Thu 3/11 8:00 PMMills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland] Signal Flow, the annual festival of new works by Mills graduate students, is an opportunity to see the future in the making. Since the 1930s, the Mills College Music Department has been an incubator of many historic firsts in the field. Signal Flow is the place to take a peek at what the future has in store in the fields of electronic, experimental, and visionary music. Friday, March 12
Fri 3/12 6:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley] Caroliner Rainbow Deep Grey Mind Blushing Out a PatternXomeLoachfilletVslfungiCypress Bill and Ted Zeppelin's Excellent Adventure in the Key of Real-D (members of Amphibious Gestures, Arachnid Arcade, Fognozzle and Chrome Genie) Styrofoam Sanchez
Fri 3/12 7:00 PMMills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland] Signal Flow is a 3-day long festival celebrating the music of current graduate student composers and sound artists involved in the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College.
Fri 3/12 8:00 PMLive Oak Theatre [1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley] John Brown's Truth a musically improvised opera by William Crossman with an extraordinary cast of classical & jazz singers, musicians, dancers, and spoken-word artists
Fri 3/12 8:00 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] IDIOMATIC IMPROV: ROCK Shudder: Phillip Greenlief, Kyle Bruckmann, Lance Grabmiller w/guest John Shiurba Lost Planet (formerly Pluto): David Slusser, Marc Weinstein, Len Paterson, Steve Clarke; Ava Mendoza Quartet w/Vijay Anderson, Sheldon Brown, and Lisa Mezzacappa
Fri 3/12 9:00 PM Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut [671 24th st. #B Oakland] Premiere of Mama Long Legs, a new piece/ensemble by Jordan Glenn with an opening set by Fun(Will Redmond-guitar, Gene Baker-keys). Mama Long Legs is Aram Shelton-alto; Matt Nelson-tenor; Cory Wright-bari; Andrew Conklin-guitar Karl Evangelista-guitar; Jason Hoopes-bass; Jordan Glenn-drums; (Everyone-perc/voice) Saturday, March 13
Sat 3/13 7:00 PMMills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland] Signal Flow is a 3-day long festival celebrating the music of current graduate student composers and sound artists involved in the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College.
Sat 3/13 8:00 PMSwedish American Hall [2174 Market Street San Francisco] 11th Annual SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents Rudresh Mahanthappas Indo-Pak Coalition integrates New York post-bop with the music of India led by alto saxophonist Mahanthappa with Rez Abassi (guitar) and Dan Weiss (tabla).
Sat 3/13 8:00 PMCNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley] Ryan Fogg, piano: A recital of new American music for solo piano Dr. Ryan Fogg is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Keyboard Studies at Carson-Newman College, where he teaches courses in applied piano, class piano, piano pedagogy, piano literature, and accompanying. Sunday, March 14
Sun 3/14 3:00 PMEastside Cultural Center/Arts Alliance [2277 International Blvd. Oakland] John Brown's Truth a musically improvised opera by William Crossman with an extraordinary cast of classical & jazz singers, musicians, dancers, and spoken-word artists
Sun 3/14 8:00 PMCNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley] Open Sound West presents: David Wegehaupt, saxophones and Aaron Einbond, electronics David Wegehaupt is an American saxophonist passionate about the promotion and development of contemporary music. As a soloist and chamber musician, David has been active in commissioning and performing new music for saxophone. Aaron Einbond is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in music composition at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in 2009 at The University of California, Berkeley where his teachers include Edmund Campion, David Wessel, Cindy Cox, and Andrew Imbrie.
Sun 3/14 8:00 PMMills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland] Signal Flow is a 3-day long festival celebrating the music of current graduate student composers and sound artists involved in the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College. Monday, March 15
Mon 3/15 7:30 PMMills College Ensemble Room, Music Building [5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland] DUO PANTOMORF: Mapping every gesture to sound in a new way, the Swedish duo of Per Anders Nilsson and Palle Dahlstedt perform an evening of electronic free improvisation.
