Mon 1/04 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: Exploring Miles (electro jazz)
Tony Passarell-cnt, ss, keys; Karl Evangelista-gtr, Robert Kuhlmann-b, Britt Ciampa-dms, Dex Lopaz-pc

Set #2: Nathan Clevenger's Elective Infinities (new jazz)
Sarah Zaharako-vln; Aram Shelton-as, cl; Eric Perney-b, Britt Ciampa-dms, Nathan Clevenger-comp, grt

Set #3: Rent Romus's Lords of Outland (powerhouse free jazz)
Philip Everett-dms; Ray Scheaffer-b; Collette McCaslin - tpt; Rent Romus - as, ss  More...

Mon 1/04 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
OAKLAND FREEDOM JAZZ SOCIETY presents

ADAM HIRSCH/SHARMI BASU

plus

UNITED SEPARATISTS  More...

Thu 1/07 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
PUPPY NEW YEAR!
(Puppy Surprise Open-Invitation Group Improv night)
Bring your instrument(s) and improvise in randomly-drawn groups of musicians!  More...

Fri 1/08 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Farallon Quintet
O1C Artists-in-Residence

Natalie Parker, clarinet; Dan Flanagan, violin; Matthew Oshida, violin; Elizabeth Prior, viola; Jonah Kim, cello

Jean Francaix Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet
Chad Cannon new clarinet quintet World Premiere
Jose Gonzalez Granero Paisajes World Premiere
Johannes Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115  More...

Fri 1/08 8:00 PM Gray Area Grand Theater [2665 Mission San Francisco]
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival  More...

Sat 1/09 2:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
NextNow's Hardly Strictly Personal 2016 Benefit/Festival - a celebration of Post-Beefheart Music Benefit Organizations: Earthjustice, Homeless Action Center, Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition -- The Bay Area New/Creative Music community celebrates Post-Beefheart Music while raising funds for some worthwhile causes. In addition to the free-form open nature of the musical projects and artists represented, there will be some which will look at Ornette Coleman's influence on Beefheart's music and their mutual influence on the No-Wave movement of the 1980s.  More...

Sat 1/09 8:00 PM Gray Area Grand Theater [2665 Mission San Francisco]
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival  More...

Sat 1/09 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
A/B Duo: Building Premieres

A/B Duo premieres the their latest batch of commissions for flute and percussion by Ken Ueno, Brooks Frederickson, Brandon Randall-Myers, and Francisco Castillo Trigueros.  More...

Sat 1/09 11:00 PM Gray Area Grand Theater [2665 Mission San Francisco]
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival  More...

Sun 1/10 2:30 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
NextNow's Hardly Strictly Personal 2016 Benefit/Festival - a celebration of Post-Beefheart Music Benefit Organizations: Earthjustice, Homeless Action Center, Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition -- The Bay Area New/Creative Music community celebrates Post-Beefheart Music while raising funds for some worthwhile causes. In addition to the free-form open nature of the musical projects and artists represented, there will be some which will look at Ornette Coleman's influence on Beefheart's music and their mutual influence on the No-Wave movement of the 1980.  More...

Sun 1/10 8:00 PM Gray Area Grand Theater [2665 Mission San Francisco]
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival  More...

Mon 1/11 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Presents R Beny, For a Flat and ASMR yourself, + Leland Vandermeulen Group  More...

Tue 1/12 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.  More...

Tue 1/12 8:00 PM Omni Oakland Commons [4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- Fistortion (Gorlen/Kim/Korber/Pedersen)
- ready box (Dimuzio/Greenlief)
- OMMO (Moon/Otte)  More...

Wed 1/13 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
For the January edition of the Meridian Music Series we are excited to present Torben Ulrich with an ensemble featuring Adria Otte, Theresa Wong, Doug Carroll, Gabby Fluke-Mogul and Bryan Day.  More...

Thu 1/14 6:00 PM San Francisco Public Library - Main Library [Latino/Hispanic Rooms A & B Main Library 100 Larkin St. 94102]
Multimedia Lecture About New Music & You  More...

Thu 1/14 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm: Organ of Qwerty (John Hanes - electronics and objects)
9pm: Matt Davignon (drum machine / voice)
"Pink Earth" CD release show  More...

