Wed 2/06 7:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St SF]
Bill Laswell hosting 5-night, 8-show residency

SYPHER (Dave Lombardo (ex-Slayer), Bill Laswell, Dorian Cheah (electric violin))

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Wed 2/06 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Dahveed Behroozi is a pianist and composer, whose interests encompass jazz, classical, as well as new music. His playing has been described as highly expressive, lyrical and colorful by numerous publications nationwide. Performing with him will be Ben Goldberg, clarinet, and Hamir Atwal, drums.  More...

Wed 2/06 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Greenlief / Vatcher DUO and TRIO: Adams Mezzacappa Nordeson

1st set: Adams - Mezzacappa - Nordeson TRIO: These Bay Area improvisers converge in original inventions that traverse abstract soundscapes to angular grooves, melodic flights and collective ruminations. 2nd set: Netherland expat Michael Vatcher DUO with local saxophone wizard Phillip Greenlief in a series of free improvisations.  More...

Wed 2/06 9:30 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St SF]
Bill Laswell hosting 5-night, 8-show residency

Massacre (Fred Frith, Bill Laswell, Charles Hayward)

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Thu 2/07 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Atchley/Heglin duo
Kattt Atchley, Ron Heglin - voice
9:00 pm K. Atchley - solo electronics
Cross -computer-culture compositions and performance
9:30 pm K. Atchley, Kattt Atchley and Ron Heglin trio  More...

Thu 2/07 8:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St SF]
Bill Laswell hosting 5-night, 8-show residency

"Third Rail" (James Blood Ulmer, Bill Laswell, Jerome Bigfoot Brailey)

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Fri 2/08 7:30 PM Zion Lutheran Church [495 9th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94118]
Acclaimed pianist Sarah Cahill + virtuoso violinist Kate Stenberg will perform in concert together for the benefit of Dirty Girls of Lesvos  More...

Fri 2/08 8:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St SF]
Bill Laswell hosting 5-night, 8-show residency

"Method of Defiance" (Dr. Israel, Bill Laswell, DJ Logic, Graham Haynes, Peter Apfelbaum, Josh Werner, Guy Licata)

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Sat 2/09 12:00 AM KZSU FM Radio [90.1 FM or http://kzsu.stanford.edu/live/]
KZSU Day of Noise
24 HOURS OF LIVE MUSIC
FEBRUARY 9, 2019
00:00 AM - 11:59 PM PACIFIC TIME
ABOUT
All things strange and beautiful. Twenty-four hours straight of live experimentation and improvisation, featuring experimental/noise/drone bands and artists from the Bay Area and beyond. A KZSU tradition since the '90s: this is the 17th Day of Noise. Listen in on 90.1 FM in the Bay Area and kzsulive.stanford.edu around the world.  More...

Sat 2/09 7:00 AM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94110]
Sibarg Ensemble: An Evening of Iranian & Jazz Improvisation  More...

Sat 2/09 3:30 PM Re:Sound Magazine A-168 [Azuar and Mercado Ct Vallejo CA 94592]
23five presents Re:Sound

Doors at 3:30pm, sound at 4:00
Tickets: $10-15 sliding scale
We recommend you bring something to sit on and dress in layers, it can get cold.
A percentage of donations go to the Mare Island Shoreline Preserve
More info can be found at re-sound.net  More...

Sat 2/09 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Wayne Horvitz/The Snowghost Sessions with special guest Sara Schoenbeck

Sara Schoenbeck joins Wayne and the Snowghost Trio for an evening of duets, trio music from the recently released "Snowghost Session," and finally a quartet.  More...

Sun 2/10 5:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
Guillermo Galindo (guitars and electronics) and Sangita Moskow (electric sarod, vocal, percussion): Sonic journeys into uncharted territories blending modified traditional Eastern and Western instruments with electronics. These master musicians create a unique musical experience with their imaginative conversations.

Kattt Atchley (voice) and Ron Heglin (voice): Create a sound that integrates speech and sung traditions. With a focus on experimentation, they have gradually developed a signature sound which blends pitches, melodies, drones, multiple tuning, and amplification.

Plus we (Guillermo, Kattt, Ron, Sangita) will play as a quartet! Drone music to open into!  More...

