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... Monday, January 7
Mon 1/07 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:
Flounder (modern jazz)
(David Dvorin-guitar,
Randy McKean-bass clarinet and tenor saxophone, Cliff Childers-bass trumpet, trombone & harmonica, Tim Bulkley-drums)
Set #2:
Mihaly Shimmering Leaves (creative music/jazz)
-Performing Light In the Ring, the Ali Suite
(Michael Cavaseno-guitar, effects, David Boyce-tenor and soprano saxophone,
Dave Mihaly-drums and guitar)
Set #3:
Revenant (free improvisation/EAI)
(
Tom Djll-electronics,
Karl Evangelista-guitar,
Brett Carson-keys,
Nava Dunkelman-percussion)
More... Tuesday, January 8
Tue 1/08 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St
SF]Resident is a monthly electronic music and visual open mic event started by Jeremy Black and friends in 2017. 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. Come shows us what you got.
More... Wednesday, January 9
Wed 1/09 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street
Berkeley]Pianist, composer, and improviser
Motoko Honda is a musical force of nature who blends jazz with chamber music, electronic music, and sounds of music from around the globe. Long a vital part of the improvised music community, Honda has collaborated with many luminaries, like Wadada Leo Smith, Elliott Sharp, William Winant, Mike Watt, and others. The “keyboard alchemist” (Los Angeles Times) leads her quartet through intricate compositions that layer taut rhythms and lush melodies. The band features some of Northern California’s most inventive, versatile sidemen, including
Cory Wright on woodwinds, Miles Wick on acoustic bass, and
Jordan Glenn on drums.
More... Wed 1/09 7:30 PM Space 124 @ Project Artaud [401 Alabama Street #124, San Francisco, CA 94110]Christine Bonansea and
Pamela Z join for an evening of solos and duets for movement, voice & electronics, and video, as part of Fresh Festival 2019 at Space 124 at 7:30pm in San Francisco, CA USA
More... Friday, January 18
Fri 1/18 4:00 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music [Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, SF Conservatory
50 Oak St.
SF]
In our "in the LABORATORY Series" we explore large-ensemble contemporary classical works that push the boundaries of the concert experience. This season, we explore several points of connectivity along experimentalist paths, laid down by composers all seeking to fuse a variety of music forms and personal experiences into multi-faceted sonic narratives. An epigrammatic song by Charles Ives serves as a jumping-off point for California-based composer Ted Hearne’s "‘The Cage’ Variations," a panoply of musical influence and memory that incorporates the work of numerous others in addition to his own. Pieces by Ingram Marshall, Molly Joyce, and Mark-Anthony Turnage join together in further exploration of the theme - sometimes in the direct interaction of live performers with pre-recorded sound materials from places across the globe. Bay-area native Timo Andres’ "Some Connecticut Gospel" draws another line back to Ives, rounding out the program with a different take on the notion of memory and that which has been left behind us. In accordance with SFCMP’s mission of encouraging and mentoring the next generation of new music performers, San Francisco Conservatory of Music students join the program as part of SFCMP’s education and professional development series.
More... Fri 1/18 7:30 PM Grace Cathedral [1100 California St
San Francisco]The Eve of the March - A Celebration of the Divine Feminine
In honor and awe of the Women's March 2019, Vajra Voices & the Ghiberti Center for Culture present The Eve of the March - a concert in the sacred space of Grace Cathedral where we will celebrate womens’ voices and the power of community.
Purchase tickets here More... Fri 1/18 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]Please join us on the CCRMA Stage for a concert of works by Clarence Barlow. Chryssie Nanou will perform a selection of preludes and fugues for piano from "Ludus Ragalis" in alternation with some of his multichannel electroacoustic pieces.
Pre-concert lecture at 5:30pm:
Before the concert, Mr. Barlow will give a talk about "Five Dodecaphonic Pieces", a series of 12-channel electroacoustic pieces realized in 2016 and 2017. He will also briefly talk about "Approximating Pi" and "Four ISIS Studies", electroacoustic pieces from 2003-2008. These works will be presented in the concert.
More... Sunday, January 20
Sun 1/20 7:00 PM KFJC 89.7 FM [89.7 FM Radio or https://www.kfjc.org/]Anna Homler qnd Jorge Martin will perform live in The Pit, at KFJC radio studio.
Join Anna Homler and Jorge Martin as they explore with unknown language toy electronic found sound manipulations conjuring up the spirits of places unclear yet familiar.
Sunday, January 20, 7pm. Hear it live on the radio at 89.7 in the bay area or online at
kfjc.org More... Sun 1/20 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...