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

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

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

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Thu 2/23 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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CCRMA presents a live performance by Abbie from Mars.
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FREE and Open to the Public  More...

Thu 2/23 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fri 2/24 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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CCRMA presents a live diffusion of the 16-channel work "Haïkus" by Annette Vande Gorne.
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FREE and Open to the Public  More...

Fri 2/24 7:30 PM San Francisco Zen Center [308 Page Street SF]
Butoh & Zen: A Winter's Tale

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Preview Performance on Thurs March 2.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More info and Tickets  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mon 3/06 8:30 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St SF]
Colin Stetson  More...

Thu 3/09 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street, San Francisco]
Audium: New Voices II featuring the performances by Sharmi Basu, Alex Abalos & Ronald Peabody  More...

Thu 3/09 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Cheryl Leonard
Foot SOS (Theresa Currie, Dianne Lynn and Angela Roberts)
Risa (Mitch Stahlmann and Brendon Glasson)
The Human Deselection & Realization Nature Group (Anthony A. Russell and Michael Goldwater)
7:30pm doors; 8pm music $5-$15 sliding, all-ages, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Please rapid-test day of show, keep each other healthy and safe!
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Fri 3/10 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Boohabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce continues his semi regular Friday residency tonight. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of sonic sustenance and musical medicina.  More...

Fri 3/10 7:30 PM Southern Exposure [3030 20th Street San Francisco, CA 94100]
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Public performance by Thea Farhadian with Silvia Matheus and Sahba Aminikia with Adrienne Shamszad organized by the Taneen Working Group.

Live improvisational and collaborative performances to support community organization and relief as part of a series exploring the ongoing Iranian feminist revolutionary movement.

Free. Donations support Hengaw Organization and The International Federation of the Red Crescent.  More...

Fri 3/10 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Sarah Buckius is a 2023 receipient of Indexical’s new Micro-Residency Commissions for Santa Cruz-based artists. A new work stemming from her ongoing project !!! techn010ffspring !!!, her commssioned project If (x = Robot) … is an investigation into the female-coded personae of robots—from the ubiquitous disembodied voices of personal assistants Siri and Alexa to Cassie, “the Usain Bolt of robots,” who is simply a pair of fast-running torsoless robotic legs.  More...

Sat 3/11 1:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Iconic and internationally renown poet Jerome Rothenberg and bassist Mark Dresser perform at Spruce Street Concerts. Rothenberg is author of 90 books of poetry & such anthologies as Technicians of the Sacred, & will read "In the Shadow of a Mad King" and "A Book of Infernos" to the backdrop of Mark Dresser's bass playing.  More...

Sat 3/11 4:00 PM First United Methodist Church Palo Alto [625 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301]
The 10th anniversary New Music for Treble Voices Festival will celebrate foundational women composers Pauline Oliveros and Florence Price. The festival will include guest groups Ensemble, from the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, and the Sacramento-based Vox Musica. Together with the PWC, the groups will share a day of workshops concluding in a public concert at 4pm. The concert will highlight guest soloist Michele Kennedy, who will sing a set of art songs by Florence Price, and feature solo sets by all performing ensembles, including the premiere of “Mouth,” composed for the PWC by our first Composer-in-Residence, Julie Herndon. The concert will conclude with all choirs performing Price’s “The Moon Bridge” and Oliveros’ “Tuning Meditation.”  More...

Sat 3/11 5:00 PM Lytton Plaza [University Ave & Emerson St Palo Alto, CA]
Stephan Crump
Lytton Plaza, Saturday, March 11, 2023 5 pm, free (rain cancels)  More...

Sat 3/11 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Decoration of Hard Time: Churchill, Haynes, Steiner  More...

Sat 3/11 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Branden Abushanab (cb) and Tom Djll (tpt, elec); Wilson Shook (sax) and Ryan Kotler (cb)

Tom's Place is interrupting its winter hibernation to present a pair
of improvising duos. The Djll/Abushanab duo has been working together since Djll visited Denver last summer. Shook & Kotler have not, I believe, played together before.  More...

Sat 3/11 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Sarah Buckius is a 2023 receipient of Indexical’s new Micro-Residency Commissions for Santa Cruz-based artists. A new work stemming from her ongoing project !!! techn010ffspring !!!, her commssioned project If (x = Robot) … is an investigation into the female-coded personae of robots—from the ubiquitous disembodied voices of personal assistants Siri and Alexa to Cassie, “the Usain Bolt of robots,” who is simply a pair of fast-running torsoless robotic legs.  More...

