Sat 1/21 4:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
A SENSE OF PLACE

Australian bass-clarinetist, Ros Dunlop, presents a program of audio-visual works by contemporary Aussie composers Margery Smith/Penelope Lee; Hollis Taylor; Felicity Wilcox; and Martin Wesley-Smith. These pieces explore the connections between sound, place, time and identity.  More...

Sat 1/21 7:00 PM Mills College at Northeastern University Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
For Other Minds’s 30th anniversary, pianist Marc-André Hamelin will perform Charles Ives’s legendary Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass. 1840-60,” with commentary by composer Kyle Gann, author of Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata: Essays after a Sonata (U. of Illinois Press, 2017).

Hosted by Charles Amirkhanian on Saturday, January 21, 2023 at Littlefield Concert Hall on the Mills College campus in Oakland, CA. The performance will be preceded by a reception at 6:00 pm celebrating the 30th anniversary of Other Minds.

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Sat 1/21 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Live Musical Performances by Ikue Mori, William Winant, Valentina Magaletti, and NOMON

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Sun 1/22 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
THE MOSSWOOD IMPROVISERS GROUP performs R MURRAY SCHAFER'S graphic score, "minimusic" (1968) and a group improvisation.
Chris Brown performs a set of 20th Century Solo Piano Pieces
Arnold Schönberg - Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, op.19 (1911, 5 minutes)
Morton Feldman — Last Pieces (1959, 10 minutes)
Thelonious Monk - Monk’s Mood (1947, 4 minutes)
Henry Cowell - The Hero Sun (1912, 4 minutes)
Ruth Crawford Seeger — Piano Study in Mixed Accents (1930, 1.5 minutes)
Chris Brown - Sparks (1976, 8 minutes)  More...

Sun 1/22 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Trevor Dunn (contrabass) and Phillip Greenlief (woodwinds) celebrate the release Twenty Seven on Riverworm Records. The title of the new album reveals the years they have been playing together. Their work has always focused on spontaneous improvisation - a long-term conversation of imagination and the ingenuity of their approach to their respective instruments.

Sally Gates opens the show with the premiere of Thought and Terraform for solo guitar. ‘Thought & Terraform’ explores the hallucinatory nature of reality, deriving themes from surrealism, quantum physics, and science fiction. A work for solo guitar, these themes are developed and elaborated upon through improvisational passages.  More...

Sun 1/22 8:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
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Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble - New Music for a New Year!
This performance @ the iconic Bird & Beckett Books will feature new original music some of which will be debuted as part of a new recording project "In the Spirit".

Timothy Orr•drums/percussion, Mark Clifford•vibraphone, Safa Shokrai•double bass, Max Judelson•double bass, Heikki "Mike" Koskinen•e-trumpet/recorder, Joshua Marshall•tenor saxophone, Rent Romus•alto saxophone  More...

Thu 1/26 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Residency Rewind: New Voices
Did you miss last year’s Audium residency shows? In anticipation of this year’s residency premiere, Audium is winding back to one year ago. This show is a limited rerun of the historic first residency, a reimagining of the space through immersive compositions of spatial sound.  More...

Thu 1/26 8:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [272 Capp St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
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Resident is a monthly electronic audiovisual open mic event started in 2017. Resident is casual and cool, and the community you'll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in the Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas.

Now in person at Noisebridge!! https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Resident_Electronic_Music

Setup for performers starts at 7pm, show starts at 8 pm.  More...

Fri 1/27 6:30 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St San Francisco]
!David Boyce presents GPS!  More...

Fri 1/27 7:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Allen Riley: Synchronization Station Workshop // Synchronization Station is a participatory performance created by Allen Riley that examines practices of synchronization among people and digital systems  More...

Fri 1/27 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Residency Rewind: New Voices
Did you miss last year’s Audium residency shows? In anticipation of this year’s residency premiere, Audium is winding back to one year ago. This show is a limited rerun of the historic first residency, a reimagining of the space through immersive compositions of spatial sound.  More...

