Thu 6/13 7:45 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
What if Captain Beefheart had cut his teeth listening to The Fall instead of Howlin’ Wolf and Bo Diddley? The result might have sounded like Receptacles—a joyfully shambolic deconstructionist collision of rhythms and riffs. Kyle Bruckmann’s DEGRADIENT gleefully collides elements of skronk, fried analog noise and dark prog, adding significant heaviness to his signature polyrhythmic clatter, formal complexity, and black humor.  More...

Thu 6/13 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm David Leikam - NS Design CR 6-string electric cello, electronic pedals
9:00 pm Antonic/Fischer
Thomas Antonic - text, recitation
Michael Fischer - ad-hoc soundscaping
A morphological text- and soundscape, richly allusive, drawn, sculpture-like, filmic, cross-linking, floating. Whirring visions form a coup of poetic escalation.  More...

Fri 6/14 6:30 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
The Deconstruction of What You Know|Dunkelman/fluke-mogul/NishiS

The Deconstruction of What You Know
--Joshua Allen, tenor saxophone
--Henry Kaiser, guitar
--William Winant, drums
--Kevin Murray, drums

&

Dunkelman/fluke-mogul/Nishi-Smith
--Nava Dunkelman, percussion
--gabby fluke-mogul, violin
--Kanoko Nishi-Smith, koto

Doors at 6:30 | $10 | all ages  More...

Fri 6/14 7:30 PM Bridge Storage and ArtSpace [23 Maine Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804]
Short films from Paul Dresher and Sung Kim (with live improvised score), followed by the documentary Twelve Pianos. Twelve Pianos focuses on the piano installations of Mauro Fortissimo, well known in the Bay Area as founder of music installation festivals Flower Piano and Sunset Piano.

Doors at 7pm, Screening at 7:30pm. Refreshments will be available for purchase. $5. TICKETS: https://12-pianos.eventbrite.com  More...

Fri 6/14 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' Re-Imagined

The Mattson 2
w/ Special Guest Calvin Keys

BUY TICKETS  More...

Fri 6/14 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF, CA]
Amina Kirby and Jess Tambellini open EEP by performing a duo with handmade electronic instruments, then Monopiece, a trio consisting of Nathan Corder on electronics, Matt Robidoux on guitar, and Tim Russell on percussion, collaborate with vocalist Rodolfo Cordova-Lebron. This performance is part of the EEP (Electronic Ensemble Performance Weekend).  More...

Sat 6/15 6:00 PM San Jose Peace and Justice Center [48 South 7th St, San Jose]
Flukemogul/Murray, LechugaEspadas Talesfore Jr., SLOB, TBA  More...

Sat 6/15 8:00 PM Saint Mark's Episcopal Church [600 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto]
Sacred and profane, old and new music for the spiritual enhancement and entertainment of both royalty and regular folk. Featuring our SFCA+1 guests, internationally internationally-known harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree, and cellist Paul Hale, with works for chorus, harpsichord and both, from the Baroque and 20th/21st centuries by composers famous and anonymous. Works by Handel, Bach, Monteverdi, Schütz, Carissimi, and world premieres by our Composer-in- and Not-in-Residence.  More...

Sat 6/15 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
Other Minds 24: Concert 2 – Brian Baumbusch's 'The Pressure'  More...

Sat 6/15 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF, CA]
Brendan Glasson and Sally Decker perform a collaborative set exploring chaotic events within controlled environments. Kevin Blechdom and Blevin Blectum will whisk you away to a psychedelic organic-electronic universe of sonic snauses. This performance is part of EEP! ... an Electronic Ensemble Performance Weekend.  More...

Sat 6/15 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
The Dresher | Davel Invented Instrument Duo, formed in 2001 and after many national and international tours, will present of their first full-length concerts in San Francisco. The program includes a world premiere of a new work by Dresher as well as existing Duo repertoire. The instruments were created by Paul Dresher, Daniel Schmidt and the pioneering electronic music inventor Don Buchla. After the concert, the audience will be invited on-stage to play the instruments and interact with the performers.  More...

Sat 6/15 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Hybrid Series : The Creatrix, Piano Rain, Big Debbie, Nihar  More...

Sun 6/16 3:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
The Dresher/Davel Invented Instrument Duo

The duo of renowned composer, performer & instrument inventor Paul Dresher and virtuoso percussionist Joel Davel, consistently generates excitement and wonder with concert programs performed entirely on their large-scale invented musical instruments.  More...