Sun 2/10 7:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave Oakland]
Bay Area Bridges: RDL+ Featuring Dillon Vado. Curated by RDL+, Bay Area Bridges celebrates the Bay Area music scene, with Oakland as its launch pad. This series takes place the second Sunday of each month at Studio Grand. This month, drummer/vibraphonist Dillon Vado will bring music from his groups The Table Trio and Never Weather to Bay Area Bridges. Moved by the depth of Vado’s performance and composition, RDL+ will also debut new pieces featuring Vado. DOORS AT 6:30PM, SHOW AT 7PM  More...

Sun 2/10 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 pm Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone performs THE FIFTY STATES FOR TENOR SAXOPHONE
8:30 pm KREation Ensemble
presenting a sonic meditation based on a labyrinth of sound worlds
Feona Lee Jones - Piano, Kevin Robinson - Woodwinds, Lee Hodel - Bass, and Tony Gennaro - Percussion  More...

Mon 2/11 7:30 PM Ensemble Room [Mills College Music Department 5000 MacArthur Blvd]
MICHAEL PISARO - Lecture -

Michael Pisaro is a composer and guitarist, and a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble. He has composed over 80 works for a variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues.  More...

Mon 2/11 9:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents: Alvaro Domene/Francis Wong/Hamir Atwal/Ben Goldberg Quartet, plus Stepančić/Lorenz/Gidron performing "Colours Of Silence" by Jürg Frey and other pieces. DOORS 9:00 PM; SHOW 9:30(ish)  More...

Tue 2/12 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Latitudes: William Fowler Collins & Geneva Skeen  More...

Tue 2/12 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
Resident is a monthly electronic music and visual open mic event started by Jeremy Black and friends in 2017. The Laundry event space is casual and cool, and the community you'll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas. Come shows us what you got.  More...

Tue 2/12 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- Stone Raft
- IMA with Caroline Tigre
- Shanna Sordahl  More...

Thu 2/14 7:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
Live music (Howard Wiley - tenor sax and Destiny Muhammad (harp, voice), vaporized cannabis pairings and gourmet vegan food in an intimate setting.  More...

Thu 2/14 7:30 PM Mills College - Danforth Lecture Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA . 94613]
David Behrman - Lecture/Film - Why do highly creative people gather in unexpected places and make important work? This question will be explored at David Behrman’s Vaux lecture at the Danforth Lecture Hall in the Art Department. Prior to his lecture, view "The Frog in the Pond" by Terri Hanlon, which showcases the collection and work of Nina VanRensselaer, particularly the work of the California Funk artists she met and befriended while a graduate student in the UC Davis Art Department in the mid-1960s, including Robert Arneson, Wayne Thiebaud, David Gilhooly, and William Wiley. What happened there at that time parallels what occurred at CCM at Mills in the late Seventies — a new and unique body of art work came into being because of unusual circumstances, unusual artist faculty and unusual students – situations that could have jelled perhaps only in California.  More...

Thu 2/14 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Skullkrusher
Philip Everett - electronics
9:00 pm Prizm
Gabby Wen - electronics and guqin, Kip Kipperman - double bass  More...

Fri 2/15 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Composer-pianist Jared Redmond returns to his home in the Bay Area, performing a recital of contemporary piano works. Jared will premiere new pieces written for him by composers Carolyn Chen, Saman Samadi, and Kurt Rohde, and play modern masterpieces by Giacinto Scelsi, Salvatore Sciarrino, and more.  More...

Fri 2/15 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Scott Amendola, solo percussion and electronics
Álvaro Domene, Scott Amendola, Henry Kaiser trio

Álvaro Domene, originally from Madrid, is a New York based guitarist and composer operating at the convergence of various styles of contemporary creative music. His sound and compositions are influenced by the avant-garde jazz and modern classical traditions, as well as heavy musics.

Tonight he will be joined by Bay Area stalwarts Scott Amendola (percussion) and Henry Kaiser (guitar).  More...

Fri 2/15 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
An evening of movement, sound and video with Leyya Tawil/Mike Khoury, Tom Djll/Bill Hsu/Gino Robair, and Dominic Cramp  More...

