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OCTOBER 2008
Thursday, October 2
Thu 10/2 8:00 PM Outsound & Luggage Store Presents The New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
3 bands: Barn Owl (SF), Pillars and Tongues (Chicago) & Numinous Eye (SF)
Thu 10/2 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St (at Capp) SF ]
SL Morse performs "No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre" in an evening of performances as part of The Lab's "Code-Switchers" exhibition. This incarnation of SL Morse is Aurora Josephson (voice), Sarah Lockhart (drums), Suki O'Kane (percussion).
Friday, October 3
Fri 10/3 7:14 PM Kahn's Alley [between Telegraph and Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland]
 the illuminated corridor a collision of public art, live music and film
track artist roster here
Fri 10/3 8:00 PM ORBIS NEX [go to http://vialmagazine.com/breadcrumbs.html for info on how to get to this PRIVATELY HOSTED EVENT]
1st night of the 1st Annual IAMINDUST Music Festival featuring performances on an OCTOPHONIC SOUND SYSTEM By WINSTON TONG/Lx RUDIS, AMBER ASYLUM, ASIANOVA, NOMMO OGO, FORMS OF THINGS UNKNOWN, THOMAS DIMUZIO and DEATH OF THE WEST, concluding with an end of night Live Improvised collaborative set by all the performing artists. Tickets and info at www.iamindust.com
Fri 10/3 8:00 PM Davies Symphony Hall [201 Van Ness Avenue, SD]
26th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival presents “Miles from India” with Wallace Roney, Badal Roy, Lenny White, Dave Liebman, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Kala Ramnath and more.
Fri 10/3 8:00 PM The Berkeley Hillside Club [2286 Cedar Street (between Spruce & Arch) Berkeley ]
Rova Saxophone Quartet at the Hillside Club
Two sets of new music at the historic Hillside Club in north Berkeley. Rova will present new works just recorded for an upcoming CD of works with graphic scores as well as other works from the repertory.
Fri 10/3 9:00 PM Huffin House [755 East 10th Street, Oakland]
THRONES
SILENTIST
BURMESE
ETTRICK
Fri 10/3 9:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street between Shattuck and Telegraph Oakland]
A night of music with Joshua Smith Quartet (original jazz), Dan Plonsey & Friends (new compositions/improvisations), Scott Barkan (songs), at Temescal Arts Center this Friday night to initiate a 'First Friday' of each month series...
Saturday, October 4
Sat 10/4 8:00 PM ORBIS NEX [As this is a PRIVATELY HOSTED EVENT, please go to: http://vialmagazine.com/breadcrumbs.html for directions to the I.AM.INDUST. Festival]
The 2nd Night of the 1st ANNUAL I.AM>INDUST> festival Includes Performances by James Goode [San Francisco] PARLOUR MUSIC COMMUNICATIONS (lOS aNGELES) Ethos [Austin, TX] Nux Vomica [San Francisco] ILLUSION OF SAFETY (Chicago) Voice of Eye [Taos, New Mexico] KWISP (San Francisco) and t5he night concludes with an improvised Multi-Artist Collaborative Set
Sat 10/4 9:00 PM Bluesix [3043 24th St. @ Treat St. SF]
Jen Baker celebrates the release of her solo album, Blue Dreams with a set of her multiphonic Lyrical Vibrations, followed by a set of duos with special guests Fred Frith, Liz Allbee, and Jon Raskin. Lyrical Vibrations are influenced by Gregorian Chant and Tuvan Throat singing, taking on the character of circular, meandering melodies of the former and executed with the sultry, resonant tones of the latter.
Sunday, October 5
Sun 10/5 2:00 PM Castro Valley Center For The Arts [19501 Redwood Road, Castro Valley, CA 94546. (Cross Street is Heyer Avenue.)]
The Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra presents the World Premiere of EISENHOWER FAREWELL ADDRESS featuring NBC11 reporter Scott Budman as orator. Like Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, this work uses a speaker in conjunction with live orchestra. The text is excerpted from one of the most renown Presidential speeches in US history.
Sun 10/5 5:00 PM Studio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland]
The Emergency Strings Bob Marsh, cello - Doug Carroll, cello - Tara Flandreau, viola - Jeff Hobbs, violin - Thea Farahadian, violin - Tari Nelson-Zagar (Seattle), violin . . . under the direction of Sir Robert Marsh at Five O'Clock followed by the Left Coast Improv Group at Six O'Clock, Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Sun 10/5 5:00 PM Studio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland]
The Left Coast Improv Group: Doug Carroll cello, Michael Cooke bassoon, Jeff Hobbs clarinet cornet violin , Scott R. Looney piano & electronics, Bob Marsh violin and other things, Tom Nunn hand-built electro-acoustic instruments, Jim Ryan flute horn & small percussion
Sun 10/5 7:30 PM Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
2 sets by Bill Noertker's Moxie: Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute; Jim Peterson - alto sax, flute; Bill Noertker - contrabass; Dave Mihaly - drums
Sun 10/5 8:00 PM ORBIS NEX [As this is a PRIVATELY HOSTED EVENT, please go to: http://vialmagazine.com/breadcrumbs.html for directions to the I.AM.INDUST. Festival]
The 1st Annual IAMINDUST festival concludes OCTOBER 5th with this amazing lineup of performers: A.S. [SF Bay Area) Bloodbox [Seattle] Troum [Bremen, GERMANY] AIDEN BAKER (Canada) NADJA (CANADA) Ure Thrall [San Francisco] and the night concludes with an inprovised Multi-Artist Collaborative Set
Monday, October 6
Mon 10/6 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [700 Howard St. @3rd SF]
Percussion takes center stage in this exhilarating concert. Hear familiar instruments played in unfamiliar ways, and immerse yourself in the one-of-a-kind sound world of György Ligeti's delightfully ambitious work for mezzo-soprano and four percussion. Franck Bedrossian explodes the limits of the rhythm section in Digital for percussion, contrabass and electronics, while Maki Ishii bestrides musical East and West in a beguiling reminiscence for harp and a dynamic percussion duo.
Tuesday, October 7
Tue 10/7 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street between Shattuck and Telegraph Oakland]
First Tuesday @ Temescal Arts
Moe! Staiano [solo percussion]
Bubble & Squeak [Gino Robair/Scott Rosenberg/John Shiurba]
Wednesday, October 8
Wed 10/8 7:30 PM Meridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF]
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents The Bloom Trio - Rent Romus, thollem McDonas, and Steven Baker.
Thursday, October 9
Thu 10/9 8:00 PM Outsound & Luggage Store Presents The New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm: League of Art Game Composers (LAG)
9pm: Dayrl Shawn + Alan Anzalone
Thu 10/9 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
quartet - free jazz - Elliot Levin, Scott Looney, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter. Opening set: guitar duo RICK IANNACONE and TOM ROLLISON
Saturday, October 11
Sat 10/11 7:00 PM The Garage at New Langton Arts [1246 Folsom Street]
the colony room presents: an evening of ECCENTRIC SPACES AND SERIOUS PLEASURES. the evening will feature performances by joshua churchill (T/R), RUA MINX(donna huanca) and BRAN(...)POS.
videos by ranu mukherjee/orphan drift, peter greenway, marcella faustini and others.
performances start at 8pm. the colony room is opened until 11pm.
Sunday, October 12
Sun 10/12 3:00 PM Woody Woodman's Finger Palace [903 Cedar Street Berkeley]
A Finger Palace Special:
The Demonstrations & Exhibitions of International Tangible
Improvisers Joseph Slusky & Katie Hawkinson
Sun 10/12 8:00 PM ODC Dance Commons [351 Shotwell SF]
sfSoundSeries: Local percussionist Gino Robair performs Potluck Percussion (You bring anything, & he'll "play" it - GUARANTEED!) and presents a realization of his opera, I, Norton with sfSound augmented by laptops and voices. The program also includes two giant works from the 1980's: Gérard Grisey's Talea and the U.S. Premiere of Mathias Spahlinger's Aussageverweigerung / Gegendarstellung: Zwei Kontra-Kontexte für Doppelquartett.