Sun 6/16 4:00 PM St. Paul's Episcopal Church [114 Montecito Avenue Oakland]
Sacred and profane, old and new music for the spiritual enhancement and entertainment of both royalty and regular folk. Featuring our SFCA+1 guests, internationally internationally-known harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree, and cellist Paul Hale, with works for chorus, harpsichord and both, from the Baroque and 20th/21st centuries by composers famous and anonymous. Works by Handel, Bach, Monteverdi, Schütz, Carissimi, and world premieres by our Composer-in- and Not-in-Residence.  More...

Sun 6/16 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF, CA]
EEP! (Electronic Ensemble Performance Weekend) closing act includes ambient electroacoustic improvisation by Los Angeles-based Tim Feeney, Clay Chaplin, and David Sumner. The second half of the concert features The HUB, a collaborative, and improvisational performance practice characterized by the sharing of digital information via a network.  More...

Sun 6/16 7:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
Other Minds 24: Concert 3 – Four Pianos in Quarter Tones  More...

Sun 6/16 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 6/17 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Hristo Vitchv Quartet
Two Shows 7:00pm & 8:30pm
SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab
Sofia, Bulgarian-born, Bay Area-based guitarist Hristo Vitchev and his longstanding quartet perform original material from Vitchev’s newest First Orbit Sounds release, Of Light and Shadows, celebrating a decade as a band. An innovative artist drawn to the mix of classical guitar music, modern jazz, folk songs, and the avant-garde, Vitchev was voted to DownBeat’s list of Rising Star guitarists and has performed widely with Portland-based pianist Weber Iago (now known as Jasnam Daya Singh) and recorded Rhodopa, a gorgeously intimate 2013 duo album with clarinet master and fellow Bulgarian Liubomir Krastev.  More...

Mon 6/17 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents Microfestival of Instant Composition  More...

Tue 6/18 6:30 PM The Honey Hive Gallery [4117 Judah St San Francisco]
Sato/Murray/Weeks / Ty Mayer (Floral) / gabby fluke-mogul  More...

Tue 6/18 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
CD Release Concert for multiple GRAMMY® nominated pianist Nadia Shpachenko’s new album “The Poetry of Places.” 5 San Francisco premieres of architecture-inspired works by Amy Beth Kirsten, Hannah Lash, James Matheson, Harold Meltzer, and Jack Van Zandt from Shpachenko’s new CD, as well as 2 World Premieres and 2 West Coast premieres of works by Paul Chihara, Thea Musgrave, José Serebrier, and Lewis Spratlan.  More...

Wed 6/19 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS

Michael Fischer, Vienna (saxophone, electronics)
Solo and Company-style improvisations, with Grosse Abfahrt (Bay Area):
Tom Djll (tpt, elec), Tim Perkis (elec), Gino Robair (elec, perc), Matt Ingalls (cl, bcl), John Shiurba (gtr)
Includes a brief poetry reading by Thomas Antonic  More...

Wed 6/19 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Anla Courtis (Reynols), Thomas Dimuzio, & Wobbly
https://bit.ly/30fRl0R

TendHer
https://soundcloud.com/tingotongotapes/sets/tendher-dream

Vaux Flores
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvDKFyznzvw&feature=youtu.be  More...

Thu 6/20 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
VauxFlores Industrial Label Showcase
Usufruct, [ruidobello], Oa, Travis Johns  More...

Thu 6/20 8:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
A.C. from Argentina
Wobbly
Thomas Dimuzio  More...

Fri 6/21 5:00 PM Chapel of the Chimes [4499 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, California]
Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes

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Sat 6/22 5:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF, CA]
Join us for a celebration of the Bay Area invented instrument community and C4NM's Window Gallery. 5:30-7pm, our Board of Directors will host a reception with new music by curators Bart Hopkin and David Samas. From 7-9pm Pamela Z and Donald Swearingen will perform alongside special guests Krys Bobrowski, Brenda Hutchinson, and the Karen Stackpole Trio. Proceeds from this special event will support C4NM's Window Gallery, allowing us to continue presenting the most imaginative instrument inventors and artists crossing the boundaries between visual art, acoustic craftsmanship, and music.  More...

Sat 6/22 6:00 PM Berkeley Finnsh Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
"A little more than a month before Dinner Concert", a benefit for Outsound Presents
featuring music by Moe! Staiano & Melne Murphy
RSVP & Information Click Here!
Help us support and enrich the new and creative music scene by making a donation today!  More...