Thu 1/14 8:30 PM Hemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street SF]
Grex, The Classical, Spencer Owen Timeshare @ Hemlock Tavern

An evening of sounds at once beautiful, exotic, and strange at Hemlock Tavern--featuring the dramatic, daring sonics of avant pop band The Classical, the explosive Oakland art rock/psych trio Grex, and the inimitable indie pop melange of Spencer Owen Timeshare.

Grex: Karl Evangelista (gtr, vox), Rei Scampavia (keys, vox), Robert Lopez (dms)

The Classical: Juliet Gordon (vox), Britt Ciampa (dms), etc.

Spencer Owen Timeshare: Spencer Owen (vox, etc.)  More...

Fri 1/15 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA 94305]
Splinter Reeds play new acoustic and electroacoustic works by Stanford composers. Splinter Reeds is the Bay Area’s first reed quintet, comprising five innovative musicians with a shared passion for new music. The ensemble is committed to presenting top tier performances of today’s best contemporary composition, showcasing the vast possibilities of the reed quintet with an emphasis on commissioning new works, collaborating with fellow musicians and artists, and educating the next generation of musicians and music enthusiasts.  More...

Fri 1/15 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Ken Ueno & Matt Ingalls + sinecure

This concert will feature two noise improv duos: Ken Ueno and Matt Ingalls + sinecure (Luke Martin and Ben Levinson).  More...

Sat 1/16 7:00 PM Episcopal Church of the Incarnation [1750 29th Ave SF]
A chamber music concert with the Circadian String Quartet, featuring music of Samuel Barber, Philip Glass, and Antonín Dvorák.  More...

Sat 1/16 7:33 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents: SPLINTER REEDS vs. Stanford Composers – Who Will Win?

Splinter Reeds - the West Coast's only professional reed quintet - will perform hair-raising new works for reeds and/or electronics developed during the previous week's residency at Stanford University's CCRMA.  More...

Sat 1/16 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Dennis Finnegn & Johnny Blood  More...

Sun 1/17 2:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St. San Francisco, CA 94103]
Constructing a Musical Phrase from the Ground Up Workshop
Fullman offers an introduction to Just Intonation, theory and practice and musical instrument design and construction.  More...

Sun 1/17 4:00 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez Street San Francisco]
Sarah Cahill - CHACONNES  More...

Sun 1/17 4:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Hamir Atwal & Ben Goldberg  More...

Sun 1/17 6:30 PM Doc's Lab [124 Columbus Ave SF]
Electric Squeezebox Orchestra  More...

Sun 1/17 7:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
A night of composition and improvisation with Bay Area composer/performers Beth Schenck and Lisa Mezzacappa

7 pm: Duo B- Lisa Mezzacappa and Jason Levis
7:45 pm: Beth Schenck's Nonetheless: Beth Schenck, Cory Wright, Matt Wrobel, Lisa Mezzacappa and Jordan Glenn  More...

Sun 1/17 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation improv workshop). The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or just come to listen. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names.  More...

Mon 1/18 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
◉ Set 1, 9:30pm: DunkelpeK, w special guest Joshua Marshall

Line-up: Nava Dunkelman: percussion — Jakob Pek: prepared guitar/objects — Joshua Marshall: saxophones

3 barrier-breakers on their respective instruments unite to shatter the mirror of reality with their telepathic flow


◉ Set 2, 10:30pm: Aaron Bennett's Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra

Line-up: Aaron Bennett: sax, leader & compositions — Robert Ewing: trombone — John Finkbeiner: guitar — Ron Heglin: trombone & voice — Joe Lasqo: MSP/laptop, piano, objects — Lisa Mezzacappa: bass

E.M.T.P.O. use the electro-magnetic field of their collective mind, tuned & amp'd by means of unique "breathing chart" compositions in a special graphic notation, to focus & unleash orgone-accelerating energies.  More...

Tue 1/19 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Lisa Mezzacappa (contrabass) and Nicole Mitchell (flute, etc.)
DunkelPek: Nava Dunkelman (percussion) and Jakob Pek (guitar)  More...

Wed 1/20 7:45 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
Sam Ashley http://www.sacredrealism.org/series/archive/Ashley_SR_12_04_15.mp3
Alex Cruse http://www.blunderbussmag.com/virus-in-paradise/
Josh Churchill http://www.joshuachurchill.com/tr/media.html
Windowpain Industries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sxckTRrMZI  More...

