Sunday, April 21
Sun 4/21 5:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]Marshall Trammell leads a workshop involving score-making and performing.
"La Coyuntura & Insurgent Learning: Practical Pedagogies for Improvisation in Everyday Life"
"(Insurgent Learning) draws from convivial practices that celebrate locally rooted wisdoms to collectively construct tools to solve local problems that regenerate the community."
Load-in between 5:00 and 5:30 (no earlier).
Workshop 5:30-7:15.
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open session) 8:00-10:00.
More... Sun 4/21 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. It's free. If you want to contribute, bring snacks and drinks.
More... Monday, April 22
Mon 4/22 8:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St
SF]The Monday Make-Out II
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--
Set #1:
Rent Romus's Life's Blood (modern/avant-garde)
(
Rent Romus - Alto Saxophone/Compositions,
Timothy Orr - Drums, Safa Shokrai - Bass, Max Judelson - Bass,
Heikki Koskinen - E Trumpet/Recorder,
Mark Clifford - Vibraphone,
Joshua Marshall - Tenor Saxophone,
gabby fluke-mogul - violin)
Set #2: Disappear Incompletely (modern jazz treatments of Radiohead)
(Rob Ewing - Trombone/Arrangements,
Patrick Cress - Baritone Saxophone,
Raffi Garabedian - Tenor Saxophone, Ryan Pate - Guitar, Steve Blum - Keyboards, Joe Bagale - Bass, Jaime Moore - Drums)
Set #3: Dillon Vado's Never Weather (modern jazz)
(DIllon Vado - Drums/Compositions, Aaron Wolf - Saxophone, Josh Reed - Trumpet, Justin Rock - Guitar, Tyler Harlow - Bass)
More... Tuesday, April 23
Tue 4/23 5:30 PM Anderson Collection at Stanford University [314 Lomita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305]"ANDERSON x CCRMA: Sound Happenings" is a show bridging the auditory and visual worlds of the arts through installations and performances by members of the Stanford Music community, including the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). The event takes place in the galleries of the Anderson Collection, and will feature 8-channel sound installations, generative video works, and performances by composers in the Stanford DMA program, to name a few. This magical transformation of the museum will inspire dialogue regarding fixed versus ephemeral art forms, artistic research versus artistic practice, and the connections between science, technology, and art.
More... Tue 4/23 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Arab.AMP presents Magda Mayas
Arab.AMP is delighted to present solo evening of work by Magda Mayas, a pianist living in Berlin. Over the past 20 years, she developed a vocabulary utilizing both the inside as well as the exterior parts of the piano, using amplification, preparations and objects that become extensions of the instrument itself. She explores textural, linear sound collage, and has developed a set of techniques that draw on the history of prepared and inside piano vocabulary, but are highly individualized and expand the language for internal piano music making.
More... Tue 4/23 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94109]Audium: Sound and Space Workshop
What is a sound sculpture? How does one compose music for space?
Our second-ever workshop on composing for sound and space. If you didn't make it last time, now is your chance... Learn how to think beyond one's eyes and ears- to the entire space- when planning sound installations. Meet the composers behind Audium, hear a BRAND-NEW demonstration performance of the space, and explore the art of sound movement.
More... Friday, April 26
Fri 4/26 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]Level III of the San Francisco Girls Chorus School and SFGC’s Soloist Intensive will perform a varied program of choral music, art songs, opera, and musical theater scenes. Composers include Leonard Bernstein, Eleanor Daley, Henry Purcell, Franz Schubert, and more. There will be music in English, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, and Hebrew, and both groups of young artists will come together for some vibrant ensembles. Join us for this evening of skilled singing from some of the most talented youth from SFGC.
More... Fri 4/26 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Galax Quartet: Music from 1607 to 2007
New Music performed by an "Early" String Quartet. Early music performed with the élan of new music. The Galax Quartet plays music from 1607 to 2007.
