Wed 9/25 6:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Towards a Solidarity Economics Conduction System for Improvisors  More...

Thu 9/26 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Hartyga - (Republic of Tuva)
The "new wave" of Tuvan rock
Feral Luggage
Kersti Abrams - alto saxophone/thumb piano, Mika Pontecorvo - guitar/electronics/voice, Colleen Kelly T - cello/ electronics, Mark Pino- drums/percussion, Elijah Pontecorvo - bass/vocals, Lorenzo Arreguin - drums/guitar
Joel Nelson - guitar/electronics  More...

Fri 9/27 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Refracted Pathways: Dirt and Copper with Rebeca Bollinger  More...

Fri 9/27 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra West  More...

Sat 9/28 9:00 AM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
SYNTHESIS: INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION IN COMPUTATIONAL MUSIC RESEARCH

Click for info and registration

Berkeley Computational Music Research (BCMR) invites you to our first annual conference:

Synthesis: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Computational Music Research
Saturday, September 28, 9am-6pm
UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technology (CNMAT)

Space is limited to 40 participants, so RSVP is required.  More...

Sat 9/28 3:00 PM San Francisco Public Library [100 Larkin St San Francisco]
Rova Saxophone Quartet at SF Main Library  More...

Sat 9/28 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
C4NM 7th Birthday Bash  More...

Sat 9/28 7:00 PM Los Alto Lutheran Church [460 South El Monte Ave. Los Altos CA 94022]
Ensemble ARI premieres a Petrushka Arrangement for harpsichord and string trio and Michael Lee's String Duo.  More...

Sat 9/28 8:00 PM DNA's Comedy Lab [155 S River St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060]
"We Edit Life" is an evening of audio-visual collage in two parts, featuring Vicki Bennett’s "Notations", a film for live improvising musicians, performed by electronic music duo Blectum from Blechdom, as well as a screening of Bennett’s film The Mirror. Since 1991, British artist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) has worked across the field of audio-visual collage, and is recognized as an influential and pioneering figure in the still-growing area of sampling, appropriation and cut-up techniques of found footage and archives. Working under the name People Like Us, Bennett specializes in the manipulation and reworking of original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film and radio.  More...

Sun 9/29 4:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Gamelan Sekar Jaya performs music and dance from Bali.  More...

Sun 9/29 6:00 PM The Sound Room [2147 Broadway Oakland, 94612]
Richard Sears feat. the Brothers Garabedian  More...

Sun 9/29 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Bruce Ackley & Henry Kaiser Explore The Music of Steve Lacy  More...

Sun 9/29 8:00 PM Dildo Factory [Berkeley, CA]
BRUTAL SOUND EFFECTS FESTIVAL!!! #87  More...

Sun 9/29 8:30 PM Starline Social Club [2236 Martin Luther King Oakland]
Pan Planetary evening of Electroacoustic Improv and Psychedelic Ethnic Rock.
FERAL LUGGAGE - Experimentalist Improv band (NullWave PunkJazz Electroacoustic SoundScapes) + HARTYGA - Tuvan band playing psychedelic Throat-Singing...  More...

Mon 9/30 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
George Cory Todd, Burton Greene & Jaroba/Norton/Robinson  More...

Thu 10/03 7:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA presents its annual Transitions concerts. Feast your ears on immersive 3D sounds played on our multichannel system (56.8 speakers!) in the Stage. CCRMA students, faculty, and staff, as well as external artists will present live performances, fixed media electronic music, and audiovisual works. Each evening’s program will feature different artists.

Due to limit seating we will present two shows with the same program at 7pm and 9pm each night.

Access to these events is free, but based on registration. Please reserve your seat here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ccrma-transitions-2019-registration-73908994793  More...

Thu 10/03 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Fay Victor and Myra Melford

Brooklyn, NY based sound artist/composer c, honing a unique vision for the vocalist’s role in jazz and improvised music, is joined in duo performance and conversation by "stalwart of the new-jazz movement" pianist/composer Myra Melford, from across the Bay, in Berkeley. Co-presented with The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, as the first double-program in its Fall 2019 In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.  More...

Thu 10/03 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
SF Noise Night @ the Luggage Store
Lucidbeaming
Ninja McTits
Endometrium Cuntplow
Dendera Bloodbath  More...

Fri 10/04 7:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA presents its annual Transitions concerts. Feast your ears on immersive 3D sounds played on our multichannel system (56.8 speakers!) in the Stage. CCRMA students, faculty, and staff, as well as external artists will present live performances, fixed media electronic music, and audiovisual works. Each evening’s program will feature different artists.

Due to limit seating we will present two shows with the same program at 7pm and 9pm each night.

Access to these events is free, but based on registration. Please reserve your seat here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ccrma-transitions-2019-registration-73908994793  More...

