Sun 10/31 2:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
A special screening of Larry Clark's 1977 film PASSING THROUGH, followed by a conversation and Q&A with the filmmaker and critic, screenwriter and educator Josslyn Luckett

Featuring the music of Eric Dolphy, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sun Ra and live performances by Horace Tapscott's Pan African People's Arkestra, Larry Clark's PASSING THROUGH "theorizes that jazz is one of the purest expressions of African American culture, now hijacked by a white culture that brutally exploits musicians for profit. “An invaluable film-outcry” (Albert Johnson).

Presented in collaboration with Film Quarterly  More...

Sun 10/31 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion) with Fred Frith (guitar)
Proof of COV-19 vaccination required.
Masks required.  More...

Mon 11/01 8:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Tatsuya Nakatani (solo percussion)
Kevin Corcoran & Jacob Felix Heule (bass drum duo)  More...

Thu 11/04 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
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CCRMA presents a live performance by Victoria Shen.  More...

Fri 11/05 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
An evening with Bjll Dingalls and Heule/Nishi-Smith/Rivero. Swinging serious sonic sledgehammers for a threefold lifetime now, Bjll Dingalls (Tom Djll, Bill Hsu, and Matt Ingalls) lay the railroad into terra incognita. Jacob Felix Heule is an improvising percussionist with a special interest in friction techniques. Kanoko Nishi-Smith performs contemporary compositions and improvises on piano and koto. Danishta Rivero is a vocalist who performs on electronics and the Hydrophonium, a water-based electro-acoustic percussion instrument she created.  More...

Sat 11/06 4:00 PM Building 34 [1024 Nimitz Building 34 Vallejo CA, 94592]
Re:Sound emerges in the Mare Island Historic Core at Building 34 with three performances by Bay Area artists working with sound and light.

- Evicshen
- John Davis + Keith Evans
- Suki O'Kane and Revered Collaborators  More...

Sat 11/06 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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The Del Sol Composer Incubator was created in 2020 to offer early career composers the chance to work in-depth with Del Sol over the course of 6 months on unique musical projects.  More...

Sun 11/07 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
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A World Premiere Piano Concert with Multimedia.

Pianist Ting Luo gives the World Premieres of a series of new works for solo piano and immersive visuals by living composers in Bay Area and beyond, including Danny Clay, Chatori Shimizu, and Jean Ahn, in collaboration with visual artists including Charles Woodman and Jo Ho. This event is curated and presented by New Arts Collaboration.

''External and internal spaces began to blend, allowing dreams, memories, and fragments to be unearthed and brought into the light. '' - NAC 2021  More...

Sun 11/07 4:00 PM St.Alban Church [1501 Washington Avenue Albany, CA 94706]
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Ensemble ARI with Soprano Candace Jones  More...

Sun 11/07 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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Full Circle is a free improvisation project between Anita Chandavarkar on bansuri (Indian bamboo flute) and Gabby Wen on guqin (Chinese seven-string zither). With a common interest in cross-cultural musical conversations, and a passion for ancient wisdom, the duo explores the unique synergy of this specific instrumental combination, beyond the expectations of its inherent sonic qualities, in both traditional and contemporary contexts.  More...

Sun 11/07 5:00 PM The Knockout [3223 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
Matt Robidoux ("At Dust" Album Release Show)
Carrie Ford Decunzo
LCM (Lynn, Cole, Mitch)
Spectralbinch  More...

Sun 11/07 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm. Donations for the venue rental are encouraged.

Masks required! Vaccinated performers may unmask while performing. Unvaccinated performers must remain masked at all times. Skylights will be open for air circulation. Please stay home if you are sick or believe you may have been exposed.  More...

Tue 11/09 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. Resident is casual and cool, and the community you'll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in the Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas. Due to restrictions, this show will only be streamed online, do not come to the Laundry  More...

Thu 11/11 5:30 PM SF Museum of Modern Art [151 Third St, SF Sculpture Garden, Floor 5]
Compositions II: Music and Poetry for Joan Mitchell

Phillip Greenlief and Evelyn Davis Duo
Larry Ochs and Donald Robinson Duo  More...

Thu 11/11 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
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CCRMA presents a livestream performance by SYRNX.  More...

Fri 11/12 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Rova Saxophone Quartet returns to the SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab for two sets: 7:00pm & 8:30pm and will perform new compositions.

In-Person tickets and broadcast info HERE  More...

Fri 11/12 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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NACUSAsf will present music for wind quintet written by members of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter and performed by one of the Bay Area’s outstanding ensembles: The Avenue Winds.  More...

Sat 11/13 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
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Karl Evangelista & Grex Play "For Milford Graves"

Karl Evangelista - guitar, Rei Scampavia - keys, Robert Lopez - drums

Guitarist Karl Evangelista and experimental trio Grex present “For Milford Graves,” an original composition commemorating legendary percussionist, educator and multidisciplinary researcher Milford Graves. The program will also feature pieces from Alice Coltrane, Don Cherry and Evangelista’s repertoire of Filipino American music.  More...

Sat 11/13 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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E4TT presents a recital with guest pianist Tin Yi Chelsea Wong in an Old World/New World musical conversation between three 20th century composers from the Old World (Ligeti, Dutilleux, Bacewicz) and four 21st century composers from the New World (Jonathan Bailey Holland, Gabriela Lena Frank, Zosha Di Castri, Viet Cuong).  More...

