Thursday, November 5
Thu 11/05 7:00 PM The Cruz Room [1520 Mission Street, Santa Cruz, CA]Click to make donation Y2K25 is a milestone event celebrating a global network that has expanded to 138 cities across 34 countries, bringing together musicians who record, layer, and playback audio in real-time, looping featuring MANDOMAN, CORA LABA, ELIUD ERNANDES. FORES BASURA, DOMINIKA BELANSKA, IRERI ALMONTE on 5 NOV.
More... Friday, November 6
Fri 11/06 3:00 PM William Street Park [E William St & S 16th St, San Jose, CA 95112]WILLIAM STREET SLAMMER 2026 featuring collaborations and performances from ALL YOUR FAVORITE SOUTH BAY IMPROVISERS
More... Fri 11/06 7:00 PM Actors Theatre [1001 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA]Click to make donation Y2K25 is a milestone event celebrating a global network that has expanded to 138 cities across 34 countries, bringing together musicians who record, layer, and playback audio in real-time, looping featuring BUDDHA WAKENING featuring JEFF BOYNTON + REJYNA, THE WINKLER, MAX SCOTT, GEORGE DEMAREST, PER BOYSEN, IRERI MEJIA ALMONTE, KATIE MARTIN, TRIANNA FERUZA, RYAN PRICE on 6 NOV.
More... Fri 11/06 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Soprano Jill Morgan Brenner and pianist Paul Dab present Vermilion Border: Songs at the Threshold, an evening of contemporary American art song and opera, featuring works commissioned and premiered over the past decade.
More... Saturday, November 7
Sat 11/07 2:00 PM Actors Theatre [1001 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA]Click to make donation Y2K25 is a milestone event celebrating a global network that has expanded to 138 cities across 34 countries, bringing together musicians who record, layer, and playback audio in real-time, looping featuring SUKI WESSLING, JONATHAN SCHALL, AL-EK, ANTONY BIANCHINI, MARK HAMBURG, MORTICAI, SADIE HALLINAN, BILL WALKER,
Henry Kaiser, HIDEKI NAKANISHI, DAVID TRISTRAM, BASS BEAURACRACY, CORA LABA, GARY REGINA, ELIUD ERNANDEZ on 7 NOV.
More... Sat 11/07 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Nat Evans performs his new album What Are Days For. Written over the course of three years, this new album by Nat Evans considers the grief of losing loved ones, relationships with plants, surfing, home, and the light of the west coast; earlier on, the Electric Guitar Ensemble opens with a set of music by Catherine Lamb,
Rodrigo Barriga, and others.
More... Sat 11/07 8:00 PM The Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street
Berkeley]Dee Spencer feat. Melba's Kitchen Big Band: The Smile Orange Project
Dee Spencer, curator and organ
Robin Nzingah Smith, musical director, co-leader & woodwinds
Pat Mullan, co-leader & trombone
Deborah Tisdale, vocals
Georgianna Kreiger, Cynthia Mah, Jeunesse Monroe-Speed, Brenda Thompson, Katie Krolikowski, woodwinds
Marina Garza, Sue Leonardi, Jessica Hom, brass
Candace Dee Sanderson, brass, violin & viola
Arnetta Olden, guitar
Debra Lynne Temple, piano
Susanne DiVincenzo, acoustic bass
Nancy Geimer, drums
More... Sunday, November 8
Sun 11/08 11:00 AM The Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street
Berkeley]Mindfulness Meditation for Musicians with Barbara Bogatin
1/2 PART SERIES • 11/8 & 11/15 • 11:00am-12:30pm
Barbara Bogatin has been a cellist with the San Francisco Symphony since 1994. In addition to her symphonic career she has created a curriculum on Mindfulness Meditation for Musicians, integrating her training in Buddhist contemplative practice with principles relevant to music performance and instrumental practice.
More... Sun 11/08 2:00 PM Actors Theatre [1001 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA]Click to make donation Y2K25 is a milestone event celebrating a global network that has expanded to 138 cities across 34 countries, bringing together musicians who record, layer, and playback audio in real-time, looping featuring MARTIN AZEVEDO, MIK GARRISON, STEVE UCCELLO, BOB BURNETTE, RICK WALKER, MIKKO BIFFLE, CHATT3r, R DUCK, LATER DAYS, BOB AMSTADT, DOMINIKA BELANSKA, FORES BASURA, NOAH PETERSON on 8 NOV.
