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JANUARY 2009
Saturday, January 3
Sat 1/3 8:00 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom Street @ 23rd Street SF]
Devin Hoff will play solo bass, and then will be joined for the second set by pianist Kito Gamble and drummer Geechi Taylor.
Sat 1/3 8:00 PM Studio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland]
Reuben Radding from NYC w/ Jen Baker, Scott R. Looney, Damon Smith, and Kjell Nordeson - Duos and Quartet
Tuesday, January 6
Tue 1/6 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street between Shattuck and Telegraph Oakland]
First Tuesdays @ Temescal Arts
Jon Raskin & Kanoko Nishi
Schnüffler [Liz Allbe & /Gino Robair]
Noah Phillips, Jason Hoopes & Andy Srain
+ a very special syrofoam duet.
Thursday, January 8
Thu 1/8 8:00 PM Outsound & Luggage Store Presents The New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Full Moon Concerts - Cold Moon
Celebrate the Cold Moon with Cold Blue artists night: performances of and by the composers and performers of Cold Blue Music!
Featuring the music and artistry of Chas Smith, Rick Cox, Michael Jon Fink, Read Miller, Marty Walker, and Jim Fox.
Friday, January 9
Fri 1/9 9:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street between Shattuck and Telegraph Oakland]
This Here Show - An Improvised Variety Performance with: vocalist Laurie Amat, dancer Micaela Gardner, dancer Claudine Naganuma, sound artist Gregory Scharpen, video artist Tim Thompson, and featuring This Here Band: Mark Briggs, Hakkan Guven, Herb Heinz, Shawn King, Craig Latta, Bill Leikam, David Leikam a.k.a. Bug, Melissa Rae, and Richard Smith.
Saturday, January 10
Sat 1/10 7:00 PM El Rio [3158 Mission St San Francisco, California 94110]
The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble, a groundbreaking new music ensemble led by classical and film composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky, performs abstract, spacious, free form, transcendental, electro-acoustic contemporary music. Appearing at 7pm with Entamoeba at 8pm. Free. http://www.myspace.com/jcdensemble See our videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/destijlmusic Enjoy our music free on Pandora and Rhapsody and LastFM!
Sat 1/10 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
ROVA Meets Ghost In The House
The Ghost In The House Concert Series
The acclaimed all-saxophone ensemble, ROVA, meets up with Ghost In The House at the Community Music Center in San Francisco’s Mission District. With their unique instrumental combinations the two ensembles will present an evening of adventurous music making – performing as Rova and Ghost In The House, but also mixing it up with different combinations of the two groups.
Sat 1/10 8:00 PM Soja [2406 Webster, Oakland, between 24th & 25th St. (near 19th St. BART, 1 block from 21 Grand)]
Improvised Music & Movement: Soja Martial Arts Studio presents a special CD Release Concert for "Idea of West" (Creative Sources) featuring Tony Dryer, Jacob Felix Heule, and Jacob Lindsay. Also performing is Sextet: Kristian Aspelin (guitar), Tony Dryer (contrabass), Phillip Greenlief (saxophones), Jacob Felix Heule (drums), Jacob Lindsay (clarinets), and Kanoko Nishi (koto), with special guest Peter Ajemian and others performing traditional martial arts.
Sat 1/10 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
The inaugural concert of "OpenSound West," a monthly improv series at CNMAT this Saturday, Jan. 10 at 8pm. W/Gino Robair, Matt Ingalls, Matthew Goodheart, Nils Bultmann, Amadeus Regucera, and Ken Ueno. Special guest will be Timothy Feeney (http://www.timfeeney.com/).
Sunday, January 11
Sun 1/11 6:00 PM Hemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street Between Post and Sutter SF]
S. Clay Wilson benefit show
* Tony Dryer/Jacob Felix Heule acoustic duo
* Terror Apart
* David Slusser
* Bullshit Detector
* Amphibious Gestures
* fognozzle
* Arachnid Arcade
* Hora Flora
* Headboggle
* Heartworm
* Loachfillet
* Skullcaster
* Liz Allbee/Agnes Szelag
* Anvil Encephalopathy
Sun 1/11 7:30 PM Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 PM
*A Benefit for Outsound*
Come join us and experience the powerful sounds of this stellar gathering...