Mon 3/15 9:00 PMIvy Room [860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany] Ivy Room Improv/Experimental Hootenanny & Social Club featuring Matt Davignon/Lance Grabmiller/Sebastian Krawczuk, FourBar, Micaela Petersen, Geo Kitta comfy couches delicious beverages NEVER a cover many musicians total surprises third mondays Tuesday, March 16
Sat 3/20 8:00 PMFlux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland] Lewis Jordan (saxophone, poetry) with Music at Large, including India Cooke (violin), Karl Evangelista (electric guitar), Eric Marshall (acoustic bass), Sandor Moss (drums) Sunday, March 21
Mon 3/22 9:00 PMKingman's Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave near Solano Ave Albany] Daniel Popsicle: playing selections from the Color Music of El Cerrito. Rob Ewing Sextet: a nnewly formed group featuring Rob Ewing, trombone; Jacob Zimmerman, alto saxophone; Erik Jekabson - trumpet; Michael Abraham, guitar; Miles Wick, bass; Jon Arkin, drums. Thursday, March 25
Thu 3/25 7:00 PMVelma's Sunday Blues and Jazz Club [2246 Jerrold Ave SF] Lewis Jordan (saxophone, poetry) with Music at Large, including Karl Evangelista (electric guitar), John-Carlos Perea (electric bass, cedar flute), Marshall Trammell (drums) with Jimmy Biala (percussion) and Genny Lim
Thu 3/25 8:00 PMLuggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] Outsound Presents Full Moon Concerts - Storm Moon: Guitars gather and release the storm! Joshua Churchill + Paul Clipson, solo guitar/electronics & Super 8 film; Peter Kolovos (Los Angeles), solo guitar Friday, March 26
Fri 3/26 8:00 PMCommunity Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF] A groundbreaking chamber music series presented by the New Spectrum Ensemble. Featuring the dynamic cello-piano duo Kathryn Bates Williams and Sandra Gu in works by Carter, Boulanger, Harrison, and Brahms.
Fri 3/26 8:00 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] extreme improv // blast beat massage:: Bill Orcutt (solo guitar), Nondor Nevai / Ben Wolcott (oscillator/drums). Peter Kovolos (solo guitar), Ettrick (duo drums/drums/sax/sax/electronics) Saturday, March 27
Sat 3/27 2:00 PMCafe Royale [800 Post St. @ Leavenworth SF] Cafe Royale Presents SF Waldorf High School Jazz Ensemble, Phillip Greenlief, director The group will perform works by Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, David Bowie, Duke Ellington, Herbie Nichols, Augustus Pablo, and others.
Sat 3/27 8:00 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] Brutal Sound Effects Festival #67: James Twig Harper (Baltimore); Micose and the Mau Maus; Darwin's Bitch; Mr. Mercury; Wormses (Bobby Adams, Tony Dryer, Jacob Felix Heule); Horaflora; Organ of Qwerty; Coagulator
Sat 3/27 8:00 PM In The Mood for Food [Private Residence] Philip Gelb's Dinner Concert Series Presents Phillip Greenlief, saxophone, Kris Tiner, trumpet Sunday, March 28
Sun 3/28 2:00 PMDance Mission Theater [3316 24th Street @Mission SF] The third annual Switchboard Music Festival: an 8-hour, non-stop music spectacle presenting composers and musicians who push the boundaries of their respective genres. No other Bay Area music festival or concert series offers such an eclectic, genre-crossing, convention-breaking, bastardizing group of experimentalists, innovators, and musical omnivores in a single event. Monday, March 29
Fri 4/2 8:00 PMMeridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF] Meridian presents an evening of improvisations performed by: Miya Masaoka, koto and electronics; David Wessel, SLABS; and Nils Bultmann, viola.
Fri 4/2 8:00 PMCommunity Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF] New Keys; newfangled music for the piano, is a concert series in its 6th year that showcases compositions by young, upcoming composers from across the country. Concert dates are: Friday April 2 and Thursday July 1, 2010 at the San Francisco Community Music Center. Visit the New Keys website for more information about the upcoming concert: www.newkeysconcert.org Saturday, April 3
Sat 4/3 8:00 PMFlux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland] Modal Kombat, League of Art Game Composers, And Visionary Instruments combine forces for a night of video games controlled by guitars, fusion of other electronic games and art, as well as amazing hand crafted video guitars. The call is out for all techies, musicians, gamers, and inventors alike. Monday, April 5
Mon 4/5 8:30 PMThe Makeout Room [22nd Street between Mission and Valencia San Francisco] LOST PLANET (Slusser/Weinstein/Patterson/Clarke) (8:30pm) ROVA Saxophone Quartet (9:30pm) PAST PRESENT FUTURE (Boisen/Seth Ford-Young/John Hanes) (10:30pm) Tuesday, April 6
