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02/10/2018 - 03/27/2018

Saturday, February 10
Sat 2/10 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St SF]
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Earth Jerks------Tender Buttons  More...
Sat 2/10 3:30 PM Re:Sound [Mercado Ct & Azuar Ave Vallejo CA, 94592 Use these coordinates for navigation: 38.084163, -122.257052]
In conjunction with the San Francisco Flyway Festival, 23five presents Re:Sound Migration
Robert Crouch
Judith Hamman
Sophia Shen
Saturday February 10th, 2018
A-168  More...
Sat 2/10 5:00 PM Kala Arts Institute and Gallery [2990 San Pablo Ave Berkeley, CA 94702]
No(!)sy Room #1: Curiosity Garden of Sound and Light, conceived and directed by pianist/composer Motoko Honda, is a performance series of an immersive experience of sound and light, utilizing the unique architectural features of the space hosting the installation, a multi directional surround sound system and light/video projections. Day 4 with Ian Winters and Norman Teale. Each performance will be followed by short artist talk, Q&A, and reception with drink and snacks. All Ages.  More...
Sat 2/10 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Ashley Fure Concert - Guest composer Ashley Fure's music is performed by the Amaranth Quartet, cellist Crystal Pascucci, and percussionist William Winant.  More...
Sat 2/10 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Ian Dicke & Alexander Elliott Miller: SOUTH

SOUTH presents two Los Angeles composers, Ian Dicke and Alexander Elliott Miller, showcasing large multimedia works that explore the space between mythology and history, from east to west, of our Southern United States.  More...
Sat 2/10 9:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Consumer Electronics

Consumer Electronics is a punk / electro / noise trio comprising ageing renegade Philip Best (ex-Whitehouse), his wife, the US artist Sarah Froelich and acclaimed noise/techno guru Russell Haswell.  More...
Sat 2/10 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
In Too Deep: Verdun 1916 (live) + KYN (live) + visuals by John Steinberg & Jesse Austin

In Too Deep is a monthly series (every Second Saturday) curated by electronic music duo KYN (Josh Casey & Yari Bundy) in association with Studio Grand. Incorporating Bay Area experimental traditions and the sounds of Berlin’s underground dance scene, In Too Deep seeks to create a space for those left wanting more from the current sound of commercialized electronic music, and to present an audiovisual landscape incorporating rhythm, noise, and atmosphere. Expect live electronic music that moves you physically and spiritually. In an effort to create a truly immersive experience, each performance will be accompanied by live visuals from some of our favorite local artists.  More...
Sunday, February 11
Sun 2/11 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Violin Encounters Koto  More...
Sun 2/11 7:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Bay Area Bridges: Joel Demir (oud) & Brandon Webb (percussion) with RDL+

A monthly series curated by RDL+, Bay Area Bridges celebrates the Bay Area music scene and beyond with Oakland as its hub. For this installment of Bay Area Bridges, RDL+ will be joined by oud player Joel Demir and Arabic percussionist Brandon Webb as we journey East to the heart of Arabic music. The concert will feature selections of traditional repertoire from the Middle East as well as contemporary compositions inspired by this rich musical tradition. Come join us for what is sure to be an exciting musical journey!  More...
Sun 2/11 7:00 PM Private home in Berkeley hills. [Private home in North Berkeley hills.]
Larry Ochs (tenor and sopranino saxophones) and Donald Robinson (drums) will play two sets of improvised music.  More...
Sun 2/11 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 Alex Jenkins Quartet
8:30 Koskinen/Robinson duo
Heikki Koskinen - piano/e-trumpet, Donald Robinson - drums  More...
Sun 2/11 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Marcel Zaes – Pulsations [Bitumen]

With BITUMEN [PULSATIONS], the Swiss composer-performer Marcel Zaes sets out to redefine the conventional concert performance. He presents a transcontinental music project which weaves live violas with pure sine waves and mathematical grids to generate abstract pulsations and minimalist soundscapes.  More...
Monday, February 12
Mon 2/12 7:30 PM Mills College - Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
“Control Freak: Don Buchla's Approach to Performance Instruments”
Composer and percussionist Joel Davel pulls from his 22 years of experience working under inventor Don Buchla’s direction, giving us a glimpse into Don’s world and performing repertoire on the following instruments and controllers: Buchla Lightning, the 200e, Thunder and Marimba Lumina.

