Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

CALENDAR

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03/14/2017 - 04/28/2017

Tuesday, March 14
Tue 3/14 7:00 PM Cyprian's Center [2097 Turk Street San Francisco Ca (corner of Turk and Lyon) (downstairs)]
Lingua Incognita Session #3 - open improv session around double rhythm section and the grammar of electric fusion and nowave improv/jazz (a la Miles Davis, Ornate Coleman, Hermeto Pascoal, Sun Ra, Weather Report ...) with Dancing' Baby experimental baritone horn trio opening set  More...
Tue 3/14 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Hakidame ni Tsuru: Satoko Fujii and Larry Ochs

Satoko Fujii, the great Japanese pianist returns to the Bay Area with ""Hakidame ni Tsuru"" (...translates into English as “crane in the wasteland”...) Through improvised music and movement, the group traverses cultures and continents, stretching its wings beyond boundaries and across borders. Larry Ochs' TBD opens  More...
Tue 3/14 9:30 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series Presents:
We Buy Gold
Lion Creek
Goldberg/Wong/Trammell/Anderson  More...
Wednesday, March 15
Wed 3/15 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
For our March event at Canessa Gallery we're excited to present Kenneth Atchley, Kattt Atchley + Ron Heglin, David Graves.  More...
Wed 3/15 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
“Friction” plays with “Common Sense”

Friction String Quartet plays West Coast premieres by the eight members of the Common Sense Composers' Collective. Performance at 7:30pm. Wine Reception at 6:30pm.  More...
Wed 3/15 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Ivy Room Presents
Wednesday’s Best: Scott Amendola Trio with Karl Evangelista, and Jason Hoopes  More...
Thursday, March 16
Thu 3/16 8:00 AM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm: Skull Krusher
Philip Everett - electronics/acoustics
9pm: PureFinder
Mark Pino - percussion, Andrew J Palmer - electronics  More...
Thu 3/16 8:00 PM The Night Light [311 Broadway Oakland, CA]
Triple Bill!
EFFT (Sarah Elena Palmer - Noah Phillips)
Two Aerials (Crystal Pascucci - Mark Clifford - Jordan Glenn)
Lisa Mezzacappa: avantNOIR - CD release! (Aaron Bennett - John Finkbeiner - William Winant - Tim Perkis - Jordan Glenn - Lisa Mezzacappa)  More...
Friday, March 17
Fri 3/17 6:00 PM Presidio Officer's Club [50 Moraga Ave SF]
Bassist Lisa Mezzacappa celebrates the release of her CD avantNOIR, a suite of music inspired by noir crime fiction, as part of the Presidio Sessions presented by the SF Friends of Chamber Music. With Aaron Bennett, tenor sax, John Finkbeiner, electric guitar, Tim Perkis, electronics, William Winant, vibraphone and Foley, and Jordan Glenn, drums.  More...
Fri 3/17 7:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th Street San Francisco]
‘Fraid o’ Freyja  More...
Fri 3/17 7:30 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco, CA]
Join us on March 17 and 18 for Bard Music West’s inaugural festival, The World of György Ligeti, and explore the eclectic music and influences of the brilliant Hungarian composer whose revolutionary works became famous through the films of Stanley Kubrick. Encounter Transylvanian folk music, absurdist theater, monumental choral works, a world premiere, and some of Ligeti’s most stunning compositions.  More...
Fri 3/17 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
New Perspectives: Digital Album Release

ALL THAT BAD play exploratory music on harp, trumpet and bass.  More...
Fri 3/17 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall [327 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA 94305]
Please join us as CCRMA presents 2 evenings of immersive multichannel music at the Bing Concert Hall. We will deploy the GRAIL (the Giant Radial Array for Immersive Listening), our full 3D surround speaker array.  More...
Saturday, March 18
Sat 3/18 3:00 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco, CA]
Join us on March 17 and 18 for Bard Music West’s inaugural festival, The World of György Ligeti, and explore the eclectic music and influences of the brilliant Hungarian composer whose revolutionary works became famous through the films of Stanley Kubrick. Encounter Transylvanian folk music, absurdist theater, monumental choral works, a world premiere, and some of Ligeti’s most stunning compositions.  More...
Sat 3/18 4:00 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco CA]
Join us on March 17 and 18 for Bard Music West’s inaugural festival, The World of György Ligeti, and explore the eclectic music and influences of the brilliant Hungarian composer whose revolutionary works became famous through the films of Stanley Kubrick. Encounter Transylvanian folk music, absurdist theater, monumental choral works, a world premiere, and some of Ligeti’s most stunning compositions.  More...
Sat 3/18 6:20 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Sat 3/18 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall [327 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA 94305]
Please join us as CCRMA presents their 2nd evening of immersive multichannel music at the Bing Concert Hall. We will deploy the GRAIL (the Giant Radial Array for Immersive Listening), our full 3D surround speaker array.  More...
Sat 3/18 8:00 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco, CA]
Join us on March 17 and 18 for Bard Music West’s inaugural festival, The World of György Ligeti, and explore the eclectic music and influences of the brilliant Hungarian composer whose revolutionary works became famous through the films of Stanley Kubrick. Encounter Transylvanian folk music, absurdist theater, monumental choral works, a world premiere, and some of Ligeti’s most stunning compositions  More...
Sat 3/18 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Opus Project Presents Opus 51: Questionable Practices

