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CALENDAR

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09/28/2018 - 11/12/2018

Friday, September 28
Fri 9/28 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Jihye Chang  More...
Fri 9/28 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Amaranth Quartet plays string quartets by Darius Milhaud, Ruth Crawford, and Igor Stravinsky. Admission to this concert is free!  More...
Saturday, September 29
Sat 9/29 11:00 AM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Andre Custodio is hosting a series of performances of textured sound utilizing electronics and other instruments for a bookstore environment. Performing solo for most of these Saturdays, but will occasionally invite others to fill-in.  More...
Sat 9/29 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Pianist Jihye Chang: Co-Ko (Contemporary Korea)  More...
Sunday, September 30
Sun 9/30 12:00 PM Herbst Theatre [401 Van Ness Ave SF]
Listen local at the eleventh annual SF Music Day, the Bay Area’s free daylong music festival in downtown San Francisco, presented by InterMusic SF. SF Music Day showcases the dynamism and diversity of Bay Area music, from string quartets to jazz combos, new music pioneers to chamber groups steeped in musical sounds from across the globe.  More...
Monday, October 1
Mon 10/01 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: David Pate (modern/extended improvisation)
David Pate-saxophone, Steve Cohn-piano

Set #2: Manul Override (jazz/electronics)
Amanda Chaudhary-keyboards, electronics, Serena Toxicat-voice, Melne-guitar, electronics

Set #3: Ornettology (modern jazz, after Ornette Coleman)
John Hanes-drums, Safa Shokrai-acoustic bass, Myles Boisen-guitar, John Finkbeiner-guitar, Steve Adams-alto sax, Phillip Greenlief-tenor sax  More...
Mon 10/01 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Jason Levis Trio with Rob Ewing, trombone + Cory Wright, reeds + Jason Levis, drums
TRIO: gabby fluke-mogul * Crystal Pascucci * Lisa Mezzacappa  More...
Wednesday, October 3
Wed 10/03 7:30 PM The Tiger Garage: a private studio in south Berkeley [disclosed to you when we confirm your reservation]
Listening, Sounding, Moving, Being: Visiting movement artist Cilla Vee/Claire Elizabeth Barrett joins Karen Stackpole (percussion), Nancy Beckman (shakuhachi), and Tom Bickley (recorder and electronics) for a performance of experimental music and dance.  More...
Wed 10/03 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Scott Amendola’s Orchestra di Pazzi

Scott Amendola’s Orchestra di Pazzo featuring Aurora Josephson (voice), Crystal Pascucci (cello), Phillip Greenlief, Raffi Garabedian (saxophone) (saxophones), Jason Hoopes (electrical bass), Thomas Dimuzio (electronics), Mark Clifford (vibes), Ben Goldberg (clarinet), Zachary James Watkins (gtr/Elec.) Scott Amendola (director, drums/percussion/electronics)  More...
Thursday, October 4
Thu 10/04 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Animals and Giraffes – Final 2017/2018 EiR concert

To finish up their year-long residency at the Center for New Music, animals & giraffes presents two sets of interdisciplinary improvisation. The evening also celebrates LANDLOCKED BEACH, their new CD release on Creative Sources (Portugal).  More...
Thu 10/04 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
NorCal Noise Fest Appreciation Night
8:15 pm Nicotine Mantis
8:45 pm Mini-Mutations
9:10 pm Cellista
9:40 pm War Hippy  More...
Thu 10/04 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Reidemeister Move

Since 2011, Reidemeister Move has explored and expanded the possibilities of sustained-tone music in just intonation for their instruments.  More...
Friday, October 5
Fri 10/05 8:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [US Berkeley Berkeley]
Max Richter with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble performing Infra and music from The Leftovers

Max Richter performs selections from his work Infra, inspired by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and from his score for the dystopian HBO drama The Leftovers.  More...
Saturday, October 6
Sat 10/06 11:00 AM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Andre Custodio is hosting a series of performances of textured sound utilizing electronics and other instruments for a bookstore environment. Performing solo for most of these Saturdays, but will occasionally invite others to fill-in.  More...
Sat 10/06 7:00 PM Foothill Presbyterian Church [5301 MCKEE ROAD, San Jose]
Ensemble ARI will perform All RAVEL CONCERT including Jean Ahn's flashback of Ravel.  More...
Sat 10/06 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
A secret gathering for people in the know, an all-electronic quartet featuring David Toop with Tom Djll, Wobbly and Gino Robair. Opening: Madalyn Merkey, solo electronics.  More...
Sat 10/06 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Curium: Women Through the Ages  More...
Sat 10/06 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
DO-OVER Music Series:
The Jordan Glenn Party + Jason Hoopes, solo electric bass
Brett Carson- keyboard
Karl Evangelista- guitar
Joel Nelson- guitar
Bob Woods-LaDue- drums/percussion
Robert Lopez- drums/percussion
Alexandra Buschman- voice/electronics
Jon Arkin- electronic drums
Jason Hoopes- electric bass
Jordan Glenn- conductor  More...
Sat 10/06 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Rumbaché has established itself as one of the hottest Bay Area Salsa Bands! Fusing salsa, timba, bomba, funk and whatever else they can find to spice up the mood, they provide a hard-hitting style of playing. Rumbaché plays Cuban styles of music, with heavy influences in funk and jazz.  More...
Sunday, October 7
Sun 10/07 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Thomas Schultz plays The People United Will Never Be Defeated and music by Hyo-shin Na

