Thu 7/02 5:30 PM Piedmont Piano Company [1728 San Pablo Ave Oakland]
Amendola vs. Blades with guests Kasey Knudsen & Ryan Schaeffer! Piedmont Piano! 5:30pm!  More...

Thu 7/02 7:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
Join us for Zachary James Watkins and William Winant’s performance that explores resonance through harmonic tunings and percussion that engage in an ongoing musical conversation.  More...

Thu 7/02 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland]
Do-Over Music Series: Bristle and Fowl Figures with expanded cinema  More...

Thu 7/02 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Record Release Party for "In A Soylent Way", the debut album of The World Sinks Except Japan, , with special guests Thomas Carnacki.  More...

Fri 7/03 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound is hosted by Boohaabian multi reed player extraordinaire David Boyce. Tonight's double dose of sonic sustenance is being provided by Bristle, the Northern California based sax-and-strings-fueled chamber jazz quartet of Randy McKean, Cory Wright, Murray Campbell, and Lisa Mezzacappa, and String, Skin & Breath, led by Aaron Kierbel, a global ensemble blending ancient traditions with contemporary expression through spontaneous, deeply collaborative performance.  More...

Fri 7/03 8:30 PM Ugra Deva Loka [1035 22nd Ave. Unit 14 Oakland, CA 94606]
INFRASOUND, Caen, EERIÆRMOR, Thomas Dimuzio Doors at 8:30pm sound at 9PM. $15-20 At Ugra Deva Loka 1035 22nd ave Unit 14 Oakland  More...

Fri 7/03 8:30 PM Ugra Deva Loka [1035 22nd Ave. Unit 14 Oakland, CA 94606]
INFRASOUND, Caen, EERIÆRMOR, Thomas Dimuzio Doors at 8:30pm sound at 9PM. $15-20 At Ugra Deva Loka 1035 22nd ave Unit 14 Oakland  More...

Sun 7/05 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. San Francisco, CA 94131]
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After the End of the World Coretet - reunion  More...

Sun 7/05 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.  More...

Wed 7/08 12:30 PM The Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
FREE! Brown Bag Jazz Hangs: Lewis Jordan — on Archie Shepp

Join us for casual daytime talks and listening sessions with leading lights of the Bay Area jazz community. Bring your own lunch or order ahead from the JazzCaffè. Wednesdays at lunchtime! Free, drop-ins welcome.

Our summer series is presented in collaboration with The Freight.  More...

Wed 7/08 9:00 PM the Knockout [3223 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94110]
Ettrick (Jay Korber & Jacob Felix Heule)
Hair Grease
Daron Key
Solo Organ
DJ Paul Costuros  More...

Thu 7/09 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street]
Euphotic
This is the supertrio of Cheryl Leonard, Tom Djll and Bryan Day euphonizing the Natural, the Physical, and the Imaginary.
https://publiceyesore.bandcamp.com/album/isopleths

Headboggle
Moog, Harmonica, Banjo, Harpsichord, Irish Harp, EMS Synthi, Violin, Drums, Clavinet, Serge Modular, field recordings, and your very own writhing brain. You thought it sounded familiar... find out at last what it's been trying to tell you all these years.
https://soundcloud.com/Headboggle

Sean Keenan
So steady you'd think there was a molten nickel core spinning inside him, Keenan's musical moves feel inexorable. Percussion, bizarre reeds and electronics arise like features of a landscape spilling you off your feet.
https://seankeenan.bandcamp.com/album/delay-music

Wizardmaster
Mark Stramaglia attained wizarddom when first he conjured custom synths and wiggled his claws to weave the invisible algorithms seething within.Visual bewitchery from Oliver Kollar expands the spell by capturing your eyes.
https://wizardmaster.bandcamp.com  More...

Fri 7/10 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimesnions in Sound; Free/Wong/Boyce  More...

