Tuesday, November 11
Tue 11/11 7:00 PM Wu Performance Hall [UC Berkeley Campus Morrison Hall, 104]Korean Experimental Music Festival: Program with Traditional Korean Gayageums with
Del Sol String QuartetThe
Del Sol String Quartet with Traditional Musicians from the National Gugak Center in Seoul perform new works from Berkeley and Santa Cruz composers.
This event is free and open to the public.
More... Thursday, November 13
Thu 11/13 7:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center
1050 River St. #119
Santa Cruz]Click to make donation Santa Cruz Electronic Music OM is a series of live electronic music every 4th Thursday of the month in Santa Cruz (an early Thanksgiving session, 13 NOV). From ambient to techno and improv to sequenced using synthesizers, sequencer devices, and other electronic instruments featuring Patrick Anderson,
David Leikam, Kinch, Reverb Canopy, Lobie, Dean Fraser, Petra.
More... Thu 11/13 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St, Oakland]Classical Revolution
Classical Revolution is a collective of musicians dedicated to performing high-quality chamber music in non-traditional and accessible settings. Founded in 2006 at the Revolution Cafe in San Francisco, the movement's mission is to dismantle the barriers often associated with classical music, bringing it "to the people" in cafes, bars, and other community spaces.
More... Thu 11/13 7:30 PM York Street Collective [1100 Valencia Street, San Francisco 94110]American Music: meditative improvisations influenced by hybrid immigrant-american identities
More... Thu 11/13 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [738 Haight St]Yama Uba, Vio (IDHAZ + Emily Bouton + Christopher Moore), Camera Oscura (Loachfillet), Nerfbau (solo)
November 13, 8pm-11pm Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF
All-ages, $5-$15 notaflof
.::more details soon::.
More... Sunday, November 16
Sun 11/16 4:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]The Vex Collection, a remarkable trio employing non-western instruments to startling & intensely beautiful effect, perform in the intimacy of a house concert. The eatures Mat Muntz (Croatian/Bulgarian bagpipes, bass and electronics); gamin (the Korean woodwinds piri, taepyeongso, saenghwang); and Vicente Atria (drums and electronics).
The Vex Collection uses unheard-of combinations of traditional instruments, newly devised musical contraptions, and a philosophy of mad-scientific experimentation in their pursuit of ancient and futuristic sounds. The Vex Collection grew from Mat and Vicente’s shared fascination with the double reed, an ancient musical technology developed by virtually every culture on Earth in order to produce loud, brilliant, and beautifully intense sounds. On their self-titled debut, the striking presences of traditional instruments from Scotland, Korea, and the Balkans are not softened or altered so as to better blend with one another; they are allowed to clash thunderously in one moment and synthesize miraculously in the next, imagining some forgotten past where these sounds could have emerged as part of an organic folk tradition.
More... Sun 11/16 4:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street
Berkeley]Last workshop went great! Let's have another one. We had lots of learning and discussion and playing and such. Let's do it again. Sunday November 16 at 4pm. Tom's Place
More... Sun 11/16 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street
Dresher Ensemble Studio
Oakland]The Rainwater-Shim Duo (pianist
Anne Rainwater and flutist MEERENAI SHIM) performs duos and solos, including Pencilled Wings for flute, piano, and electronic playback by Emma O'Halloran, Caroline Ansink's Greener Grass and Elliott Carter's 90+ for piano, and Miniatures Book 4: Preset Etudes for flute and electronics by Brent Miller.
THOMAS CARNACKI, in the performance arena, has numbered as many as seven individuals, and as few as zero. Primary aesthetic concerns tend to revolve around uneasy textures, nuance, organicity, and peculiarity. Repeat offenders down the years have included the late Jim Kaiser, Gregory Hagan, Jesse Burson, and Sheila Bosco; this evening's incarnation consists of
Cheryl E. Leonard and GREGORY SCHARPEN alongside AGNES SZELAG. Carnacki music has accompanied dance pieces, films, plays, and outdoor installation spectacles across the continent and internationally. The most recent recorded documents to have been released into the world are the sibling albums Cadavre Isolé and Rencontre Fortuite, both derived from a formal exercise of inspired happenstance in the middle of lockdown.
