Tue 4/1 8:00 PM The Peacock Lounge [522 Haight St (at Fillmore) SF] Cex; Blevin Blectum; butcher & smear; Castor Oil Thursday, April 3
Thu 4/3 12:00 AMODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell San Francisco CA] Voci, a solo multimedia performance by Pamela Z exploring the cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the voice. Video by Jeanne Finely and John Muse. Lighting by Elaine Buckholtz.
Thu 4/3 8:00 PMLuggage Store Gallery [1007 Market St. @ 6th St. San Francisco, California,] Positive Knowledge Duo with Oluyemi Thomas, bass clarinet and Ijeoma Thomas, voice/words/percussion also Lisle Ellis/Lance Grabmiller, electronics Friday, April 4
Fri 4/4 12:00 AMODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell San Francisco CA] Voci, a solo multimedia performance by Pamela Z exploring the cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the voice. Video by Jeanne Finely and John Muse. Lighting by Elaine Buckholtz.
Sat 4/5 12:00 AMODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell San Francisco CA] Voci, a solo multimedia performance by Pamela Z exploring the cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the voice. Video by Jeanne Finely and John Muse. Lighting by Elaine Buckholtz.
Sat 4/5 8:00 PM21 Grand [449B 23rd St. Near 19th Street BART Oakland CA] Found Objects Night: Musicians improvise, using objects submitted by the audience as their only source material. (Please bring an object!) With Gino Robair, Skincage (from Arizona), Andre Custodio and Stephen Ruiz. Monday, April 7
Tue 4/8 8:00 PMYerba Buena Center for the Arts [Julia Morgan Theater 2640 College Berkeley] Empyrean Ensemble play: Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Bright Sheng ,Tan Dun, Pablo Ortiz, James Tenney, and Ed Campion
Wed 4/9 12:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley College and Bancroft] Premieres of works by graduate student composers Loretta Notareschi, Justin Melland, and Aaron Einbond, with a screening of a new film by Aaron Hawks.
Wed 4/9 8:00 PM21 Grand [449B 23rd St. Near 19th Street BART Oakland CA] Tom Djll - prepared trumpet, Tim Perkis - electronics, and Gino Robair - percussion. Three local improvised music monsters present new developments in their solo work; then they play together.
Thu 4/10 6:00 PMThe Lab [2948 16th St San Francisco CA] "Songs fur Sibert's Pipes" Art Seed: William Klinglehoffer, Laetitia Sonami, Kinji Hayashi, Chris Burns, Beau Casey, Alden Jenks
Thu 4/10 8:00 PMLuggage Store Gallery [1007 Market St. @ 6th St. San Francisco, California,] Biggi Vinkeloe/Donald Robinson | Miguel Barrera Quartet with Aaron Bennett, Eric Perney, and Josh Allen
Thu 4/10 9:00 PMBottom of the Hill [1233 17th Street (17th @ Missouri) San Francisco CA] Nobukazu Takemura; (Live) featuring John Herndon of Tortoise and Matt Lux from Isotope 217; Blevin Blectum and Ryan Junell; The Small Hours Friday, April 11
Fri 4/11 6:30 PMFriday Night Music at the Media Center [3200 Park Blvd Palo Alto, CA 650-799-1001] Friday Night Music, http://www.FridayNightMusic.com, one of the Bay Area's longest running improvisational musical performances Call 650-799-1001 for more info...
Fri 4/11 11:00 PMstrictly Ballroom [The Ballroom at CCRMA (The Knoll) 660 Lomita Drive Stanford CA] Stanford Spring New Music Festival: The sfSoundGroup performs a continuous one hour set with improvisations and compositions by Varese/Cage/Ligeti/Ferneyhough/Burns/sfSoundGroup. Saturday, April 12
Sat 4/12 8:00 PM College of Marin [Lefort Recital Hall Fine Arts Building Rm. 72 Sir Francis Drake Blvd at Laurel Kentfield, CA 94904 ] Italian saxophone virtuoso Gianni Gebbia joins violinist/violist Tara Flandreau and percussionist Garth Powell for an evening of improv.
