Wed 5/17 6:00 PM Prelinger Library [301 8th Street, Room 215, San Francisco, CA.]
MUSIC RESEARCH STRATEGIES presents Indexical Moment/um, a hybrid, "performing-ethnomusicology" series featuring Black Creative Musicians translating Improvisation with Music Research Strategies founder and Prelinger Library researcher-in-residence Marshall Trammell.

RSVP via windvswindows@gmail.com  More...

Wed 5/17 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
Our mid-May show at Canessa Gallery will feature sounds by Rags, Bran(...)Pos and Randylee Sutherland.  More...

Wed 5/17 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street, SF, CA 94117]
Spider Compass Good Crime Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZoPlkkwxmg

Omniverous Sensillium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksw12lN7dlA

CL0NER
https://soundcloud.com/lonercloner

Braingoat
https://myspace.com/braingoat

Wed, May 17 at Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight
$5 Doors 7:45pm, bands 8-10:30pm, 21+  More...

Thu 5/18 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Join us for a multimedia, robotic, and generally chaotic doubleheader concert with artists Bryan Jacobs and On Structure.

The Portal is a fully staged multimedia performance created, designed and performed by the performance duo On Structure (Natacha Diels and Jessie Marino). This 30 minute work of choreographed performance rituals uses live electronic sound, video projection, and DIY animatronics to stage a joyfully chaotic world which use folkloric songs, televised dramas, and amusement park scenography to tell the hidden mythologies of the Uncanny Valley. The Portal is a performance platform; part Video Game, part Ritual Alter, part Twilight Zone. On stage, the two heroines are jostled between the analog and digital worlds - preparing, practicing and perfecting their choreographed rituals as they move through different visual mediums, electronic sound worlds, and dreamscapes. Their playful actions respond to, mimic, or comment on their visual surroundings creating playfully menacing dramatic spaces where the line between reality and virtual reality is flickering in and out of focus.

Bryan Jacobs will present a menagerie of robotic and mechanical instruments - for more information on his various creatures see: http://bryanjacobsmusic.com.  More...

Thu 5/18 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm: Kataryna Kopelevich: Organ / electronics
9pm: Alphastare: Synthesizers/tapes

https://soundcloud.com/kkopel
Alphastare  More...

Thu 5/18 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
MicroFest North: A Concert With Shadows  More...

Thu 5/18 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Some Music From Jordan Glenn - WiENER KiDS and BEAK  More...

Fri 5/19 8:00 PM St. John's Episcopal Church [14 Lagunitas Rd Ross, CA 94957]
Marin Baroque Presents:
AGAVE BAROQUE

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2933049
The Fantastical Mr. Biber: the experimental harmonies, virtuosity, and modernism of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber  More...

Fri 5/19 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Aluminati – David Samas, Tom Nunn, Ian Saxton and Derek Drudge - presents its premiere performance using all metal instruments including aluminum rods suspended on inflated balloons (harmonic rods), stroke rods, end-struck rods, heat-bent rods (zing trees), bowls, chaseplate and other metallic paraphernalia. The harmonic and enharmonic chorus of tones are heard through varyingly dense harmonic/percussive textures with melodic elements, hocketing and other contrapuntal relationships, within an architectural compositional context.

RTD3 - Ron Heglin (trombone, voice), Tom Nunn (original instruments) and Doug Carroll (cello) - have played together for decades. Ron speaks, sings and chants songs and stories from unrecognizable languages. Tom brings his own unique sounds of an alien kind of music with his original instruments. Doug celloistically sings the melodies of a mind and soul divested of any sense of normalcy!  More...

Fri 5/19 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Flowers on Loan, Vertebrate, D.E.J.J.  More...

Sat 5/20 7:00 PM Sound and Savor House concerts [West Oakland, private residence. Only given out to those who register]
Jane Rigler solo flute and 4 course cherry menu  More...

Sat 5/20 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
PC Muñoz’s HALF-BREED featuring Yvette Holzwarth  More...