More... Saturday, April 27
Sat 4/27 2:30 PM Schroeders [240 Front St, San Francisco, CA 94111]Save the date for a party with the Players, where we revisit performances from our current season, and offer an exclusive preview of what’s happening in the year ahead. The afternoon’s events include live music, great food, contemporary music-loving crowd, and some of our region’s finest wine. This special program is hosted by SFCMP musicians, some of the leading contemporary classical music specialists in the Bay Area.
By invitation only for subscribers, members, and donors. Join us by becoming a SFCMP member, subscriber, or donor today! Learn more at SFCMP.org
More... Sat 4/27 4:00 PM Berkeley Finnsh Hall [1970 Chestnut St.
Berkeley]The Finnish Heritage Society welcomes you all to our annual Vappu celebrating the spring and Finnish Culture! Finnish DJ music of all kinds, Silent Auction, Food, Balloons, Poetry, Theater, Live Music from
Heikki Koskinen's Pohjolan Pillit: w/ Kat Eliot,
Rent Romus, Bert Carelli, & Steve Heckman
More... Sat 4/27 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]Described as “inspired… every note comes straight from his heart” by Grammy-Award winning artist Sérgio Assad, Chilean guitarist Cristobal Selamé is the only undergraduate to ever win the prestigious Guitar Concerto Competition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Since then, Selamé has been invited to perform in prestigious guitar festivals, including the Mauro Biasini International Festival and Competition, where he performed the Giuliani Concerto op.30.
More... Sat 4/27 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St
SF]On April 27th, we are excited to present our first show of the 2019 season with a solo set by Boston area guitarist Rob Noyes and ensemble featuring Greg Kelley (trumpet) out of Seattle with
Jacob Felix Heule (percussion),
Danishta Rivero (vocals) and Chris Cooper (guitar and electronics). Also performing will be the bay area duo Usufruct (Polly Moller and
Tim Walters). $5-20.
More... Sunday, April 28
Sun 4/28 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Guided by Voices is the commissioning project of cellist Elinor Frey who uses two instruments, Baroque cello and five-string cello, that each have a very different sound than the modern cello. The program at the Centre for New Music features solo works by the Japanese-American composer Ken Ueno (“Chimera”) and Swedish-German composer Lisa Streich (“Minerva”) and Canadians Scott Edward Godin (“Guided By Voices”), Linda Catlin Smith (“Ricercar”), Isaiah Ceccarelli (“With concord of sweet sounds”). Each work reveals the cello’s incredible versatility and remarkable colours.
More... Thursday, May 2
Thu 5/02 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]The New Haven, CT duo Tongue Depressor perform trance-inducing fiddle music that seethes with beating overtones and a high lonesome sound. The unlikely pairing of lap steel dobro and koto makes up the L.A.-based duo of Caspar Sonnet and Kozue Matsumoto. Together they scrape, bow and pluck their way through an investigation of the versatile sound palette and extended possibilities of their instruments.
More... Thu 5/02 11:59 PM KPFA 94.1 FM [on the radio or streaming]CRACK O' DAWN
Thursday May 2nd midnite until 3am Friday May 3rd
94.1FM
Barb hosts
Phillip Greenlief. He'll hang out, spin cds, cats and dogs may be discussed plus a celebration of the late and missed Matthew Sperry.
https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=live
More... Friday, May 3
Fri 5/03 8:00 PM Wind River | Indexical [421 Wild Way, Santa Cruz]Tongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Henry Birdsey (fiddle, lap steel) and Zach Rowden (fiddle, upright bass). They write, improvise, and perform music that draws from the fields of drone, harsh noise, and church music, often using microtonal tunings. Caspar Sonnet (lap-steel dobro) Kozue Matsumoto (koto) is an acoustic experimental, improvisational duo based in Los Angeles, California.
