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01/30/2020 - 03/14/2020

Thursday, January 30
Thu 1/30 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Raskin-Brown-Tarasov-Hoopes Quartet  More...
Thu 1/30 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Mit Darm
Edward Schocker - glass/shō; Suki O'Kane - electronics
Hanes/Adams is the improvising electronic duo of drummer John Hanes and reed player Steve Adams  More...
Friday, January 31
Fri 1/31 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall Studio [327 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA at Bing | The Lord of the Bings: The Return of the Bing | CONCERT 1

Please join us for the third and final installment of our epic concert series The Lord of the Bings: The Return of the Bing. We will present two different evening programs of multichannel immersive music and soundscapes in Bing Concert Hall Studio. Our GRAIL sound system will be deployed again in a 3D setup for a selection of pieces from CCRMA and around the Middle-earth.  More...
Fri 1/31 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College Music Department 5000 MacArthur Blvd]
Du Yun Lecture: Visiting composer Du Yun talks about her work.  More...
Fri 1/31 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
SANS; duo  More...
Fri 1/31 9:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble  More...
Saturday, February 1
Sat 2/01 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
As much as a painter and subject are both represented in a visual portrait, composers and performers often mix in fascinating ways in music. Icelandic-American cellist, Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir performs a program that explores contemporary works for solo cello that she feels a close connection. From Jane Antonia Cornish’s aptly named “Portrait” from 2015 to a piece inspired by Sæunn’s grandfather’s poetry by Melia Watras, the program explores various multifaceted connections between performer and composer.  More...
Sat 2/01 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall Studio [327 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA at Bing | The Lord of the Bings: The Return of the Bing | CONCERT 2

Please join us for the third and final installment of our epic concert series The Lord of the Bings: The Return of the Bing. We will present two different evening programs of multichannel immersive music and soundscapes in Bing Concert Hall Studio. Our GRAIL sound system will be deployed again in a 3D setup for a selection of pieces from CCRMA and around the Middle-earth.  More...
Sat 2/01 8:00 PM Space 124 at Project Artaud [401 Alabama Street San Francisco, CA 94110]
Dirt and Copper presents new works in collaboration with Laura Steenberge, joined by artist Rebeca Bollinger, and performing amidst Dana Hemenway’s work in progress, The Color of Horizons.

The performance sparks sonic and visual action between players as they navigate among Hemenway’s installation. New works by Laura Steenberge, Matt Robidoux, Julie Herndon, and Tony Gennaro are interwoven with Bollinger and Hemenway’s live visuals, activating space and shadows.  More...
Sat 2/01 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Du Yun, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, guest at the Mills College Music Department. A program of her music performed by, Kyle Bruckmann, Jennifer Ellis, Steed Cowart, others.  More...
Sat 2/01 8:00 PM Project Artaud Theatre [499 Alabama St SF]
Shadow Box: Dirt and Copper w/ Laura Steenberge

Dirt and Copper presents new works in collaboration with Laura Steenberge, joined by artist Rebeca Bollinger, and performing amidst Dana Hemenway’s work in progress, The Color of Horizons.  More...
Sat 2/01 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Do-Over Music Series #14: duo B. Experimental Band plays Anthony Braxton
with guest director, Chris Jonas

As part of a world-wide series of Braxton75 events, the duo B. Experimental Band celebrates the music, life and enduring influence of visionary composer, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist and musical thinker Anthony Braxton in an all-Braxton program led by Santa Fe saxophonist, community organizer and Braxton collaborator Chris Jonas.

Polly Moller Springhorn, flutes
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
Rachel Condry, clarinets
Cory Wright, woodwinds
Bruce Ackley, woodwinds
Randy McKean, woodwinds
Dan Plonsey, woodwinds
Tom Weeks, alto saxophone
Kasey Knudsen, alto saxophone
Michael Zelner, alto saxophone and Bb clarinet
Daniel Goldberg, tenor saxophone
Steve Adams, alto saxophone/electronics
Erika Oba, flute/keyboard
Ian Carey, trumpet
Ron Heglin, trombone/euphonium
gabby fluke-mogul, violin
Kevin CK Lo, violin
Juan Hernandez, guitar
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Brett Carson, keyboard
Kjell Nordeson, vibraphone
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass
Andrew Harlan, acoustic bass
Safa Shokrai, acoustic bass
Dillon Vado, percussion
Suki O'Kane, percussion
Jordan Glenn, drums
Jason Levis, drums  More...
Sunday, February 2
Sun 2/02 3:00 PM Oakland (RSVP for address) [Andrew Barnes Jamieson: AndrewBarnesJam@gmail.com]
Super Bowl deconstructed! Improvised abstract music as a soundtrack to Super Bowl LIV.  More...
Sun 2/02 4:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
ESO with duo B Experimental Band Plays Braxton  More...
Monday, February 3
Mon 2/03 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Tania Chen - "Micro Micro" - Micro sounds. micro universes, a meditation on listening and an exploration of minimalism through movement, sound and astro-electronics, concept and spontaneity in performance. An investigation of duration, dynamic, the relationship between performance and the physical body of the performer and the physical body of sounds within physical space.  More...
Mon 2/03 7:30 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Wolf Langis: Laetitia Sonami + Signal Flow Benefit  More...
Mon 2/03 8:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

Set #1: FYI Birds (improvisation)

