Tuesday, November 13
Tue 11/13 1:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street
Berkeley]Imperfect Interactions: a lecture/workshop on improvisation-based intermedia collaboration between dancers, musicians, and technologists.
Led by Scott Rubin, with special guests TBA
More... Tue 11/13 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... Wednesday, November 14
Wed 11/14 7:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St.
SF]dorkbotSF: Mark Pauline, Scott Kildall, Naut Humon
Come to Gray Area and spend an evening with people doing strange things with electricity.
All Ages
Cash bar for 21+
$5-$20 sliding scale entry
Schedule:
7:00pm social hour
8:00pm presentations
More... Wed 11/14 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave
Albany]Invisible Bird
A guitar, trumpet, and drum trio collectively led by three engaging and unique artists from the Bay Area and Colorado;
Scott Amendola, Shane Endsley, and Dave Devine. Invisible Bird was formed in 2017 and is releasing it's debut album, Flutter to Fuzz, in the Spring of 2018. The group broadly employs the use of electronics to branch out from the raw acoustic trio sound. Trumpet and guitar take turns covering bass lines and all three players create swirling digital textures with a hefty collection of boutique stomp boxes. The three distinct compositional voices in the group craft original music that transport the listener from rootsy back beats to anthemic indie rock to acoustic modern jazz trio to ambient electronica. Invisible Bird also reinvents classic repertoire from artists like Nick Drake an Joni Mitchell and toys with new hits from artists like Bruno Mars and Rihanna. The debut album features cameos from special guests Sam Amidon and Orenda Fink (Azure Ray). Look for the group to be on the road starting in June of 2018!
More... Wed 11/14 9:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]Voicehandler CD release, Andrew Bernstein (Baltimore), IMA
Voicehandler's new self-released CD light from another light is a collection of improvised pieces representative of their live sets from the past couple years. The instrumentation differs from their previous album with Rivero making extensive use of modular electronics, and Heule expanding to a full drum kit.
The performance is loose and exploratory, at various times energetic and meditative. Rivero’s voice embraces noise, with the lines blurred between electronic processing and extended vocal techniques. Heule’s drumming maintains its typical ear for timbre within the context of driving percussive intensity.
More... Thursday, November 15
Thu 11/15 6:00 PM sfSoundRadio [http://sfsound.org/radio.html]The best kind of gig = the one you don't need to drag yourself out of the house for. Tune in to sfSound Radio to hear the live tablecore improvisation of the duo Usufruct (Polly Moller Springhorn,
Tim Walters) and the Noodles (Michael Zelner,
Suki O'Kane).
More... Thu 11/15 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]On the next edition of Latitudes—an album release show on the occasion of Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano’s new record “Brace Up.” Join Other Minds’ Blaine Todd at the C4NM as he presents two singular voices in the world of experimental guitar music. Bill Orcutt performs his convulsive blues on four-string electric, while composer and former Black Spirituals guitarist,
Zachary James Watkins sketches an aural map of the C4NM through walls of feedback. 7:00pm doors, 7:30pm concert
More... Thu 11/15 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street
SF]Thursday Nov 15
8:15 pm
Booker Stardum - solo drums
9:00 pm Sontag Shogun’s Braided Sound
Ian Temple (Sontag Shogun) - piano
Jesse Perlstein (Sontag Shogun) - processed field recordings, voice
Jeremy Young - sine & square waves, amplified surfaces & objects
Danishta Rivero - voice
Amma Ateria - electronics
Andrej Hronco - lapsteel
Briana Marela - synth, voice
Andrew Bernstein (Horse Lords) - saxophone
Booker Stardrum - drums
More... Sunday, November 18
Sun 11/18 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission
SF]A night with ruth weiss
Born in Germany in 1928 and escaping fascist occupation from Austria in 1939, founder of jazz beat poetry, ruth weiss began experimenting with jazz and poetry in Chicago in 1948. Later she lead the series at The Cellar in San Francisco in 1956 that would propel her contemporaries Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and others to world wide recognition. In 1996 writer Barbara Knight helped to propel ruth onto the world stage with her book "Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution"
Now at 90 years her unique invention is going strong throughout the world today. weiss spells her name in lowercase as such as a symbolic protest against "law and order," since in her birthplace of Germany all nouns are spelled capitalized.
