Mon 9/6 8:00 PM $8/5 Studio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland]
1st Oakland New & Experimental Festival (ONE) continues with music sets by Holly Herndon, James Fei + Tim Perkis duo, Kristin Miltner and ORR (Elizabeth Orr)

Mon 9/6 8:00 PM FREE Makeout Room [22nd St @ Mission, SF]
NATHAN CLEVENGER GROUP -- Aaron Novik / Nathan Clevenger / Kasey Knudsen / Sylvain Carton / Sam Bevan / Eric Garland :: RIVALS -- Sheldon Brown / Joe DeAndreis / Doug Morton / Darren Johnston / Skooter Fein :: AARON BENNETT’S GO-GO FIGHTMASTER -- Aaron Bennett / Aram Shelton / John Finkbeiner / Lisa Mezzacappa / Vijay Anderson

Mon 9/6 9:00 PM Free The Ivy Room [San Pablo @Solano Avenue, Albany]
Evander Music and the Ivy Room Presents: Living Jazz Series - Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Karl Evangelista - guitar; Gary Johnson - bass

Tue 9/7 8:00 PM $8/5 Studio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland]
1st Oakland New & Experimental Festival (ONE) continues with sets by:Ata Ebtakar, Warner Jepson+Bob Pacelli, Gino Robair, and Secretarial Pool

Wed 9/8 7:30 PM $10/5 Meridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF]
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Call and Response featuring Dottie Grossman (poetry) and Michael Vlatkovich (trombone).

Wed 9/8 8:00 PM $8/5 Studio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland]
1st Oakland New & Experimental Festival (ONE) concludes w/ Fred Frith+Patrice Scanlon duo, Ige*Timer, Basshaters (Tony Dryer+Jacob Felix Heule)+Simon Berz of Ige*Timer and Klaus Janek of Igetimer with Philip Greenloief and Scott R. Looney

Thu 9/9 8:00 PM SFEMF [Brava Theater 2781 24th St (at York) SF]
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival presents
Alessandro Cortini & Don Buchla
John M. Chowning
Jacqueline Gordon

Fri 9/10 5:30 PM $0 SFEMF [Brava Theater 2781 24th St (at York) SF]
rE/visioning the Collection: New Perspectives Through Sound and Media
Dave Aju, JD Beltran, Nate Boyce, Loren Chasse, Seth Horvitz, Kadet Kuhne,
Lucky Dragons, David Wilson. Curated by Volume, commissioned by de Young.

Fri 9/10 7:30 PM free Jack London Aquatic Center [115 Embarcadero Oakland, CA 94606-5138]
Pythia Dance presents "TenderSwitch part i: A Dance on the Brink of the World," a site-specific dance and music piece that interweaves and explores ancient and contemporary human cultures. Musicians: Cheryl Leonard, Gregory Scharpen, Moe! Staiano. Dancers: Micaela Gardner and Iu-Hui Chua. Directed and Choreographed by Dawn McMahan.

Fri 9/10 7:30 PM $7 Berkeley Art Museum [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley]
The sound of the koto, a traditional Japanese stringed instrument, provides the “soundtrack” for a live painting—a work of visual art completed as a public performance—by the duo the Bahama Kangaroos (artists Naoki Onodera and Yukako Ezoe Onodera). Shoko Hikage and Kanoko Nishi perform traditional works for koto ranging from the beginning of the Edo period to contemporary compositions.

Fri 9/10 9:00 PM SFEMF [Brava Theater 2781 24th St (at York) SF]
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
MKM (Günter Müller, Jason Kahn, Norbert Möslang)
Trimpin
Pod Blotz

Sat 9/11 7:30 PM free Jack London Aquatic Center [115 Embarcadero Oakland]
Pythia Dance presents "TenderSwitch part i: A Dance on the Brink of the World," a site-specific dance and music piece that interweaves and explores ancient and contemporary human cultures. Musicians: Cheryl Leonard, Gregory Scharpen, Moe! Staiano. Dancers: Micaela Gardner and Iu-Hui Chua. Directed and Choreographed by Dawn McMahan.

Sat 9/11 8:00 PM SFEMF [Brava Theater 2781 24th St (at York) SF]
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival presents
Caroliner Rainbow Shadow Walking Over Waves Somewhere
Stephan Mathieu
Joseph Hammer

Sun 9/12 1:00 PM Free SF Conservatory of Music/Osher Salon [50 Oak Street San Francisco]
Emergency String (Xtet: adria Otte, Angela Hsu, Bob Marsh, Doug Carroll and Tony Dryer performs during Chamber Music Day. 31 groups in total from Noon till 6pm

Sun 9/12 2:00 PM Free Cafe Royale [800 Post St. @ Leavenworth SF]
Cafe Royale Presents The Lost Trio: Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums

Sun 9/12 7:30 PM free Jack London Aquatic Center [115 Embarcadero Oakland]
Pythia Dance presents "TenderSwitch part i: A Dance on the Brink of the World," a site-specific dance and music piece that interweaves and explores ancient and contemporary human cultures. Musicians: Cheryl Leonard, Gregory Scharpen, Moe! Staiano. Dancers: Micaela Gardner and Iu-Hui Chua. Directed and Choreographed by Dawn McMahan.

