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05/03/2026 - 06/17/2026

Sunday, May 3
Sun 5/03 1:00 PM Kilowatt Bar [3160 16th St (@ ALBION) SF]
flatways (Sudhu Tewari, Jordan Glenn & Matt Robidoux)  More...
Sun 5/03 3:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days

Produced and Performed by InkBoat
Presented by San Francisco International Arts Festival

Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days, breathes in the spaces of time between human incarnations. Broken yet boundless bodies enter the waiting room of the afterlife. As they re-enact their corporeal memories, consciousness folds in upon itself. 496 moons rise and fall. The band plays “Hazy Shade of Winter.”  More...
Sun 5/03 5:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Ben Goldberg (clarinet) and Scott Amendola (percussion) share an improvisational language and musical intimacy borne of a years-long collaboration. Artistically, they are as attuned to each other as two humans can be. In this stripped-down format of clarinet & drums, the absence of harmonic instruments sharpens the focus: melody and rhythm carry the full weight, and the space between them becomes part of the music. Goldberg can suggest entire harmonic worlds with a single line, while Amendola shapes the music’s direction through color, touch, and subtle shifts in pulse. The result is a conversation that is at once playful and precise—music that unfolds in real time, attentive to detail but never fixed. The intimacy of a living room is the perfect venue to watch this musical conversation between two masters of improvisation.  More...
Sun 5/03 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...
Tuesday, May 5
Tue 5/05 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
First Tuesdays Improvisation Workshop hosted by Lewis Jordan: Inviting musicians, poets, dancers, to a non-hierarchical setting to improvise together. Improvisation is the key.  More...
Wednesday, May 6
Wed 5/06 12:30 PM The Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
FREE! Brown Bag Jazz Hangs: John Santos The Profound Well of Cuban Music. Join us for casual daytime talks and listening sessions presented by 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.  More...
Wed 5/06 7:00 PM The Monkey House [1638 University Avenue, Berkeley]
A new night for experimental music fans in the East Bay. Monthly event at The Monkey House.
3/4 acts. BYOB. $10-$40 - 7pm-10pm  More...
Wed 5/06 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
UC Berkeley Percussion Ensemble

featuring music by Burrit, Akiho, Trevino, Ravel, Carter, & Sammut  More...
Thursday, May 7
Thu 5/07 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland]
The Do-Over Music Series at Shapeshifters Cinema, organized by Lisa Mezzacappa and Jordan Glenn, is a monthly series of sound performances presented by a rotating cast of local luminaries and special guests. The first set features performances of creative - improvised - composed - electronic - acoustic - music. The second set opens up to a live improvised collaboration of sound and visuals made using images culled from the Shapeshifters 16mm film collection.  More...
Thu 5/07 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
Pocket Quartet  More...
Friday, May 8
Fri 5/08 7:00 PM The Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
AAPI Heritage Month Salon Series
Filipinos Sounding Everywhere: Pinoy Creativity and Improvisation
featuring Conrad Benedicto, Jinji Sayson, Chris Trinidad, and Jimmy Biala  More...
Fri 5/08 7:00 PM Diablo Valley College [321 Golf Club Rd, Pleasant Hill, CA]
Dave Eshelman's Jazz Garden Big Band  More...
Fri 5/08 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
The Moment: Alex Abalos & Roco Córdova at Audium  More...
Saturday, May 9
Sat 5/09 2:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
Scott Amendola Quartet w/ Ben Goldberg, Dan White, & Mat Muntz  More...
Sat 5/09 5:30 PM NOHSpace [2840 Mariposa St. SF]
Agnes Szelag / Amy Lewis

Aura

Aura is an immersive multimedia work exploring the cycles of the natural and human worlds.

https://www.sfiaf.org/sfiaf_2026  More...
Sat 5/09 5:30 PM Muddy Waters Coffee & Lounge [521 Valencia St, SF]
The Black Cedar Trio  More...
Sat 5/09 6:30 PM Gray Area [2665 Mission St. SF]
What does an art practice look like when it’s dreaming?