More... Saturday, May 4
Sat 5/04 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]Formed in 2015 by four Bay Area dancers/musicians, Cuarteto Puentes is dedicated to performing Argentine Tango music for dancers and audiences of all kinds. They have studied at Reed Tango Music Institute, Stowe Tango Music Festival, and with top tango musicians including Ignacio Varchausky, Ramiro Gallo, Hernan Posetti, Hector del Curto, Pablo Estigarribia, Emilio Solla, Adam Tully, and Ville Hiltula. The quartet appreciates the opportunities they have had for outstanding collaborations with exceptional artists at a number of unique venues. Their enthusiasm for playing danceable tango standards as well as more modern arrangements keeps them inspired with practicing, studying, and arranging. Cuarteto Puentes has appeared at many milongas (Argentine Tango dance parties) throughout the Bay Area and were featured in “live music only” tango festivals in Albuquerque, NM, and Green Valley, AZ.
More... Sat 5/04 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]A quintet of well-known Bay Area improvisors converge for the first time as a quintet at Center for New Music. The evening will open with duos and trios of the players in different combinations, culminating in a long form quintet improvisation on the second set.
More... Sat 5/04 8:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St
SF]Liss Fain Dance presents: CLOSE THE DOOR SLOWLY
Choreography: Liss Fain
Commissioned Score:
Jordan GlennInstallation Design: Matthew Antaky
Costumes: Mary Domenico
Dancers: Keryn Breiterman-Loader, Sonja Dale, Sydney Franz, Anna Greenberg, Megan Kurashige, Shannon Kurashige
More... Sunday, May 5
Sun 5/05 2:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St
SF]Liss Fain Dance presents: CLOSE THE DOOR SLOWLY
Choreography: Liss Fain
Commissioned Score:
Jordan GlennInstallation Design: Matthew Antaky
Costumes: Mary Domenico
Dancers: Keryn Breiterman-Loader, Sonja Dale, Sydney Franz, Anna Greenberg, Megan Kurashige, Shannon Kurashige
More... Sun 5/05 3:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Inn-fest, the annual, nomadic Innova label showcase, features a smorgasbord of regional acts from its roster of visionary musical artists performing selections from four brand new releases. From daringly a cappella choral music (Volti), to dazzling flute trios (Areon Flutes), audacious string quartets (Friction Quartet performing works by Common Sense Composers' Collective), and breathtaking vocals with electronics (
Pamela Z), there will be much sonic tastiness to sample.
More... Tuesday, May 7
Tue 5/07 7:30 PM Stanford Memorial Church [450 Serra St, Stanford, CA 94305]Mark Applebaum: Mind Altering Concert
Mark Applebaum presents an evocative, meditative improvisation on his stunning electroacoustic sound-sculpture—the mouseketier—in the extraordinarily resonant space of Stanford’s Memorial Church. The improvisation will be interspersed with Applebaum’s colorful percussion compositions performed by the Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensemble. The evening begins with a simultaneous two-person performance of Aphasia, an idiosyncratic piece for hand gestures performed in synchrony with two-channel sound.
More... Wednesday, May 8
Wed 5/08 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street
Berkeley]Ron Heglin-
Lorin Benedict Duo
and Usufruct (Polly Moller Springhorn &
Tim Walters)
Tom's Place presents an evening of speech-based music, featuring two Bay-Area duos that specialize in looking deeply at language and rebuilding linguistic materials to find their hidden musical meaning.
More... Wed 5/08 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St
SF].::more details soon:..
Virtual Balboa with Chris Cooper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zER2OAOsR5w
Unpopular Electronics with Tom Djll
https://youtu.be/rI5Tt3ty9Fw?t=189
Tanuki Spidercat
https://archive.org/details/kzsudayofnoise2019/kzsudayofnoise2019_1730_tanukispidercat.mp3
Oji Edutainment
https://soundcloud.com/oji-edutainment
More... Wed 5/08 9:00 PM Golden Bull [412 14th Street, Oakland, CA]Vegan Butcher and
Grex (10 Year Anniversary Show!)
