Fri 9/3 8:00 PMBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley] BAM/PFA welcomes back a true American original, master composer-pianist Terry Riley, in a concert to celebrate his 75th birthday. After his acclaimed performance last year, Riley returns with Gyan Riley to open the L@TE fall season, once again transforming the architecture of the museum into his own warm and welcoming living room. Saturday, September 4
Sat 9/4 8:00 PMCafe Royale [800 Post St. @ Leavenworth SF] Citta di Vitti (Phillip Greenlief - alto saxophone; Lisa Mezzacappa - bass; John Hanes - drums) performs the music of Nino Rota while Fellini's 1970's classic film Amarcord (I Remember) is projected and presented in its entirety. Sunday, September 5
Sun 9/5 8:00 PMStudio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland] 1st Oakland New & Experimental Music Festival (Sept 5-9) begins with Film/Video Night featuring 7EV3, Doron Sadja, EMA, Greg Zifcak and David Ellinoff plus many others TBA. Monday, September 6
Mon 9/6 8:00 PM Makeout Room [22nd St @ Mission, SF] NATHAN CLEVENGER GROUP -- Aaron Novik / Nathan Clevenger / Kasey Knudsen / Sylvain Carton / Sam Bevan / Eric Garland :: RIVALS -- Sheldon Brown / Joe DeAndreis / Doug Morton / Darren Johnston / Skooter Fein :: AARON BENNETT’S GO-GO FIGHTMASTER -- Aaron Bennett / Aram Shelton / John Finkbeiner / Lisa Mezzacappa / Vijay Anderson
Mon 9/6 8:00 PMStudio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland] 1st Oakland New & Experimental Festival (ONE) continues with music sets by Holly Herndon, James Fei + Tim Perkis duo, Kristin Miltner and ORR (Elizabeth Orr)
Mon 9/6 9:00 PMThe Ivy Room [San Pablo @Solano Avenue, Albany] Evander Music and the Ivy Room Presents: Living Jazz Series - Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Karl Evangelista - guitar; Gary Johnson - bass Tuesday, September 7
Tue 9/7 8:00 PMStudio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland] 1st Oakland New & Experimental Festival (ONE) continues with sets by:Ata Ebtakar, Warner Jepson+Bob Pacelli, Klaus Janek/Scott R. Looney/Philip Greenlief, and Secretarial Pool Wednesday, September 8
Wed 9/8 7:30 PMMeridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF] Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Call and Response featuring Dottie Grossman (poetry) and Michael Vlatkovich (trombone).
Wed 9/8 8:00 PMStudio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland] 1st Oakland New & Experimental Festival (ONE) concludes w/ Fred Frith+Patrice Scanlon duo, Ige*Timer, Basshaters (Tony Dryer+Jacob Felix Heule)+Simon Berz of Ige*Timer and Gino Robair on the Buchla Synth. Thursday, September 9
Fri 9/10 5:30 PMSFEMF [Brava Theater 2781 24th St (at York) SF] rE/visioning the Collection: New Perspectives Through Sound and Media Dave Aju, JD Beltran, Nate Boyce, Loren Chasse, Seth Horvitz, Kadet Kuhne, Lucky Dragons, David Wilson. Curated by Volume, commissioned by de Young.
Fri 9/10 7:30 PMJack London Aquatic Center [115 Embarcadero Oakland, CA 94606-5138] Pythia Dance presents "TenderSwitch part i: A Dance on the Brink of the World," a site-specific dance and music piece that interweaves and explores ancient and contemporary human cultures. Musicians: Cheryl Leonard, Gregory Scharpen, Moe! Staiano. Dancers: Micaela Gardner and Iu-Hui Chua. Directed and Choreographed by Dawn McMahan.
Fri 9/10 7:30 PMBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley] The sound of the koto, a traditional Japanese stringed instrument, provides the “soundtrack” for a live painting—a work of visual art completed as a public performance—by the duo the Bahama Kangaroos (artists Naoki Onodera and Yukako Ezoe Onodera). Shoko Hikage and Kanoko Nishi perform traditional works for koto ranging from the beginning of the Edo period to contemporary compositions.