The Future… it's all so uncertain. Join us for a program of unanswered questions in uncertain times… With flutist Alan Kingsley, pianist Feona Lee Jones, violinist Kristen Kline, and The Opus Project String Quartet, Piano Quintet, and Orchestra. An unprecedented concert series in place and time!  More...
Sat 3/18 8:45 PM The Peacock Lounge [552 Haight]
Jeweled Snakes RECORD RELEASE party! Order the LP today and get in FREE at The Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF SATURDAY Mar.18
- feat. Jeweled Snakes
- with V.E.X.
- and Amphibious Gestures
- but first Wobbly & Professor Cantaloupe
- while DJs Bunnywhiskers & Lucy tackle the decks!
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Jeweled Snakes
“This is what I, for one, was really wanting Twenty-first century music to sound like. […] The promise and the menace of uncharted times echo in the frightening, powerful sounds of an electro noisescape.” –Jake Hout. Moving too fast, you're seized by sudden fear of what’s just been sung into your mind; but, once bitten the lyrics of Jeweled Snakes drip into your blood, seeding dark compulsions. Synth-straps bind you to a sexstep beat incubating desire, choking out your former self to spawn a stranger, hotter you.
https://soundcloud.com/resipiscent/sets/jeweled_snakes

V.E.X.
V.E.X. (Voltage Empath Xanaxax a.k.a. Ventriloquest Ectoplasmold Xanaxax) is a synth-punk industrial dark-wave duo from Oakland California consisting of Roxy Monoxide and Lu Lu GammaRay. V.E.X. creates gritty minimal-wave death-rock electro noise spells from intense witches not of this world. Urgent, brooding, sensual, V.E.X. opens minds, clenches hearts, moves bodies and souls. Roxy and Lu Lu also play in the art-punk band Moira Scar.
https://xanaxax.bandcamp.com/

Amphibious Gestures
The solo project of Kasper Rodenborn, Amphibious Gestures, bubbled over from the heavy cauldron of his live collaborations with Skozey Fetisch (Mark C. Jackman.) The first sizzle of that foamy spill turned luminescent, stood up from the fire, facemorphing each time you looked back until you find yourself turning to follow, into his oscillator bog, synthvines shooting up into flowers that only bloom in total darkness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47nM1OEPfFk

Wobbly & Professor Cantaloupe
Deep calling unto deep, two giant squid tangle in the watery dark, Mitchell Brown (aka Professor Cantaloupe) sometimes focuses his inky eye on the material world, the rest of the time a weather system roils within his mantle, leaking into our world as waveforms. An LA native, he's the first phone call for electronic music luminaries whose amazing conversations and live performances air on KXLU and Dublab radio, while his Melon Expander record label reveals album length works including Brain Sucking Peananners, Brown's professional collaborations with developmentally disabled children. No Kraken has as many tentacles as Wobbly has collaborators, from his role with Negativland and Over the Edge radio to his recordings with Dieter Moebius, Tim Story, Blevin Blectum, Tom Dimuzio and tonight thee Mitchell Brown!
https://youtu.be/O854pSR4C_M
https://youtu.be/LfSDHCr2HkY?t=104  More...
Sunday, March 19
Sun 3/19 6:20 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Sun 3/19 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. Audience & participants encouraged to donate some cash for space rental. Over by 10pm.  More...
Monday, March 20
Mon 3/20 7:30 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
Earplay Season 32: Wind  More...
Mon 3/20 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Fistortion + reserva  More...
Tuesday, March 21
Tue 3/21 7:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
The Golden Path, Theresa Wong, Brand New Heartache, Tainted Pussy & DJ Wobbly  More...
Tue 3/21 9:30 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
Grex & Christina Stanley
Grex - Karl Evangelista-gtr, voice, dms; Rei Scampavia-keys, voice, dms
Christina Stanley - Christina Stanley-voice, gtr, etc.