Fri 2/15 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Zaïmph & Kaori Suzuki

Zaïmph is the solo project of artist, musician and performer Marcia Bassett. Working in areas of sound, improvisation, live composition and visual creations, Bassett's work is equal parts trance and critique.

Kaori Suzuki is a Tokyo-born music maker/composer living in Oakland, CA. Her solo music involves electroacoustic sound technologies, intensely high register electronics, various instruments and tape, seeking to create heightened listening states.  More...

Sat 2/16 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
Sharkiface and Danishta Rivero perform at CCRMA  More...

Sat 2/16 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Improvised electric guitar solos and duos by Alvaro Domene & Henry Kaiser.  More...

Sat 2/16 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
An evening of works by one of the legendary pioneers of live electronic music. Guest composer David Behrman performs with Zeena Parkins (harp), William Winant (percussion), and the Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble.  More...

Sun 2/17 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...

Mon 2/18 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Rob Ewing's Long Tone Sally (a new all-trombone experimental mega band) plus Steve Blum (solo synth).  More...

Tue 2/19 1:00 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613]
Jennifer Lacey - Lecture - Ear-lids vs. Mirror Neurons - Lacey presents an artist talk through the lens of Music and Dance as disciplines that need to learn to speak to one another.  More...

Tue 2/19 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Ken Field (sopranino sax, flute) with Eric Glick Rieman (prepared piano) and Karen Stackpole (gongs)  More...

Wed 2/20 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Mr. Hungry & The Gnawing Sensations
https://soundcloud.com/mrhungry

Kim Nucci
https://kimnucci.com

Andy Puls
http://videopaws.com/ | http://www.melodyoracle.com/

Julia Mazawa
https://soundcloud.com/juliamazawa  More...

Wed 2/20 9:30 PM The Dildo Factory [Oakland]
Las Sucias/Dunkelman, fluke-mogul, Nishi-Smith/TONED/TDOWYK  More...

Thu 2/21 7:00 PM Caliornia College of the Arts San Francisco [California College of the Arts 1111 8th Street, San Francisco]
Sonic Event: Sarah Hennies, Kadet Kuhne, and Carla Lucero. With Bob Ostertag as Panel Moderator. Sonic Event explores the embodied materiality of sound and the spectrum of sexual difference(s) in the work of three contemporary artists crafting the divergent velocities of sonic experience.  More...

Thu 2/21 7:30 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music [SF Conservatory Recital Hall 50 Oak St. SF]
In SFCMP’s Master Class series you will observe some of the most talented Bay Area pre-professional music students as they learn from our renowned ensemble members in front of a live audience. Students will perform contemporary classical pieces that were selected by them. The students perform the music while being mentored in the master techniques, skills, and style of contemporary music. This new music and percussion master class is led by SFCMP oboist, Kyle Bruckmann.  More...

Thu 2/21 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
David Behrman: Interactive Situations

David Behrman’s program will include revivals of two pieces from the early days of electronic/computer music as well as one or two recent ones. These are pieces in which the electronics provide situations to be explored rather than fixed compositions with specific instructions to performers. The concert will follow a week of collaborative work with Mills students during Behrman’s residency there, and will feature participation by two Mills students: Jiwon Choi and Lee Hodel.  More...

Thu 2/21 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Andrew Jamieson - piano
8:50 pm Matt Ingalls - clarinet
9:25 pm Reed/Nucci
Amy Reed - guitar/voice, Kim Nucci - saxophones/electronics
"Improvising trio blending the acoustic and electronic, minute and resounding sounds, with mindful listening at the core."  More...

Thu 2/21 8:30 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Bill Orcutt, Surplus 1980, Preening  More...

Fri 2/22 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
IN ANY OTHER CONTEXT: CHRIS LORTIE, Julie Herndon & FRIENDS  More...

Fri 2/22 9:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Lucrecia Dalt & Aaron Dilloway

The name Lucrecia Dalt may recall her past five albums (her last, Ou, on Care Of Editions), or her previous collaborations with Laurel Halo, or Julia Holter. Her sixth album, and first venture on RVNG Intl, Anticlines, is a volume of bodily and geological substrates within poetic theory and sound. It explores the boundaries and limitations of human consciousness.

