Fri 10/11 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound; Mutant Audio (David Boyce and Scott Foster)  More...

Fri 10/11 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Empyrea: Richard Howell/ Ian Dogole / Kash Killion  More...

Sat 10/12 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Godwaffle Noise Pancakes now in it’s 24th year! Join us for experimental music paired with gourmet, vegan pancakes!!

Pulsating Cyst (L.A.)----
Mod Life Crisis----
Kyle Bruckmann----
Amphibious Gestures----
Birdspanker------  More...

Sat 10/12 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Postcommodity + Mirrored Fatality  More...

Sun 10/13 3:00 PM Alameda Main Street Ferry Terminal [1173 Park Avenue APT A]
Emergent Sound Practices

This outdoor sound performance series offers an unconventional circumstance for artists to share emergent and experimental works in conversation with place. With an intent to tread lightly, all presented sound is generated either acoustically or through small, portable amplification.

Live performances by Sholeh Asgary and Alexandra Buschman Roman  More...

Sun 10/13 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
Recognized as one the foremost Brazilian musicians of their generation, FÁBIO PRESGRAVE (cello) and JOANA HOLANDA have been performing versatile and captivating programs with a wide range of aesthetic affiliations. Both musicians are faculty members at Federal University of Natal (UFRN) in Brazil. The concert begins with a debut duo performance by AINE NAKAMURA and Kanoko Nishi-Smith  More...

Sun 10/13 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Matt Sargent performs "The Fragility of Time," an immersive, hour-long guitar work by James Romig. The performance starts off Sargent's west coast tour of Romig's music to celebrate the CD release of "The Fragility of Time" on A Wave Press (Los Angeles). The concert will be open with a new piece by Casey Anderson (electronics) and Matt Sargent (guitar).  More...

Mon 10/14 2:00 PM Mitchell Park Bowl [600 EAST MEADOW DRIVE Palo Alto, CA 94304)]
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Earthwise Welcomes Jazz Holiday in the Park
TICKETS

Alexander Hawkins Quartet (w/Karl Evangelista, Lisa Mezzacappa, Jordan Glenn)

Jenny Scheinman (w/Carmen Staff, Adam Ratner, Tony Scherr, Mark Ferber)

Celebrated UK pianist Alexander Hawkins visits Palo Alto, joined by a crack quartet of local improvisers. Renowned violinist Jenny Scheinman presents music from her newest album, All Species Parade.  More...

Tue 10/15 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
Jazz at the Make-Out Room (formerly the Monday Make-Out) continues! A wily evening of cutting-edge jazz, free improvisation, and creative music.
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Jazz at the Make-Out Room
Tuesday, September 17, 6pm doors/7pm show

7pm Low Bleeds (free improv duo)
(Jay Korber - drums, Randylee Sutherland - sax)

8:15pm Alexander Hawkins (UK) (free jazz/free improvisation)
(Alexander Hawkins - piano, Karl Evangelista - guitar, Jordan Glenn - drums, Lisa Mezzacappa - bass)  More...

Tue 10/15 8:30 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Elihu Knowles & Rent Romus  More...

Wed 10/16 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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CCRMA Transitions 2024 | Concert 1

CCRMA celebrates the start of the 2024 season with its annual Transitions concerts. Feast your ears on immersive 3D sounds played on our 56.8 speaker dome in the Stage. CCRMA students, faculty, staff, and alumni will present live performances, fixed media electronic music, and audiovisual works. Each evening’s program will feature different artists.  More...

Thu 10/17 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [1619 Blake St.]
THINGS THAT MOVE is Ben Goldberg, clarinet; Nate Brenner, electric bass; Tim Bulkley, drums. We hope you will join us.  More...

Thu 10/17 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
CCRMA Transitions 2024 | Concert 2

CCRMA celebrates the start of the 2024 season with its annual Transitions concerts. Feast your ears on immersive 3D sounds played on our 56.8 speaker dome in the Stage. CCRMA students, faculty, staff, and alumni will present live performances, fixed media electronic music, and audiovisual works. Each evening’s program will feature different artists.  More...

Thu 10/17 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Alexander Hawkins (piano) with Lisa Mezzacappa (bass), Donald Robinson (drums) and Karl Evangelista (guitar)
and
Bruce Ackley (solo sax)  More...

Fri 10/18 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound; Big Smoke (David Boyce, Josh Sirotiak and PC Munoz)  More...

Fri 10/18 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Slowfoam + Jake Muir + Jerod Rivera  More...

Sat 10/19 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Savory dinner pancakes concoction not seen on this planet since 2005 served at the show! You're in for a treat.  More...

Sun 10/20 12:00 PM San Francisco War Memorial [401 Van Ness Ave San Francisco]
INTERMUSIC SF PRESENTS SF MUSIC DAY 2024

A Daylong Celebration of Bay Area Music Featuring 80+ Artists, 19 Groups, and Over 7 Hours of Free Performances

Karen Stackpole

Beneath A Tree with Kjell Nordeson
Gail Hernández Rosa, violin, viola + vocals | Daniel Turkos, contrabass, octave mandolin, guitar + vocals | Kjell Nordeson, vibraphone

Circadian String Quartet

Beth Schenck Quintet: Beth Schenck, alto saxophone + compositions | Cory Wright, tenor saxophone + bass clarinet | Matt Wrobel, guitar | Lisa Mezzacappa, bass | Jordan Glenn, drums

Chelsea Hollow + Taylor Chan: Chelsea Hollow, soprano, commissioner + curator | Taylor Chan, piano

Liu Xi 柳溪 Willow Stream: Diana Rowan, Celtic harp | Winnie Wong, guzheng

Roco Córdova, voice + electronics

...and more...

Article about SF Music Day

Artists  More...

Sun 10/20 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
Silvia Matheus (computer and electronic music composer, sound artist, and improviser) teams up with RIC LOUCHARD (pianist, composer, and improviser) to create "The VisitoR," a performance where electronics and acoustics meet and interact.

Bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa presents MUSIC FOR MORE THAN A FEW OF US, a set of new and newly-arranged works for improvising large ensemble, featuring members of sfSound, the oakland reductionist orchestra, and special guests. Exploring noisy abstraction, gnarly grooves and austere lyricism, her compositions incorporate graphic notation, game strategies, and conducted improvisation to engage a Spirit of play and exploration.  More...

Thu 10/24 8:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [272 Capp St SF]
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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 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Brett Carson's Substandard Quartet  More...

Sat 10/26 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Opus 5 - The first Opus Project installment of the 2024-2025 season!  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...

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 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 7:30 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]
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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...

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...

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

Tickets/More Info  More...