Fri 6/08 5:00 PM Woods Bar Oakland [1701 Telegraph Avenue Oakland]
Rob Ewing supergroup  More...

Fri 6/08 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Farallon Quintet

Farallon Quintet is a dynamic Bay Area ensemble and the only professional chamber music group focused exclusively on the repertoire for clarinet quintet—string quartet plus clarinet—inspired by the simplicity and beauty of nature.  More...

Fri 6/08 9:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Darren Johnston - Destiny Muhammed  More...

Sat 6/09 3:00 PM Robotspeak [589 1/2 Haight St San Francisco]
Thee Church of the Super Serge

3pm-6pm at Robotspeak, San Francisco
Gino Robair + Tom Djll
Franck Martin
Lx Rudis
Modular Synth, Electronic Music.  More...

Sat 6/09 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
KEN VANDERMARK & NATE WOOLEY DUO
Two Shows, SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab, 7:00pm & 8:30pm  More...

Sat 6/09 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
David James & Beth Custer Ensemble  More...

Sun 6/10 5:00 PM City of Refuge United Church of Christ [8400 Enterprise Way Oakland, CA]
Avant-Gospel Trouble Ensemble's debut CD, In the Water comes out on Edgetone records. They will celebrate with a concert, with opening sets by Charles Peoples III, Dunkelman/Fluke-Mogul/Weeks and Darnell Ishmel.  More...

Sun 6/10 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
AIR: A Tribute to Cecil Taylor

Struck by the loss of artistic giant Cecil Taylor in April, the Rovas felt compelled to pay respects to a hero. Each quartet member has invited guests to create special ensembles for the concert. The desire is to assemble groupings that enable the broader music community to participate in this farewell tribute to a man who impacted us all so much, both as creative artist and as a fearless and unapologetic innovator. Join Rova Saxophone Quartet and 9 dedicated and inventive practitioners to explore sonic realms presaged by Taylor’s iconic work.  More...

Tue 6/12 5:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Tracking Series #2: Wealth, Equity, and 21st-Century Jazz  More...

Tue 6/12 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
JEFF PARKER & THE NEW BREED
Two Shows SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab, 7:00pm & 8:30pm
Jeff Parker guitar
Josh Johnson alto saxophone & keyboards
Paul Bryan bass & synthesizer
Makaya McCraven drums & sampler  More...

Tue 6/12 7:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
John Schott, Ross Hammond & Jay Nair 7pm $10-15  More...

Tue 6/12 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th Street, San Francisco, California 94110]
Resident is a monthly Open Mic event started by Jeremy Black in 2017. Set in a casual atmosphere in an awesome location, The Laundry, it is the perfect event if you are a beginner or even experimented musician/performer and want to reach out to the San Francisco Community.  More...

Tue 6/12 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- Apartment D (Sophia Shen + Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir)
- Madalyn Merkey
- Jon Arkin & Jordan Glenn  More...

Wed 6/13 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
BROKEN SHADOWS "Celebrating Ornette Coleman" Saxophonists Tim Berne and Chris Speed, and the Bad Plus rhythm section of bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King.
Two shows in SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab, 7:00pm & 8:30pm  More...

Thu 6/14 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
DOUBLE BILL: JULIAN LAGE TRIO & THUMBSCREW W/ MARY HALVORSON, MICHAEL FORMANEK, AND TOMAS FUJIWARA  More...

Thu 6/14 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
For our June Canessa musical event we are excited to have Ithaca, NY based percussionist Sarah Hennies, NYC based trumpeter Joe Moffett, Arizona / Oakland sound artist Glochids and a trio of Jorge Bachmann, Jen Boyd and Kevin Corcoran presenting an array of organic-electronic sounds. Field recordist Karla Hargrave will be presenting recordings from a recent trip to Patagonia in-between sets.  More...