Lisa Mezzacappa Six - Cosmicomics CD Release Celebration!
Set #2: Lisa Mezzacappa Six (jazz/modern composition)
Aaron Bennett-tenor sax
John Finkbeiner-electric guitar
Mark Clifford-vibes
Tim Perkis-electronics
Lisa Mezzacappa-acoustic bass & compositions
Jordan Glenn-drums

Set #3: TJ Thompson Trio (free jazz/improvisation)
TJ Thompson-drums
Kevin Robinson-saxophone
Karl Evangelista-guitar  More...
Tuesday, February 4
Tue 2/04 4:00 PM Sound Wheels - KZSU [KZSU Radio 90.1 FM http://kzsu.stanford.edu/live/]
Franck Martin brings his own brand of electronic music that grows from a long history of listening and learning. Hear how it translates into radio on Sound Wheels Tuesday February 4 from 4-6pm PST.  More...
Tue 2/04 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Way Out West Concert Series - The Lost Trio  More...
Thursday, February 6
Thu 2/06 7:30 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Big Butterfly plays Scott Amendola's Birthday Bash +The Scott Amendola Quartet PLUS special guest Will Blades!

Why not celebrate another trip around the sun with a free show? Let’s get pop and jazz and, well f*** it, just play some music!  More...
Thu 2/06 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Faults
Jaroba-reeds, Jorge Bachmann - electronics, Kevin Kevin Corcoran - percussion
- solo  More...
Friday, February 7
Fri 2/07 7:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Schimscheimer Family Trio + Atwal/Brenner/Goldberg  More...
Fri 2/07 8:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
Sharp & Fine: Just Ahead is Darkness

JUST AHEAD IS DARKNESS is Sharp & Fine's newest “play for dance.” A devised work for six performers and four musicians, Just Ahead is Darkness draws on the Japanese and Japanese-American tradition of remembering the dead with Bon dances to tell a poignant and magical tale about family, love, loss, and the eternal return of ghosts.  More...
Fri 2/07 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Zane Forshee – Full Circle  More...
Fri 2/07 9:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Actress (Live A/V) & 8ULENTINA  More...
Saturday, February 8
Sat 2/08 12:00 AM KZSU 90.1FM [1 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305]
Tune in to KZSU's Day of Noise for 24 full hours of live experimental noise music. Broadcast live from our studios on the Stanford campus, this annual event features more than 40 local SF Bay Area artists. Listen with your radio, or through our online audio and video streams at kzsu.stanford.edu.  More...
Sat 2/08 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St SF]
G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S

NOON UNTIL 2PM SHARP!!!
vegan pancakes served.  More...
Sat 2/08 4:00 PM HNU Sudio Theater Valley Center for the Performing Arts [Holy Names University 3500 Mountain Blvd. Oakland, CA]
Faculty and Friends Concert
Saturday, February 8, 2020  - 4:00pm, Holy Names University Studio Theater - Valley Performing Arts Center;
works by *Reid, Prokofiev, Lauro, Copland, Barber,Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Bizet 

*Tree Piece #67 'bird haiku' for African Grey Parrot and open ensemble
Lulu, African Grey Parrot
Wendy Reid, violin
Brenda Hutchinson, long tube instrument
Krystyna Bobrowski, glisglas
Aurora Josephson, voice
Ron Heglin, tuba, voice  More...
Sat 2/08 6:00 PM Sherman Street Studios [16 Sherman Street, S.F.]
The Art of Skatch - a gallery show opening presented by T.D. Skatchit, celebrating the 10 year Anniversary of Skatch featuring Tom Nunn's Skatchboxes, Skatchwheels and Skatchart with live performances by T.D. Skatchit, Christina Braun and Bruce Ackley.  More...
Sat 2/08 7:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Theresa Wong & DunkelpeK  More...
Sat 2/08 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94122]
Angela Kraft Cross, San Francisco Bay Area organist, pianist and composer, graduated from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music in 1980 with bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Organ Performance. She then earned her Doctor of Medicine degree at Loma Linda University, where she subsequently completed her residency in ophthalmology. Ms. Cross will perform works by Bach, Alexander Guilmant, Louis Vierne (to commemorate the 150th birthday of the composer) and the Petite Messe d’Orgue by Angela Kraft Cross.  More...
Sat 2/08 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Speed of Darkness by Izabel Austin is inspired by the second stanza of Muriel Rukeyser’s poem “Speed of Darkness”, which is about the interplay and transformation between listening, speaking, and silence. The piece is not meant to literally interpret or represent the poem but instead draws on the sounds of the words and the ideas expressed in the poem.  More...
Sat 2/08 8:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
Sharp & Fine: Just Ahead is Darkness

JUST AHEAD IS DARKNESS is Sharp & Fine's newest “play for dance.” A devised work for six performers and four musicians, Just Ahead is Darkness draws on the Japanese and Japanese-American tradition of remembering the dead with Bon dances to tell a poignant and magical tale about family, love, loss, and the eternal return of ghosts.  More...
Sunday, February 9
Sun 2/09 2:00 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [1773 Broadway Oakland]
Ratskin Records Pop Up Day party At Vamp Records  More...
Sun 2/09 2:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
Sharp & Fine: Just Ahead is Darkness