Thu 4/8 8:00 PMLuggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] SoundSpeak a series presenting pairings of sound and voice artists 8pm Spoet Polly Moller w/TBA 9pm Poet Robert Anbian w/Rent Romus saxes/accordian/objects
Thu 4/8 9:00 PMAmnesia [853 Valencia St San Francisco] SFJAZZ Hotplate Presents Scott Amendola plays Ornette Coleman, Ben Goldberg-Clarinet, Trevor Dunn-electric bass, Scott Amendola-Drums. Doors 8pm with DJ Vinnie Esparza, 9:00pm Show. Friday, April 9
Sun 4/11 7:30 PMSIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] Noertker's Moxie selections from Blue Rider vol. 1, 2, 3: Suites for Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, flute Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute Jenny Maybee - piano Bill Noertker - bass Dave Mihaly - drums Wednesday, April 14
Wed 4/14 7:30 PMMeridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF] Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents David Barnett, performing improvisations for clarinet and recorder. Thursday, April 15
Fri 4/16 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley, CA. 94720] Zen Widow - Sicilian Saxophone Colossus - ****** Gebbia makes his return to the SF Bay area for an evening with all new compositions with Matthew Goodheart (Grand Piano)and Garth Powell (drums and percussion). Special Guest David Wessel (electronics in 360 degree surround) Sunday, April 18
Sun 4/18 3:00 PMMeridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF] resonant world: an afternoon of music by John Cage for the exhibit The Visionary Art of Morris Graves (on view at Meridian Gallery March 20 - May 15). Featuring Atlas Eclipticalis (1962) performed by Phillip Greenlief and Jon Raskin's 2+1, featuring Steve Adams, Three (1989) performed by Three Trapped Tigers (David Barnett, Tom Bickley, and Jim Wilson), and Solos from Song Books (1970) performed by the Cornelius Cardew Choir. Plus a reading of Series re Morris Graves by John Cage (1973) in the second floor Drawings Gallery.
Sun 4/18 7:30 PMSIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] 7:30PM Zen Widow (Garth Powell, Matthew Goodheart) 8:30 "Round Robin" feating a cast of characters from the community Monday, April 19
Mon 4/19 9:00 PMIvy Room [858 San Pablo Ave, Albany] Ivy Room Improv/Experimental Hootenanny & Social Club featuring Flormadecking, John Hanes/Steve Adams, Ross Hammond, Lucio Menegon's Sonic Demons (with special guests), video by Will Erokan comfy couches delicious beverages NEVER a cover many musicians total surprises third mondays Thursday, April 22
Thu 4/22 8:00 PMLuggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] 8:00 Noah Phillips & Jason Hoopes Duo 8:45 Lucio Menegon's Sonic Demons (CD release set) 9:15 LawsonJacob Zimmerman, Drew Cecatto, Matt Nelson, Cory Wright (saxes), Michael Coleman and Dan VanHassel (keyboards), Dan Good (electronics and trumpet) Friday, April 23
Fri 4/23 8:00 PMCounterPULSE [1310 Mission Street (at 9th Street) San Francisco, CA 94103 ] Asian Improv aRts, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, and Oakland Asian Cultural Center present: "Diaspora Tales #2: 1969" An interdisciplinary work featuring music by the Francis Wong Unit, spoken word by A.K. Black, dance by Lenora Lee and media design by Olivia Ting. 1969 reflects upon the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley and Wong's family history from the period. Friday, April 23rd, 8pm Saturday, April 24th, 8pm CounterPULSE 1310 Mission Street (at 9th Street) San Francisco, CA 94103 Admission - $15 general, $10 for CounterPULSE members and students Tickets - visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/99078 or call (800) 838-3006 Venue information - visit www.counterpulse.org More information - visit www.asianimprov.org, www.franciswong.net call Asian Improv aRts (415) 908-3636 or email Lenora@asianimprov.org
Sat 4/24 8:00 PMCounterPULSE [1310 Mission Street (at 9th Street) San Francisco, CA 94103 ] Asian Improv aRts, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, and Oakland Asian Cultural Center present: "Diaspora Tales #2: 1969" An interdisciplinary work featuring music by the Francis Wong Unit, spoken word by A.K. Black, dance by Lenora Lee and media design by Olivia Ting. 1969 reflects upon the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley and Wong's family history from the period. Friday, April 23rd, 8pm Saturday, April 24th, 8pm CounterPULSE 1310 Mission Street (at 9th Street) San Francisco, CA 94103 Admission - $15 general, $10 for CounterPULSE members and students Tickets - visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/99078 or call (800) 838-3006 Venue information - visit www.counterpulse.org More information - visit www.asianimprov.org, www.franciswong.net call Asian Improv aRts (415) 908-3636 or email Lenora@asianimprov.org
