Thu 4/24 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th Street oakland, CA 94706]
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Join us at wyldflowr arts for a three-night workshop for aspiring Carnatic musicians focused on improving their renditions, stage presence, and improvisational instincts, curated and lead by roopa mahadevana.  More...

Thu 4/24 7:00 PM Lloyd’s Records [3824 telegraph ave Oakland]
Show at Lloyd’s: Liberation Quartet, EyeVee Woods solo, Zek & Coco  More...

Thu 4/24 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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CCRMA presents Eric Frye and Michael Flora in two live performances of multichannel audio.  More...

Thu 4/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Success of the last Night Gwaffle show leads us to MORE!

Gourmet Thai styled corn fritters served!
This show will be over before 10pm, & will be action packed with sonic oddments.  More...

Fri 4/25 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Pete Schmitt  More...

Fri 4/25 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [09 37th Street oakland, CA 94706]
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Roopa Mahadevan presents a Carnatic concert, featuring some of the Bay Area's amazing South Indian classical instrumental talent.  More...

Fri 4/25 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Kronos Festival 2025
Good Medicine
Apr 25-27

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Fri 4/25 8:00 PM 2727 [2727 California Street Berkeley, CA 94703]
Sonic Cartographies is Klank.ist’s newest performance series, curated by Eda Er, designed to foster bi-monthly gatherings and collaborative encounters with Bay Area-based musicians and artists. The series offers a platform for local artists to engage with, interpret, and respond to works and ideas shared by Klank.ist members across Berlin, Istanbul, Strasbourg, Graz, Yalova, and the San Francisco Bay Area — forming an ongoing, evolving dialogue across geographies.  More...

Fri 4/25 8:00 PM Vic's Winehouse [1870 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, California 94115]
The Aaron Bennett Trio, featuring Aaron Bennett on sax, Dan Seamans on bass, and Smith Dobson Jr. on drums, plays music by Thelonious Monk and more!  More...

Sat 4/26 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland]
thingamajigs performance group

contemplating the breathing life of a snake  More...

Sat 4/26 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [09 37th Street oakland, CA 94706]
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Roopa Mahadevan explores her versatility and identity as a diasporic musician with crossover material from jazz, R&B, film music, and more.  More...

Sat 4/26 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Kronos Festival 2025
Good Medicine
Apr 25-27

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Sat 4/26 7:30 PM Vernon Salon Series [Pop-up location in Albany!]
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Transdisciplinary artist Judit Navratil and musician Anne Rainwater present ATtension - Growing Roots and other compasses, a site-specific work in Albany, CA. In a time of rapid change and overwhelming noise, ATtension invites you to pause, root yourself in place, and reconnect with what makes a home. This performance in Judit’s backyard brings together musician Anne Rainwater, Judit Navratil, the Redwood Tree, the rhythmic pulse of BART, and the gentle stream, weaving a soundscape that balances the contrasts of movement and stillness, nature and urban life, inner and outer worlds.  More...

Sat 4/26 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Accidental Composers Collective returns to the C4NM with new music for trio (clarinet, violin, and cello), and trio and soprano.  More...

Sat 4/26 8:00 PM Ugra Deva Loka [1035 22nd ave. Unit 14 Oakland, CA 94606]
CTE- Harsh industrial noise from Sam Torres (Crawl of Time/TCU) Kevin (Sutekh Hexen) and Lucas (Infinexhuma)
Xome- Classick spastick HN
Blood of Chhinnamastika- Occult Cutup/PE
Sterile Garden- Industrial sound collage project of (Eureka, CA)
Sanctuary State- Dark ambient and death industrial
Doors at 8pm
Sound at 8:30pm
@Ugra Deva Loka
1035 22nd ave unit 14 oakland ca, 94606  More...

Sat 4/26 8:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Kurumi Kadoya (Japan)
Mason Jones
Birdspanker
Adult Math  More...

Sat 4/26 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Arab.AMP x The Lab: DISCOSTAN ft. Checkpoint303 + DJ ariB  More...

Sun 4/27 1:00 PM Dolores Deluxe [3500 22nd St., San Francisco, CA]
The Holly Martins play at Dolores Deluxe  More...

