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.

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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.
https://soundcloud.com/heartworm  More...

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...

Mon 7/29 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones & Dunkelman/Fluke-Mogul/Nishi-Smith  More...

Wed 7/31 8:00 PM Art Boutiki [44 Race Street, San José, CA 95126]
An intense and virtuosic keyboardist” (TimeOut, NY), “Thollem creates a spectacular tapestry of different colored sounds reflecting his awareness, study and assimilation of countless influences” (Joan Jeanrenaud, Composer, Cellist, Kronos Quartet 1978-98). “He’s absolutely mesmerizing... unleashing cascades of notes of seemingly impossible velocity and no matter where he goes tonally, it always seems right, fresh and satisfying” (Terry Riley). "Thollem is a modern griot who has absorbed sounds from every place he has visited.” (William Parker), “…bringing wide-ranging expression and invention to everything his restless, nomadic existence comes into contact with. Thollem’s maverick essence is magically evident.” (Nels Cline)  More...

Thu 8/01 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Thollem McDonas + Rova Saxophone Quartet  More...

Thu 8/01 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Benedict/Fluke-Mogul
Lorin Benedict - voice, gabby fluke-mogul - violin
9:00 pm Faults
Jaroba-reeds Jorge Bachmann-electronics Kevin Kevin Corcoran - percussion  More...

Sat 8/03 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Christine Shields & San Kazakgascar  More...

Sat 8/03 8:00 PM Sunnyvale [patricktalesforejr@gmail.com Sunnyvale]
Vinny Golia / Danny Kamins / Garrett Wingfield in Sunnyvale  More...

Sat 8/03 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Do-Over Music Series #8: Winant directs John Zorn's COBRA
A super rare Zorn-authorized public performance of his seminal game piece, COBRA, performed by an all-star Bay Area band, conducted by William Winant.
gabby fluke-mogul, violin
Michiko Theurer, violin
Danielle DeGruttola, cello
Allyson Baker, guitar
John Schott, guitar
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Kanoko Nishi-Smith, koto
Brett Carson, keyboard
Miles Wick, electric bass
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass
Nava Dunkelman, percussion
Jordan Glenn, drums
Jason Levis, drums
Madalyn Merkey, electronics  More...

Sun 8/04 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Pianists Angela Passos and Mayer Goldenberg perform solo and duo works for piano by Brazilian composers and the works that influenced them.  More...

Mon 8/05 8:30 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music

Set #1: The Holly Martins (modern jazz/improvisation)
Set #2: Jason Levis Septet (modern jazz)
Set #3: Feral Luggage (null wave free improvisation)  More...

Mon 8/05 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Hodel/Glenn/Pek & Dynes Trio  More...

Tue 8/06 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
The California Jazz Conservatory's Way Out West concert series presents an evening with New Zombies, performing one long set of original instrumental compositions. The Way Out West series provides composer-performers from the Bay Area and beyond with a showcase for forward-looking original work in jazz and related genres.  More...

Wed 8/07 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Cornelius Boots’ 45th Birthday Bash: Solo Shakuhachi Plus Guests  More...

Wed 8/07 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
A night of experimental music w/ Scott Amendola/Phillip Greenlief/Thomas Dimuzio- acoustic/electric/electronic - solo-duo-trio at Ivy Room  More...

Thu 8/08 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Ted Moore & Tom Weeks  More...

Thu 8/08 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Pate/Jamieson
Ryan Pate - guitar, Andrew Jamieson - keyboard
KREation Ensemble
Kevin Robinson - saxophones
Maryclare Bryztwa - Flute
Lee Hodel - Bass
Tongo Eisen-Martin - spoken word  More...

Fri 8/09 9:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Raffi Garabedian Quartet with Richard Sears, Miles Wick, & Tim Buckley  More...

Fri 8/09 9:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Charlie Hunter & Lucy Woodward — Music!Music!Music!
Ivy Room and Guitar Player Magazine Present
Charlie Hunter & Lucy Woodward — Music!Music!Music!
FRI 8.9
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm  More...

Sat 8/10 7:00 PM Lighthouse Park / Surfer Museum [701 West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz, Ca]
Feast of Beams, Keepers of Light is an evening of performances and processions guided by vocalist and composer Carmina Escobar, Indexical’s 2019 Artist-in-Residence. Join us on August 10th from 7:00-8:30pm at Lighthouse Point Park on West Cliff Drive where the performances and processionals will converge. Escobar explores the lighthouse as a beacon that brings Santa Cruz’s diverse sub-communities together to form a holistic sense of communitas. The event is free and open to the public.  More...