Sat 11/13 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Other Plastics (NY), Tom Weeks/Nathan Corder, Jordan Glenn/Evelyn Davis/Alexandra Buschman  More...

Sun 11/14 7:00 PM Berkeley Finnsh Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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Finnish Heritage Society presents Heikki Koskinen’s 75+1 Anniversary Concert celebrating Finnish-American music as part of the monthly Cultural Performance series at the Berkeley Finnish Hall featuring: Steve Heckman, Rent Romus, Joshua Marshall, Erika Oba, Mark Clifford, Mark Clifford, Cory Combs, Jason Levis  More...

Wed 11/17 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Outsound Presents Tatsuya Nakatani/Rent Romus, Phillip Greenlief/Thomas Dimuzio  More...

Thu 11/18 6:00 PM Mills College - Bell Tower [Mills College Music Department 5000 MacArthur Blvd]
Mendi & Keith Obadike – "The Bell Rang" – an installation at Mills College.  More...

Fri 11/19 6:00 PM Mills College - Bell Tower [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd]
Mendi & Keith Obadike – "The Bell Rang" – installation at Mills College  More...

Sat 11/20 6:00 PM Mills College - Bell Tower [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd]
Mendi & Keith Obadike – "The Bell Rang" – installation at Mills College  More...

Sat 11/20 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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Fred Frith is a songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist (bass, keyboards, violin) and improviser performing mostly on various permutations of the electric and acoustic guitar.

Moe! Staiano is a musician and composer of new music works and angular rock music. He will play (or smash into pieces) just about anything he can get his hands on, and somehow make a compelling musical statement out of it.  More...

Sat 11/20 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Larry Ochs, Saxophones; Gerald Cleaver, drums; and Tim Perkis, electronics

Live streamed on our YouTube channel and Facebook page  More...

Sun 11/21 4:00 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2201 Poplar Street Oakland, CA 94607]
Splinter Reeds

Premiering the concert version of Amadeus Regucera’s Absence in relief and Yannis Kyriakides' Hypothetical Islands

Tickets Here  More...

Sun 11/21 6:00 PM Mills College - Bell Tower [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA]
Mendi & Keith Obadike – "The Bell Rang" – an installation at Mills College.  More...

Wed 12/01 8:00 PM Internet Streaming [Online]
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Music perseveres. Recorded live in studio, Unsolitary is a semi-regular music series that intends to present solo and ensemble improvised music.

Randomized Free Improvisations, featuring:
Kevin Corcoran - percussion
Karl Evangelista - guitar
Phillip Greenlief - saxophone
Suki O'Kane - percussion
Zachary James Watkins - electronics, guitar

All proceeds will be directed to Bay Area social causes (a fraction of proceeds will be directed to Grex's ongoing fundraiser for the Milford Graves Memorial Fund). Donate via PayPal: LockdownIII2020@gmail.com
-or name-your-price at https://grex.bandcamp.com​​.  More...

Wed 12/01 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble Concert - works by P. Mariaca, Solares, Shah, Rzewski, M. Mariaca, Oliveros Rieman.  More...

Thu 12/02 7:30 PM CCRMA [ccrma.stanford.edu/live]
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CCRMA presents a live streamed performance by Las Sucias.  More...

Fri 12/03 8:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Charlie Hunter and Scott Amendola Duo

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Fri 12/03 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills Night of Free Improvisation – Mills Music Improvisation Ensemble (directed by Tomeka Reid) with guests.  More...

Sat 12/04 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills College Sound Techniques Final Concert – Dec. 4 at 8pm  More...

Sun 12/05 2:45 PM The Lost Church [427 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401]
Eki'Shola & the Lee Vandeveer Band: Benefit for North Bay Organizing Project (NBOP)  More...

Sun 12/05 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
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Anne Hege and Julie Herndon team up for a night of new sounds with original and familiar instruments. Showcasing excerpts from their latest projects including an album for The Tape Machine (an analog, live-looping instrument), The Furies (an opera for laptop orchestra and live vocalists), Shadow Prism (a light-responsive geodesic sphere), and works for extended piano, the concert will explore how instruments and bodies are essential to how we engage with live music performance.  More...

Sun 12/05 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm. Donations for the venue rental are encouraged.

Masks required! Vaccinated performers may unmask while performing. Unvaccinated performers must remain masked at all times. Skylights will be open for air circulation.  More...

Tue 12/07 7:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills College Seminar in Composition, Performance and Improvisation Concert.  More...

Sat 12/11 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Interminacy
Tom Djll (elec, vox), Tim Perkis (elec), Gino Robair(elec, piano),
Featuring readings, both live and recorded, from Tom Djll's
Shaddup, a book of new anecdotes putatively by John Cage.
and
Ben Davis, solo cello  More...

Sat 12/11 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
X Sound – A concert of music by Maryzelle Ungo and Maisha Lani.  More...

Sun 12/12 12:00 PM Mission Synths [3026 24th St. San Francisco, CA 94110]
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Mission Synths 1 Year Anniversary  More...

Tue 12/14 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
Streaming only:Click for stream  
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. Resident is casual and cool, and the community you'll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in the Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas. Due to restrictions, this show will only be streamed online, do not come to the Laundry  More...