Schultz plays Frederic Rzewski's monumental masterpiece from 1975, THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED and Hyo-shin Na's RAIN STUDY (1999) and SMALL NOISE (2018).  More...
Sun 10/07 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. Berkeley]
Chris Brown: Retrospectacles CD Release Concert

Seating is limited. Get your required online reservation here.  More...
Sun 10/07 5:00 PM Soundwave Studios [2240 Wood St Oakland CA 94607]
Resonant Frequencies is a monthly open mic night specifically for Electronic Musicians and Visual Synthesis. No DJ's, No Singer Songwriters. Just you and some machines, making love in sweet {dis}harmony.

The focus is on hardware sets yet other modalities are encouraged. We welcome all genres of music; what better way to do that than getting together, sharing those ideas and make connections.

Let's build the scene we want to see.

Live visuals will be provided by Dirty Bill + guests! Please inquire about performing visuals.  More...
Monday, October 8
Mon 10/08 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
SUBTLE DEGREES SAXOPHONE/PERCUSSION DUO  More...
Mon 10/08 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Tom Weeks's Ero Guro + Sung Kim (solo)  More...
Tuesday, October 9
Tue 10/09 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
Systemic Improvisation | Palle Dahlstedt, Per Anders Nilsson, Tim Perkis, and Gino Robair  More...
Tue 10/09 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
Resident is a monthly Open Mic event started by Jeremy Black and friends in 2017. Set in a casual atmosphere in an awesome location, The Laundry, it is the perfect event if you are a beginner or even experimented musician/performer and want to reach out to the San Francisco Community.  More...
Tue 10/09 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- PERFORMANCE with Cilla Vee (north carolina) and local improvisers
- alex cruse
- Voicebox (Dylan Burchett and Rodolfo Córdova)  More...
Wednesday, October 10
Wed 10/10 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Latitudes: The Music of Tetuzi Akiyama & John Krausbauer

Guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama brings his motorik “infinite boogie” and graveside blues minimalism to the Center for New Music. Akiyama will be supported by ecstatic music aesthete John Krausbauer whose explorations of amplified violin and stroboscopic lighting induce states of heavy trance.  More...
Wed 10/10 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
KRIS DAVIS, Joanne Brackeen and Helen Sung celebrate Monk's 101st birthday.
Two generations of piano artistry celebrate the legacy of Thelonious Monk, featuring DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star Piano winner Kris Davis, 2018 NEA Jazz Master recipient Joanne Brackeen, and Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition winner Helen Sung.  More...
Thursday, October 11
Thu 10/11 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Cilla Vee Life Arts "Psychic Bandwidth"
an inter-disciplinary collaborative structured improvisation project
Cilla Vee, Gino Robair, Cheryl Leonard, Amy Reed, Rent Romus, Ivy Johnson, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Eric Kupers and the CSU East Bay Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble  More...
Thu 10/11 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Trio with Scott Amendola, Fred Frith and Phillip Greenlief  More...
Thu 10/11 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
ODC Theater presents a three-evening run (October 11-13, 2018) of ECHO, a new dance/performance work by Sara Shelton Mann with a score by Pamela Z at ODC Theater at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA

Directed by writer/choreographer Sara Shelton Mann, Echo will be performed by Anya Cloud, Abby Crain, Jesse Hewit and Jesse Zaritt, with composer Pamela Z performing portions of the score live.  More...
Friday, October 12
Fri 10/12 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Stenberg | Cahill Duo

Stenberg | Cahill Duo

Kate Stenberg, violin; Sarah Cahill, piano

Aaron Gervais Talking in Circles World Premiere
Gabriela Lena Frank Suenos de Chambi
Kaija Saariaho Tocar
Linda Catlin Smith With Their Shadows Long
plus works by Henry Cowell and Grażyna Bacewicz  More...
Fri 10/12 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Visible Transitions

