Sun 10/1 8:00 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] samo-wilmo-tek series presents
Barbara Golden will perform "Acid Reflex and Other Altered States.”
Kattt Sammon will perform her electronic “Influctuation”; the songs “Lullaby” (duet with K. Atchley), “In the Breeze,” “Non-Stop 20”; and the text piece “Alex.” Monday, October 2
Mon 10/2 8:00 PMODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF] sfSoundSeries: Featuring a new large-scale work for sfSound by New York-based Dan Joseph, James Tenney's (1934-2006) "Critical Band" for 16 or more sustaining instruments (1988/2000), Mary Jane Leach's "Xantippe's Rebuke" for oboe and multi-tracked tape, and a new improvisation-based work by Duo: Ing.
Mon 10/2 8:00 PMMills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland] Mills Performing Group Plays Music By Morton Feldman: "For Samuel Beckett" (Feldman's last composition), and "King of Denmark" (William Winant, percussion) Wednesday, October 4
Wed 10/4 9:00 PM The Compound [1070 Van Dyke Ave. SF] Jazkamer (Norway), Carlos Giffoni (NYC), R.H.Y. Yau (SF) & 16 Bitch Pile-Up (SF). Post-apocalyptic technological brutality. Thursday, October 5
Thu 10/5 6:30 PMAsphodel/Recombinant Media Labs [763 Brannan Street at 7th, SF] Cycling '74, Ableton, and Asphodel will be hosting a special evening of music, technology and video at Recombinant Media Labs, featuring Tipsy, TrioMetrik with Don Buchla and Jaron Lanier, Chachi Jones with Ganucheau, Sue Constabile, Les Stuck & John Bishoff.
Fri 10/6 11:00 AMThe Exploratorium [3601 Lyon St.] Beginning September 10, New York/San Francisco artist-composer Brenda Hutchinson will haul a large, resonant, cast-iron bell on a trailer attached to the back of her car from coast to coast. The Bell Project, a cross-country performance journey, is a month-long series of bell ringing events in towns and cities across the United States, culminating with bell ringing and lecture-demonstrations at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. The project is in anticipation of the opening of a major new exhibit collection, Listen, on October 21. Starting on the east coast, Hutchinson will travel some 5000 miles following a predominantly Southern route ending at San Francisco's Exploratorium on October 6.
Fri 10/6 7:11 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] The Illuminated Corridor contemplates Mobility in an art murmurable collision of public art, film and live music on and around the facades of 21 Grand with over 40 artists and musicians.
Fri 10/6 8:00 PMOakland Metro Operahouse [201 Broadway (at 2nd St by Jack London Square), Oakland CA 94607] Score by Glass with libretto by Jean Cocteau. A performance collaboration between the Oakland Opera Theater and the Nguyen Dance Company.
The Oakland Opera Theater's production of Glass' Les Enfants Terribles performed in collaboration with The Nguyen Dance Company locates the Glass dance-opera spectacle in French colonial Indochina. Based on Jean Cocteau’s 1929 novel of the same title, the piece is a tragedy which explores the power of love in its darker expression: narcissism, exclusivity, and ultimately self-destruction.
Fri 10/6 8:00 PM1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland] Free-jazz Fridays: Another new bi-weekly jazz series which highlights the seldom heard style of a later Coltrane or Ornette Coleman…jazz most often referred to as “free-jazz” or “avant-garde” jazz. October 6: Damon Smith, bass, Jon Raskin, horns, & Spirit, drums. October 20th: Howard Wiley, sax & Laurie Buenafe, dance. Saturday, October 7
Sat 10/7 7:00 PM369 Ellis [369 Ellis Street San Francisco, CA] FREE Destroy Nate Allen CD Release Party with Special Guest Mr. Cliff Greewood, Insomniac Folklore (Portland) and Benjamin Francis.
