APRIL 2005
Friday, April 1
Fri 4/1 8:00 PM Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow with Marisol Jimenez; Molly Thompson; Vitas Germanavicius; David Holton; Jeffrey Gordon
Fri 4/1 8:00 PM Next Door [1207 Soquel Ave Santa Cruz]
ELectron SAlon 10 - ARTISTS: Microsound - Retticac; Vermouth; DJs - Mobius & Ms Pinky - VISUALS: Twilight
Saturday, April 2
Sat 4/2 4:00 PM Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow with Luis Maurette, Terran Olson, James Sinclair, Terran Olson; Joel Chapen
Sat 4/2 8:00 PM Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow with Kiku Day, Martin McGinn, Luis Maurette, Gregg Kowalsky
Sat 4/2 9:00 PM 21 Grand [449B 23rd St. Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
The Jazz House presents...MINGUS, DOLPHY: A TRIBUTE - with Howard Wiley, saxophone, and Antjuan Oden, painting
Sunday, April 3
Sun 4/3 3:00 PM Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow with Darren Johnston, United Brassworkers Front; Brian Pardo, Prelude & Fugue; Eric Roth, Both Teams Played Hard; Brian Montone, Music For Electric Guitar; Seth Warren, No Live Bodies
Sun 4/3 7:30 PM Berkeley Arts Center [1275 Walnut Street Live Oak Park Berkeley]
Philip Gelb - solo shakuhachi, traditional compositions and contemporary pieces by Pauline Oliveros and Philip Gelb
Sun 4/3 8:00 PM 21 Grand [449B 23rd St. Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Electronics, ambient and otherwise: Tewari/Ergun/Bartscher + T/R & Tralphaz + Feed the Dragon (Bellerue/Ortega) + Adam Overton
Sun 4/3 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts Center in Live Oak Park [1275 Walnut Street Live Oak Park]
Philip Gelb, shakuhachi
Sun 4/3 8:00 PM Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Signal Flow with Darren Johnston, St. Jude Memorial Dance Band Fiesta
Monday, April 4
Mon 4/4 7:30 PM ImprovGarage [Phillip's Garage]
ImprovGarage Presents - Sue Schlotte Workshop : For more info, write to: pgsaxo@pacbell.net
Mon 4/4 8:00 PM Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley [Berkeley, CA 94720]
Music by Berkeley grad students, including Philipp Blume, Brian Kane, Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, Aaron Einbond, Loretta Notareschi, Jean Ahn, and others.
Tuesday, April 5
Tue 4/5 10:00 PM Hemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street Between Post and Sutter SF]
The Tim Bulkley/Patrick Cress acoustic/electronic duo combines two very intuitive improvisers that have developed a unique language from their work in Telepathy since March, 2002.
Thursday, April 7
Thu 4/7 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Dark ambient, noise, drone & haunting ethereal music with Nihil Communication (Andre Custodio) + Dark Muse (Phyll Smith)
Thu 4/7 8:00 PM Bohemia Bar [1624 California/Polk SF]
Goßip - the first experimental multi-media party presented by Whisper Culture with SAGAN; group A; miba; Tolga; DJs SarahO and RyanP
Friday, April 8
Fri 4/8 6:30 PM Cotati Creek Cafe [8270 Old Redwood Hwy Cotati, CA]
solo shakuhachi performance of traditional and contemporary pieces
Fri 4/8 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
Percussionist Spirit (Positive Knowledge, Marco Eneidi) plays solo and with Guests
Fri 4/8 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
CNMAT Presents: Pers Anders Nilsson and Henrik Frisk in Concert
Improvisations for computer and saxophone
Fri 4/8 8:00 PM BRUBECK FESTIVAL 2005: Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
SOLD OUT!! BRUBECK FESTIVAL 2005: BRUBECK AT MILLS, featuring Dave Brubeck, Composer in Residence; The New Brubeck Octet with Bill Smith; Quartet San Francisco
Fri 4/8 8:00 PM Michael's Octavia Lounge [1772 Market St SF, CA (415) 863-3690]
A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee at Michael's Octavia Lounge. (415) 863-3690
Fri 4/8 9:00 PM Starry Plough [3101 Shattuck Ave @ Prince Berkeley]
2nd Annual ROCK LOTTO - Featuring many musicians from the creative music scene, forming new one-time only bands for one night of new rock music for rock ears.
