Friday, May 29
Fri 5/29 6:00 PM COVEN [543 Howard, San Francisco, in the basement]Trio improvisation for electronics, percussion, and koto by Jorge Bachmann,
Kevin Corcoran, and Shinobu Eto with lighting by Rico Duenas and projection by Bogdan Pastor. Event organized by Mushi Wooseong James and Natasha Noel from the Djerassi Artist Residency program.
More... Fri 5/29 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell
SF]Click to make donation The Glance: A Laptopera is an immersive opera that reimagines the Orpheus myth for laptop orchestra and live voices. In this contemporary retelling, lovers Orphea and Eurydice struggle to build intimacy in a world shaped by constant surveillance, confronting their own limitations around trust and connection. Using motion-tracking, looping systems, and architectural sound instruments, performers physically shape the music in real time—blending voice, technology, and movement. The result is a multisensory performance where sound, body, and story intertwine, inviting audiences into a powerful exploration of surveillance, control, care, and the fragile nature of trust in our technological age.
More... Saturday, May 30
Sat 5/30 3:00 PM Slash [1150 25th St, San Francisco]MOVEMENTS FOR MOVEMENT IN THE EVENT OF BEING MOVED:
This event, conceptualized by Yiming Clara, churns every exhalation within the space of the gallery (spilling out just a little) into performance, drawing out the latent choreographies that organize social spaces in the slippage between gesture and everyday movement. Structured in four symphonic movements, this dispersed orchestra features Clara and four collaborators (Gianna Caudillo, Denise Heredia, Cammie Lee, and Jiang Nanyi), who gather a concurrence of discrete performances, from dance, music, and ekphrasis to cutting a wall and serving tea. MOVEMENTS FOR MOVEMENT IN THE EVENT OF BEING MOVED is organized on the occasion of Clara’s /room/ installation 似曾相识 | Dance, in Theater with Window.
More... Sat 5/30 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell
SF]Click to make donation The Glance: A Laptopera is an immersive opera that reimagines the Orpheus myth for laptop orchestra and live voices. In this contemporary retelling, lovers Orphea and Eurydice struggle to build intimacy in a world shaped by constant surveillance, confronting their own limitations around trust and connection. Using motion-tracking, looping systems, and architectural sound instruments, performers physically shape the music in real time—blending voice, technology, and movement. The result is a multisensory performance where sound, body, and story intertwine, inviting audiences into a powerful exploration of surveillance, control, care, and the fragile nature of trust in our technological age.
More... Sunday, May 31
Sun 5/31 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Come on by for an evening of lovely groovy melodic sideways. Pre-experientialism that aims for the heart & arrives through the ears. A snowy pasture on a sunny day. Tim Bulkley on drums, Dillon Vado on Vibraphone,
Ben Goldberg on clarinet.
More... Sun 5/31 2:00 PM RootStock Arts Center [5741 Telegraph Ave
Oakland]Centennial Saint John Coltrane Church Celebration
More... Sun 5/31 4:00 PM Forte House [1498 24th St./cross street Kirkham
San Francisco, CA 94122]"In a Variety Garden" pre-modern music for post-modern ears and vice versa: Three Trapped Tigers Recorder Duo (
Tom Bickley and David Barnett) perform music from Alvin Curran, Sören Sieg,
Tom Bickley, the Faenza Codex, John Baldwyne, and Bohuslav Marinů
More... Sun 5/31 4:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell
SF]Click to make donation The Glance: A Laptopera is an immersive opera that reimagines the Orpheus myth for laptop orchestra and live voices. In this contemporary retelling, lovers Orphea and Eurydice struggle to build intimacy in a world shaped by constant surveillance, confronting their own limitations around trust and connection. Using motion-tracking, looping systems, and architectural sound instruments, performers physically shape the music in real time—blending voice, technology, and movement. The result is a multisensory performance where sound, body, and story intertwine, inviting audiences into a powerful exploration of surveillance, control, care, and the fragile nature of trust in our technological age.