Sat 6/22 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF (@capp street)]
Phillip Greenlief: The Known Universe for Olivia
7:30 p.m. doors/8 p.m. performance

A map score for live electronics, voices and movement, The Known Universe for Olivia is organized to represent characters, places, and events found in the final installment of claudia la rocco's Olivia Trilogy. performers are allowed to enter and move freely in the open work with additional conduction cues from composer Phillip Greenlief. Funding for Claudia La Rocco: And What’s More generously provided by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.  More...

Sun 6/23 4:00 AM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Dan Neville and Rebecca Kleinmann feature their sextet, presenting their own unique blend of Jazz, Afro Cuban and Colombian music.  More...

Sun 6/23 4:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Karl Evangelista’s Labas: Exploring the Filipino-American Avant-Garde

Filipino-American guitarist/composer Karl Evangelista is joined by an all-star cast of instrumentalists for “Labas”, a journey through Filipino tradition and the immigrant experience by way of modern jazz and powerful sonic abstraction.

Evangelista ranks among a new wave of musicians pushing the traditions of jazz and experimental rock into the 21st century. Hailed by Signal to Noise magazine as “one of the most original instrumentalists and composers of his generation,” Evangelista’s music explores multicultural concepts with sonic intensity and political fervor. As part of boundary-breaking art rock duo Grex, Evangelista has toured nationwide over a dozen times, and his talents have led to work with the likes of Fred Frith, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Scott Amendola, Ben Goldberg, Lewis Jordan, and Asian Improv aRts co-founder Francis Wong.

Labas: Karl Evangelista (guitar, composition), Jordan Glenn-drums, Crystal Pascucci-cello, Rei Scampavia (keys), Cory Wright (alto saxophone)  More...

Sun 6/23 5:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Dynamic members of the Bay Area jazz scene since the 1970s, Idris Ackamoor ☥ and the Pyramids perform an evening of their signature intergalactic jazz funk, afrobeat grooves, and hypnotic licks. The lineup features Ackamoor, Sandy Poindexter, Lionel Tanner, Bobby Cobb, Abdul Waheed, and a special guest.  More...

Sun 6/23 5:30 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Barbara Golden presents: MARTINI MEMOIR: A CELEBRATION

Barb shares intimate moments of her long and varied life.
“Where You Goin’ Lady Blue”
“Green Card: 2 immigration tales”
“Bad Rep”
with Nathan Corder/Tom Weeks/Richard Phillips/Bill Thibault

No host bar  More...

Sun 6/23 6:00 PM The Armory Club [1799 Mission St, San Francisco, California 94103]
Modular Synthesizers + Shibari: Last FM+1 Mystery Event was such a success, Phuturo and Franck Martin are doing another one!  More...

Sun 6/23 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 PM Andrew Jamieson - piano, Charles Peoples III - voice
8:30 PM Scott Stobbe + 2
Scott Braziel-Keyboard, Herbert Diamant-Reeds, Scott Stobbe-guitar  More...

Mon 6/24 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Hirsch / Farhadian / Robair / Dimuzio  More...

Mon 6/24 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: Z-Bug (industrial jazz)
(David Leikam – NS Design CR6 string cello, Moog synthesizer, acoustic p, Sheila Bosco – dms, perc, keys, Timothy Orr – dms, perc, Patrick Cress – sax, elec)

Set #2: Danny Lubin-Laden
(Danny Lubin-Laden: tbn, Raffi Garabedian-ts, Doug Stuart-b, John Schott-gtr, Tim Bulkley-dms)

Set #3: Nick Obando Quartet (free improvisation)
(Nick Obando-as, Chris Thalmann-dms, Tracy Hui-fretless b, Karl Evangelista-gtr)  More...

Mon 6/24 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Tim Rowe/Jordan Glenn & C.j. Boyd  More...

Tue 6/25 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Way Out West Concert Series - Jordan Glenn's BEAK  More...

Tue 6/25 8:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Ratskin Records Nite: CCR Headcleaner, Felidae, Headboggle, Zero Charisma, Malocculsion  More...

Wed 6/26 6:30 PM Honey Hive Gallery [4117 Judah St, San Francisco]
Recycling Club, Sato/Weeks/Murray, gabby fluke-mogul, Ty Mayer  More...

Thu 6/27 6:30 PM sfSoundRadio [On the interwebs]
Tune in to sfSoundRadio from 6:30pm to 9pm to hear tablecore improvisations by Jake Rodriguez, Michael Zelner, and Suki O'Kane. Meticulously designed to accompany rinsing, chopping, sauteing and consuming, radioDinner promotes home-cooked meals throughout the experimental music community.  More...