Sat 10/7 8:00 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] Films by Maya Deren and David Michalak, live Soundtracks by Reel Change - Andrew Voigt, David Michalak, Tom Nunn and Carla Kihlstedt. Maya Deren films include Meshes of the Afternoon and At Land. David Michalak's films range from stark expressionistic dramas to abstract moving paintings to spoken word films that comically appropriate “How to” & Instructional records as part of the dialogue. Tonight’s show features, See What You See, a film that explores the paintings of the late Ben Lindgren plus others.
Sat 10/7 8:00 PMCCRMA Stage [The Knoll Stanford University] Roscoe Mitchell, Chris Chafe, and Roberta Morales Sunday, October 8
Sun 10/8 7:30 PMOutsound Presents...The SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] Noertker's Moxie Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet Hugh Schick - trumpet Jenny Maybee - piano Jason Levis - drums Bill Noertker - contrabass Last Moxie show of 2006!! Join Noertker and friends for two sets of music. Along with some new tunes, they will be performing selections from Noertker's Suites for Joan Miró and Antoni Gaudí.
Sun 10/8 8:00 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] A rare appearance by the unstoppable, shape-shifting monstrosity, Vacuum Tree Head. Inner Ear Brigade twists odd meters and harmonies in songs that are one part rock and one part jazz, but not quite the virtuosic masturbation of "fusion." Denver/Berlin-based Assdroids burn the bridge between breakcore and ecstatic jazz, spilling the gap that divides the Boredoms from Merzbow. Monday, October 9
Wed 10/11 8:00 PMMeridian Gallery [545 Sutter Street SF] Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Hafez Modirzadeh. For over two decades, Hafez Modir has performed and recorded his original brand of creative music for tenor saxophone, traversing a variety of temperaments and cross-cultural contexts. Having just returned from a Fulbright in Andalucia, Spain, where he has spent more than a year, Modir will debut several prepared improvisations that are the culmination of his "chromodal" concept, the subject of several CD's under his name.
Wed 10/11 8:00 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] V Neck is a guitar and drum duet featuring Ross Hammond and Tom Monson. The combine free jazz improvisation with electronics and textures. Theresa Wong (cello) and Devin Hoff (bass) perform short solo sets. Thursday, October 12
Thu 10/12 8:00 PMCCRMA Stage [The Knoll Stanford University] Graeme Jennings, former violinist of the legendary Arditti String Quartet performs Berio, Maderna, Donatoni, Scodanibbio, Sciarrino, and Taccani Friday, October 13
Fri 10/13 9:00 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] irr. app. ext. + The Why Because + Nf Orchest + Maleficia Saturday, October 14
Sat 10/14 8:00 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] Noise of many stripes featuring an epic cast performing short sets: Vertonen (Chicago), Michael Gendreau, 16 bitch pile up, AMK (LA), Dead Black Wolf (LA) Ben Bracken (oakland)
Sat 10/14 8:00 PMCommunity Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF] The Composer’s Group Irregular Resolutions presents its Fall concert of new music for string quartet, winds, and voice. All pieces were composed in 2006.
Sat 10/14 8:00 PMOld First Presbyterian Church [1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness San Francisco, CA 94109] In commemoration and in honor of our former 9th planet from our solar system the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra will present "The Pluto Memorial Concert" a celebration of change in art and science on Saturday October 14th 2006 at the Old First Church in San Francisco. SFCCO will present Bay Area and world premieres of works that grapple with our most recent celestial loss by Mark Alburger, Allan Crossman, Philip Freihofner, David Graves, Beeri Moalem, and Martha Stoddard. Sunday, October 15
Sun 10/15 4:00 PMChez Hanny [145 Fillmore (@Waller) 1 block South of Haight Street SF 94117 ] Chez Hanny Presents Roberta Picket - Ratzo Harris - Billy Mintz Trio
This improvising group experiments with the observer effect (not to be confused with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle) and features a designated "active listener" and an "active drawer." Musicians: Aurora, Weasel Walter, Aram Shelton, Liz Allbee, Damon Smith Active Listener: Maria Fischinger Active Drawer: Adrienne Simms Tuesday, October 17
Tue 10/17 7:30 PM Crossroads Cafe [699 Delancey Street, San Francisco (near the Embarcadero and AT&T Park)] Crossroads Cafe Presents: Michael Gold Quartet
Michael Gold - Sax Paul Mindrup - Piano Scott Chapek - Bass Tom Hassett - Drums
Tue 10/17 8:00 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] At the potentially ominous crossroads of experimental and folk music, one finds Tom Carter, performing a duo with Shawn McMillen. Christina Carter and Sean Smith perform solo sets. Wednesday, October 18
Thu 10/19 6:30 PMPalais Ideal: A Festival of Adventurous, Strange & Visionary Music [Chico, CA] Palais Idéal: Oct. 19-22 in Chico, CA--A large collection of musical oddballs and innovators (over 70) from S.F., Sac., Chico & more, gather together in the sleepy college town of Chico, Calif. and take the place over for a few days under the banner of Palais Idéal: A Festival of Adventurous, Strange and Visionary Music. This is not merely an experimental music festival; this is a an occasion for weirdness of all stripes and for braveness in the name of new ideas. See site for schedule and list of performers.
