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...

Wed 12/17 7:30 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
Christina Stanley, Tujurikkuja, Tiros Won, (O)X_3Y3  More...

Wed 12/17 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
Join Meridian Music: Composers in Performance as we kick of the holiday season at Canessa Gallery with a special performance of Hanukkah Music by the Book of J! Fervor, faith and action! Book of J is where old-time religion meets radical politics: songs that started life in Black and White religious communities and were later adopted by organizers for racial, economic and social justice. In the tradition of the Hebrew prophets, the songs ask for devotion and righteousness and offer power beyond what one still small voice can effect. Expect angels and demons, workers and bosses, hard times resolved and destiny fulfilled. Also singing along is good. For this show we will also do some Khanukah songs. Book of J is Jewlia Eisenberg (Charming Hostess) and Jeremiah Lockwood (Sway Machinery).  More...

Wed 12/17 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Double Negative Ensemble

The Double Negative Ensemble is made up the following stellar musicians and master improvisers: John Bischoff - electronics, Matthew Goodheart - piano, Frank Gradkowski - clarinet/sax, Shoko Hikage - koto, Aurora Josephson - vocal, Elzbieta Potak - violin, Jon Raskin - clarinet/sax, Nava Dunkelman - percussion. The non-narrative music is organized by Jon Raskin with an ear to turning the know’s into great music in a variety of combinations with some proscribed sources to be utilized as needed.  More...

Thu 12/18 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
SFMusic Thursdays: “Horn of Plenty” & Aaron Bennett’s "Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra" (sponsored by SFFCM)

◉ Set 1, 7:30pm: Avant-Bolly++ w Horn of Plenty

Line-up: Aaron Bennett: tenor sax — Aram Shelton: alto sax — Jon Raskin: bari sax

◉ Set 2, 8:30pm: Orgone-accelerating post-jazz w Aaron Bennet's Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra

Line-up: Aaron Bennett: sax, leader & compositions — Robert Ewing: trombone — John Finkbeiner: guitar — Ron Heglin: trombone & voice — Jeff Hobbs: violin — Darren Johnston: trumpet — Joe Lasqo: MSP/laptop & piano — Bob Marsh: cello — Lisa Mezzacappa: bass  More...

Thu 12/18 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
sonic alchemy, stretched membrane, texture, chance and exploration
8pm: Ben Bennett/Wilson Shook
9pm: Thomas Dimuzio  More...

Thu 12/18 8:00 PM Subterranean Arthouse [2179 Bancroft Way Berkeley]
The Long Breath: Thingamajigs Performance Group convenes with singer-songwriter-scholar Gelsey Bell (New York) and yogini Ann Dyer (Oakland) in an evening of experimental performance and meditations on alternate tunings, durational forms, and new work. The evening will feature performative projection by Keith Evans and compositions by TPG members Edward Schocker, Dylan Bolles and Suki O’Kane.  More...

Thu 12/18 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Frozen States, Moving Soungds, Tania Chen and Ben Kreith Concert

Piano & Violin music performed by Tania Chen, piano and Benjamin Kreith, violin

The evening includes a performance of Morton Feldman's multi-perspective and glacial solo piano composition "Palais de Mari", 1982, a selection of Violin pieces performed by Kreith, and a premiere of Chen's "Frozen States, Moving Sounds" for Violin and Piano, 2014.  More...

Fri 12/19 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Gratkowski/Brown/Winant Trio
Frank Gratkowski, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax
Chris Brown, piano and live electronics

William Winant, vibraphone and percussion

This trio specializes in improvisations that seamlessly meld avant-garde classical, jazz and electronic influences. Extended techniques and interactive electronic signal processing create an original sound-world that transcends its instrumental sources through hybrid timbral and temporal transformations.  More...