Thu 6/14 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00pm Obando/Hui
Nick Obando - alto saxophone, Tracy Hui - banjo
9:00pm Sugared Radiance
Joshua Marshall - Tenor Saxophone, Camille Drachen - Trumpet
John Ingle - Baritone Saxophone, Tony Gennaro - Percussion  More...

Thu 6/14 8:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [US Berkeley Berkeley]
Ojai at Berkeley 2018: Bye Bye Beethoven

Patricia Kopatchinskaja's first staged concert, already a hit in Europe, weaves together works by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Ives, Cage, and Kurtag—as well as a surprise or two!  More...

Fri 6/15 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Glenn&Stardrum•Hennies&Corcoran•Ackley,Boyce,Mihaly  More...

Fri 6/15 8:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [US Berkeley Berkeley]
Ojai at Berkeley 2018: The Music of Michael Hersch

The remarkable American composer Michael Hersch presents his ...latest creation, I hope we get a chance to visit soon, a dramatic cantata for two sopranos and ensemble (co-commissioned by Cal Performances).  More...

Fri 6/15 8:00 PM Joe Goode Annex [401 Alabama St San Francisco, CA]
ECHO The voice of stones
[a work in progress]
Directed by Sara Shelton Mann
in collaboration with Anya Cloud & Jesse Zarritt
with recorded and live music by Pamela Z

Friday & Saturday, June 15-16, 2018, 8pm  More...

Fri 6/15 9:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Bye Bye Bartok

Darren Johnston, trumpet
Matt Renzi, reeds
Adam Shulman, piano
Eric Vogler  More...

Sat 6/16 3:30 PM Magazine A-168 [Azuar & Mercado Ct., Vallejo CA 94592 Coordinates: 38.083814, -122.257083]
23five is pleased to present Re:Sound SUN
Agnes Szelag + IMA + Ernst Karel  More...

Sat 6/16 8:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [US Berkeley Berkeley]
Ojai at Berkeley 2018: Bartók, Stravinsky, and Ligeti

The festival's closing concert showcases the unrestrained virtuosity of Patricia Kopatchinskaja—as violin soloist and ensemble player in some of the most beloved chamber works of the 20th century.  More...

Sat 6/16 8:00 PM Joe Goode Annex [401 Alabama St San Francisco, CA]
ECHO The voice of stones
[a work in progress]
Directed by Sara Shelton Mann
in collaboration with Anya Cloud & Jesse Zarritt
with recorded and live music by Pamela Z

Friday & Saturday, June 15-16, 2018, 8pm  More...

Sat 6/16 8:00 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento]
Thumbscrew
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Michael Formanek - bass
Tomas Fujiwara - drums

w/
Jon Raskin- reeds
Ross Hammond - guitar
Jon Bafus - drumset  More...

Sun 6/17 4:00 PM Shawl-Anderson Dance Center [2704 Alcatraz Ave Berkeley]
Amy X Neuburg with Risa Jaroslow & Dancers  More...

Sun 6/17 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...

Sun 6/17 7:30 PM First Presbyterian Church San Anselmo [72 Kensington Rd San Anselmo, CA 94960]
ECHO Chamber Orchestra plays music of Dvorak, Piazzolla and the Bay Area's own Kevin Gordon on Sunday, June 17th, in San Anselmo.  More...

Sun 6/17 7:30 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
PC Muñoz: Album & Book Release

Drummer/poet PC Muñoz returns to the Red Poppy to celebrate the release of his new album, Physical Science and its companion chapbook, Inside Pocket of a Houndstooth Blazer. The night features two sets of originals and unusual re-inventions through jazz-informed improvisation, art-funk rhythms, electronic soundscapes, and lyrics that deal with America’s darkest open secrets. Joining PC is cellist Alex Kelly, bassist Bryan Dean, and special guests including rapper DEM ONE.

FEATURING:
PC Muñoz – drums, vocals
Alex Kelly – cello, electronics
Bryan Dean – electric bass
DEM ONE – vocals
Special guests – TBA  More...