Tuesday, October 14
Tue 10/14 7:30 PM Bookzoo [6395 Telegraph Avenue (at Alcatraz)]
Matt Davignon and Daryl Shawn will be appearing together at Bookzoo for an evening of live improvised music. Davignon coaxes unexpected sounds from a drum machine processed through an array of devices, while Shawn feeds his able acoustic guitar into two cassette recorders loaded with loop tapes. Enjoy their first musical meeting in solos and duos.
Tue 10/14 8:00 PM Mama Calizo's Voice Factory [1519 Mission St. near S. Van Ness SF]
Legendary Jazz-Blues Composer, Performer, Instrument Builder/Designer, Storyteller Cooper-Moore: Old and New Paths is a mix, a gumbo, a stew of gospel, bop, avant-garde jazz, and blues based music which is used to accompany stories about people that he's known, and stories that he heard as a child living in the Piedmont area of Virginia.
Thursday, October 16
Thu 10/16 7:30 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [700 Howard St. @3rd SF]
Graham Connah ensemble playing to a film
Thu 10/16 8:00 PM Outsound & Luggage Store Presents The New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm: Amar Chaudhary: Electronics - focusing on hardware analog and digital synthesizers
9pm: Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble
Abstract, calm, spacious, free form, transcendental, contemporary, electronic acoustic mystical psychedelia from classical and film composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Thu 10/16 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
World premiere! Dohee Lee FLUX
Friday, October 17
Fri 10/17 8:00 PM Woody Woodman's Finger Palace [903 Cedar Street Berkeley]
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom
Presents:
Special 30-Year Reunion!!
The Incredible EVAN PARKER & (Less Credible) GREG GOODMAN: Joined At The Lips!
Fri 10/17 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
World premiere! Dohee Lee FLUX
Saturday, October 18
Sat 10/18 8:00 PM Woody Woodman's Finger Palace [903 Cedar Street Berkeley]
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom
Presents:
Special 30-Year Reunion!!
The Incredible EVAN PARKER & (Less Credible) GREG GOODMAN: Joined At The Lips!
Sat 10/18 8:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
World premiere! Dohee Lee FLUX
Sat 10/18 8:00 PM Oakland Metro [630 3rd Street at MLK Near Jack London Square Oakland, California]
With Rova Saxophone Quartet, John Duykers, , Aurora Josephson, Matt Ingalls, Jen Baker, Wobbly, John Shiurba, Tim Perkis, Tara Flandreau, Monica Scott, Phillip Greenlief, Liz Allbee, Thomas Scandura, Ava Mendoza, Gene Baker, Andy Strain, Thomas Stephen Bates, and instigated, composed and directed by Tom Djll. Mockracy is an audiovisual farcical history tour through America’s media jungle, populated by political animals and televised egos. With sections of the orchestra in pitched battle, a mad President/King and operatic accoutrements, live narration and interactive video and electronics, Mockracy is a saturation bombing of the senses that will leave you in shock and awe.
Sunday, October 19
Sun 10/19 3:00 PM McKenna Theatre, San Francisco State University [1600 Holloway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132]
Morrison Artists Series presents Quartet New Generation. Program: Dowland: Pavan, Moravec: Mortal Flesh, de Rore: Alla dolce ombra, Blecharz: Airlines, Schultheiß: Ping Pong, Bach: Fuga a Tre Soggetti (from The Art of the Fugue, BWV. 1080), Ovsepyan: Arak, Bruckner: Vexilla regis, Meijering: Sitting Ducks.