Fri 12/19 8:00 PM Turquoise Yantra Grotto [32 Turquoise Way SF]
While renowned for performing experimental music with self-invented instruments, on this special evening Bart and Peter will each perform a set showcasing them as songwriters and bards with their reinvented strings. Bart will perform on his Y-string guitar, floating bridge guitar, wobble steel guitar, deep guitar, and his new semi-self-playing SSP-Strings instrument. Peter Whitehead performs haunting folk tunes accompanied on his hand built ethnic folk instruments from found objects.  More...

Fri 12/19 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Tawil + Guarino / The Norman Conquest - - get shiny with us


Mike Guarino (percussion, guitar, electronics)
Leyya Tawil (dance)
https://vimeo.com/102498686

The Norman Conquest
http://www.thenormanconquest.net/bio  More...

Fri 12/19 9:30 PM LeQuiVive [Vamp Music & Art 33119th St Oakland]
NEW MUSIC at LeQuiVive presents Lash/Bruckmann/McCowen/Djll/Heule plus Walton/Djll/Perkis/Ingalls plus Lash/Walton Duo  More...

Sat 12/20 7:00 PM 11 Wharf Road [Bolinas]
The Long Breath: Thingamajigs Performance Group convenes with singer-songwriter-scholar Gelsey Bell and Dyemark (Oakland) in an evening of experimental performance and meditations on alternate tunings, durational forms, and new work.  More...

Sat 12/20 8:00 PM Turquoise Yantra Grotto [32 Turquoise Way SF]
Ben Bennett, Bad Jazz, Thomas Carnacki and Pet The Tiger at Turquoise Yantra Grotto.  More...

Sun 12/21 11:00 AM Berkeley Art Museum [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley]
Let’s Go! A Farewell Revel

December 21, 2014; 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

A Full Day of Free Events at BAM/PFA

Come celebrate BAM/PFA's final day of public programs in its 2626 Bancroft Way location before the institution moves to a brand new home in downtown Berkeley in early 2016!

• Dance Battles by the Brilliant TURFinc
• Vibrant Vocals from All-Women Ensemble Kitka
• Performance by Groundbreaking Artist Dohee Lee
• Inspired Sound Art by Chris Kallmyer
• Art-Making for Kids of All Ages with Veronica Graham
• Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique for 100 Metronomes, led by Sarah Cahill  More...

Sun 12/21 6:30 PM Doc's Lab [124 Columbus Avenue San Francisco, CA]
Sheldon Brown/Ben Goldberg Quartet with John Shifflett and Jason Lewis  More...

Sun 12/21 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Two solos

Set One: Ben Bennett – invented and revisioned instruments

Set Two: The Visitor – Bob Marsh – wearable sound  More...

Mon 12/22 11:00 AM SFO [San Francisco International Airport]
Clarinet Thing SFO You Are Hear Music Series

San Francisco International Airport. This is a wonderful music series at SFO. If you happen to be in the airport between 11am-2pm, come hear Clarinet Thing. We’ll be in the International Terminal’s Departure Hall between aisles 6 & 7.  More...

Fri 12/26 7:30 PM Point Richmond Jazz [Point Richmond United Methodist Church, 201 Martina St., Point Richmond 94801]
Brothers Matt Eakle, flute and Kit Eakle, violin join forces to celebrate BOXING DAY, Dec. 26, at 7:30 to FUNkify your Holiday Season!  More...

Sat 12/27 8:00 PM Diablo Valley College Music Building [Pleasant Hill, CA]
THE OPUS PROJECT presents

OPUS 24: Second Annual Holiday Concert-Party!

A Multi-Media Event, with Alan Kingsley, Kate Bautch, Jill Wagoner, Aaron Urton, and The Opus Project Septet, Nonet, and Orchestra  More...

Mon 12/29 7:30 PM Southern Exposure [3030 20th St. San Francisco, CA 94110]
The California drought comes to an end as we dance it out and perform long-trusted drought-ending rituals, including an ancient Roman stone dragging ceremony, the tossing of water from a high place by a village elder and a gathering of twins.
This event is part of Sets, three two-week projects of process-based, video and performance work by Bay Area artists Christy Chan, Chris Kallmyer and Olivia Mole.  More...