Thu 10/24 7:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Stephanie Barber: You Light Up My Life  More...

Thu 10/24 8:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [272 Capp St SF]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream  
Resident is a monthly electronic audiovisual open mic event started in 2017. Resident is casual and cool, and the community you'll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in the Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas.

Now in person at Noisebridge!!
Sign ups and line up
Resident Electronic Monthly @ Noisebridge
Setup for performers starts at 7 pm, show starts at 8 pm.  More...

Fri 10/25 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound; MCD (Matias Arizmendi, Cy Thompson, and David Boyce)  More...

Fri 10/25 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Jaap Blonk and Monopiece in an intimate concert at the hallowed living room of Tom's Place.  More...

Fri 10/25 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Brett Carson's Substandard Quartet  More...

Fri 10/25 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Caroline Davis and Wendy Eisenberg + Bill Orcutt  More...

Sat 10/26 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Please join us for our first concert to kick off BAAA's 2024-2025 season, Opus 5!

Opus 5 will feature the music of Haydn, Schubert, Wagner, Liszt, Vance Maverick, Schnittke, Janáček and others! Returning Opus favorite artists include Megan Cullen and Marielle Leiboff, and a new composition by Vance Maverick. Also returning from the BAAA roster (At the Hawk's Well, 2024) is phenomenal violinist Matthew Vousé. Newcomers include the wonderful Zofia Sabee on cello, celebrated pianist Amy Zanrosso, German-American soprano Natalie Erskine, and a special treat from Hungarian speaker Diana Pray.

This program features tie-ins to programming from our inaugural season and some new surprises! Please join us online or in person at:

Center for New Music
55 Taylor St, SF
7:30pm, Saturday 10/26

$15 General admission
$10 Students/C4NM members
$10 Livestream

Email bayareaartsalliance@gmail.com with questions!  More...

Sat 10/26 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Join us for an intimate evening as Sholeh Asgary celebrates the October release of her debut electro-acoustic EP آبـان (Aban) at Temescal Art Center on October 26th. Co-released by crystalline morphologies and Sming Sming Books, this album marks an exciting new chapter and the culmination of a year-long project.

https://sholehasgary.bandcamp.com/album/aban

The event will include a solo performance by Sholeh Asgary (voice and electronics), followed by a duo with Leila Abdul-Rauf, and a duo performance by Thea Farhadian (violin and electronics) and Silvia Matheus (modular synthesizer).

Co-sponsored by Arab.AMP and Sming Sming Books, profit of all album sales at the event go to the International Fundraiser: The People Stand with Gaza @meca.

Light refreshments provided.  More...

Sat 10/26 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Will Guthrie + Monopiece w/ Jaap Blonk  More...

Sun 10/27 3:00 PM Saint Mary's College Chapel [1928 St.Mary's Road, Moraga, CA]
Saint Mary's College Performing Arts Department presents Ensemble ARI's "Beyond Traditional Sounds" with Gayageum Master Hwayoung Shon. Featured are works for piano quartet and gayageum, Kodaly string duo, works by local composers D. Clay & J. Ahn, including the world premiere of UC Davis Professor Laurie San Martin's piece, "Night Owls," supported by the Barlow Foundation  More...

Sun 10/27 5:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Avant-garde sound poet, performer, composer & artist performs a solo concert in the intimacy of a house concert. Concert will "Ursonate", an experimental sound poem composed by the German Dada artist and poet Kurt Schwitters in 1924. Concert will also include works by Antonin Artaud, Hugo Bell, Raoul Haussmann & Theo van Dousburg, as well as works composed by Blonk.  More...

Sun 10/27 5:00 PM Keys Jazz Bistro [498 Broadway San Francisco]
Dillon Vado and Amos White

Sets at 5:00 pm and 7:00 PM  More...

Sun 10/27 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
Bay Area flutists DIANE GRUBBE and MEERANAI SHIM perform solo and duo works by Robert Dick, Mario Davidovsky, Dai Fujikura, Alyssa Aska, and The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker.

THE HOLY MARTINS is Kasey Knudsen (alto saxophone), Lorin Benedict (voice), and ERIC VOGLER (guitar). They have been playing in this configuration for over 15 years, during which time the group has explored a broad range of composed music (written by them and by others), improvised game pieces, and collective free improvisation. The nucleus of their approach is rooted in the jazz idiom, writ large, but the conspicuous absence of a "rhythm section" pushes the team in directions bordering on the altogether unfamiliar.  More...

Sat 11/02 7:30 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez Street San Francisco, CA 94114]
Fall Cabaret: Pierrot Lunaire

Genre-breaking works from the 20th and 21st centuries immerse the listener in interactions between poetry, music, and the human voice. The composers explore the extremes of drama and poetry within the intimate setting of chamber music.  More...

Sun 11/03 4:00 PM The Hillside Club [2286 Cedar Street Berkeley, CA 94709]
Fall Cabaret: Pierrot Lunaire

Genre-breaking works from the 20th and 21st centuries immerse the listener in interactions between poetry, music, and the human voice. The composers explore the extremes of drama and poetry within the intimate setting of chamber music.  More...