A special evening of roving, ravishing sounds: Oakland art rock ensemble Grex presents a set of explosive duo music, drawing from a spectrum of two-piece bands that encompasses Skeleton Crew, the White Stripes, and Interstellar Space. Local singer/multi-instrumentalist Christina Stanley completes the evening with a program of eerie, beautiful songs.  More...
Wednesday, March 22
Wed 3/22 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
An evening of ad hoc improv, featuring Andrea Centazzo (perc), Kyle Bruckmann (oboe), Wobbly (Jon Leidecker) (elec), Lisa Mezzacappa (bass), Ron Heglin (low brass, voice)
Presented in collaboration with the Italian Culture Institute of San Francisco  More...
Wed 3/22 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Wednesday’s Best: Scott Amendola vs. Wil Blades with special guests Kasey Knudsen and Ben Goldberg  More...
Thursday, March 23
Thu 3/23 6:30 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Thu 3/23 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00pm Ron Heglin- voice, and Lorin Benedict- voice
9:00pm Andrea Centazzo - electroacoustic percussion with Matt Davignon - electronic percussion  More...
Friday, March 24
Fri 3/24 6:00 PM Presidio Officer's Club [50 Moraga Ave SF]
Stenberg | Cahill Duo

Kate Stenberg, violin • Sarah Cahill, piano  More...
Fri 3/24 6:30 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Fri 3/24 9:00 PM Stork Club [2330 Telegraph Avenue Oakland]
Tri-Cornered Tent Show is joined by 3 other great bands for a night of eclectic and soul bending sounds.
9 pm door / 9:30pm show. $5.00 / 21+  More...
Fri 3/24 9:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Ainsley Wagoner + Jordan Presnick, Danny Clay + Jon Fischer, Jim Haynes  More...
Saturday, March 25
Sat 3/25 3:30 PM Schroeders [240 Front Street San Francisco, CA 94111]
We invite you to our season-end celebration.
SFCMP, the Bay Area's most longstanding and largest contemporary classical music ensemble will be showcasing some of our music from our 46th season and previewing the season ahead.
We hope you'll join us for live music, great food, good company, and some of our region’s finest wine (and beer).
SFCMP ensemble presenters are Kyle Bruckmann, Jeff Anderle, and Bill Kalinkos.  More...
Sat 3/25 6:30 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Sat 3/25 7:30 PM Episcopal Church of the Incarnation [1750 29th Ave SF]
A chamber music concert with violinist Patrick Galvin. Patrick Galvin is a man of many musical trades. As a violinist, he performs classical recitals both solo and in chamber settings. He is also a member of the folk band Hoxton Mob which performs regularly throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently, he has begun scoring radio stories for live performance. When he is not performing, Patrick teaches violin at a private school and out of his home in San Francisco. He also writes reviews for the online journal The Classical Voice.  More...
Sat 3/25 8:00 PM Finnish Kaleva Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
Road to Aacheron
an original oratorio of darkness and mystery by Rent Romus
"No one dreamed they could possibly exist! One person stands at the precipice of our destruction!"

featuring film by Michael Mersereau with
Life's Blood Ensemble & Cardew Choir
Aria performances by
Dean Santomieri, Bob Marsh, Polly Moller, Mantra Plonsey, Kattt Atchley

Advance Tickets available at Eventbrite  More...
Sunday, March 26
Sun 3/26 6:30 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Sun 3/26 8:00 PM Finnish Kaleva Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
Road to Aacheron
an original oratorio of darkness and mystery by Rent Romus
"No one dreamed they could possibly exist! One person stands at the precipice of our destruction!"

featuring film by Michael Mersereau with
Life's Blood Ensemble & Cardew Choir
Aria performances by
Dean Santomieri, Bob Marsh, Polly Moller, Mantra Plonsey, Kattt Atchley

Advance Tickets available at Eventbrite  More...
Sun 3/26 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Arnold Dreyblatt

Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953) is a composer, performer and visual artist.  More...
Monday, March 27
Mon 3/27 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: John McCowen/Tom Djll/Tim Perkis + Jon Arkin & Ben Goldberg  More...
Wednesday, March 29
Wed 3/29 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Wednesday’s Best: Scott Amendola vs. Wil Blades vs. Mocean Worker= A Battle Royal Of Sonic Joy  More...
Wed 3/29 10:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Lawrence English