Thu 1/21 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA 94305]
Ashley Bellouin and Ben Bracken make music with both traditional and hand made instruments that exploit the natural overtones and sympathetic vibrations generated by highly redundant tuning systems. Minimal structures and simple harmonic relationships give rise to meditative washes of sound. Each composition is constructed by considering the personal experience of a physical site, the materials used in the construction of the instruments, and the interplay between the two. Their performances are a mixture of the imagined and real, of natural phenomena, and direct action. Ashley and Ben have been awarded collaborative residencies at the Paul Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency Center, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and EMS in Stockholm, Sweden.  More...

Thu 1/21 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm Jorge Bachman & Michael Gendreau
9pm Guinea Pig
Tony Passarell, Rent Romus, Tim Orr, Doug Carroll  More...

Fri 1/22 7:45 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
New Music Open Mic  More...

Fri 1/22 8:00 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
SILENT FILM – FAUST – WITH A LIVE SCORE SUPPLIED BY THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH

Join us a for another of the music-improv live-scoring to silent movies monthly series at Second Act with a screening of F. W. Murnau’s Faust (1926). The score is supplied by That Hideous Strength.  More...

Fri 1/22 10:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Wiener Kids + Similar Fashion (LA)  More...

Sat 1/23 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St. San Francisco, CA 94103]
Resonance is Harmony
Fullman will present two duet collaborations with composer/performers: Kyle Bruckmann, oboe and Luciano Chessa, dan bau.  More...

Sat 1/23 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Dennis Finnegn & Johnny Blood  More...

Sat 1/23 8:00 PM Omni Oakland Commons [4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland]
Carlos Whisper is a berlin-based band that combines field recordings portraying a domestic aural environment and the idea of sonic triggers inspired by the ASMR phenomenon to play with the idea of intimacy/proximity in form of a live performance.  More...

Sun 1/24 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Duo Camaraderie & Friends

Laura Scarlata, lflute; Sharon Lee Kim, piano; Special Guest Ilana Matfis, viola; Special Guest Rebecca Tout d'Alessio, clarinet; Special Guest Omid Zoufonoun, composer; Special Guest Jean Ahn, composer

Libby Larsen Barn Dances
Omid Zoufonoun By Shadow, By Light
Jean Ahn TOYS World Premiere
Ernest Bloch Concertino for flute, viola, and piano  More...

Sun 1/24 5:30 PM Doc's Lab [124 Columbus Ave SF]
Electric Squeezebox Orchestra

Urban Mingus Project  More...

Sun 1/24 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 PM Jakob Pek - guitar, percussion, etc.
8:30 PM Lorin Benedict & Ron Heglin - voices  More...

Mon 1/25 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
OAKLAND FREEDOM JAZZ SOCIETY PRESENTS ANDREW JAMIESON'S SPIRITUALS DUOS + GOLDBERG/BROWN/ANDERSON  More...

Tue 1/26 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Wild Rumpus + Synchromy [don’t be a stranger #6]

The Bay Area’s own Wild Rumpus teams up with Los Angeles composer collective Synchromy to present a series of visceral works by LA and Bay Area composers. The program will include brand new pieces by Jason Barabba, Nick Norton, and Jen Wang, as well as works by Joshua Carro, Ursula Kwong-Brown, Richard Valitutto, Dan VanHassel, and Scott Worthington.  More...

Wed 1/27 7:37 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents ECTOPLASMIC VARIATIONS: Sam Ashley, John Krausbauer, Luciano Chessa

Three highly singular electro-acoustic musical intermediums set phasers on "other." Strobes, trance, saws, and accordions will be deployed in the service of aesthetic emanations from aetheric realms.  More...

Thu 1/28 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA 94305]
Larry Polansky will present an evening of his works on the CCRMA Stage. This concert will include some of his guitar duets (performed with Giacomo Fiore) and a long version of his piece freeHorn, for computer and musicians.  More...

Thu 1/28 7:30 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
David Rosenboom Lecture – Deviant Resonances: Nature's Creative Challenge to Absolute Mappings of Biological Phenomena in Music. Composer/performer David Rosenboom talks about his work.  More...