Sun 10/19 7:30 PM Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 Thollem Mcdonas - grand piano (WORLD), Rent Romus - alto & soprano and maybe c-melody saxophones (SF)
8:30 Leave Me alone - Us Sextet (quintet)
w/ Rent Romus - saxes +electronics Andre Custodio - Drums + Stuff
Alex Yeung -electric guitar, Lx Rudis - electronics, David Slusser - tenor sax
Sun 10/19 8:00 PM Oakland Metro [630 3rd St. at MLK Near Jack London Square Oakland, California]
With Rova Saxophone Quartet, John Duykers, , Aurora Josephson, Matt Ingalls, Jen Baker, Wobbly, John Shiurba, Tim Perkis, Tara Flandreau, Monica Scott, Phillip Greenlief, Liz Allbee, Thomas Scandura, Ava Mendoza, Gene Baker, Andy Strain, Thomas Stephen Bates, and instigated, composed and directed by Tom Djll. Mockracy is an audiovisual farcical history tour through America’s media jungle, populated by political animals and televised egos. With sections of the orchestra in pitched battle, a mad President/King and operatic accoutrements, live narration and interactive video and electronics, Mockracy is a saturation bombing of the senses that will leave you in shock and awe.
Sun 10/19 8:00 PM Studio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland]
Nate Wooley, Scott R. Looney, Damon Smith and Weasel Walter 4tet plus Darren Johnston and Devin Hoff and Roberto Zorzi (Italy)
Sun 10/19 9:00 PM Hemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street Between Post and Sutter SF]
Record release show for Wiggwaum and Chen Santa Maria.
Monday, October 20
Mon 10/20 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland]
PAUL LYTTON and NATE WOOLEY: Percussionist Lytton and trumpeter Wooley met in 2003, and despite their difference in age and usual milieu (Lytton with Evan Parker's trio, Wooley in solo), they consistently push their improvisations into focused, dissonant counterpoint.
Tuesday, October 21
Tue 10/21 8:00 PM Yoshi's San Francisco [1330 Fillmore St SF]
Billy Bang Quartet
Newman Taylor Baker (drums)
Andrew Bemkey (piano)
Todd Nicholson (bass)
Tue 10/21 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Frith/Lytton/Wooley trio - Fred Frith plus special guests, NY trumpeter Nate Wooley and Paul Lytton, pioneering improvising percussionist from UK
Tue 10/21 10:00 PM Uptown [1928 Telegraph Ave @19th St Oakland]
AVANT GARDE AFTERPARTY feat. Jacob Lindsay, Ava Mendoza, Weasel Walter and Damon Smith only 5 dollars. other acts tba
Thursday, October 23
Thu 10/23 7:30 PM Herbst Theatre [401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco]
26th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival: Archie Shepp
Thu 10/23 8:00 PM Outsound & Luggage Store Presents The New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Music by the Eyeful with two elemental episodes of live cinema and music: Breath Transit and the Peal of Night performative projectionist Keith Evans (Silt) with composer / instrument builder Dylan Bolles, Ngoma Lungundu (Voice That Thunders), Nicholas Chase on laptop and interactive video
Friday, October 24
Fri 10/24 8:00 PM Woody Woodman's Finger Palace [903 Cedar Street Berkeley]
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom
Presents:
Part 1: Debra Allan Poe performs The World Premier of The Art of Fright
Part 2: Liz Allbee, Trumpeteuse Extraordinaire: An Improvised Knife
Fri 10/24 8:00 PM Grace Cathedral [100 California Street, SF]
26th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival: CECIL TAYLOR - Solo!