Fri 10/04 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Burton Greene: Solo Piano; + Dunkelman/Ackley/Fluke-Mogul Trio  More...

Fri 10/04 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
San Diego-based Mexican flutist Wilfrido Terrazas will join forces with Bay Area bass legend Lisa Mezzacappa in a unique clash of improvising talents. Terrazas and Mezzacappa are both energetic and resourceful improvisers, and they have played together before in Los Angeles and Banff, Canada, but this will be their first full duo concert.  More...

Fri 10/04 8:00 PM X Bar at Homestead Lanes [20990 Homestead Road Cupertino]
Patrick Talesfore, Jr. Solo Drum Set Music at The X Bar  More...

Sat 10/05 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA Modulations 2019: In Memoriam Carr Wilkerson

CCRMA presents a Modulations concert in loving memory of longtime CCRMA staff member Carr Wilkerson (1966-2019). Carr was responsible for organizing CCRMA's previous Modulations festivals. Friends of Carr will present live performances and fixed media works of electronic music.  More...

Sat 10/05 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Slow Wave: New Music for Viola, Clarinet, and Piano  More...

Sat 10/05 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Do-Over Music Series #10:
duo B. Experimental Band plays PEOPLE IN SORROW
plus Fay Victor/ Jochem van Dijk Duo

duo B. Experimental Band:
Polly Moller-Springhorn, flutes
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe
Kevin Robinson, woodwinds
David Boyce, tenor saxophone
Cory Wright, woodwinds
Randy McKean, woodwinds
Henry Hung, trumpet
Alan Williams, trombone
Murray Campbell, violin
Karl Evangelista, guitar
Erika Oba, piano
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Donald Robinson, drums
Jason Levis, drums
with special guest, Fay Victor, voice  More...

Sat 10/05 8:30 PM Starry Plough [3101 Shattuck Ave @ Prince Berkeley]
Surplus 1980 album release show (take 2), Blank Square & Niantic

www.surplus1980.com  More...

Sun 10/06 12:00 PM Herbst Theatre [401 Van Ness Ave SF]
Experience the vitality of Bay Area music making in all its forms at SF Music Day, the Bay Area’s free daylong music festival in downtown San Francisco, presented by InterMusic SF. From chamber music to jazz, contemporary works to global traditions—SF Music Day brings together virtuoso musicians from across the Bay, with musical sounds that span continents and centuries.

2019 Artists:

Classical & Early Music
Fervida Trio
The Meráki Quartet
Brass Over Bridges
Sylvestris Quartet
Telegraph Quartet

Contemporary Music
Chordless: Sara LeMesh and Allegra Chapman
Stenberg | Cahill Duo
Patrick Galvin and Jung-eun Kim
Ensemble for These Times
Astraeus String Quartet
Friction Quartet
StringQuake
Keyed Kontraptions
The Dresher | Davel Invented Instrument Duo
The Living Earth Show
Quinteto Latino

Contemporary & Global Music
Melody of China
The Alaya Project
Cornelius Boots & the Heavy Roots Shakuhachi Ensemble

Jazz & Improvised Music
Ila Cantor's Encanto
Myra Melford / Fay Victor / Lisa Mezzacappa
Dee Spencer: The Smile Orange Project
Terrence Brewer Acoustic Jazz Quartet
Richard Howell Quartet
Trance Mission
Destiny Muhammad Trio
Howard Wiley & Extra Nappy
Hristo Vitchev Trio
Nathan Bickart Trio
duo B. Experimental Band  More...

Sun 10/06 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Site: Yizkor, Andrew Conklin and Maya Ciarrocchi  More...

Mon 10/07 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: Nora Stanley Group (modern jazz)

Set #2: Los Conocen (free improvisation)
Bruce Ackley-saxophone, Karl Evangelista-guitar, Jordan Glenn + Nava Dunkelman-percussion

Set #3: Inner Ear Brigade (prog/experimental rock)
Bill Wolter-guitar, comp, Ivor Holloway-sax, Andrew Vernon-keys, Stephen Wright-bass, Alison Niedbalski-vocals, Chris Lauf-drums  More...

Mon 10/07 8:30 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza - Oakland, walking distance from downtown oakland BART (12th street)]
oakland freedom jazz society presents: 1st set MISSING - electro-acoustic improvisation with movement. Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone, min yoon - movement, sharkiface - electronics, kevin corcoran - percussion. 2nd set THE OUT OF BOUNDS TRIO - Music that lives on the edges of sound and sight, looking past the present utilizing what's been learned on the way. Tim Bulkley - drums, Jon Raskin - saxophones, Safa Shokrai - bass  More...

Tue 10/08 7:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series 10th anniversary!