Sun 6/17 8:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Apartment D (Sophia Shen, Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir) + Cartilage (Kyle Bruckmann, Matt Ingalls, Christopher Burns). Pro Arts and sfSound present an evening of intersections: between acoustic and electronic music, composition and improvisation, and traditional instrumentation and repurposed and newly invented sound sources.  More...

Mon 6/18 10:00 AM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Electronic Arts Ensemble is a week-long workshop at CCRMA designed for musicians, visual artists, programmers, designers, writers, dancers, actors, or artists of any discipline to collaboratively develop improvisatory performances using custom digital toolkits. At the core of the workshop, daily group improvisations using customized toolkits will enable participants to develop a novel approach to their individual artistic practice. Participants are encouraged to experiment with the technology presented during the demos, and to engage with their peers in synergetic creation. The multidisciplinary ensemble will stage a public performance on the last day of the workshop.  More...

Mon 6/18 9:45 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: David Katz (solo) + CJ Boyd (solo)  More...

Wed 6/20 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Nadia Shpachenko: “Quotations and Homages” CD Release Concert  More...

Wed 6/20 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
Nels Cline & Scott Amendola are Stretch Woven  More...

Wed 6/20 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Lonnie Holley / Sun Foot  More...

Wed 6/20 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Bill Orcutt & Jacob Felix Heule, Bren't Lewiis Ensemble, Cruel Work, Looose
Wed June 20, 8pm-11pm $5 notaflof, all ages
Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF  More...

Thu 6/21 5:00 PM Chapel of the Chimes Oakland [4499 Piedmont Avenue Oakland, CA 94611]
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. Note that tickets are ALWAYS available at the door throughout the event. Advance ticket sales online will end on June 20th.  More...

Thu 6/21 7:30 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
The Solomon Gottfried Quartet: Chordless Chamber Jazz

Bassist and composer Solomon Gottfried presents a quartet of young musicians from New York City playing improvised music rooted in the jazz tradition but in a more chamber format. Featuring original compositions from their recently released EP, The Watering Hole, the band also performs new works with the intention of intimately exploring sound, texture, and space.

FEATURING:
Jasper Dütz – alto saxophone, bass clarinet
Abdulrahman Amer – trombone
Solomon Gottfried – bass
Jacob Patrone – drums  More...

Thu 6/21 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00 pm Braids (Devin Smith, Robert Woods-LaDue)
9:00 pm Ian Hawk's Failings with Agnes Szelag, Aaron Oppenheim, Scott Siler  More...

Thu 6/21 8:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
“Mortality as home entertainment? This can’t be the future. Can it? Can it?” - Bren't Lewiis Ensemble, Headboggle, Deletist, Blood Of Chhinnmastika  More...

Fri 6/22 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Curium

Agnieszka Peszko, violin; Natalie Raney, cello; Rachel Kim, piano

Chen Yi Tunes from My Home
Kaija Saariaho Light & Matter
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 67  More...

Fri 6/22 8:00 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento]
Marc Ducret - Guitar (France)
Samuel Blaser - Trombone (Switzerland)

with

Apropos Trio: Renzi-Mezzacappa-Levis
Matt Renzi - clarinet, oboe, tenor sax
Lisa Mezzacappa - acoustic bass
Jason Levis - drums  More...

Fri 6/22 9:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Pipes

Darren Johnston, trumpet
Cory Wright, reeds
Stephen Lugerner, reeds  More...

Sat 6/23 8:00 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento]
Vladimir Tarasov - drums, Chris Brown- piano/electronics, Jsaon Hoopes- electric bass and Jon Raskin- saxophones will be exploring the depth, width and length of 21st century improvisation from the mico to the macro. Time will be adjusted in each instant composition. This is a not to be missed.  More...