Thu 6/27 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Skullkrusher
Phillip Everett - electo-percussive noise
9:00 pm Cohen/Allen/Pino
Alex Cohen - guitar, Josh Allen - tenor saxophone, Mark Pino - drums  More...

Fri 6/28 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Ju-Ping Song: All Varieties of Existence–4 West Coast Premieres  More...

Fri 6/28 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
KREation Ensemble•Prizm•Heule/Fluke-Mogul/Nucci/Robinson  More...

Fri 6/28 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
On Friday June 28th at 7:30pm, Tom's Place presents
David Rothenberg (clarinet), Elliott Sharp (guitar)
Nightingales in Berlin & IrRational Music

Elliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. And he's a wicked guitar player.

David Rothenberg is, as well as being a composer and jazz clarinetist (see his 2010 recording "One Dark Night I Left My Silent House" with Marilyn Crispell on ECM https://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/143038751902/one-dark-night-i-left-my-silent-house-marilyn-crispell-david-rothenberg ), well-known as an author and naturalist, concentrating on animal sounds viewed as music.  More...

Fri 6/28 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Derek Monypeny/Sahba Sizdahkhani/Kanoko Nishi-Smith + Wobbly at TAC  More...

Sat 6/29 2:00 PM Museum of Sonoma County [425 Seventh St. Santa Rosa, CA 95401]
Contraption Quartet will perform in Santa Rosa at the Museum of Sonoma County this Saturday (June 29, 2019) from 2-4pm. They will set up a sound-art installation within which they will do informal improvisation and demonstrate their invented instruments, and they will do three 15-minute sets of composed pieces at approximately 2:15, 3:00, and 3:30. This performance and installation is part of the museum's "Kinetics: Art in Motion" exhibition.  More...

Sat 6/29 4:00 PM Re:Sound Magazine A-168 [Mare Island Preserve Azuar and Mercado Ct. Vallejo ca]
23five is pleased to present: Re:Sound SUN

Saariselka
(Marielle V. Jakobsons + Chuck Johnson)
Kaori Suzuki
Bryan Day Electromagnetic Orchestra  More...

Sat 6/29 7:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery [1007 Market Street (nr 6th) San Francisco]
Improvisation by animals & giraffes. Phillip Greenlief (saxophone), Claudia La Rocco (text & voice) with Amy Trachtenberg (visuals)  More...

Sat 6/29 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Rova Saxophone Quartet at the Bird & Beckett!  More...

Sat 6/29 8:00 PM House Concert in North Berkeley Hills [Berkeley]
Elliott Sharp performs a solo guitar concert in a private home in the Berkeley Hills. Mr. Sharp will perform two sets, with wine and cheese served during the intermission. Seating is limited. If you wish to attend, please email concert host at: Harry@fullplatemedia.com.  More...

Sat 6/29 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Christopher Burns and Peter J Woods present solo audiovisual performances exploring contemporary issues of politics and social justice through video, animation, theater, and improvised electronic music. Burns’ Interferometry collages text, animation, and a variety of musical genres to relate a story about a 19th-century episode in the history of science as a parable about invisible structures in contemporary society. Woods ventures into realms of performance art and endurance as he interrogates whiteness and privilege.  More...

Sun 6/30 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
The Musical Art Quintet perform Sascha Jacobsen’s Kanta Judezmo, an oratorio using Jewish melodic themes with motifs and rhythms from Spain, North Africa, the Middle East, and South America, that tells the story about the Sephardic diaspora through the lens of its central female character, with universal threads that traverse centuries, borders, language, culture and genre.  More...

Sun 6/30 7:00 PM Artists' Television Access [992 Valencia SF]
An evening of audiovisual performance with Chris Burns, Bill Hsu, John Ingle, and Peter J Woods  More...

Sun 6/30 7:30 PM Terry Riley and George Brooks @ Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University [471 Lagunita Dr, Stanford, California 94305]
Terry Riley and George Brooks have been performing together for over three decades. From Tokyo to Torino, London to Lisbon, Berlin to Brussels, and Belfast and back, they’ve developed nearly telepathic communication, weaving jazz, classical, stride, rags, ragas, and Riley’s ground-breaking minimalism into a richly textured musical tapestry.  More...

Sun 6/30 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Endangered Blood, Scott Amendola Trio at Ivy Room  More...

Sun 6/30 8:30 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
The David Murray/Kahil El'Zabar Duo  More...