7:00 Zachary James Watkins/William Winant duo
7:30 Laetitia Sonami
8:00 SO AR (Shanna Sordahl + Robert Lopez)
8:30 IMA (Amma Ateria + Nava Dunkelman)
9:00 gabby fluke-mogul, Jacob Felix Heule, Kanoko Nishi-Smith
9:30 Foot SOS
10:00 Crude Drawings (Jordan Glenn, Joel Nelson, Kim Nucci, Tom Weeks)
10:30 Las Sucias

all donations to RAICES  More...

Tue 10/08 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
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. Come check it out in the lovely and intimate house concert vibe of Tom Duff's place!  More...

Tue 10/08 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.

We stream every show on YouTube. Subscribe to this channel with the bell on to be alerted  More...

Wed 10/09 7:30 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118]
A free screening of the Sublime Frequencies documentary "Isan: Folk & Pop Music of Northeast Thailand" (2004).  More...

Thu 10/10 7:15 PM NEW PEOPLE Cinema [1746 Post Street, SF Japantown, San Francisco, CA 94115]
Film Concert "Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue Armory" on Thursday, Oct 10th at NEW PEOPLE Cinema  More...

Thu 10/10 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
ENS EKT
Paul Stapleton sound sculpture, Mad Pulse Maybe double bass, David Bud baritone saxophone
Hauras
Howard Ryan - multi-media
Shachar/Weeks Quartet
Yeonathan Shachar - Guitar, Tom Weeks - Saxophone, Tim Duff - Bass, Patrick Talesfore Jr. - Drums  More...

Thu 10/10 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Chromelodia Project: Chris Brown-Theresa Wong-Kyle Bruckmann  More...

Thu 10/10 8:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
PAK (NY) with Disastroid, PG13 & Onkos  More...

Fri 10/11 6:00 PM Design By Cosmic [115 Cooper St., Santa Cruz CA 95060]
Jon Leidecker: "United Feedback Plus: A Retroactive Manifesto for the Early Decades of American Electronic Music" Artist and scholar Jon Leidecker traces the history of modern artificial intelligence back to the chaotic electronic feedback circuits of early electronic music pioneers. Leidecker traces commonalities in the works of Louis and Bebe Barron (who scored the 1956 film Forbidden Planet), David Tudor, Pauline Oliveros, the members of the Sonic Arts Union (Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma), and their European contemporaries Eliane Radigue, Pietro Grossi, Jaap Vink, and Roland Kayn. 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 10/11 6:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Terry Fox: A Resonating Chamber  More...

Fri 10/11 8:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Road Palo Alto, CA 94303]
Earthwise welcomes creative jazz improvisers and composers Scott Amendola, drums; Trevor Dunn, bass; Phillip Greenlief to Mitchell Park Center El Palo Alto Room. Pianist Motoko Honda opens.  More...

Fri 10/11 9:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Sonic: Brutalism  More...

Sat 10/12 4:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118]
A free screening of the Sublime Frequencies documentary "Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya."  More...

Sat 10/12 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Darius Jones: C4NM Benefit  More...

Sat 10/12 8:00 PM SF Live Arts @ St Cyprian's Church [2097 Turk St San Francisco]
Rova Saxophone Quartet ( Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Larry Ochs, Jon Raskin) returns to the SF Live Arts series for the first time since fall 2017; the concert will feature several premieres, all composed by members of the band.  More...

Sun 10/13 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Barriga/Keenan bass duo
Rodrigo Barriga - electric bass/Sean Keenan - electric bass
8:30pm Sniff Test
Bethany Schwarz - electronics/Bill Noertker - basses  More...

Sun 10/13 8:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Scott Amendola (drums, electronics), Trevor Dunn (contrabass) and Phillip Greenlief (woodwinds) have a collective and individual history that spans three decades and many continents. While individual players have been active in pairs in numerous ensembles, this is their first set of performances as a trio in nearly 20 years. Their approach to free improvisation is to explore the many genres of music they are known for, which spans rock, metal, funk, jazz, post-classical and film music.  More...

Sun 10/13 8:00 PM The Lost Church [65 Capp St San Francisco]
Chris Brokaw's End of the Night band + Chuck Johnson  More...

Sun 10/13 8:30 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Rova Saxophone Quartet (Larry Ochs, Jon Raskin, Steve Adams and Bruce Ackley) returns to The Back Room in Berkeley for the first time since fall 2017; the concert will feature several premieres, all composed by members of the band. Love playing here where the audience is welcomed with comfortable couches, cool high chairs in the back and no bad seat in this intimate BYOB venue. Laid back.. but the music won't be.  More...

Mon 10/14 8:00 PM The Lost Church [65 Capp St San Francisco]
Chris Brokaw's End of the Night band + Bill Orcutt  More...