Aaron Dilloway is an experimental musician born in 1976. He is an improvisor and composer originally from Brighton, Michigan who works with the manipulation of 8-Track tape loops in combination with voice, tape delays and various organic and electronic sound sources. A founding member of the industrial noise group Wolf Eyes, Dilloway now resides in Oberlin, OH where he runs Hanson Records and Mailorder.  More...

Fri 2/22 9:30 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
Music for People: Voicehandler, Mossossoppo, Colossal Yes & Mitch Stahlmann  More...

Sat 2/23 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]
San Francisco-Munich Trio

Friedrich Edelmann, Rebecca Rust, Jeanette Tietze  More...

Sun 2/24 2:00 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music [50 Oak St. SF]
Pamela Z will perform a new work composed for voice and electronics with chamber orchestra as part of the San Francisco Conservatory’s Beethoven Interpolations Event at San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco, CA USA  More...

Sun 2/24 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. Berkeley]
Jenny Maybee will be presenting new piano and vocal compositions inspired by her recent Creative Residency at Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island, where she focused on composing for visual media and exploring the intersection between nature and creativity.  More...

Mon 2/25 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Sandy Ewen (Guitar, NYC) and Phillip Greenlief (sax, Oakland) are winding up their west coast tour with an appearance at Tom's Place. Matt Ingalls will open the bill with one of his blistering clarinet solos.  More...

Mon 2/25 9:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
Raffi Garabedian Quartet feat. Kenny Warren & Kasey Knudsen Trio  More...

Mon 2/25 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Kanoko Nishi-Smith/Wobbly [Duo] + Smomid  More...

Tue 2/26 7:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
5 Guitars: Nick Millevoi, Ross Hammond, Sandy Ewen/Henry Kaiser, Karl Evangelista

Five improvising guitarists from lands near and far—Oakland’s Karl Evangelista, Sacramento’s Ross Hammond, NYC-based Sandy Ewen (in duo with Henry Kaiser), and Philadelphian Nick Millevoi—converge for a roving, diverse evening of solo guitar.  More...

Tue 2/26 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Way Out West Concert Series - Ian Carey Quintet+1 Plays "Fire In My Head" & More  More...

Thu 2/28 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Pex/Hodel
Jakob Pek - guitar, Lee Hodel - acoustic bass
Far out explorations exploring just intonation, deep listening, sound as music as art, and noise
8:50 pm Sandy Ewen - prepared guitar
9:25 pm Millevoi/Orcutt duo
Nick Millevoi - guitar, Bill Orcutt - guitar
First time improv with guitarists Nick Millevoi and Bill Orcutt  More...

Thu 2/28 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
Bill Frisell Trio featuring Tony Scherr & Kenny Wollesen with Special Guest Sam Amidon  More...

Fri 3/01 10:00 AM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA Open House

Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) will hold its annual free open house on Friday, March 1, 2019, from 10am to 5pm. CCRMA students, faculty, and staff will present their research in a wide variety of formats.  More...

Fri 3/01 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Kurt Rohde’s Farewell Tour—Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 continues with PART 2, featuring new works for viola and electronics.  More...

Fri 3/01 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
DO-OVER Music Series #3: The Jordan Glenn Party with a solo set by guitarist Joel Nelson

A music composition/improvisation lab co-curated by Jordan Glenn and Lisa Mezzacappa
Every First Saturday (EXCEPT THIS ONE) at Temescal Art Center, Oakland  More...

Fri 3/01 8:00 PM Wind River [421 Wild Way, Santa Cruz]
Portato Portato is an Oakland/Santa Cruz based quartet that performs original works and select compositions from the 20th and 21st centuries. They are committed to presenting experimental and underrepresented music, as well as highlighting the processes of the composer-performer relationship in new music creation. The ensemble’s 2018 program features works by living composers, including premieres of new music by David Dunn, Julie Herndon, Laura Steenberge, and Declan Seifkas.  More...

Sat 3/02 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Lisa Mezzacappa Six
Two Shows, 7:00pm & 8:30pm, SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab
The bassist and composer’s freewheeling sextet plays original material inspired by Italian fantasy author Italo Calvino’s whimsical short story collection Cosmicomics.  More...

Sat 3/02 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.  More...

Sat 3/02 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
ECO ENSEMBLE  More...