More... Sun 5/31 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street
Dresher Ensemble Studio
Oakland]sfSoundGroup performs:
Erik Satie - CINEMA (1926) with René Clair’s silent Dada short film, Entr’acte (1924)
Larry Polansky - The World’s Longest Melody (1993)
Larry Polansky - Approaching the Azimuth... (1998)
Larry Polansky - freeHorn (2004)
Tom Dambly - La trompette concrète 2 (2026)
Matt Ingalls - Fences (2001/2026)
More... Saturday, June 6
Sat 6/06 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Join us to celebrate Pauline Oliveros’ 94th birthday with the Cornelius Cardew Choir, which has been performing her music and Deep Listening scores for over 25 years.
During the evening, we will perform several of Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening scores and explore how new technologies might become part of a Deep Listening experience.
More... Sunday, June 7
Sun 6/07 2:00 PM Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium [1313 Newell Road
Palo Alto]Earthwise welcomes Le Boeuf jazz group
Originally from Santa Cruz, California, identical twin brothers Remy Le Boeuf & Pascal Le Boeuf—saxophone & piano respectively—moved to New York in 2004 where they established their prominent musical voices as jazz performers and composers and founded Le Boeuf Brothers. They have won GRAMMYs (Pascal in 2025, Remy in 2026) for their innovative compositional projects, which span as broadly stylistically as they do collaboratively.
Their latest project, HUSH (2023), crafts an atmosphere of intimacy and solace with its innovative compositions and experimental recording techniques.
More... Sun 6/07 2:00 PM Red Men's Hall [431 Georgia St Vallejo CA 94590]Streaming and in-personClick to make donation In this concert, Ting will play her original piano music — blending neoclassical, folk-inspired lyricism, and post-minimalist sensibilities with cinematic textures and evocative soundscapes, creating emotionally resonant spaces for healing and deep reflection.
More... Sun 6/07 5:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]Cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and percussionist
William Winant in a free improvisation performance of unscripted dialog in this house concert in the Berkeley Hills.
More... Sun 6/07 7:00 PM The Dome Center for Art, Music and Dance [951 62nd Street, Oakland CA 94608]"Bach to the Future" features Mixus Mundi (Latin for “blended world”), a group combining a variety of acoustic and electric instruments performing in the free conduction/free jazz/contemporary musical traditions.
Mixus Mundi stretches the boundaries between jazz, early music, world music and improvisation. Our program in conjunction with the 2026 Berkeley Early Music Festival is an experimental musical adventure encompassing the music of the Middle Ages, Baroque and current times, incorporating music by Machaut, Bach, Zorn and trad Egyptian.
More... Sun 6/07 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street
Dresher Ensemble Studio
Oakland]Rova Saxophone Quartet presents two sets of original compositions: First, commissioned works and recent Rova compositions for the quartet, including Music for Mouths by MIYA MASAOKA, The Knot Gallery by JOHN BUTCHER, I, Norton by
Gino Robair and pieces by quartet members. In the second half, Rova joins by
Karen Stackpole (Gongwoman) for a set of Rova works adapted for saxophone quartet plus gongs and percussion. First streamed live in March of 2022, the works are presented to a live audience for the first time.
More... Sun 6/07 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.
More... Sun 6/07 8:00 PM Ugra Deva Loka [1035 22nd Ave, Unit 14
Oakland, CA]Shin Chida (Japan), Scot Jenerik (Portland), Mike Meanstreetz (LA) & Matt Robidoux, Douglas Katelus, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase
More... Tuesday, June 9
Tue 6/09 7:00 PM RootStock Arts Center [5741 Telegraph Ave
Oakland]The Supplicants - R Howell, D Boyce, S Gupta & D Ewell
Prepare for an unforgettable night as The Supplicants descend upon the Rootstock Arts Center June 9th. This formidable quartet—comprised of visionary saxophonists Richard Howell and David Boyce, alongside the rhythmic mastery of Sameer Gupta and David Ewell—represents the vanguard of the Bay Area’s improvisational and jazz scene.
