Thu 8/11 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Pamela Z @ BAMPFA: Full  More...

Thu 8/11 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Lia Kohl (Chicago)
Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice  More...

Fri 8/12 6:30 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
This artist talk kicks off Impact Art AT, a creative exchange that utilizes community-driven digital and new media art projects to explore and address the social challenge of bias in artificial intelligence. Claudia Larcher will take us on a journey into the mind of an artist wrestling with the implications of applying biased models to the increasingly automated world we inhabit.

RSVP here: https://grayarea.org/event/claudia-larcher/?utm_source=meetup  More...

Fri 8/12 8:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
Chicago-based cellist and composer LIA KOHL performs material from her most recent solo album, a continuous soundscape of cello, live radio, synthesizers, and field recordings.

Oakland-based BRENDAN GLASSON performs a series of pieces for solo reed organ.  More...

Sun 8/14 4:00 PM Salesforce Park [425 Mission St San Francisco]
Rova Saxophone Quartet at Salesforce Park  More...

Sun 8/14 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
SIMM Series - Eki Shola Duo, Amanda Chaudhary Solo  More...

Tue 8/16 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
Jazz at the Make-Out Room (formerly the Monday Make-Out) continues! A wily evening of cutting-edge jazz, free improvisation, and creative music.

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Doors: 6pm / Show: 7pm
No Cover/Donations Accepted
Proof of vaccination + masks required

Featuring:
7pm Levitator Trio (Mark Clifford - vibraphone, Safa Shokrai - bass, Kjell Nordeson - drums)

8pm Reotrio (Donald Robinson - drums, Karl Evangelista - guitar, Larry Ochs - sax)  More...

Tue 8/16 7:00 PM Salesforce Park [425 Mission St Main Plaza San Francisco]
Citta di Vitti

Phillip Greenlief
Lisa Mezzacappa
Jason Levis  More...

Wed 8/17 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
LSG New Music Series - Jordan Glenn/David Katz Duo, Charles Sharp Ensemble, Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble performing Bolsa Chica Calm  More...

Thu 8/18 6:00 PM San Francisco Asian Art Museum [200 Larkin St San Francisco]
Sound/scapes: Theresa Wong

On-site at the museum

Cellist/vocalist Theresa Wong performs new work inspired by artworks in the collection.

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Thu 8/18 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street San Francisco, 94109]
The World According to Sound live show is coming to Audium! Listen to recordings from across the globe, through 176 speakers in total darkness.  More...

Fri 8/19 4:00 PM Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium [1313 Newell Road Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Rova Saxophone Quartet with Thollem McDonas

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Fri 8/19 8:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
Visiting from Japan, violinist CHIKO performs a set of 20th century classics by Morton Feldman, Toru Takemitsu, Igor Stravinsky, Astor Piazolla, and Ennio Morricone

Improvisations by Lorin Benedict and Ron Heglin - Two vocalists, improvising together, each of whom sings in his own invented language.

THE MOSSWOOD IMPROVISATION GROUP, a collection of local improvising musicians, closes with a set of free improvisation.  More...

Sat 8/20 2:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond branch [351 9th Ave, SF, CA 94118]
Sounds played outdoors live on sand, shells, stones and seaweed mix with recordings from California’s coastline in a musical performance by Cheryl E. Leonard.  More...

Sat 8/20 6:30 PM School of Arts and Culture at the Mexican Heritage Plaza [1700 Alum Rock Avenue San Jose, CA 95116]
Films of ACVilla with live sound by Thollem McDonas

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Sat 8/20 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Tim Daisy Quartet w/Phillip Greenlief - Lisa Mezzacappa - Kyle Bruckmann  More...

Sat 8/20 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Join us for SMARTBOMB x LOUD CINEMA, an audio/visual experience across time.

This one-of-a-kind live event will premiere select features from the public access broadcast series VIDEO HOME SYSTEM 6, alongside a collage of 20th century experimental shorts, modern scores, animations, performance, music videos, and more. A curatorial collaboration between SMARTBOMB and Loud Cinema. 20th century film courtesy of The New American Cinema Group, Inc./The Film-Makers' Cooperative. Generously supported by Awesome Foundation.