More... Sun 11/08 7:30 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street
Dresher Ensemble Studio
Oakland]CORNELIUS CARDEW CHOIR performs Cardew's "THE GREAT LEARNING"
PET THE TIGER Instrument Inventors’ Collective performs new works for video with Dan Gottwald (invented instruments), Stephen Parris (guitar, gamelan),
David Samas (voice and inventions); the Cornelius Cardew Choir; and Eric Wilcox, Baffon!
More... Wednesday, November 11
Wed 11/11 7:00 PM The Monkey House [1638 University Avenue, Berkeley]GALVAGNA/HILLEBRANDT
Mixing analog and digital, they experiment with pure sound and tonal drones. From the hazy swirl of atmospheres and spectral fragments, one might begin to hear voices calling from afar.M0BIUSSTRIPPER
LA performer, gameboy chip tunes mixed in with theremin and pedals galore. Switching and changing, always alive. Breaking the moulds and never shirking a challenge but avoiding the obvious.
M0BIUSSTRIPPER
LA performer, gameboy chip tunes mixed in with theremin and pedals galore. Switching and changing, always alive. Breaking the moulds and never shirking a challenge but avoiding the obvious.
GATES OF LODORE
Pass through the Gates of Lodore to enter inner space. Encarmine cathedrals float down a sanguine river. A meditative exploration in a landscape lost to time
More... Wed 11/11 9:00 PM KZSU-FM "Wednesday Night Live" [Stanford University. 90.1 FM]Streaming only:
Click for stream I will be playing "Best Guess", a mix of constructed, recorded, harvested and revised sounds, noise and music from many sources in a live edit and mix. I will follow that with "Redux", a slower and less densely populated sound work made up of longer sound constructs mixed live. A recent performance can be heard here: https://philipperkins.bandcamp.com/album/best-guess
More... Thursday, November 12
Thu 11/12 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St
SF]Tom Djll
Close your eyes to see your possible selves unearthed, scraped and feather dusted, then entreated to self assemble in the anthropoid menagerie of vibration.
https://djll.bandcamp.com/
Tanukispidercat
With as many fangs as bright yellow eyes, from crouch to pounce, her blizzard of tooth, claw, fluff, synth and sampler come full fury with lethal-swift paddycakes of pure desire.
https://www.tanukispidercat.com/
Hat Brackets
Well-feared as latenight KALX & KPFA broadcast artist The Genderwave and well-remembered as former member of the Forever Oscillating Gaseous Corpsewater, Ky Nyza's solo sound is yet another world of immeasurable worlds within worlds.
https://hatbrackets.bandcamp.com/
Analogous
Silvia Matheus and Thomas Miley approach improvisation as recognition, acceptance, contradiction, and submission here sound becomes physical, unpredictable, and immediate.
https://analogoususa.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-skin
More... Friday, November 13
Fri 11/13 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]THTHNG II is long awaited sequel to 2023’s THTHNG. Before AI slop became a household term, before the Butlerian Jihad started, THTHNG was technically the very first full-length ‘AI movie’ ever produced or screened for an unsuspecting audience.
YT Obscura is a new experimental audio visual performance by Fluorescent Grey born out of the discovery of strange one-of-a-kind, personal and at times very unsettling home recordings on audio cassettes found at flea markets.
More... Fri 11/13 8:00 PM First Presbyterian Church of Oakland [2619 Broadway
Oakland]WNS and Eternal Now present:
Sarah DavachiOn the evening of Friday, November 13th, Working Name Studios and Eternal Now are proud to present Sarah Davachi at First Presbyterian Church of Oakland. First Presbyterian is home to a beautiful Rosales Opus 16 pipe organ, on which we're blessed to have Sarah present her new work. Sarah is on tour in support of her new 3LP The Will of Tongues. Togetherness Ensemble will be opening the evening with site specific acoustic composition for the sanctuary.
Tickets: https://workingnamestudios.square.site/
More... Saturday, November 14
Sat 11/14 11:00 AM San Francisco Main Public Library [100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102]Explore how Eastern and Western composers interpret the seasons across different musical traditions. Western selections express vivid natural imagery, from Vivaldi’s dynamic storms to Tchaikovsky’s romantic winter scenes and the reflective mood of Autumn Leaves. These works translate the physical world into sound through color, emotion and narrative.