She will perform a quartet set with Hal Davis - log, Doug O'Connor - double bass,
Rent Romus - saxophones/flutes and a duo set with
Doug Lynner - Mystery Serge Synth
More... Sun 11/18 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)
The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm. It's free. If you want to contribute, bring snacks and drinks.
More... Monday, November 26
Mon 11/26 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]SOLD OUT | The World According to Sound, LIVE!
You will hear bridges and ants and the gurgle of mud pots. The sounds will transport you inside another person’s head and back in time a hundred years to the streets of Berlin. There will be a musical performance by a washing machine, a sonorous tennis match, and a disturbing howl Marco Polo heard centuries ago while crossing the Gobi Desert. There's absolutely nothing to see. It will be a spectacle entirely for the ears.
More... Mon 11/26 9:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St
SF]The Monday Make-Out Special presents cutting-edge bands in the worlds of jazz, improvised music, and creative song. Our maiden show features an explosive new set from Oakland art rock/experimental duo Grex, paired with new music from Santa Cruz transplants JUDO NO.
Grex (art rock/experimental):
Karl Evangelista-gtr, voice, percussion, Rei Scampavia-keys, voice, percussion
JUDO NO (polyrhythmic rock)
More... Tuesday, November 27
Tue 11/27 6:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Semiconductor: Earthworks presented by The Lab and Recombinant Media Labs as part of the Recombinant Festival 2018
Opening: Tuesday, November 27; 6-8pm
Panel Discussion: Wednesday, November 28, 7-8pm
Gallery Hours: November 27–December 1, 6-8pm
Free
More... Thursday, November 29
Thu 11/29 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell)
SF
CA]Laurie Anderson’s Songs For Women with Tammy Hall
The first part of the Laurie Anderson series was inspired by the composer Tammy Hall’s beautiful piece “For Miss Jones”. Anderson thought it would be interesting to do a collection of pieces written for women and make it into a celebration that crosses back and forth from jazz to stories to electronics.
More... Thu 11/29 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street
SF]8:00 pm Antonic/Fischer
Thomas Antonic - text, recitation
Michael Fischer - ad-hoc soundscaping
A morphological text- and soundscape, richly allusive, drawn, sculpture-like, filmic, cross-linking, floating. Whirring visions form a coup of poetic escalation.
9:00 pm Nishi-Smith/Robertson
Kanoko Nishi-Smith - koto
Owen Stewart Robertson -guitar
More... Saturday, December 1
Sat 12/01 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Maggi Payne / Quark Matters (Farhadian, Vinkeloe, Robinson, Reed, and Perkis)
Quarks combine to form composite particles, and describe well the five musicians' adventurous melodic - rhythmical sound landscapes with influences from classical, jazz, songwriting, electronic and improv music. The eminent composer, flautist and video artist
Maggi Payne opens the evening.
More... Sat 12/01 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell)
SF
CA]Laurie Anderson’s Songs For Men with
Scott Amendola “I realized I’ve also written a lot of things for and about men and I asked the amazing
Scott Amendola to join me in an evening of improv. Some of the greatest experts on women are men and of course vice versa so I’m hoping for some lively mash ups.”
More... Sat 12/01 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]DO-OVER Music Series: duo B. Experimental Band +
Tim DeCillis solo
Featuring:
Kyle Bruckmann, Polly Moller Springhorn,
Matt Ingalls, Josh Marshall, Theo Padouvas, Brendan Lai-Tong,
gabby fluke-mogul, Julie Michael,
Crystal Pascucci,
Nava Dunkelman,
John Finkbeiner,
Lisa Mezzacappa, Jason Levis.