Lawrence English is composer, media artist and curator based in Australia.  More...
Thursday, March 30
Thu 3/30 6:30 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Thu 3/30 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm Punjabi Tea House
9pm Alex Jenkins Trio
Alex Jenkins Drum, Kerry Kashiwagi Bass, Clifford Childers Trombone.  More...
Friday, March 31
Fri 3/31 6:30 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Saturday, April 1
Sat 4/01 6:30 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Sat 4/01 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]
The San Francisco Guitar Quartet performs music by Paul Dresher, Phillip Houghton, as well as pieces written for the SFGQ by Christopher Gainey and Garry Eister. Since its debut in 1997, the San Francisco Guitar Quartet has established itself as a dynamic force in the guitar world through its innovative concerts and recordings. The current generation of the group seeks to continue the mission of expanding the guitar quartet repertoire through collaboration with living composers, bringing creative new works to life.  More...
Sat 4/01 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
X Sound - A Festival of New Works by Mills Senior Composers and Media Artists.  More...
Sat 4/01 8:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
BAMPFA presents a 35mm film print of Jon Coney's SPACE IS THE PLACE starring Sun Ra, Barbara Deloney, Raymond Johnson, Erika Leder,

Inspired by Sun Ra’s 1971 UC Berkeley course The Black Man in the Cosmos and filmed in Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and Richmond, “Space Is the Place is an otherworldly frolic combining intergalactic bebop with riffs on black liberation. Director Coney's boldly mystical blaxploitation film takes to heart Sun Ra's cosmic philosophy of music as a liberating force. Performed by The Intergalactic Myth-Science Solar Arkestra, Sun Ra's music suffuses the hip-edelic atmosphere. Whimsical, funky, and alchemically whack, Space Is the Place takes on Afro-liberation, extraterrestrial activism, and whatever else enters the ever–expanding mind of Sun Ra" (Steve Seid).  More...
Sunday, April 2
Sun 4/02 2:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Signals & Intersections: Poet Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, Musician Tessa Brinckman, & Friends  More...
Sun 4/02 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. Berkeley]
E4TT with guest cellist, Anne Lerner-Wright and guest violinist Dawn Harms, present The Guernica Project. Featured is a new call-and-response commission by composer Jeffrey Hoover entitled "Guernica" along with 2016 Call for Scores winners Mario Carro, Mercedes Zavala and Hoover. Also on the program is "Death with Interruptions," by Grammy- nominated composer Derek Bermel and "Guernica," by composer Frederic Sharaf, with images provided by the Museo de la Paz de Guernica.  More...
Sun 4/02 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Friction Quartet
O1C Artists-in-Residence

Doug Machiz, cello; Otis Harriel, violin; Taija Warbelow, viola; Kevin Rogers, violin; Special Guest Jodi Levitz, viola; Special Guest Jennifer Culp, cello

Johannes Brahms String Quartet in B-flat major, No. 3, Op. 76
John Halle Spheres (2001, revised 2007)
Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4  More...
Sun 4/02 6:30 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Monday, April 3
Mon 4/03 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613]
The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present the Songlines Series:
Swedish composer and instrumentalist Biggi Vinkeloe talks about her experience of being a woman in a mainly male instrumental world, and then explores “instant” composition in collaboration with student improvisors.  More...
Mon 4/03 8:30 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

Set #1: Ben Goldberg Trio (premier Bay Area clarinetist)
Ben Goldberg-clarinet, Rob Adkins-bass, Hamir Atwal-drums

Set #2: John Schott's Actual Trio (roving guitar music/modern jazz)
John Schott-guitar, Dan Seamans-bass, John Hanes-drums

Set #3: AEE Trio (free jazz/improvisation)
Jon Arkin-drums, Karl Evangelista-guitar, Rob Ewing-trombone  More...
Tuesday, April 4
Tue 4/04 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents John Krausbauer, C. Spencer Yeh, & Bill Orcutt  More...
Thursday, April 6
Thu 4/06 6:40 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Thu 4/06 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15pm: Tammy Duplantis - 8 bit noise
8:45pm: Scy1e (Raub Roy - electronics)
9:30pm: Waxy Tomb (electronics)  More...
Thu 4/06 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Jane Spencer Mills – Still Waiting  More...
Friday, April 7
Fri 4/07 6:40 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Fri 4/07 7:30 PM Artiszen Cultural Arts Center [337 Georgia Street, Vallejo, CA]
The legendary saxophone giant, David Murray, and multi-percussion icon, Kahil El'Zabar, come together in a very dynamic and unforgettable duo!  More...
Saturday, April 8
Sat 4/08 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
Dinosaurs With Horns! (LAFMS)-----Mochipet-----Tom Djll-------Bloody Snowman----Mas Coad  More...
Sat 4/08 6:40 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Sat 4/08 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
In Sea