More... Sat 11/14 7:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]Unlocked Festival 2026 (Fundraiser for TAC and MUA)The Unlocked Festival returns, commemorating the Bay Area experimental music community's spirit of creativity and resistance.
PROGRAM ORDER:
Inner Ear Brigade
Grex (
Karl Evangelista, Rei Scampavia,
Cory Wright,
Robert Lopez)
Francis Wong/
Chris TrinidadBen Goldberg's Brainchild
More Info:
HEREThe Unlocked Festival returns, featuring
Ben Goldberg's sprawling, all-star Brainchild ensemble, incendiary experimental/art rock duo Grex, Bay Area prog band Inner Ear Brigade, and the duo of bassist
Chris Trinidad and saxophonist
Francis Wong.
The Unlocked Festival (formerly the Lockdown Festival) is an annual event that commemorates the spirit of creativity and resistance that prevailed through the COVID-19 pandemic. This special fundraiser offers an opportunity for the Bay Area music community to convene, gather strength, and forge ahead. (All proceeds directed to Temescal Art Center and Mujeres Unidas y Activas, an organization of Latina and Indigenous immigrant women focused on social and economic justice.)
More... Sunday, November 15
Sun 11/15 11:00 AM The Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street
Berkeley]Mindfulness Meditation for Musicians with Barbara Bogatin
2/2 Part Series • 11:00am-12:30pm
Barbara Bogatin has been a cellist with the San Francisco Symphony since 1994. In addition to her symphonic career she has created a curriculum on Mindfulness Meditation for Musicians, integrating her training in Buddhist contemplative practice with principles relevant to music performance and instrumental practice.
More... Sun 11/15 7:30 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street
Dresher Ensemble Studio
Oakland]Ben Goldberg +
Myra Melford + MAT MUNTZ - Semi-orthogonal linear and non-linear pseudomellifluous quasisoliloquy, autobiographical and otherwise. when you are aiming for the heart of the matter, it doesn't matter where you start.
JULIA EDITH RIGBY presents a concert work that blends piano, viola, and field recordings to explore sea caves and infrasonic worlds, and the ways that they can expand and entangle our thinking about ritual and breathing, listening and resonance, deep time and sense of place.
More... Friday, November 20
Fri 11/20 7:30 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2201 Poplar St
Oakland]Click to make donation KREASI KONTEMPORER (contemporary creation) will feature an eclectic array of solo and chamber music, from dense, notated contemporary solos to free explorations, all drawn from prominent composers, performers, and practitioners on the global gamelan scene. Piano, percussion, gamelan, and vocals will be highlighted throughout the evening, performed by Eva-Maria (piano), Graham (percussion), Ida Ayu Nyoman Dyana Pani (voice & gamelan). Composers include Dewa Alit, Wayan Yudane, Théo Mérigeau, Sraya Murtikanti
and more. Special guests and collaborations to be announced.
More... Sunday, November 22
Sun 11/22 7:30 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street
Dresher Ensemble Studio
Oakland]BRISTLE, the Northern California based sax-and-strings-fueled chamber jazz quartet of
Randy McKean,
Cory Wright, MURRAY CAMPBELL, and
Lisa Mezzacappa, channels the individual virtuosity of its members into intricate group interactions that blur the line between composition and cooperative game strategies.
LENNY GONZALEZ (guitar, electronics) and ERIK ELLESTAD (sax, electronics) draw on the deep vocabulary of improvised music - free jazz, noise, extended technique, musique concrète, etc…
More... Thursday, December 3
Thu 12/03 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr.
Stanford]Streaming and in-person:
Click for stream This concert features artist
Laetitia Sonami in a series of performances and archival explorations examining the intersections of voice, gesture, memory, and machine. Through What Happened III-Now, archival footage of the lady’s glove, and a Song for two Mothers, Sonami explores evolving relationships between the body and technology using custom-built instruments, live electronics, and machine learning systems. Her work embraces unpredictability, abstraction, and embodied interaction, challenging conventional notions of control while revealing the possibilities of human-machine collaboration.
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