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CALENDAR

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08/10/2019 - 09/24/2019

Saturday, August 10
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...
Sunday, August 11
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...
Monday, August 12
Mon 8/12 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Cohen/Burchett/Junior Mint Prince  More...
Tuesday, August 13
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...
Wednesday, August 14
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...
Thursday, August 15
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...
Friday, August 16
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...
Saturday, August 17
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...
Sunday, August 18
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...
Monday, August 19
Mon 8/19 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Clarke/Nucci, Matt Weston, & San Kazakgascar  More...
Thursday, August 22
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...
Friday, August 23
Fri 8/23 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Robert Howard & Kevin Korth  More...
Saturday, August 24
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...
Sunday, August 25
Sun 8/25 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Daniel Glover  More...
Monday, August 26
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...
Thursday, August 29
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...
Friday, August 30
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...
Saturday, August 31
Sat 8/31 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Tom Hall, Scott Arford, and Jorge Bachmann  More...
Sunday, September 1
Sun 9/01 4:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery Street SF - walking distance from glen park BART station]
bird and beckett books presents: SOCIAL STUTTER - elizabeth schenck, alto saxophone, compositions; kasey knudsen, alto saxophone; phillip greenlief, tenor saxophone; cory wright, tenor and baritone saxophones - plays music of beth schenck - the quartet will play two sets, starting at 4:30 pm  More...
Monday, September 2
Mon 9/02 8:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

Set #1: Practitioner (duo treatments of the music of Steve Lacy)
(Ben Goldberg-clarinet, Michael Coleman-keyboard)

Set #2: Poncho Poncho (jazz pop)
Saki Minamimoto-voice, with Robert Woods-LaDue, Karl Evangelista, Robert Lopez, & Ben Goldberg

Set #3: Fluke-Mogul/Mezzacppa/Glenn (free improvisation)
(gabby fluke-mogul-violin, Lisa Mezzacappa-bass, Jordan Glenn-drums)  More...
Tuesday, September 3
Tue 9/03 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Fellow Hominids is the most recent project of saxophonist and composer Cory Wright, featuring jazz and improv veterans John Schott and John Finkbeiner on guitars and Jordan Glenn on drums. The compositions run the gamut from meditative and minimal to sharply tailored grooves to blunderbuss attacks - a piece might provide a wide open field, a tight rope, or a wrestling pit for the group's interactions. These four Bay Area musicians have played together in a wide variety of settings and configurations over the past 15 years and a feeling of camaraderie and playfulness informs all of the band's impulses and musical decisions.  More...
Wednesday, September 4
Wed 9/04 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
PRACTITIONER - Ben Goldberg and Michael Coleman

explore the music of Steve Lacy  More...
Wed 9/04 8:00 PM Jupiter [2181 Shattuck Ave Berkeley, CA 94704]
Free improvisational acoustic roots + blues with John Rybak + Friends @ Jupiter in Berkeley this Wed 9.4 8-11PM!  More...
Thursday, September 5
Thu 9/05 6:30 PM Honey Hive Gallery [4117 Judah St SF]
Crude Drawings / Sarah Lockhart / Dylan and Lee  More...
Friday, September 6
Fri 9/06 6:30 PM Honey Hive Gallery [4117 Judah St SF]
I.o , Murder Murder , Earth Jerks, and Rodrigo Barriga Quartet at the Honey Hive Gallery SF  More...
Fri 9/06 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Do-Over Music Series #9: The Jordan Glenn Party + Beth Schenck  More...
Sunday, September 8
Sun 9/08 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Greg Kelley (Seattle) + Chris Cooper + Danishta Rivero + Jacob Felix Heule quartet
Zachary James Watkins
Glands Of External Secretion  More...
Sun 9/08 8:00 PM Peralta Annex [3003 Peralta St Oakland, CA]
Amendola trio & The Dirty Snack Ensemble  More...
Monday, September 9
Mon 9/09 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
John Morgan & Jordan Glenn  More...
Tuesday, September 10
Tue 9/10 7:00 PM San Jose Peace and Justice Center [48 South 7th Street San Jose CA 95112]
Patrick Talesfore, Jr. and i.o (Canada)  More...
Tue 9/10 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
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. 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 9/10 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- Velox Humm (Scott Amendola + Lenny Gonzalez)
- Suki O'Kane
- Aaron Oppenheim  More...
Wednesday, September 11
Wed 9/11 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Two guitar-y duos:
Henry Kaiser & Mike Baggetta (two guitars)
Joel Nelson & Jordan Glenn (guitar and percussion)  More...
Thursday, September 12
Thu 9/12 8:00 PM Envelop SF [The Midway at 900 Marin St, SF CA]
SFEMF announces its 20th Anniversary Festival dedicated to groundbreaking electronic music. With one evening of fixed media multi-channel sound works and three nights of live performances featuring a diverse cadre of internationally renowned and emerging composers. The festival will begin at Envelop SF, a next-generation immersive audio venue. This concert will present fixed media works by Amy X Neuburg, Jim O’Rourke and Italian duo My Cat Is An Alien. The festival continues with live performances Friday through Sunday at Brava Theater Center.  More...
Friday, September 13
Fri 9/13 6:00 PM Design By Cosmic [115 Cooper St., Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA 95060]
Catherine Provenzano: “Pitch Correction Software and Vocal Ecology”