Sat 7/11 8:00 PM The Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Raffi Garabedian Quartet

Doors 7pm / Pre-Concert Talk 7:30pm

Raffi Garabedian, tenor saxophone
Dahveed Behroozi, piano
Noah Garabedian, bass
Michael Mitchell, drums  More...

Mon 7/13 7:00 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2201 Poplar St Oakland]
Z Program 70

Come celebrate Pamela Z’s birthday with an evening featuring about 70 minutes of performances by Pamela and several of her close friends, colleagues, and collaborators.  More...

Thu 7/16 7:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
3D/AV Live is Max Cooper's immersive audio-visual performance system. Customized to every venue, with every show a unique experience, Max works together with architecture and space to deliver his unique blend of scientific and human stories that move off the screen to wrap the audience in sculptures of light and sound.

https://grayarea.org/event/max-cooper-feeling-is-structure-3d-av-live-7-16/  More...

Thu 7/16 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Zachary James Watkins & Kyle Bruckmann
Antimatter & Jacob Felix Heule
Ava Koohbor  More...

Fri 7/17 7:00 PM Guitar Wars [447 South First Street San Jose CA 95113]
Christmas in July 2026 Holiday Party with #FREEJAZZHOUSEPARTY featuring Sarah Moon, You, Me, + the Whales Bulbul Tarang Trio, and sander777  More...

Fri 7/17 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound; Red Fast Luck  More...

Sat 7/18 3:00 PM The Sculpture Studio at Project Artaud [401 Alabama Street Studio 123 San Francisco, CA 94110]
Pamela Z at the Artists Salon  More...

Sat 7/18 3:00 PM The Sculpture Studio @ Project Artaud [401 Alabama Street Studio 123 San Francisco]
Pamela Z at the Artists Salon  More...

Sun 7/19 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
THE SKY IS A SUITCASE is a melodic free jazz group from Seattle: MIKE GEBHART, drums; LEVI GILLIS, saxophones; and CARMEN QUILL, bass.
Raffi Garabedian is a tenor saxophonist and composer living in Oakland performs a duo set with Jakob Pek guitarist, composer, and improviser.  More...

Mon 7/20 7:30 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [Richards Rd Oakland, CA 94613]
To celebrate the American semiquincentennial, Other Minds presents federalist era’s Alexander Reinagle (1756–1809), friend of C.P.E. Bach, and George Washington’s favorite composer. Presenting Reinagle’s work on both piano, as well as the more historically appropriate fortepiano, will be Stephen Siek, whose recording of the Philadelphia Sonatas remains the gold standard. Siek will also present commentary on the work as well as a lecture with projections illustrating the life and work of the composer. This concert is sponsored by a generous donation from Gretchen Brosius. This concert is part of our PastForward piano series, presented in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Music, Northeastern University and Mills Performing Arts, and is supported in part by a grant from the Ross McKee Foundation.  More...

Tue 7/21 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
Jazz at the Make-Out Room
Tuesday, July 21, 6pm doors/7pm show

Jazz at the Make-Out Room (formerly the Monday Make-Out) continues! A wily evening of cutting-edge jazz, free improvisation, and creative music.

7pm Ai-Ai (Karl Evangelista - gtr, et al.)

7:45pm Trio (Saki Minamimoto, Lorin Benedict, David Israel Katz - Vocals)

8:15pm Marc Capelle + William Winant
(Marc Capelle - keyboard, William Winant - percussion, Guests)  More...

Fri 7/24 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Broun Fellinis  More...

Sat 7/25 8:00 PM The UC Theatre [2036 University Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704]
Brandee Younger Comes to show New Music in Berkley  More...

Sun 7/26 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
(ff) a new duo formed by SHARKIFACE and AVA KOOHBOR. SHARKIFACE, aka Angela Edwards and sound artist AVA KOOHBOR.
Iranian composer and performer KIMIA KOOCHAKZADEH-YAZDI presents In "Between Spaces," a live electronic set that moves through memories, spaces, and feelings.
Santa Cruz based composer, CHRIS EVERINGHAM presents "Searching," a work that uses a just intonation sound space synthesized in MAX/MSP. The performer “searches” for JI harmonies within the sound space.  More...