A night of thrilling abstraction and twisted melody at Golden Bull, featuring new songs from outre rock quartet Vegan Butcher. Also: Oakland band Grex celebrates 10 years of live performance with a brand new set of shattering, surreal art rock/electropunk.
Vegan Butcher:
John Shiurba,
Suki O'Kane, Wil Hendricks, Angela Coon
Grex:
Karl Evangelista, Rei Scampavia,
Robert Lopez More... Friday, May 10
Fri 5/10 5:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell)
SF
CA]Inspired by Julius Eastman’s politically powerful and sonically persuasive works "Stay on It" and "Gay Guerrilla," we launch into our cross-generational "at the CROSSROADS Series" with two major commissions. One is a new work by Sidney Corbett, an American composer living in Germany best known for his theatrical and emotionally powerful compositions. Also featured is an SFCMP commission from Bay Area composer, pianist, and improviser
Myra Melford, featuring herself as improvising piano soloist with the
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. SFCMP will premiere a new piece by exciting Brazilian-Californian composer Fernanda Aoki Navarro, while LJ White offers his own version of the interplay between freedom and structure in a work for solo violin and electronics. SFCMP also sponsors its 3rd Annual SF Search for young composers—this time writing for trios of players drawn from the instrumental forces for
Myra Melford’s premiere—to complete the multi-generational portrait.
More... Fri 5/10 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Humbly virtuosic guitarist, polymuse, and serial collaborator Alan Licht joins the Latitudes series to perform his solo electric guitar meanderings. Bay Area local Danny Paul Grody rounds out the bill on his chiming 12-string, performing works wrapped in a gauzy lilt—like watching dust motes floating in the light of cracked blinds.
More... Fri 5/10 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street
Berkeley]Two Trios: Tony Malaby (sax), Ben Monder (guitar), Billy Mintz (drums) and Seiyoung Jang (electronics), Joshua Allen (tenor sax), Tim Duff (cb)
More... Saturday, May 11
Sat 5/11 5:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell)
SF
CA]SFCMP Performances at the CROSSROADS Series
Guerrilla Sounds: Julius Eastman’s Legacy
Inspired by Julius Eastman’s politically powerful and sonically persuasive works, we launch into our cross-generational at the CROSSROADS series with two major commissions.
More... Sat 5/11 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]Trio Terme was formed last summer at the Interharmony International Music Festival in Italy. The three performers, all with extensive solo and ensemble experience, were so delighted playing together at Interharmony, that they decided to continue to explore the rich clarinet, cello, piano repertoire.
More... Sat 5/11 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street
Berkeley]CNMAT USERS GROUP PRESENTS: MIKE JONES
Michael Jones is a percussionist, improviser, and researcher based in San Diego, California. His work specializes in experimental and avant garde music, with a particular interest in the concepts of beauty, natural listening, and community.
More... Sunday, May 12
Sun 5/12 8:00 PM Sunnyvale [patricktalesforejr@gmail.com
Sunnyvale]Tatsuya Nakatani - Untitled Quartet - Lee Hodel in Sunnyvale
BACK AT IT AGAIN SPECIAL MOTHER'S DAY EDITION WITH...
-Tatsuya Nakatani (New Mexico)
-untitled quartet (East Bay/South Bay)
-Lee Hodel (Oakland)
Music around 8PM. Ask a punk for the address (patricktalesforejr@gmail.com). $10-20 suggested donation. There will be snacks, drinks, and a bunch of hidden Bacardi shots around the space for added sport.
More... Wednesday, May 15
Wed 5/15 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street
Berkeley]Dillon Vado's Table Trio is a wildly original group led by Dillon Vado, who will be playing both vibraphone and marimba, along with Jeff Denson on bass and Hamir Atwal on drums. They are known for their thoughtful and unique interpretations of familiar songs, strong but mysterious grooves, and memorably melodic original pieces. From David Bowie to Bill Evans, the Table Trio interprets and reimagines pieces, offering a different setting for them to exist, while still striving to emphasize and strengthen the existing sense of melodic character.
