Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

CALENDAR

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09/25/2023 - 11/09/2023

Monday, September 25
Mon 9/25 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Rewards Program

A free form live scoring project.  More...
Mon 9/25 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Itkuja Chamber Ensemble and Faults Quartet at Tom's Place  More...
Thursday, September 28
Thu 9/28 8:00 AM 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
Resident Electronic Monthly @ Noisebridge
Setup for performers starts at 7pm, show starts at 8 pm.  More...
Thu 9/28 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Merlin Coleman has created a three-part song cycle utilizing the sonic and spatial possibilities of Audium.  More...
Thu 9/28 7:30 PM St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church [SF]
Foreign/Domestic (Zachary James Watkins & John Diaz)
Sult (Jacob Felix Heule + 2 people from Norway)
Matt Robidoux  More...
Thu 9/28 7:30 PM St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church [1661 15th Street San Francisco, CA 94103]
Acoustic improv trio Sult embraces an other-worldly matrix of scrapes, thrums, and throbs. The charismatic Matt Robidoux invites listeners into a lysergic world oscillating wildly between hysteria and self-possession. Zachary James Watkins (guitar) and John Diaz (drums) join forces to form Foreign/Domestic.  More...
Thu 9/28 9:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Aaron Space & His Terrestrial Underlings
Vinny Golia & The Ruminations
Crystal Pascucci, Eli Knowles, Mark Clifford, Rent Romus  More...
Friday, September 29
Fri 9/29 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce solo  More...
Fri 9/29 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Merlin Coleman has created a three-part song cycle utilizing the sonic and spatial possibilities of Audium.  More...
Fri 9/29 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Jordan Glenn’s BEAK + Sudhu Tewari  More...
Saturday, September 30
Sat 9/30 11:00 AM Peralta Hacienda Historical Park [2465 34th Avenue, Oakland, CA 94601]
With the help of traditional Paiute stories, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park present workshops and performances exploring the role of language and music in the art of storytelling.  More...
Sat 9/30 12:01 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


Experimental & electronic sound bemusements from:
Compression of the Chest Cavity Miracle
KROB
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase
Earthjerks
Decision / Fatigue
Show starts at noon sharp; vegan pancakes included with price of admission.  More...
Sat 9/30 4:00 PM Building 34, Mare Island, Vallejo [1024 Nimitz Building 34 Vallejo CA, 94592 Coordinates: 38.098466,-122.2694642]
Re:Sound Vibration

CGRSM (Los Angeles)
Tatsuya Nakatani (New Mexico)
Sult (Norway & Oakland)  More...
Sat 9/30 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Merlin Coleman has created a three-part song cycle utilizing the sonic and spatial possibilities of Audium.  More...
Sat 9/30 7:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
S3ljam

S3ljam is a 2-night performance and convening that formally presents a compilation of 6 scores collectively developed in workshops between December 4, 2022, to January 15, 2023, as part of Sunday Sessions X MAJLES, during Sholeh Asgary's residency at Berkeley Art Center.

https://www.thelab.org/projects/2023/9/30/s3ljam-1  More...
Sunday, October 1
Sun 10/01 11:00 AM Peralta Hacienda Historical Park [2465 34th Avenue, Oakland, CA 94601]
With the help of traditional Paiute stories, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park present workshops and performances exploring the role of language and music in the art of storytelling.  More...
Sun 10/01 4:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
EARLY START TIME!!!

JAMES ILGENFRITZ BASS TRIO
(JAMES ILGENFRITZ + MARK DEUTSCH + Lisa Mezzacappa)
and
THE OAKLAND REDUCTIONIST ORCHESTRA  More...
Sun 10/01 7:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
S3ljam

S3ljam is a 2-night performance and convening that formally presents a compilation of 6 scores collectively developed in workshops between December 4, 2022, to January 15, 2023, as part of Sunday Sessions X MAJLES, during Sholeh Asgary's residency at Berkeley Art Center.

https://www.thelab.org/projects/2023/9/30/s3ljam-1  More...
Sun 10/01 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 10/01 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
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Outsound Presents world renowned percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and Emmy award winning saxophonist Rent Romus in joining sonic forces to create a unique blend of free improvisation fused with abstract structures and melodic contortions. Also performing will be the investigation of evidence of existence through texture and vibration from the Evidence Trio (Kersti Abrams, Andrew Joron, Thomas Harrison)
Advance Tickets & @ the Door  More...
Monday, October 2
Mon 10/02 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
James Ilgenfritz (cb) with Gino Robair (perc, elec?) and Ben Goldberg (cl)
&
Sult (Jacob Felix Heule + 2 Norwegians) (gtr, cb, perc)  More...
Thursday, October 5
Thu 10/05 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
MSHR: Mesh Manifold (a new body of work by audiovisual collective)  More...
Friday, October 6
Fri 10/06 3:30 PM Studio 4 ~ 5 [1025 Carleton St Berkeley CA 94710]
SANS “SINE” WAV.(e)

A showing of the art and music of Jakob Pek

With special guests Julie Moon and William Winant.

Gallery open for viewing at 3:30 pm each day.

Concerts in the evening.