Thursday's performers: Bob Marsh/Silver Park, The Atomic Bomb Audition, V-Neck, Tom Duff, Philip White, Palais Ideal documentarly and more.
Thu 10/19 8:00 PMLuggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] Y2k6 live looping festival - San Francisco night Krispen Hartung (Guitar/elec) & Jeff Kaiser (Trumpets/Elec) Rainer Straschill & Rick Walker (Multi-instruments) Friday, October 20
Fri 10/20 2:00 PMPalais Ideal: A Festival of Adventurous, Strange & Visionary Music [Chico, CA] Palais Idéal: Oct. 19-22 in Chico, CA--A large collection of musical oddballs and innovators (over 70) from S.F., Sac., Chico & more, gather together in the sleepy college town of Chico, Calif. and take the place over for a few days under the banner of Palais Idéal: A Festival of Adventurous, Strange and Visionary Music. This is not merely an experimental music festival; this is a an occasion for weirdness of all stripes and for braveness in the name of new ideas. See site for schedule and list of performers.
Friday's performers: Lulacruza, Neshama Alma Band, Gregg Kowalsky, Ronnie Cramer, New Thrill Parade, Underscore_Orkestra, STIMBOX, Xome, The Rabbles, Jess Rowland, David Dvorin, and more.
Michael Gold - Saxophone Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert - Guitar Noah Schenker - Bass Eric Garland - Drums
Fri 10/20 7:00 PMMama Buzz Cafe [2318 Telegraph Ave @23rd Oakland] Jacob Lindsay - Ab, Bb, Bass and Contrabass Clarinets Aram Shelton - Alto Saxophone, Eb and Bass Clarinets Ava Mendoza - Guitar Benjamin Bracken - Tabletop Guitar
Join Bay Area local improvisers in this premier double arrangement of reeds and guitars, as they explore and expand the continuum following the U.S. free jazz movement spawned in the 60's, moving through European non-idiomatic free-impovisation, and globally into its current incarnations.
Fri 10/20 8:00 PM1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland] Howard Wiley, sax & Laurie Buenafe, dance. Free-jazz Fridays: A bi-weekly jazz series which highlights the seldom heard style of a later Coltrane or Ornette Coleman…jazz most often referred to as “free-jazz” or “avant-garde” jazz.
Fri 10/20 9:00 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] Aggressive jazz and prog-like rock: Upsilon Acrux (SoCal) + MiRthkon + No Doctors + Weasel Walter Quartet Saturday, October 21
Sat 10/21 9:00 AMPalais Ideal: A Festival of Adventurous, Strange & Visionary Music [Chico, CA] Palais Idéal: Oct. 19-22 in Chico, CA--A large collection of musical oddballs and innovators (over 70) from S.F., Sac., Chico & more, gather together in the sleepy college town of Chico, Calif. and take the place over for a few days under the banner of Palais Idéal: A Festival of Adventurous, Strange and Visionary Music. This is not merely an experimental music festival; this is a an occasion for weirdness of all stripes and for braveness in the name of new ideas. See site for schedule and list of performers.