Sun 9/12 7:30 PM SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm The Melanchoholics play the music of David Beck - baritone saxophone Bill Noertker - contrabass 8:30pm Noertker's Moxie Trio compositions and improvisations inspired by the art of Antoni Tápies Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, flute Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute Bill Noertker - contrabass

Mon 9/13 9:00 PM Free Ivy Room [San Pablo Avenue (at Solano Avenue), Albany]
Evander Music and The Ivy Room Presents The Living Jazz Series, featuring The Lost Trio: Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums

Tue 9/14 9:00 PM Free Uptown [1928 Telegraph Ave @19th St Oakland]
The 14-member Oakland Active Orchestra plays Flockterkit, a suite of music composed by Aram Shelton ... opening set by Dust Jacket: Rob Ewing and Danny Lubin-Laden, trombones; Matt Nelson and Raffi Garabedian, tenor saxophones

Thu 9/16 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Amar Chaudhary - solo electronics/found objects/sounds
9pm Horn Trio with Darren Johnston, Matt Nelson, & Cory Wright

Fri 9/17 7:30 PM $7 Berkeley Art Museum [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley]
Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000, BAM/PFA’s book on alternative cinema in the Bay Area, ends with the year 2000. To celebrate artists who have emerged since that millennial turn, we give you a searing set of ever-morphing, optically insistent, and sonically frenzied sound and light performances by Andrew Benson and Joshua Churchill; Seth Horvitz; and Curtis Tamm and Michael Campos-Quinn.

Sun 9/19 4:00 PM $15/10 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
The India Cooke – Bill Crossman Duo (with India on violin and Bill on piano) plays beautiful, passionate improvised music. Within each piece, the Duo weaves in elements of various world musics yet maintains an overall sound based in African-rooted musics (jazz and blues). The Duo has performed at the Berkeley Arts Festival and other venues, been featured on KCSM-FM radio, and has recorded three CDs. India and Bill are also currently performing together in Bill's multi-genre, musically-improvised opera John Brown's Truth, which is being performed throughout the Bay Area and will be performed at SFCMC in November 2010. Sweets and drinks will be available for purchase.

Sun 9/19 8:00 PM $15/8 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
sfSoundSeries FINAL 2010 concert :: featuring a rare performance of Train, a 20+ minute scene from Philip Glass's seminal opera, Einstein on the Beach (1976), and music by Beat Furrer, Hans Thomalla and sfSoundGroup. Plus a solo clarinet work by Matt Ingalls.

Mon 9/20 9:00 PM Free The Ivy Room [San Pablo Avenue @Solano Avenue, Albany]
Evander Music and The Ivy Room Presents Monday Night Living Jazz Series, featuring Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Karl Evangelista - guitar; Dan Seamans - bass

Thu 9/23 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents Full Moon Concerts - Harvest Moon A Birthday Tribute to John Coltrane.
Music by: Dan Plonsey, Steve Horowitz, Vinny Golia
Readings by: Craig Clevenger, Nicole Henares, D. Scott Miller

Thu 9/23 8:00 PM $15/10 NOHSpace [2840 Mariposa Street SF]
13th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs
Pauchi Sasaki. Adam Fong, Gretchen Jude, Matthew Montfort

Fri 9/24 4:00 PM 35 Oliver Ranch [50 Mark West Springs Rd Santa Rosa]
TERRIBLE NOISES FOR BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE: This is a participatory performance- a noise-music show with no performers, in which all sounds are make by the audience, using their voices. Parts are very noisy and chaotic; parts are very calm and quiet. At Ann Hamilton’s Sound Tower - a spectacular 80-foot site-specific sculpture located on the Oliver Ranch in Sonoma County.

Fri 9/24 8:00 PM $12 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
KIHNOUA (Dohee Lee: vocals; Scott Amendola: drums and electronics; Larry Ochs: sopranino, tenor saxophones)
ENEIDI+GOLIA QUARTET (Marco Eneidi, alto saxophone; Vinny Golia, woodwinds; Lisa Mezzacappa, bass; Vijay Anderson, drums)

Fri 9/24 8:00 PM $15/10 Uptown Body & Fender [401 26th Street, Oakland ]
13th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs
Terry Berlier, Ricardo Rivera and Christophe Fellay, Bart Hopkin
Open Graves (Paul Kikuchi, Jesse Olsen with Alex Vittum and Stuart Dempster)

Fri 9/24 8:00 PM $10/5 College of Marin [Lefort Recital Hall, Sir Francis Drake & Laurel Kentfield ]
The West Coast debut of oboist Kyle Bruckmann's long-running Creative Music quintet "Wrack". With Jen Clare Paulson, viola; Jason Stein, bass clarinet; Anton Hatwich, contrabass; and Timothy Daisy, percussion.

