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OCTOBER 2010 Friday, October 1 Fri 10/1 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley] For this special appearance, the Del Sol Quartet (violinists Kate Stenberg and Rick Shinozaki, violist Charlton Lee, and cellist Kathryn Bates-Williams) perform Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae, Elena Kats-Chernin’s Urban Village 2, and other exciting recent works for string quartet. Fri 10/1 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF] Wrack + Rova: On Procedural Grounds -- Local improvising oboist and composer/performer Kyle Bruckmann will premiere an extended work for Rova in collaboration with his long-running quintet Wrack, augmented by the electronic genius of Gino Robair and Tim Perkis. Rova will play the second set alone. Sunday, October 3 Sun 10/3 7:30 PM SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] 2 set-CD release party for Some Circles. Noertker's Moxie: Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, flute/Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute/Bill Noertker - contrabass/Dave Mihaly - drums Sun 10/3 8:00 PM Herbst Theatre [401 Van Ness Ave San Francisco] 28th San Francisco Jazz Festival presents Henry Threadgill’s Zooid Tuesday, October 5 Tue 10/5 6:30 PM Mills College - Student Union, Rothwell Center [5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland ] "Open Cobra": An audience-participatory version of John Zorn's Cobra, presented at Mills College by Canadian artist Misha Glouberman. Wednesday, October 6 Wed 10/6 9:00 PM Kingman's Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave near Solano Ave Albany] Light A Fire: Blow It Out: Thomas Helton (solo bass); Karl Evangelista Trio (w/Jordan Glenn, Cory Wright); Mutual Aid Project (Marshall Trammell, Tracy Hui, Nick Obando) Thursday, October 7 Thu 10/7 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] 8pm Slumgum Jon Armstrong tenor sax, David Tranchina Bass, Rory Cowal piano (Los Angeles) 9pm Walsh Set trio Brian Walsh clarinet and bass clarinet, Trevor Anderies drums Colin Burgess bass (Los Angeles) Thu 10/7 8:00 PM New Nothing Cinema [16 Sherman Street, SF] Houston bassist Thomas Helton performs an evening of improvisations with Bill Hsu on electronics and interactive animations, Matt Ingalls on clarinets, and Moe! Staiano on percussion. Friday, October 8 Fri 10/8 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley] apan’s Edo Period had a strict law on the books: be nice to dogs and other animals, or else! Brooklyn-based psychedelic-shred/avant-garde ensemble NYMPH bares its teeth for an evening of new music with a decidedly tribal feel. Artist and intergalactic traveler Daniel Jay projects visuals celebrating our four-legged friends. Dog Night with NYMPH is programmed in conjunction with the exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons. Saturday, October 9 Sat 10/9 8:00 PM SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] 8pm opening set Mutual Aid Project Trio w/Tracy Hui, Nick Obando, Marshall Trammell - drums 9pm "On the Edge of Dark" New works about desert planets, novi, space, and interstellar sonic mind travel by Rent Romus with the Lords of Outland and special guest traveler multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia, the internationally noted multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader... Sunday, October 10 Sun 10/10 7:30 PM SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] 8pm opening set TBA 9pm "On the Edge of Dark" New works about dessert planets, novi, space, and interstellar sonic mind travel by Rent Romus with the Lords of Outland and special guest traveler multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia Monday, October 11 Mon 10/11 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland] JON LEIDECKER // MILLS MUSIC NOW SONGLINES SERIES The highly regarded local electronic music composer presents the latest installment of his history of "sampling" in music, a series of lectures commissioned by Ràdio Web MACBA based in Barcelona. Performing as WOBBLY, his studio and live projects have involved collaborations with People Like Us, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Blechdom, Tim Perkis, Matmos, and The Weatherman of Negativland. Thursday, October 14 Thu 10/14 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] Y2k10 Looping Festival - Experimental Night Krispen Hartung (USA), Roberto Zorzi (Italy), Andreas Willers (Germany), Nat Grant (Canada) Friday, October 15 Fri 10/15 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley] To celebrate the publication of the Pacific Film Archive program’s first book, Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000, we present an evening of light shows, multiple projection pieces, films loops by Craig Baldwin, Gibbs Chapman, Peter Conheim, and Thad Povey and Alfonso Alvarez, as well as other cinema psychedelica. Sunday, October 17 Sun 10/17 8:00 PM SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] 7:30 TBA 8:30 Nick Lyons Group (NYC) Monday, October 18 Mon 10/18 7:30 PM Tuesdays at Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley] Eugene Chadbourne and Bruce Ackley Tuesday, October 19 Tue 10/19 8:00 PM Artists' Television Access [992 Valencia Street @21st SF] An evening of audio-visual improvisations with Bill Hsu on electronics and interactive animations, Gino Robair on percussion and electronics, and John Shiurba on guitar. Thursday, October 21 Thu 10/21 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] Outsound Presents Full Moon Concerts - Blood Moon: How dark can it get and the moon still be full? 8PM: Forms of Things Unknown 9PM: TBA Friday, October 22 Fri 10/22 8:00 PM Grace Cathedral [1100 California Street, San Francisco] 28th San Francisco Jazz Festival Presents YUSEF LATEEF, "Sacred Space" at Grace Cathedral. Lateef, who celebrates his 90th birthday this year, was recently honored as a 2010 NEA Jazz Master. And what better place than Grace Cathedral to continue this journey? Providing subtle support will be Yusef’s frequent collaborator, percussionist Adam Rudolph. Monday, October 25 Mon 10/25 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland] JIM DENLEY/KIM MYHR - MURAL // MILLS MUSIC NOW SONGLINES SERIES On tour in the United States, MURAL is Jim Denley (Australia) on flute/sax and Kim Myhr (Norway) on guitar. Their duo improvisations create a lush and inviting sound-world incorporating a wide range of percussive, harmonic, and timbral effects. Wednesday, October 27 Wed 10/27 9:30 PM Stork Club [2330 Telegraph Avenue Oakland] Light A Fire: Emergency: Grex (Evangelista/Scampavia): Pseudo-slowcore garage free jazz that discusses squids; Quinn: Cranky melodic rock with a wistful tinge; PG13 (Greenlief/Shiurba/Scandura): Aggressive, sharp power trio music Thursday, October 28 Thu 10/28 8:00 PM SF Conservatory of Music [50 Oak St, SF ] SF Jazz Festival Presents Steve Lehman Octet Thu 10/28 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] Guest Curation with Pete "Rat" Martin & Chris Golinkski Daniel Steffey, Conner Lacy, Gretchen Jude and Peiling Kao duo Friday, October 29 Fri 10/29 8:00 PM Palace of Fine Arts Theatre [3301 Lyon Street, San Francisco] 28th San Francisco Jazz Festival Presents Bitches Brew Revisited. The group is cornetist Graham Haynes, keyboardist Marco Benevento, the reeds of Antoine Roney, guitarist James Blood Ulmer, and DJ Logic on turntables. 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