Thursday, June 8
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... Saturday, June 10
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]Click to make donation a Ratskin Records showcase:
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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.
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More... Sat 6/10 6:00 PM Berkeley Finnsh Hall [1970 Chestnut St.
Berkeley]Click to make donation Outsound Presents 2023 Fund Drive Benefit DinnerYou 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 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 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... 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... Saturday, June 24
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... Thursday, July 13
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.
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