Exploring the mysteries of the ocean between tides, waves, and voices of the sea with music by Saariaho, Takemitsu, & Crumb.  More...
Sunday, April 9
Sun 4/09 3:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
FELDMAN : for bunita marcus

Pianist Patti Deuter performs a crown jewel of Morton Feldman's late piano music - the stark, expansive, crystalline "For Bunita Marcus."  More...
Sun 4/09 6:40 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Sun 4/09 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Social Stutter Quartet
Beth Schenck - alto sax; Kasey Knudsen – alto sax; Phillip Greenlief – tenor sax; Cory Wright – tenor and baritone saxes
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute; Eli Wallace - piano; Bill Noertker - contrabass; Jason Levis - drums  More...
Sun 4/09 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
eudiser is a performance experiment in cross-modal initiations and interactions. Scored for a dancer and three musicians, eudiser interrogates relationships between movement and sound through creating situations of ambiguous influence between the artists using acoustic, electronic, and visual mediums.

Tamara Chu - dance, motion sensors, paint
Danishta Rivero Castro - voice, electronics
Scott Rubin - viola, electronics
Jacob Felix Heule - percussion  More...
Monday, April 10
Mon 4/10 7:30 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Ensemble Inverspace from Basel, Switzerland, present new chamber works incorporating electronics symbiosis with acoustic instrumentation. The Ensemble consists of the Maruta Staravoitava (flute), Clemens Hund-Goeschel (piano), Max Riefer (percussion), Patrick Stadler (saxophone), and Robert Torche (live-electronics).  More...
Tuesday, April 11
Tue 4/11 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Full: Nordic

The Icelandic all-women ensemble Nordic Affect perform new music on period instruments.  More...
Tue 4/11 7:00 PM Cyprian's Center [2097 Turk Street (Turk at Lyon Sts - in NOPA neighborhood) San Francisco]
NextNow Presents - Lingua Incognita Session Nights
open ensemble improvisation session of free music (electric jazz and alot more)

guest set: Rent Romus - Christina Stanley - Tim Orr Trio.  More...
Tue 4/11 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents loadbang

New York City-based loadbang performs works for trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice by Tim McCormick, Aaron Cassidy, Aaron Helgeson, Joji Yuasa, and Gerard Grisey.  More...
Tue 4/11 8:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St SF]
Salon At The Nunnery with Blake McGee...some very fine music, food and drink, FREE CD & Admission  More...
Tue 4/11 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series Presents:
Ives Band
Nakata (LA, mem. of Upsilon Acrux)
Angela Roberts  More...
Wednesday, April 12
Wed 4/12 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
For our April event at Canessa Gallery we're excited to present an evening of obscure electronics featuring Alex Abalos, John Vance from Minneapolis, and Google Mobile Orchestra (Daniel Iglesia and Curtis Ullerich).  More...
Wed 4/12 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Evening with Jennifer Walshe, Composer-in-Residence, Stanford University

Jennifer Walshe shares her work ALL THE MANY PEOPLS for solo voice, film and electronics. Born in Dublin, Walshe is a composer, performer and visual artist of whom the Irish Times has said that "without a doubt, hers is the most original compositional voice to emerge in Ireland in the last 20 years.”  More...
Wed 4/12 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
CNMAT Users Group Presents: Kyle Bruckmann  More...
Thursday, April 13
Thu 4/13 7:00 PM Southern Exposure [3030 20th Street San Francisco, CA 94110]
Start off your evening with local poets Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel, Peter Burghardt, and Robert Andrew Perez. The three co-publish speCt!, an artbook press that prints small-batch, single-author chapbooks, and each has been widely published in poetry journals. Perez, whose first collection, the field, was published with Omnidawn Publishing, is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. Then get the dance party started with Oakland's own Ambr33zy BA! making the dance floor a safe space for all creative freaks, oddballs, and disco grannies to be themselves and shake their ass! For this special night, Ambr33zy BA! with friends Ka'ra Kersey and Simmi will come together on one stage to bring high energy world music that will sweat your wig off in the name of LOVE!  More...
Thu 4/13 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Luigi Nono's - Post-prae-ludium n.1, 'per Donau', Lecture and Performance -