Sat 1/28 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Residency Rewind: New Voices
Did you miss last year’s Audium residency shows? In anticipation of this year’s residency premiere, Audium is winding back to one year ago. This show is a limited rerun of the historic first residency, a reimagining of the space through immersive compositions of spatial sound.  More...

Sat 1/28 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Nathan Wheeler (New York)
San Kazakgascar (Sacramento)
Kae Wu / Jorge Bachmann / Kevin Corcoran (Taipei / San Francisco)

An bicoastal and international evening of electroacoustic drone, psychedelic post punk, and textural noise poetry at the bookshop on 24th street, a possibly overlooked epicenter of interesting happenings in San Francisco.  More...

Sat 1/28 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Rodrigo Barriga Ensemble + Myles Morgan // Exploring ensemble interaction and communication through the use of openness and structured improvisation.  More...

Sun 1/29 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
The world-renowned cellist FRANCES-MARIE UITTI permieres PIOMBO, a new composition for solo 2Bows Cello by LUCIANO CHESSA.
Uitti and Chessa also perform QUEST[O] / Una meditazione (2022) for cello, piano and voices.  More...

Tue 1/31 8:00 PM The Knockout [3223 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
Grex, Gentleman Surfer, Nine Dog Dick

Fiery sounds from Nor Cal, featuring Oakland experimental duo Grex (Karl Evangelista + Rei Scampavia), Sacramento avant prog band Gentleman Surfer (Jon Bafus, a.o.), and free improvisation/noise group Nine Dog Dick (Matt Chandler + Doug Katelus + Jay Korber + Tom Weeks).  More...

Wed 2/01 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Luggage Store New Music Series and Outsound Presents
Night of the Tenor
Kevin Robinson, Joshua Allen-solo tenor saxophone  More...

Thu 2/02 7:30 PM Mosswood Chapel [3630 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA]
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UMA Gallery Oakland is very excited to present the multitalented NYC composer/artist/performer M. Lamar. Alumnus of both SF Art Institue and Yale School of Art Lamar has been presented internationaly, most recently at The Rewire Festival in The Hague. An operatic countertenor and pianist, Lamar is a wizard at extracting elements from folk lamentation, European opera and goth creating his own revolutionary style aimed for the deepest spiritual and moral transformation.
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Sat 2/04 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
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Laetitia Sonami performs 100 Trillions, a world premiere, in collaboration with Paul DeMarinis and SUE-C.Sonami also performs a new collaboration with James Fei as part of the Sparrows and Ortolans duo, as well as a new solo work.  More...

Sun 2/05 4:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
ANGELA EDWARDS (SHARKIFACE)
XOPHER DAVIDSON (ANTIMATTER)  More...

Sun 2/05 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm. Donations for the venue rental are encouraged.  More...

Thu 2/09 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street, San Francisco]
Audium: New Voices II featuring the performances by Sharmi Basu, Alex Abalos & Ronald Peabody  More...

Fri 2/10 9:00 PM SoundBox [300 Franklin Street SF]
SOUNDBOX: PEKKA KUUSISTO & JESPER NORDIN - CONVERGENCE

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Sat 2/11 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
NACUSASF PRESENTS “MUSIC AS WINTER FADES”
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present instrumental, vocal, and electroacoustic chamber music written by its members and performed by outstanding Bay Area’s musicians.  More...

Sat 2/11 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Tatsuya Nakatani: Nakatani Gong Orchestra // Tatsuya Nakatani’s non-traditional contemporary sound art project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO)  More...

Sat 2/11 9:00 PM SoundBox [300 Franklin Street SF]
SOUNDBOX: PEKKA KUUSISTO & JESPER NORDIN - CONVERGENCE

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Sun 2/12 6:30 PM Duende Restaurant [468 19th St Oakland]
Orchestra Nostalgico

On Sunday Feb. 12, Duende will host Orchestra Nostalgico for a night of fantastic music and a delicious pre-Valentine's Day dinner!