Sun 3/03 4:00 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music [50 Oak St. SF]
San Francisco Girls Chorus presents Modern Masters  More...

Sun 3/03 5:30 PM Berkeley, CA [RSVP for address]
RSVP to AndrewBarnesJam@gmail.com for address. Each month, the All Ears Interfaith Sangha gathers to perform Sonic Meditations of Pauline Oliveros, and guest artists will lead us into new sonic and meditative experiences. Afterwards, we will gather for a community meal, with space for both formal and informal conversation to discuss the experience of listening, and connect with fellow Sangha participants. This time, our guest artist is Rachel Condry. She will share her piece Holding Empty Space, a sonic healing meditation for mothers of lost children (children of any age or gestation lost to miscarriage, abortion, stillborn, illness, accident or violence, including police violence). Whether they carried the child to term, were unable for some reason or whether they became mothers in other ways- mothers of the lost never put down their burden and never stop feeling their loss. They often think about what might have been. Mothers do more than simply grieve- they hold space on earth for those they lost- they remember and they carry on with empty weight in their minds. Let us remember and honor the lost with you in sound.  More...

Sun 3/03 7:00 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]
Trio 180, the faculty piano trio-in-residence at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music, is dedicated to its roles as performer, proponent of new music, and educator. In addition to giving concerts and master classes throughout the United States, the trio has been featured on concert series in Mexico and Canada. This talented ensemble includes celebrated concert violinist Ann Miller, renowned cellist Vicky Wang, and award-winning pianist Sonia Leong.  More...

Sun 3/03 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 pm Scott R. Looney Trio
Lisa Mezzacappa - bass, Kjell Nordeson - drums/percussion
8:30 pm Strikethru
Kip Kipperman - contrabass, Isaac Otto - saxophone, Kim Nucci - electronics  More...

Mon 3/04 9:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents... Andrew Jamieson: Solo piano set + Ross Hammond [Sacramento]: Solo guitar set  More...

Thu 3/07 6:00 PM sfsoundRadio [on the interwebs, right where you like it.]
The best kind of gig = the one you don’t need to drag yourself out of the house for.

Tune in to sfSound Radio from 6pm to 10pm to hear radioDinner, a live performance by hanes/adams, the electronic project of drummer John Hanes and reed player Steve Adams, followed by a tablecore improvisation with the Noodles (Michael Zelner, Suki O'Kane).

We’ll post the recipes as we go.  More...

Thu 3/07 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm DNR Trio
Devin Gray - drums Nathaniel Morgan - alto saxophone Ryan Feirrira - guitar
9:00 pm Elliott Levin & New Olduvai Ensemble (Tom Rollison+Cartoon Justice)  More...

Thu 3/07 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow Festival 2019 - New works by Mills College graduate student musicians.  More...

Fri 3/08 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Gabriel Mindel Saloman, known widely for his work in seminal noise band Yellow Swans, joins Latitudes to present his ongoing investigations into music of the liberated body. Composer and instrument-builder Ashley Bellouin is joined by guitarist Ben Bracken to conjure a sound equal parts spiritual, mental, and physical—minimal by design, maximal in spirit.  More...

Fri 3/08 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Elliott Levin: Fusion of Jazz and Words: Free Jazz, Priceless Words - free jazz sax and poetry are featured with a unique version of the New Olduvai Ensemble including Tom Rollison and the members of Harmolodic Folk Jazz ensemble Cartoon Justice. The evening will begin with the music of Underweather Kitten w/Phillip Greenlief, Brett Carson, Kazuto Seito, Jason Levis.  More...

Fri 3/08 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow Festival 2019 - New works by Mills College graduate student musicians.  More...

Sat 3/09 3:30 PM St. John’s Presbyterian Church [2727 College Ave. Berkeley, CA]
Thomas Buckner (baritone) performs music by Roscoe Mitchell, Steed Cowart, Michael Byron, Christian Dachez, and James Ilgenfritz. With Joseph Kubera, Piano; William Winant, Percussion; Melanie Genin, Harp; James Ilgenfritz, Bass.  More...