Mon 7/01 7:00 PM Sunnyvale [patricktalesforejr@gmail.com Sunnyvale]
FREE JAZZ BBQ: Kazuto Sato / Kevin Murray / Tom Weeks in Sunnyvale  More...

Mon 7/01 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Apollo Soul & Someday  More...

Mon 7/01 8:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
David Murray/Kahil El'Zabar Duo - The Return!

We are pleased and honored to present a return engagement by one of the towering jazz figures of our time, saxophonist David Murray, playing in a duo format with his esteemed colleague of three decades, the Chicago-based percussionist Kahil El'Zabar. Messrs. Murray and El'Zabar last performed as a duo at Bird & Beckett in April of 2017.  More...

Mon 7/01 8:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

Monday, 7/1, 8pm (8:30pm start)
No Cover/Donations Accepted

Set #1: Dave Mihaly/Dusty Feathers Duo (folkloric song)

Set #2: Bruce Ackley/Bill Orcutt Duo (improvised music)

Set #3: Crow Crash Radio (space rock)  More...

Mon 7/01 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
DunkelpeK & Gamelan Encinal  More...

Wed 7/03 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Die Angel (Pan Sonic / Schneider TM) / Xambuca / Thomas Dimuzio  More...

Thu 7/04 3:00 PM Winters Tavern [1522 Francisco Blvd, Pacifica, CA]
A F’ing Weird Heavy Hoedown!  More...

Thu 7/04 11:59 PM KPFA 94.1 FM (Bay Area) [KPFA 94.1FM (Bay Area)]
Kenneth Atchley will be the featured guest artist on Barbara Golden's KPFA 94.1 FM program "crack o dawn" playing premieres and select works from the private collection.  More...

Fri 7/05 8:00 PM Studio 4 [1025 Carleton St, Berkeley, CA]
Theresa Wong and Jakob Pek ~ Live at Studio 4  More...

Fri 7/05 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B, Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls  More...

Sat 7/06 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Panoramic Dissonances: Laetitia Sonami, John Davis, Heejin Jang  More...

Sat 7/06 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Do-Over Music Series #7

The Jordan Glenn Party + Danishta Rivero

The JGP...
Danishta Rivero- voice/electronics
Erika Oba- keyboard
Alison Niedbalski- keyboard
Nathan Clevenger- guitar
Bill Wolter- guitar
Lee Hodel- bass
Tony Gennaro- percussion
Tim DeCillis- percussion
Jordan Glenn- conductor

Opening the night will be solo set from Danishta Rivero.
http://www.danishtarivero.com/  More...

Sun 7/07 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm gabby fluke-mogul - solo acoustic violin improvisation
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute/Brett Carson - piano/Bill Noertker - contrabass/Jordan Glenn - drums  More...

Mon 7/08 7:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
gabby fluke-mogul + Jacob Felix Heule + Kanoko Nishi-Smith
Nathan Corder
Ben Rempel + Daniel Meyer-O'Keeffe  More...

Mon 7/08 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Brown/Cohen/Duff & Josh Allen  More...

Tue 7/09 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
Resident is a monthly electronic music and visual open mic event started by Jeremy Black and friends in 2017. It is held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. The Laundry event space is casual and cool, and the community you'll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas.  More...

Tue 7/09 9:30 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- Sandy Buschman/Jordan Glenn/Jason Hoopes/Danishta Rivero quartet
- Rodolfo Córdova & Theresa Wong duo
- Seiyoung Jang  More...

Wed 7/10 7:45 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Latitudes: Andrew Weathers and Amma Ateria  More...

Wed 7/10 9:00 PM KZSU radio [Palo Alto CA]
Broken Whole with guest artist Spider Cat live on the air at KZSU  More...

Thu 7/11 7:30 PM E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore [410 13th St, Oakland, California]
Talk More / Dunkelman::fluke-mogul::Nishi-Smith / Tuckamore  More...

Thu 7/11 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Noah Phillips solo guitar
9:00 pm Deletist
manipulated Cello, oboe and vocal chants or other  More...

Thu 7/11 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Jon Raskin – Solo Saxophone / Hanes Adams Duo  More...

Fri 7/12 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Brent Miller: Nomad Vigil Release Party & Concert  More...

Fri 7/12 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Saxophonist Tod Dickow joins the “inventive, invigorating, mesmerizing, beautiful, virtuosic, and lyrical” (Downbeat Magazine) Charged Particles in a performance of John Coltrane’s complete A Love Supreme.  More...