Sat 5/20 7:30 PM Mission Dolores Basilica [3321 16th St, San Francisco]
Other Minds Festival 22 Concert Two: Gamelan Masterpieces  More...

Sat 5/20 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Degradient | concert premiere of Dear Everyone (Matt Shears)  More...

Sun 5/21 12:00 PM KFJC 89.7 and kfjc.org [kfjc.org 89.7 FM]
A & G w/ Friends

A + G w/ Friends live in the pit. A (Anna Homler) and G (Gino Robair) with Friends (talking dolls, styrofoam cups, children's toys, bent circuitry and more) perform their brand of rebellious improvisation. Sound never heard so good. LIve, on the air, with webcam viewing. kfjc.org  More...

Sun 5/21 7:00 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]
A concert with trumpeter Ari Micich and friends. Ari Micich has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony and many Bay Area orchestras and ensembles. He has toured internationally and has held positions with the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic in Durban, South Africa and the Berkeley Symphony in Berkeley California.  More...

Sun 5/21 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 5/21 10:00 PM KFJC 89.7 and kfjc.org [kfjc.org Foothill College Los Altos Hills, Calif]
KFJC's annual 28 hour birthday tribute to Sun Ran and his Arkestra. Astral exploration through the space and times of all things Sun Ra, music, poetry, art and philosophy. From the Afro-centric to the outer-galactic. Sunday, May 21, 10 pm until Tuesday, May 23, 2am.  More...

Mon 5/22 9:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Djll-Ingalls-Perkis-Walton Quartet + Nathan Clevenger Group  More...

Tue 5/23 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Eurythmy: Haco /Latifa Medjdoub & Haco/ Nava Dunkelman/ Jakob Pek/ Gabby Fluke-Mogul  More...

Wed 5/24 7:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
EFFT & The Green Mitchell Trio  More...

Thu 5/25 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm Long Tone Choir
9pm Phillip Greenlief/Scott Walton duo  More...

Thu 5/25 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Miscreants: Ben Goldberg, Trevor Dunn, Scott Amendola  More...

Thu 5/25 8:00 PM Museum of Performance and Design [893B Folsom St. San Francisco]
Eurythmy #2: Latifa Medjdoub & Haco / Tania Chen / Wobbly / Dereck Phillips

Visual artist LATIFA MEDJDOUB and sound artist HACO collaborate on Eurythmy#2, a social performance-concert at the Museum of Performance + Design inspired by nature’s energy and rhythmical order that is inviting an active public to reflect on the multiple levels of interconnectedness between individuals and networks. At the performance, the public will use sculptural modular elements and collaborate on the construction of a vast ephemeral flexible architecture in relation to live environmental sound designed by Japanese artist HACO. Through this unparalleled artistic experience, participants will gradually be transported within the material space of an expansive soft fiber-sculpture and the immaterial space of open ended environmental sound.  More...

Fri 5/26 6:00 PM Presidio Officer's Club [50 Moraga Ave SF]
Rova Saxophone Quartet  More...

Fri 5/26 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall Studio Space [327 Lasuen St Stanford CA 94305]
Please join us as CCRMA presents 2 evenings of immersive spatial multichannel music at the Bing Concert Hall Studio Space on Friday/Saturday May 26th/27th at 7.30PM. We will deploy the CCRMA GRAIL - The Giant Radial Array for Immersive Listening - our full 3D surround speaker array for these events... Not to be missed by you or your ears!

Music by:

Natasha Barrett
Ake Parmerud
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Hans Tutscku
Constantin Basica
Bill Schottstaedt
Alex Chechile
Christopher Jette
And works by the students of Music 222 (Sound in Space) and Music 220C/D  More...

Fri 5/26 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Kyle Motl: Transmogrifications – Solo Contrabass  More...