This spring, TITLES and Gray Area gave five artists an unusual brief: train a custom AI model on your own creative practice, and see what it dreams up.
​On May 9, Arvida Byström, Huntrezz Janos, Lou Fauroux, Yvonne Fang, and Sharon Zheng unveil their models for the first time, and explore what happens when a body of work begins generating from within itself.  More...
Sat 5/09 7:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Trumpeter, composer & improvisor Peter Evans brings "Being & Becoming", a trio featuring Nick Jozwiak (bass) and Tyshawn Sorey (drums) to Spruce Street Concerts. The trio will present music that ranges from avant-garde jazz & experimental music to contemporary concert music in a special concert tailored to the intimate setting of a house concert.  More...
Sat 5/09 7:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Utang Na Loob (Debt of Gratitude): A Benefit Show for Typhoon Relief in the Philippines

A brilliant array of artists gather for an evening of modern Filipino music, benefitting typhoon relief in the Philippines. Featuring experimental/art rock band Grex, the trio of Mariah Auler, Kumi Maxson, and Kanoko Nishi-Smith, and solo guitarist Eagle Friend Radio.

Grex: Karl Evangelista (gtr, voice), Rei Scampavia (keys, voice), Cory Wright (bass guitar), Robert Lopez (drums)

Mariah Auler (cello) / Kumi Maxson (bass) / Kanoko Nishi-Smith (koto)

Eagle Friend Radio: Lenny Gonzalez (guitar)  More...
Sat 5/09 7:00 PM Wu Wei Temple [1820 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Fairfax, CA]
Trance Mission Duo

Beth Custer & Stephen Kent  More...
Sat 5/09 7:30 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2201 Poplar St Oakland]
Sarah Cahill celebrating Terry Riley
“Ninety Trips Around the Sun”  More...
Sat 5/09 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
The Moment: Alex Abalos & Roco Córdova at Audium  More...
Sat 5/09 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Danishta Rivero / Constanza Pellicci / Isabelle Waldner Kalb / Jordan Glenn  More...
Sat 5/09 8:00 PM The Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Celebrating Asian American Jazz: Ryan Ancheta Quartet + Chris Trinidad’s Chroma Tonic
Sat, May 9, 8 pm (pre-concert talk at 7:30 pm)
$25 General / $15 Youth

Double bill – An evening of expansive and energetic jazz by two generations of Bay Area Filipino bandleaders!  More...
Sat 5/09 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Colleen + Sally Decker and Briana Marela  More...
Sunday, May 10
Sun 5/10 2:30 PM Muddy Waters Coffee & Lounge [521 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA]
Lisa Mezzacappa - Bruce Ackley Duo  More...
Sun 5/10 5:30 PM The Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra is the Bay Area’s own 17-piece big band, led by trumpeter Erik Jekabson, playing music composed and arranged by its members. The composers and arrangers, some of the very best in the Bay, draw from a wide variety of influences but always come up with powerful music with groove, beauty and subtlety. The band, which started a steady Sunday residency at the Jazzschool, has collaborated with a number of special guest artists, including John Santos, Kenny Washington, Alan Ferber, Dayna Stephens, Mads Tolling, Sandy Cressman, Kellye Gray, Avotcja, Spok and Ben Goldberg. Learn more by visiting electricsqueezeboxorchestra.com  More...
Sun 5/10 6:00 PM NOHSpace [2840 Mariposa St. SF]
Agnes Szelag / Amy Lewis

Aura

Aura is an immersive multimedia work exploring the cycles of the natural and human worlds.

https://www.sfiaf.org/sfiaf_2026  More...
Sun 5/10 7:00 PM 2727 California St [2727 California St, Berkeley]
Visiting artist Constanza Pellicci with Lisa Mezzacappa; Era Mothra, Désirée Sturrock, Isabelle Waldner Kalb  More...
Sun 5/10 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER (http://michaeljschumacher.com/) presents various “immersive/dispersive” fixed media works, composed in New Your for his portable 8 channel system and adapted for Dresher Studio's multi-channel Meyer sound system. Utilizing a radically inclusive palette of sounds, the pieces wrap the audience in webs of potential associations, making listening as vital to the creation of meaning as the act of composing itself.