Tickets here: https://grayarea.org/event/smartbomb-x-loud-cinema/?utm_source=meetup  More...

Sun 8/21 2:00 PM Mitchell Park Bowl [600 East Meadow Dr Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Sticklerphonics (Amendola, Garabedian, Lubin-Laden)  More...

Thu 8/25 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street San Francisco]
The World According to Sound live show is coming to Audium! Listen to recordings from across the globe, through 176 speakers in total darkness.  More...

Thu 8/25 8:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [272 Capp St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
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Resident is a monthly electronic audiovisual open mic event started in 2017. It is held on the 4th THURSDAY of the month at Noisebridge. 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.

Now in person at Noisebridge!! https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Resident_Electronic_Music

Setup for performers starts at 7pm, show starts at 8 pm.  More...

Fri 8/26 6:30 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
San Francisco Cinematheque & Gray Area present Crossroads 2022

3 Day Festival. Click for details  More...

Fri 8/26 7:15 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
A tribute to TOM NUNN with GHOST IN THE HOUSE and friends -- !! EARLY START TIME !!  More...

Fri 8/26 9:30 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
CROSSROADS 2022 program 2: table of the elements  More...

Sat 8/27 2:00 PM Mission Synths [Mission Synths 3026 24th Street San Francisco]
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In celebration of SONG, a group exhibition on view at Creativity Explored, join the CE community with musician and composer Matt Robidoux at Mission Synths for an interactive music-making workshop using adaptive technologies and instruments.

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Sat 8/27 6:00 PM Mr Tipples Recording Studio [39 Fell St San Francisco]
Lisa Mezzacappa Quartet  More...

Sat 8/27 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Join Giacomo Fiore, Danny Clay, and Jon Fischer to celebrate the release of *turntable drawing no. 16;* the evening will include a live performance of the piece, an exhibit of homemade records, and a turntable petting zoo.  More...

Sun 8/28 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Charles Celeste Hutchins joins us from London to perform his mangled algorave mashups. James Fei and John Bischoff perform in duo on laptop and analog circuitry. Their seething, only-slightly-predictable complex of sounds driven by individual action, machine interjection, and event patterning culled from the instantaneous flow of data.  More...

Thu 9/01 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street San Francisco]
The World According to Sound live show is coming to Audium! Listen to recordings from across the globe, through 176 speakers in total darkness.  More...

Fri 9/02 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Closing reception for Lisa Coon's Window Gallery exhibit Sounding Structures! David Samas moderates the artist discussion!!  More...

Fri 9/02 7:00 PM Jupiter [2181 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley]
DOUBLESTROKE  More...

Fri 9/02 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Nathan Clevenger Group / Music for Solo Instrumentalists  More...

Fri 9/02 8:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
DEL SOL STRING QUARTET plays music by
ANDREW RODRIGUEZ, deVON RUSSELL GRAY , DU YUN , and JULIUS EASTMAN  More...

Sun 9/04 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. Donations for the venue rental are encouraged.

Masks required! Musicians may unmask while playing. Please stay home if you are sick or believe you may have been exposed.  More...

Wed 9/07 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
LSG New Music Series - Hoyte/Lloyd duo (guitar/bass/electronics), Peter Nyboer (electronics/film)  More...

Thu 9/08 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street San Francisco]
The World According to Sound live show is coming to Audium! Listen to recordings from across the globe, through 176 speakers in total darkness.  More...

Thu 9/08 7:00 PM Balboa Theater [3630 Balboa St SF]
Resonant frequencies 037

Resonant Frequencies is a monthly open mic night specifically for Experimental Electronic Musicians and Composers, accompanied by live Visual Synthesis with a focus on real time generation and performance.  More...

Thu 9/08 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
BILL FRISELL RESIDENCY
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Thu 9/08 9:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Negativland & SUE-C
We Can Really Feel Like We’re Here  More...

Fri 9/09 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Guitarist Angel Blanco presents music/information regarding legendary Mexican composers Augusto Novaro & Julian Carrillo and his own music!  More...

Fri 9/09 8:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
Karl Evangelista and Lewis Jordan perform improvisations for saxophone and guitar.
Newly relocated to Berkeley, ALEX HEIGL performs works for guitar & electronics influenced by La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros.  More...