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Sun 2/12 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Distractfold performs new works by Stanford graduate composers Celeste Betancur, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Lemon Guo, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Mike Mulshine.
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Sun 2/12 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
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Outsound Presents the creative music of world touring percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and the sterling voice of Dina Emerson meets the electronic universe of Philip Everett as Skullkrusher!  More...

Wed 2/15 7:30 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music [50 Oak St. SF]
SFCM New Music Ensemble Concert  More...

Wed 2/15 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
LSG New Music Series - Alphastare, Seymour Glass, Jorge Bachmann/Jaroba  More...

Thu 2/16 3:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Feldenkrais for Improvisers Workshop with Meerenai Shim // movement workshop for musicians  More...

Thu 2/16 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street]
Audium: New Voices II featuring the performances by Sharmi Basu, Alex Abalos & Ronald Peabody  More...

Thu 2/16 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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CCRMA presents a live performance by Gabby Wen.
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Thu 2/16 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Sticklerphonics! Scott Amendola/Lubin-Laden/Garabedian  More...

Fri 2/17 7:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Experimental Music Night  More...

Fri 2/17 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
David Boyce & Friends, featuring Karl Evangelista/Lewis Jordan Duo

Boohabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce continues his semi regular Friday residency tonight. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of sonic sustenance and musical medicina. Tonight David will be joined by his very special guests Lewis Jordan and Karl Evangelista.  More...

Fri 2/17 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
JAMBAR Presents Charles McPherson  More...

Fri 2/17 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Roberto Fatal: Screening & Talk // Three films exploring Latinx Indigenous Mesrize identity, sexuality, the body and the cultures, desires and histories it contains.  More...

Sat 2/18 3:30 PM Building 34 Mare Island [1024 Nimitz Building 34 Vallejo CA]
RE:SOUND :: MIGRATION

Come join us on Mare Island in Building 34 for an afternoon of sound & space with three performances by Bay Area artists.

joel st. julien

ceremonial abyss

greta snider + headboggle  More...

Sat 2/18 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
OORT SMOG & Zachary James Watkins
Oort Smog (Patrick Shiroishi & Mark Kimbrell) are celebrating the release of their second album, Every Motherfucker is Your Brother, with a tour of the west coast. Zachary James Watkins, an incredible sound creator, will be opening the show.  More...

Sat 2/18 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
A collaborative performance with the Korean woodwind player Gamin.  More...

Sat 2/18 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Anna Friz & Gabriel Saloman + Cole Pulice // A concert that listens for risk and regeneration, drought and the hints of persistent moisture in burn scars  More...

Sun 2/19 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
ALLEN + DUFF + BENEDICT + AHERN + CASINI
UENO + MEZZACAPPA + HEULE + COOPER + BRUCKMANN + INGALLS

Two vocal improv quintets making their public debut  More...

Wed 2/22 5:30 PM The Knockout [3223 Mission Street, SF]
Thomas Dimuzio, Caribay, Ava Koohbor: LCM Presents Vol 5  More...

Thu 2/23 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street]
Audium: New Voices II featuring the performances by Sharmi Basu, Alex Abalos & Ronald Peabody  More...

Thu 2/23 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center - Joe Henderson Lab [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF]
NATE MERCEREAU CARLOS NIÑO & SURYA BOTOFASINA W/ SPECIAL GUEST IDRIS ACKAMOOR

Two shows: 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM

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Thu 2/23 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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CCRMA presents a live performance by Abbie from Mars.
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Thu 2/23 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble  More...

Thu 2/23 8:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [272 Capp St SF]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream  
Resident is a monthly electronic audiovisual open mic event started in 2017. Resident is casual and cool, and the community you'll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in the Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas.

Now in person at Noisebridge!! https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Resident_Electronic_Music

Setup for performers starts at 7pm, show starts at 8 pm.  More...

Thu 2/23 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Improv Synth Jam // Bring your acoustic or electronic instrument and plug in for shared sync, signal processing  More...