The performance will be in the Ensemble Room  More...
Mon 2/12 9:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents: Bridge Of Crows/Cartoon Justice - Free Fission not Fusion - Soundtrack for film Without Camera: Songs from the Divide (Mika Pontecorvo/guitar,electronics, Kersti Abrams/alto sax,maqrunah, Mark Pino/drums,waterphone, ,Eli Pontecorvo/bass w/guest Lenny Gonzalez/cello). Josh Marshall's Architect/Enchantress - Joshua Marshall - Tenor Saxophone, Rent Romus - Saxophones, Winds, Miscellany, Jacob Felix-Heule - Percussion, Nava Dunkelman - Percussion, Jakob Pek - Guitar, Miscellany, Aaron Oppenheim - Laptop, gabby fluke-mogul - Violin, Lee Hodel - Contrabass...  More...
Tuesday, February 13
Tue 2/13 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:

Lime Rickey International (Leyya Mona Tawil)

Tarik Kazaleh / Marwan Kamel / Micah Bezold
First-time meeting of electric buzuq, oud, & drums improv trio from Chicago and Bay Area, drawing from experimental music vernacular as well maqam tradition.


The Cataonic 5 is a collective of individuals formed around the compositions of Scott Bazar. Many of the works are mixed media pieces that effectively blend improvisation techniques with video production. The result is a unique approach to composition.
Dylan Burchett - Laptop
Gina Bonati - Voice
Honor Monaco - Violin
Breonna Taylor - Voice
Joel Nelson - guitar  More...
Thursday, February 15
Thu 2/15 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00 pm Eric Glick-Rieman
9:00 pm T.D. Skatchit & Co
Tom Nunn & David Michalak
Skatchart, Skatchboxes, and the Skatch Record
featuring
Gino Robair - percussive objects & Matt Ingalls - clarinets  More...
Thu 2/15 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
CNMAT USERS GROUP PRESENTS: TRANSIENT CANVAS

Transient Canvas presents Wired, a portrait of technology’s integration into modern life. As people try to emulate computers and we build computers that emulate people, the question of who is controlling whom becomes ambiguous. With musical inspiration ranging from Aphex Twin to electronic dance music, this program features music by Lainie Fefferman, David Ibbett, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Rudolf Rojahn, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Dan VanHassel, and Kirsten Volness.  More...
Friday, February 16
Fri 2/16 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Thoabath•KOKUO•Greg Gorlen•Filthmilk  More...
Fri 2/16 7:45 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Cellista/Colclasure: Border Crossings

Cellista & Peter Colclasure present an evening of new music that explores the borders between genres. Featuring the Juxtapositions Chamber Ensemble, and rapper DEM ONE.  More...
Fri 2/16 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
Jazz in the Neighborhood presents Power of Five: New Chamber Jazz for Quintets. Three voracious, innovative young Bay Area jazz composers share their new music in a vibrant exposition of the state of jazz today. Brazilian composer, guitarist, and vocalist, Ian Faquini leads a luminous exploration of traditional Brazilian rhythms and rich harmonies with his group, Quinteto Brasiliense. Composer, pianist and flutist, Erika Oba premiers her new chamber jazz suite Strange Moon, inspired by a celestial love story from Japanese folklore. Her group, Ends Meat’ Catastrophe Jazz Ensemble, is an inventive ensemble that extends an invitation to all the sounds of the universe. Drummer and vibraphonist, Dillon Vado, directs his band Never Weather from behind the drums. Like his music, Dillon’s drumming is explosive, groovy, and tranquil at once. The concert is presented as part of Jazz in the Neighborhood’s Next Stage program.  More...
Fri 2/16 8:00 PM Vernon Salon Series [271 Vernon St Oakland, CA]
Transient Canvas  More...
Fri 2/16 9:00 PM Fireside Lounge [1453 Webster St, Alameda, California 94501]
Sideways Songs: Grex, Spencer Owen Timeshare, Chris Peck

Grex - Karl Evangelista: gtr, vocals, perc, Rei Scampavia: keys. vocals, perc
Spencer Owen Timeshare - Spencer Owen: vocals, etc., et al.
Chris Peck - Chris Peck-vocals, guitar, Alison Niedbalski-vocals, keys