Mon 10/14 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
OFJS: ENS EKT Trio & Dan Weiss  More...

Tue 10/15 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush St]
What is a Sound Sculpture?
Do you want to make one?
Learn how Audium's composers think about and create sound environments.
This time, we'll be focused on community input for Audium's new control system. How would YOU create a work here?
Led by Audium's founder Stan Shaff, composer Dave Shaff, and technical director Paul Barton
Tuesday, October 15th, 7pm
Audium Theater, SF  More...

Tue 10/15 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Hearts & Minds, Lisa Mezzacappa Tangle Trio  More...

Wed 10/16 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Ensemble EKT / I Lo U  More...

Thu 10/17 6:00 PM San Francisco Public Library [100 Larkin Street Grove St.]
Pianist Monica Chew plays music from Brazil, Turkey, and France, as well as several new works and composer Maurice Ravel's masterpiece, Gaspard de la Nuit. Monica Chew is an Oakland-based pianist who seeks to illuminate and entertain. Her 2017 album, Tender and Strange, features works by Bartók, Janáček, Messiaen, Takemitsu, and Scriabin.
“A gifted player with an affinity for deeply sensitive expression.” --Whole Note  More...

Thu 10/17 7:00 PM The Contemporary Jewish Museum [736 Mission St SF]
Experiments in Sonic Potential: Theresa Wong  More...

Thu 10/17 7:00 PM SFMOMA [151 3rd St. San Francisco]
Terry Fox: Screening of Timbre and Conversation with Tom Marioni  More...

Thu 10/17 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Friction Quartet with bass clarinetist Bruce Belton: October  More...

Thu 10/17 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA presents ENS EKT

ENS EKT features the experimental musical inventions of Paul Stapleton (Californian born, Belfast-based) placed in dialogue with the circular breathed multiphonics and harmonic textures and the resonant gestural and spectrally focused playing of the other band members. The group explores emergent timbral, dynamic and social musical structures through improvisation. Having worked together more frequently in duo settings, the trio configuration offers an opportunity to explore new modes of interactions in part facilitated by purpose built technologies that intertwine metallic, wooden and electronic resonances in real time.  More...

Thu 10/17 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Samas/Leonard/Gotwald
David Samas, Cheryl Leonard, Dan Gotwald - Natural Objects, Inventions, Voice
DeepSkatch
Christina Braun - movement Tom Nunn - Original Inventions  More...

Thu 10/17 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Sam Ospovat - solo drums!

Lisa Mezzacappa SIX
Aaron Bennett, tenor sax
Mark Clifford, vibes
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Tim Perkis, electronics
Sam Ospovat, drums
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass

NORA STANLEY'S BANKSHOT
Kasey Knudsen, alto sax
Ben Goldberg, clarinet
Andrew Stephens, trumpet
Nora Stanley, alto sax  More...

Fri 10/18 7:30 PM PianoFight [144 Taylor St SF]
POISON CIRCUS is the story of a small dysfunctional circus family whose relationships quickly dissolve into poisonous revenge and freak transmogrify. There’s Eubie, the former circus performer who’s trapped in a wheelchair and brimming with tyranny. Barbara, the estranged wife and ambitious newly crowned ringmaster. And Copland, the son, the runaway. Things quickly get toxic when the circus sets off across the desert and a vengeful plot to poison the circus performers bubbles up. POISON CIRCUS will feature vocal operatics, an organ quintet, harrowing circus acts and live human mutations. A musical tale of transmogrify is coming. Come freak out!  More...

Fri 10/18 8:00 PM ABCO ArtSpace [3135 Filbert St. Oakland, CA 94608]
Michele Seippel
Cranky (Sean Keenan, Mitch Stahlmann, Jake Parker Scott)  More...

Sat 10/19 8:00 PM Wind River [421 Wild Way, Santa Cruz]
Indexical Presents: Laetitia Sonami + Asha Tamirisa

With Of lands and lines, Bay Area electronic music pioneer Laetitia Sonami explores the Spring Spyre, a neural network instrument created in collaboration with technologist Rebecca Fiebrink. Focusing on the shift between place and representation, Sonami tunes the instrument in a new “prepared exploration” created specifically for the performance site at Wind River. Sharing the bill is Asha Tamirisa, whose long-form improvised performances incorporate various combinations of digital, analog, and tactile media—such as analog synthesizers, sounding objects, moving image, and generative text—and often seek to use the site of the performance as part of the instrumentation. Most recently, historical allegories, memories, and archival materials have been finding their way into her sensorial multimedia performances.  More...

