Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

CALENDAR

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06/13/2021 - 07/28/2021

Friday, June 18
Fri 6/18 6:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
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CCRMA presents a livestream performance by Thessia Machado in New York City, NY.  More...
Fri 6/18 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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Rova Sax Quartet’s first live performances since the Plague struck will be broadcast On The Airwaves by C4NM. “Set 1” on Friday JUNE 18 at 7PM. SET 2 on Sunday June 20 at 6 PM. Each show is a unique set of pieces, including premieres composed by quartet members and other pieces that will release on ESP-Disk this coming September.  More...
Saturday, June 19
Sat 6/19 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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The Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present a concert of solo works written by its composer members. Admission to the concert is free but donations to NACUSAsf are encouraged. The concert will be followed by a Zoom session with the composers.  More...
Sunday, June 20
Sun 6/20 6:00 PM Sonic Sundays #12 ft. Actias & Toefood [https://twitch.tv/sonicalliance]
Streaming only
A monthly streaming event featuring one to two different artists: live performers or DJs - from the Sonic Alliance community, the Bay Area, and beyond! All genres and style welcome! Pre-recorded performances are sent to Fetz to process the video through analog visual hardware creating a unique visual collaboration to accompany their performance! Tune in, hang out, and discover new music! Experience pre-recorded audio visual performances while supporting up-and-coming artists from the community!  More...
Sun 6/20 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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Rova Sax Quartet’s first live performances since the Plague struck will be broadcast On The Airwaves by C4NM.  More...
Thursday, June 24
Thu 6/24 5:30 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Gray Area is excited to welcome everyone back with "Recombinant Rebound!"This special immersive experience features two decades of work created for the CineChamber, a 360° immersive environment of surround sound, cinema, and sensory strangeness.  More...
Thu 6/24 9:00 PM Internet Streaming [Online]
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THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED

Winston Tong | Lx Rudis | Andre Custodio

The trio of Winston Tong, Lx Rudis, and Andre Custodio perform music of an experimental nature on John the Baptist Day. In addition to Winston’s reading of his interpretation of Charles Baudelaire’s ‘The Flowers of Evil’, LX & André will perform as a duo. Expect the unexpected.

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Friday, June 25
Fri 6/25 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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Larry Ochs (saxophones) & Don Robinson (drums) celebrating the recent release of their second and definitive duo recording, A Civil Right.  More...
Saturday, June 26
Sat 6/26 11:00 AM Internet Streaming [Online]
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Franck Martin - Live from the studio, every Saturday at 11am PST, modular synthesizer, chat, news with Johno Wells  More...
Sat 6/26 7:00 PM Canessa Gallery [708 Montgomery St SF]
For our first show in over a year we are presenting Los Angeles-based sound artist Erin Demastes on her mechanical sound inventions; S. Glass of BLE and GoES on objects, loops, and voice; and Pay Dirt, the duo of Victoria Shen and Bryan Day on homemade noisemakers.

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Sat 6/26 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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Join us online for a journey from Ancient Rome to the Arctic and back, with an hour of new vocal and chamber music exploring stories of creation and change. Bay Area composers Davide Verotta, Kristofer Twadell, Lukáš Janata, Monica Chew and Shawne Workman present pieces for flute and piano, guitar, string quartet, and mixed voices with Persian daf. Online reception to follow.  More...
Sat 6/26 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
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Lost Shapes

Lost Shapes- Mark Clifford, Kjell Nordeson, Safa Shokrai

jazz from the edge of the universe

In person and streaming!