More... Wed 5/15 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave
Berkeley]Beth Custer: Drawdown
Beth Custer premieres her latest chamber composition, an evening-length work based on the compelling Paul Hawken book Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming.
The ensemble features Custer on voice/clarinets, cellist Freya Seeburger and her ensemble Juxtapositions with Mia Nardi-Huffman (violin), Naomi Stine (piano) and special guest Jim Kassis on drums/percussion.
More... Wed 5/15 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Theo Bleckmann + Joseph Branciforte / Album Release for LP1
Grammy-nominated vocalist Theo Bleckmann (ECM) and electronic musician/producer Joseph Branciforte celebrate the release of their debut album LP1 (greyfade) that merges the warmth and fragility of the human voice with the clicks and whirs of machines, modular synthesizers, and broken tape loops. San Francisco-based electronic musician Billy Gomberg opens the evening with a solo performance.
More... Thursday, May 16
Thu 5/16 6:00 PM CounterPulse [80 Turk St
San Francisco]Innerspace: The Annual CounterPulse Gala
WE ARE NOT ALONE...
CounterPulse is the Innerspace of the Bay Area arts constellation. We are a celestial community of futurists and galvanizers. We are the constellation of visionaries that invest in each other, to ensure our collective paths are starlight and far out.
Support CounterPulse by bidding at the silent auction, an intergalactic array of treats and experiences that sustain the mind and body for the galaxy ahead.
Feast on a gourmet celestial dinner catered by Fogcutter.
Get down with your fellow martians on the dance floor with free drinks all night.
Immerse yourself in radical performances and live art by your favorite artists.
This party is for you, for all of us.
At Innerspace, your commitment now will ignite radical arts in the next lightyear.
Come dressed as your favorite Innerspace creature from another galaxy!
More... Thu 5/16 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Tangents Guitar Extravaganza
An evening of instrumental guitar music and songs reflecting a variety of traditions and perspectives from the past hundred years. With David Tanenbaum, Ann Moss, Carrie Smith, Larry Polansky, Giacomo Fiore, and the SFCM guitar ensemble.
More... Thu 5/16 8:00 PM Land and Sea [5428 San Pablo Ave, Oakland CA 94608-3020, United States]23five + LAND AND SEA are excited to present a night of TOUCH Conference curated by Mike Harding.
Simon Scott + Geneva Skeen + Zachary Paul + Touch
Thursday, May 16th, 2019 - 8 PM
$10-$15 https://events.ticketprinting.com/event/23five-Land-And-Sea-Present-Touch-Conference-33585
http://23five.org/
http://landandseaeditions.virb.com
More... Friday, May 17
Fri 5/17 7:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St
SF]John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Terry Riley
Friday and Saturday nights, two shows each night. Get tickets from The Chapel web site:
https://www.thechapelsf.com/calendar/
More... Fri 5/17 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]A curated set of Icelandic contemporary music for solo cello, much of it written for Sæunn, Vernacular is the title of her first album on the Sono Luminus label. Pieces by Thuríður Jónsdóttir, Halldór Smárason, Páll Ragnar Pálsson, and Hafliði Hallgrímsson showcase a unique soundworld in intimate monologues.
More... Saturday, May 18
Sat 5/18 7:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St
SF]John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Terry Riley
Friday and Saturday nights, two shows each night. Get tickets from The Chapel web site:
https://www.thechapelsf.com/calendar/
More... Sat 5/18 7:00 PM Musical Offering Cafe [2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California 94704]Bay Area chamber group, Sleight Ensemble (Erika Oba – flute, Mia Bella D’Augelli – violin, and Jacob Lane – piano) perform their new program Angles of Time featuring new works inspired by alternate notations of time in music. The program includes Steve Parris’s new piece, The Inner Planets and The Apple Tree–inspired by the orbit of the planets–and premiers of works by ensemble members. The program will also feature live visuals by composer and artist Jessie Austin.