Dr. Juan Parra and Dr. Jonathan Impett from ORCiM Orpheus Institute in Ghent present a lecture-performance focused around Luigi Nono's seminal electroacoustic tuba work Post-prae-ludium n.1, 'per Donau'.  More...
Thu 4/13 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm: Owen Stewart-Robertson: guitar/electronics  More...
Thu 4/13 8:00 PM Exploratorium [Pier 15 Embarcadero at Green St SF]
Chris Brown and Van-Anh Vo  More...
Friday, April 14
Fri 4/14 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Mivos Quartet: Works by UC Berkeley Composers  More...
Saturday, April 15
Sat 4/15 6:45 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Sat 4/15 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
The California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts (CEMEC) form a series of events designed to strengthen the connections between the various California educational institutions that maintain computer and electronic music programs. These events are run and curated by the graduate students and faculty of each participating institution. The 2017 series of California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts will be held at the campuses of UCSD, UCSB, Mills, CCRMA/Stanford, Santa Cruz, and CalArts throughout April 2017. The Stanford/CCRMA leg will be held on April 15th from 7.30PM  More...
Sat 4/15 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
LOU HARRISON CENTENARY CONCERT
Presented by the Mills Performing Group and Thingamajig  More...
Sat 4/15 8:00 PM Showcase Theater [Marin Civic Center San Rafael]
Wild Women: Nina Wise, Pamela Z, Amy X Neuburg  More...
Sat 4/15 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
permutations041517: Mivos Quartet  More...
Sat 4/15 8:30 PM Artists' Television Access [992 Valencia SF]
Other Cinema: SONIC ODDITIES (INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC)  More...
Sat 4/15 9:30 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
SOUND ETIQUETTE RECORD RELEASE PARTY WITH GREX!
Come celebrate the release of Sound Etiquette's debut album on Orenda Records with special guests Grex 9:30pm All Ages $5-$10 sliding scale or $15 w/CD! facebook event  More...
Sunday, April 16
Sun 4/16 6:30 PM Doc's Lab [124 Columbus Ave SF]
Ben Goldberg's Brainchild  More...
Sun 4/16 6:45 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF

EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM

Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance

The journey begins at sunset
Thursday - Sunday, March 11 - April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park  More...
Sun 4/16 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. Audience & participants encouraged to donate some cash for space rental. Over by 10pm.  More...
Sun 4/16 8:00 PM Resource Center for Nonviolence [612 Ocean St.., Santa Cruz]
Mivos Quartet, “one of America’s most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles,” have performed everywhere from museums to metal clubs. They will play acoustic and electro-acoustic compositions by Patrick Higgins, Mario Diaz de Leon, Martin Stauning, Anahita Abbasi, and Scott Wollschleger.  More...
Monday, April 17
Mon 4/17 7:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Luciano Chessa / Ctrl-Z / DunkelpeK  More...
Mon 4/17 8:00 PM The ROOM Series (at Royce Gallery) [2901 Mariposa St between Harrison & Alabama SF]
The Room Series presents: SPLINTER REEDS

Splinter Reeds, the Bay Area’s first reed quintet, give a concert as part of The ROOM Series at The Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

The quintet performs a world premiere work by Theresa Wong, alongside pieces by Eric Wubbels, Ken Ueno, and Tom Johnson featuring narration by Pamela Z, in an evening of contemporary reed music.  More...
Mon 4/17 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Kinda Green + Everett/Allen/Schaeffer  More...
Tuesday, April 18
Tue 4/18 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
bass2bass: sfSoundSalonSeries presents Michelle Lou & Scott Worthington

Bass2Bass is an electric bass duo comprised of SoCal bassist/composers Scott Worthington and Michelle Lou. Their inaugural west coast tour presents three new works by composer/performers Sabrina Schroeder, Weston Olencki and Scott Worthington.  More...
Wednesday, April 19
Wed 4/19 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
CNMAT Users Group Presents: Meerenai Shim - flute  More...
Wed 4/19 9:00 PM PianoFight [144 Taylor St SF]
Reconnaissance Fly + the Actual Trio

Progressive rock and original mind-altering jazz!  More...
Thursday, April 20
Thu 4/20 7:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
rob reich Group with Ben Goldberg  More...
Thu 4/20 7:00 PM Southern Exposure [3030 20th Street, San Francisco]
Live performances by Ronaldo V. Wilson and Club Chai in conjunction with 'Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark,' a sculptural installation by Gary Simmons currently on view at Southern Exposure.  More...
Thu 4/20 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Bass2Bass - with Michelle Lou and Scott Worthington

