Fri 1/16 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Raffi Garabedian solo  More...

Fri 1/16 7:00 PM Black Cat Jazz Supper Club [400 Eddy St San Francisco, CA 94109]
Whether fronting her own quartet or collaborating with some of the music’s most revered artists, Sarah Hanahan plays with passion, precision, and an unwavering commitment to the ever- evolving art of jazz.  More...

Fri 1/16 7:30 PM Stookey’s Blue Room [891 Bush St, San Francisco]
Sam Trapchak Trio featuring Adam Shulman and Darren Johnston  More...

Fri 1/16 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Will Bernard, Jonathon Maron, Scott Amendola Trio @ The Back Room!  More...

Sat 1/17 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
High end experimental sounds with gourmet vegan pancakes.

Amphibious Gestures------------------Leyya Mona Tawil----------Rot Diet---------------Adult Math----------Kink Disposal Unit (OR)  More...

Sat 1/17 2:00 PM Downhome Music [10341 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito, CA]
Downhome Music Series
Rent Romus, Heiki Koskinen Otherworld Ensemble presents Soul Bird  More...

Sat 1/17 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Symbiosis Quartet  More...

Sat 1/17 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Kara-Lis Coverdale + Theresa Wong  More...

Sun 1/18 6:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
A Benefit Show for the Middle East Children's Alliance.

What happens when we invite the space between bodies to participate as collaborator? Join us for a night of ambient and experimental noise featuring hard electronics, handmade instruments, and an electro-acoustic feedback séance to benefit the Middle East Children’s Alliance.  More...

Sun 1/18 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th Street Oakland, CA 94607]
An evening of sonic textures, projected imagery, and perhaps a tardigrade, featuring Thomas Carnacki, Petra Zélie and S. Glass—three sets for the price of one evening—each performance approaching the notion of "experimental music" from a different practical angle, but unified by a shared sense of immersion, subtlety, and perhaps the uncanny.  More...

Sun 1/18 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Outsound Presents SIMM Series
David Samas' Pet the Tiger / Plonsey Scheme
Mantra Plonsey, songs and stories; Dan Plonsey, sax & clarinet; Cory Wright, sax & clarinet  More...

Sun 1/18 8:00 PM Sweetwater Music Hall [19 Corte Madera Ave Mill Valley, CA 94941]
Scott Amendola Trio w/ Kasey Knudsen & Mat Muntz Double bill w/ The Alex Skolnick Trio!  More...

Mon 1/19 7:30 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St, San Francisco]
Earplay - Concert 1  More...

Tue 1/20 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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6pm doors/7pm show

7pm Trio (Tom Djll - electronics, Karl Evangelista - guitar, Suki O'Kane - percussion)

7:45pm Sean Keenan

8:30pm Quartet (Bruce Ackley - winds, Ben Davis - cello, Darren Johnston - trumpet, David Michalak - lap steel, skatchbox and phantom harp)  More...

Tue 1/20 8:30 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Vocalist, pianist and composer Elihu Knowles along with saxophonist Rent Romus play
Jazz, ambient, and other sultry sounds and songs
Free Admission  More...

Thu 1/22 8:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [272 Capp St SF]
Resident Electronic Music! is a recurring electronic music open mic every fourth Thursday of the month at Noisebridge.

Do you make electronic music you'd like to perform? We want you!! First time performers welcome! Just make sure it's *your* music!

Sets are 20 min or less. Yes, 2 minutes is fine too.

Do you do visuals? We want you!!

The event is free, and donation is suggested!  More...

Fri 1/23 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Wall of Fog.  More...

Sat 1/24 12:00 PM Cybersentics Book Club at Gray Area [2665 Mission St. SF]
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Join us this January at Gray Area's Cybernetics Book Club as we discuss Barbara Brown's "New Mind New Body" (1974), a bestseller that helped popularize biofeedback.  More...

Sat 1/24 2:00 PM Gilroy Library [350 W 6th St, Gilroy, CA 95020]
Before Your Eyes is a participatory multimedia performance created and performed by harpist and composer Renée Qin, with artists from Sound Palette.  More...

Sat 1/24 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Fred Frith + Phipps Pt  More...

Wed 1/28 7:00 PM Black Cat Jazz Supper Club [400 Eddy St San Francisco, CA 94109]
Join us for the live performance of Lorin Benedict 4tet at Black Cat Jazz Supper Club  More...

Wed 1/28 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Amendola/Frith/Dimuzio/Goldberg/Ochs aka Strolling Gnomes
performing two sets for an intimate evening at Ivy Room  More...

Thu 1/29 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
Philip Gelb Residency — Day 1

Solo Shakuhachi & Buchla

Philip Gelb’s first solo shakuhachi performance in the Bay Area in over a decade, blending traditional and modern works with Buchla modular synthesizer.  More...

