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CALENDAR

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12/16/2019 - 01/29/2020

Monday, December 16
Mon 12/16 7:30 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St SF]
Thurston Moore Group at The Chapel  More...
Wednesday, December 18
Wed 12/18 7:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118]
A free screening of the Sublime Frequencies documentary "Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan" (2006).  More...
Wed 12/18 7:30 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St, SF, CA 94117]
An earlier start than usual, 7:30pm, to accomodate FIVE BANDS starting with Ava Mendoza!

Evil Moisture
Fragility itself leaps from his fingertips, circuits keel away catastrophically perishing in sounds you're sure never to hear again.
http://evilmoisture.free.fr/mdh.html

Hobo Sonn
Hobo Sonn is the dissolver of sound and with it go all touchstones of reality, every grain beneath your feet. With releases on Chocolate Monk, Ruralfaune, and Pendu.
http://leuropeparisien.free.fr/freefolkloreCD.html

Thomas Dimuzio
Thomas Dimuzio celebrates his first all-Buchla album where signals fetched from the modulated airwaves are sent corruscating through custom algorithmic crossfades.
https://resipiscent.com/artist/view/51

DemonFace
To hear the music of DemonFace is to glimpse the anchorline beneath it all. In sunless depths where noord, tranoe, toe fetish and larynx converge an immense hunger hunts without rest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxbThJ65Af0

Ava Mendoza
Since moving from Oakland to Brooklyn, Mendoza's guitar powers have only amplified, her voice intensified, her collaborators multiplied, and her chops been verified. Tonight expect a solo set.
http://avamendozamusic.com/  More...
Wed 12/18 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Will Bernard, John Schott, Scott Amendola, Jenny Scheinman, Todd Sickafoose  More...
Wed 12/18 8:00 PM Envelop SF [900 Marin St San Francisco]
Suzanne Ciani - LIVE Quadraphonic : LISTEN  More...
Thursday, December 19
Thu 12/19 6:00 PM Contemporary Jewish Museum [736 Mission Street, SF]
Experiments in Sonic Potential
duo performance with Lisa Mezzacappa, bass and dancer/choreographer Kara Davis

Thrilled to join an illustrious cohort of musicians who have contributed music performances this fall as part of the Contemporary Jewish Museum's exhibition of the work of California visual artist, Annabeth Rosen. I'll be performing a duo with dancer/choreographer Kara Davis, a master improviser and deep artistic thinker. I've wanted to work with Kara on a project for a very long time, I'm really looking forward to our collaboration.

Free with Museum Admission  More...
Thu 12/19 8:00 PM Envelop SF [900 Marin St San Francisco]
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians : LISTEN  More...
Thu 12/19 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Tom Djll - solo electronics
TanukiSpiderCat - electronics/cello  More...
Friday, December 20
Fri 12/20 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Bay Area Composer Group: The Unquiet Grave  More...
Fri 12/20 7:30 PM Game Shop Downstairs [124 Santa Clara St, San Jose]
Córdova / flukemogulMurray / Borin&Patrick / Dust Lord /Huguenor  More...
Fri 12/20 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
The ACTUAL TRIO with special guest Cecilia Engelhart  More...
Saturday, December 21
Sat 12/21 7:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Murray/Sato/Weeks/Winant, Lisa Mezzacappa, KREation Ensemble  More...
Sat 12/21 8:00 PM Sunnyvale [patricktalesforejr@gmail.com Sunnyvale]
Lords of Outland Celebrate "25 Years Under the Mountain"  More...
Saturday, December 28
Sat 12/28 4:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118]
A free screening of the Sublime Frequencies documentary "Niger: Magic & Ecstasy in the Sahel" (2005).  More...
Monday, December 30
Mon 12/30 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
OFJS: Yuppie Liberation Front, Hodel/Ivers, Murray/Sato/Weeks  More...
Tuesday, December 31
Tue 12/31 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
New Years Eve with Locomotive Sunflower!

Darren Johnston, trumpet
Wil Blades, organ
Jon Arkin, drums  More...
Monday, January 6
Mon 1/06 8:30 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out: January 2020 Shows  More...
Mon 1/06 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
OFJS:
Ghandhi/Larocca/Milberger (NY)
Voicehandler
gabby fluke-mogul  More...
Tuesday, January 7
Tue 1/07 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Nomad Trio

Gordon Grdina has managed to place a finger in every corner of the jazz/world fusion room. —Pop Matters

Complex, intricate, idiosyncratic, and rockin’—those are the adjectives that best describe this cross-border collaboration between Vancouver guitarist Gordon Grdina, and New York’s Matt Mitchell piano, and Jim Black drums. Juno Award winner Grdina’s compositions give the nod to 20th century classical composition, rock, free jazz, and third stream, and this trio promises to explore those ideas at their highest levels.
Matt Mitchell - piano
Jim Black - drums

Scott Amendola Phillip Greenlief Duo
Scott Amendola – drums, electronics
Phillip Greenlief – tenor saxophones and Bb clarinet  More...
Thursday, January 9
Thu 1/09 7:45 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Burmese, Pandiscordian Necrogenesis, Foreskin Sashimi in Paradise, Ormus
Thur, Jan 9, 8pm-11pm $5 notaflof, all ages
Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF

Burmese
If you haven't yet heard (and marvelled at the cover art) of their 2xLP on Fuck Yoga Records out of Macedonia, untwist yourself and figure it out fast. Consider it a metaphyical stretch before you're standing a few feet away from them inside the Peacock Lounge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVGrzEnuPsU

Pandiscordian Necrogenesis
The compelling contraint of lo-fi metal becomes far more stark when further constrained to the blinding blur of just two arms, two legs, and one forked tongue.
https://pandiscordiannecrogenesis.bandcamp.com/

Foreskin Sashimi in Paradise
Sewn together from ninety-three locally sourced foreskins then slow roasted to perfection in an imported Siberian outhouse, this fusion twist on an old fashioned delicacy is sure to make the driest mouth water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pimE2u5Q4Lc

Ormus
Sound synthesis with its roots in heavy percussion, Ormus is the solo sonic and visual offering from multi-instrumentalist Ashley Spungin, rummer, coder, visual artist and instrument builder based in Portland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfNr_AG9aLU  More...
Thu 1/09 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94103]
David Leikam is a San Francisco-based composer-performer and bandleader.
zBug is a psychedelic jazz trio. Found in 2006 by David and features veteran musicians from the SFBA  More...
Friday, January 10
Fri 1/10 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Full: Howl & Beat

Acclaimed Bay Area recording artist and producer PC Muñoz returns with an evening of literary and musical explorations inspired by the Beat Generation.  More...
Fri 1/10 8:30 PM Victoria Theatre [2961 16th Street San Francisco]
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2020: PIERRE SCHAEFFER, PAULINE OLIVEROS, BARRY TRUAX, ROBERT NORMANDEAU, Maggi Payne, BRAN(...)POS, CLIFF CARUTHERS, MATTHEW BARNARD, PARAZON, LEAH REID  More...
Saturday, January 11
Sat 1/11 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St SF]
G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S

NOON UNTIL 2PM SHARP!!!
vegan pancakes served.  More...
Sat 1/11 7:00 PM Victoria Theatre [2961 16th Street San Francisco]
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2020: KEN NORDINE, FRANCIS DHOMONT, NATASHA BARRETT, THOM BLUM, DOUGLAS MCCAUSLAND, KRISTIN MILTNER, MICHELLE MOELLER, CECILIA CASTRO, SANGWON LEE, FELIPE OTONDO, DANIELLE SAVAGE, FULYA UÇANOK  More...
Sat 1/11 7:30 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland]
Ether Ship  More...
Sat 1/11 9:30 PM Victoria Theatre [2961 16th Street San Francisco]
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2020: TORU TAKEMITSU, KENNETH ATCHLEY, BRUCE BENNETT, SAVANNAH AGGER, LÉA BOUDREAU, NICOLA GIANNINI, and TROND LOSSIUS  More...
Sat 1/11 9:30 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Dark sounds and exultant noise in the heart of Oakland, featuring Portland experimental/no wave duo The Social Stomach, Oakland art rock band Grex, guitarist Matt Robidoux, and vocalist/improviser Rodolfo Cordova-Lebron.

The Social Stomach (PDX): TJ Thompson (dms, elec), Diana Oropeza (voice)
Grex: Karl Evangelista (gtr, voice, elec), Rei Scampavia (keys, voice, elec)
Matt Robidoux Solo
Rodolfo Cordova
Leisurewear (PDX)  More...
Sunday, January 12
Sun 1/12 7:00 PM Victoria Theatre [2961 16th Street San Francisco]
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2020 - sfSound plays works for instruments and spatialized sound by Ken Ueno, MARIO DAVIDOVSKY, DENIS SMALLEY, JONTY HARRISON, Kyle Bruckmann, and Matt Ingalls.  More...
Monday, January 13
Mon 1/13 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
OFJS: Shoebox Orchestra & Tom Weeks Solo  More...
Tuesday, January 14
Tue 1/14 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Way Out West Concert Series - The Holly Martins  More...
Tue 1/14 8:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase
Ben Rempel (feedback drums from LA)
Angela Roberts and Scott Goff

NEW EARLY START TIME! Doors at 8:00 / Music at 8:30.  More...
Tue 1/14 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.