Sat 3/09 8:00 PM St. Mark's Lutheran Church [1111 O’Farrell Street San Francisco]
Let’s go! We’re heading out into nature both tamed and wild with music of flowers, fields and forests, of birds and bees, of gentle garden creatures and lurking monsters! Featuring Britten, Schumann, Delius, Mechem, Stanford, Hensel, Crabtree, Nelhybel, Ligeti, Van Brink, and the winner of our New Voices Project.  More...

Sat 3/09 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Looney/ Mezzacapa/ Nordeson Trio  More...

Sat 3/09 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Pianist Jenny Q Chai in Sonorous Brushes
A Multi-Sensory Concert Featuring Works by Debussy, Durieux, Ravel, Messiaen, and a California Premiere by Jarosław Kapuściński using Antescofo Software  More...

Sat 3/09 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow Festival 2019 - New works by Mills College graduate student musicians.  More...

Sun 3/10 4:00 PM St. Mark's Episcopal Church [600 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto]
Let’s go! We’re heading out into nature both tamed and wild with music of flowers, fields and forests, of birds and bees, of gentle garden creatures and lurking monsters! Featuring Britten, Schumann, Delius, Mechem, Stanford, Hensel, Crabtree, Nelhybel, Ligeti, Van Brink, and the winner of our New Voices Project.  More...

Sun 3/10 4:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow Festival 2019 - New works by Mills College graduate student musicians.  More...

Sun 3/10 5:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Zwischenspiel  More...

Sun 3/10 8:00 PM Wind River [421 Wild Way, Santa Cruz]
Composer/bassist James Ilgenfritz (NYC) leads an evening of solo and duo works, with a program stradding the worlds of composition and free improvisation, including an improvising duo with Bay Area oboist Kyle Bruckmann. His program includes his own work, fellow New Yorkers Lucie Vitkova and Miya Masaoka, Anthony Donofrio, and Watsonville-based composer Jeffrey Treviño.  More...

Sun 3/10 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Shapeshifters Cinema - Sung Kim

A live, improvised soundtrack will be performed by Theo Padouvas (trumpet), Shanna Sordahl (invented instruments and cello), Brian Pedersen (reeds), and Sung Kim (invented instruments).  More...

Mon 3/11 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
An evening with James Ilgenfritz and friends

Contrabassist James Ilgenfritz is visiting the Bay Area for a few days from New York, and we're glad to be able to have him play at Tom's Place. Tonight's concert will start with a trio set featuring Chris Brown and William Winant, and continue with a company-style set featuring various subgroupings of those three with Theresa Wong, gabby fluke-mogul and Anastasia Clarke.  More...

Mon 3/11 9:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Elliott Levin [Philly] & Tom Rollison & Mogauwane Mahloele [Philly] with Cartoon Justice, plus Karl Evangelista/Ben Goldberg [Duo] and Jakob Pek/Jordan Glenn/Lee Hodel [Trio]  More...

Tue 3/12 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Way Out West Concert Series presents
Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble presents "Side Three: New Work" CD release performance featuring Vinny Golia
Timothy Orr - drums/percussion, Safa Shokrai - double bass, Max Judelson - double bass Mark Clifford - vibraphone, Rent Romus - alto saxophone, Heikki "Mike" Koskinen - e-trumpet, Joshua Marshall - tenor & soprano saxophone featuring special guest Vinny Golia, baritone saxophone, flutes

"Indeed, Romus and associates have reached a milestone with this top-notch outing that defies strict categorizations when considering bridges between free improvisation and modern progressive jazz. It's a seamless incorporation of the best of many worlds." - Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz
Advance Tickets  More...

Tue 3/12 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
James Ilgenfritz (composer, bassist and improviser) and Friends  More...

Tue 3/12 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
Resident is a monthly electronic music and visual open mic event started by Jeremy Black and friends in 2017. The Laundry event space is casual and cool, and the community you'll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas. Come shows us what you got.  More...

Tue 3/12 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
Sun of Goldfinger

"What at first sounded like an elegant chamber composition goes full-on surreal."
- Rolling Stone Magazine

Saxophonist Tim Berne, drummer Ches Smith and guitarist David Torn push far beyond jazz’s known boundaries in Sun of Goldfinger. The mercurial trio explores the edges of the genre, infusing it with perspectives ranging from the minimalist to the cinematic to the metallic. The improvisation-based group effortlessly, seamlessly shifts from atmospheres into shattering mayhem to thrilling effect.  More...