Fri 10/6

Jakob Pek performs solo at 8:00pm

Sat 10/7

Jakob Pek and Julie Moon perform at 8:00pm

Sunday 10/8

Jakob Pek, Julie Moon and William Winant Trio at 6:30pm  More...
Fri 10/06 5:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Erik Jekabson Quintet  More...
Fri 10/06 6:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Korean new music group, ensemble PHASE, visits the Bay Area from Seoul to perform music from composer Edward Schocker. Pieces include songs from Self_less, The Crossing and Songs of Undoing. Mixing Korean forms of sinawi, sanjo and p'ansori with improvisation, the ensemble navigates freely between modern and traditional.  More...
Fri 10/06 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Recombinant Media Labs, TVOD, & STRRR TV present Crisis Data Transfer  More...
Saturday, October 7
Sat 10/07 6:00 PM NOHSpace [2840 Mariposa St. SF]
Coming from Seoul, ensemble PHASE performs a new work from Edward Schocker. Self_Less, a multipart series of musical works, examines our “sense of self” while questioning the uniformity of these perceived feelings.  More...
Sat 10/07 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Recombinant Media Labs, TVOD, & STRRR TV present Crisis Data Transfer  More...
Sat 10/07 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Join us for an evening of jazz with Cecilia Engelhart (vocals), John Schott (guitar), Essiet Essiet (bass) and Scott Amendola (drums).

Tickets/Info  More...
Sunday, October 8
Sun 10/08 8:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Schimscheimer Family Trio

Saxophonist Kasey Knudsen, pianist Michael Coleman and drummer Jon Arkin celebrate their trio's3rd and latest album, "Genogram."  More...
Monday, October 9
Mon 10/09 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Rewards Program

A free form live scoring project.  More...
Wednesday, October 11
Wed 10/11 7:00 PM The Bistro [1001 B St. Hayward, CA]
Lorin Benedict + Jeong Lim Yang & Santiago Leibson  More...
Thursday, October 12
Thu 10/12 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street, SF, CA 94117]
People Skills, Darksmith, Seymour Glass, Relay For Death
Thurs Oct. 12 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!

.::moredetails soon::.

Darksmith
"A total mystery of perfectly paced organization of dirt sound...not harsh...not mellow...just dirty, weird, and confusing...and to quote the sleevenotes of the first few Queen LPs....'No Synthesizers!'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFXm4-dvkz0

People Skills
Untrained experiments in improvised sound collage by Jesse S. Dewlow who started out using only found, free materials to assemble simple songs, slow pop formulas that caricature listenable music.
https://peopleskills.bandcamp.com/

Seymour Glass
Known libertine (Glands of External Secretion, Bren't Lewiis Ensemble), creator of Bananafish magazine and Tedium House.
https://bluespectrumtapes.bandcamp.com/album/black-confetti

Relay For Death
Post-industrial project of sisters Rachal Spikula and Roxann Spikula, a metaphysical vision rather than stylistic approach.
https://helenscarsdale.bandcamp.com/album/natural-incapactity  More...
Friday, October 13
Fri 10/13 7:30 PM Presidio Theatre [99 Moraga Ave San Francisco]
Del Sol String Quartet: The Resonance Between premiere concerts  More...
Sunday, October 15
Sun 10/15 12:00 PM War Memorial Veterans Building [401 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco]
SF Music Day 2023

Celebrate Bay Area music in all its diversity at SF Music Day, the Bay Area’s free, annual music festival in downtown San Francisco, presented by InterMusic SF.  More...
Sun 10/15 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Monica Chew – Best Friends  More...
Tuesday, October 17
Tue 10/17 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
The Scriveners: Myles Boisen (guitar), Tim Rowe (drums), Safa Shokrai (bass)
Nathan Clevenger (guitar, piano?) trio with Cory Wright (sax) & Jordan Glenn (drums)  More...
Friday, October 20
Fri 10/20 7:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
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Rohan Krishnamurthy - solo Carnatic percussion and 4 course vegan menu  More...
Saturday, October 21
Sat 10/21 8:00 PM Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium [1313 Newell Road Palo Alto]
Earthwise presents: Todd Sickafoose's BEAR PROOF  More...
Sunday, October 22
Sun 10/22 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Cornelius Boots and The Wood Prophets  More...
Monday, October 23
Mon 10/23 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Rewards Program

A free form live scoring project.  More...
Friday, October 27
Fri 10/27 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
loscil / Lawrence English  More...
Sunday, October 29
Sun 10/29 2:00 PM Vesuvio [255 Columbus Ave San Francisco]
Jazz in Kerouac Alley - David Boyce's Dark Metals  More...
Sun 10/29 3:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
Small Art Music Projects: The Crushing Spiral Ensemble

Steve Adams, Cory Wright, Beth Schenck, Erika Oba, Motoko Honda, Chris Grady, Henry Hung, Michael Pinkham, and Jon Arkin  More...
Thursday, November 2
Thu 11/02 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Oceans Roar 1000 Drums
(Todd Capp - drums
Bryan Eubanks - saxophone, electronics
and a special guest on synth)  More...
Saturday, November 4
Sat 11/04 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream  
Noertker's Moxie • CD release for in flitters (49 bits from B*eck*tt) • Annelise Zamula - woodwinds; Brett Carson - piano; Eli Knowles - drum set; Bill Noertker - contrabass, compositions  More...
Sunday, November 5
Sun 11/05 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...
Thursday, November 9
Thu 11/09 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Mills After Mills: Three Days of Crazy Love  More...