More... Sat 5/18 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]Please join acclaimed pianist, ROBYN CARMICHAEL, at Sunset Music and Arts on Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 7:30 pm, for Peers, Friends, Rivals: FOUR ROMANTIC MASTERS. Experience the music of four towering masters of the keyboard: Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Mendelssohn, in a program highlighting their own unique temperaments, and featuring the magnificent Sonata in B minor, Op. 58 of Chopin and the high-strung and virtuosic Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli of Franz Liszt. For a preview of Ms. Carmichael’s playing, please visit her website at www.robyncarmichael.com
More... Sat 5/18 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Beth Custer premieres Drawdown, an evening-length chamber work based on the compelling Paul Hawken book Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming with Custer on voice/clarinets, cellist Freya Seeburger and her ensemble Juxtapositions with Mia Nardi-Huffman (violin), Naomi Stine (piano) and special guest Jim Kassis on drums/percussion.
More... Sat 5/18 8:00 PM Oaktown Jazz Workshops [55 Washington St.
Oakland, CA 94607]David Slusser's little-big-band pays tribute to visionary SUN RA's 105 birth anniversary.
Featuring: Aaron Bennet, David Boyce, Chris Clarke, Mara Fox, Greg German, Cecilia Long, Joe Mckinley, Terry Rodriguez
More... Sunday, May 19
Sun 5/19 3:00 PM Brava Theatre [2773 24th St
San Francisco]Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids presents We Live Here!
More... Sun 5/19 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. It's free. If you want to contribute, bring snacks and drinks.
More... Monday, May 20
Mon 5/20 2:00 PM KFJC [KFJC 89.7 FM / www.kfjc.org]"Planet Bass" A large ensemble of contrabass players (a dozen or so) from around the Bay Area and elsewhere play live on KFJC. Improvisations, compositions, surprises. Nothing but basses. An extravaganza of low frequencies. Hosted by DJ Max Level with invaluable assistance by Musical Director
Lisa Mezzacappa. Live broadcast on 89.7 FM along with live audio/video streaming on the web.
More... Saturday, May 25
Sat 5/25 8:00 PM Berkeley Finnsh Hall [1970 Chestnut St.
Berkeley]The Berkeley Finnish Heritage Society and Bay Area composers
Rent Romus &
Heikki Koskinen’s present
ManalaA contemporary avant-garde musical adventure inspired by the mythic prose of cultural liberation and identity found in Finnish and Finno-Ugric folklore and shamanic traditions:
Mark Clifford - vibraphone,
gabby fluke-mogul - violin, Max Judelson - double bass, Heikki "Mike" Kosikinen - e-trumpet, tenor recorder, kantele,
Cheryl E. Leonard - natural inventions, percussion, cello,
Joshua Marshall - tenor & soprano saxophones,
Timothy Orr- drums, percussion ,
Rent Romus - alto & soprano saxophone, flutes, kantele, bells, Safa Shokrai - double bass
Advance Tickets available at Eventbrite More... Sunday, May 26
Sun 5/26 8:00 PM Berkeley Finnsh Hall [1970 Chestnut St.
Berkeley]The Berkeley Finnish Heritage Society and Bay Area composers
Rent Romus &
Heikki Koskinen’s present
ManalaA contemporary avant-garde musical adventure inspired by the mythic prose of cultural liberation and identity found in Finnish and Finno-Ugric folklore and shamanic traditions:
Mark Clifford - vibraphone,
gabby fluke-mogul - violin, Max Judelson - double bass, Heikki "Mike" Kosikinen - e-trumpet, tenor recorder, kantele,
Cheryl E. Leonard - natural inventions, percussion, cello,
Joshua Marshall - tenor & soprano saxophones,
Timothy Orr- drums, percussion ,
Rent Romus - alto & soprano saxophone, flutes, kantele, bells, Safa Shokrai - double bass
Advance Tickets available at Eventbrite More... Thursday, May 30
Thu 5/30 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]The Black Cedar Trio presents the winners of their 2018 Commissioning Competition: "Tres Colores" by Chilean composer Javier Contreras, "In The Spring" by San Jose composer Andre Gueziec, and "Out of Nothing" by Minnesota composer Victoria Malawey.