More... Wednesday, December 5
Wed 12/05 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Beam Splitter & Voicehandler
Beam Splitter is a duo for amplified voice, trombone and occasional analog electronics. Utilizing the pure sounds of acoustic and closely amplified sound sources, the duo joins together two individual voices into a distinct dialog that delves beyond the borders of the corporeal elements of extended technique and sound.
Voicehandler plays intuitive, incantatory music grounded in the most primitive and somatic instruments -- the voice and percussion -- juxtaposed with contemporary, disembodied electronics. We situate ourselves in our physical and social environment through our music. Our improvisations are shaped by their setting and context, and we use site-specific installations to more deeply experience spaces. We deconstruct song forms in relation to mythology and literature to explore our humanity and the shifting discourse surrounding it.
Jacob Felix Heule: percussion
Danishta Rivero: voice and electronics
More... Friday, December 7
Fri 12/07 12:00 AM KPFA 94.1FM [1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley CA 9470]Texting Band (
Kattt Atchley,
Suki O'Kane,
Dan Plonsey) takes over, for as long as host
Barbara Golden permits, the Crack O Dawn show on KPFA. A performance, a marathon backward scroll, a casio keyboard, A stick, a stone, it's the end of the road It's the rest of a stump, it's a little alone It's a sliver of glass, it is life, it's the sun It is night, it is death, it's a trap, it's a gun
More... Fri 12/07 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Roscoe Mitchell Quartet
The Lab will host saxophonist and composer
Roscoe Mitchell and his quartet with Ambrose Akinmusire, Junius Paul and Vincent Davis. The project marks Mitchell’s last performance before he returns to Madison, Wisconsin, celebrating his eleven-year contribution to the Bay Area as the chair of the Mills College music department. An iconoclastic figure in contemporary music whose work ranges from classical to contemporary, from wild and forceful free jazz to ornate chamber music, Mitchell is an internationally renowned musician, composer, and innovator dubbed one of the most important musicians in jazz by The New York Times.
More... Saturday, December 8
Sat 12/08 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Roscoe Mitchell Quartet
The Lab will host saxophonist and composer
Roscoe Mitchell and his quartet with Ambrose Akinmusire, Junius Paul and Vincent Davis. The project marks Mitchell’s last performance before he returns to Madison, Wisconsin, celebrating his eleven-year contribution to the Bay Area as the chair of the Mills College music department. An iconoclastic figure in contemporary music whose work ranges from classical to contemporary, from wild and forceful free jazz to ornate chamber music, Mitchell is an internationally renowned musician, composer, and innovator dubbed one of the most important musicians in jazz by The New York Times.
More... Sunday, December 9
Sun 12/09 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave.
Berkeley]Hailing from varying backgrounds and 3 different continents, the female music trio "Mooncake" consists of Swedish-based saxophonist/flutist
Biggi Vinkeloe, flutist/vocalist Emily Hay from Southern California and Japanese born pianist/sound artist
Motoko Honda who now lives in Oakland. Hay and Honda have collaborated as a duo together since 2009 and the Mooncake trio developed when they invited Vinkeloe to join them for some concerts in San Francisco several years ago which led to new friendships and genre busting and unique musical explorations.
More... Sun 12/09 4:00 PM Saint Mark's Lutheran Church [1111 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States]Celebrate the holidays by decking the halls with new traditions! We offer beloved seasonal music from around the world, from sublime to silly, old to new, and with (optional) audience singing. Works by Grieg, Howells, Tavener, Hassler, Puerling, Willan, Praetorious, Conte, Grau, Poulenc and others and new favorites for the years ahead. Introducing our Composers-in- and Not-in-Residence, Jean Ahn and Robinson McClellan.
More... Sun 12/09 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]Shapeshifters Cinema: duo B. (
Lisa Mezzacappa and Jason Levis) vs. viDEO sAVant with special guest Noah Phillips
A night of live cinema:
Found & Lost by Janis Crystal Lipzin, with live music performed by
Lisa MezzacappaPostmark Tokyo by Mark Wilson, with live music performed by duo B. + Noah Phillips
duo B. vs. Video Savant - new sound and image work by Charles Woodman,
Lisa Mezzacappa, and Jason Levis
More... Tuesday, December 11
Tue 12/11 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... Wednesday, December 12
Wed 12/12 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Join us for an evening of music, meditation, art and dance expiring and celebrating the consciousness or our allies in the green world. 7 PM: Plant Meditation with Michael Dooley and plant portraits by Anjelica Collard. 8 PM:
Sarah Cahill, Piano: Patterns of Plants, Mamoru Fujieda. 9 PM: Pet the Tiger: Psychobotanikon.