Sun 6/24 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 pm Lords of Outland
Philip Everett - drums, percussion, electronic autoharp
Ray Schaeffer - electric basses
Rent Romus - alto, soprano, c-melody saxophones, voice, electronics, toys
8:30 pm Levin/Pontecorvo/Pino/Abrams
Elliott Levin - tenor saxophone,flute, poetry, Mika Pontecorvo - guitar, Mark Pino - drums, Kersti Abrams - alto saxophone,North-African reeds, mbira, Eli Pontecorvo - bass  More...

Sun 6/24 7:30 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
Thomas Strønen’s Time is a Blind Guide: Norwegian Chamber Jazz Ensemble

Thomas Strønen presents the second recording for Ecm Records with his chamber ensemble Time is a Blind Guide. Influenced by jazz and contemporary classical music, the ensemble’s sound and style prize timbre, silence, and harmonic evolution in a variety of ways. Introspective yet not indulgent, Time is a Blind Guide reflects the development of a spectacular group of improvisers.

FEATURING:
Thomas Strønen – drums
Håkon Aase – violin
Leo Svensson Sander – cello
Mats Eilertsen – bass
Ayumi Tanaka – piano  More...

Sun 6/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Samuel Blaser & Marc Ducret  More...

Mon 6/25 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
OFJS presents: Ian Hawk (Pdx) + 'Zu Zed'  More...

Tue 6/26 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
ERIC REVIS Quartet with KEN VANDERMARK, KRIS DAVIS, CHAD TAYLOR.
On his newest album as a leader, Sing Me Some Cry (Clean Feed), he goes a long way beyond anything he's achieved before. Sing follows 2013's Parallax (Clean Feed), his first recorded pairing with multi-reed player and MacArthur Fellow Ken Vandermark, the Chicago experimental scion. It shows Revis’s astoundingly flexible range with a huge grounded sound. Vandermark returns to this session in a quartet with pianist Kris Davis (Revis’s frequent trio partner on a handful of recorded dates with drummer Andrew Cyrille), and a former Chicagoan on drums, Chad Taylor, whom the bassist employed on his acclaimed 2014 quartet session In Memory of Things Yet Seen.  More...

Wed 6/27 7:00 PM Sound & Savor [exact address to be given to those who register. West Oakland, near adeline and 24th]
Yodo Kurahashi II, one of the worlds greatest shakuhachi players, a 4 course Japanese vegan menu, featuring Masumoto Farm peaches.

Click here to register  More...

Thu 6/28 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Visual Piano & Friends  More...

Thu 6/28 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Sunken Cathedral
Morher
Kole Galbraith  More...

Fri 6/29 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Chris Brown, Jason Hoopes, Jon Raskin, Vladimir Tarasov  More...

Sat 6/30 6:00 PM Finnish Kaleva Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
Outsound Presents Fund Drive & Benefit Concert
The Saturday A Month Before Donor Thank You Dinner
featuring Actual Trio
with John Schott, Dan Seamans, and John Hanes
Join us in supporting a great organization with wonderful music and a buffet by Slippery Fish Catering
Reserve you seat at Indiegogo
or make donation via Paypal  More...

Thu 7/05 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Lisa Mezzacappa Six : COSMICOMICS 2018 Bookstore Residency!
New music for jazz sextet inspired by Italo Calvino’s stories on the origins of the universe - developed in a series of salon performances at Bird & Beckett this year
Aaron Bennett, tenor sax
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Mark Clifford, vibes
Tim Perkis, electronics
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Jordan Glenn, drums  More...

Thu 7/05 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00 pm Pinbokeh Trio
Nathan Chamberlain - guitar, Josiah Branaman - bass, and Paul Sakai - drums
9:00 pm Jess Rowland - cell phones and other telepresenceses
"Telepresents", or : Out-of-control Cellphone Feedback; Gender Spam; Collective Bot Unconscious Revealed!  More...