More... Thu 5/30 8:00 PM The ROOM Series (at Royce Gallery) [2901 Mariposa St
between Harrison & Alabama
SF]ROOM: Chamber Chorus! featuring VOICES OF SILICON VALLEY
This Thursday, the ROOM Series features the contemporary chamber chorus Voices of Silicon Valley in an evening of choral works including work-in-progress excerpts from
Pamela Z’s Correspondence.
More... Friday, May 31
Fri 5/31 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Contraption Quartet + Jeremiah Moore -- Low-tech (Contraption Quartet) meets high-craft sound (Jeremiah Moore). Contraption Quartet members are Bodil Fox, Larnie Fox, Chris Miller and Lena Strayhorn. This performance marks the final evening of Larnie’s exhibit at the Center for New Music celebrating the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s passing. Join us for an evening of experimentation and exploration of material-based sound.
More... Fri 5/31 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street
Berkeley]Portato Portato is an Oakland/Santa Cruz quartet devoted to music of the 20th and 21st centuries, concentrating particularly on original and newly commissioned work. The quartet comprises Michelle Lee (flutes), John Ivers (clarinets), Jon Myers (percussion) and Jacob Lane (piano). Friday's program comprises three newish works (all from 2018) and a New York School classic:
Morton Feldman's Why Patterns (1978).
David Dunn's Whittling I (2018)
Declan Seifkas's Grove of the Ancients (2018)
Laura Steenberge's Byzantine Rites 4 (2018)
More... Saturday, June 1
Sat 6/01 7:00 PM Bridge Storage and ArtSpace [23 Maine Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804]This live music event features Contraption Quartet + Pet the Tiger. Doors at 7pm, Music at 7:30pm. Refreshments will be available for purchase. TICKETS: https://contraption-tiger.eventbrite.com
More... Sat 6/01 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]CCRMA@BING
The Lord of the Bings: The Two Bings
Please join us for the second installment of our epic concert series "The Lord of the Bings: The Two Bings". We will present two different evening programs of multichannel immersive music, soundscapes, and visuals in Bing Concert Hall Studio. Our GRAIL sound system will be deployed again in a 3D setup for a selection of pieces from CCRMA and around the Middle-earth.
More... Sat 6/01 8:00 PM The Golden Bull [412 14th St, Oakland, California 94612]Inner Ear Brigade, The Mercury Tree, Jack o' the Clock
More... Sat 6/01 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]DO-OVER Music Series #6: duo B. Experimental Band + Ryan Pate, solo guitar
duo B. Experimental Band
Polly Moller Springhorn, flutes
Randy McKean, alto sax/clarinets
Cory Wright, clarinets/tenor saxophone
Joshua Marshall, tenor saxophone
Theo Padouvas, trumpet
gabby fluke-mogul, violin
Murray Campbell, violin/oboe
Shanna Sordahl, cello
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Jason Levis, drums
$10 admission/NOTAFLOF
More... Sunday, June 2
Sun 6/02 5:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Celebrating love this month, gather with the All Ears Interfaith Sangha to perform Pauline Oliveros' Worldwide Tuning Meditation, and Heart Chant, and sonic meditations led by Andrew Jamieson (andrewbarnesjamieson.com) and Soyinka Rahim (https://www.bibolove.us)
More... Tuesday, June 4
Tue 6/04 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street
Berkeley]On Tuesday, June 4 at 7:30pm, Tom's Place presents
Anthony Coleman (solo piano),
Tim Duff (cb), Joshua Allen (tenor) duo
I first became aware of Anthony Coleman from John Zorn's Big Gundown CD and several Cobra recordings. He was all over the New York downtown music scene when we lived back there ('80s and '90s).
Opening the program will be the Tim Duff/Joshua Allen duo.
More...