A shattering night of sounds at once beautiful, exotic, and strange, featuring a brand new set of music from Oakland art rock-cum-free jazz trio Grex, the experimental rock melange of Spencer Owen Timeshare, and the daring, powerhouse songs of Chris Peck.  More...
Saturday, February 17
Sat 2/17 7:00 PM Wind River [421 Wild Way, Santa Cruz]
Red Desert is the duo project of clarinetist Katie Porter and composer/percussionist Devin Maxwell, who have been performing, commissioning, creating and championing interesting music for 17 years. Their program stems from the stripped-down, austere and crystalline beauty of Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Lucier, and extends to younger composers Lucie Vitkova and Devin Maxwell. The program concludes with Catherine Lamb’s new composition muto infinitas, for bass flute and double bass, performed by Christine Tavolacci and Scott Worthington.  More...
Sat 2/17 8:00 PM Rhythmix Cultural Works [2513 Blanding Ave]
Guarandinga Dance Party
$ $20/Advance, $25/Day of Show
8:00 pm
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2018
BUY TICKETS
Guarandinga Kenya Rowan Guarandinga Kenya Rowan 2
Guarandinga’s signature blend of Latin AfroPop integrates hip-hop, rock and Venezuelan folklore with gritty East Bay funk over a solid foundation of Afro-Caribbean beats. Award-winning Singer/lyricist Rowan Jiménez and bassist/producer Jeremy Allen are joined by five remarkable musicians to create Guarandinga’s multidimensional music: vocalist Kenya Moses, drummer Brian Andres, guitarist Chris Carter, keyboard/synth player Cava Menzies, and electro trumpeter Henry Hung.  More...
Sat 2/17 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Hubbard Quartet in San Francisco

The all-female group, Hubbard Quartet presents a program of all female composers in their first concert tour of the West Coast. Composers include Julie Barwick, Vivian Fine, Devree Lewis, and Marilyn Zupnick.  More...
Sunday, February 18
Sun 2/18 7:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
EMILY BROWN
is a singer-songwriter from the Coachella Valley. She has performed and toured with The National Parks, Book on Tape Worm, and Porch Lights.


SIMILAR FASHION
is an avant-rollercoaster jazz-n-roll band from Los Angeles. Led by saxophonist Logan Hone, Similar Fashion features viola shredder Lauren Baba, magic-emmitting guitarist Gregory Uhlmann, & fire-wielding polyrhythmic groove machine Jesse Quebbeman-Turley.  More...
Sun 2/18 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation 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 2/18 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
muto infinitas, Cloudseeding, Oliveros, Lucier

Two visiting pairs of accomplished experimental performers bring an ambitious program of solo and duo works to the Bay Area: from LA, Christine Tavolacci and Scott Worthington perform muto infinitas, a new hour-long work by Catherine Lamb for bass flute and double bass. Red Desert presents Cloudseeding 4 by Devin Maxwell, for solo bass clarinet and electronics, plus works by Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Lucier.  More...
Monday, February 19
Mon 2/19 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: OMMO + O'Kane/Perkis Duo  More...
Tuesday, February 20
Tue 2/20 7:30 PM Davies Symphony Hall [San Francisco]
Philip Glass @ 80: Music with Changing Parts  More...
Tue 2/20 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
February's Canessa Gallery concert will feature a duo of Easton, PA saxophonist Jack Wright and Chattanooga, TN bassist Evan Lipson, Bay Area violinist Thea Farhadian with Heike Liss (skratchklang) and electronic works by Silvia Matheus.  More...
Tue 2/20 8:00 PM First Congregational Church of Berkeley [2345 Channing Way Berkeley, CA]
Transient Canvas

Composers, Inc.
Music by David Ibbett and Robert Nance.  More...
Tue 2/20 9:00 PM Darger Bar [2700 16th St San Francisco, CA]
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase :: Windowpane Industries, presented By Weird Ear  More...
Wednesday, February 21
Wed 2/21 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street]
Thomas Dimuzio
This is the wizard the land of Oz wished for, boundless, benemalevolent, shrouded in torrents of sound, daring lions to speak and machines to feel. http://www.thomasdimuzio.com/

Deletist
Come embrace and be embraced by the full spectrum antithesis of all things elitist. Read the feature on Tena in the new edition of Bay City Beacon! https://www.thebaycitybeacon.com/culture/soul-retrieval-how-the-deletist-lost-the-local-art-world/article_7ad1f9f6-169a-11e8-be4a-33b4284ab784.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CyHMLTTdgI

Sarah Lockhart
A singularly strange and brilliant performer in her own right. Deadpanning familiar horrors of the human condition, she serves them up as forthright lo-fi songs reminiscent of Noh Mercy, her charm a sonic sort of whipped topping soothing the nose cut off to spite the face of the human race.
https://sharontatefetusexplosion.bandcamp.com