Saturday, October 25
Sat 10/25 8:00 PM Studio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland]
Duo pantoMorf from Sweden - awesome electronics duo, plus Tim Perkis and Scott R. Looney - electronics vs acoustics duo
Sat 10/25 8:00 PM Woody Woodman's Finger Palace [903 Cedar Street Berkeley]
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom
Presents:
Part 1: Debra Allan Poe performs The World Premier of The Art of Fright
Part 2: Liz Allbee, Trumpeteuse Extraordinaire: An Improvised Knife
Sat 10/25 9:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Zach Hill (solo) - the illustrious, virtuosic, drummer from Hella; Oaxacan (Mike Guarino, Derek Moneypeny, Amy Frbrtshsr) and more
Sunday, October 26
Sun 10/26 2:00 PM Florence Gould Theatre – Legion of Honor [100 Legion of Honor Dr. at Clement (Lincoln Park) SF]
Marilyn Crispell
“Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano.”
–The New York Times
Sun 10/26 2:30 PM Jazz at the Intersection @ the DeYoung Museum [Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive SF 94118]
"Kihnoua"
Larry Ochs - saxophones and compositions
Scott Amendola - drums and electronics
Joan Jeanrenaud - cello
Dohee Lee - vocals
Kihnoua might have meant "the difference" in ancient Greek. The band Kihnoua combines the thoughts, sounds, and structucres of contemporary improvsed music with influences from , sounds of, and emotions of folk-musics from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.
Sun 10/26 8:00 PM Artists' Television Access [992 Valencia Street @21st SF 94110]
Sight and Sound: Phillip Greenlief (solo saxophone) - performs music inspired by Antonioni films alongside scenes from L'Avventura and L'Eclisse; SL Morse (Sarah Lockhart - drums, Weasel Walter - guitar)- "Excerpts from The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus," Jacob Felix Heule/Kanoko Nishi duo, video - "Giant Fly Attack: A Tale of Vertical Integration" by Sarah Lockhart, and short videos by Marcella Faustini.
Monday, October 27
Mon 10/27 7:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
informational workshop for SF Friends of Chamber Music small grants to chamber ensembles program. The program aims to foster chamber music performance in all its diversity from early music to jazz to experimental and contemporary forms.
Mon 10/27 8:30 PM The MakeOut Room [3225 22nd St San Francisco, CA 94110]
Matt Bauder - tenor saxophone (from NYC); Aram Shelton - alto saxophone; Colin Stetson - baritone saxophone (now from Montreal I thinks)
Darren Johnston - trumpet; Bill Horvitz - electric guitar; David Phillips - pedal steel
Jen Baker - trombone; Simon Rose - alto saxophone; Weasel Walter - drums; Damon Smith - bass
Mon 10/27 10:00 PM Kingman's Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave near Solano Ave Albany]
PLUTO: Reunion of legendary pan-idiomatic improv band
Dave Slusser keys, woodwinds
Ralph Carney horns etc
Steve Clarke guitar, trumpet
Len Paterson guitar, electronics
Ellen Schoenwetter bass
Marc Weinstein drums
Wednesday, October 29
Wed 10/29 8:00 PM Meridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF]
Meridian Gallery presents a special concert featuring recorder player and composer, Terri Hron of Canada. Bird on a Wire: absorb the current is a current project by Hron that features works by composers Laurie Radford (Canada), Peter Hannan (Canada), Theo Mathien (Canada), Juan Parra Cancino (Chile/NL), Ronald Boersen (NL), Peter Swendsen (USA), Jim Altieri (USA) and Terri Hron (Canada/NL).
Thursday, October 30
Thu 10/30 8:00 PM Outsound & Luggage Store Presents The New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8 to 10 pm: Droneshift - a 2 hour drone, with Jen Baker, Ferrara Brain Pan, Amar Chaudhary, Kevin Corcoran, Matt Davignon, Tom Duff, Adam Fong, Phillip Greenlief John Hanes, Travis Johns, Jim Kaiser, Andrew Kaluzynski, Jacob Lindsay, Lucio Menegon, David Michalak, Suki O'Kane, Rent Romus, Damon Smith, Erroll Stewart, Tim Walters & Michael Zelner
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