Sat 9/10 3:30 PM Re:Sound Mare Island Building 34 [1024 Nimitz Avenue Vallejo, CA, 94592]
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Glochids
Danishta Rivero
Alexandra Buschman - Román

Saturday September 10, 2022
Doors are at 3:30 and show starts at 4:00 pm
1024 Nimitz Building 34
Vallejo CA, 94592 Coordinates: 38.098466,-122.2694642

Tickets $15 - $20 donation

Please wear a mask and bring proof of vaccination.
Please bring a chair or blanket to sit on. Food and drink are available at Mare Island Coal Shed a half mile up the waterfront and there is a distillery right across building 34.  More...

Sat 9/10 8:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Touch Bass is a collaboration of choreographer Risa Jaroslow with bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa, featuring three dancers, three bassists, and three double basses in an exploration of our physical and emotional vulnerabilities. It uses the fragility of a big, beautiful string instrument as a metaphor for our own real and imagined limitations.  More...

Sat 9/10 8:00 PM Grace Cathedral [1100 California St San Francisco]
Sarah Davachi

Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Canada) is a composer and performer whose work is concerned with the close intricacies of timbral and temporal space, utilizing extended durations and considered harmonic structures that emphasize gradual variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and tuning and intonation. Her compositions span both solo and chamber ensemble formats, incorporating a wide range of acoustic and electronic instrumentation. Similarly informed by minimalist and long-form tenets, early music concepts of intervallic and modal harmony, as well as experimental production practices of the electroacoustic studio environment, in her sound is an intimate and patient experience that lessens perceptions of the familiar and the distant.  More...

Sun 9/11 2:00 PM Mira Theatre Guild [Mira Theatre Guild, 51 Daniels Ave, Vallejo, CA]
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Ting Luo: POETIC MOVE - Piano Concert with Multimedia this Sunday in Vallejo - Mira Theatre Guild
Works include classical and contemporary piano repertoires from Beethoven to Philip Glass, and new compositions with immersive visuals by composers Jean Ahn, and Danny Clay, and visual artists Jo Ho and Charles Woodman, etc.
And a few original piano pieces from 'Green' by Ting, based on the theme of healing.  More...

Sun 9/11 4:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Touch Bass is a collaboration of choreographer Risa Jaroslow with bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa, featuring three dancers, three bassists, and three double basses in an exploration of our physical and emotional vulnerabilities. It uses the fragility of a big, beautiful string instrument as a metaphor for our own real and imagined limitations.  More...

Sun 9/11 4:00 PM Salesforce Park [425 Mission St Main Plaza San Francisco]
Ben Goldberg's new trio, Jewish Leftist Intellectual, performs in the open-air Salesforce Park. The trio consists of Ben Goldberg on clarinet, rob reich on accordion, and Daniel Fabricant on acoustic bass. Concert is free.  More...

Wed 9/14 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Sult (Jacob Felix Heule + 2 people from Norway)

Matt Robidoux

Sally Decker  More...

Thu 9/15 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Bruce Ackley & Karen Stackpole
Karen Stackpole deep gong practicioner together with Bruce Ackely, founding member of Rova Saxophone Quartet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH8pW9_h-kQ

Amy Reed
Video projections and prepared guitar improvised live right before your very mind by Amy Melissa Reed, Native (Yo'eme), Queer, California Painter, and Improviser anchored in ecology, peace and community building.
https://sites.google.com/view/amymelissareed/

Hyères
Luciano Chessa, composer, performance artist and author of a book-length music history, "Luigi Russolo Futurist: Noise, Visual Arts & the Occult" enters the Peacock Lounge with a new project, Hyères. He may be known for huge performances, pipe organ pieces, operatic scale works, collaborations with Blixa Bargeld, Ellen Fullman, Pauline Oliveros and the like, but this is a rare chance to hear him in a small setting. He may come forth with sleigh bells, hearing aids and a megaphone or maybe with a virtual Aardvark Synth washing across acoustic guitar as his psychfolk baritone vocals resonate in, of course, Italian. However he shows, you'll marvel at where this goes.
https://www.lucianochessa.com/performance-videos/

Sult
Jacob Felix Heule has friends in cold places, when they cross the Atlantic we warm them on audience-heat inside the Peacock Lounge. Contrabass, guitar and bass drum are magnified by microphone and focused back onto the audience, a feedback loop of spreading intensity as subtle harmonics combust, scorching the floor, softening metal, licking the rafters 'til the room is no skin, all smiles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP6uz7V9vw4  More...