Fri 7/12 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Geografías del Cuerpo
- Rodolfo Córdova
- Danishta Rivero  More...

Sat 7/13 2:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery [1007 Market St San Francisco]
Beth Custer performs solo clarinet  More...

Sat 7/13 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Snail Meets West & Friends

A celebration of beautiful chaos; an ode to Ornette Coleman.  More...

Sun 7/14 2:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Echoes Bones - a woodwind trio  More...

Sun 7/14 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
With an emphasis on exciting and unexpected grooves, adventurous improvisations and rich soundscapes, StringQuake is impossible to genre-fy, with stylistic influences including traditional classical chamber music, jazz, Latin, classical Indian, West African folk and Balkan music.  More...

Sun 7/14 8:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [511 48th Street Oakland]
"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.” -- quote popularized by Mark Twain. Creation and destruction. Grandiosity and hubris. Glory and The Abyss. These are some of the themes explored in recent collaborations in moving image and sound by Kerry Laitala and The Atchleys. Media archaeologist and 16mm projector performance spellbinder Laitala will present new and resuscitated imagery, with composer / improviser / experimental musicians The Atchleys (K & K) providing live audio accompaniment. The light and sound display will be sequenced to cycle through elemental orbs, leaving viewers draped in a colorful cloak of decay, rebirth and contemplation. Pieces will include Figments in Film #1 and Ghost Town.  More...

Mon 7/15 8:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Shiva Xtet & Broken Whole at Oakland Free Jazz Society Series at ProArts in Oakland
Free Jazz Fusion vs. Abstract Percussion and organic Electronics  More...

Wed 7/17 7:00 PM KFJC 89.7 FM [12345 S. El Monte Road Los Altos Hills]
Rent Romus, Heikki Koskinen and Tony Gennaro Live Mic
Wednesday July 17 at 7-10PM
In advance of the Outsound New Music Summit, Lexi Glass hosts Rent Romus with Heikki Koskinen and Tony Gennaro, playing material from the "Deciduous" project.

Stream Here  More...

Wed 7/17 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street]
Jupiter Blue
From the Arkestra's engine room, Jupiter Blue's tone scientists D.Hotep and Jupiter Girl emerge to reveal elements and precepts of another kind of language, another tomorrow, learned through years of discipline to be given freely in the present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8nOjoMyfFM

Voicehandler
Danishta Rivero and Jacob Felix Heule comprise the singular duo, Voicehandler. Rivero modifies her extended vocal technique using a water-based electro-acoustic instrument of her own invention, the Hydrophonium. Heule performs a sonic anti-aliasing in real time through micro percussion and electronics that must be heard closely to be believed.
https://soundcloud.com/voicehandler

Amphibious Gestures
The solo project of Kasper Rodenborn, Amphibious Gestures, bubbled over from the heavy cauldron of his live collaborations with Skozey Fetisch (Mark C. Jackman.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47nM1OEPfFk

Heartworm
20 year veteran of subterranean music, Brandon Yahiro-Taylor, has recorded and performed in a dizzying array of styles, from freeform minimalism to harsh noise to breakcore to experimental metal to indie rock to ambient and musique concrete.
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Thu 7/18 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Thumbscrew featuring Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara, and Michael Formanek
Thursday, July 18 & Friday, July 19, 7:00pm & 8:30pm, SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab
A power-trio composer’s project made up of in-demand bandleaders Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara, and Michael Formanek.  More...

Thu 7/18 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
SUN RA ARKESTRA: SPACE IS THE PLACE
FEATURE FILM W/ LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT  More...

Thu 7/18 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Jang/Shariatzadeh
Seiyoung Jang - electronics Golnaz Shariatzadeh - violin
The ETHER SHIP
Willard Van De Bogart & Lemon DeGeorge
An Electro-Ambient group creating music to explore the Universe  More...

Fri 7/19 2:00 PM KFJC 89.7 FM [12345 S. El Monte Road Los Altos Hills]
Polly Moller Springhorn's Tomography Fortunae
Friday July 19 2-6PM
Composer/improviser/performer Polly Moller Springhorn previews "Tomography Fortunae" live in the KFJC pit in advance of its premiere at the Outsound New Music Summit. Grawer hosts.

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Fri 7/19 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Thumbscrew featuring Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara, and Michael Formanek
Thursday, July 18 & Friday, July 19, 7:00pm & 8:30pm, SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab
A power-trio composer’s project made up of in-demand bandleaders Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara, and Michael Formanek.  More...

