Mon 3/09 7:00 PM San Francisco State University [1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132]
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🎶 Monday Blackbox Ensemble – Live at Knuth Hall!
Experience a powerful evening of live music by Morrison Chamber Music Center as the Blackbox Ensemble takes the stage for a one-night-only performance.  More...

Tue 3/10 7:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste / Evicshen

https://www.thelab.org/projects/2025/12/17/jeremy-toussaint-baptiste-evicshen  More...

Wed 3/11 11:30 AM Salesforce Park [San Francisco]
Kasey Knudsen Trio with Sam Bevan and Eric Garland  More...

Thu 3/12 7:00 PM Mr Tipple's [39 Fell St SF]
Rumi Abe Quartet

sets at 7:00pm and 8:45pm  More...

Thu 3/12 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Pamela Z: Arbeitsklang / Worksound  More...

Thu 3/12 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
REOtRIO: Larry Ochs – Donald Robinson - Karl Evangelista

Larry Ochs - sax, Donald Robinson - drums, Karl Evangelista - guitar

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Improvising trio REOtRIO returns to WyldFlowr arts, presenting an evening of roving improvisations and blistering free expression. REOtRIO convenes the landmark duo of Larry Ochs and Donald Robinson, augmented by the incendiary experimentation of guitarist Karl Evangelista.  More...

Thu 3/12 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
The return of the Return the Gift curated series (Series 2) continues with the second of four great shows, with three great performing artists featuring Jas Stade, Sachi's Mirror, and Tom Djll/Jordan Glenn Duo.  More...

Fri 3/13 7:00 PM Ivy Room [Ivy Room 860 San Pablo Ave Albany, CA 94706]
Brass Against LIVE at Ivy Room Sept. 25th!  More...

Fri 3/13 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Sand Ghost

Tonight’s musical medicina is being provided by Sand Ghost(Nore Free-saxophone/efx, Cassandra Firmin-drums, and Melissa Mohlenhoff-bass)  More...

Fri 3/13 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Pamela Z: Arbeitsklang / Worksound  More...

Sat 3/14 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Unique experimental sounds 26 yrs stronger through gourmet vegan pancake event. Please enjoy.

Forrest Friends (Seattle)
L X Rudis
An Electribe Called Quest (Heartworm/Vankman)
Birdspanker
Wilderman  More...

Sat 3/14 12:00 PM Angel Island Immigration Station Detention Barracks Museum [North Ridge TrailBEL TIBURON, CA, 94920]
Del Sol Quartet on Angel Island

https://www.delsolquartet.com/calendar/2025/10/4/del-sol-quartet-on-angel-island-hekds  More...

Sat 3/14 2:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Golden Gate Valley Branch [1801 Green St. San Francisco, CA 94123]
Double bill. 2pm - Khachapuri Trio (Beth Custer, David James, Jess Ivry) will play originals and arrangements of Chick Corea, Julius Hemphill, Kurt Weill, et al. / 3:30pm - The Lizard Point, transatlantic duo of Conor Devlin & Geoffrey Scott, their name from a Brian Eno track, will play instrumentals that evoke a nocturnal, pastoral space, for the release of their third LP.  More...

Sat 3/14 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Pamela Z: Arbeitsklang / Worksound  More...

Sun 3/15 5:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Lovage Sharrock (guitar & voice) and Jon Leidecker aka Wobbly (electronics) present Phipps Pt., their ongoing duo project exploring the porous edge between song and real-time electronic transformation. In this intimate house-concert setting, Sharrock’s textural guitar work and mercurial vocals intersect with Leidecker’s live signal processing and sample-based interventions, creating a music that moves fluidly between lyric presence and sonic disruption. Expect an evening of exploratory interplay, spontaneous composition, and electro-acoustic conversation at close range.  More...

Sun 3/15 7:00 PM Artists' Television Access [992 Valencia SF]
it could be wertz  More...

Sun 3/15 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
Clarinetist Ben Goldberg joins DILLON VADO (vibraphone) and TIM BULKLEY (drums) in a set of trio improvisations. Sound knowledge and awareness from planet Neptone. The practice of remembering what you can't forget. Come have a listen; you won't believe your ears. Or else, you will believe your ears but there might be something else you don't believe. Or maybe nothing at all.

EYE-FULL FILMS presents a set of experimental films by David Michalak, STEVE MOBIA, and ARTHUR GANSON, including the premiere showing of Michalak's "Still Movin'."  More...