Sat 7/07 12:00 PM Botanical Gardens [Golden Gate Park, San Francisco]
Sarah Cahill FLOWER PIANO
noon to 2 pm

Sarah Cahill will perform music by Terry Riley and Meredith Monk.  More...

Sat 7/07 9:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Aram Shelton returns to the Bay for a visit to play Gold Age music with Mark Clifford, Safa Shokrai and Jordan Glenn plus a new quartet from Rob Ewing, Beth Schenck, Lisa Mezzacappa and Jordan Glenn.  More...

Sun 7/08 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Fluke-Mogul/Weeks Duo
gabby fluke-mogul - violin/Tom Weeks - alto saxophone
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie performs Tricycle, part 2: Elysium
Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute/Brett Carson - piano/Bill Noertker - contrabass/Jason Levis - drums  More...

Sun 7/08 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
lazyboy and Thomas Carnacki  More...

Mon 7/09 7:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
LIVE MUSIC! Sea Moss * The Social Stomach * IDHAZ  More...

Mon 7/09 9:45 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: On Some Bull + Brovold/Zimmerman/Ormerod  More...

Tue 7/10 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
Resident is a monthly Open Mic event started by Jeremy Black in 2017. Set in a casual atmosphere in an awesome location, The Laundry, it is the perfect event if you are a beginner or even experimented musician/performer and want to reach out to the San Francisco Community.  More...

Tue 7/10 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- Aram Shelton & Jacob Felix Heule duo
- Ashen Cleric (Nathan Clevenger, Crystal Pascucci, Cory Wright, Jordan Glenn, & Tim DeCillis)
- Shatter Pattern (Waxy Tomb)  More...

Wed 7/11 7:30 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
For our July Canessa concert we are excited to present Hudson Valley, NY's Bill Brovold in a trio with Kurt Zimmerman, and Mark Ormerod. Bill is an instrument inventor, guitarist and woodworker and has a new album of collaborative pieces on Public Eyesore called Michael Goldberg Variations. Also on the bill are Thingamajigs Performance Group featuring new music performed on invented as well as traditional instrumentation. Peter Whitehead's performs instrumental folk pieces using instruments of his own design and Foreignfire is David Katz' frenetic vocal improvisations.  More...

Wed 7/11 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Larry Ochs – Aram Shelton – Scott Walton – Kjell Nordesen  More...

Thu 7/12 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Opening Reception: Margaret Noble, Resonating Objects  More...

Thu 7/12 7:00 PM David Brower Center [2150 Allston Way, Suite 100 Berkeley]
Joshua Churchill & John Davis

As a performance duo, Joshua Churchill and John Davis operate spontaneously to create densely layered organic and atmospheric works, combining Churchill’s dynamic soundscapes with Davis’s handmade, and often hand processed, 16mm and Super 8 films. For Other Minds, Joshua Churchill and John Davis will present a collaborative performance that engages viewers in meditative and abstract environments, using imagery and sounds are rooted in the environment and its natural rhythms.  More...

Thu 7/12 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Josh Martin - electric bass
8:35 pm Faults
Bachmann/Cocoran/Jaroba
9:20 pm Tambalaya
Tammy Duplantis - experimental homebrew sound art  More...

Fri 7/13 8:00 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
Alon Nechushtan Trio / Scott Amendola Duo: Contemporary Jazz & Improvised Music

Pianist and composer Alon Nechushtan has toured both in the U.S. and beyond, releasing 10 critically acclaimed albums as a leader and showcasing “abundant chemistry and boundless eclecticism” (All About Jazz). For a night of original contemporary jazz and improvisational grooves, the trio is also joined by Scott Amendola Duo.  More...