Sun 4/27 2:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Kronos Festival 2025
Good Medicine
Apr 25-27

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Sun 4/27 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The San Francisco Chapter of NACUSA returns to San Francisco’s Center for New Music for an afternoon concert of chamber music written by members of NACUSA/SF.  More...

Sun 4/27 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
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Wooden Fish Ensemble – Piano and Strings – Sunday, April 27 at 4 pm

Two world premieres by San Francisco’s own Hyo-shin Na are presented alongside Ruth Crawford’s String Quartet, a selection of piano works by the 20th Century master Ferruccio Busoni, and a new, re-imagined version of Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s The Banjo by the ensemble’s pianist, Thomas Schultz.

This is a hybrid concert - Select an option to see the ticket price.
To donate and watch live stream of this event, please select View Live Stream Only.  More...

Tue 4/29 12:00 PM Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building SFSU [1600 Holloway Ave San Francisco]
ImprovisAsians! Festival 2025: GENERATIONS

A 3-day series of performances and panel that honor the spirit of cultural expression and collective action!  More...

Tue 4/29 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
Jazz at the Make-Out: Evangelista Quintet Album Release, Bafus/Raskin/Johnston Trio
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Jazz at the Make-Out Room (formerly the Monday Make-Out) continues! A wily evening of cutting-edge jazz, free improvisation, and creative music.

7pm Trio (from Sacramento)
(Jon Bafus - drums, Jon Raskin - sax, w/Darren Johnston - trumpet)

8:15pm Karl Evangelista Quintet - Solace Angles Album Release Show
(Karl Evangelista - guitar, Jordan Glenn - drums, Rei Scampavia - keys/electronics, Francis Wong + David Boyce - saxophone)  More...

Wed 4/30 12:00 PM Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building SFSU [1600 Holloway Ave San Francisco]
ImprovisAsians! Festival 2025: GENERATIONS

A 3-day series of performances and panel that honor the spirit of cultural expression and collective action!  More...

Thu 5/01 12:00 PM Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building SFSU [1600 Holloway Ave San Francisco]
ImprovisAsians! Festival 2025: GENERATIONS

A 3-day series of performances and panel that honor the spirit of cultural expression and collective action!  More...

Thu 5/01 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [2021 San Jose Avenue Apartment 6]
Do-Over Music Series @ Shapeshifters Cinema

Set 1: 7pm
Lenny Gonzalez - guitar and electronics
Erik Ellestad - sax and electronics

Set 2: 8pm
Improvised music and film with:
the above plus
Kanoko Nishi-Smith - koto, Ava Lynch - drums/percussion, Jordan Glenn - drums/percussion.
with films screened and manipulated by our Shapeshifters hosts.  More...

Thu 5/01 7:00 PM Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building SFSU [1600 Holloway Ave San Francisco]
ImprovisAsians! Festival 2025: GENERATIONS

A 3-day series of performances and panel that honor the spirit of cultural expression and collective action!  More...

Fri 5/02 7:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Mimesis Magazine Issue #2: Let’s Spoil!  More...

Fri 5/02 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Low Grade Infection  More...

Fri 5/02 7:30 PM First Congregational Church [1985 Louis Road Palo Alto, CA]
Let your heart unfurl in empathy, vulnerability, and hope as Peninsula Women's Chorus' spring concert, Break Open to Beauty, beckons you to embrace music’s deep, transformative power to awaken emotions!  More...

Fri 5/02 7:30 PM Monkey Brains [933 Treat Ave, San Francisco]
Moe! Staiano Ensemble: Music for Eight Guitars  More...

Fri 5/02 8:00 PM NOHSpace [2840 Mariposa St. SF]
Powerful shared bill between circus-informed solo performer Helen Wicks that follows ancesteral research in early Hollywood and synthesizes a conversation with Quincy Jones with live accompaniment of Nadia Boulanger Score and a duet with a live violinist and dancer that interweaves Persian and Jewish music and dance traditions to express intercultural harmony.  More...

Fri 5/02 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
INSECT LIFE  More...