Sat 4/12 8:00 PMnoe valley ministry [1021 Sanchez Street, SF ] Italian guitar master, Antonio Calogero teams up with Paul McCandless (multi-instumentalist and composer from the legendary group Oregon), fretless bass extraordinaire Michael Manring and the eclectic percussionist Brian Rice
Sat 4/12 8:00 PMCNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley CA] Miscellaneous Debris plays the Music of the AACM
Sun 4/13 6:00 PMThe Black Box [1928 Telegraph Avenue Oakland CA] A TRIBUTE TO BEN LINDGREN, Painter and Musician, featuring Ben's Paintings, films By David Michalak with Live Soundtracks by REEL CHANGE, Performance by DEEP SPACE POSSE (former SUN RA members)
Sun 4/13 9:00 PMClub Six [60 6th Street (at Market Street) SF] Whitebox Lounge ACT 10 : ULTRA-SENSORY TRIP - real-time documentary show curated by Mickey T Monday, April 14
Mon 4/14 7:30 PMMills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland CA] HOMAGE TO GIUSEPPE CHIARI: A celebration of the work of this important Italian composer Tuesday, April 15
Tue 4/15 8:00 PMThe Jazz House (formerly Tuva) [3192 Adeline Street at Martin Luther King Street Berkeley CA] from Sun Ra's Arkestra Tyrone Hill's Deep Space Posse featuring Andrew Voigt, Deborah Craig and special guests Wednesday, April 16
Wed 4/16 8:30 PMHotel Utah [500 Fourth Street @Bryant San Francisco CA] Wednesday Night Live - SF Experimental Music Showcase with your host George Earth featuring the Wednesday Night Live Shardschestra and different experimental music acts every week. This event occurs every Wednesday night at Hotel Utah.
Wed 4/16 9:00 PMBottom of the Hill [1233 17th Street (17th @ Missouri) San Francisco CA] Zeek Sheck; SnowSuit; Lo-Fi Niessans; Full Moon Partissans Thursday, April 17
Thu 4/17 6:00 PM Oakland Art Gallery [Frank Agawa Plaza at 14th and Broadway Oakland] CATALYST at the Oakland Art Gallery continues with artist talks by Marina Vendrell, Tim Jag, and Amy Berk as well as music performance by Matt Volla and Liz Albee entitled "BUMBOLOGY"
Tue 4/22 10:00 PMHemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street Between Post and Sutter San Francisco CA] A night of avant rock and out jazz at the Hemlock, with Chum Frink and Sacrifice Fly. Wednesday, April 23
Thu 4/24 4:00 PM Geballe Room [Townsend Center for the Humanities 220 Stephens Hall UC Berkeley] CNMAT and the UC Berkeley Consortium for the Arts present: Laetitia Sonami - Lecture/Demonstration
Thu 4/24 8:00 PMLuggage Store Gallery [1007 Market St. @ 6th St. San Francisco, California,] Ara Anderson trumpet | Kurt Heyl (trombone) and Ben Wright (bass) Friday, April 25
Mon 4/28 8:00 PMYoshi's [510 Embarcadero West Oakland CA] Jazz in Flight presents: Avotcja and Modupue (Gratitude) Avotcja - poetry and percussion; Jon Jang - piano; Francis Wong - saxophones; Jimmy Biala - percussion; Sandy Poindexter - violin Tuesday, April 29
Tue 4/29 8:00 PMZellerbach Hall [UC Berkeley] BerkSymph: Unsuk Chin "Violin Concerto" Premiere & Regis Campo "Symphony#1" Premier
Tue 4/29 8:30 PMMills College Student Union [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland CA] The Mills College Music Department presents: FLUX: AN EVENING OF SONGS & SOUNDS, CIRCLES & SQUARES, SPACES, SITUATIONS & SYLLABLES performed by The Mills College Vocal Improvisation Ensemble Wednesday, April 30
Wed 4/30 8:00 PMCNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley CA] UC Berkeley graduate student composer Mason Bates presents: Electronica on Vinyl - The Intelligent Dance Music Movement
Wed 4/30 8:00 PMMills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland CA] Seeking Audience for Con(cert*In)stallation and Casual Transparencies (works by): Elise Baldwin, Chris Brown, Sean Clute, William Collins, Michael Cox, Tim Gray, Anne Hege, Scott Kasun, Jeff Lubow, Tadashi Usami, and Matt Volla.
Wed 4/30 9:00 PMHotel Utah [500 Fourth Street @Bryant San Francisco CA] Wednesday Night Live - SF Experimental Music Showcase with your host George Earth featuring the Wednesday Night Live Shardschestra.