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Wednesday, July 7
Wed 7/07 7:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Recombinant Media Labs & Gray Area & STRRR TV & Minds Over Matter present Recombinant Rebound, featuring the RML CineChamber, a 360° surround adventure in immersive sound, spatial cinema and sensory strangeness. This distinct environment features two decades of panoramic performance created exclusively for the CineChamber, including the premiere of a new solo work in progress by Dimensional Holofonic Sound.
Tickets: https://grayarea.org/recombinant-rebound/  More...
Thursday, July 8
Thu 7/08 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
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Artist Conversation: Redline Redefined
A discussion with artists affiliated with TPG's work-in-progress Redline Redefined, a cultural research project investigating the history and impact of East Bay real estate redlining. Participating artists Sudhu Tewari and Theresa Wong talk about their strategies and process, sharing from their sonic portfolios, and explore issues of equity, community voice, and the responsibilities of the artist in public practice. Moderated by TPG member and project collaborator Suki O'Kane.  More...
Saturday, July 10
Sat 7/10 6:00 PM First Presbyterian Church San Anselmo [72 Kensington Road San Anselmo, CA 94960]
New music by Bay Area composers and other music in San Anselmo on July 10.  More...
Tuesday, July 13
Tue 7/13 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
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Resident is a monthly electronic audiovisual open mic event started in 2017. It is held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at The Laundry. Resident is casual and cool, and the community you'll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in the Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas. Due to restrictions, this show will only be streamed online, do not come to the Laundry  More...
Thursday, July 15
Thu 7/15 6:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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Phillip Greenlief discussed his work with Window Gallery guest Jon Raskin. This program will be streamed via our YouTube channel on 7/15/21 at 6:30.  More...
Thu 7/15 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
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Artist Conversation & Performance Showcase

Ensemble Pandemic Practices

Part storytelling, part radio show, part cinema, TPG brings together local ensembles who developed physically distanced and virtual practices in order to meet the need to make music with others during a global pandemic. Featuring Lisa Mezzacappa and Jason Levis (dBxB Large Ensemble), Paige Sorvillo, Kevin Corcoran and others.  More...
Saturday, July 17
Sat 7/17 11:00 AM Internet Streaming [Online]
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Franck Martin - Live from the studio, every Saturday at 11am PST, modular synthesizer, chat, news with Chris Meyer / Alias Zone  More...
Sunday, July 18
Sun 7/18 6:00 PM Sonic Sundays #13 ft. Handy J [https://twitch.tv/sonicalliance]
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A monthly streaming event featuring one to two different artists: live performers or DJs - from the Sonic Alliance community, the Bay Area, and beyond! All genres and styles are welcome! Pre-recorded performances are sent to Fetz to process the video through analog visual hardware creating a unique visual collaboration to accompany their performance! Tune in, hang out, and discover new music! Experience pre-recorded audio visual performances while supporting up-and-coming artists from the community!  More...
Thursday, July 22
Thu 7/22 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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Norman Tuck will be discussing his work with Window Gallery curator Bart Hopkin. Richard Marriot will also demonstrate Norman’s Rod Guitar.  More...
Friday, July 23
Fri 7/23 5:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
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Diane Grubbe performs 20th and 21st Century works for flutes by Mario Lavista, Andrew M. Rodriguez, Orlando Jacinto Garciá and Miguel del Águila. The concert will include a discussion with Mr. Rodriguez about his work, "Highways," for flute with glissando headjoint.  More...
Fri 7/23 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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Pianist-composer Jared Redmond returns to the Center for New Music, performing a program of contemporary works for piano including music by Beat Furrer, Wolfgang Rihm, Kaija Saariaho, Elliott Carter, and the US premiere of Sebastian Claren's "Sex" (1996).  More...
Saturday, July 24
Sat 7/24 11:00 AM Internet Streaming [Online]
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Franck Martin - Live from the studio, every Saturday at 11am PST, modular synthesizer, chat, news with electric.kitchen  More...
Sat 7/24 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
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Rova Saxophone Quartet

Presenting new work percolating over the course of the pandemic, and recent pieces soon to be released on our forthcoming ESP-disk’ CD, The Circumference of Reason.

Join Rova in-person for our first live concert in 18 months or join us by live-stream on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel.  More...
Sunday, July 25
Sun 7/25 7:00 AM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
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Description
July 25, 7AM-8PM PDT (preceded by 14-hour livestream performance)

Durational Works

Within A Day and Sound of Wave in Channel

Two pieces created in 2021 by TPG and special guests. Within a Day is a six-hour stream of film and music created to reacquaint the ensemble post-lockdown, and features the films of TPG member Keith Evans in a touching homecoming. Sound of Wave in Channel is a 14-hour work created with poet Stephen Ratcliffe in the theater of BAM/PFA and features local musicians, composers, and movement artists, including Rae Diamond, Kevin Corcoran, Paige Sorvillo, and others.  More...
Tuesday, July 27
Tue 7/27 8:30 PM Palace of Fine Arts [3601 Lyon St San Francisco]
Phillip Greenlief and alto saxophonist Nora Stanley at the palace of fine arts rotunda (near the pond)  More...