Saturday's performers: Mute Socialite, Danny Cohen, Polly Moller & Lucio, Uberkunst, Loren Chasse, Cheryl E. Leonard/A.L. Dentel/Patty Liu, Triometrik, Dead Western, CSU Chico Electronic Music Ensemble, Hero of Canton, Phillip Greelief, Barry Threw, Hyle, Pillow, Darwinsbitch, Guerrillasoul, Xambuca vs Saifir, Daniel Hintz, Botchii and more.
Sat 10/21 10:00 AMExploratorium [3601 Lyons St, San Francisco, CA 94123] Momeni's What You Said, How You Said It, is an interactive sound installation based on accents and the spoken word. Helyer's Talking Stick allows visitors to discover pools of sound at different locations, each offering a differing sonic adventure. Michelle Nagai's works are the sonic transitions into the Listen exhibition. Go to: http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/documents/06-7What.html Go to: http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/documents/06-7Sonic.html Go to: http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/documents/06-7Talking.html
Sat 10/21 8:00 PMTrinity Chapel [2320 Dana St. (bet. Durant & Bancroft) Berkeley] Ted Brinkley's Electric Florid-Ians sing and play music that is centered around old-fashioned, pretty melodies and delusional maritime themes. Voices, clarinets, bassoon, saxophones, trombone, a jazz rhythm section, synthesizer along with some costumes and other visual accoutrements help evoke an irreverent sense of pageantry-on-the-cheap.
Sat 10/21 8:00 PMPLAySPACE Gallery @ CCA [2nd floor of California College of the Arts 1111 8th Street (at 16th and Wisconsin)] Echo de Pensees Sound Series in conjunction with The Museum of Viral Memory and PLAySPACE Gallery presents live performances by: Albert Ortega (http://resontropic.com) Coelacanth (http://www.helenscarsdale.com/coelacanth) and sound installation by: 2& (http://fundamentallysound.org/2&/listen.html) doors open at 7:30pm for more info contact: marcella.faustini@gmail.com
Sat 10/21 8:30 PM1078 Gallery [820 Broadway Chico, CA] Botchii, SPLITLIP, Uberkunst, Polly Moller & Lucio Menegon, & Mute Socialite will perform on the 3rd night of Palais Ideal: A Festival of Adventurous, Strange and Visionary Music. Sunday, October 22
Sun 10/22 5:00 PM1078 Gallery [820 Broadway Chico, CA] Palais Ideal: A Festival of Adventurous, Strange and Visionary Music With: The Party; Dud; Arcanum; Modular Set; Black Fiction; Phillip Greenlief; Lords of Outland; C.O.M.A.
Sun 10/22 8:00 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] Rastascan Records Presents John Shiurba's 5x5 CD Release Party AND Bob Marsh’s Quintessentials (premiere)
Mon 10/23 7:00 PMMama Buzz Cafe [2318 Telegraph Ave @23rd Oakland] Ben Goldberg Trio (Ben, Devin Hoff, and Smith Dobson, Jr.) Tuesday, October 24
Tue 10/24 8:00 PMMills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland] Irma, an opera by Tom Philips The 1960s classic: Mills College Music Improvisation Ensemble (directed by Fred Frith) with special guest director and conductor Gino Robair
Tue 10/24 8:00 PM Waldorf High School Mission Annex [1875 Mission Street at 15th Street, 3rd floor San Francisco, CA 94110] The Claudia Quintet @Waldorf High School - SF
The Claudia Quintet: John Hollenbeck- drums Ted Reichman- accordion Chris Speed- tenor sax/clarinet Matt Moran- vibraphone Drew Gress- bass Wednesday, October 25
Wed 10/25 7:30 PMBrava! [2781 24th Street San Francisco California, 94110 ] Join the Kronos Quartet Tariq Ali and David Barsamian for a rare joint performance on October 25th to benefit Media Alliance’s 30th Anniversary. Thursday, October 26
Thu 10/26 6:00 PM ezra house the rat mansion [1353 curtis, berkeley] john thill [ riverside . aum rifle . quem quaertis . nightpass recs ] whitman [ riverside . folktale recs ] jorge boehringer + [ crrrllr r g g g ] loachflltt [ flllfllftt ]