Saturday, April 9
Sat 4/9 7:00 PM Lydia's organic restaurant [31 Bolinas Road • Fairfax]
Philip Gelb - solo shakuhachi alogn with incredible vegan and raw cuisine
Sat 4/9 8:00 PM Trinity Chapel [2320 Dana St between Bancroft & Durant Berkeley]
Tom Bickley and David Barnett perform 14th century music with 21st century insights, and 21st century music with 14th century insights
Sat 4/9 8:00 PM Other Cinema at Artists Television Access [992 Valencia Street (at 21st) San Francisco, CA 94110]
The PornOrchesta at Other Cinema
Sat 4/9 8:00 PM SomArts Gallery [943 Brannan St. (btwn 8th and 9th) SF ]
Ellen Fullman, Phantom Coincidence (elemental events) Long String Instrument installation and performance featuring Krystyna Bobrowski, Gliss Glass and French horn, and Luciano Chessa, musical saw
Sat 4/9 8:00 PM Victorian Englander [807 Franklin St. (btwn Turk and Eddy, near Civic Center) SF]
POINT COUNTER POINT new music for guitar ensemble, bass clarinet, string quartet and more by Ben Gribble and Ryan Brown
Sunday, April 10
Sun 4/10 7:30 PM SIMM Series/Outsound Research [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 New Squatoolas (Jim Peterson/Danny Bittker/Scott Foster/Dan Foltz)
8:45 the Jugglers- a new Noertker group!!(Annelise Zamula/Jenny Maybee/Mara Fox/Jason Levis/Bill Noertker)
Monday, April 11
Mon 4/11 9:00 AM Bottom of the Hill [1233 17th Street (17th @ Missouri) SF]
thollem/rivera - death sentence panda - deerhoof
Mon 4/11 7:30 PM Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Composers from STEIM in Amsterdam present an evening of electronic-acoustic improvistion featuring Robert Van Heumen, Michel Waisvisz (STEIM's director), and Joel Ryan.
Mon 4/11 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th St @ Shotwell SF]
sfSoundSeries: New Works written for the sfSoundGroup by John Ingle, Marisol Jimenez, Jake Rodriguez, Erik Ulman, and sfSoundGroup.
Mon 4/11 8:00 PM Elbo Room [647 Valencia St. @ 17th San Francisco]
"Wacked out old music" - John Schott's Dream Kitchen & Jug Free America
Tuesday, April 12
Tue 4/12 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
robert van heumen NL elec/Amit Sen SE cello/Kjell Nordeson SE perc. w/ josephson/lindsay/raskin/looney/smith
Tue 4/12 8:30 PM Oakland Metro [201 Broadway near Jack London Sq Oakland]
CORE OF THE COAL MAN; PAPERCUTS; DEERHOOF
Wednesday, April 13
Wed 4/13 7:00 PM mama buzz cafe [Mama Buzz Café 2318 Telegraph Ave @23rd Oakland, CA 94612 ]
cassette tape/live improvisation duo "last chance for the loneliest kitten" (josh smith / kurt kotheimer), featuring guest collaborator ava mendoza, in double bill with improvisors Brandt/Guberman/Rosenberg.
Wed 4/13 8:00 PM Meridian Gallery [545 Sutter Street (near Powell) SF]
Darren Johnston, trumpet and electronics, performing a new solo work.
Thursday, April 14
Thu 4/14 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Matt Ingalls - solo clarinet
9pm Chaos Butterfly - Johnathan Segel & Dina Emerson
Special Guest - Kiku Day, Shakuhachi
Thu 4/14 10:00 PM Hemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street Between Post and Sutter SF]
Toychestra and Emma Zunz
Friday, April 15
Fri 4/15 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
8PM Duet Thollem Mcdonas - piano, Sky Grealis - flute. 9PM Quartet w/ Sue Schlotte (Germany) - cello, Scott R. Looney - electronics - piano, Tim Perkis - electronics. and Gino Robair, percussion, analog synth.
Fri 4/15 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Chaos Butterfly [Dina Emerson, Jonathan Segel], Emma Zunz [from Seattle--Annie Lewandowsi, Cristin Miller], dotdotdot [Angela Coon, John Shiurba]
Saturday, April 16
Sat 4/16 12:00 AM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Aaron Novik's Cutting Guard, w/ the Inhabitants (Vancouver B.C.)