Tue 3/17 7:00 PM Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall [Northeastern University (formerly Mills College) 5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA 94613]
Streaming and in-person
Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release: A Mills College Music Reunion Concert. A free evening of music, improvisation, and sonic exploration celebrating the creative connections forged at Mills College. Featuring Sally Decker & Brendan Glasson, the Brown-Davis Duo (Chris Brown & Ben Davis), and Robert Lopez, Aaron Oppenheim & Shanna Sordahl. Post-concert conversation moderated by David Bernstein. In-person & livestream; registration requested. Presented by Mills College at Northeastern University, the Center for Contemporary Music, and Mills Performing Arts.  More...

Tue 3/17 8:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise Welcomes Edu Ribeiro Trio

Earthwise welcomes the Brazilian St. Patrick’s Day jazz extravaganza of Edu Ribeiro drums Vinicius Gomes guitar Noah Garabedian bass.  More...

Wed 3/18 8:45 PM Mr Tipple's [39 Fell St SF]
Lisa Mezzacappa Quartet  More...

Thu 3/19 6:30 PM 836M Gallery [836 Montgomery St San Francisco, CA 94133 United States]
Join us for an open rehearsal with resident artist Anne Hege as she collaborates with instrument builders Curtis Ullerich and Dan Iglesia to explore live interactions between custom-built electronic instruments, sound, and video for The Glance. The presentation offers audiences a window into experimental operatic development through real-time artistic problem-solving and creative discovery.  More...

Thu 3/19 7:00 PM Mr Tipple's [39 Fell St SF]
Joyce Todd McBride Quintet

sets at 7:00pm and 8:45pm  More...

Thu 3/19 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street, Oakland, California, 94609]
The return of the Return the Gift curated series (Series 2) continues with the third of four great shows with three great performing artists featuring S'Hells Gate, Heavy Arts Ensemble, and X Medianoche.  More...

Thu 3/19 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St, Oakland Oakland]
Mariah Auler + Kumi Maxson + Kanoko Nishi-Smith  More...

Thu 3/19 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Pamela Z: Arbeitsklang / Worksound  More...

Fri 3/20 6:00 PM Mr Tipple's [39 Fell St SF]
Beth Schenck Quartet  More...

Fri 3/20 6:30 PM Indian Rock Park [LOCATION: Indian Rock Park: 950 Indian Rock Ave, Berkeley 94707 -just west of the rock, under the trees -there is no formal seating so bring a blanket, chair, or sit on the rock]
Wendy Reid'S AMBIENT BIRD-INDIAN ROCK
sfSOUND musicians join the Bird Ensemble in a Spring Equinox outdoor performance of Ambient Bird-Indian Rock, with Brenda Hutchinson’s Dailybell at sunset

musicians:
Lulu, African Grey parrot
Wendy Reid, violin
Brenda Hutchinson, long tube
Krys Bobrowski, glisglas
Ron Heglin, tuba
Kanoko Nishi, koto
Tom Djll, trumpet
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone
Matt Ingalls, clarinet
John Ingle, saxophone
David Michalak, skatchbirds  More...

Fri 3/20 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Spring

Tonight’s dose of musical medicina is being provided by Spring (Bruce Ackley-saxophones, Fred Lonberg-Holm-cello, and Zachary Watkins-electronics)  More...

Fri 3/20 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Pamela Z: Arbeitsklang / Worksound  More...

Fri 3/20 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
AMENDOLA / KNUDSEN / MUNTZ  More...

Fri 3/20 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Gwenifer Raymond + Tashi Dorji  More...

Sat 3/21 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Pamela Z: Arbeitsklang / Worksound  More...

Sat 3/21 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Lucrecia Dalt + Marielle Jakobsons  More...

Sun 3/22 12:00 PM Cybersentics Book Club at Gray Area [2665 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110]
Each month, participate in a fascinating new social reading group exploring biofeedback, cyborg theory, and the human sensorium.  More...

Sun 3/22 7:00 PM 2727 California St [2727 California St, Berkeley]
Wilson Shook (LA) with Aine Nakamura, Isabelle Waldner Kalb/Ari Brown/Lisa Mezzacappa/TBD, Jane Damon  More...

