Wednesday, November 5
Wed 11/05 6:30 PM 836M [836 Montgomery St
San Francisco]KRONOS QUARTET CREATIVE LAB #3
For more than 50 years, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has reimagined what the string quartet experience can be, and 836M is proud to be the host for a series of their Creative Labs, the final one for this year to take place on November 5.
More... Wed 11/05 7:00 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2201 Poplar St
Oakland]Queen Bee Records Micro-Fest #3: DAY ONE
Two nights of freewheeling improvised music and creative jazz from some of the scene's most adventurous and exciting ensembles. Celebrating three new recordings out this fall on Berkeley's Queen Bee Records — the 7th, 8th and 9th! — in a series of 12 releases coming this year.
Wednesday Nov 5
*in collaboration with the West Oakland Sound Series*
oakland reductionist orchestra
with special guest sets by
Kristin Miltner (computer)
Roco Córdova (voice, electronics) +
Theresa Wong (cello, voice)
More... Thursday, November 6
Thu 11/06 7:00 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2201 Poplar St
Oakland]Queen Bee Records Micro-Fest #3: Two Days!
Two nights of freewheeling improvised music and creative jazz from some of the scene's most adventurous and exciting ensembles. Celebrating three new recordings out this fall on Berkeley's Queen Bee Records — the 7th, 8th and 9th! — in a series of 12 releases coming this year.
DAY TWO: Thursday Nov 6
Beth Schenck Quintet
Nathan Clevenger Group: Astrolabe
flatways
More... Friday, November 7
Fri 11/07 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St.
SF]The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival begins on Friday, November 7, with Leyya Mona Tawil (also known as Lime Rickey International), who brings her embodied, interdisciplinary approach, creating a musical performance that incorporates sound objects, physical effects, and disappearing words. The artist DULL follows, combining instrumental mastery with live electronics, while balancing lab-coat meticulousness with a punk attitude. Friday night concludes with Angélica Negrón performing live electronics, incorporating her love of drag, comedy, and the natural world into her set.
More... Saturday, November 8
Sat 11/08 6:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]Streaming and in-person:
Click for stream Unlocked Festival 2025The Unlocked Festival returns at a most desperate hour, featuring:
•
Grex (
Karl Evangelista - guitar/voice, Rei Scampavia - keys/voice,
Robert Lopez - drums)
• Wiener Kids Reunion (Beth Schenck/
Cory Wright - saxophones,
Jordan Glenn - drums)
•
Feefawfum• Foreign/Domestic (
Zachary James Watkins - bass/electronics, John Diaz - drums)
• Bleeding Vector (
Lorin Benedict - voice, Eric Vogler - guitar)
The Unlocked Festival (formerly the Lockdown Festival) is an annual event that commemorates the spirit of creativity and resistance that prevailed through the COVID-19 pandemic. This program offers an opportunity for the Bay Area music community to convene, gather strength, and forge ahead. (All proceeds directed to Temescal Art Center and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network).
More... Sat 11/08 8:00 PM Formerland & Scream [5428 San Pablo, Oakland]Night show Brutal Sound FX minifist:
Soiled Doilies (L.A.)
Anti Matter
Cruel Work
Wilderman
More... Sat 11/08 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St.
SF]On Saturday, November 8, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival presents Celia Hollander, who combines acoustic and digital elements to explore music as a natural phenomenon of dynamic systems. "Audiovisual sorceress," Freida Abtan follows, weaving together acousmatic composition with more industrial and pop-influenced experimental anthems. Saturday’s lineup closes with Julien Bayle performing super.system, a live performance uniting sound and image through real-time generative composition that is a living, mutable work where intention meets entropy.
More... Sat 11/08 8:00 PM Eternal Now [2419 San Pablo Avenue Oakland]Julius Smack, Dustin Wong & Psychic Charisma
Sound, vision, bodies in motion. Live and direct at Eternal Now.
