Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

CALENDAR

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06/06/2023 - 07/21/2023

Thursday, June 8
Thu 6/08 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Musical Medicina Lecture Series: Sun Ra and the moog synth (presented by David Boyce)  More...
Thu 6/08 7:30 PM Brava Studio [2781 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110]
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble presents KALEIDOSCOPE! Jörg Widmann: Duos for Violin and Cello. Part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival.  More...
Thu 6/08 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street]
Voicehandler (Danishta Rivero and Jacob Felix Heule) Foreign/Domestic (Zachary James Watkins & John Diaz), Analogous (Silvia Matheus &Thomas Miley), Dovetail (Raub Roy & Diane Eveland)
Thurs June 8 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...
Friday, June 9
Fri 6/09 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and Friends  More...
Fri 6/09 9:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery Street, walking distance from Glen Park BART SF]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream  
GLP TRIO at Bird and Beckett Books - Phillip Greenlief, Steuart Liebig, Garth Powell  More...
Saturday, June 10
Sat 6/10 12:00 PM Lytton Plaza [200 University Avenue Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Cien Mil Mangos, Larry Ochs Gerald Cleaver  More...
Sat 6/10 1:00 PM Santa Cruz Mountains [Exact location given to ticket holders]
For our next Santa Cruz Mountains campout, we're excited to have a very special headliner, a pillar of the French electronic music scene for more than 20 years who has collaborated with David Guetta and David Bowie: Joachim Garraud. He is also someone who inspired my own electronic journey before I moved to the US 10 years ago, so I'm extremely honored to have him with us.

Just like last time, we'll have 2 stages going all night, and some electronic live acts in addition to DJs.
Exact location revealed to ticket holders 2 days before the event. Plan 90 minutes driving from San Francisco. Bring your own drinks and food.
Music lineup:  More...
Sat 6/10 3:30 PM RE:SOUND [Building 34, 1024 Nimitz, Building 34 38.098466,-122.2694642 Vallejo, CA 94592]
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a Ratskin Records showcase:
Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt
Sharkiface
Malocculsion
Ratskin Records is a collective record label and archival imprint championing decolonial experimental music centered in the Bay Area. We focus on LGBTQ+, Black, Native, POC, and disabled artists who create work that is sonically and politically pushing boundaries toward liberation. We work together to create an alternative to an industry that has historically exploited and devalued artist labor and requires artists to exhaust themselves to fulfill their life’s passion. We see the work of decolonial artists as world-building activism that centers empathy and basic human needs. The crux of our work is centered in engaging the healing power of sound for communities in struggle.

Our goal is to pay and provide material resources for artists whose work lies on the margins of mainstream consumption. Our work is multifaceted in that we take multiple avenues to address issues around accountability, accessibility, racism, transphobia, and other systems of oppression. Ratskin is curation centered in its practice and provides resources for artists to create self-determined spaces.

Ratskin.org

https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com  More...
Sat 6/10 6:00 PM Berkeley Finnsh Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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Outsound Presents 2023 Fund Drive Benefit Dinner
You are invited to join Outsound Presents in supporting the Bay Area creative music community! Our 2023 Fund Drive marks the return of our Annual Benefit Dinner featuring Bay Area pianist composer improviser Brett Carson.

RSVP at Eventbrite OR email Rent Romus to reserve your seat outsoundorg@yahoo.com  More...
Sat 6/10 7:30 PM Mosswood Chapel [3630 Telegraph Ave Oakland, CA 94609]
Celebrating the power of improvisation as a community, with Charles Peoples III, and Andrew Barnes Jamieson's Improvisation Number 1096.  More...
Sat 6/10 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Brent Miller performs as HARJOalone. Solo electric guitar that explores volume, density, and timbre as meditation.  More...
Sat 6/10 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Seven Cups Echo + Memory Leaks Onto The Rug: participatory installation and performance that explores sound in the context of an intimate tea ceremony  More...
Sunday, June 11
Sun 6/11 2:00 PM Lytton Plaza [200 University Avenue Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Jim Campilongo Ben Davis Duo  More...
Sun 6/11 4:00 PM Chez Hanny [1300 Silver Avenue SF]
Aaron Bennett Trio  More...
Sun 6/11 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
NYC Pianist Daniel Colalillo presents "New Sounds?" A contemporary recital with music written within the last 45 years with works by: John Adams, Lowell Liebermann, John Corigliano Joan Tower, Erkki Sven Tüür, George Walker, as well as west coast premieres by: Stephanie Ann Boyd, Haralabos Stafylakis, and James G Lindsay.  More...
Sun 6/11 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
LOW BLEEDS
(JAY KORBER + RANDYLEE SUTHERLAND)

Pushing a duo of tenor saxophone & drums through the lineage of shearing notes / loud banging which produces a sonic contrast that teeters on the breaking point, LOW BLEEDS (JAY KORBER, tenor saxophone
RANDYLEE SUTHERLAND, drums) chew upon the rigid boundaries of music and explore the total uninhibited free form.
No deviation from raw direct performance.