Fri 1/30 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound: Karl Evangelista Plays Sonny Sharrock’s “Guitar,” Brown/Kumaran/Katz

Karl Evangelista - guitar
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Trio: Ari Brown - trumpet, Elango Kumaran - voice, David Israel Katz - voice

Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hosted by Boohaabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of sonic sustenance.

This month: fiery Filipino-American guitarist Karl Evangelista performs the entirety of Sonny Sharrock’s “Guitar” album - solo, as intended. The trio of Ari Brown, Elango Kumaran, and David Israel Katz joins.  More...

Fri 1/30 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall [327 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA 94305]
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CCRMA at Bing: The Silence of the Amps | Concert 1

Young CCRMA trainee Cadence Starbing seeks help from the brilliant, sonically deranged Dr. Audible Lecturer to catch another serial sampler, "Buffer Bill," who strips his audio sources for a patch. Dr. Lecturer agrees to help only if Starbing shares personal details about her traumatic sonic past, creating a dark, psychoacoustic bond as she races against time to find Bill and save his latest multichannel audio capture—the composer's piece—all while confronting her own inner feedback loops and Lecturer's dangerous modulations.  More...

Fri 1/30 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [Oakland]
Philip Gelb Residency — Day 2

Kra Pao

An improvisational ensemble exploring the dynamic interplay between modular synthesis and acoustic instruments, featuring an all-star lineup of creative musicians.  More...

Sat 1/31 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [Oakland]
Philip Gelb Residency — Day 3

Pauline Oliveros Tribute

An all-star cast of Bay Area musicians honors the visionary composer and Deep Listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros.  More...

Sat 1/31 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall [327 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA 94305]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream  
CCRMA at Bing: The Silence of the Amps | Concert 2

Young CCRMA trainee Cadence Starbing seeks help from the brilliant, sonically deranged Dr. Audible Lecturer to catch another serial sampler, "Buffer Bill," who strips his audio sources for a patch. Dr. Lecturer agrees to help only if Starbing shares personal details about her traumatic sonic past, creating a dark, psychoacoustic bond as she races against time to find Bill and save his latest multichannel audio capture—the composer's piece—all while confronting her own inner feedback loops and Lecturer's dangerous modulations.  More...

Sat 1/31 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Marguerite Brown + Electric Guitar Ensemble  More...

Thu 2/05 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland]
The Do-Over Music Series at Shapeshifters Cinema

7pm - Marcus Stephens (sax/electronics)

8pm - Ben Goldberg (clarinet), Indigo Street (guitar), Mayya Feygina (bass), Jordan Glenn (drums) with expanded cinema  More...

Fri 2/06 7:00 PM Cupertino Library [10800 Torre Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014]
Before Your Eyes is a participatory multimedia performance created and performed by harpist and composer Renée Qin, with artists from Sound Palette.  More...

Fri 2/06 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
blurness + Sean Keenan with Marc Perez + Shanna Sordahl  More...

Sat 2/07 4:00 PM Building 34 [1024 Nimitz Mare Island Vallejo, CA 94592]
Re:Sound Migration featuring sets by the duo of Joshua Churchill and Konrad Steiner and Ven Voisey. Join us in Building 34 for an afternoon of sound, vision, and space with during the yearly migration of over one million shorebirds and hundreds of thousands of ducks, geese, hawks, and songbirds moving through our San Francisco Bay Area winter. Come early to explore the island sounds and beautiful trails.  More...

Sat 2/07 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
Eco Ensemble
David Milnes, director

UC Berkeley’s acclaimed new-music ensemble in residence does not need to look far to access some of the world’s most compelling and innovative chamber music. The university’s much-admired music department boasts some of contemporary music’s leading lights, as both celebrated faculty and alumni with international careers.  More...

Sun 2/08 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...

Mon 2/09 7:30 PM Barbro Osher Recital Hall [200 Van Ness Ave SF]
Sarah Cahill's faculty recital  More...

Fri 2/13 7:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Splinter Reeds  More...

Fri 2/13 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Matt Sargent and Giacomo Fiore + Chris Pierandozzi Everingham  More...

Sat 2/14 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
High end experimental sounds with gourmet vegan pancakes.

Amphibious Gestures------------------Leyya Mona Tawil----------Rot Diet---------------Adult Math----------Kink Disposal Unit (OR)  More...

Sun 2/15 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The San Francisco Chapter of The National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSAsf) returns to San Francisco’s Center for New Music for an afternoon concert of music written by its members. The program will feature new works for piano, oboe, violin, flute, and electronics by John G. Bilotta, Monica Chew, James W. Cook, Mary Fineman, Robert Fleisher, John F. McGrew, Amy Stephens, Davide Verotta, and Ludmila Yurina.  More...

Sat 2/28 2:00 PM Saratoga Library [13650 Saratoga Avenue Saratoga, CA 95070]
Before Your Eyes is a participatory multimedia performance created and performed by harpist and composer Renée Qin, with artists from Sound Palette.  More...