Sat 9/11 7:30 PMJack London Aquatic Center [115 Embarcadero Oakland, CA 94606-5138] Pythia Dance presents "TenderSwitch part i: A Dance on the Brink of the World," a site-specific dance and music piece that interweaves and explores ancient and contemporary human cultures. Musicians: Cheryl Leonard, Gregory Scharpen, Moe! Staiano. Dancers: Micaela Gardner and Iu-Hui Chua. Directed and Choreographed by Dawn McMahan.
Sun 9/12 1:00 PM SF Conservatory of Music/Osher Salon [50 Oak Street San Francisco] Emergency String (Xtet: adria Otte, Angela Hsu, Bob Marsh, Doug Carroll and Tony Dryer performs during Chamber Music Day. 31 groups in total from Noon till 6pm
Sun 9/12 2:00 PMCafe Royale [800 Post St. @ Leavenworth SF] Cafe Royale Presents The Lost Trio: Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums
Sun 9/12 7:30 PMJack London Aquatic Center [115 Embarcadero Oakland, CA 94606-5138] Pythia Dance presents "TenderSwitch part i: A Dance on the Brink of the World," a site-specific dance and music piece that interweaves and explores ancient and contemporary human cultures. Musicians: Cheryl Leonard, Gregory Scharpen, Moe! Staiano. Dancers: Micaela Gardner and Iu-Hui Chua. Directed and Choreographed by Dawn McMahan.
Sun 9/12 7:30 PMSIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] 7:30pm The Melanchoholics play the music of David Beck - baritone saxophone Bill Noertker - contrabass 8:30pm Noertker's Moxie Trio compositions and improvisations inspired by the art of Antoni Tápies Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, flute Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute Bill Noertker - contrabass Monday, September 13
Mon 9/13 9:00 PMIvy Room [San Pablo Avenue (at Solano Avenue), Albany] Evander Music and The Ivy Room Presents The Living Jazz Series, featuring The Lost Trio: Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums Tuesday, September 14
Tue 9/14 9:00 PMUptown [1928 Telegraph Ave @19th St Oakland] The 14-member Oakland Active Orchestra plays Flockterkit, a suite of music composed by Aram Shelton ... opening set by Dust Jacket: Rob Ewing and Danny Lubin-Laden, trombones; Matt Nelson and Raffi Garabedian, tenor saxophones Thursday, September 16
Fri 9/17 7:30 PMBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley] Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000, BAM/PFA’s book on alternative cinema in the Bay Area, ends with the year 2000. To celebrate artists who have emerged since that millennial turn, we give you a searing set of ever-morphing, optically insistent, and sonically frenzied sound and light performances by Andrew Benson and Joshua Churchill; Seth Horvitz; and Curtis Tamm and Michael Campos-Quinn. Sunday, September 19
Sun 9/19 4:00 PMCommunity Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF] The India Cooke – Bill Crossman Duo (with India on violin and Bill on piano) plays beautiful, passionate improvised music. Within each piece, the Duo weaves in elements of various world musics yet maintains an overall sound based in African-rooted musics (jazz and blues). The Duo has performed at the Berkeley Arts Festival and other venues, been featured on KCSM-FM radio, and has recorded three CDs. India and Bill are also currently performing together in Bill's multi-genre, musically-improvised opera John Brown's Truth, which is being performed throughout the Bay Area and will be performed at SFCMC in November 2010. Sweets and drinks will be available for purchase.