Sat 4/24 9:00 PM First Church of the Buzzard [2601 Adeline (enter on 26th St.) Oakland] Jooklo Duo (Italy); Cotton Museum (Michigan); Murder Murder; Omnivorous Scencillium; Basshaters (Tony Dryer + Jacob Felix Heule); DJ Loachfillet Sunday, April 25
Mon 4/26 8:00 PM Herbst Theatre [401 Van Ness Ave., SF] Philippe Hurel, Manolis Manousakis, Tan Dun, and Guo Wenjing. Thursday, April 29
Thu 4/29 8:00 PMLuggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] Outsound Presents Full Moon Concerts - Wind Moon: All about the wind, and its moonlit travels through tubes. 8:00 PM: Ghost in the House 9:00 PM: Sabbaticus Rex Friday, April 30
Fri 4/30 8:00 PMMeridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF] Meridian Gallery presents Fred Frith (guitar) & Theresa Wong (voice, cello). Improvisations conjured by Fred Frith; roaming drunken shaman expelling high-end drugstore vibrations on a mystical pocket fm radio and guitar holding court with Theresa Wong; cave dwelling amateur magician and high priestess of the vocal disorder, channeling anything, everything and sometimes nothing through spirited sonic outbreaks. MAY 2010 Sunday, May 2
Sun 5/2 7:30 PMSIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] 7:30pm Emergency String Ensemble w/Rent Romus recording his string album live 8:30pm Noertker's Moxie Chamber Ensemble performs Blue Rider improvisations ( Annelise Zamula - flute, Amber Lamprecht - oboe, TBA - violin, Bill Noertker - contrabass)
Sun 5/2 8:00 PMFlux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland] THE DECONSTRUCTION ORCHESTRA Josh Allen's ensemble burns the whole place down Tuesday, May 4
Thu 5/6 8:00 PMLuggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] 8pm Alexander Vogel Philip Greenlief and Aaron Bennett trio 9pm Tatsuya Nakatani is a contemporary percussionist, originally from Osaka, Japan. He performs creative music around the world. He has created a totally unique sound which defies category or genre. He utilizes the drum set, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls and metal objects...
Thu 5/6 8:00 PMThe Lab [2948 16th Street (@ Capp), San Francisco] * Aesop Dekker (Agalloch/Ludicra) and Sean McGrath (Impaled) play with Bran (...) Pos, Rubber (() Cement * Elf Ass (Ettrick + Tralphaz fairycore) * Coagulator Sunday, May 9
Sun 5/9 2:00 PMCafe Royale [800 Post St. @ Leavenworth SF] Bird and Beckett Books Presents The Lost Trio, featuring Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums
Sun 5/9 8:00 PMFlux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland] THE DECONSTRUCTION ORCHESTRA Josh Allen's ensemble burns the whole place down Wednesday, May 12
Wed 5/12 7:30 PMMeridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF] Meridian Music presents "New Directions in Indian Classical Music," featuring four new works in an ensemble of Voice (Gautam Tejas Ganeshan) + Mridangam Barrel Drum (Anantha R. Krishnan) + Tanpura Drone Lutes (Deepa Preeti Natarajan). Thursday, May 13
Thu 5/13 8:00 PMLuggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] 8pm Holiday Heart (Ellery Royston and Alexandra Buchanan) 9pm bLakcPullet Grimoire w/ video projection performing a release set for his newest CD, "Eating whole villages he threw up from the bitter taste of concrete" Saturday, May 15
Sat 5/15 8:00 PMYerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF] 11th Annual SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents Sexmob with DJ Olive Play Sexotica. Started by slide trumpeter and Berkeley native Steven Bernstein, the band weaves a throbbing, highly danceable tapestry of bop, Dixieland jazz, luscious lounge and funk. Sunday, May 16
Sun 5/16 8:00 PMFlux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland] THE DECONSTRUCTION ORCHESTRA Josh Allen's ensemble burns the whole place down Monday, May 17
Mon 5/17 9:00 PMIvy Room [858 San Pablo Ave, Albany] Experimental Hootenanny & Social Club featuring Citta di Vitti, Dottie Grossman/Michael Vlatkovich, Z Bug, Strangelet, Stalones Holy Rollers comfy couches delicious beverages NEVER a cover many musicians total surprises third mondays Thursday, May 20
Thu 5/20 8:00 PMLuggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] 8:00pm CJ Borosque- electronics/trumpet w/ Travis Johns - inventions 9:00pm Hecanjog / Hey Exit duet Sunday, May 23
Sun 5/23 8:00 PMFlux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland] THE DECONSTRUCTION ORCHESTRA Josh Allen's ensemble burns the whole place down Thursday, May 27