Tue 3/12 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- KREation Ensemble
- Dunkelman/Fluke-Mogul/Nishi-Smith
- John Bischoff  More...

Wed 3/13 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Drummer Jeff Marrs with Adam Shulman, piano, and Giulio Xavier Cetto, bass, join together to play standards and some music from the debut CD Marrs Attacks.  More...

Wed 3/13 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
New Olduvai
https://www.elliottlevin.com | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql0V0x0MmhQ

Matt Ingalls
http://sfsound.org/matt.html | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZuEoY1mkMQ

gabby fluke-mogul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSIbsUBGuSA

Substation 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIbl9sa59go  More...

Thu 3/14 4:00 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College Music Department 5000 MacArthur Blvd]
JON LEIDECKER – Lecture: "United Feedback" – Leidecker traces a connecting line through the work of Louis and Bebe Barron, David Tudor, the Sonic Arts Union and Eliane Radigue.  More...

Thu 3/14 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
Thomas Buckner: Songs Without Words

Songs Without Words, for voice (no text) and electronics presents work written for, and dedicated to Thomas Buckner by some of the most pioneering composers in experimental music: Alvin Lucier, Robert Ashley, Annea Lockwood, and Phill Niblock.  More...

Thu 3/14 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Franck Martin - modular synth
9:00 pm Murder Sewage
Naomi Harrison-Clay (sax), Joel Nelson (Guitar), Maia Ziaee (synth), and Rowan Mathews (vocals)  More...

Fri 3/15 4:00 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College Music Department 5000 MacArthur Blvd]
David Grubbs - Lecture - "Records Ruin the Landscape" -
Grubbs revisits arguments from his book of the same name while weaving in examples from his own career as a musician, recording artist, and participant in interdisciplinary collaborations.  More...

Fri 3/15 7:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
3 Leafs / Joel St. Julien / Rod Barriga  More...

Fri 3/15 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
David Tanenbaum and Friends  More...

Fri 3/15 9:30 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
Dina Maccabee Album Release Tour, featuring Grex and Minivan (NY)

An evening of excitement and roving sonic whimsy, celebrating the release of experimental songstress Dina Maccabee’s brand new album, “The Sharpening Machine”, on Geomancy Records. Also featuring: a shattering new set from Oakland art rock duo Grex (Karl Evangelista + Rei Scampavia), plus New York electronic/pop artist Minivan.  More...

Sat 3/16 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]
Barbara Ruzicka and Kumi Uyeda are in love with four-hand music–the communication, conversation, and bringing the entire keyboard to life in all its sonority—they have found much comradery–sometimes it can be lonely just being a solo pianist! Their collaboration began in 2000 with concerts at such venues as UCSC, Ohlone College, Berkeley Piano Club, All Saints’ Carmel, Monterey Center for Spiritual Living, Carmel Presbyterian and soirees for the Carmel Music Society. They enjoy playing a range of styles and repertoire- from the profundity of the Schubert Fantasie to the emotional heart-on-the sleeve Brahms’ dances, discovering new gems and transcriptions and are in the process of having an original four-hand piece written for them.  More...

Sat 3/16 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
There Will Be Nature Concert  More...

Sat 3/16 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
The Deconstruction Orchestra is a 23 piece spontaneously conducted orchestra.  More...

Sun 3/17 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. Berkeley]
Wooden Fish Ensemble
'KOTO, VIOLIN'

Seating is limited. Make your required reservation here.  More...

Sun 3/17 4:00 PM St. Paul's Episcopal Church [114 Montecito Avenue Oakland]
Let’s go! We’re heading out into nature both tamed and wild with music of flowers, fields and forests, of birds and bees, of gentle garden creatures and lurking monsters! Featuring Britten, Schumann, Delius, Mechem, Stanford, Hensel, Crabtree, Nelhybel, Ligeti, Van Brink, and the winner of our New Voices Project.  More...

Sun 3/17 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...

Sun 3/17 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Dave Mihaly solo
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie: Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute; Masaru Koga - tenor sax, flute; Bill Noertker - contrabass; Daniel Pearce - drums  More...

Mon 3/18 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Presents..