We stream every show on YouTube. Subscribe to this channel with the bell on to be alerted: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8cr5jzteStl_1C3t1ie0wQ  More...
Wednesday, January 15
Wed 1/15 7:30 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118]
A free screening of the Sublime Frequencies documentary "Sumatran Folk Cinema" (2008).  More...
Friday, January 17
Fri 1/17 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Surround Sound Salon Series (SSSS)  More...
Fri 1/17 9:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Belief Defect Live A/V  More...
Saturday, January 18
Sat 1/18 4:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118]
Free performance: The Rent Romus Trio presents Manala, a Finnish mythopoetic jazz suite.  More...
Sat 1/18 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Michael Wilcox/Sheldon Brown - jazz club! when lights are low...  More...
Sat 1/18 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
FEEDBACK: In Response  More...
Sunday, January 19
Sun 1/19 2:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Requiem for Dalachinsky - Jessica Loos & Friends  More...
Sun 1/19 4:00 PM Presidio Chapel [FISHER LOOP (BLDG 130) IN THE PRESIDIO San Francisco]
Sunday Concerts at Presidio Chapel presents pianist Janis Mercer and baritone John Smalley performing Second Viennese art songs by Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Eisler, and Ullmann in a free concert on Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 4 pm at the historic Presidio Chapel. Also on the program, pianist Jason Stoll performs music by Chopin, Kapustin, and Gershwin.  More...
Sun 1/19 5:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Noise Matinee Soiree: Piece Of Paper , Autodidact , Dès Vu  More...
Sun 1/19 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
D. Riley Nicholson: “Resurrection” Album Release  More...
Sun 1/19 7:00 PM Scottish Rite Center [1547 Lakeside Dr Oakland, CA 94612]
HAPPENING NOW – IN THE NAME OF LOVE
THE 18TH ANNUAL MUSICAL TRIBUTE HONORING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
“RHYTHM AND BLUES AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT”
with Tony Lindsay, Raz Kennedy, Tammi Brown, Clif Payne, Tiffany Austin  More...
Sun 1/19 7:00 PM Sunnyvale [patricktalesforejr@gmail.com Sunnyvale]
Ghandhi/Larocca/Milberger (NYC) & Eliot Burk String Quartet w/ Patrick Talesfore, Jr.  More...
Sun 1/19 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...
Tuesday, January 21
Tue 1/21 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Way Out West Concert Series - Scott Amendola Quartet  More...
Thursday, January 23
Thu 1/23 7:30 PM 945 ArtSpace [945 Clay St., San Francisco, CA 94108]
Asian Improv aRts, Lenora Lee Dance, and API Cultural Center are pleased to present

Vijay Iyer (piano) with Hafez Modirzadeh (saxophone)  More...
Thu 1/23 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Steuart Liebig & Garth Powell plus Larry Ochs  More...
Thu 1/23 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Mika Pontecorvo (Solo)
Performative Atmospheric Architectures - Guitar and Electronics
Diaspora Foci
Jaroba - saxophone/bass clarinet/electronics, Mark Pino - percussion, Mika Pontercorvo - guitar  More...
Friday, January 24
Fri 1/24 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Quince Ensemble: This a Changin’ World  More...
Fri 1/24 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Marta Sanchez Quintet  More...
Fri 1/24 9:00 PM Gray Area [2665 Mission St. SF]
Moritz von Oswald: Akklamation  More...
Saturday, January 25
Sat 1/25 4:00 PM The Golden Bull [412 14th St Oakland, CA 94612]
**Early Matinee show**

Canadensis (Eugene, OR)
Fyrhtu
Souls and Cities  More...
Sat 1/25 6:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
Paul Hanson, solo bassoon and electronics with a 4 course Jamaican menu  More...
Sat 1/25 7:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]
ArtX, Vibes & Vino, and CCRMA present // NEW DIMENSIONALITY //
live synthesized beatboxing, sensory engagement with the SF Bay tidal record, and an entombed and distorted Alexa…
experience all this and even more of our community’s most boundary-pushing art!  More...
Sat 1/25 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Ensemble 4 These Times: Blooming Flowers  More...
Sat 1/25 7:30 PM Saint Mary's College Chapel [Chapel: Main, 1928 St. Marys Road, Moraga, CA 94575]
Ensemble Ari collaborates with SF Opera Soprano, Rhoslyn Jones (www.rhoslynjones.com), featuring 2 World Premieres by women composers. Along with song literature by Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, American composer Amy Beach's Piano Trio will be performed by Ensemble Ari.  More...
Sat 1/25 8:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Marta Sanchez jazz piano duo  More...
Sunday, January 26
Sun 1/26 4:00 PM Covenant Presbyterian Church [Covenant Presbyterian Church 670 E.Meadow Drive, Palo Alto, 94306]
Ensemble Ari collaborates with SF Opera Soprano, Rhoslyn Jones (www.rhoslynjones.com), featuring 2 World Premieres by women composers. Along with song literature by Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, American composer Amy Beach's Piano Trio will be performed by Ensemble Ari.  More...
Sun 1/26 4:00 PM Chez Hanny [1300 Silver Avenue SF]
Marta Sanchez Quintet  More...
Sun 1/26 6:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Spencer Owen Timeshare (finale)/Van Allen Belt/Grex/Full Indian  More...
Sun 1/26 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
20th Season opening concert
Weeks/Sato/Carson/Levin
Tom Weeks - saxophones, Kazuto Sato - bass, Brett Carson - piano, Aaron Levin - drums
Guinea Pig plays "The New Neighbors" CD release performance
Tony Passarell/Rent Romus/Timothy Orr/Robert Kuhlmann  More...
Monday, January 27
Mon 1/27 8:30 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out II  More...
Mon 1/27 9:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Jamison Williams (FL) & Liebig/Perkis/Djll  More...