Thollem Mcdonas, piano with Masaru Koga, woodwinds & shakuhachi, Jim Kassis, percussion, Theresa Wong, cello, Scott Rosenberg, reeds and more guests TBA
"McDonas' piano are Defalla (driving rhythms and Iberian modes), Shoenberg (unresolved dissonances a mile high), the collapsing/expanding tempi of Nancarrow, and splatterings of Cecil Taylor..." -Tom Djll, Signal to Noise
Tuesday, January 13
Tue 1/13 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
JazzHopRevolution
featuring John Lindberg and Rahman Jamaal & Vinny Golia, John Lindberg, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter
Wednesday, January 14
Wed 1/14 7:00 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
John Lindberg ˜ Bass Walk"
an Improv:21 informance presented by Rova:Arts
Wednesday, January 14, 7pm
John Lindberg (bassist/composer/performer) will present his views as an improvising composer by showing his short, music-driven documentary, Bass Walk and the recently produced music video, The Myth. He will also perform his composition for solo bass, Fiddlesticks, followed by a discussion and Q&A.
Lindberg embarked on his professional career in 1975 at the age of sixteen. The following year he co-founded the String Trio of New York, a composers' collective performance unit that has gone on to produce seventeen albums of original music and present hundreds of concerts worldwide. In 1979 he formed his first ensemble dedicated to the performance of his own compositions.
Wed 1/14 7:30 PM Meridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF]
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Alee Karim. Marielle Jakobsons and Agnes Szelag will join Alee Karim for Sci-Fi Song Cycle: A collection of new pieces for the winter months loosely inspired by the psychic experience of science fiction. Pocket symphonies for acoustic guitar, cello, violin, male and female voice.
Thursday, January 15
Thu 1/15 8:00 PM Outsound & Luggage Store Presents The New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Music by the Eyeful: Inventions in Visual Audio | this time truly intent on pressing the definition with
big city orchestra
a reprise, which often means a wholesale reinvention, of big city orchestra's trio for phonograph, harmonium and video which appeared last year in the brutal colonnade of 150 frank ogawa plaza.
tim thompson's loop salad
software engineer and visual music artist tim thompson tosses several of his home-grown interactive looping applications (for music, graphics, and image processing) into a leafy and colorful mix.
Thu 1/15 9:00 PM Amnesia [853 Valencia Street, between 19th and 20th SF]
Phillip Greenlief- reeds
Sheldon Brown- reeds
John Schott- guitar
Ava Mendoza- guitar
Devin Hoff- contrabass
Vijay Anderson- drums
w/RAMON AND JESSICA (DINA MACCABEE)
FREDERIC L. JACQUES (France)
Friday, January 16
Fri 1/16 8:00 PM Red Poppy Art House [2698 FOLSOM SF,CA 94110]
Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait and Switch
(Aaron Bennett, John Finkbeiner, Vijay Anderson)
plus
Smith Dobson Jr./ John Wiitala Duo
Sunday, January 18
Sun 1/18 10:00 PM KUSF [90.3 FM / kusf.org]
Tony Dryer / Jacob Felix Heule / Aurora Josephson / Kanoko Nishi
(double bass / snare drum / voice / koto)
live on KUSF 90.3 FM, kusf.org
Monday, January 19
Mon 1/19 9:00 PM Ivy Room [858 San Pablo Ave, Albany]
Daniel Popsicle--The Music of El Cerrito comes to Albany
Tuesday, January 20
Tue 1/20 9:00 PM Uptown [1928 Telegraph Ave @19th St Oakland]
21 Grand presents: Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra "The End of an Error" commemorates the end of the Bush II Regime and may possibly be the last Moe!kestra ever; Damon Smith/Kjell Nordeson/Weasel Walter trio; Jason Hoopes/Andy Strain/Noah Phillips trio
Thursday, January 22
Thu 1/22 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents
8:00 pm: Tony Dryer - solo doublebass
8:30 pm: - electronics
9:15pm: Jacqueline Gordon - noise blankets (no really - literal blankets)
Friday, January 23
Fri 1/23 8:00 PM The Berkeley Hillside Club [2286 Cedar Street Berkeley, CA 94709]
Awkward Encounter is a four-headed beast that roars its joy-filled celebratory cry through the voices of percussionist Shayna Dunkelman, electronic musician Preshish Moments (Michael Carter), trombonist Andy Strain and cellist Theresa Wong. To hear this quartet is to witness the many moods and habits of this creature, which will bicker, wrestle, explode, hypnotize and cheer with it's selves in an evening of free improvisations.
