Sun 6/09 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
A MICROFESTIVAL OF SURROUND SOUND DIFFUSION - ixed media works projected live over a 16-channel Meyer Sound System. Featuring a wide range works by international composers and collective members. If you’ve never been to our SF TAPE MUSIC FESTIVAL or you go every year, this is a perfect amount to tide you over until January 2025!!

HILDEGARD WESTERKAMP - Kits Beach Soundwalk (1989)
LUC FERRARI - Tautolgos I (1963)
ROCÍO CANO VALIÑO - Okno (2020)
LÉA BOUDREAU - Quatre machines pour sauver le monde (2019)
THOM BLUM - Combustible (2008-09)
CLIFF CARUTHERS - New Work (2024)
Matt Ingalls - Etude (2024)
DOUGLAS MCCAUSLAND - New Work (2024)
KRISTIN MILTNER - Syrinx (2012)  More...

Sun 6/09 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Outsound Presents Tri-Cornered Tent Show "Weird Excursions" Album Release Show
+ Moxie trio: Zamula/Knowles/Noertker  More...

Wed 6/12 6:30 PM Berkeley Public Library - Claremont Branch [2940 Benvenue Ave, Berkeley]
Berkeley Public Library presents In the Stax with the Wiener Kids  More...

Thu 6/13 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
John Bischoff, Scott Arford, Anne Hege, Julie Herndon
Thurs June 13 8pm-11pm Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF
All-ages, $5-$15 no one turned away for lack of funds.
Please rapid-test day of show, keep each other healthy!  More...

Fri 6/14 5:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Kahil El'Zabar and David Murray perform iin a private home in the Berkeley hills. There will be two sets: the first at 5pm, & the second at 7pm.  More...

Fri 6/14 6:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound: Darren Johnston, Larry Ochs, Lisa Mezzacappa, and Ben Davis  More...

Fri 6/14 8:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
A new multichannel sound composition & installation by Dave Shaff. Featuring musical excerpts from the album holistic management by Joel Reber.  More...

Fri 6/14 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Scottish Electronics musician Drew McDowall was a key member of the legendary COIL group from the UK in the latter half of the 1990s whose seminal ritual drone masterwork "Time Machines" was re-performed by him in SF and overseas in 2018.
McDowall now returns to the Bay with an adventurous live project based on “A Thread, Silvered and Trembling” his newest June release on Dais which transforms Drew’s mood driven vision of a displaced neo-industrialized music as enigma and invocation into a summoning of shrouded strings, shaken shudders, and disembodied voicings.  More...

Fri 6/14 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Lost Trio
Fri, June 14, 8:30pm – 10:00pm  More...

Sat 6/15 6:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
The Lab's Second Annual 39th Birthday

The Lab was founded in June 1984 and we’re in denial about what that means in 2024. Join us on June 15 for food by chef Leif Hedendal, a performance by Pamela Z of works from her long history with The Lab extending back to 1987, and a peek into the future of where The Lab is headed next this coming year.

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Sat 6/15 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Lost Trio Redux  More...

Sat 6/15 8:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
A new multichannel sound composition & installation by Dave Shaff. Featuring musical excerpts from the album holistic management by Joel Reber.  More...

Sun 6/16 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
RUBEN MATTIA SANTORSA (Italy) performs a solo electric guitar journey through diverse sonic landscapes.
KAREN YU (Hong Kong) and Ken Ueno (Berkeley) perform "Noise Box Cantos" and "Shadow Mudras," both developed collaboratively as a reaction to their experience being pitted in improvisative situations against a collective of modular synthesizer players.  More...

Sun 6/16 8:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
David Murray / Kahil El Zabar Duo  More...

Mon 6/17 7:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Kahil El'Zabar//David Murray Duo - Friends for Life Tour  More...

Mon 6/17 7:30 PM Duende [1075 Aileen St Apt B]
GOING AWAY PARTY FOR Phillip Greenlief featuring CITTA DI VITTI - an evening with citta di vitti, featuring music inspired by films of michelangelo antonioni with monica vitti. the trio will perform with video clips from the films that inspired the works. citta di vitti is: Phillip Greenlief - alto saxophone, compositions; lisa mezzacappa - contrabass; jason levis - drums  More...

Tue 6/18 8:00 PM Thee Stork Club [2330 Telegraph Avenue Oakland]
Noisterous Nights at Thee Stork

VAUX FLORES (Ithaca, NY)- Modular synth experiments

KEY WEST- Free wheeling, searing anti-jazz noise

BLOOD OF CHHINNAMASTIKA- Synth evil, cutups and PE

MAGICK CREATURE- Dungeon Synth

RUBBER (() CEMENT- ????????? PLAYS FIRST AT 9PM SO COME EARLY  More...