Sat 8/10 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Mukta Raste: Horizons of Tabla w/ harpist Jennifer Ellis  More...

Sat 8/10 8:00 PM Private House Concert [.Harry@fullplatemedia.com]
The Sibarg Ensemble performs a house concert in the intimate setting of a private home in the Berkeley Hills. The ensemble uses the phrase "creative intercultural music" to describe their interweaving of traditional Iranian music with improvisation from the jazz tradition. The ensemble will combine original composition with arrangements of traditional Persian melodies, folksongs, poetry and structured improvisations. Please contact concert host at Harry@fullplatemedia.com  More...

Sun 8/11 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Roberto Granados: Bay Area Composers Group Concert  More...

Sun 8/11 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 pm Guinea Pig
Tony Passarell - saxophones/brass/percussion, Rent Romus - saxophones/flutes/percussion, Timothy Orr - drums, Robert Kullman - electric bass
8:30 pm Fellow Hominids
Cory Wright - saxophones, John Schott - guitar, John Finkbeiner - guitar, Jordan Glenn - drums  More...

Mon 8/12 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Cohen/Burchett/Junior Mint Prince  More...

Tue 8/13 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 8/13 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- Dolphin (Lefebvre, MacLeod, Nordile)
- Gabby Wen
- Dirt & Copper  More...

Wed 8/14 8:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St SF]
BDaSMr
The "whisper disco" duo of Sharkiface and bran(...)pos, whose brutally loving expertise will unlock your triggers and your trapdrawers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXp0hTkXiks

Suki O'Kane
Movement theater and durational performance, dripping Jurassic electronics, a bass drum painted with moving images, masterful restraint, and a treasure of sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAeIpv9DKzQ

Anastasia Clarke
An artist whose mastery is expansive, taking on multiple forms, digital, physical, conceptual, and all manner of tools, circuit, space, light, movement.
https://vimeo.com/251883650

Ruby Guides
Deep calling unto deep, two giant squid tangle in the watery dark, Mitchell Brown and Jon Leidecker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O854pSR4C_M  More...

Wed 8/14 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
CHIROMANCER
PG13, Lord Tang  More...

Thu 8/15 7:00 PM The Contemporary Jewish Museum [736 Mission St SF]
Experiments in Sonic Potential: Kyle Bruckmann  More...

Thu 8/15 7:30 PM Balboa Theatre [3630 Balboa St. SF]
Microcosmic Cinema: A Benefit for Canyon Cinema

Kerry Laitala will be presenting four works from her City Luminous Series celebrating the lighting pioneers that gathered just over a century ago at the fabulous Jewel City, a 635-acre monument to impermanence constructed, and soon after, demolished in San Francisco’s Marina district. These include The City Luminous: Spectacle of Light, which recently received an audience choice award at the 2015 Crossroads Film Festival presented by SF Cinematheque, The City Luminous: Electric Salome, Chromatic Wheels, & the San Francisco premiere of her brand-new Figments in Film, Number One.

All of these performances will feature live sound from Oakland’s experimental music duo extraordinaire Voicehandler, made up of Jacob Felix Heule and Danishta Rivero.  More...

Thu 8/15 7:30 PM Spice Monkey [1628 Webster St, Oakland, CA 94612]
Charles Cozart's - The Urban Exapnse - Exploratory, funky, rhythmic highly improvised Jazz in the cut.  More...

Thu 8/15 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Manala Chamber Ensemble
Rent Romus - flutes/alto saxophone, Heikki Koskinen - e-trumpet/tenor recorder, David Samas - voice/percussion, Tom Weeks - alto & baritone saxophones, Safa Shokrai - double bass
Free Sax
Aaron Saul - alto saxophone, Andrew Ferren - tenor saxophone, Brian Rodvien - drums/percussion  More...

Thu 8/15 8:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Grex, Hare and Arrow, Jeweled Snakes

Oakland art rock band Grex comes home to round out its 10th Anniversary Tour. Plus: sublime sights & sounds from improv ensemble Hare and Arrow and the relentless heaviness of electronic duo Jeweled Snakes.

Grex: Karl Evangelista - guitar, voice, percussion, Rei Scampavia - keys, voice, percussion
Hare and Arrow: Motoko Honda - Toy Piano, Theo Padouvas - Trumpet, Michael Noonan - Strings, Shanna Sordahl - Strings, Electronics, Automata, Brian Pedersen - Reeds, Sung Kim - Invented Instruments and Automata  More...