Fri 5/26 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street, Oakland]
Temescal Arts Center Presents 8:30 pm DunkelpeK: Jakob Pek, guitar; Nava Dunkelman, percussion 9:30 pm Trevor Dunn, bass; Phillip Greenlief, reeds  More...

Sat 5/27 7:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
Helen Newby & Anne Rainwater plus Ali Dineen & Hannah Sassoon (NYC)  More...

Sat 5/27 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall Studio Space [327 Lasuen Street Stanford CA 94305]
Please join us as CCRMA presents 2 evenings of immersive spatial multichannel music at the Bing Concert Hall Studio Space on Friday/Saturday May 26th/27th at 7.30PM. We will deploy the CCRMA GRAIL - The Giant Radial Array for Immersive Listening - our full 3D surround speaker array for these events... Not to be missed by you or your ears!

Music by:

Natasha Barrett
Ake Parmerud
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Hans Tutscku
Constantin Basica
Bill Schottstaedt
Alex Chechile
Christopher Jette
And works by the students of Music 222 (Sound in Space) and Music 220C/D  More...

Sat 5/27 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Opus Project Presents Opus 53: Essential Existential  More...

Sat 5/27 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Grex Plays A Love Supreme, featuring Song & Dance Trio

Grex: Karl Evangelista-guitar, Rei Scampavia-keys, Robert Lopez-drums, w/Dan Clucas-trumpet
Song & Dance Trio: Karl Evangelista-guitar, Jordan Glenn-drums, Cory Wright-baritone sax

Oakland art rock trio Grex and LA trumpeter Dan Clucas perform a powerful, drastic reworking of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, refracting the mighty saxophonist’s suite through a gauntlet of noise rock, alternative hip-hop, and other latter day musics. Karl Evangelista's longstanding Song & Dance Trio--a bass-less blend of modern jazz textures and roving, garage-y energy--opens the evening.  More...

Sat 5/27 9:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St San Francisco]
Due to extraordinary popular demand! (((folkYEAH!))) presents

A special encore performance of John Coltrane's masterpiece "A Love Supreme" by The Mattson 2  More...

Sun 5/28 7:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture - Gallery 308 [2 Marina Blvd SF]
Moe! Staiano Ensemble

Moe! Staiano is an Oakland-based composer/drummer whose large ensembles, Moe! Staiano Ensemble and Moe!kestra!, have performed in both Europe and the United States. His dense, heavy and intense compositions often include unconventional instrumentation, such as sirens, u-bolts, prepared guitars and wine glasses, as well as traditional orchestral and rock instruments. His composition, "Away Towards the Light," is an exploration of tonal interplay and contrasting rhythms for nine electric guitars, bass and drums composed in three movements, and is his first composition for multiple electric guitars.

More info here...  More...

Wed 5/31 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Bruce Ackley, sax, Andrea Centazzo, percussion, Tania Chen, piano, Danielle DeGruttola, cello, Henry Kaiser, bass, Michael Manring bass. Performing Steve Lacy's The Wire.  More...

Wed 5/31 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Phil Pierick, saxophone: memories in gray  More...

Thu 6/01 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm: Person L (Dania Luck - electronics)
9pm: John Davis (electronics, acoustics)  More...

Fri 6/02 7:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture - Gallery 308 [2 Marina Blvd SF]
San Francisco International Arts Festival presents Edward Schocker and the Crossing Ensemble and Shih Yang Lee

The Crossing is a long-term project lead by Edward Schocker that creates a new form of ecstatic group improvisation through investigating ancient Asian musical genres, such as Japanese Gagaku and Korean shamanist ritual music, with the goal reaching a state of communication with spirit world.

More information...  More...

Fri 6/02 7:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture - Gallery 308 [2 Marina Blvd SF]
Shih Yang Lee (Taipei) Improvised Solo Piano

Composer, pianist and improviser Shih Yang Lee, who last appeared at the Festival in 2015 with performances with Horse Dance Theatre and Melody of China, returns to share an experimental concert with some of the Bay Area’s finest improvisers and experimental musicians.  More...