Improvised Painting from Live Music & Improvised Music from Visual Compositions: Live Abstract Painting by Ethan Cranke w/ Music by Gino Robair, Palle and Per Anders from Sweden + Tomas Dimuzio, Phillip Greenlief, and David Samas. GAZE EMANATIONS, drawings by Brian Lucas, performed by Pet the Tiger and Co. Cheryl Leonard, Tom Nunn, Tom Djll, Gino Robair, Bryan Day, Phillip Greenlief, David Samas.  More...
Fri 10/12 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
ODC Theater presents a three-evening run (October 11-13, 2018) of ECHO, a new dance/performance work by Sara Shelton Mann with a score by Pamela Z at ODC Theater at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA

Directed by writer/choreographer Sara Shelton Mann, Echo will be performed by Anya Cloud, Abby Crain, Jesse Hewit and Jesse Zaritt, with composer Pamela Z performing portions of the score live.  More...
Fri 10/12 9:00 PM Woods Bar and Brewery [1701 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
The Lost Shapes  More...
Saturday, October 13
Sat 10/13 11:00 AM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Andre Custodio is hosting a series of performances of textured sound utilizing electronics and other instruments for a bookstore environment. Performing solo for most of these Saturdays, but will occasionally invite others to fill-in.  More...
Sat 10/13 7:00 PM East Side Arts Alliance [2277 International Blvd Oakland]
Warrior Ecologies: Black Fighting Formations  More...
Sat 10/13 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Tetuzi Akiyama (Tokyo, JP)
Kaori Suzuki & John Krausbauer (Oak)

Kaori Suzuki and John Krausbauer present an improvisational composition with voices, amplified strings, electronics, and bell percussion, preceded by a performance by guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama, on tour from Tokyo.  More...
Sat 10/13 8:00 PM House Concert in North Berkeley Hills [email Harry@fullplatemedia.com for location]
Pianist Myra Melford and bassist Joelle Leandre perform in the intimacy of a house concert in the North Berkeley Hills. They will perform 2 sets, with wine and cheese served during intermission.

email Harry@fullplatemedia.com for location and reservations  More...
Sat 10/13 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Keepsakes for Contraforte and Contrabass Flute

Keyed Kontraptions will premiere works by Brett Austin Eastman and Emily Koh. Also on the program are works by Lily Chen and Isaac Schankler.  More...
Sat 10/13 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
ODC Theater presents a three-evening run (October 11-13, 2018) of ECHO, a new dance/performance work by Sara Shelton Mann with a score by Pamela Z at ODC Theater at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA

Directed by writer/choreographer Sara Shelton Mann, Echo will be performed by Anya Cloud, Abby Crain, Jesse Hewit and Jesse Zaritt, with composer Pamela Z performing portions of the score live.  More...
Sat 10/13 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Submersion: an immersive, multi-media environment of sound +

WHO
Gench and Cilla Vee Life Arts – with Cilla Vee, Thomas Dimuzio, Kit Young, Lori Varga, Aurora Josephson, Derek Gedalecia

WHAT
Submersion – an immersive, multi-media environment of sound, image and motion

WHEN
Saturday October 13th – 9pm – 12 midnight  More...
Sunday, October 14
Sun 10/14 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Shamisen from Edo Hauta to Contemporary  More...
Sun 10/14 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Jason Levis Trio
Rob Ewing – trombone/Cory Wright – reeds/Jason Levis – drums
8:30pm Sniff Test
Bethany Schwarz - electronics/Bill Noertker - basses  More...
Sun 10/14 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th Street San Francisco]
an evening of improvisation with 8pm Nava Dunkelman (percussion), Fred Frith (guitar) and gabby fluke-mogul (violin) and 9pm joelle leandre (contrabass) and Phillip Greenlief (tenor saxophone)  More...
Monday, October 15
Mon 10/15 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Composer/performers Pamela Z, Donald Swearingen, and Eric Lyon will perform composed and improvised works for gesturally controlled electronics and voice, in various combinations of solos, duos, and trios.  More...
Mon 10/15 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: pureFINDER + Alex Cohen (solo)  More...
Tuesday, October 16
Tue 10/16 7:00 PM David Brower Center [2150 Allston Way, Suite 100 Berkeley]
The David Brower Center & Other Minds are pleased to present Linda Bouchard with Kyle Bruckmann for the fourth installment of our 2018 The Nature of Music series. Bouchard will present excerpts from FLOCKING, as in “birds in flight” — the magical spectacle of hundreds of birds flying in their coordinated journey – and DROP, a live structure for woodwind and electronics with oboist Kyle Bruckmann.
Linda Bouchard’s works are defined by the importance of color and textures, and the structures of her compositions are intimately linked to the orchestral choices she makes for each composition, be it a solo piece or a composition for full orchestra.
Her compositions are often inspired by nature’s geometry, structure, and textures, as if writing music could begin by staring with a magnifying glass at nature’s elements — water, gas, rock formations, chemical reactions — then from those images creating a series of abstract landscapes.  More...
Wednesday, October 17
Wed 10/17 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom

Myra Melford-piano
Jenny Scheinman-violin
Kirk Knuffke-cornet
Ben Goldberg-clarinet and contra-alto clarinet
Todd Sickafoose-bass
Allison Miller-drums and compositions  More...
Wed 10/17 8:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Hybrid Series: Ratskin Explastical w/ Anna Luisa , Xina Xurner, Tyler Holmes

Anna Luisa
https://www.annaluisapetrisko.com

Xina Xurner
https://xinaxurner.bandcamp.com

Tyler Holmes
http://ratskin.org/artists/tylerholmes.html  More...
Thursday, October 18
Thu 10/18 7:00 PM CCRMA Stage [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA Transitions 2018 | Concert 1 | Thu, Oct 18, two identical shows at 7pm and 9pm | RSVP required

Feast your ears on immersive 3D sounds played on the CCRMA Stage multichannel speaker system (56.8)!  More...
Thu 10/18 7:30 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
Darren Johnston and The Pipes meet Allison Lovejoy  More...
Thu 10/18 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
New Music Performed by Nicolas Deuson and Jonathan Pilkington

This concert will feature guitar and tenor voice performing works by living composers, three of whom are active in the Bay Area. Several world premieres!  More...
Thu 10/18 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Ali/Ingle
Ishmael Ali - guitar, John Ingle - saxophones
9:00 pm Diaz-Infante/Sturm
Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Lap steel guitar
Ezra Sturm, Korg minilogue
Exploring free improvisation, prepared guitar and electronic soundscapes.  More...
Friday, October 19
Fri 10/19 7:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
Transmission: guest curated by Soundwave Directors

A performance carefully selected by the Soundwave Board Members. Performances featuring artists Anna Friz, Andy Puls, and Madalyn Merkey.  More...
Fri 10/19 7:00 PM CCRMA Stage [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
CCRMA Transitions 2018 | Concert 2 | Fri, Oct 19, two identical shows at 7pm and 9pm | RSVP required