JUST AHEAD IS DARKNESS is Sharp & Fine's newest “play for dance.” A devised work for six performers and four musicians, Just Ahead is Darkness draws on the Japanese and Japanese-American tradition of remembering the dead with Bon dances to tell a poignant and magical tale about family, love, loss, and the eternal return of ghosts.  More...
Sun 2/09 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Wooden Fish Ensemble  More...
Sun 2/09 4:00 PM Palo Alto, CA [363 Whitclem Pl, Palo Alto, CA 94306]
Fantasies: Reimagining our fantasy world in sound. Playing around in the space between classical and contemporary, composed, and improvised. And on the edges. With Anita Chandavarkar, flute; Patrick Talesfore, Jr., drums; Andrew Barnes Jamieson, piano.  More...
Sun 2/09 7:00 PM Swedish American Hall [2174 Market Street San Francisco]
(((folkYEAH!))) Presents

CUP

Ft. Nels Cline & Yuka C. Honda

Tickets Here  More...
Sun 2/09 7:00 PM 180 Capp [180 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94110]
A Night of Computer Music with RM Francis and Shatter Pattern.

RM Francis will preceed a performance, with a talk which will discuss the technical and conceptual underpinnings of his practice, covering waveset synthesis; liminal personhood and the minimum perceptual threshold for the attribution of agency; and generative semantic dysfunction in humor as a model for composition.

Shatter Pattern. Interloping with your perception of reality and being!  More...
Sun 2/09 7:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [UC Berkeley Berkeley]
Myra Melford Jazz Platform

An Evening of Jazz Duos Onstage
Tim Berne, saxophone
Matt Mitchell, piano
Ingrid Laubrock, saxophone
Kris Davis, piano
Cal Performances has invited pianist and composer Myra Melford to co-curate our jazz programming this season, with concerts that will introduce Bay Area jazz aficionados to artists who are household names in New York and abroad, but may be less well-known on the West Coast.

Tickets Here  More...
Sun 2/09 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Sally Decker
Kanoko Nishi/gabby fluke-mogul
Chris Brian Taylor/Jeremy Kennedy
Nailbiter (Matt Chandler/Josh Marshall/Daniel Pearce)  More...
Monday, February 10
Mon 2/10 7:30 PM Ensemble Room, Mills College [Music Building Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA 94613]
"0th Rhomboid Set"
RM Francis will present a new synthetic sound work for solo laptop. Francis will perform realtime modifications of generative algorithms developed using the SuperCollider programming language to realize a hybrid semi-improvisational/systems-based performance.  More...
Mon 2/10 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
OFJS: Nelson/Tim Perkis/Jordan Glenn, Nurse Betty, Sam Regan, Trifling  More...
Mon 2/10 9:30 PM Herbst Theatre [401 Van Ness Ave SF]
Earplay: Sky Dances  More...
Tuesday, February 11
Tue 2/11 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Way Out West Concert Series - Telepathy

Patrick Cress- alto & baritone saxophones, Michael Bello-tenor saxophone, Jeff Marrs, drums, TBD-upright

Telepathy has helped carry the torch for original San Francisco Bay Area jazz since 2002, recording four albums, touring both nationally and internationally and fearlessly committing to their original compositions. The band's sound is inspired by Ornette Coleman's keyboardless quartet, but without the stereotypical abrasiveness of the avant-garde.  More...
Tue 2/11 8:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- PGLRG - Phillip Greenlief birthday celebration
- Cory Wright's Fellow Hominids with John Finkbeiner and John Schott on guitars, Jordan Glenn
- The Holly Martins (Kasey Knudsen, Eric Vogler, Lorin Benedict)

NEW EARLY START TIME! Doors at 8:00 / Music at 8:30.  More...
Tue 2/11 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
Resident is a monthly electronic audiovisual open mic event started in 2017. It is held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at The Laundry. 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.

We stream every show on YouTube. Subscribe to this channel with the bell on to be alerted: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8cr5jzteStl_1C3t1ie0wQ  More...
Thursday, February 13
Thu 2/13 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA presents Tender Buttons | Gino Robair - Tania Caroline Chen - Tom Djll | with live video by VJLove aka Bill Thibault

The sound of Tender Buttons occupies a post-New York School sound-space, very much in the spirit of Cage, Feldman, and Wolff. Their music is both composed and improvised, often performed with interactive video projection.  More...
Thu 2/13 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Voi! Maa!
Mika Pontecorvo - guitar, flute, electronics, voice, Kersti Abrams - alto saxophone, flutes, percussion
Elijah Pontecorvo - bass, Mark Pino - drums/percussion
Us2 Trio  More...
Thu 2/13 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
MANA Quartet returns to the Bay Area premiering several new works from their recent collaboration with the Common Sense Composer Collective!  More...
Friday, February 14
Fri 2/14 6:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Let Me Be Frank Video Screening

On Valentine’s Day, the first ever live screening of episodes from the web video documentary series, Let Me Be Frank, based on the life and art of shaman, performance artist, writer, poet, painter, rock singer, director, TV show host, teacher and bon vivant, Frank Moore.