Fri 6/02 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
A Woman’s Place is at the Piano  More...

Fri 6/02 8:00 PM First Presbyterian Church San Anselmo [72 Kensington Road San Anselmo, CA 94960]
First Presbyterian Choir and Orchestra present Durufle's Requiem accompanied by a video presentation.  More...

Sat 6/03 8:00 PM The Sound Room [2147 Broadway Oakland, CA 94612]
Jenny Maybee’s “eloquent and heart stopping” piano playing and vocals have been hailed as “expertly balanced,” with her voice described as “exquisite” and “in the same league” as Billie Holiday, and her piano stylings compared to Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, and Cecil Taylor. Jenny’s trio, featuring John Wiitala (bass) and Hamir Atwal (drums), will bring an evening of innovative music to The Sound Room. Rooted in the jazz and classical traditions, yet always breaking new ground, the trio will present original compositions and arrangements of favorite jazz standards.  More...

Sat 6/03 9:30 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture - Southside Theatre [2 Marina Blvd SF]
Richard Marriott with I Made Subandi

VOYAGE is a ritual music drama, composed by Richard Marriott and Made Subandi, with Pamela Z, Carla Fabrizio and Sarah Willner, utilizing video and interactive electronics. VOYAGE follows the structure of a Balinese ritual called Calonarang, and is about crossing over the boundaries between nations, the crossroads between cultures, and the territory between life and death.  More...

Sun 6/04 2:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture [2 Marina Blvd SF]
Richard Marriott with I Made Subandi

VOYAGE is a ritual music drama, composed by Richard Marriott and Made Subandi, with Pamela Z, Carla Fabrizio and Sarah Willner, utilizing video and interactive electronics. VOYAGE follows the structure of a Balinese ritual called Calonarang, and is about crossing over the boundaries between nations, the crossroads between cultures, and the territory between life and death.  More...

Sun 6/04 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
So Much Hot Air: Sung Poems & Picture Scores  More...

Sun 6/04 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
E4TT and guest cellist Anne Lerner-Wright will close their season with a concert comprised of music by 2016 Call for Scores winners Derek Jenkins, Molly Joyce, Sam Krahn, Eden Lonsdale, Daniel Mehdizadeh, Weiwei Miao, Stephen Mitton, Justin Henry Rubin, Alexander Skripko, Grace Xu Schott, and Christopher Wicks. Also programmed is San Francisco composer, Alden Jenks. World Premiere of New Work by Martyna Kosecka.  More...

Sun 6/04 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Ghost In The House
Karen Stackpole - gongs; David Michalak - lap steel; Tom Nunn - inventions; Kyle Bruckmann - oboe, english horn; John Ingle - saxophones; Dean Santomieri - voice, resonator guitar; Polly Moller - bass flute
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute; Max Shrieve-Don - bass clarinet; Bill Noertker - contrabass; Jason Levis - drums  More...

Mon 6/05 8:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

Set #1: Darren Johnston (solo trumpet excursions)

Set #2: Exploring Miles (explosive jazz/rock from Bay/Sacramento)
(Tony Passarell-cornet, sax, keys, Karl Evangelista-gtr, Dave Thomas-gtr, Robert Kuhlmann-b, Tim Orr-dms, Todd Temby-congas)

Set #3: Next Music (jazz-reggae)
(Jason Levis-dms, Rob Ewing-b, Steve Blum-keys, Max Miller-Loran-tpt)  More...

Mon 6/05 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
DOUGLAS KATLEUS and SUNG KIM
on the ORGAN + HORN

FLETCHER PRATT

NEEM  More...

Thu 6/08 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Guest Curation by Josh Martian
A Night of Electronic Disturbances:
Entanglement Theory - electronic pulsations and emanations
Divided State (Andre Custodio and Leroy Clark) - Electronic duo with intermixing and interdependent improvisation and premeditation  More...