Tue 7/28 7:00 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St]
A concert of works performed by the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra penned by four under-30 composers and conducted by emerging conductors, all participating in the Conductors/Composers Workshop. FREE!  More...

Thu 7/30 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
The Super P's - Unpil Baek, Chris Trinidad, Jimmy Biala  More...

Fri 7/31 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimesnions in Sound; Mutant Audio  More...

Fri 7/31 8:00 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060]
Conducted by Cristian Măcelaru

Vivian Fung: America the Beautiful? (Festival Commission & world premiere)

Pedro Emanuel Pereira: Clarinet Concerto (Carlos Ferreira, Clarinet) (Festival Commission & world premiere)

Philip Glass: Symphony No. 15 Lincoln (Zachary James, Baritone) (West Coast premiere)  More...

Fri 7/31 8:00 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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23rd ANNUAL
OUTSOUND NEW MUSIC SUMMIT
Fusion vs Fission
SAM MORRISON'S Cosmic Trip featuring E. DOCTOR SMITH + FARALLON
The Bay Area's New Music Festival
Advance Tickets @Eventbright  More...

Sat 8/01 2:00 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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23rd ANNUAL
OUTSOUND NEW MUSIC SUMMIT
Avant Matinee
GINO ROBAIR'S RADICAL DIVINATION, NORMALWAYS W/FRED FRITH, HOOK & WIRE, SUNG KIM
The Bay Area's New Music Festival
Advance Tickets @Eventbright  More...

Sat 8/01 7:00 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St, Santa Cruz CA, 95060]
Conducted by Cristian Măcelaru

Leilehua Lanzilotti: of light and stone (West Coast premiere)

James Lee III: Shades of Unbroken Dreams (Alexandra Dariescu, Piano) (West Coast premiere)

Sarah Hennies: The Grain House (Festival Creative Lab Commission & world premiere)  More...

Sat 8/01 7:30 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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23rd ANNUAL
OUTSOUND NEW MUSIC SUMMIT
The Art of Rocks II
INNER EAR BRIGADE, MOMMY MOMMY, BRIAN KENNEY FRESNO, GREENSATAN PROJECT
The Bay Area's New Music Festival
Advance Tickets @Eventbright  More...

Sun 8/02 1:00 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St]
Anticipated 2026 Cabrillo Festival free Family Concert!  More...

Sun 8/02 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 8/02 8:00 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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23rd ANNUAL
OUTSOUND NEW MUSIC SUMMIT
Mountains of Sound
VINNY GOLIA'S OCTACONTAGON ORCHESTRA (80 musicians strong) + JOSH ALLEN
The Bay Area's New Music Festival
Advance Tickets @Eventbright  More...

Sat 8/08 2:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
David Boyce - JiTN @ Wyldflowr Arts  More...

Sat 8/08 3:30 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St]
A concert of works performed by the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra penned by four under-30 composers and conducted by emerging conductors, all participating in the Conductors/Composers Workshop. FREE!  More...

Sat 8/08 7:00 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St, Santa Cruz CA, 95060]
Conducted by Cristian Măcelaru

Clarice Assad: Kontrol (Philippe Quint, Violin) (Festival Commission & world premiere)

Jackson A. Waters: Defending Greenwood (West Coast premiere)

Hannah Ishizaki: Spin (West Coast premiere)

Dan Dediu: Concerto for Orchestra (U.S premiere)  More...

Sun 8/09 7:00 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St, Santa Cruz CA, 95060]
Conducted by Cristian Măcelaru

Eunike Tanzil: Ascending Creatures (West Coast premiere)

Lisa Bielawa: Pulse (Tessa Lark, Violin) (West Coast premiere)

Elena Kats-Chernin: Rainbow Promise (U.S. premiere)

Sean Shepherd: Wanderlust (West Coast premiere)  More...