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CALENDAR

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03/12/2023 - 04/25/2023

Sunday, March 12
Sun 3/12 7:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Stephan Crump - solo  More...
Wednesday, March 15
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...
Thursday, March 16
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...
Friday, March 17
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...
Saturday, March 18
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...
Sunday, March 19
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...
Monday, March 20
Mon 3/20 8:00 PM Elbo Room Jack London Square [311 Broadway Oakland]
Hide with Harpy and Moira Scar  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...
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...
Wednesday, March 22
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...
Thursday, March 23
Thu 3/23 8:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [272 Capp St SF]
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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 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...
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 8:00 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...
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 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...
Thursday, March 30
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...
Friday, March 31
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...
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-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...
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...
Wednesday, April 5
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...
Thursday, April 6
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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Friday, April 7
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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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...
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...
Sunday, April 9
Sun 4/09 2:00 PM Buck Wild Brewery [401 Jackson St Oakland]
THE DUO: Guitarists Myles Boisen and John Schott  More...
Sun 4/09 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
4MACIÓN debuts a new computer music composition for solo laptop, “Monzogranite,” arranged for the Mosswood Chapel. The work is a variation on a computer-generated melody which disrupts and plays in harmony with multiple digital feedback systems.

Jordan Glenn, JOSÉ F. SOLARES, and MITCH STAHLMANN perform a new trio of winds and percussion.  More...
Thursday, April 13
Thu 4/13 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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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 Taube Atrium Theater [Veterans Building 4th floor 401 Van Ness Ave SF]
“Temporal Excursions”

7:00 pm ‘How Music is Made’ Pre-Concert Talk | 8:00 pm Concert

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players  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...
Friday, April 14
Fri 4/14 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...
Fri 4/14 9:00 PM SoundBox [300 Franklin Street SF]
UNTITLED - CURATED BY NICHOLAS BRITELL & BARRY JENKINS

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Fri 4/14 9:00 PM Brix 581 [581 5th St Oakland]
5lowershop Soundsystem Dancefloor Bacchanalia

*Tentative Lineup*
*Rtype
*Merk
*Hyphyskazerbox
*Victor Vankmen
*Nakedslice
*rrhexsis
*Hydroplane
*Bloody Snowman
*heartworm
9pm-2am  More...
Saturday, April 15
Sat 4/15 3:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118]
Free video screening of two photography slideshow works, Alcatraz & Eberbach (2013), collaborations between American photographer Jim Bengston and American electroacoustic composer Ingram Marshall (1942-2022).  More...
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 Herbst Theatre [401 Van Ness Ave SF]
A Tribute to Ingram Marshall
featuring John Adams, Timo Andres, Sarah Cahill, and others

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Sat 4/15 7:30 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music - Osher Hall [50 Oak St. SF]
Ensemble for These Times: Fractured Light
E4TT plays Pamela Z's Only If It's Asked For  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...
Sat 4/15 9:00 PM SoundBox [300 Franklin Street SF]
UNTITLED - CURATED BY NICHOLAS BRITELL & BARRY JENKINS

More info and tickets  More...
Sunday, April 16
Sun 4/16 3:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
This concert features the music of Barbara Strozzi, the pioneering composer and singer of 17th-century Venice, fabled for her extraordinary voice and music alike  More...
Sun 4/16 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Outsound Presents the solo piano work of Motoko Honda and the Davis/Brown/Winant Trio
Ben Davis, Chris Brown, William Winant
performing music from their new Tremble Trove album!  More...
Sun 4/16 8:00 PM Milk Bar [241 South 1st Street, Unit A. Richmond CA]
David Boyce, Chris Evans, Evelyn Ficarra, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, Anne-Lise Reusswig and paige starling sorvillo  More...
Monday, April 17
Mon 4/17 6:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
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 guided exercises, free improvisation, and discussions of the liberatory political implications of musical improvisation. Some weeks will also have a short reading to guide discussion. The workshops 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.  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...
Tue 4/18 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
A Night of Improvisation - Myra Melford’s composer/performers from UC Berkeley combines with the Mills College Music Improvisation Ensemble directed by Zeena Parkins.  More...
Wednesday, April 19
Wed 4/19 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Outsound Presents Infinexhuma, DREKKA, Timber Rattle at the LSG Creative Music Series!
Between primordial sound, landscape, and the music that have derived from our relationships to space and place throughout time with ritualistic and cinematic ambient industrial soundscapes, forever traveling space, earth, stillness, rumble, fog, sun.  More...
Thursday, April 20
Thu 4/20 7:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
[Black Sound Symposium] Speak for Change with Thomas Sage Pedersen: BBQueer // BBQueer celebrates the transformative art making power and embodied activism of Queer Black, Indigenous and People of Color  More...
Friday, April 21
Fri 4/21 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and friends  More...
Fri 4/21 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall Studio [Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen Street, Stanford, CA 94305]
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Julie Zhu and Douglas McCausland present their DMA Final Projects as part of this year's CCRMA in Bing residency.  More...
Fri 4/21 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
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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]
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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.  More...
Sun 4/23 5:30 PM Cato's Ale House [3891 Piedmont Ave Oakland]
The Miniwatt String Trio  More...
Sun 4/23 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
SINK HEAD TRIO (Ben Goldberg - clarinet Jordan Glenn - drums Ben Davis - cello)
Eda Er presents a new work for vocals and electronics:  More...
Monday, April 24
Mon 4/24 7:30 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez Street San Francisco]
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players - “Fire and Water, Shadows and Dust”  More...
Mon 4/24 8:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Allison Miller Carmen Staaf Duo  More...
Tuesday, April 25
Tue 4/25 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
The Ones That Got Away — Class Concert - Mills  More...