More... Sun 11/16 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Félicia Atkinson + Jon Porras
In a mid-renovation performance within The Lab’s cavernous space, before permanence sets in, we invite you to experience work by Félicia Atkinson and Jon Porras.
More... Wednesday, November 19
Wed 11/19 7:00 PM Birdhouse Gallery [2548 Judah, San Francisco, CA]Program — "A Sonic Response to the Exhibition”
Eagle Friend Radio [Lenny Gonzalez solo]
November 19, 2025, 7:00PM
Birdhouse Gallery, 2548 Judah, San Francisco, CA
Live experimental music performance at Birdhouse Gallery by Eagle Friend Radio [Lenny Gonzalez solo], composed in response to Catherine Lipsetz Dauer’s exhibition on view, “the things we hold, the things we carry”.
More... Thursday, November 20
Thu 11/20 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St, Oakland]Echo's Bones
Echo’s Bones is an improvising woodwind trio based in the San Francisco Bay Area. They have been improvising together for 7 years, making music that has been described as: “Avant pastoralism in a chamber music mode” (Eric Whittington - bon vivant; proprietor, Bird & Beckett); and “Mesmerizing serpentine yeti music” (Dave Mihaly - drummer, composer, leader of Shimmering Leaves). They have performed at Medicine For Nightmares, Mosswood Sound Series, SIMM Series, Bird & Beckett, Tom’s Place and San Francisco Public Libraries. A recording of their Mosswood show is on the SF Public Libraries Bay Beats website.
More... Thu 11/20 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Phillip Greenlief/
Scott Amendola Duo
Tickets: $20 General Admission, $15 Members & Students
Buy Tickets OnlineOne of the most engaging team-ups in exploratory jazz celebrates 30 years of simpatico collaboration and creativity with the release of Stay With It, their first outing on the Clean Feed imprint. It finds
Phillip Greenlief and
Scott Amendola developing the febrile dialogues mapped out on their deliciously bristling 1995 debut, Collect My Thoughts, an absorbing set that saw the pair garner considerable international plaudits, inspiring them to further cultivate their connection through regular touring expeditions.
More... Thursday, December 4
Thu 12/04 7:30 PM Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College at Northeastern University, Oakland [Richards Rd
Oakland, CA 94613]On Thursday December 4, 2025, at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, Other Minds welcomes Singaporean avant-garde pianist and toy pianist Margaret Leng Tan to present And No Birds Sing.
More... Sunday, December 7
Sun 12/07 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street
Dresher Ensemble Studio
Oakland]HUMMINGBIRD:
Phillip Greenlief, EVELYN DAVIS and
Jordan Glenn make sputtering buzzes with tail feathers in meadows and open forests. Their perches tend to willows and alder from Mexico to 5,000 year old pine forests. They add beauty by attracting audiences to hover, increasing metabolic rates by quoting the odysseys of Pauline Oliveros and Tony Williams.
YON SIL is visiting in Berkeley from the UK, where he regularly performs in London’s vibrant experimental scene with artists such as Steve Noble, John Edwards, and Charles Hayward. Yon’s bass clarinet solos - often performed in one uninterrupted circular-breathed flow - weave multilayered sound/note textures through refractions of noise and melody, and stem from an intensely corporeal and visceral relationship to his instrument, partly informed by his experience as a member of Ana Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu’s Hyperion Ensemble.
More... Saturday, December 13
Sat 12/13 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S
25 years of sculpting soundscapes that dissolve the boundaries of auditory perception – a gourmet banquet for the the discerning laquered ear.
More... Sat 12/13 1:00 PM Mission Santa Clara [500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA]Come trace the arc of transcendence, where ancient echoes entwine with contemporary voices in a rich tapestry of the timeless and the sublime with the Peninsula Women's Chorus!
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