Sun 10/20 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 pm Ends Meat' Catastrophe Jazz Ensemble
Erika Oba - piano/flute, Chris Bastian - bass, Eli Maliwan - tenor saxophone, Rachel Austin - vocals
8:30 PM Trouble Ensemble
Rent Romus, Joshua Marshall: saxophones, Jakob Pek: guitar, Tim DeCillis: vibraphone,
Andrew Jamieson: piano, Chris Lauf: drums, Ernest Larkins: voice  More...

Sun 10/20 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 10/21 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Brainwave Curious?

Research based soundscapes generated by brainwaves.  More...

Mon 10/21 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
OFJS: Mezzacappa/Fluke-Mogul & Örjan Hultén Orion  More...

Tue 10/22 7:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
For one night only, the bi-coastal ensemble of Henry Kaiser, Max Kutner (NY), Andrew Dixon, Darren Johnston (NY), Michael Manring, Steve Robertson and John Hanrahan will unite as A LOVE SUPREME ELECTRIC for a special performance celebrating the music of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme"  More...

Tue 10/22 9:00 PM Starline Social Club [2236 Martin Luther King Oakland]
zBug is a psychedelic jazz quartet featuring David Leikam, Sheila Bosco, Patrick Cress, Timothy Orr. Saxophonist, composer Rent Romus started the Lords of Outland in 1994.  More...

Wed 10/23 7:45 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
FACE OF A STRANGER (1977), a restored feature film by San Francisco filmmaker and musician David Michalak. Tonight’s premiere will feature a new score by the internationally acclaimed pianist, Thollem McDonas. Selected Film-Frame prints will be on view in the lobby and the show will open with a short set by Rova’s Bruce Ackley.  More...

Thu 10/24 6:30 PM Contemporary Jewish Museum [736 Mission St, San Francisco, California 94103]
DIALECTS draws from sounds, songs, and stories about migration and displacement, both human and nonhuman. Szu-Han Ho’s work explores the relationship between bodies and the places that preserve history and memories. Presented by Soundwave curator Patricia Cariño Valdez. Presented as part of Soundwave Festival 9.  More...

Thu 10/24 7:30 PM Berkeley, CA [RSVP for address]
All Ears Interfaith Sangha October gathering

Listening in Dreams
with IONE
An Evening of Dream Meditation and Sharing

You are invited (but not required!) to bring a dish to share with the community. RSVP (AndrewBarnesJam@gmail.com or 708-469-9365) for address.
(***note the unusual time/day of the week!!!)  More...

Thu 10/24 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Gardener
Dashiell Lewis - voice/electronics
modular synth drones, rhythms, and textures
Instagon
Featuring LOB, Alphastare, Jorge Bachmann & Andre Custodio  More...

Thu 10/24 8:00 PM Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium [1313 Newell Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Tom Harrell Quartet

This is a free concert.

Click for more info and tickets  More...

Thu 10/24 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Burmese, Inverts, Flesh Narc, Kimoyo Update  More...

Fri 10/25 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Avishai Cohen Quartet/Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quintet
Friday October 25, 7:30pm
$25-55
SFJAZZ celebrates a half-century of the iconic label, with nights in Miner Auditorium and the Joe Henderson Lab featuring ECM’s greatest artists. Named with initials standing for “Edition of Contemporary Music,” founder Manfred Eicher’s Munich-based imprint has represented the leading edge of innovation for five decades and over 1600 individual releases, blurring lines between genres and championing both established masters and young visionaries.

A double bill of modern trumpet greats with former SFJAZZ Collective member Cohen playing music from his last two ECM releases with his working quartet, and avant-garde trumpet icon Smith presents the world premiere of his Appassionata Suite dedicated to Anita Hill, MLK Jr., and more.  More...

Fri 10/25 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA presents "In Search of Lost Beauty..." by Žibuoklė Martinaitytė

“In Search of Lost Beauty…” (2016) is a sequence of audiovisual novellas for violin, cello, piano, electronics and video on the elusive subject of beauty. Here the experience of time is slowed down as to transport us into an alternate dimension where the commonly apprehended reality is inverted into the otherworldly mystique of reflections and shadows. The amplitude of this ephemeral search for beauty encompasses phenomena found in nature, everyday life and art. The piece consists of 10 sections, which are woven into one structural entity of suggestive coherence.  More...

Fri 10/25 8:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Chris Cooper/Matt Chandler/Jacob Felix Heule
Flesh Narc (Denton TX)
VOL  More...

Fri 10/25 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Jesse Perlstein & Shinya Sugimoto + Glenda Bates/OboeTronics  More...

Sat 10/26 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Vijay Iyer Trio
$40-105
SFJAZZ celebrates a half-century of the iconic label, with nights in Miner Auditorium and the Joe Henderson Lab featuring ECM’s greatest artists. Named with initials standing for “Edition of Contemporary Music,” founder Manfred Eicher’s Munich-based imprint has represented the leading edge of innovation for five decades and over 1600 individual releases, blurring lines between genres and championing both established masters and young visionaries.  More...