Watkins/Peacock
The magical new duo of Zachary James Watkins and Ross Peacock conjures new possibilities of tone rhythm and light. Wear your finest tailored spongesuit and come soak it all up as it rains down inside the Peacock Lounge.  More...
Wed 2/21 9:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Richmond-based saxophonist/composer Rent Romus commences a three-month mini-residency featuring his Life's Blood Ensemble celebrating the release of their new recording Rogue Star.  More...
Thursday, February 22
Thu 2/22 2:00 PM UC Berkeley [Morrison Hall Berkeley, CA]
Transient Canvas will be reading music by UC Berkeley undergraduate composition students of Ken Ueno.  More...
Thu 2/22 7:30 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music [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 percussionist, Wiilliam Winant.  More...
Thu 2/22 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
JAZZ EPISTLES W/ ABDULLAH IBRAHIM, WADADA LEO SMITH & EKAYA
South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim first heard the call of modern jazz in the late 1950s, and along with Hugh Masekela, founded the pioneering Jazz Epistles—a hard bop ensemble modeled on Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers that was first black jazz combo to record in South Africa. Due to recent health issues, Hugh Masekela will unfortunately not be performing with Abdullah Ibrahim and the Jazz Epistles. Masekela will be replaced by trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith.  More...
Thu 2/22 7:30 PM Stanford Memorial Church [450 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305-2090]
CCRMA Presents An Evening of Sonic Exploration with Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess.  More...
Thu 2/22 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00pm The Holly Martins
Eric Vogler- guitar, Kasey Knudsen- alto sax, Lorin Benedict- voice
9:00pm Jack Wright with Evan Lipson
Jacob Felix Heule, and Danishta Rivero  More...
Friday, February 23
Fri 2/23 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
JAZZ EPISTLES W/ ABDULLAH IBRAHIM, WADADA LEO SMITH & EKAYA
South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim first heard the call of modern jazz in the late 1950s, and along with Hugh Masekela, founded the pioneering Jazz Epistles—a hard bop ensemble modeled on Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers that was first black jazz combo to record in South Africa. Due to recent health issues, Hugh Masekela will unfortunately not be performing with Abdullah Ibrahim and the Jazz Epistles. Masekela will be replaced by trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith.  More...
Fri 2/23 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
The Actual Trio - John Schott, guitar; Dan Seamans, double bass; and John Hanes, drums - celebrate the release of their second CD, "Act II". For this special concert the trio will be expanded to include a horn section and a second guitarist, featuring Jayn Pettingill, Alan Williams, and Myles Boisen.  More...
Fri 2/23 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Pamela Z, PAULA MATTHUSEN, Ken Ueno

An evening of voices and electronics  More...
Fri 2/23 9:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Saxophonist Jack Wright is on tour with Tennessean Evan Lispon (bass), celebrating the recent release of his book The Free Musics. Locals Tom Djll (trumpet & electronics) and Tim Perkis (electronics) join Jack & Evan for an evening of quartet improvisations.  More...
Saturday, February 24
Sat 2/24 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
JAZZ EPISTLES W/ ABDULLAH IBRAHIM, WADADA LEO SMITH & EKAYA
South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim first heard the call of modern jazz in the late 1950s, and along with Hugh Masekela, founded the pioneering Jazz Epistles—a hard bop ensemble modeled on Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers that was first black jazz combo to record in South Africa. Due to recent health issues, Hugh Masekela will unfortunately not be performing with Abdullah Ibrahim and the Jazz Epistles. Masekela will be replaced by trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith.  More...
Sat 2/24 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Tawil & Khoury: "Atlas" / Lord Tang  More...
Sat 2/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
ClusterFunk Vol. 9: Make Funk not Love  More...
Sunday, February 25
Sun 2/25 11:00 AM San Francisco Conservatory of Music [50 Oak St. SF]
HOT AIR MUSIC FESTIVAL
NEW MUSIC, NEW HEIGHTS
All day music festival  More...
Sun 2/25 5:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
TAWIL & KHOURY talk Atlas, Entropy Stereo, Detroit New Music, and the Arab-American Avant Garde  More...
Sun 2/25 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
JAZZ EPISTLES W/ ABDULLAH IBRAHIM, WADADA LEO SMITH & EKAYA
South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim first heard the call of modern jazz in the late 1950s, and along with Hugh Masekela, founded the pioneering Jazz Epistles—a hard bop ensemble modeled on Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers that was first black jazz combo to record in South Africa. Due to recent health issues, Hugh Masekela will unfortunately not be performing with Abdullah Ibrahim and the Jazz Epistles. Masekela will be replaced by trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith.  More...
Sun 2/25 7:30 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Absurdity abounds with local music groups, Usufruct, Pitta of the Mind, and Murder Murder  More...
Monday, February 26
Mon 2/26 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Jakob Pek Group + Sung Kim (solo)  More...
Friday, March 2
Fri 3/02 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Court Stanford Ca 94305]
Please join us for a special evening of music by virtuoso violinist/composer/technologist Mari Kimura.