Bass2Bass is a five string electric bass duo comprised of SoCal bassist/composers Scott Worthington and Michelle Lou. Seeing a dearth in new music written for the instrument, the duo decided to form in 2016 and commission new pieces that feature the expressive range of the electric bass in contemporary music. Their inaugural west coast tour presents three new works by composer/performers Sabrina Schroeder, Weston Olencki and Scott Worthington.  More...
Thu 4/20 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm Jason's Instructions
Ben Zucker - trumpet, Ben Westfall - guitar, Leo Tracey - bass, Joe Orimo - drums
9pm Romus/Cohen/Robinson
Rent Romus- alto/c-melody/soprano saxophones, Alex Cohen - guitar, Donald Robinson - drums  More...
Friday, April 21
Fri 4/21 6:00 PM Presidio Officer's Club [50 Moraga Ave SF]
Amaranth Quartet  More...
Fri 4/21 7:00 PM Sound and Savor House concerts [West Oakland, private residence. Only given out to guests who sign up.]
Robert Dick solo flute and 4 course menu  More...
Fri 4/21 8:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
LOU HARRISON : A CENTENARY CELEBRATION
A Weekend Festival
April 21 & 22, 2017  More...
Fri 4/21 8:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
Join us for SFCMP in concert for a weekend festival celebrating the great Lou Harrison whose 100th birthday we celebrate in 2017. 1 film, 3 concerts, composers talks, food, friends and great music at the beautiful Z Space. Attend with an All-Weekend Pass for $60, or attend individual events. Concerts are $25 each (or $15 for a group of 4 or more tickets). The Friday night film is $10. Get your tickets now.

A cash bar serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages is available before the events.  More...
Fri 4/21 8:00 PM 542 Washington (House Show) [542 Washington Ave, Richmond CA]
Dillon Vado is a local drummer and vibraphonist. This concert will feature all original music by Dillon Vado and improvisations from the band. Featuring Dillon Vado on vibraphone, Beth Schenck on alto sax, Greg Sankovich on piano, Alan Hall on drums, and Jeff Denson on bass.  More...
Fri 4/21 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
CNMAT presents: Marco Fusi  More...
Saturday, April 22
Sat 4/22 11:00 AM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
LOU HARRISON : A CENTENARY CELEBRATION
A Weekend Festival
April 21 & 22, 2017  More...
Sat 4/22 1:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Don Buchla Memorial Concerts

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Join the convergence for a two day festival in celebration and remembrance of electronic music and design pioneer Don Buchla! Presented by Recombinant Media Labs, Buchla & Associates, Gray Area and Obscura Digital.  More...
Sat 4/22 7:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Don Buchla Memorial Concerts

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Join the convergence for a two day festival in celebration and remembrance of electronic music and design pioneer Don Buchla! Presented by Recombinant Media Labs, Buchla & Associates, Gray Area and Obscura Digital.  More...
Sat 4/22 7:30 PM BRAUN REHEARSAL HALL - STANFORD [Department of Music Stanford University 541 Lasuen Mall, MC:3076 Stanford, CA 94305-3022]
Natasha Barrett’s work encompasses sound-art, sound-architectural installations, interactive techniques, collaboration with experimental designers and scientists as well live performance and improvisation. She will be in residence at Stanford/CCRMA for several weeks beginning mid-April presenting lectures as part of the Music222 course, public talks, graduate master classes, and presenting a concert of her 3D sound works on Saturday April 22nd with CCRMA’s GRAIL (Giant Radial Array for Immersive Listening) multichannel system, which will be installed in the Braun Rehearsal Hall for the duration of the quarter. Don't miss this very special event with one of the greatest composers in the spatial music realm!  More...
Sat 4/22 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Lost Trio collaboration project  More...
Sat 4/22 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Restoration—new Scandinavian works for viola d’amore  More...
Sat 4/22 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
April 22 — Jon Jang/Francis Wong Quartet  More...
Sat 4/22 8:00 PM Musically Minded Academy [5776 Broadway Oakland, CA]
Celebrating Duke’s Birthday Part 1: Stray Horns play Ellington

Named for Duke Ellington’s protege and intimate collaborator Billy Strayhorn, this little big band will explore corners of the ducal canon that still resonate in modern music. Trends like Exotica and the Bebop revolution will be shown to have clear precedent in the repertoire of the great Ellington Orchestra. Duke’s unique mastery of song form will be displayed in mash-ups, straight readings and updated approaches.  More...
Sunday, April 23
Sun 4/23 1:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Don Buchla Memorial Concerts

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Join the convergence for a two day festival in celebration and remembrance of electronic music and design pioneer Don Buchla! Presented by Recombinant Media Labs, Buchla & Associates, Gray Area and Obscura Digital.  More...
Sun 4/23 2:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St SF]
the return of GHOST In The HOUSE - Second Sight CD Release Show  More...
Sun 4/23 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Matt Renzi's 'Arm Sized-Legging'