Fri 2/24 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Bristle

Avant chamber jazz quartet Bristle plays the Friday night series curated by MFN's resident boohabian multi-reed player extraordinaire David Boyce.  More...

Fri 2/24 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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CCRMA presents a live diffusion of the 16-channel work "Haïkus" by Annette Vande Gorne.
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Fri 2/24 7:30 PM San Francisco Zen Center [308 Page Street SF]
Butoh & Zen: A Winter's Tale

with Christina Braun, dance and the live music of David Samas  More...

Fri 2/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
LIZ RUVALCABA
Mexican vocalist/looper Lizeth Ruvalcaba returns to the Bay Area for a solo concert of electronically-augmented voice. Ruvalcaba is a singer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Her main instrument is her voice; with it, she makes atmospheric and ethereal music that is deeply rooted in Mexican tradition.  More...

Fri 2/24 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Kahil El'Zabar's legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble  More...

Sat 2/25 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center - Joe Henderson Lab [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF]
Zoh Amba

Two shows: 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM

Rising star saxophonist and flutist blends together avant-garde, folk melodies, and devotional hymns.

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Sat 2/25 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON: 'SEEN/UNSEEN' W/ LIVE VISUALS BY MICKALENE THOMAS
W/ CONDUCTOR EDMAR COLON, ETIENNE CHARLES, Del Sol String Quartet & MORE  More...

Sat 2/25 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Idris Ackamoor's Pyramids 50th Anniversary Listening Party  More...

Sat 2/25 7:30 PM San Francisco Zen Center [308 Page Street SF]
Butoh & Zen: A Winter's Tale

with Christina Braun, dance and the live music of David Samas  More...

Sat 2/25 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Raven Chacon and Music Research Strategies  More...

Sat 2/25 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Ryan Nestor -- multimedia + percussion works exploring sound and imagery of wartime and violence + post-concert talk with San Diego New Music Executive Director Charissa Noble  More...

Sun 2/26 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
Moe! Staiano's NEIGHBOURS, for eight players placed outside of the performance space.
Thomas Dimuzio, solo electronics.  More...

Sun 2/26 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON: 'SEEN/UNSEEN' W/ LIVE VISUALS BY MICKALENE THOMAS
W/ CONDUCTOR EDMAR COLON, ETIENNE CHARLES, Del Sol String Quartet & MORE  More...

Wed 3/01 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
LSG New Music Series - Eric Theise manipulating maps with special guest Headboggle presents A Synesthete's Atlas
also Lenny Gonzalez & Erik Ellestad duo  More...

Thu 3/02 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA]
Audium: New Voices II featuring the performances by Sharmi Basu, Alex Abalos & Ronald Peabody  More...

Thu 3/02 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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CCRMA presents a live performance of "CONCUSSSSION" by Amma Ateria.
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Thu 3/02 7:30 PM Prelinger Library [301 8th St at Folsom St Suite 215 San Francisco, CA, 94103]
A Synesthete's Atlas: Eric Theise manipulating projected maps to a soundscape inspired by the Library’s holdings.  More...

Thu 3/02 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
DAMN SKIPPY!
feat. Jenny Scheinman, John Schott, Will Bernard, Scott Amendola & Todd Sickafoose  More...

Thu 3/02 8:00 PM Presidio Theatre [99 Moraga Avenue San Francisco]
ShadowLight Productions & Paul Dresher Ensemble
Sojourner ZY: An Asian American science fiction fantasy

Preview Performance on Thurs March 2.

Sojourner ZY is an original play written by Eugenie Chan. Performed by ShadowLight Productions in their signature style of large-scale cinematic shadow theater. Featuring original music by Paul Dresher. Directed by Larry Reed.

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Fri 3/03 10:00 AM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Linda Bouchard will present her work on ocular scores.  More...

Fri 3/03 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Shape Studies: Gallery Opening  More...