Sun 3/12 7:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Stephan Crump - solo  More...

Wed 3/15 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
LSG New Creative Music Series
System Blower
Stephen Pilolla - Synth, Keyboard, and Electronics Patrick Lema - Drums, Turntable, Sampler, and Electronics
Tom Djll & Branden Abushanab duet bass, trumpet & synths  More...

Thu 3/16 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street, San Francisco]
Audium: New Voices II featuring the performances by Sharmi Basu, Alex Abalos & Ronald Peabody  More...

Thu 3/16 7:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Composer Raven Chacon talks about his work.  More...

Thu 3/16 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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CCRMA presents a concert of spatial audio and audiovisual works by Jay Afrisando.
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FREE and Open to the Public  More...

Thu 3/16 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Francis Wong Special Quartet  More...

Fri 3/17 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center - Joe Henderson Lab [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Will Bernard Trio with Scott Amendola and Lisa Mezzacappa

Shows at 7:00 and 8:30  More...

Fri 3/17 7:30 PM New Mission Yoga [2415 Mission St SF]
Psychobotanikon

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Explores the soul life of plants through sound, movement, projected images and authentic interactions with low dose plant medicine.  More...

Fri 3/17 7:30 PM Grace Cathedral [1100 California St SF]
Friction Quartet  More...

Fri 3/17 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
John P. Hastings & Ben Mayock premiere a new work, Traces, in conjunction with their new exhibition being installed in the River St. facing windows of Indexical's space at the Tannery Arts Center. Traces is a meditation on the Southern American landscape and how those lands affect its inhabitants. Through a three-channel video installation, hanging sculptures, analog photography, and documentary interviews Hastings and Mayock tell the story of a landscape and its inhabitants. Hastings and Mayock are based in New York City and Vermont, respectively.  More...

Sat 3/18 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
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A concert of music by composer Raven Chacon. Raven Chacon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation.  More...

Sat 3/18 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
John P. Hastings & Ben Mayock premiere a new work, Traces, in conjunction with their new exhibition being installed in the River St. facing windows of Indexical's space at the Tannery Arts Center. Traces is a meditation on the Southern American landscape and how those lands affect its inhabitants. Through a three-channel video installation, hanging sculptures, analog photography, and documentary interviews Hastings and Mayock tell the story of a landscape and its inhabitants. Hastings and Mayock are based in New York City and Vermont, respectively.  More...

Sun 3/19 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
SOCIAL STUTTER, a saxophone quartet led by composer/altoist BETH SCHENCK, blurs the line between strictly written chamber music and soaring free jazz. Trombonist WILLIAM LANG and pianist ANNE RAINWATER perform compositions by Anne Hege, Scott Wollschleger, Arvo Pärt, Jeremy Howard Beck, and others.  More...

Sun 3/19 8:00 PM Elbo Room Jack London Square [311 Broadway Oakland]
Thomas Dimuzio/Sharkiface/Thoabath/Goatcorpse/Dismal Chant/Nine Dog Dick/visuals by Lektrik Man  More...

Mon 3/20 8:00 PM Elbo Room Jack London Square [311 Broadway Oakland]
Hide with Harpy and Moira Scar  More...

Tue 3/21 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
Jazz at the Make-Out Room (formerly the Monday Make-Out) continues! A wily evening of cutting-edge jazz, free improvisation, and creative music.
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Doors: 6pm / Show: 7pm

7pm San Kazakgascar (Jed Brewer - guitar, a.o.)

7:45pm Green Mitchell Trio (Cory Wright - saxophone, Lisa Mezzacappa - bass, Jason Levis - drums)

8:30pm Nathan Chamberlain/Paul Sakai Duo (Nathan Chamberlain - guitar, Paul Sakai - drums)  More...

Tue 3/21 9:00 PM knockout [3223 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
Evicshen / William Winant / Zachary James Watkins
Many Many Girls (nyc)
Matt Robidoux  More...

Wed 3/22 8:00 PM Eternal Now [message mrobidouxm (at) gmail (dot) com for address]
Matt Robidoux with Del Sol String Quartet and Cole Pulice / Zekarias Thompson / Jose Fernando Solares / Cody Putman (saxophone quartet)
Sally Decker
Many Many Girls (nyc)  More...

Thu 3/23 8:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [272 Capp St SF]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream  Click to make donation  
Resident is a monthly electronic audiovisual open mic event started in 2017. Resident is casual and cool, and the community you'll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in the Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas.

