Mon 10/02 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
James Ilgenfritz (cb) with Ben Goldberg (cl)
&
Sult (Jacob Felix Heule + Norwegians Guro Moe and Håvard Skaset) (gtr, cb, perc)  More...

Thu 10/05 7:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream  
CCRMA Transitions | Concert 1

CCRMA celebrates the start of the 2023 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 10/05 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
MSHR: Mesh Manifold (a new body of work by audiovisual collective)  More...

Thu 10/05 11:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
ILLUSION OF SAFETY / Thomas Dimuzio duo at Recombinant Festival (5-6-7 oct)  More...

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 7:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream  
CCRMA Transitions | Concert 2

CCRMA celebrates the start of the 2023 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...

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...

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 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
THREE COMPOSERS, NEW MUSIC  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...

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...

Mon 10/09 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Rewards Program

A free form live scoring project.  More...

Wed 10/11 7:00 PM The Bistro [1001 B St. Hayward, CA]
Lorin Benedict + Jeong Lim Yang & Santiago Leibson  More...

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...

Fri 10/13 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and Friends with Parag Chorida on sarod and Sameer Gupta on tabla.  More...

Fri 10/13 7:30 PM Presidio Theatre [99 Moraga Ave San Francisco]
Del Sol String Quartet: The Resonance Between premiere concerts  More...

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...

Sun 10/15 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
DOROTHEA SCHÜRCH presents a solo for colored breath inspired by the voices of the Ultra-Lettrist. Schürch is internationally active as a singer and performer. She has worked interdisciplinary in the fields of improvisation, music, theater, and performance for 40 years.

GACHAPON (Nancy Beckman, CINDY WEBSTER, Tom Bickley, and Dean Santomieri) improvises with dancer CHRISTINA BRAUN.  More...

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...

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...

Fri 10/20 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and Friends  More...

Sat 10/21 8:00 PM Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium [1313 Newell Road Palo Alto]
Earthwise presents: Todd Sickafoose's BEAR PROOF  More...

Sun 10/22 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Cornelius Boots and The Wood Prophets  More...

Sun 10/22 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
CHRIS JONAS: MUSIC FROM THE DESERTS
(with Cory Wright, Lisa Mezzacappa, & JASON LEVIS)
HEADBOGGLE
HALLIE SMITH  More...

Mon 10/23 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Rewards Program

A free form live scoring project.  More...

Fri 10/27 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and Friends  More...

Fri 10/27 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
loscil / Lawrence English  More...

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...

Sun 10/29 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
OCEANS ROAR 1000 DRUMS
MATTHEW GOODHEART  More...

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...

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...

Sat 11/04 8:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Saxophonist, composer, poet and playwright brings his group "Music at Large" to Spruce Street Concerts, a home venue in the Berkeley Hills overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Combining music & poetry, the quintet is comprised of Lewis Jordan (reeds and poetry), Bruce Ackley (reeds), Sandi Poindexter ()violin), Ollen Erich Hunt (bass) and Jimmy Biala (drums and percussion.) Seating for this house concert is limited.  More...

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...

Thu 11/09 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Mills After Mills: Three Days of Crazy Love  More...

Fri 11/10 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Matthew Bengtson  More...

Sat 11/11 12:01 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
November Godwaffle Noise Pancakes returns with ear carousel campaigns into transforming a regular Saturday mornin' with animated audios.
-Anti Matter
-Tom Djll
-Zachary James Watkins
-Famous Techno
-Cut (from N CA.)
20+ years and still going-best in experimental speedboat rides through the river Styx. Free gourmet vegan pancakes with admission!!!!  More...

Sun 11/12 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Trevor Watts (sax) and Jamie Harris (perc)  More...

Mon 11/13 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Rewards Program

A free form live scoring project.  More...

Wed 11/15 7:00 PM Taube Atrium Theater [Veterans Building 4th floor 401 Van Ness Ave SF]
Composers from five countries will convene for the 27th Other Minds Festival, an international annual showcase for composers held this year at San Francisco’s Taube Atrium Theater November 15-18, 2023 and at Gray Area on November 19, 2023.  More...

Thu 11/16 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Laurel Halo + Joel St. Julien  More...