Fri 8/16 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Latitudes: Lubelski & Bassett | Krausbauer & Suzuki  More...

Fri 8/16 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
On the next installment of Latitudes, the duo of Marcia Bassett and Samara Lubelski combine violin and e-bowed guitar in a thick tranquilizing compound. Like a viscous syrup, the slow-moving drones ooze chromatically across their instruments. John Krausbauer and Kaori Suzuki’s existential and ecstatic free-drone music emanates an intense ritualistic vibe—the kind of music that would make a suitably ominous soundtrack to one of Hermann Nitsch’s notorious aktions.  More...

Fri 8/16 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Friction Quartet with Sarah Cahill  More...

Fri 8/16 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th Street (@Capp Street) SF]
evelyn davis, prepared piano; Phillip Greenlief, woodwinds; rashaun mitchell and silas riener, movement - will perform four improvisations for this very special one-time performance at the lab https://www.thelab.org/projects/2019/8/16/rashaun-mitchell-silas-riener-phillip-greenlief-and-evelyn-davis  More...

Sat 8/17 7:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
14th anniversary celebration of the dinner/concert series. 4 course vegan menu featuring Masumoto farm peaches. Mark Dresser - solo bass  More...

Sat 8/17 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Charles Xavier: XBOOM  More...

Sat 8/17 8:00 PM Radius Gallery [1050 River St #127 Santa Cruz]
A night of long-form drones and noise – Marcia Bassett (electric guitar) & Samara Lubelski (amplified violin), showing “just how much brain damage you can do using only a guitar and a violin” (Byron Coley). Santa Cruz artist ordinary blood (Danny Jay) opens the night with gloomy textures on guitars, vocals, bows, synthesizers, and electronics.  More...

Sat 8/17 10:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
David Gordon’s Mysteria Incarnationis  More...

Sun 8/18 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Jeffrey Mosier & Friends  More...

Sun 8/18 4:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
The expansive, improvising duo of Marcia Bassett and Samara Lubelski (NYC) play at the BAM/PFA as part of their tour with Kaori Suzuki and John Krausbauer (Oak), opening as the Ecstatic Music Band at this afternoon performance.  More...

Sun 8/18 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Noertker's Moxie
workshop and live recording session
Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute/Joshua Marshall - tenor sax/Bill Noertker - contrabass/Jordan Glenn - drums  More...

Sun 8/18 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 8/19 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Clarke/Nucci, Matt Weston, & San Kazakgascar  More...

Thu 8/22 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Theresa Wong solo cello & voice
Rodrigo Barriga Quartet: Emily Cardwell, Patrick Talesfore Jr., Ben Westfall  More...

Fri 8/23 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Robert Howard & Kevin Korth  More...

Sat 8/24 6:30 PM Library Of MusicLandria [2181 6th Ave, Sacramento, California 95818]
Synth Trips - Featuring Franck Martin - In an effort to elevate and support the Modular Synth community in Sacramento and beyond, we're hosting a monthly, modular, textural, quadraphonic synth night at MusicLandria!  More...

Sun 8/25 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Daniel Glover  More...

Mon 8/26 8:30 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out II
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

Monday, 8/26, 8pm (8:30pm start)
No Cover/Donations Accepted

Set #1: Steve Blum Solo (electronic/ambient)
Set #2: Tim Bulkley Trio (modern jazz/improvisation)
Set #3: Omree Gal-oz (jazz)  More...

Thu 8/29 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Bill Orcutt + Sult quartet
Rob Magill solo
Car Made of Glass + Devin Nolan quintet  More...

Thu 8/29 7:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
In connection with her participation in San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery’s side by side/in the world exhibition, Pamela Z will present “Other Rooms”, a suite of solo works for voice and electronics performed in a environment of multi-channel, interactive video at The LAB.  More...

Thu 8/29 9:30 PM The Knockout [3223 Mission street San Francisco]
Murder Murder
Ryosuke Kiyasu (Japan)
Solo Organ
Slob  More...

Fri 8/30 6:00 PM Et Al Gallery [620 Kearny St San Francisco, CA 94108]
Katy Cowan & Heidi Howard Closing Reception
Music performances:
Eve Essex
Cranky (Sean Keenan / Jake Parker Scott / Mitch Stahlmann)  More...