Sun 5/04 3:00 PM Monkey Brains [933 Treat Ave San Francisco]
Wong Wei's Legacy

A musical homage and performance exploring generational history & resilience

Francis Wong – Saxophone
William Roper – Tuba, Spoken Word
Karl Evangelista – Guitar
Deszon X. Claiborne – Percussion
Lynn Huang – Dance, Spoken Word  More...

Sun 5/04 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
CELEBRATING 2 CD RELEASES!

Chris Brown (piano, electronics) and Ben Davis (cello) perform an improvisation celebrating their new duo album release.

CRACKING THE SURFACE (David Michalak, instruments of skatch; SCOTT LOONEY, piano, hyper-piano, and Thomas Dimuzio, buchla 200E, processing) CD release show celebrating our new release recorded at Fantasy Studios with Tom Nunn, released by Chris Cutler's ReR Megacorp in the UK, Gench Music in the US. This was Tom Nunn's last recording.  More...

Sun 5/04 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

Monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center. Bring your instrument or come to listen. Movement and other disciplines encouraged. No advance notice needed — just show up.

Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. Set up before 8:00 and be as ready to play as possible. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm.  More...

Thu 5/08 7:00 PM Mr Tipple's [39 Fell St SF]
Astrid Kuljanic

Shows at 7pm and 9pm

Astrid Kuljanic | Vocals
Scott Amendola | Drums
Mat Muntz | Bass  More...

Thu 5/08 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Thea Farhadian, Dymaxion, Aaron Oppenheim, Kevin Robinson
May 8, 8pm-11pm Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF
All-ages, $5-$15 notaflof

Thea Farhadian
Celebrating the release of her new album "Tattoos and Other Markings" where she integrates contemporary field recordings from Armenia and Egypt with mechanical sounds from a letterpress and MRI Machine, Farhadian brings classical training in violin to her explorations with electronics.

Dymaxion
Bruce Ackley weilds the sonic sceptres known as clarinet, soprano and tenor sax alongside Dave Brandt on percussion and Pete Schmitt on bass to form the trio Dymaxion.

Aaron Oppenheim
Sound vivisection and heavy DSP processing rooted in raw synthesis, Oppenheim explores hidden chaos at the heart of computer systems and natural systems alike.

Kevin Robinson
Deep tone practitioner, Robinson never met a woodwind he couldn't extend beyond above and below the horizon.  More...

Fri 5/09 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Deciphering Broken Rhythms Collective  More...

Fri 5/09 7:30 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St San Francisco]
Earplay - Season Finale

Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm

Program

Benjamin Sabey, Dream Suite for sextet in six, cyclic, attacca movements (2025). World Premiere.

Edna Alejandra Longoria, El bailongo (2023), for flute, cello, violin and piano. Edna is the winner of the 2024 Earplay Vibrant Shores Composition Competition.

Mei Fang Lin, Friction (2009), for flute and viola. Earplay commission.

Carolyn Chen, Stomachs of Ravens (2018), for solo flute.  More...

Fri 5/09 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
This is a vocal music universe constructed by 8 composers from 6 countries, expanding the boundaries of vocal music. Yifan Shao will collaborate with Lauren Marshall to bring them to life.  More...

Fri 5/09 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish):

Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone
Mark Clifford, vibraphone
Brett Carson, keyboard
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass
Jordan Glenn, drums  More...

Fri 5/09 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Carla Harryman / Jon Raskin: Scales for the Living Under Duress  More...

Sat 5/10 1:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Golden Gate Valley Branch [1801 Green St. San Francisco, CA 94123]
Eli Knowles and Rent Romus perform slow music, jazz ballads, and ambient improvisations. This event is part of the San Francisco Public Library Golden Gate Valley Branch's annual Open House, with festive family activities starting at 11am. Concert starts at 1pm.  More...

Sat 5/10 8:00 PM Brava Theatre [2781 24th Street SF]
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players

Schedule
6:30 PM - "Under the Hood" pre-concert talk with Artistic Director Eric Dudley, members of the Friction Quartet, and composer Miguel Chuaqui.
7:00 PM - PRELUDE Concert: Paul Mortilla’s Paradiso: "Weavers of Light"
8:000 PM - Mainstage Concert  More...