Mari is at the forefront of violinists who are extending the technical and expressive capabilities of the instrument. As a performer, composer, and researcher, she has opened up new sonic worlds for the violin. Notably, she has mastered the production of pitches that sound up to an octave below the violin’s lowest string without retuning. This technique, which she calls Subharmonics, has earned Mari considerable renown in the concert music world and beyond. She is also a pioneer in the field of interactive computer music. At the same time, she has earned international acclaim as a soloist and recitalist in both standard and contemporary repertoire.  More...
Fri 3/02 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
CNMAT USERS GROUP PRESENTS: DAN JOSEPH, DULCIMER FLIGHT  More...
Saturday, March 3
Sat 3/03 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Maggi Payne / John Krausbauer & Kaori Suzuki

John Krausbauer and Kaori Suzuki will present an improvisational-composition with voices, amplified strings, electronics, and bell percussion. Their work originates from their shared interest in ancient and spiritual musics as much as the western “avant-garde”. Their performance utilizes sustained tones (drone), long durations, and playing endurance, aiming to create environments that are ‘experiential’ in nature, more than exclusively ‘musical’. Krausbauer and Suzuki will be touring together performing their solo and duo sets in Japan in March 2018 and have multiple forthcoming releases later in the year. Maggi Payne will open.

Reserve Seats  More...
Sat 3/03 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
SFSOUND with DAN JOSEPH Perform works by OLIVEROS, PISARO, JOSEPH, and SFSOUND  More...
Sunday, March 4
Sun 3/04 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Friction Commissioning Party!  More...
Sun 3/04 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Trio Foss

Trio Foss make their Old First Concerts debut with a program featuring chamber works by Shostakovich, Beethoven, and Martinů.  More...
Sun 3/04 7:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [US Berkeley Berkeley]
Kronos Quartet; Rinde Eckert; Vân-Ánh Võ; My Lai  More...
Sun 3/04 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Brett Carson - solo piano
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie: Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute/Joshua Marshall - tenor sax/Bill Noertker - contrabass/Daniel Pearce - drums  More...
Monday, March 5
Mon 3/05 8:30 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday MakeOut: Bristle, Maximum Ernst, DeCillis/Evangelista  More...
Thursday, March 8
Thu 3/08 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 - Pitta of the Mind
8:45 - busteR
9:15 - Usufruct  More...
Thu 3/08 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow is a four-day music festival, held annually in the spring, featuring graduate work in composition, performance and multi-media installation from the distinguished Mills College Music Department. Concerts, installations and multi-media works are held in the historic Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall and at various locations throughout the campus. Admission is free and open to the public. A full schedule of events is listed below.  More...
Thu 3/08 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland, CA 94609]
The Band That Has Avoided The Whole Idea of Having A Band Name -- Scott Walton, contrabass; Matt Ingalls, clarinets & violin; Tim Perkis, electronics; Tom Djll, trumpet and electronics -- present an evening of instant compositions for quartet.  More...
Friday, March 9
Fri 3/09 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Opening Reception: The Universal Music of Dr. UM, Works by Darrell DeVore  More...
Fri 3/09 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Flutist Robert Stallman is joined by fellow flutist Isabelle Chapuis and pianist Dmitriy Cogan for a performance featuring works by C.P.E. Bach, Dvořák, Ravel, Jeanjean, Taktakishvili, and Schubert.  More...
Saturday, March 10
Sat 3/10 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 THIS SATURDAY!
Noon until 2pm SHARP!  More...
Sat 3/10 7:00 PM Joe Henderson Lab [201 Franklin Street San Francisco, CA 94102]
Singer, songwriter, and trombonist Natalie Cressman returns to her hometown of San Francisco to share music from her new project The Traces EP at SFJAZZ’s Joe Henderson Lab on March 10th. Former member of the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars, Cressman will be joined by members of her Brooklyn-based band, including guitarist Mike Bono and drummer Michael Mitchell, as well as Bay Area bassist Scott Thompson, who Natalie has been playing music with since the age of 14. The five-song Traces EP goes beyond anything Cressman has done in the past, further hybridizing the jazz idiom with elements of electronic production and global rhythmic grooves. Tickets are $25, with 2 shows at 7pm and 8:30pm.
Click here to purchase tickets: https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/natalie-cressman/  More...
Sat 3/10 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Elevate Ensemble Presents: Old Girls Club  More...
Sat 3/10 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Rova Sax Quartet warms up for a Southern USA tour with 2 sets of pieces rarely performed in the Bay Area. Only scheduled East Bay appearance until September 2018.

