Friday, March 17
Fri 3/17 7:30 PM New Mission Yoga [2415 Mission St
SF]Psychobotanikon
Tickets and More InfoExplores the soul life of plants through sound, movement, projected images and authentic interactions with low dose plant medicine.
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... Saturday, March 18
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... Tuesday, March 21
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... Thursday, March 23
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... Friday, March 24
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... Saturday, March 25
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 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... Sunday, March 26
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... Monday, March 27
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 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... Friday, March 31
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... Saturday, April 1
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-person21V 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... Sunday, April 2
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... Saturday, April 8
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... Thursday, April 13
Thu 4/13 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr.
Stanford]Streaming and in-person:
Click for stream Object Collection presents HOUSECONCERT, paranormal-domestic actions in no particular order
Pre-show talk with writer/director Kara Freely and composer Travis Just at 6:30pm
Trailer: https://youtu.be/FsXQ7rSWbII
More... Thu 4/13 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St
SF]Unpopular Electronics, Omniverous Sensillium, Ava Koohbor, 4mación
Thurs April 13 8pm-11pm Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF
All-ages, $5-$15 no one turned away for lack of funds.
Please rapid-test day of show, keep each other healthy!
More... Saturday, April 15
Sat 4/15 3:00 PM Leo Ryan Park Amphitheater [650 Shell Blvd
Foster City, CA 94404]Come celebrate the springtime beauty of the Bay Area with the PWC at a free concert in the Leo J. Ryan Memorial Park in Foster City!
More... Sat 4/15 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Patrick Galvin will be performing works from his album, Violin Alone, which was completed in 2022. Patrick will then be joined by composer Michael Rosin to play an excerpt from Rosin’s new piece, Compass, for violin and piano.
More... Sat 4/15 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center
1050 River St. #119
Santa Cruz]Object Collection: HOUSECONCERT -- A two-day residency by a leading Brooklyn-based experimental opera and theater company.
More... Tuesday, April 18
Tue 4/18 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St
SF]The Monday Make-Out: Grex,
Jordan Glenn's BEAK
Jazz at the Make-Out Room (formerly the Monday Make-Out) continues! A wily evening of cutting-edge jazz, free improvisation, and creative music. This month features
Jordan Glenn’s all-star conduction ensemble BEAK + fiery Oakland experimental duo Grex.
Grex:
Karl Evangelista (guitar, voice, drums, etc.), Rei Scampavia (keys, voice, drums, etc.)
Jordan Glenn's BEAK:
Lisa Mezzacappa (bass),
Jon Arkin (drums),
Robert Lopez (percussion),
Mark Clifford (vibraphone), David James (guitar)
More... Friday, April 21
Fri 4/21 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St.
SF]Streaming and in-person:
Click for stream Click to make donation HYUNCHAE KIM KOREAN ZITHER (KAYAGEUM) RECITAL – Friday, April 21 at 8 pm
Prize-winning kayageum performer Hyunchae Kim plays a concert of solo works by Hyo-shin Na, whose writing for combinations of western and eastern instruments is unusual in its refusal to compromise the integrity of differing sounds and ideas; she prefers to let them interact, coexist and conflict in the music.
This is a hybrid concert - Select an option to see the ticket price.
To donate and watch live stream of this event, please select View Live Stream Only.
$25
More... Fri 4/21 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Electric guitarist and composer Matt Sargent (Bard University) present a solo program for electric guitar and electronics, including his own works and music by Eve Beglarian and Robert Carl; students from the Electric Sound Collective perform a short opening set of improvised music for electronic and amplified instruments.
More... Fri 4/21 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center
1050 River St. #119
Santa Cruz][Black Sound Symposium] DeForrest Brown, Jr. + Stephanie Hewett // DeForrest Brown, Jr.'s performance reclaims the Black origins of techno as a post-industrial Black folk music from Detroit. Techxodus [Live Prototype] is an improvised electronic rhythmanalytical performance that extends the myth-scientific narrative of DeForrest Brown, Jr.’s debut book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, and encourages a reimagining of techno beyond the dance floor as a technologically optimized form of Black American Blues, Jazz, and Soul music. Stephanie Hewett opens with a DJ set focusing on the sonic, somatic, and spiritual manifestations of Black freedom.