Fri 6/09 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Full: Sun
Join us for an evening of auditory astronomy with Chris Chafe and Greg Niemeyer’s A Day in the Sun and Chris Duncan’s 12 Symbols.  More...

Fri 6/09 9:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Ben Goldberg - Smith Dobson Quartet  More...

Sat 6/10 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  More...

Sat 6/10 3:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
The Switchboard Music Festival  More...

Sat 6/10 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
John-Carlos Perea’s Intertribal Ensemble: Improvising Home  More...

Sat 6/10 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Darren Johnston Quartet  More...

Sun 6/11 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
John-Carlos Perea’s Intertribal Ensemble: Improvising Home  More...

Sun 6/11 7:30 PM First Presbyterian Church San Anselmo [72 Kensington Road San Anslemo, CA 94960]
Echo Chamber Orchestra plays music of Barber, Foote, and Brazilian composers Peixoto and Wainapel on Sunday June 11th in San Anselmo.  More...

Sun 6/11 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
DAVE REMPIS Solo Premiere plus SCOTT WALTON -Tim Perkis DUO

Prolific Chicago-based saxophonist Dave Rempis (Rempis Percussion Quartet, Ballister, Rempis/Abrams/Ra, The Engines, Rempis-Johnston Ochs Trio) will present a set of new and developing solo pieces as part of his sprawling solo journey around the United States and Canada, taking place from April 16 thru June 26, 2017. He will be joined by the rarely heard Scott Walton - Tim Perkis Duo, a duo of Walton on piano and Perkis on electronics. Their newly released CD will be featured at the show!  More...

Sun 6/11 9:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Cinepimps

Reprising the collaging quartet that kicked off Shapeshifters Cinema five freaking years ago, with Alfonso Alvarez and Keith Arnold (on projectors) and Suki O'Kane and Wayne Grim (on electroacoustics). Keith called it: we’re performing the new piece 1000 Vaults Plundered (for One Mighty Show). Layering found footage, processed optical tracks, and the occasional abandoned brass instrument, we intend to create immersive, environmental fields of light and sound.  More...

Mon 6/12 7:00 PM Finnish Kaleva Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
“The Monday a little more then a month before”
2017 Outsound Fund Drive & Benefit Dinner
Join us at the Finnish Kaleva Hall downstairs in the Helsinki Cafe for our Benefit Dinner event!!
Music by ZeBib! featuring Shanna Sordahl and Robert Lopez in addition to a delicious menu and dessert provided by Slippery Fish Catering for all preferences.
Visit our fund drive at our Indiegogo Generosity Campaign
https://igg.me/at/5yo13PZmapM  More...

Mon 6/12 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Action and Music

Action and Music presents a continuum of works by Stanford student composers. Bring a sounding object along with you and be ready for an adventure! Music is ours. Everybody is welcome to participate.  More...

Mon 6/12 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Bruckmann/Wong/Brown Trio plus CJ Boyd  More...

Tue 6/13 7:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. Berkeley]
An Evening of Improvised Music with Ben Goldberg, Cory Smythe, and Stephan Crump

Seating is limited. Get your required online reservation here.  More...

Tue 6/13 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
New compositions in Just Intonation by Chris Brown: Six Primes for solo piano and First Light, based on Jackson Mac Low's "Light Poems", for trio with Chris (keyboard), Theresa Wong (cello and voice) and Kyle Bruckmann (oboe and electronics)  More...

Tue 6/13 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:

Darren Johnston, Larry Ochs, & Dave Rempis (Chicago)

Runcible Spoon Fight
- Clarke Robinson - synth
- Josh Marshall - sax
- Tom Djll - synth, trumpet
- Bill Wiatroski - video

+tba  More...

Wed 6/14 7:45 PM The Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF, CA]
Man vs Nature, Foot SOS, Syrnx, Microwave Windows  More...

Wed 6/14 9:30 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
New Zombies helps to revive the Ivy Room Experimental/Improv Hootenanny & Social Club. One long set starting at 9:30pm followed by a more free-form session.  More...