Fri 7/19 7:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
gabby fluke-mogul, Jacob Felix Heule, and Kanoko Nishi-Smith (violin/bass drum/koto)
Dean Santomieri/Thea Farhadian Duo (guitar/violin)  More...

Fri 7/19 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
A Circle Has No Beginning by Sameer Gupta  More...

Fri 7/19 7:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
Neel Murgai - sitar, voice, loops. A member of the Brooklyn Raga Massive makes his solo debut in the bay area.
4 course vegan meal featuring masumoto farm peachess to go with the concert  More...

Fri 7/19 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
SUN RA ARKESTRA: SPACE IS THE PLACE
FEATURE FILM W/ LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT  More...

Sat 7/20 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl
Saturday, July 20, 7:00pm & 8:30pm & Sunday, July 21, 6:00pm & 7:30pm, SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab  More...

Sat 7/20 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Sun Ra Arkestra  More...

Sat 7/20 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Latitudes: Robert A. A. Lowe | IMA | Chris Duncan

On the next installment of Latitudes, Other Minds teams up with the SF Art Book Fair to present vocalist/composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, dronesmith Chris Duncan, and the electronics and percussion duo IMA at the San Francisco Center for New Music.  More...

Sat 7/20 8:00 PM Art Boutiki [44 Race St, San Jose, CA 95126]
A twin bill of jazz groups comes to Art Boutiki

Headlining will be Shay Salhov with his always inventive Quartet, this time featuring Dahveed Behroozi , Nick Panoutsos and Jason Lewis.

Opening the night will be a quartet put together by NYC based piano player Alon Nechushtan. All About Jazz magazine called Alon “A fantastic pianist-composer with abundant chemistry and boundless eclectisism”, while DownBeat Magazine recognizes “A talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and bold,two-fisted sense of Architecture. Backing up Alon will be Tyler Harlow and Dillon Vado of Never Weather fame.  More...

Sun 7/21 11:00 AM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Fusing Middle Eastern Musical Elements with Jazz with Alon Nechushtan - a workshop for musicians, about the options middle eastern music has over Jazz and improvisation.  More...

Sun 7/21 4:00 PM Oak Town Workshops [55 Washington St Oakland]
" A talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and bold, two-fisted sense of Architecture" -(Down Beat magazine 2011)- Pianist and composer Alon Nechushtan will be bringing to Oak Town Workshops a trio of fantastic improvisers with a loose-tight chemistry placing a premium on group interplay and at the same time encouraging individual solo expression. –Bill Milkowski. The group is gearing to release their new album this Spring and will premiere new compositions  More...

Sun 7/21 5:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
18th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
Touch the Gear Expo
Outsound’s signature hands-on, family-friendly expo for all ages for new and experimental music gear and instruments. Free Admission Family & Kid Friendly
Gear Presenters: Amanda Chaudhary, Bryan Day, Cheryl E. Leonard, Colleen Kelly, David Leikam, David Molina, David Samas, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, J. Lee, Jeff Klukowski, Johny Radio, Jorge Bachmann, Michael Mersereau, Peter Whitehead, R. Duck, Stephen Paris, Tom Duff  More...

Sun 7/21 6:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl
Saturday, July 20, 7:00pm & 8:30pm & Sunday, July 21, 6:00pm & 7:30pm, SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab  More...

Sun 7/21 6:30 PM The Honey Hive Gallery [4117 Judah St, San Francisco]
Sato/Weeks/Murray - Alex Cohen - Dancin' Baby TBA  More...

Sun 7/21 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Sun Ra Arkestra  More...

Sun 7/21 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...

Mon 7/22 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: The Out of Bounds Trio (modern jazz)
(Jon Raskin-saxophone)

Set #2: Education Reform (art rock/progressive)
(Shimpei Ogawa: electric bass, Matt Buckner: drums & cymbals, Tyler Dennis: electric piano, Ryan Pate: electric guitar, Aaron Kruziki: vocals, woodwinds & synthesizers)

Set #3: Beauty School (free improvisation)
(Matt Chandler: electric bass, Tom Djll: trumpet/ modular synth, Jacob Heule: drums)  More...

Mon 7/22 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
OAKLAND FREEDOM JAZZ SOCIETY PRESENTS:

Rodrigo Barriga/Sean Keenan duo
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Joel Nelson/Jordan Glenn duo
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Sato/Murray/Weeks trio

9PM
$5-15 SUGGESTED DONATION  More...

