Sun 3/14 1:00 PM CCRMA [Live Streaming]
Quarantine Sessions #43
A Distributed Electroacoustic Network Improvisation

Guest performers:
Pamela Z
Donald Swearingen (Oakland, CA)

Performers:
Constantin Basica (Stanford, CA)
Chris Chafe (Woodside, CA)
Henrik von Coler (Berlin, DE)
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (San Carlos, CA)
Juan Parra (Ghent, BE)
Klaus Scheuermann (Berlin, DE)  More...

Thu 3/18 6:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St San Francisco, CA 94112]
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The exhibit, sounding flow, is a series of sonic exploration of how we observe movement in music, from acoustic instruments to movement-based wearable instruments.

The first part of the exhibit presents In Vivo, an audio-visual installation. This installation explores the intersection of our perception of sound, movement, and action. It involves stationary musical instruments decoupled from their sound and excitation. The installation illustrates vibration patterns of acoustic instruments using projection mapping. The motivation behind it draws from the sonic potentials of stillness in movement and the gray areas in human sensorimotor perception.

Movement-based instruments, on the other hand, create an embodied body-to-instrument relationship by physically connecting the musician’s body to the musical instrument. Bodyharp, a new musical instrument, borrows musical gestures from string instruments and extends them with dance gestures. Felt Sound incorporates American Sign Language gestures to low-frequency, high amplitude soundscapes that can be felt as much as it is heard. By amplifying the physical sensations of sound, Felt Sound hopes to offer a shared performance for Deaf and Hard of Hearing and for those who are not.  More...

Fri 3/19 4:00 PM CCRMA [Live Streaming]
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Pamela Z, Denning Artist-in-Residency at Stanford, and members of the fff ensemble present a joint concert.  More...

Sun 3/21 5:00 PM Sonic Sundays #8 ft. Carnalex & Hexmode [https://www.twitch.tv/sonicalliance]
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A monthly streaming event featuring one to two different artists: live performers or DJs - from the Sonic Alliance community, the Bay Area, and beyond! All genres and style welcome! Pre-recorded performances are sent to Fetz to process the video through analog visual hardware creating a unique visual collaboration to accompany their performance! Tune in, hang out, and discover new music! Experience pre-recorded audio visual performances while supporting up-and-coming artists from the community!  More...

Sat 3/27 11:00 AM Internet Streaming [Online]
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Franck Martin - Live from the studio, every Saturday at 11am PST, modular synthesizer, chat, news with Carnalex  More...

Fri 4/09 10:00 AM CCRMA [Zoom Event]
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CCRMA World Update
Friday, April 9, 10am–7pm PDT

Even in a fragmented state caused by the pandemic restrictions and by our building being mostly closed, CCRMA has been busy with exciting new projects. So instead of waiting until next year’s in-person Open House, we are offering this special event to bring you updates on our work. We are also hoping that this format will give people outside of the Bay Area the opportunity to interact with our community.  More...

Sat 4/10 11:00 AM Internet Streaming [Online]
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Franck Martin - Live from the studio, every Saturday at 11am PST, modular synthesizer, chat, news with Frae-Frae:Daughter of Drexciya  More...

Sat 4/10 4:00 PM Internet Streaming [Online]
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LOCKDOWN FESTIVAL V: Emerging from the fog of the pandemic, a host of experimentalists and creative musicians join for an online mini-festival, streamed from home.

Lockdown V promotes music of purpose at a time of exceptional peril, commemorating the spirit of Mills College and promoting communities of color. Proceeds from this festival will be directed to two East Bay spaces that embody this mission: Temescal Art Center (TAC) and Oakland Public Conservatory of Music.

All times PT:
4pm Kevin Robinson
4:30pm Mark Clifford + Crystal Pascucci
5pm Tania Caroline Chen
5:30pm Erika Oba + Hitomi Oba
6pm Headboggle
6:30pm Grex (for Milford Graves)
7pm Vinny Golia
7:30pm Trouble Ensemble with Darnell Ishmel

Donations are warmly accepted. You may contribute by donating via PayPal to LockdownIII2020@gmail.com or naming your price on an album of choice at grex.bandcamp.com (a portion of proceeds collected here will go to the family of Milford Graves).  More...