Thu 1/28 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm: Beast Nest (Sharmi Basu - electronics)
9pm: Bloop-Quack - modular competency and fluidity over an undercurrent of tonal shifts and glacial movement w/Doug Lynner and R Duck  More...

Fri 1/29 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Frequency 49
Americana

Carmen Lemoine, flute; Ryan Zwahlen, oboe; Jeannie Psomas, clarinet; Yueh Chou, bassoon; Leslie Hart, horn; Margaret Halbig, piano

Samuel Barber Summer Music
Aaron Copland Duo for flute and piano
Bill Douglas Quartet for flute, oboe, bassoon, piano
Vernon Duke Three Pieces for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano
William Grant Still Miniatures for flute, oboe, and piano  More...

Fri 1/29 8:00 PM Mertes Performing Arts Center at Las Positas College [3000 Campus Hill Dr., Livermore, CA]
Founded in 2015 by Dan Marschak, Hitomi Oba, Nick DePinna, and Noah Meites, L.A. Signal Lab is a diverse new music collective of composer/performers. This concert features music from their debut album, “Whisper and Howl,” featuring some of Los Angeles’s most in-demand and creative musicians, including Ross Garren, Maggie Hasspacher, Adrianne Pope, and Linnea Powell, alongside the composers.
As three of Signal Lab’s four founders originally hail from the San Francisco bay area, the group is excited to make its hometown debut!  More...

Fri 1/29 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Guerrilla Composers Guild Presents: Transient Canvas

Boston-based marimba and bass clarinet duo Transient Canvas performs new works by Bay Area composers Danny Clay, David Coll, Robert Nance, Brenna Noonan, Crystal Pascucci, and Jon Yu.  More...

Fri 1/29 9:00 PM Starline Social Club [2236 Martin Luther King Oakland]
Tobin Summerfield's Never Enough Hope + Gojogo  More...

Sat 1/30 12:00 AM KZSU Radio [90.1 FM kzsulive.stanford.edu (streaming)]
day of noise

All things strange and beautiful. Twenty-four hours straight of live experimentation and improvisation, featuring experimental/noise/drone bands and artists from the Bay Area and beyond. A KZSU tradition since the '90s: this is the 14th Day of Noise. Listen in on 90.1 FM in the Bay Area and kzsulive.stanford.edu around the world.  More...

Sat 1/30 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Founded in 2015 by Dan Marschak, Hitomi Oba, Nick DePinna, and Noah Meites, L.A. Signal Lab is a diverse new music collective of composer/performers. This concert will feature music from their debut album, “Whisper and Howl,” featuring some of Los Angeles’s most in demand and creative musicians, including Ross Garren, Maggie Hasspacher, Adrianne Pope, and Linnea Powell, alongside the composers. As three of Signal Lab’s four founders originally hail from the San Francisco bay area, the group is excited to make its hometown debut!  More...

Sat 1/30 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
ZONES OF INFLUENCE BY DAVID ROSENBOOM – a propositional cosmology activated in music for percussion and algorithmic instruments with auxiliary keyboard and glissando parts. With performers William Winant: solo percussion; David Rosenboom: electronics, piano, violin; and Jinku Kim: video performance.  More...

Sat 1/30 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Erik Jekabson Quintet  More...

Sun 1/31 6:30 PM Doc's Lab [124 Columbus Ave SF]
Electric Squeezebox Orchestra  More...

Sun 1/31 7:00 PM First Presbyterian Church San Anselmo [72 Kensington Road San Anselmo, CA 94960]
ECHO Chamber Orchestra will return after a successful first season for a New Year’s Opener on Sunday, January 31st, at the First Presbyterian Church in San Anselmo at 7:00pm. Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings, Stravinsky Octet for Wind Instruments, Yariv Gyro for Percussion Instruments, and Revueltas Janitzio.  More...

Sun 1/31 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Please note: date has changed. Concert is now scheduled for Jan. 31.

“Harbors”, is a collaboration with composer and cellist Theresa Wong. Pitch material used in the piece is generated from the harmonic series of each of the open strings of the cello and the tones resulting from pressing a string at a harmonic nodal point.