Performance and visual artist ANNA HOMLER (https://annahomler.com/) and bassist JEFF SCHWARTZ (https://jeffschwartzmusic.wordpress.com/) have collaborated since 2016, working as a duo and in groups. Coming from diverse creative realms, they find a meeting point through their shared love of improvisation, exploring the evocative power of voice, contrabass, and unexpected sound sources.  More...
Sun 5/10 8:00 PM Dead End Vintage [3370 19th St, San Francisco]
The Gleaners; Voicehandler; Mitch  More...
Sun 5/10 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Being & Becoming (Peter Evans, Nick Jozwiak, Tyshawn Sorey) + Heavy Arts Ensemble  More...
Wednesday, May 13
Wed 5/13 12:30 PM The Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Presentation by Ben Goldberg. Join us for casual daytime talks and listening sessions presented by 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.  More...
Thursday, May 14
Thu 5/14 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street]
Fletcher Pratt
Darkitecture of the mind's inmost spaces, that is Fletcher Pratt's speciality. Boundless in abstraction yet never disjointed, his sounds stretch like skin continuous across an impossible skeleton, inexorable in motion, shifting lithe and unseen.
https://soundcloud.com/fletcher_pratt

Hen House
Behold as this hag-industrial duo measures sound one mountain at at time, pinning you beneath a monstrosity of intimacy, the plangent abyss of an eternal interior. Let their Her Thrown album aquaint you with objectless terror, no escape from what awaits.
https://hen-house.bandcamp.com/album/her-thrown

Heco
Master carpenter, a jack of all attacks, the anti-cheshirecat and leader of the Starvation Army Marching Band. There's no guessing what he'll do this night, or on any other. Just don't miss, and don't get hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHeLf_VlHKo

100,000,000 Unread Messages
There exist unknowable things that you can't know because they are so numerous they constitute a whole set, the null set, the abyss, and it has your name all over it. Time to get started somewhere, you aren't alone in fact the number of minds who cannot know exceede even the number of unknown things and when they overlap... well the duo of Isabelle Waldner Kalb & Conner Tomaka will take it from there.
https://youtu.be/TkOwqltnD0g?t=36039  More...
Friday, May 15
Fri 5/15 7:00 PM Wu Performance Hall [Morrison Hall, UC Berkeley]
Tosiya Suzuki

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World-renowned recorder virtuoso Tosiya Suzuki (鈴木俊哉) performs an evening featuring new works by UC Berkeley graduate student composers: Josiah Adrineda, Xinglan Deng, Claire Hu, Pablo Teutli, Shu Wang, Jenny Xiong, and Tianyu Zou. This concert showcases vibrant contemporary music written for solo recorder, highlighting the creative voices of Prof. Ken Ueno’s studio.  More...
Fri 5/15 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
The Moment: Alex Abalos & Roco Córdova at Audium  More...
Fri 5/15 8:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Alto sax player Caroline Davis returns to The Mitch with her quartet

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthwise-welcomes-caroline-davis-quartet-tickets-1984834535526  More...
Fri 5/15 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Elori Saxl / Henry Solomon  More...
Saturday, May 16
Sat 5/16 7:30 PM Knuth Music Hall - San Francisco Sate University School of Music [1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA]
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: American Reflections: Full Circle

Witness the wavelengths of life and history through this electrifying music.  More...
Sat 5/16 7:30 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2201 Poplar St Oakland]
Clara Yang : Ex Machina
(piano and projected media)  More...
Sat 5/16 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
The Moment: Alex Abalos & Roco Córdova at Audium  More...
Sat 5/16 7:30 PM Ohlone Park [1601 Hearst Ave Berkeley, CA 94703]
Wendy Reid's Ambient Bird-Ohlone Park 2026 with sfSOUND,the bird ensembe,and Brenda Hutchinson’s Dailybell at sunset:
musicians:
Lulu, African Grey parrot
Wendy Reid, violin
Krys Bobrowski, gilsglas
Brenda Hutchinson, long tube
Ron Heglin, tuba
Kanoko Nishi-Smith, koto
Ben Davis, cello
David Samas, percussion
Diane Grubbe, flute
Tom Djll, trumpet
John Ingle, saxophone
David Michalak, skatchbirds
Jacob Felix Heule, percussion  More...
Sunday, May 17
Sun 5/17 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
NEIL ROLNICK (http://www.neilrolnick.com/) performs "So Many Me’s," with choreographer and dancer ALEX OLIVA (https://alexanneoliva.com/) (and her 8 foot ladder). measuring ... selling ... falling apart ... acting out ... surrender ... Neil also performs the score to Barbara Hammer's 1990 experimental film “Sanctus," featuring a host of x-ray skeletons playing trumpets, drinking, shaking hands, shaving, putting on lipstick, all to the live mashup of “Sanctus" movements from masses by Machaut, Bach, Beethoven & Verdi.