Tue 6/18 8:30 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Elihu Knowles - Rent Romus  More...

Wed 6/19 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Ken Ueno and Karen Yu present a noise set for amplified snare and bespoke noise boxes. Kevin Corcoran and Jacob Felix Heule are a Bay Area percussion duo focused on activating drums with surface friction, found objects, and amplification.  More...

Fri 6/21 5:00 PM Chapel Of The Chimes [4499 Piedmont Avenue Oakland, CA 94611]
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Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes

The annual Walk-Through Concert - Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes returns again to celebrate the summer solstice.

ONLINE SALES ONLY. NO SALES AT THE DOOR. TICKETS WILL BE CAPPED AT 2750. TICKETS WILL SELL OUT.

The program will feature simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay Area composers, musicians, sound artists, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music, installations, and interactive events; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.  More...

Fri 6/21 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound; David Boyce solo set  More...

Fri 6/21 8:00 PM Clarion Performing Arts Center [2 Waverly Place San Francisco, CA 94108]
The Erika Oba Trio (Erika Oba - piano, Chris Bastian - bass, Jeremy Steinkoler - drums) and special guest vocalist Roopa Mahadevan, celebrate the release of Ghosts on the Water, a new album themed around ecology, ritual, and heritage. The album will feature original works, as well as arrangements of Japanese and Okinawan folk songs.  More...

Sat 6/22 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Mason Jones,
Kanoko Nishi,
War Hippy (L.A.),
Daniel Blomquist,
Wilderman

Back to Saturdays!!!!
Gourmet vegan pancakes & compote free, served with entrance fee!  More...

Sat 6/22 7:00 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2201 Poplar St Oakland]
** FinkFest 2024 **
Friends, mentors, collaborators, and esteemed colleagues of the late guitarist John Finkbeiner convene for an evening of music in tribute to his distinctive musical voice, in remembrance of him on what would have been his 50th birthday.  More...

Sun 6/23 3:00 PM Oaktown Jazz Workshops [55 Washington St. Jack London Square, Oakland]
The Erika Oba Trio (Erika Oba - piano, Chris Bastian - bass, Jeremy Steinkoler - drums) and special guest vocalist Roopa Mahadevan, celebrate the release of Ghosts on the Water, a new album themed around ecology, ritual, and heritage. The album will feature original works, as well as arrangements of Japanese and Okinawan folk songs.  More...

Sun 6/23 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Join us for a glass of wine and an exciting new interpretation of Pauline Oliveros’ "Four Meditations for Orchestra" using Carl Testa’s live electronic processing environment “Sway.” Featuring Ninth Planet musicians Jessie Nucho, Brendan Lai-Tong, Giacomo Fiore, and Eugene Theriault.  More...

Sun 6/23 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
GOGGLE is the quartet of saxophonists Chris Jonas, Randy McKean, Dan Plonsey and Cory Wright.
UNITED BRASSWORKER'S FRONT is Darren Johnston and Henry Hung - trumpets; Danny Lubin-Laden and Alan Williams - trombones; Luke Kirley - tuba; Jordan Glenn - drums  More...

Thu 6/27 8:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Sult

From Norway and Oakland, an acoustic trio of guitar, contrabass, and bass drum. Over the past 15 years Sult has created a thrillingly dynamic and visceral sound world, forging a musical unity while also asserting the radically unique languages of its three core members. Their raw acoustic improvisations crackle with an energy that makes indirect communications reverberate on a cosmic level. Their music evokes natural phenomena; storms, landslides, tectonic frictions, lightning splitting forests of trees. Sult exists on the outer edges of free improvisation and the avant-garde, echoing the multi-layered, sonic intensity of AMM's Crypt era as well as Mauricio Kagel's most physical/textural work and the existential force of Helmut Lachenmann's "instrumental musique concrète".  More...

Fri 6/28 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions In Sound; Tri-Cornered Tent Show  More...

Fri 7/05 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Horse Lords + Evicshen + Foreign/Domestic  More...

Sat 7/06 6:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
Howard Wiley and Masumoto Peach Menu (Vegan)
Another 4 course peach menu featuring the incredible fruit from our friends at the Masumoto Family Farm! Peaches and Jazz!

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Sun 7/07 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm. Donations for the venue rental are encouraged.  More...

Wed 7/17 7:30 PM Brava Theater [2781 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
After his father’s unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance, a wad of cash received in a parking lot, to begin a commissioning project inviting a broad spectrum of sound artists and composers to create new piano works exploring the idea of ‘inheritance’ itself. Woven into one intimate program, these pieces tell a universal story of lineage, loss, and place, and become a meditation on confronting our past while moving forward into the future. The performance will be held on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 7:30 pm at the Brava Theater in San Francisco’s Mission District.  More...