Wed 12/11 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Ben Goldberg • Todd Sickafoose • Scott Amendola  More...

Wed 12/11 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Josh Allen plays solo, Ed Lloyd/Eli McDonald Duo
Evidence Trio will present their sonic explorations of the unknown, with Kersti Abrams on sax & flutes, Andrew Joron on theremin, and Michael Wilcox on electric bass.  More...

Thu 12/12 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street]
Matt Ingalls, Adult Math, Foot SOS, Korber/Diaz
Thur Dec. 12 8pm-11pm Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF
All-ages, $5-$15 no one turned away for lack of funds.

Matt Ingalls
When this virtuoso of reeds and circuits lights the fuse, improvisations brighten then burn with direction like spontaneous composition. Minds are about to be blown.
http://sfsound.org/matt.html

Adult Math
The bell! It's final exams. If Stegall's infamous music history with Mono Pauseis any clue... we've all been had.
https://adultmath.bandcamp.com/

Foot SOS
The trio of Theresa Currie, Dianne Lynn and Angela Roberts weaves our destiny from inside the heart of the Peacock Lounge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvHRGACsU7A

Korber/Diaz
A dangerous percussion duo drifts into an out-of-drums lucid dream. Floating on a miasma of prepared guitar, tenor sax, and electronics Jay Korber and John Diaz watch their own corpses pounding the drums below.
https://johndiaz.bandcamp.com/album/january-7-2024  More...

Fri 12/13 7:00 PM First United Methodiest Church [625 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA]
Come experience hope and light at PWC's Winter 2024 Concert "𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞," featuring international holiday songs celebrating Kwanzaa, Christmas, and Noche Buena, interwoven with themes of light, faith, and survival. Join us in cultivating hope through works that connect us to traditions, practices, histories, and wisdom, revealing the ever-present possibilities around us!  More...

Fri 12/13 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound with The Lost Shapes  More...

Fri 12/13 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
ML Buch

Join us for an immersive journey into the sonic world of Danish composer and producer ML Buch as she performs music from Suntub.  More...

Sat 12/14 2:00 PM Mission Santa Clara [500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA]
Come experience hope and light at PWC's Winter 2024 Concert "𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞," featuring international holiday songs celebrating Kwanzaa, Christmas, and Noche Buena, interwoven with themes of light, faith, and survival. Join us in cultivating hope through works that connect us to traditions, practices, histories, and wisdom, revealing the ever-present possibilities around us!  More...

Sat 12/14 7:00 PM Community of Christ Church / Grateful Gardens [900 Meridian Ave, San Jose, CA 95126]
South Bay Sonic Circuits is a meetup for enthusiast of electronic music with all kinds of instruments and styles. From guitars, keyboards, alternative controllers, laptops, synths to modular setups between live looping, sequenced phrases or totally improvised.  More...

Sat 12/14 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
MURMUR GARDEN: Ben Goldberg - Myra Melford - Ben Davis - Jordan Glenn  More...

Sat 12/14 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Welcome to the next installment in our hugely popular concert series, The Opus Project - Opus 6!

This concert will feature music by Minsky, Telemann, Lorenz, Severson, and local Bay Area, living composer Harry Bernstein. Returning BAAA favorites include Marielle Lieboff, soprano, and Armando Atanda, violist. Joining us for the first time are Bonhwi Kim, pianist, Bibiana Lee, flutist, Jana Justus, mezzo-soprano, and local superstar soprano, Amy Foote.

This event also features our annual holiday auction! Join us to bid on beautiful works of art, gifts cards and services, and support your favorite local arts organization.  More...

Sun 12/15 5:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat performs in the intimacy of a house concert in the Berkeley hills, accompanied by Setar master Atabak Elyasi. As described by Mahsa Vahdat, "I invite you to journey with me through song and image into a world where butterflies I’ve drawn and shaped take flight. They carry stories of longing, sorrow, hope, joy, and resistance. Their wings are my songs." .The performance will take place against the backdrop of a series of abstract butterflies she began painting during the pandemic, projected onto a large screen. The songs will be based on classic poetry of Hafez and Rumi.  More...

Sun 12/15 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Ric Louchard w/Jordan Glenn, Joshua Marshall, Lisa Mezzacappa  More...

Sun 12/15 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Carmen Quill, solo bass

Brenner/Goldberg Meditations
Nate Brenner, electric bass
Ben Goldberg, clarinet

Tom's Place is happy to play host to Nate Brenner and Ben Goldberg's Meditations project, and a solo performance by New York-based bassist Carmen Quill.

Since April 2023, Nate and Ben have gathered nearly every week to record duets. Ben says "The music has encompassed us in its power to enlighten, guide, and heal. So we named the project Brenner/Goldberg Meditations. There are many volumes in the archive and like Bob Dylan said 'shall be released.'"

Carmen Quill is a double bassist, composer, singer and interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY.  More...

Tue 12/17 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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Tuesday, December 17, 6pm doors/7pm show

7pm Dymaxion
(Bruce Ackley, soprano sax and clarinet, Pete Schmitt, bass, Dave Brandt, percussion)

7:45pm Lenny Gonzalez

8:30pm Key West
(Brian Pedersen-sax, Jay Korber-drums, Randylee Sutherland-cello)  More...

Fri 12/20 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound with Amplifier  More...

Sat 12/21 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Christopher Robin Duncan: Seasons + Danishta Rivero  More...

Fri 12/27 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound with David Boyce  More...

Fri 12/27 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Fred Frith (guitar) with a special guest in cello  More...

Sun 1/05 2:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Sarah Cahill

Celebrating the composer James Cleghorn  More...

Sun 1/05 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

Monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center. Bring your instrument or come to listen. Movement and other disciplines encouraged. No advance notice needed — just show up.

Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. Set up before 8:00 and be as ready to play as possible. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm.  More...

Wed 1/08 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
VENDETTA RETREAT Ensemble
(Last concert at the Luggage Store Gallery)
In 2006, Jon Brumit‘s ensemble realized his Vendetta Retreat score (and celebrated its release on Edgetone Records) at the Luggage Store Gallery. Collective memory of it was that it cleared not only the club but the block. This review confirms aspects of that recollection. It’s time to realize the score once more with creative and non-violent alternatives to revengeful feeling.
Expect a double duo of drums (Jacob Felix Heule, Suki O'Kane) and guitars (Melne Murphy, Jas Stade), with electronicist Adria Otte.  More...

Sat 1/11 11:00 AM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
CAVE EVIL Gaming ALL DAY.
11 AM to 7 PM
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8PM - ? Live Show

Bran...POS
Psyberdrum (CO)
Harjo Alone & Colt Thrower
Gargoyle Madrigal
Spider Math Eviscerating Crepe Commodes

$10 Day, $10 Night//$17 All day/night pass

BRING YOUR OWN FOOD, DRINKS  More...

Fri 1/17 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Samantha Cho  More...

Sat 1/18 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Gwaffle at 25 yrs, the longest running California sound series next to the Kilauea volcano competitor who remains without any acts in hermetic isolation of late.

Ma++ Ingalls-------------------------------
Lx Rudis---------------------------------
Daniel Blomquist-----------------------------------
Cruel Work-------------------------------
The American Flag---------------------


GOURMET PANCAKES WITH ENTRANCE FEE  More...

Tue 1/21 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Mary Ocher + Flung  More...