Thu 10/26 7:30 PM Crossroads Cafe [699 Delancey Street, San Francisco (near the Embarcadero and AT&T Park)] Crossroads Cafe Presents Michael Gold Quartet
Michael Gold - Sax Paul Mindrup - Piano Scott Chapek - Bass Tom Hassett - Drums
Fri 10/27 7:00 PMWithering Flower :BANZAI MANSAI [OCEAN BEACH, SF, CA (At Lincoln & Great Highway)] San Francisco based Japanese artist Monichi Fumi will organize a new art event. On this special day, she will make 7 giant, fire figures in a ritualistic manner to represent, burned past and calling of new life
Music performance….. XOME Rubber O Cement Jorge Boehringer Perry Fred Rinne Electronic Drumming Orchestra ( World premier formed by monichi ) Conducting by Thomas Dimuzio
Michael Gold - Saxophone Paul Mindrup - Piano Scott Chapek - Bass Tom Hassett - Drums
Fri 10/27 8:00 PM Maybeck Studio [Euclid Ave. in North Berkeley: Please email gm@handprintseries.com to make a reservation and for venue address/directions] Improvisations by Myra Melford + Mark Dresser + Joelle Leandre + David Wessel
plus duo B. (Lisa Mezzacappa, doublebass + Jason Levis, percussion) plays new works by Darren Johnston, Heather Frasch and Jeremy Hunt
Fri 10/27 8:30 PM21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] Duck and Cover 2 features radical reinterpretations of popular songs by several soloists and groups. Curated by Matt Davignon and Sarah Lockhart. Performances by Strip Mall Seizures, Man v. Nature, Matt Davignon, Mark Briggs Group, The Alan Korn Projekt, David Slusser Trio. Saturday, October 28
Sat 10/28 7:30 PM 24th Street Theater Works Gallery and Performance Space [2405 24th Street @ Vermont, SF] CONVERSATIONS FOR PEACE. Pianist BILL CROSSMAN joins THE GREATEST LITTLE BIG BAND IN THE HISTORY OF THE MEGAVERSE for an evening of improvised music. Bill has played with a lot of great improvisers including over 15 years with the Ritual Band. He currently teaches jazz and blues piano at the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music. THE GREATEST LITTLE BIG BAND has been trancing audiences out for the last five years. Megan Bierman on tenor sax, Jack Duval on drums, and John Gruntfest on alto sax play in the spirit of freedom and stars exploding. This is the best energy-spirit music on the contemporary scene. ON EXHIBIT: WORKS ON PAPER by MEGAN BIERMAN. Admission Price includes DELECTABLE HERBAL BREWS and LOVEMORE GOURMET CHOCOLATES by Laura and Trish. BEST DEAL IN TOWN! Sunday, October 29
Sun 10/29 7:00 PMHerbst Theatre [401 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA] Andrew Hill: Anglo American Sextet; Nels Cline plays the music of Andrew Hill DOUBLE BILL! Anglo American Sextet Andrew Hill, piano; Jason Yarde, saxophone; Greg Tardy, tenor saxphone; Byron Wollan, trumpet; John Hebert, bass; Eric McPherson, drums
Nels Cline Group- Nels Cline, elect.guitar; Bobby Bradford, cornet; Ben Goldberg, clarinets; Andrea Parkins, electric accordion; Devin Hoff, bass; Scott Amendola, drums
Rova:Arts is pleased to announce the 2006-2007 season of Improv:21, a continuation of its highly successful series of informances on 21st-Century musical improvisation and composition, led by master improvisers from the Bay Area and beyond. Tonight: Ben Goldberg, moderator Derk richardson, and you have a discussion about Ben's music, and listen to the music both live and on record.
Mon 10/30 8:00 PMThe Berkeley Hillside Club [2286 Cedar Street Berkeley, CA 94709] An evening of improvised music with Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion), Shoko Hikage (koto) and Theresa Wong (cello).