Sat 5/10 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
mit Darm

The minus two project of Thingamajigs Performance Group with Edward Schocker on triggering glass, p’iri and shō, Suki O'Kane on contact mics and Jurassic pedals, creating that burst of wurst, as you float in a sea of narcotic noise.

Also on the bill: Matthew Daher sharing The Wisdom To Know The Difference.  More...

Sat 5/10 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Carla Harryman / Jon Raskin: Scales for the Living Under Duress  More...

Sun 5/11 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
SFSOUNDGROUP performs two iconic sound works for ensemble and tape: ALVIN LUCIER'S "Two Circles" (2012) and ROBERT ERICKSON'S "Pacific Sirens" (1969).

Visting from Los Angeles, percussionist ADAM LION explores the sonic possibilities of the vibraphone, investigating perception, acoustics, repetition, surprise, and coincidence. Lion believes sound speaks for itself- its raw materiality is its living body and its strength is the unique ability to manipulate the perception of time.  More...

Tue 5/13 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
T.J. Borden (cello) + Jacob Felix Heule (percussion) + Matt Ingalls (clarinet) + Kanoko Nishi-Smith (koto) quartet

Matt Robidoux  More...

Wed 5/14 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Scott Looney (piano)
Nathan Corder (guitar, electronics)
T J Borden (cello)
Matt Robidoux (electronics)  More...

Fri 5/16 7:00 PM 405 Shrader [405 Shrader San Francisco]
Terry Riley 90th celebration  More...

Fri 5/16 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Jordon Glenn/Warren Huegel drum duo  More...

Fri 5/16 7:30 PM Hillside Community Church [1422 Navellier St, El Cerrito]
Quartet Mixus Mundi makes its East Bay debut in “Skylark: jazz, world and contemporary improv for recorder and jazz trio.” Mixus Mundi (Latin for “blended world”) is an ensemble whose voice stretches the boundaries between jazz, early music, world music, new music and improvisation. This eclectic combo unveils the jazz side of recorder, played by early music specialist Frances Feldon, in collaboration with Joyce Todd McBride, keys; Todd Larson, bass guitar; and Jeff Pera, drums. Music by JS Bach, Bela Bartok, Hoagy Carmichael, John Coltrane, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Steve Kuhn, Joyce Todd McBride, Thelonius Monk, Hermeto Pascoal, Horace Silver and others, as well as an arrangement of an Egyptian melody. The show takes place at Hillside Community Church, 1422 Navellier St, El Cerrito, Friday May 16, 2025. Doors open 7:00, show begins at 7:30. Cash donations gratefully accepted at the door only. For more info: (510)527-9029.  More...

Fri 5/16 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
TJ Borden / Mari Kawamura: Morton Feldman's "Patterns in a Chromatic Field"

Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm  More...

Sat 5/17 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
25 years of mainly showcasing the explosive experimental world of California sounds, with gourmet pancakes!! Bring an appetite, your glassorium blankets, motorhem crashlights, plaid sock rays, & SPACE: 200 B.C.mycosynths. It's a enlightening parade of haybaker yeti scalpiscopes learning to go full nature-thighclops!!  More...

Sat 5/17 2:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Golden Gate Valley Branch [1801 Green St. San Francisco, CA 94123]
Erika Oba & Scott Oshiro will present a flute duo program featuring flute, pedals, and electronics. Oba & Oshiro will share their original compositions and improvisations drawing on their shared interest in Japanese, Okinawan, and experimental music.  More...

Sun 5/18 3:00 PM Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline [1600 Neptune Dr San Leandro, CA 94577]
emergent sound practices  More...

Wed 5/21 6:00 PM Meyer Sound [2832 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, CA]
Artifact Records showcase

Lorin Benedict will be performing a brief duo set with vocalist Ron Heglin.  More...

Fri 5/23 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Johnston/Mezzacappa/Ochs/Kjell/Bruckman  More...

Fri 5/30 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Francis Wong/Nora Free/David Boyce tenor sax trio  More...

Sat 5/31 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Darren Johnston  More...