Thu 6/15 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Del Sol String Quartet – Soundings 4.3: Shaw & Bonsai  More...

Thu 6/15 8:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [US Berkeley Berkeley]
Ojai at Berkeley 2017: The Vijay Iyer Experience  More...

Thu 6/15 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15-8:45pm: Lexagon
8:45-9:15pm: Earthbound
9:30-10:00pm: Spellling  More...

Fri 6/16 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Eric Glick Rieman•Jane Rigler&Matt Ingalls•Nurse Betty•John McCowen  More...

Fri 6/16 8:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [US Berkeley Berkeley]
Ojai at Berkeley 2017: George Lewis' Afterword  More...

Fri 6/16 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Village Road Trio

Alisa Rose, violin; rob reich, accordion; Daniel Fabricant, bass

Program will include works by Bartók, Joplin, Rose, Satie, Reich, Dvořák, Guerino, Chopin, and Sarasate.  More...

Sat 6/17 2:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [US Berkeley Berkeley]
Ojai at Berkeley 2017: Vijay Iyer and Friends  More...

Sat 6/17 3:30 PM Re:Sound A-168 [Railroad Ave and Mercado Ct. Vallejo CA, 94592]
23five is pleased to present Re:Sound SUN
Maggie Payne (Oakland)
Elise Baldwin (Seattle)
Flex (Benicia/SF)  More...

Sat 6/17 7:00 PM Chalaca Annexo [428 Third St. (@ Broadway), Oakland, CA 94607]
Celebrate the Bay Area’s own rich Latin Jazz heritage, cultivated by Cal Tjader, as Steve McQuarry presents Tribu on Saturday, June 17th. Join the anniversary celebration party on July 1st with special Peruvian treats. The band performs all shows and celebration 7-10pm at Chalaca Annexo, 428 Third Street (@ Broadway) in Oakland.  More...

Sat 6/17 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Henry Hung - jazz club! when lights are low...  More...

Sat 6/17 8:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [US Berkeley Berkeley]
Ojai at Berkeley 2017: Stravinsky & Iyer  More...

Sun 6/18 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Carl’s Big Recital!  More...

Sun 6/18 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
music inspired by the stream of consciousness
7:30 pm Mezzacappa/Morris/Romus
Lisa Mezzacappa - double bass
Zachary Morris - drums/percussion
Rent Romus - saxophones, flutes, small percussion
8:30 Lion Creek
Golnaz Shariatzadeh - Violin, Nina Thiebert - Cello
Kevin Robinson - Woodwinds, Joel Nelson - Guitar  More...

Sun 6/18 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...

Mon 6/19 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
OFJS: the SOUND Effekt plus Tremblewick Boog  More...

Wed 6/21 5:00 PM Chapel of the Chimes [4499 Piedmont Avenue Oakland, CA]
Garden of Memory

The Garden of Memory is held every June 21st from 5pm to 9pm to celebrate the solstice at The Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California.  More...

Thu 6/22 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00 pm KREation Ensemble debuts "Planes Through Spheres Suite"
Kevin Robinson -Woodwinds, Isaac Otto - Woodwinds, Kelley Kipperman - Acoustic Bass, Maia Ziaee - Plano, Brandon Glasson -Vibraphone
9:00 pm The Matt Renzi Trio
Matt Renzi- saxophone, oboe, English Horn, Lisa Mezzacappa- bass, Jason Levis- drums  More...

Thu 6/22 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
A special evening of funky and noisy sounds, invented instruments, whimsy, and more 😺 🎶

8:00PM Pet The Tiger Inventors Collective performs Arc Weld
8:40PM Amanda Chaudhary solo. Funky and experimental electronics
9:20PM Amanda Chaudhary with collaborators Joshua Marshall, Jaroba, and Christina Stanley

door: $5-10  More...