“Past the Angels” is a work for an ensemble of four performing on Fullman’s Long String Instrument using the Box Bow, a hand-held wooden tool used to strike the strings in a percussive manner. Seasoned Bay Area composer/performers Mark Clifford, David Douglas, Ryan Jobes and Crystal Pascucci will play the hocketed box bow parts.  More...

Sun 1/31 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
animalesque : Newby, Olencki, & Roy play Isaacson

Bay Area-based musicians Helen Newby and Weston Olencki join forces with Los Angeles-based flutist Elise Roy to present a concert of Kurt Isaacson's recent bestial works for flute, euphonium, cello & piano.  More...

Mon 2/01 7:30 PM Songlines Series at Mills [Mills College Ensemble Room 5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA 94613]
Composer Anne Hege will present "Divining Wisdom," a continuous performance that will call forth wisdom through song and movement using texts and chants written by Hildegard von Bingen, St. Francis of Assisi, and Bertolt Brecht played on a homemade live looping machine, video game tether controller, and iPhone.  More...

Mon 2/01 8:00 PM Yoshi's Oakland [510 Embarcadero West Oakland]
Jenny Maybee & Nick Phillips' Album HAIKU is being launched with a celebration concert at Yoshiʼs Oakland on February 1, 2016. Haiku—the premiere recording collaboration between multifaceted pianist/vocalist/songwriter/arranger, Jenny Maybee, and veteran jazz record producer/trumpet player/songwriter/arranger, Nick Phillips—is a mesmerizing mix of vocal and instrumental jazz recordings in which refreshingly original compositions and imaginative arrangements of standards are brought to life with inspired, risk-taking, live-in-the-studio performances.  More...

Mon 2/01 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: Two Aerials (cutting-edge chamber improvisation)
Crystal Pascucci-cel, Mark Clifford-vib

Set #2: EWE (hard driving electroacoustic music)
Tom Djll-electronics, etc., Tim Perkis-electronics, Jordan Glenn-dms

Set #3: Reggae On the Radio (avant dub)
Adam Theis, Ely Strauss, Henry Hung-horns, Rob Ewing-b, Jason Levis-dms  More...

Mon 2/01 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
OAKLAND FREEDOM JAZZ SOCIETY presents NORTON / COLEMAN / GRANT plus FLETCHER PRATT / JF HEULE / TOM WEEKS  More...

Thu 2/04 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00pm Cosmists
Mark Pino - percussion, Collette McCaslin - trumpet/percussion, Andrew Joron - thermin
9:00pm The Ecosono Ensemble
Glen Whitehead - trumpet, Scott Walton - bass, Matthew Burtner - electronics, Britt Ciampa - drums  More...

Fri 2/05 7:00 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street Oakland]
VAMP presents THE ART of JACOB PEK

Live music by Jakob Pek plus special guest(s)  More...

Fri 2/05 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble All Star 2016 Tour begins in February during Black History Month. Internationally acclaimed percussionist, composer, and band leader Kahil El’Zabar will premier a brand new Ethnic Heritage Ensemble featuring two masterful icons of the modern jazz idiom: Baritone sax giant, Hamiet Bluiett, and trombone titan, Craig Harris!  More...

Fri 2/05 9:00 PM Starry Plough [3101 Shattuck Ave @ Prince Berkeley]
JACK O' THE CLOCK

Scott Amendola w/ Kasey Knudsen (sax) and Jason Hoopes (bass)

FAUN FABLES  More...

Fri 2/05 10:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Fred Frith/Darren Johnston CD Release Concert, + The Holly Martins  More...

Sat 2/06 5:00 PM ProArts Gallery [150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Oakland, CA]
Obelisk Trio with Kyle Bruckmann, Chris Brown & Theresa Wong  More...

Sat 2/06 7:30 PM CCRMA [CCRMA - The Knoll 660 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA 94305]
People Making Sounds is a project co-organized by Weston Olencki & Charlie Sdraulig. We present experimental sound art, conceptual music, & iterations of expanded sonic practice. Performances feature, but are not limited to, instruments, objects, gestures, tapes, & videos.  More...