Come EARLY and bring your musical instruments for a music jam before the screening!  More...
Fri 2/14 8:00 PM Radius Gallery [1050 River St #127 Santa Cruz]
Indexical presents a triple bill of electroacoustic performances at Radius Gallery featuring modular analog synths and sampling, bass clarinet and feedback, and a wall of noise from a 10-stringed acoustic guitar. Featuring electronic musician Michelle Lou (Santa Cruz), clarinetist Gleb Kanasevich (NYC), and guitarist Daniel Meyer (LA).  More...
Fri 2/14 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Composer/pianist/scholar/activist John Halle, the Mana Sax Quartet and Friction String Quartet perform two decades of Halle's obliterations and reconfigurations of jazz standards by Monk, Rodgers, and others.  More...
Saturday, February 15
Sat 2/15 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94122]
The Beethoven 2020 Project: Patrick Galvin (violin) & Jung-eun Kim (piano) in concert. Mr. Galvin and Ms. Kim will perform Violin-Piano sonatas by Beethoven, R. Schumann, and J. Brahms.  More...
Sat 2/15 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Tender Buttons
(Tania Chen, piano, Gino Robair & Tom Djll, analog electronics)
and
Tim Perkis + Madalyn Merkey
(improvising digital electronics duo)  More...
Sat 2/15 7:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Composers and Vocalists Christina Wheeler and Rodolfo Cordova perform works that inhabit the space between composition, improvisation, vocal and electronic music. They both met while touring with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and have continued to pursue solo careers that inhabit the liminal zone of electronic music with an emphasis on the voice. Wheeler will perform her work Tres Es un Número Mágico: Kaleidoscopic Triptychs, a three-part, solo composition in audience-generated, chance order and direction, for voice, electric mbira, electric autoharp, Q-Chord, delay loops, and electronic effects processing. Cordova will be presenting a solo set of both improvised and
composed vocal/electronic music that incorporates extended vocal techniques, loops and samples. Doors at 7:30 PM and music at 8:00 PM.  More...
Sat 2/15 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
Myra Melford joins Rova Saxophone Quartet for an evening of premieres by Myra, Jon Raskin and Steve Adams.  More...
Sat 2/15 8:00 PM LAND AND SEA [5428 San Pablo ave, Oakland]
Derek Monypeny
Anne-Lesley Selcer
in/during (Min Yoon & Kevin Corcoran)  More...
Sunday, February 16
Sun 2/16 4:00 PM Music on Spruce [Private home in North Berkeley Hills]
Avant-garde clarinetist François Houle, master of extended techniques, makes a rare Bay Area appearance in solo performance in a house concert in the North Berkeley Hills. Seating is limited. Mr. Houle performs 2 sets, with wine and cheese served during intermission.

Send an email for reservations and address: harry@fullplatemedia.com  More...
Sun 2/16 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
SSSS: SURROUND SOUND SALON SERIES #2  More...
Sun 2/16 5:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
The AB West 8+1 ensemble performs the music of one of the most revered figures in contemporary music, Anthony Braxton. Directed by longtime Braxton collaborator Chris Jonas, the ensemble features members of key Bay Area new music ensembles Del Sol String Quartet and Goggle Sax Quartet (with Dan Plonsey, Cory Wright, Chris Jonas, and Randy McKean), and double-bassist Lisa Mezzacappa. This event is part of Braxton75, a two-year initiative of the Tri-Centric Foundation celebrating the composer’s seventy-fifth birthday.  More...
Sun 2/16 7:00 PM The Armory Club [1799 Mission St 94103 San Francisco, CA, US]
By popular demand, Phuturo and Franck Martin are bringing you the third edition of the awesome FM+1 Mystery Event, a mix of Modular Synthesizer Electronic Music and Shibari. With the participation of normalien, Jack Hammer XL  More...
Sun 2/16 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. It's free. If you want to contribute, bring snacks and drinks.  More...
Monday, February 17
Mon 2/17 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
François Houle’s solo tour of the West Coast continues with his special-guest appearance here, playing for the first time with this now ongoing-trio of Bay Area improvisers. The hope here: to combine improvising sensibilities, setting each other up time and again to capitalize on structural possibilities that give rare and meaningful form to an otherwise very spontaneous music.  More...
Mon 2/17 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Goldberg/Rontz/Mezzacappa/Glenn, Kate Mohanty, & Hummel  More...
Tuesday, February 18
Tue 2/18 4:00 PM Sound Wheels - KZSU [KZSU Radio 90.1 FM]
It is incredibly exciting to have instrument inventor, improviser and installation artist Bryan Day at the program this week! He has made appearances and traveled around the globe with his installations. You may know him from his solo performances as Sistrum and Eloine and in the Shelf Life and Seeded Plain ensembles. Will he perform with his Whiskerphone, Rotowhisker, Sonic Marionette, Sound Mouse, Junk Kalimba or Circuit Bending? Tune in to find out!  More...
Tue 2/18 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
JACOB SWANSON – WIRED. IN CONCERT  More...
Tue 2/18 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Voicehandler, John Krausbauer, Henry Birdsey, Chris Cooper  More...
Wednesday, February 19
Wed 2/19 6:30 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94118]
A free 2 hour presentation exploring the history of ECM Records.  More...
Wed 2/19 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
Stanford New Ensemble + Friction Quartet present a concert with new works by undergraduate composers and Terry Riley’s "In C" performed around CCRMA's building.  More...
Wed 2/19 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
On the next installment of Latitudes, Angel Archer indulges us in extended rituals from their dimly lit corner of kosmische psychedelia and ambient soundscaping. Henry Birdsey visits from the East Coast to perform microtonal drone hymns for lap steel guitar.  More...
Thursday, February 20
Thu 2/20 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
CLOSING RECEPTION: CLAMORWORKS BY Bryan Day  More...
Thu 2/20 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA presents a double bill concert with Ezra Buchla and Alex Chechile.  More...
Thu 2/20 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Oren Ambarchi & crys cole