Sun 3/22 7:00 PM Ugra Deva Loka [1035 22nd Ave. Unit 14 Oakland, CA 94606]
Christian Lovers (LA Harsh Noise-core)

Scott Arford (Old School Industrial Noise)

Leaking (Noise/Jazz/Improv Fred Lonberg-Holm- cello Jay
Korber -drums Brian Pedersen -sax )

Blood of Chhinnamastika- (Cut-up occvlt blackened electronics)  More...

Sun 3/22 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
Fred Frith (bass/viola) has been a dauntless explorer, improviser, and collaborator in the half-century since he made that breakthrough. He brings another new band, FREMAKAJO. He has tapped intertwining Bay Area circles to build this quartet, with curious and playful drummer Jordan Glenn joining exploratory saxophonist Kasey Knudsen and stylistically globetrotting accordionist MARIÉ ABE.


SOCIAL STUTTER, a saxophone quartet led by composer/altoist BETH SCHENCK, blurs the line between strictly written chamber music and soaring free jazz. Social Stutter is comprised of some of the Bay Area's most unique voices: Kasey Knudsen, Raffi Garabedian, Cory Wright and BETH SCHENCK.  More...

Sun 3/22 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
SixtyHurts Records presents Tashi Dorji, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, Zachary James Watkins  More...

Mon 3/23 8:00 PM Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium [1313 Newell Road Palo Alto]
Earthwise Welcomes Ralph Alessi Quartet

Ralph Alessi is an ECM recording artist and acclaimed American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator known for his distinctive and innovative approach to jazz improvisation and composition.

Ralph Alessi, trumpet
Adam Benjamin, piano
Richard Giddens, bass
Mark Ferber, drums  More...

Thu 3/26 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Pamela Z: Arbeitsklang / Worksound  More...

Thu 3/26 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street, Oakland, California, 94609]
The return of the Return the Gift curated series (Series 2) continues with the fourth of four great shows, with two great performing artists featuring Gamelan Encinal and Eleanora.  More...

Thu 3/26 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 3/27 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Funkonya

Tonight we have an industrial size dose of old fashioned funk for you with the one and only Funkonya.  More...

Fri 3/27 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Pamela Z: Arbeitsklang / Worksound  More...

Sat 3/28 2:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Golden Gate Valley Branch [1801 Green St. San Francisco, CA 94117]
Abstract Lounge: San Francisco singer and improviser David Israel Katz will be spinning a wide range of avant-garde and experimental music from his vinyl collection, blending the liquid with the granular, the muddy with the foggy and the windy with the luminescent, in the setting of the reading room of a beautiful, historic library branch.  More...

Sat 3/28 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Pamela Z: Arbeitsklang / Worksound  More...

Sat 3/28 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Moin + Ava Mendoza  More...

Sun 3/29 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Outsound Presents at the SIMM Series - Doctor Bob & The Outpatients - Return Visit
Doctor Bob (Bob Marsh/David Michalak) present music as medicine, performing a series of "cracked light" improvisations in these darkest of times with sonic comrades - Cindy Webster, Kersti Abrams, Jeff Hobbs, Andre Custodio, Ron Heglin, and Bryan Day.  More...

Sun 3/29 8:00 PM Ugra Deva Loka [1035 22nd ave unit 14 Oakland CA 94606]
Filoplume (LA)
Nine Dog Dick (Oakland anti-Jazz supergroup)
Blood of Chhinnamastika (Cut-up/HN/Occvlt noise)
War Hippy (LA) (Evil hippy sounds)
Rubber ()) Cement (SF) (IYKYK)
at Ugra Deva Loka
1035 22nd ave unit 14
Oakland  More...

Mon 3/30 7:00 PM Los Altos Library [13 S. San Antonio Road Los Altos, CA 94022]
Before Your Eyes is a participatory multimedia performance created and performed by harpist and composer Renée Qin, with artists from Sound Palette.  More...

Sat 4/04 7:30 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2201 Poplar Street Oakland, California]
Moe Staiano conducts his electric guitar ensemble with the premiere of Music for 48 Guitars (24 guitar version). This is an exploration of tonal interplay and contrasting rhythms with eight electric guitars, bass, drums, and percussion. It features assertive rhythmic structures and intertwining tremolo structures, balanced by continuous play against each guitarist with bouncing rhythms and ongoing hockets while surrounding the audience with a bombastic attack.  More...

Sun 4/05 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.

Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. Set up before 8:00 and be as ready to play as possible. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm.  More...

Wed 4/08 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Floating Parade! @ The Ivy Room!