Fri 7/13 9:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St San Francisco]
We are incredibly honored to announce that John Zorn and Bill Laswell will come together for the first time ever in San Francisco for two historic shows at The Chapel on Fri 7/13 and Sat 7/14! Join us, for "KONX OM PAX"

Tickets for both shows go on sale TODAY (6/28) at 4:30pm, and can be found Here

A portion of all proceeds from these shows will go to charities directly aiding the children separated at border camps, as part of The Chapel's Keep Families Together Concert Series (charities listed in ticket links).


Tickets will go fast, so make sure to grab them and we'll see you soon!  More...

Sat 7/14 7:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Swimming in Bengal & Invasive Species  More...

Sat 7/14 9:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Body/Head: Kim Gordon and Bill Nace  More...

Sat 7/14 9:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St San Francisco]
We are incredibly honored to announce that John Zorn and Bill Laswell will come together for the first time ever in San Francisco for two historic shows at The Chapel on Fri 7/13 and Sat 7/14! Join us, for "KONX OM PAX"

Tickets for both shows go on sale TODAY (6/28) at 4:30pm, and can be found Here

A portion of all proceeds from these shows will go to charities directly aiding the children separated at border camps, as part of The Chapel's Keep Families Together Concert Series (charities listed in ticket links).


Tickets will go fast, so make sure to grab them and we'll see you soon!  More...

Sun 7/15 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Shoko Hikage plays the music by Hyo-shin Na for koto - THE SKY WAS BEYOND DESCRIPTION

[Program] Hyo-shin Na's Music for Koto/Bass Koto and Piano
Shoko Hikage, koto/bass koto
Thomas Schultz, piano (special guest artist)
-Koto Music
-Five Pieces on Yoshie Hikage's Poems
-Night Procession of the Hundred Demons
-The Sky Was Beyond Description (for one player on koto and bass koto)
- Koto, Piano II
- Rain Study (for piano solo)  More...

Sun 7/15 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...

Mon 7/16 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
The Steve Adams/Scott Walton duo and the Tom Weeks/Nathan Corder duo perform together at Studio Grand.  More...

Tue 7/17 8:00 PM Z Below [450 Florida St SF]
Thingamajigs Performance Group: stations 2: bearing the burden  More...

Tue 7/17 8:30 PM Elbo Room [647 Valencia St, San Francisco]
Mistresses:Buke+Gase, Ahleuchatistas/KYN/IMA/Smile Lines  More...

Wed 7/18 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Phillip Greenlief and Jon Raskin's 2+2 performs rare music from the notebooks of Steve Lacy, with Scott Amendola and Kjell Nordeson  More...

Wed 7/18 7:45 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street]
Dub Sessions (Fletcher Pratt), 404 Not Found, Klooj with Si-si Dance, Horaflora

Dub Sessions
A Midori Records tape release party for Fletcher Pratt's Dub Sessions excuted by an all-star lineup featuring Robert Lopez, Alex Cohen and Tom Weeks! https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/dub-sessions-vol-4

404 Not Found never fail in their unending search for the unfindable, the siiick "scuz-techno duo of Claire Staples and Alex Cargile (CCR Headcleaner) are the inventors of typo metal, never a hit!
https://soundcloud.com/404-not-found-4

Klooj with Si-si Dance
Klooj (Thom Blum, Charles Kremenak) with Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project (Janet Silk) premiere a section titled "Tales from Hunter's Point Shipyard."
https://soundcloud.com/klooj | https://www.facebook.com/pg/1sisi.D

Horaflora
As Weird Ear co-founder Raub Roy gears up for his total hotness Summer tour, this will be his newest concoction. Make like hot n bothered guineapigs, come crowd up at the nozzle!
https://weirdearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-gland-canyon  More...

Thu 7/19 7:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
Thingamajigs Performance Group: stations 2: bearing the burden  More...

Thu 7/19 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Chamberlain Zhang
8:50 pm Cruel Diagonals - Megan Mitchell
9:30 pm rEEk  More...