Canadian sound artist crys cole and Australian polymath Oren Ambarchi carve out an intimate and human sonic space across a diverse array of compositional approaches, sound sources, fidelities, and textures. Partners both creatively and romantically, this unique duo reimagines electro-acoustic music, not simply as “abstract” sound, but as a diary, a love poem, a dream.  More...
Thu 2/20 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street]
bran(...)pos
Anyone who got the lights-out mutlichannel glimpse of his "Martian Brine Pool" at this year's SF Tape Music festival can tell you: This is no time to save yourself... down the hatch, plate yourself properly.
https://branpos.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-mushmouth

Ralph White (Austin, TX)
“a lonesome spark, exaggerating the implied drone at the heart of the music of Dock Boggs and The Stanley Brothers... playing wooden six-string banjo, violin, accordion and kalimba, his voice has a high, eerie quality... extremely psychedelic" -(David Keenan, The Wire UK)
https://ralphewhite.com/music

Junior Mint Prince
They'll collage strings and electronic toys with soft screams terraforming new timbres in a next-century freak-folk post-topia. Raw voices bridge chaotic bursts of electronic processing and analog synthesis, not a reach to transcend the vortex but to vascularize new paths within its churn.
https://juniormintprince.bandcamp.com/

Kanoko Nishi-Smith & Gabby Fluke-Mogul
Exquisitely attuned duo bringing depth to your experience of sound hues, of infinite timbres, of trust, of vulnerability and of desire. Theirs is an ocean that includes the sky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2XNxMRVgxA  More...
Thu 2/20 9:00 PM Brix [581 5th Street, Oakland]
Supervoid is a new ambient/experimental/electronic Oakland monthly featuring live performances and DJ sets.

https://www.facebook.com/events/603007413875992/  More...
Friday, February 21
Fri 2/21 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Crossing Over Series presents an evening of contemporary chamber music by vibraphonist-composer Dr. Eldad Tarmu for vibraphone and oboe.  More...
Fri 2/21 8:00 PM Radius Gallery [1050 River St #127 Santa Cruz]
Indexical presents ecstatic improvisation and high-volume microtonal drones by the duo of John Krausbauer & Kaori Suzuki (Oakland) on violins, voices, bells, and strobe lights; tape loops and hypnotic live-drawing by The Swinging Chandeliers (LA) Joseph Hammer of the Los Angeles Free Music Society with artist/hypnotist Sayo Mitsuishi; and microtonal lap steel guitar by Henry Birdsey (Vermont) of drone duo Tongue Depressor. Expect a night of trance-inducing sounds from a variety of strings instruments and electronics.  More...
Saturday, February 22
Sat 2/22 2:00 PM Sherman St. Studios [16 Sherman St., S.F.]
The Art of Skatch Soiree with Tom Nunn & David Michalak
An informal gathering to talk about and play some of the instruments on exhibit.  More...
Sat 2/22 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Del Sol String Quartet performing works written by alumni of The Walden School’s programs. Moderated by composer Nathaniel Stookey.
Composers Forums are central to the Walden School experience, where new music is presented in a concert setting, and each new work’s premiere is followed immediately by dialogue between the composer(s), performer(s), audience, and the moderator(s). Alumni of Walden’s programs range in age from 10-100, with some professional composers, student composers, serious amateur composers, and hobbyists – and everything in between. A range of styles and genres is welcome and encouraged.  More...
Sat 2/22 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA]
Journey to the world of Portuguese Fado as interpreted by Ramana Vieira, a northern California native of Portuguese descent. Vieira’s parents immigrated to the United States from Portugal, where her grandfather was a well-known musician and composer from Madeira Island.  More...
Sunday, February 23
Sun 2/23 4:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Brian Connelly performs Beethoven on a period fortepiano.  More...
Sun 2/23 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Ellis/Charuest/Valsamis
Lisle Ellis - bass, Yves Charuest - saxophone, Peter Valsamis - drums
Brett Carson solo piano  More...
Monday, February 24
Mon 2/24 8:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out II
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

Monday, 2/24, 8pm (8:30pm start)
No Cover/Donations Accepted

Set #1: Jakob Pek Solo

Set #2: Lorin Benedict/Tim Perkis Duo (free improvisation)
Lorin Benedict-voice
Tim Perkis-electronics

Set #3: Erik Jekabson and Shoebox Orchestra  More...
Mon 2/24 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Tim Rowe, Sheldon Brown, Joseph Ferrera  More...
Tuesday, February 25
Tue 2/25 5:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA]
Every year we host our annual Pancake Supper to celebrate Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras. Our Pancake Supper features different selections of pancakes with a live band for listening or dancing after the feasting. Food is served continuously from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Seating is limited and is first come, first served.