Sat 2/06 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
William Winant PERCUSSION GROUP AND BLOOD MOON

Program

blood moon:
02.06.16.a,b,c

Nava Dunkelman and Robert Lopez:
Calder Hannan–Orchid Drift Gaps (2015)
Kristina Warren–Choose (2014)
Rachel Devorah Trapp–overmorrow : no attack in progress (2015)

William Winant Percussion Group:William Winant
Matthew Burtner–The Speed of Sound in an Ice Rain (2015)
Christopher Luna–Vortex (2015)
Sophia Shen–Rite of the Elves (2015)  More...

Sat 2/06 8:00 PM Z Below [470 Florida St San Francisco]
Out of the box - a festival - music for cello and piano by Iannis Xenakis, Alfred Schnittke, Mario Lavista, Christopher Burns, and Matt Ingalls  More...

Sun 2/07 3:30 PM Z Below [470 Florida St San Francisco]
Out of the box - a festival
Morton Feldman’s "Patterns in a Chromatic Field" - 100 minute work for cello and piano  More...

Sun 2/07 7:00 PM Z Below [470 Florida St San Francisco]
Out of the box - a festival - music for cello and piano by Matthew Goodheart, Giacinto Scelsi, Monica Scott, Jonty Harrison, and Vladimír Godár  More...

Sun 2/07 7:30 PM The Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St @ 22nd Oakland, CA]
SOLO-DUO-TRIO w/ Jordan Glenn, Kasey Knudsen, Luke Westbrook, Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Adam Hirsch and John McCowen  More...

Mon 2/08 7:30 PM Songlines Series at Mills [Mill College Ensemble Room 5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA 94613]
Composer Carl Stone will talk about his early roots studying with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney, discuss his musical life living in Tokyo, and present recent works from his “Acid Minsoku” series.  More...

Mon 2/08 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Kevin Corcoran / Jacob Felix Heule / John McCowen floor tom trio with special guests from Norway.  More...

Tue 2/09 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Soundings 3.2. Join the Del Sol String Quartet as they explore the interface between new music and visual arts. The evening will feature Ben Johnston’s Americana String Quartet No. 10 paired with works by Jan Wurm (www.janwurm.com), a local artist whose paintings, drawings and artist books examine daily life and close encounters to reveal aspects of contemporary culture that inform our relationships. Along with performances by the Quartet, the evening will include discussion with the audience and artists followed by a reception.  More...

Tue 2/09 7:30 PM CCRMA [The Knoll 660 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA 94305]
Ron Kuivila presents: TED/Mencken is a live recitation rendered breathless through circuitry and interleaved with explanatory digressions in the manner of a TED talk. The text recited and subjected to TEDxegesis is IN SARA, MENCKEN, CHRIST AND BEETHOVEN THERE WERE MEN AND WOMEN, a prose poem self-published by John Barton Wolgamot in 1944.  More...

Tue 2/09 7:30 PM Omni Oakland Commons [4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents: Gamelan X, Collision Stories (Bachmann/Day/Gendreau/Jones), & Sult.  More...

Wed 2/10 7:44 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents: People Making Sounds – Bromp Treb + Weston Olencki/Charlie Sdraulig

Two sets of performative, sonic performances of sounds and performing. Actions shall be undertaken in varying degrees of excess and understatement, rigor and befuddlement.  More...

Wed 2/10 9:00 PM Doc's Lab [124 Columbus Ave SF]
Billy White Group featuring Scott Amendola

Billy White is a young San Francisco-born pianst whose musical journeys have taken him far and wide.  More...

Thu 2/11 7:30 PM Exploratorium [Pier 15 Embarcadero at Green Street]
Guillermo Galindo’s artistic work sweeps across musical boundaries, flowing from symphonic compositions to performance art installations and beyond.

For Exploratorium's evening music series Resonance, Galindo and his ensemble will perform "Resonant Shadows/ Circular Calls" on instruments made from immigrants’ personal belongings found along the border between Mexico and the United States.  More...

Thu 2/11 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15pm: Toaster (guitars and drones)
8:45pm: Thea Farhadian (solo violin)
9:30pm: Donald Swearingen (electronics)  More...

Thu 2/11 9:00 PM Starline Social Club [2236 Martin Luther King Oakland]
New Zombies meets up with the legendary dance party International Freakout A Go-Go in the Starline Ballroom. The band will perform a live set of avant party music between DJ sets of global soul-funk-disco-pop sounds from the inimitable Special Lord B, Bobby Ganush, and Ben Bracken.  More...