Mark Clifford - vibes
Ryan Schaeffer - e. guitar
Nate Brenner - e.bass
Robert Lopez - percussion
Scott Amendola-drums/electronics  More...

Thu 4/09 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Thomas Dimuzio
Innovative techniques of sound synthesis, signal processing, algorithmic mixing and custom crossfade looping stoke this smelter of man and machine.
https://gench.com/thomas-dimuzio

Holy People
Informed by her cartooning practice, Leah Victoria's "clown poetics" channels stories from different characters' voices and ancestral perspectives under the name Holy People. All the way from NYC, don't miss her west coast debut at the Peacock Lounge!
http://holypeople.bandcamp.com/

Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase
Chris Cooper brings withering critique of fear's own coping mechanism: logic. Given human cowardice, he gently myofascializes weak forces upon amplifying waves, directing gravity through his own hands into heaps of pie cutters, spinning tops, stiff brushes, long strings, and power amplifiers, to gently embolden all who, alas, must one day perish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zJMowXteNE

Ven Voisey
Presence irreducible, an artist marvellously attuned to form, material, technology, and ontology, modulating time and presence into something perceptible that leaves you saying, holy shit.
http://www.v---v.net/archive.html  More...

Fri 4/10 8:30 PM SoundBox [300 Franklin Street SF]
SoundBox: Gabriella Smith  More...

Sat 4/11 8:30 PM SoundBox [300 Franklin Street SF]
SoundBox: Gabriella Smith  More...

Sun 4/12 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. Berkeley]
Astrid Kuljanic Trio - feat. Scott Amendola and Mat Muntz  More...

Thu 4/16 7:30 PM Goldman Theater, David Brower Center [2150 Allston Way, Suite 100 Berkeley]
How does one play music with animals in a way that respects their nature and agency? Other Minds welcomes musician and philosopher David Rothenberg to answer this question in the West Coast premiere of his work Eleven Paths to Animal Music (2025) at the Goldman Theater, David Brower Center.  More...

Fri 4/17 7:30 PM Meets the Eye Studios [939 Terminal Way San Carlos, CA 94070]
Streaming and in-person
Join us for a one-of-a-kind PWC concert experience at Meets the Eye Studios (in-person and livestream), featuring a multimedia performance of Freida Abtan’s new opera for chorus and video, The sound of grief. This PWC commission reimagines the Orpheus myth and his overwhelming grief that threatens the living world.  More...

Fri 4/17 7:30 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music [Cha Chi Ming Recital Hall 200 Van Ness Ave. San Francsico]
Ensemble for These Times Premieres New Work by Pamela Z  More...

Fri 4/17 8:00 PM Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium [1313 Newell Road Palo Alto]
Debut of Mads Tolling violin with Sam Reider accordion or piano. Larry Ochs saxophone with Ben Davis and Fred Lonberg-Holm cellos.  More...

Sat 4/18 4:00 PM Meets the Eye Studios [939 Terminal Way San Carlos, CA 94070]
Streaming and in-person
Join us for a one-of-a-kind PWC concert experience at Meets the Eye Studios (in-person and livestream), featuring a multimedia performance of Freida Abtan’s new opera for chorus and video, The sound of grief. This PWC commission reimagines the Orpheus myth and his overwhelming grief that threatens the living world.  More...

Sat 4/18 7:30 PM Herbst Theatre [401 Van Ness Ave SF]
Claire Chase - Flute

Claire Chase is “the North Star of her instrument’s ever-expanding universe,” according to The New York Times, and “a rare combination of grace and guts” (Wall Street Journal). Density 2036 is her ambitious and far-reaching 24-year project to create a new body of flute repertory leading up to the 100th anniversary of composer Edgard Varese’s seminal 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. Her San Francisco Performances debut recital program reimagines music for solo flute.  More...

Sun 4/19 4:00 PM Meets the Eye Studios [939 Terminal Way San Carlos, CA 94070]
Streaming and in-person
Join us for a one-of-a-kind PWC concert experience at Meets the Eye Studios (in-person and livestream), featuring a multimedia performance of Freida Abtan’s new opera for chorus and video, The sound of grief. This PWC commission reimagines the Orpheus myth and his overwhelming grief that threatens the living world.  More...

Thu 4/23 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
FLOWER-RADISH
Ben Goldberg, clarinet; Andrew Conklin, guitar;
Hamir Atwal, drums  More...