ECHO'S BONES (Sheldon Brown - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Alto Flute, Bass Flute;
AMBER LAMPRECHT - Oboe, English Horn, Alto Flute; JOSEPH NOBLE - Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute) woodwind trio plays improvised music that has been described as “avant pastoralism in a chamber music mode”. Our music develops from the combined timbres of three different acoustic woodwind instruments blending, diverging and conversing, incorporating numerous musical traditions in free improvisational performances.  More...
Sun 6/11 9:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Outsound Presents
David Leikam solo piano, Itkuja Chamber Ensemble

Small ensemble arrangement of their large group suite of music inspired by Finnish lament and Jazz will feature the Finnish and Karelian vocals of San Francisco based multi-instrumental musician Kat Eliot  More...
Thursday, June 15
Thu 6/15 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Thu 6/15 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Recombinant Media Labs and Gray Area presents Franck Vigroux

Join us as Franck Vigroux performs two unforgettable audiovisual experiences: ATOTAL, a breathtaking fusion of pummeling beats and mesmerizing projections, and the premiere of NACHT, a new phantasmagorical journey in radical sensory immersion.  More...
Friday, June 16
Fri 6/16 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Fri 6/16 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Ben Neill & Ralph Abraham + Headboggle: meditative, atmospheric music emanates from Neill’s self-designed Mutantrumpet  More...
Fri 6/16 9:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Guitar Madness of Scott Foster & John Schott  More...
Saturday, June 17
Sat 6/17 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Sunday, June 18
Sun 6/18 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
John Schott's project with dancer ELLEN WEBB and vocalist CECILIA ENGELHART. "It’s improv-y, but with structures and some compositions too. It’s intimate."

Pianist and composer Brett Carson plays a set of piano music spanning the 1920’s to the present. The program begins with two of the most significant compositions of Anton Webern: the short and sweet Kinderstück (1924), which is the first work he composed using the twelve-tone method, and the Variations for piano, Op. 27 (1936) a piece that had a significant impact on the composers of the Darmstadt school in the 50s. Also featured is Nicole Mitchell’s Interdimensional Interplay (2016) for live piano with prerecorded flute and with video, which presents a kind of virtual duet between the soloist and Mitchell’s flute. Finally, there are two premieres: Bay Area composer and drummer Jason Levis’s composition portrait of explanations, or not (2023 Revision) is presented in a new revision for improvising pianist, and Brett Carson presents a new piece for piano and Gameboy.  More...
Wednesday, June 21
Wed 6/21 5:00 PM The Chapel of the Chimes [4499 Piedmont Ave. Oakland, CA]
New Music Bay Area hosts The Garden of Memory

More Info and Tickets  More...
Wed 6/21 8:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Kahil El'Zabar / David Murray Duo  More...
Thursday, June 22
Thu 6/22 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Thu 6/22 8:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
REO Trio: Robinson/Evangelista/Ochs  More...
Friday, June 23
Fri 6/23 7:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
MU–Connector/When the land stands alone

Dohee Lee presented by YBCA | Friday, June 23 & Saturday, June 24, 2023, 7-9:30 PM  More...
Fri 6/23 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Saturday, June 24
Sat 6/24 2:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118]
A free outdoor performance by Thomas Dimuzio on Buchla synthesizer.  More...
Sat 6/24 7:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
MU–Connector/When the land stands alone

Dohee Lee presented by YBCA | Friday, June 23 & Saturday, June 24, 2023, 7-9:30 PM  More...
Sat 6/24 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Sat 6/24 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Five Bay Area Composers join forces to create a varied evening of new music for Five Instruments and Voice. Trios, Quartets, and Quintets are the exciting results  More...
Sunday, June 25
Sun 6/25 4:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Kurdish-Persian Oud master Sirvan Manhoobi performs in the intimacy of a house concert in duo with Iranian percussionist Sina Dibay. The concert setting is a classic craftsman home in the North Berkeley Hills.  More...
Sun 6/25 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
Nathan Clevenger + Jordan Glenn + Kasey Knudsen + SAFA SHOKRAI + Cory Wright
USUFRUCT (Polly Moller SPRINGHORN + Tim Walters)  More...
Thursday, June 29
Thu 6/29 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Friday, June 30
Fri 6/30 7:00 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2201 Poplar St Oakland]
HOUSE/BODY/COCOON
An expanded cinema performance installation by Hannah Meleokaiao Ayasse & Zack Parrinella.

Tickets  More...
Fri 6/30 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Fri 6/30 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and Friends  More...
Fri 6/30 7:30 PM Campbell Recital Hall [Stanford University Campus]
PORCH CONCERT TRIO
Liberty Ellman - electric guitar
Gerald Cleaver - drums
Ben Goldberg - clarinet  More...
Fri 6/30 8:00 PM Piedmont Piano Company [1728 San Pablo Ave Oakland]
Noah Haidu, Buster Williams, and Lenny White

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Fri 6/30 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Desert Magic: The Valley Spirit + Cecyl Ruehlen: Tethered Air Zones: a new song cycle that uses Ursula Le Guin's version of the Tao Te Ching  More...
Saturday, July 1
Sat 7/01 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Thursday, July 6
Thu 7/06 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Friday, July 7
Fri 7/07 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Saturday, July 8
Sat 7/08 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Thursday, July 13
Thu 7/13 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Thu 7/13 7:30 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2253 Poplar St Oakland]
Other Minds presents the 18th edition of the Nature of Music concert series on Thursday, July 13, 2023 at the Dresher Ensemble Studio, Oakland, California. The event will feature a performance of music by Bay Area composer Wendy Reid. A discussion with the composer will be hosted after the performance by our Executive and Artistic Director, Charles Amirkhanian.  More...
Friday, July 14
Fri 7/14 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Saturday, July 15
Sat 7/15 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Sunday, July 16
Sun 7/16 3:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
LYDIA LUNCH + TIM DAHL + MATT NELSON
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William Winant
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Myles Boisen's KLANG!!  More...
Thursday, July 20
Thu 7/20 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...
Friday, July 21
Fri 7/21 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years  More...