www.hillsideclub.org
Saturday, January 24
Sat 1/24 7:30 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music [Recital Hall 50 Oak Street San Francisco, CA]
CMASH presents New American Chamber Music program featuring works for voice and piano. Pre-concert discussion with composers Jake Heggie and Liam Wade.
Sat 1/24 8:00 PM Trinity Chapel [2320 Dana Street Berkeley CA 94704]
Tom Heasley performs new solo compositions for electro-acoustic tuba, didjeridu and voice.
Sat 1/24 8:00 PM Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Ben Goldberg + Myra Melford
Duet Concert
Monday, January 26
Mon 1/26 8:15 AM KUSF San Francisco [90.3 FM]
Prem hosts a performance by Painted Cakes (Elias Reitz, Shumit DasGupta, and Andrew Kitchen) "Live in KUSF Studio B" prior to their show Wednesday, 1/28 at Rickshaw Stop.
The music of Painted Cakes mixes ambient, rock, jazz, and electronic music with the influences of India and Africa.
Mon 1/26 7:00 PM Javacat [5549 Geary Blvd San Francisco, 94121]
Mark Wilson (Conure & 15DBZ) and Andre Custodio (nihil communication) collaboration.
Tuesday, January 27
Tue 1/27 8:00 PM El Rincon [2700 16th St @ Harrison San Francisco, CA 94103 ]
CORPSEVAPOR
* Jacob Felix Heule - drum set
* Tony Dryer - double bass
* Jay Korber - tenor sax
WIGGWAUM
DOPPLER TRIO
(free jazz)
plus dj's dirty collar and differentdentist
Wednesday, January 28
Wed 1/28 12:01 PM CELLSpace [2050 Bryant San Francisco]
San Francisco Tape Music Festival Sound Diffusion Workshop: Lunchtime demonstration and introduction to the basics of sound diffusion. Participants will also be given the opportunity to try out their skills on the festival's sound system.
Wed 1/28 8:00 PM Climate Theatre [285 9th St (at Folsom) SF]
James GOODE & Christopher Fleeger
An infestation of acousmites eat away the noisy ball.
Thursday, January 29
Thu 1/29 12:01 PM CELLSpace [2050 Bryant San Francisco]
San Francisco Tape Music Festival Sound Diffusion Workshop: Lunchtime demonstration and introduction to the basics of sound diffusion. Participants will also be given the opportunity to try out their skills on the festival's sound system.
Thu 1/29 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents
1st Set: Threetwentytwo (Chris Broderick: Woodwins, Angela Hsu: Violin/Psaltry)
2nd Set: Moe! Staiano (percussion)
3rd Set: Threetwentytwo & Moe!
Friday, January 30
Fri 1/30 8:00 PM Cell Space [2050 Bryant SF]
San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2009 - Our annual 3-day festival presenting new and classic electroacoustic works performed in complete darkness through a 20+ channel surround-sound loudspeaker array. This evening features music by Pierre Schaeffer, György Ligeti, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Paul Lansky, Ashley Bellouin, Thom Blum, Kyle Bruckmann & Olivia Block, Dugal McKinnon, Janis Mercer, and Aaron Ximm (aka Quiet American).
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