More... Sat 11/08 8:00 PM FORMERLAND & Scream [5428 San Pablo
Oakland CA]Night show Brutal Sound FX minifist:
Soiled Doilies (L.A.) (a psycho drama experimental & unforgettable immersive experience with crucifixion contest)
Anti Matter (bay area premiere award winning engineer deconstructs ear/space range & measurements with precise room contour sounds)
Cruel Work (experimental cello electronics processing with heliocentric glee spray)
Wilderman (odd collage feat Ubzub & 3 Day Stubble members)
8-10pm sharp
More... Sunday, November 9
Sun 11/09 7:30 PM Rite Spot Cafe [2099 Folsom St
San Francisco]Rent Romus &
Heikki Koskinen’s Otherworld Ensemble
Soul Bird
A special dinner show featuring the Otherworld Ensemble,
A musical odyssey of mythic birds with special guest Vinny Golia
Doors 7:00 PM, Music 7:30 PM
More... Sun 11/09 7:30 PM York St Collective [1100 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110]Sand Ghost is an instrumental 3-piece that moves from experimental ambient spaces into deep psychedelic grooves. With Cassandra Firmin’s commanding sense of rhythm, Melissa Mohlenhoff’s driving basslines and Nora Free’s enchanting improvisation on saxophone, the trio channel a desert entity that possesses resilience and adaptability in the face of creeping fascism. The trio will present a mix of new original works and familiar classics thrown into exciting new contexts.
Visit https://luma.com/music-ysc for tickets
More... Sun 11/09 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St.
SF]On Sunday, Nov. 9th, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival presents S’hells Gate, a three-piece outfit comprising members Jonathan Carr, Matt Brownell, and Cat Lauigan, who fuse elements of arpeggiated electronics, experimental poetry / processed trance vocals, oscillating hypnotic drones, and industrial dub rhythms. Lauren Sarah Hayes follows, exploring instability, vulnerability, and unpredictability through improvisation with her hybrid analogue-digital live electronics performance system, a form of embodied machine intelligence. With punk/metal roots, DADABOTS close the festival using machine-learning as an extreme way to make sound and eliminate humans from music.
More... Tuesday, November 11
Tue 11/11 7:00 PM Wu Performance Hall [UC Berkeley Campus Morrison Hall, 104]Korean Experimental Music Festival: Program with Traditional Korean Gayageums with
Del Sol String QuartetThe
Del Sol String Quartet with Traditional Musicians from the National Gugak Center in Seoul perform new works from Berkeley and Santa Cruz composers.
This event is free and open to the public.
More... Thursday, November 13
Thu 11/13 7:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center
1050 River St. #119
Santa Cruz]Click to make donation Santa Cruz Electronic Music OM is a series of live electronic music every 4th Thursday of the month in Santa Cruz (an early Thanksgiving session, 13 NOV). From ambient to techno and improv to sequenced using synthesizers, sequencer devices, and other electronic instruments featuring
David Leikam, plus more!?
More... Thu 11/13 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St, Oakland]Classical Revolution
Classical Revolution is a collective of musicians dedicated to performing high-quality chamber music in non-traditional and accessible settings. Founded in 2006 at the Revolution Cafe in San Francisco, the movement's mission is to dismantle the barriers often associated with classical music, bringing it "to the people" in cafes, bars, and other community spaces.
More... Thu 11/13 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [738 Haight St]Yama Uba, Vio (IDHAZ + Emily Bouton + Christopher Moore), Camera Oscura (Loachfillet), Nerfbau (solo)
November 13, 8pm-11pm Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF
All-ages, $5-$15 notaflof
.::more details soon::.
More... Sunday, November 16
Sun 11/16 4:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]The Vex Collection, a remarkable trio employing non-western instruments to startling & intensely beautiful effect, perform in the intimacy of a house concert. The eatures Mat Muntz (Croatian/Bulgarian bagpipes, bass and electronics); gamin (the Korean woodwinds piri, taepyeongso, saenghwang); and Vicente Atria (drums and electronics).