More... Saturday, April 22
Sat 4/22 11:00 AM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center
1050 River St. #119
Santa Cruz][Black Sound Symposium] Workshop -- Stephanie Hewett: Groove Sermon // Groove Sermon is a movement workshop celebrating the rich Black Queer history of House music through an exploration of the body's response to the African rhythms and dynamic vocals inherent in the music. The workshop begins with a groove-centered warm-up, followed by movement improvisation and ending in a short, choreographed movement phrase.
More... Sat 4/22 2:00 PM Bayview Opera House [4705 3rd Street
San Francisco
CA 94124]The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble invites music and poetry enthusiasts to attend this free community event! Composer Kurt Rohde and poet Donna Masini will join us in discussion on the creative process.
More... Sat 4/22 4:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall and Music Building [5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland]Presented by Mills College at Northeastern University Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music
This event is free and open to the public.
Students, current and past faculty create a sonic walkthrough inspired by the Mills music archives - Timed installations and performances follow two different paths throughout the Mills music building.
4-6pm Resonnances in Music Building: Tobias Banks, Eryck CB,
John Bischoff &
James Fei,
Chris Brown, Christopher Davidson, Carrie DeCunzo, Emma Doven, Andy Evans Risa, José Fernando Solares,
Laetitia Sonami, Zeena Parkins,
Maggi Payne and Jules Williams.
7-9pm Concert in Littlefield Concert Hall: Roco Córdova, Sally Decker, Madalyn Merkey & Julie Moon, Michelle Moeller, Matt Robidoux.
More... Sat 4/22 7:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland]Presented by Mills College at Northeastern University Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music
This event is free and open to the public.
Students, current and past faculty create a sonic walkthrough inspired by the Mills music archives - Timed installations and performances follow two different paths throughout the Mills music building.
4-6pm Resonnances in Music Building: Tobias Banks, Eryck CB,
John Bischoff &
James Fei,
Chris Brown, Christopher Davidson, Carrie DeCunzo, Emma Doven, Andy Evans Risa, José Fernando Solares,
Laetitia Sonami, Zeena Parkins,
Maggi Payne and Jules Williams.
7-9pm Concert in Littlefield Concert Hall: Roco Córdova, Sally Decker, Madalyn Merkey & Julie Moon, Michelle Moeller, Matt Robidoux.
More... Sat 4/22 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall Studio [Bing Concert Hall,
327 Lasuen Street,
Stanford, CA 94305]Streaming and in-person:
Click for stream CCRMA presents "The Return of the Living B[e]ing".
They're back from CCRMA and ready to party!
When two bumbling employees at a computer music supply warehouse accidentally release a non-toxic sound wave into the air, the vapors cause the speakers to rise again in Bing after a 3-year hiatus.
More... Sat 4/22 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center
1050 River St. #119
Santa Cruz][Black Sound Symposium] – Anthony R. Green: Zoom In + Bill Solomon
The Zoom In performance project is first and foremost about the Black experience in the United States in all of its various iterations. It developed organically through performances of original works, works by other composers, improvisation, and finding the commonality between the art created from these approaches. Additionally, it is a project that is constantly changing as the Black experience in the US also changes not only because of the passing of contemporary time but also because of the information from the past that is constantly being unearthed and revisited, thus creating a stronger context of past Blackness in dialogue with the present.
More... Sunday, April 23
Sun 4/23 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St.
SF]Streaming and in-person:
Click for stream Click to make donation Wooden Fish Ensemble – From Korea to America – 120 Years and Beyond – Sunday, April 23 at 4 pm
$25
The San Francisco-based Wooden Fish Ensemble celebrates the 120th year of Korean immigration to the United States with a concert featuring traditional Korean music and the World Premiere of Hyo-shin Na’s From Korea to America – 120 Years and Beyond.
This is a hybrid concert - Select an option to see the ticket price.
To donate and watch live stream of this event, please select View Live Stream Only.
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