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...

Fri 4/30 7:00 PM Online [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA. 94613]
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Mills College Seminar in Computer Music Concert, with California Institute of the Arts. The Computer Music Seminar this year investigated remote location ensemble performance with computer-based media. These pieces are unedited recordings of live performances of pieces by all members of the class that culminated the semester.  More...

Sat 5/01 11:00 AM Internet Streaming [Online]
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For the release of my last Album "To The Stars" I'm doing a release listening party on the virtual environment highfidelity.com  More...

Mon 5/03 7:00 PM Online [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA. 94613]
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FLUX – Vocal Jazz Improvisation Ensemble in Concert  More...

Tue 5/04 7:00 PM Online [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613]
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Showcase Concert featuring Mills College Student Musicians.  More...

Wed 5/05 5:00 PM Online [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613]
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Mills College/Zeena Parkins – Selected Issues in Composition and Improvisation Concert – SOUNDS OF THE SONOSPHERE, POETIC RESPONSES TO LISTENING  More...

Wed 5/05 8:00 PM Online [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613]
Mills Introduction to Electronic Music Concert – Mills students showcase their experiments with voltage controlled synthesis, one of the foundational methods of electronic music making.  More...

Wed 5/05 8:00 PM Online [Youtube]
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Unsolitary II / An Improvised Music Series

Music perseveres. Recorded in studio - under strict distancing conditions - Unsolitary is a quarterly series that intends to present solo and ensemble improvised music - much of it otherwise impossible under pandemic circumstances.

Set #1: Kim Nucci Solo
Set #2: Lewis Jordan/Karl Evangelista Duo
Set #3: Nathan Clevenger Trio (with Cory Wright & Jordan Glenn)

Video and Audio by Myles Boisen

It is the mission of Unsolitary to ensure that artists are compensated fairly.

Admission is free - however, donations are warmly encouraged. All proceeds will be directed to Oakland social causes and our ongoing fundraiser for the Milford Graves Memorial Fund.  More...

Thu 5/06 5:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94109]
Premiere of a curated immersive sound environment to promote calm and wellness as the city recovers from the pandemic. Weekly, every Thurs/Fri @ 5pm & 6:30pm

Tickets on sale now: https://www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=1760  More...

Fri 5/07 5:00 PM Ross McKee Foundation [317 Noe St, San Francisco, CA 94114]
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Jenny Q Chai incorporates her exceptional artistry with striking visual elements, including NASA data visualizations, to highlight climate change and COVID-19 challenges. Includes two Bay Area premieres.  More...

Tue 5/11 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
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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...

Sat 5/15 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 The Galaxy Electric  More...

Sat 5/15 7:30 PM Lake Merritt Amphitheater [Between 12th Street and 1st Ave., Lake Merritt Blvd, Oakland, CA 94612]
In collaboration with the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Oakland-based poet/performer/artist Indira Allegra, with sound artist and composer Shanna Sordahl, presents a triptych of new performances at Lake Merritt, a large tidal lagoon in the center of Oakland designated as the United States’ first official wildlife refuge in 1870 and identified as a COVID-19 transmission hotspot for the city today. Using deconstructed cello sounds which play with tension, timbre, and noise, alongside vocals and the sound of the lake itself, Sordahl and Allegra perform new compositions that work with viral musical time, creating a public offering that explores what we can learn from the coronavirus structure rather than only fighting it.  More...

Sun 5/16 11:00 AM Virtual event [Virtual event]
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"Talos Dreams" explores the line between made versus born in a musical work based on the real and imagined robots of ancient Greece. It’s inspired by the tale of Talos, the mythical robot that guarded Crete against invaders. The divide between human and not human, born vs. built, is a concept in artificial intelligence that’s not only recent, but in fact thousands of years old.  More...

Sun 5/16 6:00 PM Sonic Sundays #11 ft. ahtö_léon & KZZL [Twitch.tv & YouTube]
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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...

Wed 5/19 10:00 AM KFJC 89.7 FM [12345 S. El Monte Road Los Altos Hills]
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"Where Anything Can Happen - The Sound Worlds of Bérangère Maximin"
Presenting the work of this Paris-based electroacoustic sound artist, from 2008 to present. Solo projects and collaborations.  More...

Fri 5/21 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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What happens when global events turn our lives upside down? When everything we thought we knew comes into question?  More...

Sat 5/22 10:30 AM Internet Streaming [Online]
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Franck Martin - Live from the studio, every Saturday at 11am PST, modular synthesizer, chat, news with All Guest Stars  More...

Sat 5/22 4:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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Women in Parallel Empires (2021) - World Premiere

Flutists Jane Rigler and Tessa Brinckman present the world premiere of their 22-minute acousmatic video, a "space opera," in posthumous collaboration with Cécile Chaminade's Sérénade aux étoiles (Serenade to the stars, 1911). Women in Parallel Empires explores how we might reclaim flute compositions by women composers dismissed from the Western canon, by re-assembling them within contemporary contexts, and addressing (and/or subverting) the concept of Empire, genius, and extraction in Western “art” music. A short pre-concert discussion, between Jane and Tessa about their collaboration, starts at 4:00 PM (Pacific time).  More...

Sun 5/23 3:00 PM KFJC 89.7 FM [12345 El Monte Road Los Altos Hills, CA 94022]
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The duo B. Experimental Band (dbXB), co-led by Bay Area improviser/composers Lisa Mezzacappa and Jason Levis, invites listeners into their online improvisation workshop, with a four-hour continuous performance showcasing compositions and structured improvisations by the ensemble's members, created specifically for making music in an online environment.  More...

Sun 5/23 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
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Thurston Moore-Marshall Trammell-Bruce Ackley Trio + Wobbly

View the live stream on Bird & Beckett’s

YouTube channel and Facebook page  More...