The Vex Collection uses unheard-of combinations of traditional instruments, newly devised musical contraptions, and a philosophy of mad-scientific experimentation in their pursuit of ancient and futuristic sounds. The Vex Collection grew from Mat and Vicente’s shared fascination with the double reed, an ancient musical technology developed by virtually every culture on Earth in order to produce loud, brilliant, and beautifully intense sounds. On their self-titled debut, the striking presences of traditional instruments from Scotland, Korea, and the Balkans are not softened or altered so as to better blend with one another; they are allowed to clash thunderously in one moment and synthesize miraculously in the next, imagining some forgotten past where these sounds could have emerged as part of an organic folk tradition.
More... Sun 11/16 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street
Dresher Ensemble Studio
Oakland]The Rainwater-Shim Duo (pianist
Anne Rainwater and flutist MEERENAI SHIM) performs duos and solos, including Pencilled Wings for flute, piano, and electronic playback by Emma O'Halloran, Caroline Ansink's Greener Grass and Elliott Carter's 90+ for piano, and Miniatures Book 4: Preset Etudes for flute and electronics by Brent Miller.
THOMAS CARNACKI, in the performance arena, has numbered as many as seven individuals, and as few as zero. Primary aesthetic concerns tend to revolve around uneasy textures, nuance, organicity, and peculiarity. Repeat offenders down the years have included the late Jim Kaiser, Gregory Hagan, Jesse Burson, and Sheila Bosco; this evening's incarnation consists of
Cheryl E. Leonard and GREGORY SCHARPEN alongside AGNES SZELAG. Carnacki music has accompanied dance pieces, films, plays, and outdoor installation spectacles across the continent and internationally. The most recent recorded documents to have been released into the world are the sibling albums Cadavre Isolé and Rencontre Fortuite, both derived from a formal exercise of inspired happenstance in the middle of lockdown.
More... Sun 11/16 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Félicia Atkinson + Jon Porras
In a mid-renovation performance within The Lab’s cavernous space, before permanence sets in, we invite you to experience work by Félicia Atkinson and Jon Porras.
More... Wednesday, November 19
Wed 11/19 7:00 PM Birdhouse Gallery [2548 Judah, San Francisco, CA]Program — "A Sonic Response to the Exhibition”
Eagle Friend Radio [Lenny Gonzalez solo]
November 19, 2025, 7:00PM
Birdhouse Gallery, 2548 Judah, San Francisco, CA
Live experimental music performance at Birdhouse Gallery by Eagle Friend Radio [Lenny Gonzalez solo], composed in response to Catherine Lipsetz Dauer’s exhibition on view, “the things we hold, the things we carry”.
More... Thursday, November 20
Thu 11/20 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St, Oakland]Echo's Bones
Echo’s Bones is an improvising woodwind trio based in the San Francisco Bay Area. They have been improvising together for 7 years, making music that has been described as: “Avant pastoralism in a chamber music mode” (Eric Whittington - bon vivant; proprietor, Bird & Beckett); and “Mesmerizing serpentine yeti music” (Dave Mihaly - drummer, composer, leader of Shimmering Leaves). They have performed at Medicine For Nightmares, Mosswood Sound Series, SIMM Series, Bird & Beckett, Tom’s Place and San Francisco Public Libraries. A recording of their Mosswood show is on the SF Public Libraries Bay Beats website.
More... Saturday, December 13
Sat 12/13 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S
25 years of sculpting soundscapes that dissolve the boundaries of auditory perception – a gourmet banquet for the the discerning laquered ear.
More... Sat 12/13 1:00 PM Mission Santa Clara [500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA]Come trace the arc of transcendence, where ancient echoes entwine with contemporary voices in a rich tapestry of the timeless and the sublime with the Peninsula Women's Chorus!
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