More... Wed 12/12 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St
SF]Ezra Buchla
Builder of the open-source 'norns' sound processor available from https://monome.org/norns/ sound machines for the exploration of time and space. So, your camera phones are gonna be useless but bring everything else you got.
Sally Decker
Decker's refined use of feedback systems, the voice, and text-scores pull you headlong between internal and external worlds where "each day carries a different version of what you project onto it."
https://multanox.bandcamp.com/
Transient (David Molina)
It's rare to get to hear his solo, furthest-out, ambient/noise project known as Transient. This is that chance, don't blink or he's on another hemisphere.
http://drmsound.com/
The Deletist
Undiluted unblinking unlying music born of love and courage, everything about her is genuine and full tilt. Her voice is her own, sonorous and singular and transmutable to any instrument she touches, or any vessle for that matter.
https://deletist.bandcamp.com
More... Friday, December 14
Fri 12/14 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St.
Berkeley]- Bill Orcutt
- Voicehandler
Since 2014, software engineer and occasional avant-guitarist Bill Orcutt has been developing an open source computer music program called I Dropped My Phone the Screen Cracked. He has used it to record two LPs, 2016’s Cracked Music and 2017’s An Account of the Crimes of Peter Thiel and His Subsequent Arrest, Trial and Execution, which Wire magazine described as “maddening,” “hypnotic,” and “oddly pleasant.” At this event, Orcutt presents the premiere of a new algorithmic piece for Cracked entitled The Truth About Tuning.
Voicehandler opens the evening with a performance.
More... Fri 12/14 9:00 PM Oakland Metro Operahouse [522 2nd Street, Oakland, California 94607]Merzbow, Prurient, Kelly Moran in Oakland
More... Saturday, December 15
Sat 12/15 8:00 PM Saint Mark's Episcopal Church [600 Colorado Avenue
Palo Alto]Celebrate the holidays by decking the halls with new traditions! We offer beloved seasonal music from around the world, from sublime to silly, old to new, and with (optional) audience singing. Works by Grieg, Howells, Taverner, Hassler, Puerling, Willan, Praetorious, Conte, Poulenc and others and new favorites for the years ahead. Introducing our Composers-in- and Not-in-Residence, Jean Ahn and Robinson McClellan.
More... Sunday, December 16
Sun 12/16 3:00 PM The Women's Building [3543 18th Street #8, San Francisco, CA 94110]Each year, SFCMP holds several community events that encourage the exploration of contemporary music in a festive, community atmosphere.
We hope you'll join us in December for our in the COMMUNITY get together featuring Cornelius Cardew’s "The Great Learning, Paragraph 7."
In this group performance experience, the audience has the opportunity to add their voices to the musical recitation of an ancient Confucian text. The mood and spirit will be set through a Sonic Meditation by the great Pauline Oliveros.
More... Sun 12/16 4:00 PM Saint Paul's Episcopal Church [114 Montecito Avenue
Oakland]Celebrate the holidays by decking the halls with new traditions! We offer beloved seasonal music from around the world, from sublime to silly, old to new, and with (optional) audience singing. Works by Grieg, Howells, Taverner, Hassler, Puerling, Willan, Praetorious, Conte, Poulenc and others and new favorites for the years ahead. Introducing our Composers-in- and Not-in-Residence, Jean Ahn and Robinson McClellan.
More... Sun 12/16 4:00 PM The Knockout [3223 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110]Eugene Chadbourne - The Chadifornia Tour, with The Durty Whyte Boots and The Chuckleberries (4-7pm)
More... Sun 12/16 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...