Tue 7/23 7:30 PM El Rio [3158 Mission St SF]
Leila Abdul-Rauf, The Voodoo Cabaret, Being Lara Maykovich  More...

Tue 7/23 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
18th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
Free Flowing, a night of original comprovisation
duo B Experimental Band
The 13-member ensemble from Lisa Mezzacappa & Jason Levis exploring the thrilling boundaries between composed and improvised musical worlds!
Social Stutter Quartet
Led by composer/altoist Beth Schenck, they blur the line between strictly written chamber music and soaring free jazz.
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Wed 7/24 7:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
18th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
Rocket, a night of exploratory rock
Gentleman Surfer
Difficult to categorize, they draw upon a wide range of influences, anywhere from Captain Beefheart and King Crimson, to film and video game music, Classical, Jazz, Punk, etc. . .
Vegan Butcher
Led by guitarist John Shiurba assembled to interpret his music and somniloquy. The lyrics are culled from the early-morning, half-asleep ramblings of the composer, while the music employs the signature January Scale.
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Thu 7/25 7:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
18th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
Crossing Borders, a night of ground breaking multimedia performance
Francis Wong & Lenora Lee
Tenor saxophone & Dance
Andrea Centazzo
Original percussion and electronics
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Thu 7/25 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
SYNTH MECHANIQUE – J. Lee / R. Duck /AVA K  More...

Fri 7/26 7:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
18th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
Expanding the Rift, a night of exploratory composition and improvisation
Polly Moller Springhorn's Tomography Fortunae
A three-movement graphic score for seven musicians named Tom
Watkins/Winant
Performing the sensitive relationships between their respective instrumental colors, the two explore radical form, dynamics and timbre in real time.
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Fri 7/26 7:30 PM Kuumbwa [320-2 Cedar Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060]
“One of the most captivating pianists working today,” (Jazz.pt, Portugal) Thollem McDonas has spent his life skirting and erasing the edges of boundaries musically, culturally and geographically. His work is ever-changing, evolving and responding to the times and his experiences, both as a soloist and in collaboration with hundreds of artists across idioms and disciplines. “Thollem is a modern griot who has absorbed sounds from every place he has visited.” (William Parker from Conversations II, Rogue Art  More...

Fri 7/26 8:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
Solos by: Joe Baiza, Matt Ingalls, and Josh Allen  More...

Sat 7/27 6:30 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
Spencer Owen Timeshare, Jordan Glenn's Beak & 3 Leafs  More...

Sat 7/27 7:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
Dinner/concert featuring Sameer Gupta on tabla and Ross Hammond on guitar. 4 course vegan menu featuring Masumoto farm peaches  More...

Sat 7/27 7:00 PM Works/San José [365 South Market Street, San José, CA 95113]
Musician/composer Thollem McDonas and video artist ACVilla are returning to their old tromping grounds with their newest work-in-progress, The Now Of US. Also known as Silver Ochre, the duo has launched their second multimedia experience of the U.S. after their 2016 48-state odyssey, Who Are US. This time, the focus is on the immediacy of present-day America through murals and collaborative music. Thollem and ACVilla will be presenting a 15 minute piece created during their residency this year in New Mexico along with a short interview with Albuquerque-based Nani Chacon, a Diné/Chicana muralist, and new raw footage.  More...

Sat 7/27 7:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
18th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
Spontaneous, a celebration of fiery expression and freedom
Vinny Golia Quartet
Presenting a rich heritage of Jazz, contemporary classical and world music into his own unique compositions.
Rent Romus' Deciduous feat. Keith Kelly
An ongoing multi regional project by SF Bay Area saxophonist Rent Romus based on the mutual bridging of those who share a creative tenacity, history and transitory nature of improvisation.
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Sat 7/27 9:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St SF]
This Is Not This Heat w/ Bill Orcutt  More...

Sun 7/28 2:00 PM Badarikashrama [15602 Maubert Avenue San Leandro, CA 94578]
Meerabai Music Festival - Celebrating Saint Meerabai's life's journey through her poetry, and set to music composed by Rita Sahai.  More...

Sun 7/28 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Elder Ones

Elder Ones' music is very influenced by free jazz, Indian music and the classical avant-garde.  More...

Sun 7/28 8:00 PM Dildo Factory [Berkeley]
BRUTAL SOUND EFFECTS FESTIVAL #86
Bran...pos---
Ma++ Ingalls---
Headboggle in Wrongchair Sulphurcider---
Fluorescent Grey----
Failure Cock---
Temoleh (Robidoux/Cordova/Corder) ---
Mas Coad---  More...