Sun 11/03 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
RIC LOUCHARD is a Bay Area composer, pianist, improviser, writer and story teller. Ric is delighted – really delighted - to be playing with Lisa Mezzacappa, bass, Jordan Glenn, drums, and Joshua Marshall, saxophones. Ric played these pieces with this same quartet 5 years ago and has always wanted to revisit the music, make some revisions, and play and record them again with these fantastic musicians.

In the blur between acoustic and amplified, synthetic and analog, "algo-rhythm" and improvisation, clarity is forged anew only if you look ahead. Swinging serious sonic sledgehammers for a threefold lifetime now, Bjll Dingalls [Tom Djll (trumpet & electronics) + Bill Hsu (electronics) + Matt Ingalls (clarinet & electronics)] lay the railroad into terra incognita.  More...

Sun 11/03 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...

Sun 11/03 7:30 PM Dinkelspiel Auditorium | Stanford University [471 Lagunita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream  
Homage to Ligeti | CCRMA 50th Anniversary

A major concert will kick off the final series of events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Join us in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on November 3 at 7:30pm for a program of music by György Ligeti, whose five-month residency at Stanford in 1972 and friendship with John Chowning helped lead to the founding of CCRMA.

This all-Ligeti program comprises "Atmosphères" (featured in the Stanley Kubrick film "2001: A Space Odyssey") performed by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra; "Musica ricercata" performed by pianist Roger Xia '24; the electronic composition "Artikulation"; and the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra featuring violinist Tanja Becker-Bender with the Stanford New Ensemble conducted by Paul Phillips.  More...

Thu 11/07 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [2021 San Jose Avenue Apartment 6]
Two sets featuring one-of-a-kind music, experimental films and great beer!
Do-Over Music Series @ Shapeshifters Cinema
Thursday November 7, 7pm
$10 Cover  More...

Fri 11/08 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Croatian Amor (Co-Presented by HydeFM)  More...

Sat 11/09 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S  More...

Sat 11/09 7:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
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Unlocked Festival 2024
7-10pm, No Cover/All Proceeds to TAC and other causes of conscience

7pm Ari Brown / Sam Lefebvre / Cody Putman

7:45pm Voicehandler
(Danishta Rivero - voice, Jacob Felix Heule - percussion)

8:30pm Grex w/ Lewis Jordan
(Karl Evangelista - guitar/voice, Rei Scampavia - keys/voice, Robert Lopez - drums, Lewis Jordan - sax)

9:15pm Jordan Glenn's BEAK
(Jon Arkin - drums, Sudhu Tewari - instruments, David James - guitar, Jason Hoopes - bass, Evelyn Davis - keys)

The Unlocked Festival is an annual event that commemorates the spirit of creativity and resistance that prevailed through the COVID-19 pandemic. This year's prime-time installment features Jordan Glenn’s all-star BEAK ensemble, the incendiary sounds of experimental band Grex, noise/improv duo Voicehandler, and the trio of Ari Brown, Sam Lefebvre, and Cody Putnam.  More...

Sun 11/10 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
THE STINSON TRIO is the restless electric improvising union of drummer TIM BULKLEY, guitarist DAVID DVORIN, and reeds player Randy McKean. Using drum and cymbal, amps and effects, high and low saxes/clarinets, they fashion instant jigsaw superstructures from composite layers of sound and rhythm.

MITCH STAHLMANN ~does~ play around. His often frenetic music embraces chaos, pulling radical joy out of the magician's hat. In his solo practice, Mitch primarily works with complex MIDI systems controlled by his adaptation of Michel Waisvisz's crackle box circuit design. Additionally, the flute is used as a vehicle for melodic and Spiritual incantation through this fabric of noise.  More...

Thu 11/14 7:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Lusine, Arms and Sleepers, and Yppah

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Thu 11/14 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street]
James Goode
Striking a resemblance to "Fifth Head" in Coalinga's own Faxed Head where one white-knuckle grips the glue while the others crank extreme tape manipulation and electronics, crazed clone James Goode under proper care proves capable of outstanding sound.
https://jamesgoode.bandcamp.com/music

lucie R.
lucie R. acts as our collective unraveller, instigator of anarchical action escaping all forecast, forming and deforming the possible. For this storm, inside the Peacock Lounge, all bets are off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO9z3vDaez8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzS6-fCVrz4

Newcomer Can't Swim
Newcomer Can’t Swim. For midnight. Contents. Untitled, park in city. “Oakland/San Francisco foursome” “under witness protection” “suddenly decided to play scratch music so hard, that the balloon burst.” Severely deconstructed “The Water is Wide” with abject blowout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juWZWuJdB5M

Rot Diet
Renouncing essences or absolutes Mitch Stahlmann and Chris Farstad may brandish cracklebox and electronic wind instrument, but really nothing is needed other than infinity and nowhere.
https://555sounds.bandcamp.com/  More...

Thu 11/14 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Natacha Diels + Steph Richards + Kyle Bruckmann  More...

Sat 11/16 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Citta di Vitti

Phillip Greenlief, saxophone
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Jason Levis, drums  More...