Featuring the Goad Family Jug Band: The Goat Family has now been knitting it’s eclectic weave of Americana music for more than sixteen years. Starting as an informal traditional music jam in the San Francisco neighborhood that Jack London once called South of the Slot, the Goats have matured into a tight, formidable, and original songwriting unit.  More...
Tue 2/25 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Way Out West Concert Series - Fred Frith/Phillip Greenlief/Scott Amendola  More...
Tue 2/25 8:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Clarinet Thing  More...
Wednesday, February 26
Wed 2/26 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Pianist-composer Jared Redmond returns to the Bay Area, performing a recital of piano works by himself and other contemporary composers. Program includes world premieres by composers Park Jung-eun and Noh Ji-ye, pieces by Michael Finnissy, Kurt Rohde, and Wolfgang Rihm, and Redmond's own new work for solo piano, "Doth".  More...
Wed 2/26 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush St]
Audium: Sound and Space Workshop

Audium’s workshop series will introduce participants to the language of composing for “sound-sculptured space”. Learn how to think beyond just one's eyes and ears- to the entire experience- when planning sound installations. Meet the composers behind Audium, sample what they're working on, and learn about the art of sound movement.  More...
Thursday, February 27
Thu 2/27 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
DUO Kattt Atchley/Ron Heglin, Kenneth Atchley & TRIO
This evening’s event is a celebration of Kattt Atchley and Ron Heglin’s debut CD “DUO”. The disc, recorded, edited and mixed by Philip Perkins, was released in November 2019.  More...
Thu 2/27 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Sharmi Basu, Claire Cronin, Future Twin, Madrigal  More...
Friday, February 28
Fri 2/28 7:00 PM Sherman Street Studios [16 Sherman St.]
The Art of Skatch - a gallery show closing with performances by T.D. Skatchit with Chris Brown (electronics), Dean Santomieri (spoken word) and Ron Heglin, Lorin Benedict and Katt Atchley (vocals)  More...
Fri 2/28 8:00 PM Radius Gallery [1050 River St #127 Santa Cruz]
Hung Tzu Ni + Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken + Daniel Allas  More...
Fri 2/28 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
NOTE: This show has been cancelled

Performances by the Colibri Duo, violinists Michele Walther and Monika Gruber.  More...
Fri 2/28 8:00 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St, San Francisco]
Volti Vocal Ensemble

16-voice vocal ensemble, Volti, directed by Robert Geary, featured on the Innova Label, recent collaborators with the Kronos Quartet, ODC dance company, the Left Coast Ensemble, will give two Bay Area performances this weekend entitled "Almost Speechless," performing works by Danny Clay*, Tonia Ko**, Zibuokle Martinaityte, and Mark Winges* **, all Volti commissions.  More...
Saturday, February 29
Sat 2/29 6:00 PM Island United Church [1130 Balclutha Drive, Foster City, CA]
The Trouble I've Seen

During Black History Month, Island United Church invites us into an evening of music, sound, spoken word, and Trouble-making

Featuring poet Marvin K White with the avant-gospel vocal/instrumental Trouble Ensemble

Darnell Ishmel, baritone, and Andrew Barnes Jamieson, piano

$15 suggested donation

Concert proceeds benefit the NAACP San Mateo Chapter  More...
Sat 2/29 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Trio Electrique features Michele Walther on electric violin, Edo Castro Woodhouse on 7 string bass, and E. Doctor Smith on zendrum, loops and samples  More...
Sat 2/29 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA]
The Beethoven 2020 Project: Patrick Galvin (violin), Jung-eun Kim (piano), Chauncey Aceret (cello) in concert, feature piano trios by Beethoven, Clara Schumann, and Paul Schoenfield.

L. Beethoven Piano trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost”
C. Schumann Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17
P. Schoenfield Piano Trio, “Cafe Music  More...
Sat 2/29 8:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Robidoux Album Release Show: Matt Robidoux Octet / Melissa Weikart / Vol / Corder Murray  More...
Sat 2/29 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
Eco Ensemble

UC Berkeley's daring and accomplished ensemble-in-residence comprises contemporary music specialists from throughout the Bay Area, directed by new-music champion David Milnes.  More...
Sat 2/29 8:00 PM Hillside Club [2286 Cedar St., Berkeley]
Volti Vocal Ensemble

16-voice vocal ensemble, Volti, directed by Robert Geary, featured on the Innova Label, recent collaborators with the Kronos Quartet, ODC dance company, the Left Coast Ensemble, will give two Bay Area performances this weekend entitled "Almost Speechless," performing works by Danny Clay*, Tonia Ko**, Zibuokle Martinaityte, and Mark Winges* **, all Volti commissions.  More...
Sunday, March 1
Sun 3/01 4:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Matt Renzi's "Arm-Sized Legging" - which way west?

Arm-Sized Legging is a project consisting of woodwinds (saxophone, clarinet, english horn), cello, bass, and drums, playing a repertoire of all original compositions.  More...
Monday, March 2
Mon 3/02 8:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

Set #1: Quartet (Lee/Nucci/Oba/Weeks) (free improvisation)
Michelle Lee, Kim Nucci, Erika Oba, Tom Weeks-bari sax, piccolo

Set #2: Amendola Trio (rock/jazz/experimental)
Scott Amendola-drums, Karl Evangelista-guitar, Jason Hoopes-bass

Set #3: Kasey Knudsen Sextet (modern jazz)
Kasey Knudsen-Saxophone, Henry Hung-Trumpet, Rob Ewing-Trombone, Dahveed Behroozi-Piano, Miles Wick-Bass, Eric Garland-Drums  More...
Mon 3/02 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Sobacoe Bruja + Kevin Murray/Jordan Glenn  More...
Tuesday, March 3
Tue 3/03 7:00 PM Happyland Salon [22353 Happyland Avenue, Hayward, CA]
All Ears Interfaith Sangha: Sounds of Freedom and Justice with Darnell Ishmel.  More...
Wednesday, March 4
Wed 3/04 8:30 PM Starline Social Club [2236 Martin Luther King Oakland]
Eugene Chadbourne at the Starline Social Club  More...
Thursday, March 5
Thu 3/05 7:00 PM First Congregational Church of Berkeley [2345 Channing Way, Berkeley]
Pianist Annie Yim - The Poet Speaks: from Debussy to Pärt

MusicArt, in association with the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), presents a cross-disciplinary, poetry-inspired concert, featuring pianist Annie Yim.