Fri 3/03 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
The Composition Forum presents the residency concert of Rajna Swaminathan, Ganavya Doraiswamy, and Myra Melford.
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Fri 3/03 8:00 PM Presidio Theatre [99 Moraga Avenue San Francisco]
ShadowLight Productions & Paul Dresher Ensemble
Sojourner ZY: An Asian American science fiction fantasy

Sojourner ZY is an original play written by Eugenie Chan. Performed by ShadowLight Productions in their signature style of large-scale cinematic shadow theater. Featuring original music by Paul Dresher. Directed by Larry Reed.

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Sat 3/04 7:00 PM Happyland Salon [Hayward, CA]
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Improvisation Number 1000 Andrew Barnes Jamieson

Contact Andrew (AndrewBarnesJam@gmail.com) for physical address if you don't have it already.  More...

Sat 3/04 8:00 PM Presidio Theatre [99 Moraga Avenue San Francisco]
ShadowLight Productions & Paul Dresher Ensemble
Sojourner ZY: An Asian American science fiction fantasy

Sojourner ZY is an original play written by Eugenie Chan. Performed by ShadowLight Productions in their signature style of large-scale cinematic shadow theater. Featuring original music by Paul Dresher. Directed by Larry Reed.

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Sat 3/04 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Roxanne Nesbitt & Ben Brown play Symbiotic Instruments  More...

Sat 3/04 9:00 PM SoundBox [300 Franklin Street SF]
CODES - CURATED BY NICO MUHLY WITH YUJA WANG

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Sat 3/04 10:00 PM San Francisco Public Library [100 Larkin St SF]
Pamela Z - Night of Ideas

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Sun 3/05 2:00 PM Presidio Theatre [99 Moraga Avenue San Francisco]
ShadowLight Productions & Paul Dresher Ensemble
Sojourner ZY: An Asian American science fiction fantasy

Sojourner ZY is an original play written by Eugenie Chan. Performed by ShadowLight Productions in their signature style of large-scale cinematic shadow theater. Featuring original music by Paul Dresher. Directed by Larry Reed.

More info and Tickets  More...

Sun 3/05 3:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Chris Brown - Ben Davis - Marshall Trammell CD Release Show  More...

Sun 3/05 7:00 PM Berkeley Finnsh Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
Outsound Presents
Vinny Golia's Heptacontakaiheptagon Ensemble
A special 77 pieces large Ensemble made up of some of the most adventurous musicians from the Bay Area and beyond will perform a debut composed and directed by award winning musician Vinny Golia!

As a composer Vinny Golia fuses the rich heritage of Jazz, contemporary classical and world music into his own unique compositions. Also a bandleader, Golia has presented his music to concert audiences in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States in ensembles varying dramatically in size and instrumentation. Mr. Golia has won numerous awards as a composer, including grants from The National Endowment of the Arts, The Lila Wallace Commissioning Program, The California Arts Council, Meet the Composer,Clausen Foundation of the Arts, Funds for U.S. Artists and the American Composers Forum. In 1982 he created the on-going 50 piece Vinny Golia Large Ensemble to perform his compositions for chamber orchestra and jazz ensembles.  More...

Sun 3/05 7:00 PM UC Berkeley Hertz Hall [101 Cross-Sproul Path on the campus of UC Berkeley]
Violinist-composer Dan Flanagan (danflanaganviolin.com) performs The Bow and the Brush: an evening of 20 solo violin compositions, accompanied by projections of visual art from Flanagan’s personal collection. With music directly inspired by paintings, pastels, mixed media, and sculptures, the program highlights pieces by Raffaëlli, Guillaumin, Pinchon, and living artists including Paul Gibson, Nikki Vismara, and Elaine Pratt. The concert serves as a CD release party for Flanagan’s upcoming solo album, The Bow and the Brush, slated for release on MSR Classics, with visual video accompaniment of the art to be uploaded to YouTube. All of the musical works are Berkeley premieres; Works by Stephenson and Mecionis will be West Coast Premieres; and works by Neville, Weston and Flanagan (“Timeless”) will be World Premieres.  More...

Sun 3/05 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm. Donations for the venue rental are encouraged.  More...