Musicologist Catherine Provenzano examines how pitch correction software Auto-Tune and Melodyne reify racial and gender stereotypes, including their development and use in US Top 40 and hip-hop music. Provenzano draws from interviews she conducted with software developers, audio engineers, music producers, and artists in Los Angeles, New York, Silicon Valley, and Germany. This event is part of a series of Digital Alchemy Talks at Design By Cosmic, probing the intellectual and ideological histories of art and technology.  More...
Fri 9/13 7:30 PM Oakland Technical High School [4351 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611 Auditorium Entrance on 42nd Street]
“Watershed” is a collection of six new pieces composed by Ted Allen for the Incendiary Cycle, an ongoing creative music project for four horns, electronics and percussion. The Incendiary Cycle is an evolving set of reflections on the dynamic relationships between people, industry, and nature in California.  More...
Fri 9/13 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Omri Shimron – Metamorphosis

Omri Shimron explores the idea of transformation through works by J. S. Bach, Philip Glass, Franz Schubert, and Menachem Weisenberg.  More...
Fri 9/13 8:00 PM Brava Theater Center [2781 24th St, San Francisco, CA]
SFEMF announces its 20th Anniversary Festival dedicated to groundbreaking electronic music. With one evening of fixed media multi-channel sound works and three nights of live performances featuring a diverse cadre of internationally renowned and emerging composers, the festival will begin at Envelop SF, a next-generation immersive audio venue and continue at Brava Theater Center with live performances Friday through Sunday. Friday evening artists: Maggi Payne, Joel St. Julien, and MSHR.  More...
Saturday, September 14
Sat 9/14 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St SF]
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KROB
Sarah Elena Palmer
Ape Parts
Earspray
Linoleum Dicks  More...
Sat 9/14 4:30 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118]
Thomas Dimuzio will be playing a Buchla modular synthesizer for this performance.  More...
Sat 9/14 7:00 PM Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture [2 Marina Blvd SF]
On September 14, SF Contemporary Music Players open their 2019-2020 season with a stunning assembly of forces for the world premiere of a new, concert-length, site-responsive work by Bang On A Can founding composer Michael Gordon with special guests Roomful of Teeth, and Splinter Reeds.  More...
Sat 9/14 7:30 PM Fifth Street Farms [1517 Fifth Street Berkeley, CA]
Theresa Wong - Solo voice and cello