Derek Monypeny (experimental/drone)
Sahba Sizdahkhani (santoor/drums)
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Jacob Heule & Kevin Corcoran (duo percussion)  More...

Wed 3/20 1:00 PM Mills College Lisser Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA . 94613]
Mocrep - Unfixing Art-making: A Collaborative Performance Workshop  More...

Wed 3/20 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
Shelly Knotts produces live-coded and network music performances and projects which explore aspects of code, data and collaboration. Her experimental and collaborative tendencies have seen her engage with diverse musical practices and styles ranging from electroacoustic tape music to live-coded dance music. She performs internationally, collaborating with computers and other humans.  More...

Thu 3/21 10:00 AM Mills College Lisser Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA . 94613]
Mocrep - Unfixing Art-making: A Collaborative Performance Workshop  More...

Thu 3/21 1:00 PM KALW FM Radio [91.7 FM]
Musical ‘Falsettos’ - Other Minds Festival 24 - Once Upon a Time - Friends from Near and Far  More...

Thu 3/21 3:15 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Pamela Z AND Donald Swearingen  More...

Thu 3/21 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Music For Hard Times
Paul Winstanley - electric bass/multiple effects pedals, Tom Nunn - original experimental instruments: space plates, electroacoustic percussion boards and various "skatch"
Special Guest Thomas Dimuzio - synth  More...

Thu 3/21 9:30 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
9:30 pm
dolphin
max nordile - alto saxophone
riley macleod - guitar
sam lefebvre - drums
10 pm
Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone
10:30 pm
gabby fluke-mogul - violin
lee hodel - bass  More...

Fri 3/22 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
SOFÍA REI & JC MAILLARD PRESENT KETER FROM JOHN ZORN MASADA BOOK 3, SFJAZZ Joe Henderson Lab, 7:00pm & 8:30pm  More...

Fri 3/22 7:30 PM Mills College Lisser Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613]
Mocrep - Unfixing Art-making: A Collaborative Performance Workshop  More...

Fri 3/22 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
1st set
Scott Amendola - drums
Phillip Greenlief - alto and tenor saxophones
play improvised music in the here and now

2nd set
mike baggetta - guitar
mike watt - bass
stephen hodges - drums  More...

Sat 3/23 6:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
Linux Audio Conference (LAC) 2019: Concert 1

After seven years outside of the United States, Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is coming back to Stanford University on March 23-26, 2019 for its 17th edition! LAC is the international conference about Free/Open-Source Software for music, sound, and other media with GNU/Linux as the main platform.  More...

Sat 3/23 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]
The trio will perform selections from Laura Klein’s recently premiered “Point Reyes Suite”, as well as rarely heard gems by Bud Powell, Marian McPartland, Billy Strayhorn, and more.  More...

Sat 3/23 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Chris Brown performs live electronics in duets with Soo Yeon Lyuh, amplified haegum (a Korean bowed two-string instrument); and James Fei, analog electronics. This concert is the first in a new series at C4NM of music for live electronic ensembles that Brown will curate during the next two years. A week-long mini-festival is next, scheduled for June 18-23. A state-of-the-art sound system will be generously provided by Meyer Sound.  More...

Sat 3/23 8:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
Linux Audio Conference (LAC) 2019: Concert 2

After seven years outside of the United States, Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is coming back to Stanford University on March 23-26, 2019 for its 17th edition! LAC is the international conference about Free/Open-Source Software for music, sound, and other media with GNU/Linux as the main platform.  More...

Sat 3/23 8:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
A Night Of Noise : Jeff Carey , Transient, Sigtryggur S.  More...

Sat 3/23 8:00 PM Taube Atrium Theater [Veterans Building 4th floor 401 Van Ness Ave SF]
Join us on Saturday, March 23rd at the Taube Atrium Theater for the inaugural event of our 24th festival season: Concert 1 – Arditti Quartet Plays Wyschnegradsky & Haas

Other Minds Festival 24  More...

Sat 3/23 9:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Kukangendai

This marks Japanese three-piece band Kukangendai's first appearance in U.S. In spring of 2019, the band's new album will be released from Ideologic Organ curated by Stephen O'Malley from SUNN O))). http://editionsmego.com/release/SOMA032  More...