Larry Ochs, Jon Raskin, Steve Adams, Bruce Ackley - saxophones.

Bring your own beverages etc. Extremely comfortable and acoustically excellent place to hear acoustic (or any) music.  More...
Sat 3/10 8:00 PM Stork Club [2330 Telegraph Avenue Oakland]
Modular Meltdown (SYNTHesthesia March)
Featuring sets by haptic synapses, Franck Martin and more...followed by a Modular Jam...all to be recorded as a 360 video! Enjoy some superior sets by fantastic purely analog/modular artists. Come thru to hear, to play and to learn from each other at the legendary dive in Oakland, The Stork Club.  More...
Sunday, March 11
Sun 3/11 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Trois Bois

Trois Bois examines the idea that insecurity can be a springboard for creative expression, and that music reflects the times in which it is written, through a program of works by Kirke Mechem, Donald Waxman, Sean Osborn, and Damian Montano.  More...
Sun 3/11 7:00 PM Private home in Berkeley [Harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Larry Ochs (reeds) and Don Robinson (drums) in duo performance in private home in North Berkeley hills.

For ticket information, please contact Harry@fullplatemedia.com  More...
Sun 3/11 9:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Stranded presents: Ellen Arkbro / Sarah Davachi

Ticket link: https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/tickets/products/ellen-arkbro-sarah-davachi-march-11th-at-the-lab
There will be a limited amount of $12 tickets available for members of The Lab, but they must be reserved in advance. Please email thelabsf@thelab.org to have your name added to the member list.  More...
Tuesday, March 13
Tue 3/13 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- Euphotic (Bryan Day, Tom Djll, Cheryl E. Leonard)
- Nail-Biter (Joshua Marshall - sax, Matt Chandler - bass, Daniel Pearce - drums)
- Gabby Wen
- VOL. (FKA "The Blues”)  More...
Wednesday, March 14
Wed 3/14 7:45 PM The Bindery [1727 Haight St SF]
OMMO, Ctrl-Z, Madalyn Merkey, Minor Fluctuation and DJ Greedmink

OMMO
Julie Moon & Adria Otte's configurations of voice, analog and digital electronics, free and structured improvisations, as well as theater, ritual and song, may all be employed in the process.
https://soundcloud.com/ommomusic

Ctrl-Z
Ryan Page, Nick Wang and Daniel Steffey specialize in the performance of scored music for live electronics. Tonight features the work of Sarah Belle Reid and Pauline Oliveros.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIs1KTwF4cA

Madalyn Merkey
Within the weave of her sound there appears a warp of voice, an instrument you might expect to feel the most natural, instead it comes as a wondrously alien element the way the color green is both grass underfoot and UFO suspended ominously above.
https://madalynmerkey.bandcamp.com/

Minor Fluctuation
New tremulations from the multi-instrumental madman behind such projects as Ubzub, Black Goat, and Grains. Rob William's solo project, Minor Fluctuations, is his one way foray into the tangled connections between eurorack modules and the still stranger circuitry encased in skull.
https://soundcloud.com/bobzub  More...
Thursday, March 15
Thu 3/15 5:30 PM Santa Clara University Music Recital Hall [952 Franklin Street, Santa Clara, 95050.]
SCLOrk concerts are often full of surprises. That’s what it happens when you have a stage full of computers, loudspeakers, cable spaghetti, and humans making sound. SCLOrk, a computer music ensemble dedicated to experimental electronic music composition and performance, was founded in 2013 by Bruno Ruviaro. SCLOrk’s intrepid student performers are interdisciplinary musicians using cutting-edge technology to explore the intersections of music, creative coding, engineering, and computer science.  More...
Thu 3/15 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00pm Banyan Tree
Maneesh Raj Madahar - Rhodes, Jamie Green - violin
9:00pm Daniel Steffey - electronics  More...
Thu 3/15 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
ensemble proton bern: One Night Only  More...
Friday, March 16
Fri 3/16 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Free As AIR: Celebrating 30 Years of Asian Improv aRts

$100 Benefactor, $50 General, $25 Members  More...
Fri 3/16 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Marc Kate•Joel St. Julien•SELIM X  More...
Fri 3/16 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Holes in the Floor