Feast your ears on immersive 3D sounds played on the CCRMA Stage multichannel speaker system (56.8)!  More...
Fri 10/19 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Dax Pierson•Beast Nest•Marc Manning  More...
Saturday, October 20
Sat 10/20 11:00 AM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Andre Custodio is hosting a series of performances of textured sound utilizing electronics and other instruments for a bookstore environment. Performing solo for most of these Saturdays, but will occasionally invite others to fill-in.  More...
Sat 10/20 4:00 PM Taube Atrium Theater [401 Van Ness Ave SF]
For our season-opening concert, we offer a special celebration of the music of Elliott Carter. Our "on STAGE Series" features large-ensemble contemporary classical works of the most influential and innovative composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Carter was the grandest of the grand American composers from the 20th century, who lived beyond his 100th birthday and yet wrote music that was fresh, inventive, and forward-looking to the very end of life. We welcome our newly arrived artistic director, Eric Dudley, with a program featuring three of Carter’s works, including the rhythmically energetic and emotionally powerful "Penthode" for twenty players. Complementing Carter’s enduring voice will be a wry work by the young American composer, Tobin CHODOS, written for an instrumentation uniquely drawn from Carter’s "Penthode," plus Canadian composer Sabrina SCHROEDER’s "Bone Games/Shy Garden," an essay in the sensuality of noises. The series will begin with our popular How Music is Made Composer Talk and Open Rehearsal with composer Tobin Chodos.  More...
Sat 10/20 5:00 PM Studio Valencia [455A Valencia Street San Francisco]
foreignfire: absolute one
the second in an unfolding series of hella real jewish rituals, absolute one‍‍‍ maps the biblical story of heelgrabber's encounter at the double ca‍‍‍mp over the liturgy that twice a day awakens the ears to oneness  More...
Sat 10/20 7:30 PM Taube Atrium Theater [Veterans Building 4th floor 401 Van Ness Ave San Francisco]
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players - Carter and Beyond: Invention and Inspiration  More...
Sat 10/20 7:30 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Future Sonic Cities, organized by Zurich Meets San Francisco: a festival of two cities presents a mix of abstract hip hop, heavy electronic, and jazz inspired afro-futurist femme ballads by Bay Area sensations Lexagon (Alexa Burrell) and Aja Archuleta, along with international Swiss artists, Tim and Puma Mimi, and None of Them. These sound artists also pair with visual artists Alexa, Burrell, Ian Colon and Kim Nucci to layer projected visual art atop these experimental musical performances. This selection of time-traveling sonic artists explore and deconstruct stylistic boundaries to heal ancestral trauma, present speculative soundscapes, and provide immersive audio/visual experiences. This event is presented in partnership between Zurich Meets SF, Soundwave (8) Infrastructure, and the Center for New Music.  More...
Sat 10/20 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Maria Chávez (Sound Artist, DJ) performs at Mills College.  More...
Sat 10/20 8:00 PM Studio 210 [3435 Cesar Chavez (between Mission and Valencia, SF)]
“Skatchdance!” with Tom Nunn (skatch), Christina Braun (dance) and Ilan Reuben (conceptual clothing artist) expands the world of skatch through movement, drama, facial expressions, lighting and experimental clothing. $20 (NOTA).  More...
Sat 10/20 8:00 PM Piedmont Piano Company [1728 San Pablo Ave., at 18th St. Oakland, CA]
Vocalist/composer Molly Holm, with Her Unmistakable Band, explores the multicultural crossroads of improvised music through original compositions, straight-ahead and modal jazz tunes and traditional folk songs. Molly's music, often intertwined with the elements of North Indian raga, experimental vocals, or playful free-form improvisation, also reveals the rhythmic and note-bending influences inherited from the music of the African diaspora.  More...
Sunday, October 21
Sun 10/21 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
An eclectic night of Freewheeling sonic mayhem, art-funk, and social commentary
7:30 pm Ode to Fall
Rent Romus - saxophones/flutes/percussion, gabby fluke-mogul - violin, Lisa Mezzacappa - double bass, Golnaz Shariatzadeh - violin, Angela Roberts - cello, Tony Gennaro - percussion
8:30 Rightstarter
PC Muñoz - drums, vocals, electronics / MC DEM ONE - vocals, electronics / Danny Z - electronics  More...
Sun 10/21 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.

NO LARGE GROUP SESSION IN OCTOBER!  More...
Monday, October 22
Mon 10/22 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Crawl+Space and Adams/Boisen/Rowe  More...
Tuesday, October 23
Tue 10/23 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Future Sonic Cities: Artist Panel  More...
Tue 10/23 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
VICKI RAY
ecStatic – new music for piano and electronics
Vicki Ray, piano  More...
Tue 10/23 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Moe! Staiano presents his latest large-space composition, "Away Towards the Light," an exploration of tonal interplay and contrasting rhythms for nine electric guitars, bass and drums composed in three movements.

The venerable Vacuum Tree Head will be opening the evening, celebrating the release of two CD EPs, released in a lavish package.

A truly dynamic night of music and sight awaits!  More...
Wednesday, October 24
Thursday, October 25
Thu 10/25 6:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
Presented in partnership with the Center for New Music, San Francisco born, and Switzerland raised Erika Stucky creates an unparalleled mix of entertainment, avant-garde jazz and pop music, infused with American, Swiss and Dadaist spoken word performances. Out of this emerges a happily subversive work of art. Stucky creates and shares personal performances that synthesize yodeling, scat singing, spoken monologues and jazz into compelling yet uncategorizable music. Performing live at The Laundry, an intimate art house and tech coworking environment, Stucky will be present with accordion, percussion, vocals and live image projection. This is followed by experimental new music composer Chris Brown utilizing compositions for piano, and percussion instruments with interactive electronics and custom built electro-acoustic sonic instruments.  More...
Thu 10/25 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Closing Reception: Inventions from The Maze and The Machine  More...
Thu 10/25 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00 pm Runcible Spoon Fight
Tom Djll, Clarke Robinson
9:00 pm Bamboo Skin Duo
John Vaughn - saxophones, Mark Pino - drums  More...
Friday, October 26
Fri 10/26 7:00 PM Internet Archive [300 Funston Ave San Francisco]
WALL - Hosted by Soundwave

Curated by Tanya Gayer with performances by XUXA SANTAMARIA duo Sofía Córdova and Matt Gonzalez  More...
Fri 10/26 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Just Visiting (X-Ray Vision): A new experimental chamber opera from composer Brett Carson  More...
Fri 10/26 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
IMPROVISATION CONCERT – The Schimscheimer Family Trio and duo B.: Lisa Mezzacappa + Jason Levis  More...
Saturday, October 27
Sat 10/27 11:00 AM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Andre Custodio is hosting a series of performances of textured sound utilizing electronics and other instruments for a bookstore environment. Performing solo for most of these Saturdays, but will occasionally invite others to fill-in.  More...
Sat 10/27 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. Berkeley]
Miro Sprague at the Maybeck