‘The Poet Speaks: from Debussy to Pärt’, a MusicArt conceptual concert, combines the recorded voices of composers and poets with live piano, juxtaposing poems from two centuries with musical responses to them by Debussy, Ravel, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, and Philip Glass. Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina will be performed with a specially commissioned poem ‘Sunlight’ by Zaffar Kunial. The concert includes extracts from a new work ‘Mirrors’ co-created by composer Raymond Yiu, poet Kayo Chingonyi and pianist Annie Yim.  More...
Thu 3/05 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow is a student run music festival held every spring at Mills College. All students graduating from the music program the year of the festival present their thesis pieces at various venues around the campus. Signal Flow pieces may be theses in composition, electronic music or improvisation and can take many different forms: installations, solo improvisations, chamber pieces and more.  More...
Thu 3/05 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
sPyDrnx
Cryptic solo stylings of Yasi Perata heretofore performing as Syrnx foretohere alighting in the Peacock on a wisp of spider silk. Do not miss this super rare light, shadow, sound show of pure post-person fire.
https://youtu.be/9YsGewMn6gE

Bjll Dingalls
In the blur between acoustic and amplified, synthetic and analog, algorhythm and improvisation, clarity is forged anew only if you look ahead. Swinging serious sonic sledgehammers for a threefold lifetime now, Bill Hsu, Matt Ingalls, and Tom Djll lay the railroad into terra incognita.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK_phm8-3e8&feature=youtu.be&t=14547

Fletcher Pratt
Boundless in abstraction yet never disjointed, his sounds stretch like skin continuous across an impossible skeleton.
https://soundcloud.com/fletcher_pratt

Amanda Chaudhary
Amanda Chaudhary's gaze, her custom software synths, her modular synthesizers, theramin, kids' toys, and all manner of folk instruments combine to confound and awaken the heretofore undiscovered sensibilities of her audiences.
https://www.catsynth.com/  More...
Friday, March 6
Fri 3/06 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
RGB ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS: SONGFEST  More...
Fri 3/06 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA]
Klezmer-Jazz Project: Alon Nechushtan is already known to savvy listeners for his deft piano playing and his work in klezmer (he leads the band Talat, which released a record on Tzadik’s Radical Jewish Culture Series) and his various jazz ensembles, with releases on Ayler Records and Between the Lines as well as the unexpected moodiness of his superstar 12-tet Dark Forces, with a release on Creative Sources.  More...
Fri 3/06 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA presents "Salt Itinerary", a new op-era by the Miso Ensemble.  More...
Fri 3/06 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow is a student run music festival held every spring at Mills College. All students graduating from the music program the year of the festival present their thesis pieces at various venues around the campus. Signal Flow pieces may be theses in composition, electronic music or improvisation and can take many different forms: installations, solo improvisations, chamber pieces and more.  More...
Fri 3/06 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
RECOMBINANT 2020: Fennesz / Byetone  More...
Saturday, March 7
Sat 3/07 6:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
Michael Manring returns to the dinner/concert series  More...
Sat 3/07 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA]
DuoSF is quickly becoming recognized as one of America’s most promising young guitar ensembles. In a review of their debut CD, Classical Guitar Magazine wrote, “effortlessly played”, and “this interpretation is one of the very best I have heard…an outstanding recording of some lovely music in superb performances beautifully captured. One to hunt for!” Recent concerts have taken their exciting and engaging programs on tours of Southeast Asia with appearances in Indonesia, Malayisa and Thailand to the Kravis Center’s young artist’s series, the Musikfest Festival in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and to many guitar and chamber music series throughout California.  More...
Sat 3/07 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Greg Goodman (piano) and Henry Kaiser (guitar)  More...
Sat 3/07 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow is a student run music festival held every spring at Mills College. All students graduating from the music program the year of the festival present their thesis pieces at various venues around the campus. Signal Flow pieces may be theses in composition, electronic music or improvisation and can take many different forms: installations, solo improvisations, chamber pieces and more.  More...
Sat 3/07 8:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Composer, improvisor, sound artist Alvin Curran in duo with percussionist William Winant perform Curran's SHOFAR XXXL for shofar (the ancient Jewish rams-horn), electronics and percussion. Concert takes place in the intimacy of a private home in the Berkeley Hills. Wine and cheese will be provided. Seating is limited.  More...
Sat 3/07 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Do-Over Music #15: The Jordan Glenn Party (8 piece ensemble conducted by JG) + Aaron Oppenheim (musician/video artist)  More...
Sat 3/07 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
RECOMBINANT 2020: Ryoichi Kurokawa / 404.zero  More...
Sunday, March 8
Sun 3/08 2:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
Jocelyn Ho + fff ensemble: Women's Labor  More...
Sun 3/08 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
MUSIC BY RIC LOUCHARD AND MICHAEL ROTHKOPF  More...
Sun 3/08 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Dave Mihaly and the Shore
Lin Shi – piano, percussion/Charith Premawardhana – viola/Patrick Byers – baritone saxophone and flute/Dave Mihaly – drums, guitar, compositions
8:30pm Bill Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute/Brett Carson - piano/Bill Noertker - contrabass/Jon Arkin - drums  More...
Monday, March 9
Mon 3/09 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Full: Fragment