Sat 9/25 7:30 PM Free Mama Buzz Cafe [2318 Telegraph Ave @23rd Oakland]
Light A Fire: Creaky Things: Matt Hettich (Wake): Transcendant beats and beeps; Karl Evangelista/Jordan Glenn Duo: Scrambled heads/bowtie garage jazz; Sarah Elena Palmer: Ruminative vocal excursions

Sat 9/25 7:30 PM FREE Southern Exposure [3030 20th street SF]
Two projects exploring the physicality of sound, the translation of sound into physical force, and the relationship between sound, architecture, perception, and the body - with Scott Arford, Randy Yau, and Michael Gendreau

Sat 9/25 8:00 PM $12/8 Trinity Chamber Concerts [2320 Dana St, Berkeley]
The West Coast debut of oboist Kyle Bruckmann's long-running Creative Music quintet "Wrack". With Jen Clare Paulson, viola; Jason Stein, bass clarinet; Anton Hatwich, contrabass; and Timothy Daisy, percussion.

Sat 9/25 8:00 PM $14-17 Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness SF]
Come along on musical safari with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral — a tour of the Earth’s scenic and sonic wonders, in compositions by Michael Cooke, Loren Jones, Jorge Liderman, Terry Riley, Lisa Scola Prosek, Erling Wold, and Mark Alburger

Sat 9/25 8:00 PM $15/10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
13th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs
Wendy Reid, CMBLS, Ben Taylor, Conner Lacy

Sun 9/26 1:00 PM FREE Museum of Children's Art (mocha) [538 Ninth Street, Oakland]
13th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs
Doug Carroll, Conner Lacy, CMBLS, Tom Nunn, Ralph Lewis, Alex Potts, Tom Kaufman

Mon 9/27 8:00 PM $20-25 Swedenborgian Church [2107 Lyon Street SF]
Other Minds celebrates the life and works of Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985). Performers include David Abel & Julie Steinberg, Sarah Cahill, Ives Quartet. Special exhibition.

Mon 9/27 9:00 PM Free The Ivy Room [San Pablo Avenue (@Solano Avenue) Albany]
Evander Music and The Ivy Room Presents The Living Jazz Series, featuring The Lost Trio: Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums

Mon 9/27 9:00 PM Donations Kingman's Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave near Solano Ave Albany]
Active Music Series presents Cylinder + Arts and Sciences. Cylinder: Aram Shelton, Darren Johnston, Lisa Mezzacappa, Kjell Nordeson. Arts and Sciences: Jacob Zimmerman, Matt Nelson, Michael Coleman, Jordan Glenn.

Wed 9/29 12:00 PM Free! Levi Strauss Plaza [SF]
The Lost Trio Plays SF JAZZ Festival - Come out to hear a free lunch time concert with The Lost Trio at Levi-Strauss Plaza in downtown SF - The Lost Trio: Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums

Wed 9/29 7:30 PM $15-20 Valley Presbyterian Church [945 Portola Road Portola Valley]
Other Minds celebrates the life and works of Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985). Performers include David Abel & Julie Steinberg, Sarah Cahill, Ives Quartet. Special Exhibition.

Thu 9/30 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Animal Vegetable Television
9pm AU:TONE:NAL w/André Custodio/Kevin Yuen/Dave Ed

Fri 10/1 7:30 PM $7 Berkeley Art Museum [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley]
For this special appearance, the Del Sol Quartet (violinists Kate Stenberg and Rick Shinozaki, violist Charlton Lee, and cellist Kathryn Bates-Williams) perform Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae, Elena Kats-Chernin’s Urban Village 2, and other exciting recent works for string quartet.

Fri 10/1 8:00 PM $12/8 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
Wrack + Rova: On Procedural Grounds -- Local improvising oboist and composer/performer Kyle Bruckmann will premiere an extended work for Rova in collaboration with his long-running quintet Wrack, augmented by the electronic genius of Gino Robair and Tim Perkis. Rova will play the second set alone.

Fri 10/1 8:00 PM $10-15 Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
DARIUS MILHAUD AND LOU HARRISON: IN PRAISE OF MELODY
When famed songwriter Burt Bacharach was studying with him in the 1940s, Milhaud told him: "Don't be afraid of writing something people can remember and whistle. Don't ever feel discomfited by a melody." Tonight's concert is dedicated to two composers who were never "discomfited by a melody!"

Sat 10/2 8:00 PM $12 The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
SOIZIC LEBRAT (Nantes, France) and YAN BREULEUX (Montreal), CHRIS KUBICK (Oakland), CALIFORNIA E.A.R. UNIT (Los Angeles) performing works by Linda Bouchard with video by Kim Turos, Clay Chaplin, Amy Knowles, Vicki Ray and Eric km Clark.

Sun 10/3 7:30 PM SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
2 set-CD release party for Some Circles. Noertker's Moxie: Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, flute/Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute/Bill Noertker - contrabass/Dave Mihaly - drums

Sun 10/3 8:00 PM $20-50 Herbst Theatre [401 Van Ness Ave SF]
28th San Francisco Jazz Festival presents Henry Threadgill’s Zooid

Tue 10/5 6:30 PM 0 Mills College Student Union [5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland ]
"Open Cobra": An audience-participatory version of John Zorn's Cobra, presented at Mills College by Canadian artist Misha Glouberman.

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