Thu 9/15 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music. For this show, Stone performs a solo set and is also joined by experimental video-cartographer Eric Theise in a premiere duo collaboration. Santa Cruz / Oakland trio MAXX GYORKEL opens with a new project.  More...

Fri 9/16 8:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Sarah Cahill performs a piano recital in the intimacy of a house concert located in the North Berkeley Hills. Performance will include works by Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Frederic Rzewski, Agi Jambor and Arlene Sierra. The home can accommodate up to 30 people. All attendees will be required to be masked for the duration of the concert, and proof of full vaccination will be required. For further information, and to reserve a seat, please contact the event host at: Harry@fullplatemedia.com.  More...

Fri 9/16 8:00 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2253 Poplar St Oakland]
Brett Carson's new song cycle "The Secret Life of the Paramecium" is an audiovisual voyage through 22 microbiological vignettes based on the Major Arcana of Tarot.  More...

Fri 9/16 8:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
A rare chance to hear the reconvening of Larry Ochs'S (saxophones) stellar quartet with Darren Johnston (trumpet), MADALYN MERKEY (electronics), Tim Perkis (electronics), and special guest Kjell Nordeson (percussion). If the 2019 and 2020 and 2021 quartet shows are any indication of how high this music can take both the listeners and the musicians, expect a set of healing-force music this Friday evening.

B DAY and S GLASS, two well-established virtuosos of collage, cobblecore, and clutter-clobber come together for full of tactile toybox sound-worlds, warbling electronic transmissions, and surreal environmental invasions.  More...

Fri 9/16 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
The 21st Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival  More...

Sat 9/17 5:00 PM Mission Synths [3026 24th St. 94110 San Francisco, CA, US]
/imagine Trovarsi playing modular synthesizer techno with friends  More...

Sat 9/17 6:00 PM First Presbyterian San Anselmo [72 Kensington Road San Anselmo, CA 94960]
Outdoor and indoor concert of Brazilian music with visiting composers Lea Freire and Felipe Senna, in San Anselmo on Septmber 17.  More...

Sat 9/17 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Levitator - Shokrai/Johnston/Nordeson  More...

Sat 9/17 8:00 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2253 Poplar St Oakland]
Brett Carson's new song cycle "The Secret Life of the Paramecium" is an audiovisual voyage through 22 microbiological vignettes based on the Major Arcana of Tarot.  More...

Sat 9/17 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
The 21st Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival  More...

Sun 9/18 8:00 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
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SIMM Series - Ghost Dub PDK Polly Springhorn, David Michalak, Karen Stackpole)
Kevin Robinson's KREation (Theresa Wong-Cello, Jordan Glenn, Kevin Robinson)  More...

Sun 9/18 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
The 21st Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival  More...

Tue 9/20 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
Jazz at the Make-Out Room (formerly the Monday Make-Out): A wily evening of cutting-edge jazz, free improvisation, and creative music.

7pm Beth Custer/Ben Goldberg Duo

7:45pm Matt Robidoux's cobwork
(Matt Robidoux - corn synth, Roco Córdova - voice, Jose Solares - saxophone, Zekarias Thompson - saxophone, Cole Pulice - saxophone, Michelle Lee - flute)

8:30pm Trio
(Raffi Garabedian - saxophone, Ben Goldberg - clarinet, Danny Lubin-Ladin - trombone)  More...

Tue 9/20 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and the Thea Farhadian/Tim Perkis duo.  More...

Wed 9/21 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
LSG New Music Series - TriUnity Saxophone Trio (Rent Romus, Zae Tinaza, Tom Weeks)
A triumvirate of alto saxophonists
Eurostache (a project centering around electro-acoustic real-time collaborative experiments in sound)  More...