The Iota presents a site-specific performance of a fragmentary tragedy by Sophocles, Laocöon, with the mythic character danced by Babatunji Johnson.  More...
Mon 3/09 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Josh Allen/Tim Duff Duo + Joshua Marshall/Andy Strain/Joel Nelson  More...
Tuesday, March 10
Tue 3/10 4:00 PM Sound Wheels - KZSU [KZSU Radio 90.1 FM]
Jorge Bachmann! That's right, Jorge Bachmann comes to the show this week. The music he brings to the show is his own signature, gentle dark ambient minimalism influenced by his formal study in visual arts.  More...
Tue 3/10 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
[CANCELED] Vilbjørg Broch: Speaking in Mute Silence

CCRMA Visiting Scholar Vilbjørg Broch presents a concert with computer generated immersive audio works and voice.  More...
Tue 3/10 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
QUARTET
Kyle Bruckmann - oboe, english horn
Evelyn Davis - prepared piano
Haley Freedlund - trombone
Phillip Greenlief - saxophones

QUARTET is celebrating the arrival of Haley Freedlund, a fiercely intelligent improviser from seattle who is passing through the bay area this month. Greenlief has played with Freedlund in the great pacific
northwest and says, "she's got big ears, an expansive sound palette, and great sensitivity". what's not to like?  More...
Tue 3/10 8:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- Euphotic (Bryan Day, Tom Djll, & Cheryl E. Leonard)
- Nava Dunkelman & Kevin Corcoran
- Feral Luggage (Kersti Abrams, Elijah Pontecorvo, Patrick Talesfore, Jr., Colleen Kelly T, Mark Pino, Mika Pontecorvo)

NEW EARLY START TIME! Doors at 8:00 / Music at 8:30.  More...
Tue 3/10 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
Resident is a monthly electronic audiovisual open mic event started in 2017. It is held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at The Laundry. 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.

We stream every show on YouTube. Subscribe to this channel with the bell on to be alerted: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8cr5jzteStl_1C3t1ie0wQ  More...
Thursday, March 12
Thu 3/12 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Jordan Glenn - solo percussion/drums  More...
Thu 3/12 9:00 PM Elbo Room Jack London Square [311 Broadway Oakland]
Watkins/Peacock, Cheflee, Headboggle  More...
Friday, March 13
Fri 3/13 6:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
***CANCELLED***

Our musical guests will be Alexandra Buschman-Román(Las Sucias, Demon Sleeper, La Macacoa) and Phillip Greenlief. To conclude the evening, drawings made by attendees will be configured into a graphic score for them read/interpret. Come see these heavies improv!  More...
Fri 3/13 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA]
**CANCELLED**

The Beethoven 2020 Project: Oliver Brett (organ) and Dan Hively (horn)performs Beethoven's Horn Sonata in F and other works. Born in Kent in the UK in 1985, Oliver Brett was educated as a music and academic scholar at Tonbridge School and then as organ scholar of King’s College, Cambridge from where he graduated in 2007 with a degree in music. Since then, he has held positions at Westminster Cathedral, Durham Cathedral and most recently St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney. He is currently a doctoral student at the Eastman School of Music studying the organ with Prof David Higgs. He also serves as Director of Music at St Anne’s RC Church in Rochester, NY. He is a prize winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.  More...
Fri 3/13 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
**CANCELLED** OBOETRONICS: DIRECTION OF DISTURBANCE  More...
Fri 3/13 7:30 PM Radius Gallery [1050 River St #127 Santa Cruz]
***CANCELLED***

Five years ago, Desert Magic, Laura, and Larry performed at Radius Gallery - now we're doing it again! Join us for a night of rounds, folk songs, musical settings of the tao te ching, dance and more!  More...
Fri 3/13 8:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Akira Tana Otonowa

Akira Tana & Otonowa featuring Akira Tana, drums; Ken Okada, bass; Masuru Koga, reeds; Art Hirahara, piano.

Motoko Honda opens the show.  More...
Fri 3/13 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
**CANCELLED**

Sam Pluta, Sky Macklay, Tomeka Reid, Kyle Bruckmann and Myra Melford.  More...
Saturday, March 14
Sat 3/14 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St SF]
Noisepancakes w/ Liver Cancer, Bryan Day  More...
Sat 3/14 3:00 PM Mills College Art Museum, Rothwell Theater [5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613]
***POSTPONED***

A cross-disciplinary performance featuring choreographer Molissa Fenley, poet Bob Holman and composer Keith Patchel, inspired by Henri Matisse’s pioneering paper cut-outs. Matisse described his approach to creating these colorful paper compositions as “drawing with scissors.” The performance will be accompanied by an exhibition of Cut Outs from Matisse’s Jazz Suite, from MCAM’s Print Collection, in Slide Space 123, curated by Mills College Studio Art students.  More...
Sat 3/14 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
**CANCELED** DESERT MAGIC AND MEG BAIRD  More...
Sat 3/14 8:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland]
**CANCELED**

Tommy Becker with special guests Steev Hise and Jon Leidecker  More...
Sat 3/14 9:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
***Postponed***

Telefon Tel Aviv performs a new live audiovisual performance at Gray Area.  More...