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

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

Fri 3/24 7:30 PM San Francisco Conservatory Bowes Center [200 Van Ness Ave SF]
Del Sol String Quartet performs String Quartet no.2 by David Garner

San Francisco Conservatory Bowes Center
200 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco  More...

Fri 3/24 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
The SticklerPhonics  More...

Fri 3/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Aine Nakamura & Srayamurtikanti  More...

Fri 3/24 8:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [UC Berkeley Berkeley]
ARTEMIS

Renee Rosnes, piano and musical director
Ingrid Jensen, trumpet
Alexa Tarantino, alto saxophone, flute
Nicole Glover, tenor saxophone
Noriko Ueda, bass
Allison Miller, drums  More...

Fri 3/24 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Hinge presents a program blurring the lines between contemporary classical and avant-garde rock. This concert features pieces ranging from the lush harmonies and quirky rhythms of Dan VanHassel’s Sea Change, to the noisy electronic soundscape of Katherine Young’s Camilles, to Hinge’s reimagining of a song by extreme metal band Meshuggah. The program closes with Hinge’s interpretation of Julius Eastman’s epic and monumental minimalist work Gay Guerrilla.  More...

Sat 3/25 1:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
The aim of this workshop is to cultivate an intentionality and curiosity in the way that we move through and interact with our Surround, opening our senses to emergent patterns in nature. Participants will be encouraged to document their observations, found sounds, and their ephemeral works to share and discuss as a group.  More...

Sat 3/25 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Lost Trio with Ian Carey  More...

Sat 3/25 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Alexander Elliott Miller and Giacomo Fiore  More...

Sat 3/25 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
AV Club is a San Francisco based algorave artist collective focused on live performance, where technology itself is the instrument. They use samplers, sequencers, livecode environments, modular synths, feedback loops, generative art, microscopes, & more to make sights and sounds you haven't encountered before but will want to experience again.  More...

Sun 3/26 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
Created by violinist/composer DAN FLANAGAN, "The Bow and the Brush" integrates the visual arts with new music. Dan is joined by cellist VICKY EHRLICH, trombonist BRUCE CRISP, and violinist GABRIELLE WUNSCH to perform new works by Libby Larsen, Nathaniel Stookey, Linda Marcel Marcel, Shinji Eshima, Jacques Desjardins, Cindy Cox, Maija Hynninen, Jose Gonzalez Granero, Edmund Campion, Emily Onderdonk, Peter Josheff, Evan Price, Michael Panther and Dan Flanagan. All compositions will be Oakland premieres and will be performed with projected images of the paintings and sculptures that inspire them.  More...

Mon 3/27 6:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
As a part of Indexical's Micro-Residency Program, Kumi Maxson is facilitating weekly collective improvisation workshop spaces, every Monday* from March 27 to May 29 from 6-8pm. The workshops will consist of a short reading and listening session, followed by discussions of the liberatory political implications of musical improvisation. The workshops will cater to all levels of improvisational and musical experience (including none!), striving to create an accessible space for non-hierarchical participation and experimentation. Musicians are encouraged to bring their own instruments, however some will be provided for those who do not have their own. Masks are required for these workshops. Wind players and vocalists may perform without masks if needed.  More...

Mon 3/27 7:30 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St San Francisco]
Earplay: knock, breathe, shine

Earplay’s 38th season continues on March 27th with a concert program that traverses the topical, the poetic, and the sonic space where they overlap.  More...

Mon 3/27 8:00 PM Bottom of the Hill [1233 17th Street SF]
Winston Tong & Lx Rudis ~ Two Toiling Midgets (Paul Hood & Craig Grey) ~ Longshoremen  More...

Mon 3/27 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
An evening of instrumental improvisation with Miles Lassi, Skyway Man, Zekarias Thompson (plus special guest) featuring DJ Andy Cabic (of Vetiver). Every 2nd and 4th Monday. Free.  More...

Thu 3/30 8:00 PM Online [(YouTube)]
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Live at Home Series, Episode 4: Francis Wong

A Talk Show - unraveling Bay Area creative and experimental music. Surrealist interviews and wild original music, featuring a cadre of top flight creative musicians.

Hosted by Grex (Karl Evangelista + Rei Scampavia) and featuring special guest Francis Wong (saxophonist, composer, Asian Improv aRts cofounder). Special preview for Karl Evangelista's "Bukas" (May 27-28).  More...

Fri 3/31 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and Friends

Boohabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce continues his semi regular Friday residency tonight.  More...