“Plonsey Scheme” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Plonsey) has nothing to do with finding suckers to invest in this “music” thing which promises to be such a hot commodity, with the fraudster paying off older investors with the funds provided by the younger ones -- but as we get older it is admittedly a little more like it: what experiences, revelations and revolutions can we promise you? MANTRA PLONSEY + Dan Plonsey + MATTHEW WELCH + TOMEK SINCLAIR + MIC GENDREAU + Kattt Atchley.  More...
Sun 5/17 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
Terry Riley 90th Birthday Celebration

With Performances By Bang On A Can All-stars, Hank Dutt Long-time Former Violist Of Kronos Quartet, George Brooks, Molly Holm, Joel Davel, And Sameer Gupta  More...
Wednesday, May 20
Wed 5/20 6:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
Step into an evening where sound and story intertwine as Willie Alexander III performs live music among the works in “Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night.”  More...
Thursday, May 21
Thu 5/21 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Composer/performer Neil Rolnick plays pieces from his upcoming album "Messages" which will be released on the Neuma label later this year. The highly personal pieces include a recounting of his loss of hearing in his left ear, and a tribute to his late wife, built from her recovered phone messages. When his wife passed, Neil promised to bring her memory with him wherever he went. With performances of "Messages" she has now been with him in travels across the US and in China and Maylasia. But this music is more uplifting than sad, with Rolnick's message being that persistence and a positive approach to life's inevitable challenges sees us through tough times.  More...
Friday, May 22
Fri 5/22 8:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Throw It In The Sink and Flatways

Throw It In The Sink - gabby fluke-mogul violin Lily Finnegan drums.

Flatways - Jordan Glenn Sudhu Tewari Matt Robidoux drums electronics stringless guitar.

Tickets  More...
Saturday, May 23
Sat 5/23 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Mass vegan pancake blowout on this Saturday fete. 25+ years of no fuss pretty floured ostrich flight lessons for your shrewd in-pipes with gourmet styled flapjackery.

Mephitick Ooze (MA)
Fowl Figures
Madame Varga
Mission Hypnotic
Shuttered  More...
Sat 5/23 3:00 PM Lytton Plaza [200 University Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301]
Earthwise welcomes Throw It In The Sink to Lytton Plaza double bill also featuring Ben Goldberg Scott Amendola Michael Coleman Trevor Dunn

Throw It In The Sink gabby fluke-mogul violin Lily Finnegan drums.  More...
Sat 5/23 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Errorgrid Presents: DATA/LOSS  More...
Sunday, May 24
Sun 5/24 2:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Main Library's Latino Room (lower level) [100 Larkin St, San Francisco]
To celebrate Terry Riley's ninetieth birthday year, Sarah Cahill performs a range of music by Terry Riley, including his 1964 Keyboard Studies, Fandango on the Heaven Ladder, Be Kind to One Another, as well as Samuel Adams' Shade Studies and Danny Clay's Circle Songs. This concert is free and open to the public.  More...
Sun 5/24 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
ANTIMATTER (https://antimatter3.bandcamp.com/ xopher Davidson, analog / digital electronics) and Jacob Felix Heule (https://www.heule.us/ percussion): Wave Function Collapse, resting upon the threshold between a state of limitless potentials and one of decoherence-that which cannot be measured, quantified, simulated or collected as data. Forever drifting over time, a spectral bass-relief sculpted by entropy.

MEERENAI SHIM (https://www.meerenai.com/) and DIANE GRUBBE (https://www.dianegrubbe.com/) team up to perform composed and improvised music for a variety of flutes, including glissando and contrabass flutes. The program includes Salvatore Sciarrino’s "Il pomeriggio di un allarme al parcheggio" for glissando flute, “Pathways" for two flutes by Efraín Amaya, Matthew Joseph Payne’s "Etude for contrabass flute and TI83+ calculator" and the premiere of a duo for two glissando flutes by Diane Grubbe.  More...
Sun 5/24 8:00 PM The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room [2523 Broadway, Oakland, CA]
dustin wong (LA) / julius smack (LA) / matt robidoux (SF)  More...
Monday, May 25
Mon 5/25 7:30 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St, San Francisco, CA]
Is That Your Final Answer?

The final concert of Earplay's 41st season features a world premiere by Trevor Weston.

Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm  More...
Wednesday, May 27
Wed 5/27 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Spaghetti Record Release Show: Jim Campilongo/Sam Reider/Mat Muntz/Scott Amendola  More...
Thursday, May 28
Thu 5/28 7:00 PM Mr Tipple's [39 Fell St SF]
Astrid Kuljanic Trio Ft Scott Amendola

Sets at 7 and 8:45  More...
Friday, May 29
Fri 5/29 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
The Glance: A Laptopera

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.

Co-produced by Laptopera Productions and 836M, The Glance was created by composer Anne Hege with collaborators including electronic instrument builders Daniel Iglesia and Curtis Ullerich; vocalists Sidney Chen, Carmina Escobar, and Michele Kennedy; art director Kim Anno; lighting designer Mitchell Ost; and choreographer Carrie Ahern.

https://www.annehege.com/theglance  More...
Fri 5/29 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
The Glance: A Laptopera is an immersive opera reimagining the Orpheus myth for laptop orchestra and live voices. Using motion-tracking, looping systems, and architectural sound instruments, lovers Orphea and Eurydice physically shape the music in real time, blending voice, technology, and movement into a multisensory exploration of surveillance, control, care, and the fragile nature of trust. Co-produced by Laptopera Productions and 836M, the work was created by composer Anne Hege with collaborators including instrument builders Daniel Iglesia and Curtis Ullerich, vocalists Sidney Chen, Carmina Escobar, and Michele Kennedy, and creative team members Kim Anno, Mitchell Ost, and Carrie Ahern.  More...
Saturday, May 30
Sat 5/30 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Klaxon Mutant Jazz All-Stars CD Release Party!!!  More...
Sat 5/30 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
The Glance: A Laptopera

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.

Co-produced by Laptopera Productions and 836M, The Glance was created by composer Anne Hege with collaborators including electronic instrument builders Daniel Iglesia and Curtis Ullerich; vocalists Sidney Chen, Carmina Escobar, and Michele Kennedy; art director Kim Anno; lighting designer Mitchell Ost; and choreographer Carrie Ahern.

https://www.annehege.com/theglance  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 4:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
The Glance: A Laptopera

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.

Co-produced by Laptopera Productions and 836M, The Glance was created by composer Anne Hege with collaborators including electronic instrument builders Daniel Iglesia and Curtis Ullerich; vocalists Sidney Chen, Carmina Escobar, and Michele Kennedy; art director Kim Anno; lighting designer Mitchell Ost; and choreographer Carrie Ahern.

https://www.annehege.com/theglance  More...
Sun 5/31 7:00 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
The Finnish Heritage Society and Outsound Presents
Rent Romus, Heikki Koskinen's Otherworld Ensemble play SOUL BIRD SUITE
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ZELE, Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble’s East Bay community chorus
Advance Tickets @Eventbrite or at the Door  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...
Tuesday, June 2
Tue 6/02 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
First Tuesdays Improvisation Workshop hosted by Lewis Jordan: Inviting musicians, poets, dancers, to a non-hierarchical setting to improvise together. Improvisation is the key.  More...
Friday, June 5
Fri 6/05 6:00 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
Click to make donation  
You are invited to join Outsound Presents for our 2026 Annual Benefit Dinner featuring a multiple course meal cooked on site at the Berkeley Finnish Hall Helsinki Cafe by Chef Lewis Pietropaoli with a unique set of music by experimental art rock duo Ex Juncos featuring vocalist Jill Rogers and drummer Andrew K. Lau!!
RSVP your seat at this link
OR send an email to reserve your spot to Rent Romus at: outsoundorg@yahoo.com  More...
Saturday, June 6
Sat 6/06 8:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Emi Makabe

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthwise-welcomes-emi-makabe-tickets-1987074403030  More...
Sat 6/06 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Weston Olencki + Ava Koohbor  More...
Sunday, June 7
Sun 6/07 7:00 PM The Dome Center for Art, Music and Dance [951 62nd Street, Oakland, CA]
Bach to the Future: New Improvisations on The Past  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...
Tuesday, June 9
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 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream  
CCRMA presents Leila Abdul-Rauf: Architecture of Shadow  More...
Wednesday, June 17
Wed 6/17 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Wendy Eisenberg + More Eaze + Jas Stade

https://www.thelab.org/projects/2026/6/17/wendy-eisenberg-more-eaze-jas-stade  More...