Seating is limited. Get your required online reservation here.  More...
Sat 10/27 4:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Just Visiting (X-Ray Vision): A new experimental chamber opera from composer Brett Carson  More...
Sat 10/27 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Just Visiting (X-Ray Vision): A new experimental chamber opera from composer Brett Carson  More...
Sat 10/27 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Early Music Meets New: Liaison Ensemble + Helia Music Collective  More...
Sat 10/27 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Sheldon Brown Group is celebrating the upcoming release of their new CD, Blood of the Air, with this special pre-Halloween concert.

The music of Blood of the Air is by turns passionate and grooving, dark and moody, and playfully reflective. Sheldon Brown Group consists of some of the Bay Area’s most distinctive and accomplished jazz and new music performers.

This show features:

Sheldon Brown - Soprano, Alto, and Tenor Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Darren Johnston - Trumpet
Lorin Benedict - Voice
Andrew Joron - Theremin
John Finkbeiner - Guitar
Jonathan Alford - Piano
Dan Zemelman - Piano
Michael Wilcox - Bass
Alan Hall - Drums

Tickets Here  More...
Sat 10/27 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Sideband’s 2018 Bay Area tour will feature favorite laptop ensemble repertoire pieces alongside world premieres of new works, using voice-on-voice vocoders, video controllers, wireless networking, graphic and text scores, and more. Pieces composed, coded, and performed by Lainie Fefferman, Anne Hege, Daniel Iglesia, Jascha Narveson, and Jeff Snyder.  More...
Sunday, October 28
Sun 10/28 4:00 PM Chez Hanny [1300 Silver Avenue SF]
Scott Amendola 3-in-1 at Chez Hanny

Scott Amendola (drums), Raffi Garabedian (sax), Zachary Ostroff (bass)  More...
Sun 10/28 5:00 PM Piedmont Center for the Arts [801 Magnolia Ave Piedmont, CA 94611]
Del Sol String Quartet - Berkeley Symphony Chamber Series (Berkeley, CA)  More...
Sun 10/28 7:00 PM Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [296 Ivy Street San Francisco]
Pink Sea Thrift - LP release listening party

vinyl release of “Pink Sea Thrift” on fo’c’sle records, an album by Ellen Fullman, David Gamper and special guest Stuart Dempster  More...
Sun 10/28 7:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Michael Coleman's Resort Music Suite + Andrew Conklin: Song Collector  More...
Sun 10/28 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Mari Kawamura plays Bordeau, Vine, Hsieh, and Couperin  More...
Monday, October 29
Mon 10/29 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
SIDEBAND is an electroacoustic ensemble, comprised of composer-performers dedicated to exploring the potential of the laptop orchestra. Sideband’s Songlines performance will feature existing repertoire from their first album, the Sideband Chronicles, alongside premieres of new works using nontraditional controllers, wireless networking, graphic and text scores, video, and more.  More...
Tuesday, October 30
Tue 10/30 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Jon Arkin + Ben Goldberg
Songs for Clarinet, Drums, and Laptop  More...
Thursday, November 1
Thu 11/01 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
Sideband presents a concert of electracoustic works for laptop ensemble. Sideband performers: Lainie Feffermen, Anne Hege, Daniel Iglesia, Jascha Narveson, Jeff Snyder, Curtis Ullerich (guest).