Fri 7/20 1:00 PM LinkedIn SF [222 2nd Street San Francisco]
This is the monthly inWooble broadcasted live from Linkedin Office in San Francisco

Special Guests:
Doug Lynner and the Serge Tcherepnine Mystery Machine
Andrew Van Wart, aka Normalien

Streaming will be on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/franckhlmartin/live

and on Twitch

If you have a modular synthesizer and would like to perform with us, contact one of the hosts.  More...

Fri 7/20 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
CRUEL DIAGONALS(record release!)•FYRHTU

Join us for Adobe's monthly music series!
This month we have some of the Bay Area's, nay, the world's best improvisors, experimental acoustic, amplified, electronic composer/performers ("..how dare he!") in the intimate setting you've come to know and love at Adobe Books on a early Friday eve (note,7:30pm, perfect for after work!) make these dark days a bit brighter in cosy company at Adobe Books!  More...

Fri 7/20 8:00 PM Fireside Lounge [1453 Webster St, Alameda, CA 94501]
Grex Electric Ghost Parade Album Release Show

Featuring IMA, Qualia, & Scott Amendola's Orchestra di Pazzi

Oakland art rock band Grex (Karl Evangelista, Rei Scampavia) stages a triumphant homecoming show to celebrate the release of the new album Electric Ghost Parade, joined by an array of Bay Area mind-benders: entrancing electro-percussion duo IMA, prog/soul powerhouses Qualia, and special chamber version of Scott Amendola's epic Orchestra di Pazzi.  More...

Sat 7/21 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
HUSH Series — Hans Otte’s Book of Sounds

Get lost in Hans Otte’s 12-movement masterwork for solo piano, The Book of Sounds (1979-1982), performed by pianist D. Riley Nicholson. This underperformed piano cycle uses rare architectures and structures to weave minimal, subtle, haunting sounds in and through the piano. It “lets sounds be sounds” (John Cage). Casual seating and drinks will be on hand to help you through the journey.  More...

Sun 7/22 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Sarah Cahill

Sarah Cahill, piano

Program:

Phil Kline Long Winter
John Adams China Gates
Annea Lockwood RCSC
Samuel Adams Shade Studies
Meredith Monk Steppe Music (excerpts)
Pauline Oliveros Quintuplets Playpen
Terry Riley Be Kind to One Another  More...

Sun 7/22 5:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
17th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
Touch the Gear Expo
Current Exhibitors: Amanda Chaudhary, Andrew of Chopstick, Andy Puls, Bart Hopkin, Bob Ladue, Collette McCaslin, Dania Luck, David Leikam, Gabby Wen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Jeff Klukowski, Jaroba, Jess Rowland, L.J. Altvater, Peter Whitehead, Tammy Duplantis, Tom Djll
Outsound's original public event Touch the Gear is a hands-on, family-friendly exposition open to the public. During the evening attendees get to roam among inventors and musicians while experiencing sound producing gear, computers, instruments and inventors with their various different configurations of “gear”--everything from oscillators and electronics, to planks of wood with strings attached. All attendees get to ask questions, make sound and experience how the instruments work, in an environment that demystifies technology while inspiring creativity.
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Sun 7/22 8:00 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento]
Social Stutter, a saxophone quartet led by composer/altoist Beth Schenck along with Kasey Knudsen, Phillip Greenlief and Cory Wright. They blurs the line between strictly written chamber music and soaring free jazz. Solos emerge from the natural order of intricately written lines

Also performing is the
Clifford Childers, Jon Raskin and Jenn Schaaf Trio finding pathways of sound, warping time and generally having a good time stretching the capabilities of brass, sax and drums.  More...

Mon 7/23 8:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
17th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
"The Breath Courses Through Us"
a documentary film about the New York Art Quartet
directed by Alan Roth
featuring: Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, Milford Graves, Reggie Workman, Amiri Baraka
with: Steve Lacy, Pierre Dørge, Ben Young
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Mon 7/23 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Social Stutter + Shariat/Schwenkler Duo  More...