Matt Renzi, saxophone, oboe, English horn; Helen Newby, cello; John Wiitala, drums; Hamir Atwal, drums  More...
Sun 4/23 7:00 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]
A choral concert with Masterworks Serenade, under the direction of Dr. Bryan Baker. Founded in January 2008 by Dr. Bryan Baker, Serenade is a chamber choir of 26 singers selected by audition primarily among members of Masterworks Chorale. The singers are committed members of the chamber choir, devoting many hours to rehearsal and performance with Serenade. Its varied repertoire, which partially overlaps that of Masterworks Chorale, ranges from classical to contemporary, spirituals and popular pieces.  More...
Sun 4/23 7:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Don Buchla Memorial Concerts

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Join the convergence for a two day festival in celebration and remembrance of electronic music and design pioneer Don Buchla! Presented by Recombinant Media Labs, Buchla & Associates, Gray Area and Obscura Digital.  More...
Sun 4/23 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 The Hung Professionals
Tom Weeks - alto saxophone, Nathan Corder- guitar, Scott Siler- drums
8:30 Heikki Koskinen - piano/e-trumpet with Donald Robinson - drums, Rent Romus - saxophones  More...
Monday, April 24
Mon 4/24 12:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Interfacing Sound: Visual Representation of Sound in Musical Software Instruments  More...
Mon 4/24 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Karl Evangelista’s Song & Dance Trio + Series Premiere  More...
Tuesday, April 25
Tue 4/25 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills Music Improvisation Ensemble II Concert - Lords of Improv  More...
Wednesday, April 26
Wed 4/26 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Indexical presents the latest iteration of pop music’s post-human future: machine deconstructions of the Great American Songbook and a battery of machine listening mobile devices.  More...
Wed 4/26 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Laura Carmichael @ CNMAT - SOS Vivaldi  More...
Wed 4/26 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble performs works by Oliveros, Payne, Rieman, Lyuh, others.  More...
Thursday, April 27
Thu 4/27 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Composer Reading Session with The Living Earth Show

This year's C4NM Ensemble in Residence, The Living Earth Show, will read and workshop up to six works for guitar and percussion. Composers may submit up to five minutes of music for this opportunity, and will receive 20-30 minutes of time with the ensemble, and a recording of the entire session.  More...
Thu 4/27 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar) and Phillip Greenlief (saxophone)
Pedal steel player Susan Alcorn is visiting from Baltimore. She and Phillip Greenlief have a long-standing collaboration, to which we will be treated tonight.  More...
Thu 4/27 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm The Shade Asked the Shadow
Lucio Menegon - prepared lap steel, Janie Cowan - bass
9pm McCaslin/Pino Duo
Collette McCaslin - soprano saxophone/trumpet, Mark Pino - drums  More...
Thu 4/27 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
TOUCH BASS is a new collaboration of choreographer Risa Jaroslow with bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa. The work features three dancers, three bassists and three double basses in an exploration of our physical and emotional vulnerabilities—using the fragility of a big, beautiful string instrument as a metaphor for our own real and imagined limitations. Lisa Mezzacappa, bass + Eric Perney, bass + Matt Small, bass  More...
Friday, April 28
Fri 4/28 6:00 PM Copperfield's Books in San Rafael [850 4th St San Rafael, CA]
Jazz In The Neighborhood Presents: Actual Trio in San Rafael  More...
Fri 4/28 6:00 PM Presidio Officer's Club [50 Moraga Ave SF]
Ila Cantor's Encanto  More...
Fri 4/28 7:30 PM Point Richmond Jazz [201 Martina St., Point Richmond, 94801 CA]
The Jacob Szekely Trio with cellist Jacob Szekely. With the Jacob Szekely Trio, Szekely has created a unique musical tapestry that incorporates the richness of jazz improvisation, the structure of classical music and the edginess of rock into its own alchemy which Szekely calls rock chamber jazz.

A risk taker who generally went with the first takes in the studio, Szekely has created an album that expands the sonic culture of the cello and showcases the influences of classical, jazz, funk, rock and East Indian music. His compositions are highly complex, yet always have groove at their core. Szekely explains " I've always been interested in pushing my instrument and myself. I was inspired by Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Jimi Hendrix early on but didnt tell my teachers at conservatory, because that didnt jibe with the classical tradition. It always felt like I was trying to bust out of the cello closet! '  More...
Fri 4/28 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
TOUCH BASS is a new collaboration of choreographer Risa Jaroslow with bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa. The work features three dancers, three bassists and three double basses in an exploration of our physical and emotional vulnerabilities—using the fragility of a big, beautiful string instrument as a metaphor for our own real and imagined limitations. with Lisa Mezzacappa, bass + Eric Perney, bass + Matt Small, bass  More...