Sat 10/26 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Neil Rolnick: Journey’s End, with pianist Kathleen Supové  More...

Sat 10/26 7:30 PM The Lost Church [65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94103]
Grex + EFFT at the Lost Church

An electric evening of art rock and surreal song with Oakland experimental duo Grex and dream folk band EFFT.

Advance Tickets can be purchased HERE

Grex (Karl Evangelista, Rei Scampavia) is an art rock band based out of Oakland, California. In biological terms, a "grex" is an entity composed of several smaller organisms. Grex (the band) explores the meeting point between fun, delightfully strange psychedelic pop/rock and the dark outer reaches of noise and free jazz.

EFFT is the dream folk collaboration of Noah Philips and Sarah Palmer. Think Bjork meets Jose Gonzales. Acoustic guitars weaving spells, along with the poetic incantations of Sarah's voice- EFFT is a hypnotic aural hideaway.  More...

Sat 10/26 8:00 PM CounterPulse [80 Turk Street San Francisco 94102]
Just Ahead is Darkness is an evening of episodic performance inspired by how time transforms the relationships between fact, story, and truth. This is part of our Soundwave Festival 9, "Time." Featuring dance company Sharp & Fine, composer Cory Wright, and author Ben Loory in an interactive theatrical experience. $20 General Admission; Doors 7:15pm, Show 8pm.  More...

Sun 10/27 3:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Kinda Green (Tim Perkis, Tom Djll) / Kim Nucci solo  More...

Sun 10/27 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Wooden Fish Ensemble: Celebrating the music of Hyo-shin Na
Birthday Reception follows the concert.
Thomas Schultz, piano; Shoko Hikage, koto; John Smalley, baritone; James Pytko, clarinet; Hyunchae Kim, kayageum; Terrie Baune, violin
Tickets $5 - $25
https://www.oldfirstconcerts.org/performance/wooden-fish-ensemble-sunday-october-27-at-4-pm/  More...

Sun 10/27 7:30 PM Land and Sea [5428 San Pablo Ave Oakland]
Jesse Perlstein & Shinya Sugimoto / IMA / Danishta Rivero  More...

Mon 10/28 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613]
Composer Joel Ryan presents a lecture titled "“Knowing When”—"The fact is I know when. Before it happens, I know when a beat should come, I know after, when it didn't. This knowledge is not easily explained in words. It is something you demonstrate in playing but equally in listening, in enjoying music. It is the knowledge of how to make time. The proof is that with practice you get there on time, again and again."  More...

Mon 10/28 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: Andrew Jamieson Solo (Spiritual jazz/new music)
Andrew Jamieson-keyboard

Set #2: Lost Planet (jazz/rock)
Steve Clarke-guitar, electronics, Len Paterson-guitar, electronics, Tom Scandura-drums, David Slusser-sax, etc

Set #3: David Lechuga-Espadas Group (jazz/free improvisation)
David Lechuga-Espadas-guitar, a.o.  More...

Mon 10/28 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
OFJS: Joel Nelson & Lords of Outland 25 years under the Mountain  More...

Thu 10/31 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Amendola vs. Blades vs. Skerik vs. Baptista vs. Parker
Thursday, October 31
7:00pm & 8:30pm

Friday, November 1
7:00pm & 8:30pm

Saturday, November 2
7:00pm & 8:30pm

Sunday, November 3
6:00pm & 7:30pm
$25

Berkeley-based drummer, composer and bandleader Scott Amendola showcases his longstanding partnership with Hammond B-3 organ star Wil Blades for an evening of greasy grooves and head-spinning musical telepathy, augmented by saxophonist Skerik, Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker, and Brazilian master percussionist Cyro Baptista, with music from their new album.  More...

Thu 10/31 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA presents "HYLAEA ReSpoken" by Timothy Weaver

HYLAEA ReSpoken is a collection of live cinema (sound/moving image) movements that seeks to reanimate the residues of lost ecological memory. The project enriches the transcoding of bio- and ecoinformatic data to soundscape thru the re-witnessing of endangered and extinct habitats and uncertain biodiversity.

The compendium of works interlaces lifecycles to the afterlife, through sonic and visual immersion, to recollect the complex imagined distance between genomic and ecoacoustic expression. HYLAEA ReSpoken folds and refolds the digital/visual residues from emergent extremophiles into the tenuous fate of terrestrial and ocean ecosystems as they have become ensnared by the hand of human-induced extinction. The intent of the work is a temporal suspension of audience into a sensorial crosslinking of time, space and phylogeny.  More...