Sat 4/10 7:00 PM Online [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA. 94613]
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Swapan Chaudhuri is a phenomenon in the arena of Indian Classical Music. Musicians honor him as one of the most respected Tabla players, worthy of highest regard all over the world.  More...

Sat 4/10 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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The Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present a concert of works written by its members and performed by a variety of artists. The program includes works for keyboard, voice, chamber groups, and modern dance.  More...

Sat 4/10 8:00 PM Online Event [virtual event]
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This year’s at the CROSSROADS series reflects an ongoing exploration of music that exists in the innovative realms of cross-genre connectivity. The Contemporary Players join their trans-Atlantic compatriots at Ensemble Intercontemporain by co-commissioning a new work from NYC-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey, whose fluency across stylistic streams has distinguished him as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary music today.  More...

Tue 4/13 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
Resident is a monthly electronic audiovisual open mic event started in 2017. It is held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at The Laundry. 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. Due to restrictions, this show will only be streamed online, do not come to the Laundry  More...

Thu 4/15 6:00 PM Internet Streaming [Online]
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David Dvorin of Cure-All Records hosts an online release party for "Eeyahdi," the new CD from the Goggle Saxophone Quartet: Chris Jonas, Randy McKean, Dan Plonsey and Cory Wright.

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Sat 4/17 7:30 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco, 94114]
Streaming and in-person
E4TT’s 2020/21 commissions concert is inspired by the priestess in Greek mythology who was cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed. This program will feature the World Premieres of commissions, by three women composers Hannah Lash, Valerie Liu and Jessica Rudman (to a new text by Kendra Preston Leonard), plus a fourth by E4TT co-founder David Garner. The concert will also include three more chamber works by contemporary women composers: “Moerae” by Mary Kouyoumadjian; “Memento Mori: Phase I” by Nina C. Young; and “Cassandra Sings” by Tina Davidson.  More...

Sat 4/17 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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E4TT’s 2020/21 commissions concert, “The Cassandra Project,” is inspired by the famed priestess in Greek mythology who was cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed.  More...

Sun 4/18 4:00 PM Sonic Sunday #10 Fetz BDay + Special Guests! [https://twitch.tv/sonicalliance]
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Sonic Sunday #10 is a special event to celebrate the birthday of Fetz A/V! A monthly streaming event featuring one to two different artists: live performers or DJs - from the Sonic Alliance community, the Bay Area, and beyond! All genres and style welcome! Pre-recorded performances are sent to Fetz to process the video through analog visual hardware creating a unique visual collaboration to accompany their performance! Tune in, hang out, and discover new music! Experience pre-recorded audio visual performances while supporting up-and-coming artists from the community!  More...

Sat 4/24 11:00 AM Internet Streaming [Online]
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Franck Martin - Live from the studio, every Saturday at 11am PST, modular synthesizer, chat, news with Lachlan Fletcher  More...

Sat 4/24 7:00 PM Online [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613]
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Celebrating Electronics: Music by John Bischoff featuring James Fei and Tim Perkis. John Bischoff is a master composer/performer who explores boundaries and exchanges between analog and digital sound in real-time.  More...

Mon 4/26 6:00 PM Intrinsic Value: Art Celebrating the San Francisco Bay Area BIPOC Community [Virtual]
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Gift of Grief /Jedo's Unknown: Healing Through Graphic Medicine  More...

Tue 4/27 8:00 PM Online [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613]
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Mills Music Improvisation Ensemble II and UC Berkley Composer/Improviser Group. Our final concert is a collaboration project with Professor Zeena Parkins’ Music Improvisation Ensemble II at Mills College and Professor Myra Melford’s composer/improviser group at UC Berkeley. This is a project that Parkins and Melford have wanted to do for many years and ironically here we are, in – hopefully – the final stages of the pandemic, still on Zoom, offering our work.  More...