Click for required reservations  More...
Sat 9/14 8:00 PM Brava Theater Center [2781 24th St, San Francisco, CA]
SFEMF announces its 20th Anniversary Festival dedicated to groundbreaking electronic music. With one evening of fixed media multi-channel sound works and three nights of live performances featuring a diverse cadre of internationally renowned and emerging composers, the festival will begin at Envelop SF, a next-generation immersive audio venue and continue at Brava Theater Center with live performances Friday through Sunday. Saturday evening artists: John Weise, Dohee Lee, and Marc Kate  More...
Sat 9/14 8:00 PM Abco Artspace [3135 Filbert St. Oakland]
Joel Nelson, Naomi Harrison-Clay and Jordan Glenn play as Crude Drawings. Looking forward and beyond to hearing Lee Hodel and Junior Mint Prince... as we all should.  More...
Sunday, September 15
Sun 9/15 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm. It's free. If you want to contribute, bring snacks and drinks.  More...
Sun 9/15 8:00 PM Brava Theater Center [2781 24th St, San Francisco, CA]
SFEMF announces its 20th Anniversary Festival dedicated to groundbreaking electronic music. With one evening of fixed media multi-channel sound works and three nights of live performances featuring a diverse cadre of internationally renowned and emerging composers, the festival will begin at Envelop SF, a next-generation immersive audio venue and continue at Brava Theater Center with live performances Friday through Sunday. Sunday evening artists: Carl Stone, Dana Jessen, and Svenska Elektriska Operaensemblen  More...
Monday, September 16
Mon 9/16 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
OFJS: Ashen Cleric & John deBoer  More...
Tuesday, September 17
Tue 9/17 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory - Rendon Hall / Fiddler Annex [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Scott R. Looney Trio

Pianist Scott R. Looney teams up with fellow sonic adventurers Lisa Mezzacapa and Kjell Nordeson, for an evening of multitimbral piano trio music featuring original compositions, interpretations, and improvisations.  More...
Wednesday, September 18
Wed 9/18 7:30 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118]
A free screening of the Sublime Frequencies documentary "Musical Brotherhoods From The Trans-Saharan Highway" (2008), on Moroccan street music.  More...
Wed 9/18 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street San Francisco, CA]
Sharon Tate Fetus Explosion
Deadpanning familiar horrors of the human condition, served up as forthright lo-fi songs reminiscent of Noh Mercy, Sarah Lockhart's charm is a sonic sort of whipped topping soothing the nose cut off to spite the face of the human race.
https://sharontatefetusexplosion.bandcamp.com

Fluorescent Grey
Robbie Martin is often heard in the :zoviet*france: podcast ‘A Duck in a Tree’ and is seen in the revolving lineup of musicians in Katabatik. He's currently composing music for the TV show ‘The Empire Files’ on Telesur. Upcoming works include an album with one half of :zoviet*france: Atom Mother Earth, and UK synth-wizard Dave Noyze.
https://soundcloud.com/fluorescentgrey

Kit Clayton (Orthlorng Musork/Cycling '74)
Open fist anarchist who can slap your frowning smile like a skipping stone across the rising oceans to a far horizon, Clayton is founder and inventor of Cycling '74/Jitter and Tamarack infoshop in Oakland. Clayton's music is marked by the gravitational pull of its unlimited breadth and well.... you'll have to close your knowing mouth and jump to learn its depth.
http://www.musork.com/o_jkc.html

Glochids
He's already got a purge for your misguided Black Flag FOMO this WED, don't go there... listen instead to the Glochids edit of only the good parts from "Damaged." It only takes a few minutes. Then leave the misremembered past in the dust, and come clean to the Peacock Lounge for the bite of your actual here and now.
https://glopuntia.bandcamp.com/album/black-flag-damaged-glochids-edit  More...
Thursday, September 19
Thu 9/19 7:00 PM The Contemporary Jewish Museum [736 Mission St SF]
Experiments in Sonic Potential: Animals and Giraffes

Musicians from the Bay Area’s rich improvisational jazz scene perform live music in conversation with Annabeth Rosen’s ceramic sculptures.  More...
Thu 9/19 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Expanded film + Sound with
Gino Robair's Unpopular Electronics
Featuring the 16mm Films of Lori Varga & Tom Djll Plus very special guest!  More...
Thu 9/19 10:00 PM KPFA [1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley, CA 94704]
Grex Live on “The Hear and Now”

Grex (Karl Evangelista-guitar, voice, perc/electronics, Rei Scampavia-keys, voice, perc/electronics) performs on KPFA’s “The Hear and Now,” debuting some brand new slabs of explosive art rock and electronic sound.  More...
Friday, September 20
Fri 9/20 6:00 PM Congregation Beth Shalom [301 14th Ave San Francisco]
Fay Victor’s Transparent Trio  More...
Fri 9/20 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Colin Martin and Friends  More...
Fri 9/20 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
The Del Sol String Quartet performs works by Terry Riley, Ben Johnston, Darius Milhaud, and Elena Kats-Chernin at Mills College.  More...
Saturday, September 21
Sat 9/21 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Christina Braun and Tom Nunn perform “Deep States,” a set of 8 pieces for dancer and original experimental instruments. Each dance features a particular state of consciousness or circumstance and instrument.