Fri 11/01 6:00 PM Little Boxes Theater [1661 Tennessee Street, Suite #2s, San Francisco, CA, 94107]
Mobilization Recordings presents: "How to Destroy the Universe - Part 7" - SFO

A cross-genre Proto-Industrial Culture festival celebrating the extremes of transgressive and transformative music/art/performance

Julia Mazawa, DROUGHT SPA, Sharon Tate Fetus Explosion, San Kazakgascar (members of Dire Wolves/Savage Republic), Martin Bisi (NYC), Scot Jenerik/Ethan Port/Michael Gendreau, V.E.X., Isolation Society, Swords of Fatima, TanukiSpiderCat, Ouija Boredom

https://www.facebook.com/events/489309735242362/  More...

Fri 11/01 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Amendola vs. Blades vs. Skerik vs. Baptista vs. Parker
Thursday, October 31
7:00pm & 8:30pm

Friday, November 1
7:00pm & 8:30pm

Saturday, November 2
7:00pm & 8:30pm

Sunday, November 3, Joe Henderson Lab
6:00pm & 7:30pm

Berkeley-based drummer, composer and bandleader Scott Amendola showcases his longstanding partnership with Hammond B-3 organ star Wil Blades for an evening of greasy grooves and head-spinning musical telepathy, augmented by saxophonist Skerik, Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker, and Brazilian master percussionist Cyro Baptista, with music from their new album.  More...

Fri 11/01 8:00 PM Artists' Television Access [992 Valencia SF]
Thingamajigs Performance Group do genii memoriam at ATA. All saints proceed on el Día de los Muertos, a subtle material and various signatures to the air: environmental, musical, electronic and vocal, shifting states, drawing and altering perceptions of the performers and places. Bodies, gestures, field notes, screens, walls, and the aggregate thingamajigs are elements in a schematic and an ephemeral architecture that is evocative of transformational forces emanating from memory, an awareness of time.  More...

Fri 11/01 8:00 PM ABCO ArtSpace [3135 Filbert St Oakland]
Mitch Stahlmann/ Ulynadylna / John Bischoff  More...

Sat 11/02 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Amendola vs. Blades vs. Skerik vs. Baptista vs. Parker
7:00pm & 8:30pm, Joe Henderson Lab

Berkeley-based drummer, composer and bandleader Scott Amendola showcases his longstanding partnership with Hammond B-3 organ star Wil Blades for an evening of greasy grooves and head-spinning musical telepathy, augmented by saxophonist Skerik, Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker, and Brazilian master percussionist Cyro Baptista, with music from their new album.  More...

Sat 11/02 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Kathleen Supové, Pianist: Rise Up, Take Flight  More...

Sat 11/02 8:00 PM Wind River [421 Wild Way, Santa Cruz]
Jack Callahan (die Reihe) & Jeff Witscher (Rene Hell): What Happens on Earth Stays on Earth

Jack Callahan (die Reihe) and Jeff Witscher’s (Rene Hell) recent collaboration What Happens on Earth Stays on Earth is a multichannel work examining the banality of the human drama in the 21st century. Witscher and Callahan, both known for their far-ranging work under various monikers, have recently put forward the descriptors “Music Art” and “Sound Music” as formal headings to re-assert the simplicity of their own respective practices. The evening will also features solo works by Callahan and Witscher. A new work by Witscher, entitled St. Vincent Passion, is in reference to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with new proclamations of impending apocalypse littered throughout. Callahan’s solo performance draws from his project Housed, a catalog of over 1000 chords from classic House tracks sampled and archived by Callahan, which is currently being turned into an web-based archive.  More...

Sat 11/02 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Do Over Music #11: GFM's Lucky 13 + Kanoko Nishi-Smith solo  More...

Sun 11/03 6:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Amendola vs. Blades vs. Skerik vs. Baptista vs. Parker
Joe Henderson Lab
6:00pm & 7:30pm

Berkeley-based drummer, composer and bandleader Scott Amendola showcases his longstanding partnership with Hammond B-3 organ star Wil Blades for an evening of greasy grooves and head-spinning musical telepathy, augmented by saxophonist Skerik, Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker, and Brazilian master percussionist Cyro Baptista, with music from their new album.  More...

Sun 11/03 6:30 PM Oakland, CA [RSVP for address (AndrewBarnesJam@gmail.com)]
All Ears October Gathering.
Like other All Ears events, please RSVP for the address. Join us in performing sound meditations and connecting with one another, ourselves, and with Spirit through creation and awareness of sound. This month, in honor of various faith traditions around this time of year (Samhain, Día de los Muertos, All Saints Day, etc.), keyboardist Andrew Barnes Jamieson, and singer/performance artist Charles Peoples III will lead the community in their Ancestors' Groan. You will be invited to connect with the voices of wisdom within ourselves that need to be heard in this moment. Come listen, participate, and be transformed.  More...

