03 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
New compositions for instrumental ensemble by Mills composers and Frederic Rzewski's "Spots #2 and #3."  More...

Wed 12/03 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents THE SOLO SHOW V.1 (music for Clarinet)  More...

Thu 12/04 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8:00 PM DunkelpeK
Nava Dunkelman - percussion, Jakob Pek - guitar, miscellany, piano
9:00 PM Mike Sopko & Hamir Atwal duo
"an amazing document of eclectic improvisation. . . " - Frank Alkyer  More...

Thu 12/04 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Addleds and Sult are both groups founded by Jacob Felix Heule and Tony Dryer to explore concerns in acoustic noise and brutalist minimalism. This concert will be their first performance as a combined sextet. Featuring Håvard Skaset and Guro Skumsnes Moe from Oslo!

Talk More inhabits the fuzzy regions between improvisation and composition, ambience and noise, accessibility and experimentation, stasis and movement, drone and melody. Aaron Oppenheim plays Laptop-instrument, Shanna Sordahl plays Cello and Electronics, and Andrew Weathers plays Guitar and Electronics. http://talkmoretalkmore.com/  More...

Fri 12/05 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley]
Five years ago, Terry Riley played at our very first L@TE event, and we are elated to have him return to close out the series. Pioneer of the minimalist aesthetic, seminal influence on the Velvet Underground and Sonic Youth, devotee of Hindustani classical music as well as jazz, Riley remains one of the most dynamic compositional voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He will joined by his son, guitarist and composer Gyan Riley. Don’t miss your last chance to hear his sublime music reverberate through our vast architecture.  More...

Fri 12/05 8:00 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
The Beth Custer Ensemble  More...

Fri 12/05 8:00 PM Zellerbach Playhouse [UC Berkeley]
Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band and Amy X Neuburg
They Will Have Been So Beautiful: Songs and Images of Now  More...

Fri 12/05 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Set One. Kaiborg - the dynamic duo from so called SoCal of Jeff Kaiser (LA) – trumpet plusplus and David Borgo (San Diego) – saxophones

Set Two. Music for Hard Times – Paul Winstanley – extended electric bass and Tom Nunn – invented instruments.  More...

Sat 12/06 7:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [Berkeley, California 94708]
Bristle celebrates the release of their new CD, Future(s) Now(s), out now on Queen Bee Records, with a special concert at the beautiful Maybeck Studio in Berkeley! The first set is a series of duos, trios and quartets, including appearances by Gargantius Effect, Kinda Green, duo B., Green Mitchell and members of the Weiner Kids & Bait and Switch, culminating in the debut of Big Bristle, an extended version of the core four ensemble. It's going to be a party!

*Please note seating is limited—you MUST reserve a seat by going to http://www.maybeckstudio.org/2014/11/bristle.html.*

Bristle:
Randy McKean, Cory Wright, reeds
Murray Campbell, violin & oboes
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass

with special guests:
Tom Djll, trumpet & electronics
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Jordan Glenn, Jason Levis, percussion
Tim Perkis, electronics  More...

Sat 12/06 7:30 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St SF]
Saturday Night @ the Nunnery ~ Kaiborg - Jeff Kaiser, trumpet and David Borgo, saxophone. Tom Dambly, trumpet and Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone PLUS Dave Mihaly, drums, guitar and voice.  More...

Sat 12/06 8:00 PM Zellerbach Playhouse [UC Berkeley]
Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band and Amy X Neuburg
They Will Have Been So Beautiful: Songs and Images of Now  More...

Sat 12/06 10:00 PM Amnesia [853 Valencia St. San Francisco]
San Francisco Songbird Festival Presents - Year End Party at Amnesia

- BRAZIL VOX

- Darren Johnston'S BROKEN 4TET

- MSK.fm (djset)  More...

Sun 12/07 7:30 PM SIMM Series [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 PM United Separatists
Drew Wheeler, guitar & things, Timothy Orr, drums & stuff
8:30 PM Rent Romus' Lords of Outland
Collette McCaslin - trumpet, Philip Everett - drums, Ray Scheaffer - bass, Rent Romus - alto saxophone
Special Guest Josh Allen - tenor saxophone
CD release performance of music from 'Lords O Leaping' from Edgetone Records  More...

Sun 12/07 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Sunday Improv Salon with Gino Robair  More...

Sun 12/07 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
New music and choreography from the spastic and disjunct ZE BIB! along with new pieces by the bay area's hardest working group of dance artists, the Wax Poets.


https://www.facebook.com/events/495893513886087/  More...