More... Tue 6/09 7:30 PM Herbst Theatre [401 Van Ness Ave
SF]San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: ARTZenter Institute Emerging Composer Program III
SF Contemporary Music Players continues its partnership with ARTZenter Institute's Emerging Composer Grant Program, presenting world premiere performances of 4 new compositions for chamber orchestra at Herbst Theatre.
More... Thursday, June 11
Thu 6/11 7:00 PM Mr Tipple's [39 Fell St
SF]OFFSITE: Peter Horvath Group + Jazzschool Advanced High School Jazz Workshop
7pm – The Jazzschool Advanced High School Jazz Workshop
8:45pm – Peter Horvath Group
More... Thu 6/11 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street]Bob Ostertag
A criminally-rare live set from San Francisco's very own brigand of sound captured by handmade and virtual synths, samplers and a multivalent mind.
https://bobostertag.bandcamp.com/music
Antimatter &
Jacob Felix HeuleHeule performs a sonic anti-aliasing in real time through micro percussion and electronics whereas Antimatter summons sound from way down the block, a seeming far off source captured through a minimal materialism revealing flow variances all the way to the PG&E substation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sM3N8E2VwY
Philip PerkinsWith an ear as broad as it is precisely focused, he coined the term "environmental observations" and became widely sought for ballet, opera, film, music engineering, recording outside the studio, editing, and mastering work. Yet chances to hear his most personal solo work performed live have been exceedingly rare.
http://www.philper.com/
Anti-Ear
Anti-Ear is right this very minute corkscrewing toward our Peacocked chickencoup for a hard deck-landing. Tonight, our species having flown one more coup-d'etat must hatch again liplessly from the dark downy bosom of his synth, if ever we hope to hear beyond life's flappings.
http://www.stin-g.com/anti-ear.htm | https://youtube.com/watch?v=dTZMHDCISS8
More... Saturday, June 13
Sat 6/13 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Gourmet vegan pancakes served with entrance fee, featuring:
EKG (Karel/Bruckmann)
Thom Blum
Eric Glick Reiman
Midmight
Aaron Oppenheim
2hrs no fuss, 26 yrs of experimental community.
More... Sat 6/13 7:30 PM First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo [72 Kensington Road
San Anselmo CA 94960]Echo Chamber Orchestra will premiere a work inspired by nature, Brian S. Wilson's, "A Modal Menagerie - 7 Animals from 7 Continents in 7 Modes." Also von Weber's brilliant first clarinet concerto (Kyle Beard soloist); and Beethoven's Sixth "Pastoral" Symphony. Wine and cheese reception follows. Admission $30. Designated accessible parking is available. The sanctuary, Fireside room and restrooms are all wheelchair accessible. Tickets are available online and at the door after 7:00 PM.
More... Thursday, June 18
Thu 6/18 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St
Oakland]Secret Sidewalk
Founded in 2010, Secret Sidewalk is comprised of Bay Area natives from a variety of musical backgrounds, yielding a distinctive sound that echoes Bay Area hip-hop, jazz, and psychedelic undertones. The group features unorthodox instrumentation: saxophone, turntables, synthesizers, and drums, all modulated live with effects to create a sound that is both lush and gritty.
More... Thursday, June 25
Thu 6/25 7:30 PM Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College at Northeastern University, Oakland [Richards Rd, Oakland, CA]Click to make donation David Tudor is, perhaps, most famously known as part and principal interpreter of the New York School—John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff. This two-day concert celebrates Tudor's 100th Birthday as well as Composers Inside Electronics 50th Anniversary. Reformed in 1996 for Tudor’s memorial service, current members of Composers Inside Electronics include John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, Tom Hamilton, Matt Rogalsky, and Doug Van Nort.
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