Fri 3/31 7:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
mB & FAULTS

FAULTS is Jorge Bachmann (electronics), Kevin Corcoran (percussion) and Jaroba (bass clarinet). They are joined for this performance by Gabby Wen (electronics) and Andrej Hronco (generative visuals).

mB is multimedia artist Michael Bailey performing with bass and feedback on this current tour as he returns to California.  More...

Fri 3/31 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Experience the culmination of Mills College's graduate students' work at Signal Flow 2023 - the final installment of this historic student-run festival. From March 31st to April 2nd, the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall will be filled with the sounds of innovative and thought-provoking compositions.  More...

Sat 4/01 2:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Handcrafting Soft Circuits -- From soft circuits and paper switches to pen and paper drawing we will examine the ways you can work with your hands to combine electricity, interactivity, light and imagination. We will use paper to draw our own circuits and then use conductive tape and LEDs to create various types of circuits.  More...

Sat 4/01 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present instrumental and vocal chamber music written by its members and performed by outstanding Bay Area’s musicians. The concert will be presented to a live audience at the Center for New Music in San Francisco on Saturday April 8, 2023  More...

Sat 4/01 8:00 PM All Saints' Episcopal Church [555 Waverley Street Palo Alto, CA 94301]
Streaming and in-person
21V opens its second season with "Sonic Reflections on Interconnectedness." As we emerge from a global pandemic, we yearn more than ever for community and reminders of the many ways we are intertwined.

21V’s unique treble sound is showcased in an eclectic array of 21st century music of the Americas, including Chen Yi’s virtuosic and playful "Looking at the Sea," the world premiere of "Skin" by Mari Esabel Valverde, and works by Reena Esmail, David O, and Argentinian composer Diego Boero.  More...

Sat 4/01 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Experience the culmination of Mills College's graduate students' work at Signal Flow 2023 - the final installment of this historic student-run festival. From March 31st to April 2nd, the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall will be filled with the sounds of innovative and thought-provoking compositions.  More...

Sat 4/01 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Faults is the improvising trio of Jorge Bachmann, Kevin Corcoran and Jaroba, joined for this performance by Gabby Wen, an Oakland-based musician working with electronics, field recordings, and guqin, with live visuals by Andrej Hronco. Faults works with electronics, percussion and bass clarinet sometimes including the use of field recordings and graphic or text scores to guide their live performances.  More...

Sun 4/02 4:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Experience the culmination of Mills College's graduate students' work at Signal Flow 2023 - the final installment of this historic student-run festival. From March 31st to April 2nd, the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall will be filled with the sounds of innovative and thought-provoking compositions.  More...

Sun 4/02 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

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

Wed 4/05 5:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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Adam Stanović presents a concert of electroacoustic works diffused live over the 56.8-speaker dome in the CCRMA Stage.  More...

Wed 4/05 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Full: Radical Divination

Composer and visual artist Gino Robair presents Radical Divination, his “opera of augury through papermaking.”  More...

Wed 4/05 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
LSG New Music Series - Ambitious, experimental music!
Sumdeus Trio
Rome Yamilov, Kazuto Sato, Patrick Talesfore, Jr.
Lords of Outland
Anthony Flores, Philip Everett, Ray Schaeffer, Rent Romus  More...

Thu 4/06 2:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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"Orchestral Synthesis", a classical keyboard concert and interactive lecture will be given by electronic music pioneer Don Slepian, a noted composer in the field of Ambient Electronica.  More...

Thu 4/06 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Tom Djll’S SPEED OF SILENCE: OPENING RECEPTION  More...

Thu 4/06 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Caterina Barbieri

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Fri 4/07 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and Friends  More...

Fri 4/07 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
QUINTETO LATINO: “THE SPANGLISH DANCES” PREMIERE  More...

Fri 4/07 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Kali Malone

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Sat 4/08 8:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Larry Ochs brings to our home an extraordinary quartet featuring Larry Ochs (saxophones), Darren Johnston (trumpet), Madalyn Merkey (electronics) and Kyle Bruckmann (oboe and electronics.) This is a rare chance to hear Darren Johnston, who moved to Brooklyn after a 20-year presence in the Bay Area, and any opportunity to see him is special. This group that Larry has formed is remarkable, and a departure from much of Larry's volcanic music. It is music that is perfectly suited to the intimacy of a house concert.  More...

Sat 4/08 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
The Mills Performing Group presents music by James Fei, Kaija Saariaho, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, and Milton Babbitt.  More...