Thu 12/11 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
SFMusic Thursdays: Gestaltish (sponsored by SFFCM)

Please join Gestaltish for an evening of sonic exploration in celebration of their newly released EP. Embracing tonality, rhythmic integrity or the absence of either, this free-improvising ensemble traipses deftly through space and time offering audience unique listening experiences.  More...

Thu 12/11 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8pm GIF Problem
Sharmi Basu - electronics, Josh Marshall - tenor sax, Aaron Oppenheim - electronics
9pm Key West
Brian Pedersen - saxophones, Rent Romus - saxophones, Dave Dupuis - upright bass, Randylee Sutherland - euphonium/drums  More...

Thu 12/11 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Charlie Hunter - Scott Amendola Duo  More...

Fri 12/12 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
The Guerrilla Composers Guild presents Teleformation: the symbiosis of early and new musical styles and ideas. Local composers (Nick Benavides, Danny Clay, Joseph Colombo, Sam Withrow) are collaborating with dynamic Bay Area performers Vijay Chalasani (viola), Crystal Pascucci (cello), and Chris Whitley (violin), to produce a show that intertwines the forms of the vintage masters with the styles of rising local talent.  More...

Fri 12/12 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Switchboard Presents: Splinter Reeds + Wiener Kids  More...

Fri 12/12 8:00 PM Studio Ilanio [1250 Missouri St. San Francisco]
Deva: Alpha
A series of experimental performances produced by Ilanio, Ed Dahl and Ian Albert. Deva: Alpha will be unlike anything we've ever done, and possibly unlike anything you've ever seen.  More...

Sat 12/13 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St SF]
GodwaffleNoisePancakes  More...

Sat 12/13 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Ghost in the House - 10th Anniversary Celebration - A Decade of Ectoplasmic Ecstasy and Terror
Karen Stackpole – Gongs, percussion
David Michalak - lap steel, percussion
Tom Nunn - inventions
Dean Santomieri – The Dreamer, vocal & Resonator Guitar
Kinji Hayashi – The Dancer
Plus special Guest  More...

Sat 12/13 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Rova Sax Quartet has its first meeting with Ryan Page, a live video performer who uses circuit bent laserdisc players, prepared discs, and custom video mixing circuits to create a vibrant, mysterious visual language.  More...

Sat 12/13 9:00 PM SoundBox [300 Franklin Street SF]
Extremities

Move through time, space, and sound.

Listen to: The smooth, languid world of French impressionism, a brook running through a meadow, starlight sparkling.

Busy New York streets, confrontational instruments replacing honking horns and pushy crowds.

A 14th century gothic cathedral, echoes bouncing off stone walls, candlelight flickering.

Explore how music evolves in physical space in a completely new, immersive setting.  More...

Sat 12/13 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
New Music and Experimental Sounds w/Broken-Trap Ensemble + Canyonlands  More...

Sun 12/14 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Immaculate Reception: C4NM Holiday Party

Celebrate the holidays with your fellow members, staff, and volunteers of the Center for New Music! We’ll enjoy performances by C4NM staff and DJ Sinned, and savor tasty treats and cheerful drinks. Relax with complimentary chair massages, show us your best pose on our holiday photobooth and enjoy Matt Linder’s new music games, based on “Wait wait… Don’t Tell me!”  More...

Sun 12/14 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Steve Coleman brings his supercharged Five Elements band to SFJAZZ, presenting a fresh approach to John Coltrane’s masterwork, A Love Supreme with Berkeley-born trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, guitarist Miles Okazaki, bassist Anthony Tidd and drummer Sean Rickman, the group heard on Coleman’s 2013 Pi Recordings release, Functional Arrhythmias.  More...

Mon 12/15 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Pamela Z and Shinichi Iova Koga: Sound | Silence | Motion | Stillness

Pamela Z and Shinichi Iova-Koga in a duo evening of improvisatory explorations of sound, movement, and image. The artists will engage in sonic and visual conversations combining movement (Iova-Koga) with voice, electronics, and video (Z).  More...

Tue 12/16 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
AI OutLoud: an audio showcase

AI Out Loud is an evening of live music, interactive sound, bands, DJs, hand-made instruments, a projection room and more created by the students and alumni of AiCA-SF's audio production program.  More...

Tue 12/16 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
A visiting special guest, with Gino Robair (percussion) and others yet to be named.  More...