Cello quartet Holes in the Floor present a program of works including West Coast Premieres by Jeremy Crosmer and Bosba Panh, along with works by Alexandre Tansman and Laszlo Varga’s arrangement of the Ciaccona from J. S. Bach’s Violin Partita. No. 2.  More...
Fri 3/16 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street San Francisco]
Jeff Denson leads on double and electric basses with vocals, accompanied by Lyle Link on tenor and soprano saxes, Dahveed Behrhoozi on piano, and Alan Hall, drumset. Denson’s music pushes through the boundaries of conventions in music by inventively mixing the world of composed and improvised music for this unique combination of instruments. Yet it remains steeped in the jazz tradition where the propulsive rhythms are the heartbeat of the music and the musicians are master improvisers of harmonic structures, song forms, and melodic invention. Denson’s intoxicating melodies and rhythms transport the listener away to unknown lands where vivid hues of tone paint the aural canvas of the inner ear.  More...
Fri 3/16 8:00 PM SAFEhouse Arts [145 Eddy St. SF]
RAW presents: SFButoh LAB and Pet the Tiger

Bardo Butoh: An Elegy for victims of gun violence. One woman's empathic body together with unique orchestration give their voice to the silenced.  More...
Saturday, March 17
Sat 3/17 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Theresa Wong
Julia Reidy
Judith Hamann

Australian musicians Julia Reidy and Judith Hamann present solo works in conjunction with cellist/vocalist Theresa Wong. Reidy weaves intricate and beautiful works out of microtonally tuned 12 string guitar, and is touring in support of her new release "All Is Ablaze." Hamann performs solo cello focused on micro and macro manifestations of shaking, exploring detailed timbral and partial activity. Wong will perform solo cello before her upcoming residency at The Stone, drawing upon the question: "how can I rediscover the core of the cello as wood and string and hair, or even simply as a tree?"  More...
Sat 3/17 8:00 PM SAFEhouse Arts [1 Grove St. SF]
RAW presents: SFButoh LAB and Pet the Tiger

Bardo Butoh: An Elegy for victims of gun violence. One woman's empathic body together with unique orchestration give their voice to the silenced.  More...
Sunday, March 18
Sun 3/18 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Bleeding Vector
Lorin Benedict - voice, Eric Vogler - guitar
8:30pm Pek/Dunkelman/Romus
Jakob Pek - guitar, preparations, percussion
Nava Dunkelman - percussion
Rent Romus - saxophones  More...
Sun 3/18 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation 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 3/18 7:30 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
Karl Evangelista: Exploring the Filipino-American Avant-Garde

Filipino-American guitarist Karl Evangelista ranks among a new wave of creative musicians grounded in jazz, 20th century experimentalism, and popular song. Joined by an all-star grouping of Bay Area experimentalists, Evangelista explores a spectrum of folk melodies and brand new compositions, venturing into the meeting point between ecstatic song and the dark outer reaches of noise, psychedelia, and free jazz.

Featuring Kasey Knudsen (alto sax), Crystal Pascucci (cello), Rei Scampavia (keys), and Robert Lopez (Drums)  More...
Monday, March 19
Mon 3/19 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Fluke-Mogul/Heule/Nucci/Robinson  More...
Tuesday, March 20
Tue 3/20 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Tracking Series #1: Going Public

Join your fellow community members for the first event in the Tracking Series, a new series of events meant to catalyze and build a community of new music researchers to demonstrably improve gender and racial equity within the field of new music.

This first session will include discussion of Chamber Music America's recent "Statement of Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity," an opportunity to provide feedback on a proposed equity pledge to be taken by Center for New Music and other presenters, and an action request to help build an index of critics and researchers whose work contributes to improved gender and racial equity in new music.

This event is free and open to the public; light refreshments will be provided. Those who cannot attend in person are encouraged to contribute online up to one week following the meeting (see details for links).  More...
Tue 3/20 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
The Third Ear: Doug Lynner, Shiro Fujioka, Peter Grenader, all on modular synthesizers. Three master analog synthesists together for the first time.  More...
Wednesday, March 21
Wed 3/21 7:45 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Relay for Death, Jim Haynes, AEMAE, The Third Ear

Relay For Death
Things are always darkest before they go completely black.
https://helenscarsdale.bandcamp.com/album/natural-incapactity

Jim Haynes
Cycles of activity collapse into stasis, and how that stasis can rupture when any number of pressures are applied."
http://www.helenscarsdale.com/haynes/sound.htm

AEMAE
“apex predator”

The Third Ear
Doug Lynner, Shiro Fujioka, and Peter Grenader are The Third Ear. Three modular masters seeking singular performances.  More...
Thursday, March 22
Thu 3/22 7:00 PM Montalvo Arts Center [15400 Montalvo Road Saratoga, CA]
The Living Earth Show