This event is part of the Artful Design Manifestival.  More...
Thu 11/01 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00 pm Brown/Soo-yeon
Chris Brown - electronics, Soo-yeon Lyuh - haegeum
9:00 pm Kyle Motl - double bass  More...
Friday, November 2
Fri 11/02 12:30 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
TALK FEATURING COMPOSER/PERFORMER/IMPROVISER TYSHAWN SOREY  More...
Fri 11/02 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Myra Melford'S SNOWY EGRET, Shows at 7:00pm & 8:30pm
A pianist, composer, educator and bandleader who has built and documented a succession of celebrated ensembles, Myra Melford has set her most ambitious projects on the all-star quintet known as Snowy Egret. Featuring some of jazz’s most distinctive and melodically inventive improvisers, the group premiered her enthralling 2013 multimedia production inspired by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano alternative history of the Americas Language of Dreams at YBCA, and followed up with an eponymous debut album on Enja named by many jazz critics as one of 2015’s best releases.  More...
Fri 11/02 7:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
We are excited to present Wendy Reid's TREE PIECES, visual scores/ambient collage
Solo Exhibition at Pro Arts’ Project Space
Exhibition Dates: Nov 2 – 30, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 2, 2018
6PM – 9PM
Pro Arts Gallery & Project Space  More...
Fri 11/02 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Bassist, composer and bandleader Lisa Mezzacappa premieres a new suite of music for jazz sextet, inspired by Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics stories on the origins of the universe, and the invisible forces at work in the cosmos.
Mezzacappa is joined by her ensemble, the Lisa Mezzacappa Six, which features:
tenor saxophonist Aaron Bennett,
guitarist John Finkbeiner,
vibraphonist Mark Clifford,
electronic musician, Tim Perkis, and
drummer Jordan Glenn.  More...
Fri 11/02 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
OboeTronics II, with Glenda Bates and Brandon Labadie  More...
Saturday, November 3
Sat 11/03 11:00 AM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Andre Custodio is hosting a series of performances of textured sound utilizing electronics and other instruments for a bookstore environment. Performing solo for most of these Saturdays, but will occasionally invite others to fill-in.  More...
Sat 11/03 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Myra Melford's Snowy Egret, Shows at 7:00pm & 8:30pm
A pianist, composer, educator and bandleader who has built and documented a succession of celebrated ensembles, Myra Melford has set her most ambitious projects on the all-star quintet known as Snowy Egret. Featuring some of jazz’s most distinctive and melodically inventive improvisers, the group premiered her enthralling 2013 multimedia production inspired by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano alternative history of the Americas Language of Dreams at YBCA, and followed up with an eponymous debut album on Enja named by many jazz critics as one of 2015’s best releases.  More...
Sat 11/03 7:00 PM San Francisco Art Institute Fort Mason Campus [2 Marina Blvd]
Audiovisual improvisations with Bill Hsu (video/sound), Matt Ingalls (reeds), and John Shiurba (guitar)  More...
Sat 11/03 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Bassist, composer and bandleader Lisa Mezzacappa premieres a new suite of music for jazz sextet, inspired by Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics stories on the origins of the universe, and the invisible forces at work in the cosmos.
Lisa Mezzacappa Six features:
Aaron Bennett, tenor sax
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Mark Clifford, vibraphone
Tim Perkis, electronics
Jordan Glenn, drums  More...
Sat 11/03 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
TO….OBLIVION

TO....OBLIVION presents two California guitarists, San Francisco's Giacomo Fiore and Los Angeles' Alexander Elliott Miller in a program of music for electric guitar.  More...
Sat 11/03 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Experimental noise duo Las Sucias (Danishta Rivero and Alexandra Buschman) shares a program with Center for Contemporary Music composers Laetitia Sonami, Zeena Parkins, James Fei, and John Bischoff who join forces for a set of improvised electro-acoustic pieces. This is a first-time meeting for these four musicians.  More...
Sat 11/03 9:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia Street San Francisco]
Old Time Relijun

After a mysterious decade-long hiatus, Olympia, Washington’s OLD TIME RELIJUN return to the highway for a series of very special “23rd anniversary concerts” along the West Coast of the United States, with more dates in the works for 2019. They are reuniting in the classic “Catharsis in Crisis” lineup featuring bandleader Arrington de Dionyso with Aaron Hartman (upright bass), Germaine Baca (drums) and Benjamin Hartman (saxophone and percussion).  More...
Sunday, November 4
Sun 11/04 6:00 PM SFJAZZ Center Joe Henderson Lab [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Ian Carey Quintet+1: Fire In My Head (The Anxiety Suite)--premiere. With Kasey Knudsen, alto saxophone; Sheldon Brown, bass clarinet; Adam Shulman, piano; Jon Arkin, drums; Fred Randolph, bass, and Ian Carey trumpet. Shows at 6pm & 7:30pm.  More...
Sun 11/04 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
I Will Learn To

In this inspired new music program, artists Jordan Curcuruto (percussion), Chelsea Villanueva (clarinet), Phoebe Wu (piano), and Jocelyn Zelasko (voice) explore empowerment within relationships. Each musical work completes the phrase: "I will learn to…" (e.g., laugh, love, grieve, empower, forgive).  More...
Sun 11/04 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Snickers
Howard Ryan - viola, vox, electronics, radio and scanner feeds
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie Quintet performs Tricycle, part 3: Leonora
Annelise Zamula - saxes, flute/Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute/Joshua Marshall - tenor sax/Bill Noertker - contrabass/Dave Mihaly - drums  More...
Sun 11/04 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Reasons For Moving (4tet)  More...
Monday, November 5
Mon 11/05 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society presents:

A SLOW & STEADY RECORDS TAKEOVER!
Slow & Steady Records is a community-focused label and tastemaker based in San Francisco. “S&S” advances long-term artist development and audience growth, to foster an open community of like-minded artists and listeners. The S&S mission is to write a new and positive narrative in a rapidly changing music industry, by building a centralized home for creators and lovers of West Coast music.  More...
Wednesday, November 7
Wed 11/07 7:00 PM Berkeley Piano Club [2724 Haste St Berkeley]
Sculpting Air: Medieval & Modern Vocal Improv I

Vajra Voices director, Karen Clark and composer/cellist/vocalist Theresa Wong present a workshop around the 12th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen; and, the Taoist Immortal, Sun Bu’er. Karen Clark will teach a chant by Hildegard von Bingen; and, Theresa Wong will lead the workshop in a vocal improvisation, sculpting sound around a poem of Sun Bu’er.

Suggested Donation: $35 per workshop; $60 for both.
Vajra Voices is an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society. Your donations are tax deductible.  More...
Wed 11/07 7:00 PM Marilyn McArthur Holland '45 Performance Theater – Lisser Hall [Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613]
MEREDITH MONK: ARCHAEOLOGY OF AN ARTIST – Archaeology of an Artist is a lively performance lecture with video clips that distills Meredith Monk’s 50-year journey as a composer, choreographer, filmmaker, performer, and tireless cartographer of the frontiers of the human voice. It will conclude with an audience Q&A with Meredith Monk. Archaeology of an Artist is an ideal way to go behind the scenes with a legendary architect of interdisciplinary art as we know it today and learn about the commissioned vocal work, Indra's Net, that Meredith Monk is composing for a premiere in Lisser Hall in 2020.  More...
Wed 11/07 7:45 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Black Givre
https://blackgivre.bandcamp.com

Kee Avil
https://keeavil.bandcamp.com/

So-Ar (Shanna Sordahl & Robert Lopez)
https://soundcloud.com/so_ar

Zestie Bumwhig (Seymour Glass & Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase)
https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/album/bidden
https://brentlewiisensemble.bandcamp.com/  More...
Wed 11/07 8:00 PM Land and Sea [5428 San Pablo Ave, Oakland]
- Danishta Rivero, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, Jacob Felix Heule, & Matt Chandler
- Jamie Green
- Pauline Lay  More...
Thursday, November 8
Thu 11/08 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Opening Reception: Don Buchla, Instruments for Electronic Expression  More...
Thu 11/08 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Jamie Green - violin, alto saxophone, tar (drum) and electronics
8:45 pm Pauline Lay - violin, electronics
9:15 pm Gerber/Bikko
Matylda Gerber - tenor saxophone
Mikko Biffle - guitar  More...
Friday, November 9
Fri 11/09 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
enhakē beyond Messiaen: 21st century works for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano  More...
Saturday, November 10
Sat 11/10 10:00 AM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Crossroads: Sonification Art and Science  More...
Sat 11/10 11:00 AM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Andre Custodio is hosting a series of performances of textured sound utilizing electronics and other instruments for a bookstore environment. Performing solo for most of these Saturdays, but will occasionally invite others to fill-in.  More...
Sat 11/10 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St SF]
GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES SAT Nov10 Noon-2pm Sharp!!!

Vulcanus 68, Critical Monkey, Bryan Day, Bloody Snowman, Subliminal Cinema  More...
Sat 11/10 7:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Wendy Reid, Lulu & Friends: Ambient Bird 433
Nov 10 2018
7:00pm - 8:00pm
"The Forum" at Frank Ogawa Plaza
AMBIENT BIRD 433, an hour-long interspecies sonic landscape/ambient environment to be performed at the Forum, Frank Ogawa Plaza, featuring the birds and sounds of the plaza African Grey Parrot Lulu, Wendy Reid, Brenda Hutchinson, Aurora Josephson, Ron Heglin, the MILLS CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE and musicians of FROGPOND 433.  More...
Sat 11/10 7:30 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
Invisible Bird: Endsley, Devine & Amendola Trio  More...
Sunday, November 11
Sun 11/11 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
HUSH Series – The Long Tone Choir: autumn  More...
Sun 11/11 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Tana String Quartet  More...
Sun 11/11 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Steve Dye & Alfonso Alvarez  More...
Monday, November 12
Mon 11/12 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Gerber/Glenn/Greenlief/Shiurba + fluke-mogul/Mezzacappa/Bruckmann  More...