Sun 11/03 7:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Jeff Witscher & Jack Callahan, Madalyn Merkey, Halosar

FINITE is a concert series exhibiting weird music and sound. We're broadly focusing on noise, sound system art, outsider club, computer music, modular synthesis, spatial media, DIY projects, improvisation, community, & inclusivity.  More...

Sun 11/03 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 Echo's Bones
Sheldon Brown - clarinet, bass clarinet/Joseph Noble - flute, alto flute, bass flute/Amber Lamprecht - oboe, English horn
8:30 Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute/Joshua Marshall - tenor sax/Bill Noertker - contrabass/Dave Mihaly - drums  More...

Sun 11/03 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
duo B. vs. vIDEO sAVant + two films by Dominic Angerame  More...

Mon 11/04 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Ensemble PHASE

Ensemble PHASE performs recently-composed repertoires written for Korean traditional instruments.  More...

Mon 11/04 8:00 PM The Bindery [1727 Haight St SF]
the bindery presents animals & giraffes with guest amy trachtenberg  More...

Mon 11/04 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: Lorin Benedict/Kasey Knudsen (jazz/improvisation)
Lorin Benedict-voice, Kasey Knudsen-sax

Set #2: Jon Raskin/Kevin Corcoran Duo (free improvisation)
Jon Raskin-reeds, Kevin Corcorn-drums

Set #3: Improvisers Assembly (free improvisation)
Beth Schenck-saxophone, Michael Dessen-trombone, Tim Perkis-electronics, Lisa Mezzacappa-bass, Kjell Nordeson-drums  More...

Mon 11/04 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
OFJS: Doc Gerbil’s World/Hazel Atlas/Picastro  More...

Tue 11/05 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
gabby fluke-mogul/Lisa Mezzacappa/Bruce Ackley trio  More...

Tue 11/05 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Juno Award winner Gordon Grdina and his new band, The Marrow,
Gordon Grdina-oud
Mark Helias-bass
Hank Roberts-cello
Mark Feldman-violin
Hamin Honari-tombak, Daf

Special Guest: Ben Goldberg Clarinet  More...

Wed 11/06 7:30 PM Marilyn McArthur Holland Theater, Lisser Hall [Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd]
Meredith Monk introduces "Quarry," a film by Monk and Amram Nowak.  More...

Wed 11/06 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor Street SF]
PGLRG is the newly re-christened name for what was formerly called OrcheSperry, a large ensemble led and composed for by Phillip Greenlief. On this occasion, the group will play various BW scores for trio (resulting in a performance of multiple trios at once) in the first set and a new MAP SCORE (SAINT PETERSBURG FOR PGLRG). This concert celebrates a visit by Michael Dessen – trombonist, composer and educator from Southern California.  More...

Thu 11/07 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Stephen Loof - Electric Guitar
Indeterminate Ensemble
André Custodio - korg wavedrum, looper, effects, Thomas Dimuzio - synth, Lee Corbie-Wells - violin  More...

Thu 11/07 8:00 PM SAFEhouse Arts [145 Eddy St. SF]
Big Drama No Drama, DunkelpeK & Jon Raskin  More...

Fri 11/08 8:00 PM SAFEhouse Arts [145 Eddy St. SF]
Big Drama, No Drama, DunkelpeK & Never Weather  More...

Fri 11/08 8:00 PM Private Home [Private home in North Berkeley Hills.]
Tenor player Travis Laplante performs a solo concert in the intimacy of a private home in the North Berkeley Hills. Travis will perform 2 sets, with wine and cheese served during intermission. Seating is limited.

Email harry@fullplatemedia.com for info and reservations.  More...

Fri 11/08 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Other Minds presents Latitudes:
Armed with a battery of consumer-grade electronics and an unwholesome passion for sci-fi and AM radio, audio plunderer Joseph Hammer assembles found sound detritus into a palace of labyrinthine referents. Kaori Suzuki rewards endurance with transcendence in a set featuring modified melodica and oscillators.  More...

Fri 11/08 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
Danishta Rivero will be collaborating with the brilliant Alexandra Buschman-Román, Rodolfo Córdova, gabby fluke-mogul, and Shanna Sordahl on a piece titled: Tejidos/Weavings, or No puedo hablar con mi voz sino con mis voces

Tickets Here  More...

Sat 11/09 3:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble  More...

Sat 11/09 4:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94118]
A free screening of the Sublime Frequencies documentary "Jemaa El Fna: Morocco's Rendezvous of the Dead" (2004).  More...

Sat 11/09 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
Danishta Rivero will be collaborating with the brilliant Alexandra Buschman-Román, Rodolfo Córdova, gabby fluke-mogul, and Shanna Sordahl on a piece titled: Tejidos/Weavings, or No puedo hablar con mi voz sino con mis voces  More...