This new performance on Montalvo’s grounds will develop from Nicole Lizée’s collaborative work with multi-instrumentalist Ben Reimer and the musical duo The Living Earth Show at the Lucas Artists Program.  More...
Thu 3/22 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00 PM McCaslin/Robinson
Collette McCaslin - percussion, trumpet, soprano saxophone
Kevin Robinson - tenor saxophone

9:00 PM L.J. Altvater
looped cassette tapes (physically cut and spliced) run through guitar effects pedals  More...
Friday, March 23
Fri 3/23 5:30 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
SFCMP in Concert: A 4-Concert Weekend

Celebrating Pauline OLIVEROS and Steven SCHICK

Join us for a weekend of artistry and creativity at our "at the CROSSROADS Series" where we will celebrate the 85th anniversary of Pauline Oliveros' birth as well as Steven Schick's final season as SFCMP's Artistic Director.

The weekend's events include four concerts, composer talks, a solo-percussion concert by Steven Schick, and a celebratory reception and toast to honor maestro Schick's seven years of dedication to SFCMP.

Works by
Galina Ustvolskaya
Xavier Beteta
Carolyn Chen
Luciano Berio
Pauline Oliveros
3 Winners of SF Search Under-30 Call for Scores: Danny Clay, John Ivers, Nathan Chamberlain
Morton Feldman
Composer Talk with Carolyn Chen

SPECIAL EVENTS: Reception and toast for Steven Schick followed by Steven Schick solo-percussion concert performing works of Iannis XENAKIS, Kurt SCHWITTERS, and Celeste ORAM  More...
Fri 3/23 7:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline in West Oakland. Exact locale given to those who sign up.]
Duck Baker solo guitar and 4 course gourmet vegan menu.

Sign up here  More...
Saturday, March 24
Sat 3/24 5:30 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
SFCMP in Concert: A 4-Concert Weekend

Celebrating Pauline OLIVEROS and Steven SCHICK

Join us for a weekend of artistry and creativity at our "at the CROSSROADS Series" where we will celebrate the 85th anniversary of Pauline Oliveros' birth as well as Steven Schick's final season as SFCMP's Artistic Director.

The weekend's events include four concerts, composer talks, a solo-percussion concert by Steven Schick, and a celebratory reception and toast to honor maestro Schick's seven years of dedication to SFCMP.

Works by
Galina Ustvolskaya
Xavier Beteta
Carolyn Chen
Luciano Berio
Pauline Oliveros
3 Winners of SF Search Under-30 Call for Scores: Danny Clay, John Ivers, Nathan Chamberlain
Morton Feldman
Composer Talk with Carolyn Chen

SPECIAL EVENTS: Reception and toast for Steven Schick followed by Steven Schick solo-percussion concert performing works of Iannis XENAKIS, Kurt SCHWITTERS, and Celeste ORAM  More...
Sat 3/24 8:00 PM Rhythmix Cultural Works [2513 Blanding Ave, Alameda, CA 94501]
Aki Kumar, the “Bombay Blues Man”, brings together some of the Bay Area’s finest blues musicians to present his extraordinary fusion of Chicago Blues and Bollywood tunes for a special one-night-only appearance in Alameda.  More...
Sat 3/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Miolina: All Good Is Luck  More...
Sat 3/24 8:00 PM The Milk Bar [241a South 1st Street, Richmond, CA]
The 20th Annual Music for People & Thingamajigs Festival continues with a night of Alt-Tuned Rock with 'Fraid o' Freyja (the just-intoned psych rock alter-ego of Thingamajigs Performance Group), Vegan Butcher (John Shiurba's narcotic sad core, written in the 9-note January Scale) and Hazel Atlas (Kevin Thompson of the Enablers solo).  More...
Sunday, March 25
Sun 3/25 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Edward Neeman

Pianist Edward Neeman presents a darkly passionate recital, featuring the West Coast Premiere of Larry Sitsky’s Piano Sonata No. 1, ‘Retirer d’en bas de l’eau’, plus Jan Ladislav Dussek’s final sonata, ‘L’invocation’, and Paul Schoenfield’s Peccadilloes.  More...
Sun 3/25 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
HUSH Series — Daniel Corral’s Polytope (NorCal Premiere)  More...
Sun 3/25 8:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St San Francisco]
Mike Patton & John Zorn
NOTE: This show is already sold out  More...
Tuesday, March 27
Tue 3/27 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
Duck Baker and Friends - Jim Nichols, Tony Marcus, Bill Evans, Phillip Greenlief  More...