Christina Braun is a lifelong dancer and prolific choreographer. Tom Nunn is Christina’s long term improvisational art mentor. Christina's solo dance works with composer David Samas have been recently presented by Safehouse Arts, the LAB, the Oakland Museum of California and the Asian Art Museum. As SF Butoh LAB, Christina has produced Butoh dance symposia, performances, and workshops. Tom has designed, built and performed with experimental musical instruments since 1975, always with a focus on recycled/re-purposed materials, to create a unique voice in improvised music. His years of work with Christina Braun have brought a rich visual and dramatic focus to his music. He has participated in several Bay Area festivals with Christinba, and others such as the High Zero Festival in Baltimore, Sound Symposium in Newfoundland, and AK07 in New Zealand.  More...
Sat 9/21 10:00 PM El Rio [3158 Mission St SF]
Soundwave Festival kicks off with a special dance party curated by The House of Malico "Twerk 4 Mother Earth: Throwing It Back & Forth” featuring genre bending DJs and queer, safe(r) spaces at El Rio.

Twerk 4 Mother Earth is an​ independent dance party series which will connect with the Soundwave Festival 9 theme of "Time" by traveling through three decades of dance music with genre bending DJ’s: Fela Kutchii, Namaste Shawty, Onmommas, and Red Corvette will produce past, present, and future soundscapes that make the body move.  More...
Sunday, September 22
Sun 9/22 4:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
This is a 2 part event! First a workshop for a touch synth/analog controller, then a show!

Workshop: DIY Electronics: The Pipsqueak by Mroztronium
4pm - 6pm
Paypal $70 to mroztronium@gmail.com to reserve your Pipsqueak, please include your full name, and "Proarts Workshop" in paypal message, thanks!
Deadline for registration is the 13th of Sept.

Music: 8pm - 11pm
Shatter Pattern
Martin Freeman
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase
Sally Decker  More...
Sun 9/22 6:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Broken Shadows with Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson & Dave King
Sunday, September 22, Joe Henderson Lab
6:00pm & 7:30pm
$30
Named for one of Ornette Coleman’s most evocative compositions, this all-star project honors the Coleman legacy along with the music of Coleman’s fellow Fort Worth native reed players Dewey Redman and Julius Hemphill, featuring the wildly inventive saxophonists Tim Berne and Chris Speed, and the Bad Plus rhythm section of bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King. Debuting as a band in January 2017 for the Konceptions Music Series at Brooklyn’s Korzo, the band is a remarkably balanced vehicle for performing Coleman’s work, approaching it with fearless experimentation, deep grooves, and wicked humor.  More...
Sun 9/22 8:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Martin Freeman Comes To Oakland  More...
Monday, September 23
Mon 9/23 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: Amanda Chaudhary (solo electronics)

Set #2: Instagon (jazz-rock improvisation from Sacramento)
http://instagon.bandcamp.com

Set #3: Phillip Greenlief/David Boyce Duo
Phillip Greenlief/David Boyce-saxophones  More...
Mon 9/23 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
The Lost Shapes & Jason Levis Trio  More...
Tuesday, September 24
Tue 9/24 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Two Duos:
Karl Evangelista (gtr) + Ben Goldberg (cl)
Lewis Jordan (sax) + Sandy Poindexter (vln)  More...
Tue 9/24 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
After years performing in the all-winds improvisation trio SPECTRAL, Ochs + Johnston get together for a special first-time quartet meeting with electronics masters Tim Perkis and Madalyn Merkey. The hope here: to combine improvising sensibilities of 4 players, setting each other up time and again to capitalize on structural possibilities that give meaningful form to an otherwise very spontaneous music.  More...
Tue 9/24 8:30 PM Starline Social Club [2236 Martin Luther King Oakland]
Voicehandler
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