Sun 9/19 8:00 PMCommunity Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF] sfSoundSeries FINAL 2010 concert :: featuring a rare performance of Train, a 20+ minute scene from Philip Glass's seminal opera, Einstein on the Beach (1976), and music by Beat Furrer, Hans Thomalla and sfSoundGroup. Plus a solo clarinet work by Matt Ingalls. Monday, September 20
Mon 9/20 9:00 PMThe Ivy Room [San Pablo Avenue @Solano Avenue, Albany] Evander Music and The Ivy Room Presents Monday Night Living Jazz Series, featuring Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Karl Evangelista - guitar; Dan Seamans - bass Thursday, September 23
Thu 9/23 8:00 PMLuggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] Outsound Presents Full Moon Concerts - Harvest Moon A Birthday Tribute to John Coltrane. Music by: Dan Plonsey, Steve Horowitz, Vinny Golia Readings by: Craig Clevenger, Nicole Henares, D. Scott Miller Friday, September 24
Fri 9/24 4:00 PMAnn Hamilton's sound tower at the Oliver Ranch [Pickup at the Wells Fargo Center: 50 Mark West Springs Rd Santa Rosa, CA] TERRIBLE NOISES FOR BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE: This is a participatory performance- a noise-music show with no performers, in which all sounds are make by the audience, using their voices. Parts are very noisy and chaotic; parts are very calm and quiet. At Ann Hamilton’s Sound Tower - a spectacular 80-foot site-specific sculpture located on the Oliver Ranch in Sonoma County.
Fri 9/24 8:00 PMCollege of Marin [Lefort Recital Hall, Fine Arts Rm. 72, corner of Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Laurel Avenue, Kentfield ] The West Coast debut of oboist Kyle Bruckmann's long-running Creative Music quintet "Wrack". With Jen Clare Paulson, viola; Jason Stein, bass clarinet; Anton Hatwich, contrabass; and Timothy Daisy, percussion. Saturday, September 25
Sat 9/25 7:30 PM Southern Exposure [3030 20th street SF] Two projects exploring the physicality of sound, the translation of sound into physical force, and the relationship between sound, architecture, perception, and the body - with Scott Arford, Randy Yau, and Michael Gendreau
Sat 9/25 8:00 PMOld First Concerts [1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness SF] Come along on musical safari with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral — a tour of the Earth’s scenic and sonic wonders, in compositions by Michael Cooke, Loren Jones, Jorge Liderman, Terry Riley, Lisa Scola Prosek, Erling Wold, and Mark Alburger
Sat 9/25 8:00 PMTrinity Chamber Concerts [2320 Dana St, Berkeley] The West Coast debut of oboist Kyle Bruckmann's long-running Creative Music quintet "Wrack". With Jen Clare Paulson, viola; Jason Stein, bass clarinet; Anton Hatwich, contrabass; and Timothy Daisy, percussion.
Mon 9/27 8:00 PMSwedenborgian Church [2107 Lyon Street SF] Other Minds celebrates the life and works of Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985). Performers include David Abel & Julie Steinberg, Sarah Cahill, Ives Quartet. Special exhibition.
Mon 9/27 9:00 PMThe Ivy Room [San Pablo Avenue (@Solano Avenue) Albany] Evander Music and The Ivy Room Presents The Living Jazz Series, featuring The Lost Trio: Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums
Wed 9/29 7:30 PMValley Presbyterian Church [945 Portola Road Portola Valley] Other Minds celebrates the life and works of Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985). Performers include David Abel & Julie Steinberg, Sarah Cahill, Ives Quartet. Special Exhibition. Thursday, September 30
Fri 10/1 7:30 PMBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley] For this special appearance, the Del Sol Quartet (violinists Kate Stenberg and Rick Shinozaki, violist Charlton Lee, and cellist Kathryn Bates-Williams) perform Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae, Elena Kats-Chernin’s Urban Village 2, and other exciting recent works for string quartet.
Fri 10/1 8:00 PMCommunity Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF] Wrack + Rova: On Procedural Grounds -- Local improvising oboist and composer/performer Kyle Bruckmann will premiere an extended work for Rova in collaboration with his long-running quintet Wrack, augmented by the electronic genius of Gino Robair and Tim Perkis. Rova will play the second set alone.