Thu 6/22 9:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
UNSEEN series | Summer 2017

Join us for our Summer edition of our UNSEEN series featuring artists Kris T. Force, Samantha Weinert, Osman Koç, Jody Stillwater, and William Kingston Davies!  More...

Fri 6/23 9:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Barbara Golden Birthday Party  More...

Sat 6/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Secret Codes of Sound: Jane Rigler, flute & electronics

Exploring the complexities of language (i.e., rational, irrational, conscious, subconscious, structured, improvised), through speech, the voice, the physical and gestural, as well as the mysteries of codes, programming, animal, machine and other non-being languages, composer/performer Jane Rigler explores acoustic and electronic interactions of sounds as languages and languages as sounds.  More...

Sat 6/24 8:00 PM Hare and Arrow Arts [1200 Harbour Way South Suite 117 Richmond CA 94804]
Hare and Arrow Arts:::Our Path Through Space

FILTHMILK
Cello and Electronics

JACKAL FLEECE
James Seevers-guitar
KevinBrown-percussion

DUNKELPEK
Nava Dunkelman-percussion
Jakob Pek-guitar  More...

Sun 6/25 4:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
The Holly Martins  More...

Sun 6/25 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Mazdak Khamda

An evening of original music by Bay Area composer, and pianist Mazdak Khamda. The concert will also include works by other Bay Area composers.  More...

Mon 6/26 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Composer Meetup  More...

Mon 6/26 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Joseph's Bones, an 11-piece dub reggae ensemble performs in Oakland at Studio Grand. "Avant Dub Instrumentale" ensemble Josesph's Bones is to King Tubby as Helmut Lachenmann is to musique concrète. Bringing the electronic sound-transformation processes of Jamaican dub to an acoustic setting, Joseph's Bones pulls the thread between visceral groove and timbral abstract suspension.  More...

Tue 6/27 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Grant Writing Basics: Beginner’s Guide to Grants for Independent Musicians  More...

Wed 6/28 9:30 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
Jonah Parzen-Johnson Solo Saxophone + Analog Synth // Steven Lugerner's SLUGish Ensemble  More...

Thu 6/29 6:00 PM Mills College Art Museum [5000 MacArthur Boulevard Oakland, CA 94613]
ART + PROCESS + IDEAS (A+P+I) EXHIBITION
June 28-August 27, 2017

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 6:00–8:00 PM
FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/2r0UMdt  More...

Thu 6/29 6:00 PM Prelinger Library [301 8th St, San Francisco, California 94103]
MUSIC RESEARCH STRATEGIES presents 'Simultaneous Multi-Dimensionality #2,' a performing-ethnomusicology & political education duo percussion performance featuring South African instrument-builder, Creative Musician and painter, Moguawane Mahloele & Marshall Trammell. The duo inaugurate a collaborative instrument-building/teaching apprenticehip and will perform the 'Simultaneous Multi-Dimensionality' practicum.  More...

Thu 6/29 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm: Christine Richers & Laura Schwartz
9pm: Pet the Tiger Instrument Inventors Collective plays Harmonic Series Gamelan

David Samas, Director
Bart Hopkin, Peter Whitehead, Daniel Schmidt, Stephen Parris, Derek Drudge, Sally Davis  More...

Thu 6/29 8:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
Eugene Chadbourne & Poontang Wranglers  More...

Fri 6/30 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
ZOFO: Eva-Maria Zimmermann; Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano  More...

Fri 6/30 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704]
Sound Underground is a compact trio with an expansive imagination. Saxophonist David Leon, trumpeter Alec Aldred and guitarist Jonah Udall draw on a broad array of influences from Cool Jazz to Americana, to Bulgarian folklore and the avant-garde to distill a unique and deeply personal voice. Hailed by AllAboutJazz.com as “a fresh sound... uncluttered and open... capable of grabbing a listener's attention and holding it indefinitely,” Sound Underground steers through inventive textures far beyond the limits of their unconventional chamber instrumentation.  More...