Thursday, April 21
Thu 4/21 7:00 PM Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall [1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita Ave) Berkeley, CA]
Berkeley Live and Unplugged -- a cozy, acoustic, eclectic, free-form, collaborative "open mic", featuring original music and spoken word. LiveAndUnplugged.org
Thu 4/21 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm String Theory:cello/voice/cello/voice [Bob Marsh and Theresa Wong ]
9pm VIDATONE NOTATION from New York [Eric km Clark, violin and Andre Vida, saxophone/vocals ]
Friday, April 22
Fri 4/22 8:30 PM Bruno's [2389 Mission between 19th and 20th SF]
CKW Trio plays with Mitch Marcus Quintet at Bruno's
Saturday, April 23
Sat 4/23 7:00 AM Lobot Gallery [1800 Campbell St West Oakland]
opening party for Labyrinth show
music by BranPos Rubber O Cement Sixes Tralphaz Tarantism Pod Blotz Core of The Coal Man Axolotl Jesse Quattro Monster Dudes Licing Breathing Music Matt Davignon MIBA Peloton Yasi P/John D
Sat 4/23 8:00 PM New Langton Arts [1246 Folsom Street SF]
Organum: The Human Voice Explored with Seth Augustus, Aurora Josephson and Kid Beyond
Sat 4/23 9:00 PM SF Film Festival -- Palace of Fine Arts Theatre [3301 Lyon (at Bay), San Francisco]
The world premiere of American Music Club’s score for the silent masterpiece Street Angel will be performed live and features professional whistling and animatronic birds.
Sunday, April 24
Sun 4/24 3:30 PM SF Film Festival -- The Castro Theatre [429 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA]
A trance-inducing portrait of Scottish percussionist and master improviser Evelyn Glennie, featuring a hypnotic collaboration with Bay Area guitar virtuoso Fred Frith.
Sun 4/24 7:30 PM SIMM Series/Outsound Research [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 C.O.M.A.
8:30 The Return of The Lords of Outland with Rent Romus
Monday, April 25
Mon 4/25 7:00 PM SF Film Festival -- Palace of Fine Arts Theatre [3301 Lyon (at Bay), San Francisco]
World renowned silent film accompanists Alloy Orchestra play music live with two silent film masterpieces -- Alfred Hitchcock's BLACKMAIL and the quintessential horror classic THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA featuring Lon Chaney.
Mon 4/25 8:00 PM The Hula House [2639 E. 9th St. Studio 5 Oakland]
The Hula House Presents: 2 x 2 with Sue Schlotte, cello; Jon Raskin, saxophone; Phillip Greenlief, saxophone; Theresa Wong, cello - An Evening of Improvised Quartet Music
Wednesday, April 27
Wed 4/27 8:00 PM Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Kiku Day - Shakuhachi. Thesis recital. Pieces by Frank Denyer, John Cage and Vytautas Germanavicius. Joined by Fred Frith, Jos Zwaanenburg, Anne LeBaron, Shayna Dunkelman, Kanoko Nishi.
Wed 4/27 10:00 PM Madrone Lounge [Divisadero @ Fell SF]
THE SAINT JUDE MEMORIAL DANCE BAND FEATURING: DARREN JOHNSTON –TRUMPET; JOE COHEN – TENOR SAX; EVAN FRANCIS – ALTO SAX; MARCUS STEPHENS – BARI SAX; ADAM THEIS – BASS, BONE; JOHN FINKBEINER – GUITAR; DJ ASPECT – TURNTABLES; TIM BULKLEY – DRUMS
Thursday, April 28
Thu 4/28 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Chindogu - Sean Rooney/Clay Chaplin
9pm Matt Volla
Thu 4/28 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
Sue Schlotte - last minute trio concert w/ Tim Perkis, and Shoko Hikage - plus Scott R. Looney solo and TBA
Friday, April 29
Fri 4/29 8:00 PM WORKS/San Jose [30 North 3rd Street San Jose]
DOUBLE VISION joins forces with Bay Area artists, David Bithell, Bill Wolter, Agnes Szelag/aggiflex, and Marielle Jakobson to bring you an evening of cutting-edge intermedia collaborations. Music, Dance, Video and Interface.
Saturday, April 30
Sat 4/30 12:00 AM EAST BAY CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS [339 11th Street Richmond]
TRIO IMPROVISATIONS with Sue Schlotte - cello; Matthew Goodheart - piano; Garth Powell - percussion
Sat 4/30 3:30 PM Toyon Meadow [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Boulevard Oakland]
Jon Raskin's Resonant Topographies 1 Outdoors @ Mills
Sat 4/30 5:00 PM SomArts Gallery [SF]
Heart for the Arts Benefit for Creative Arts Charter School in SF : Phillip Greenlief - Theresa Wong duo; Pyeng Threadgill; Machine Love
Sat 4/30 5:00 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Agnes Albert Hall [1201 Ortega St Cross Street, 19th Ave 2nd floor]
Viola Project II: New music by SF Conservatory composers featuring the viola
Sat 4/30 8:00 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St SF]
Just Intonation Network 20th Anniversary Series Concert Three: "Made in California" - John Schneider plays works in Just Intonation for solo guitar, voice, and adapted viola by California composers
Sat 4/30 9:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Electronic Music: Clay Chaplin + ... And Friends (Dimuzio/Grabmiller/Leidecker/Rooney)
Events outside the Bay Area
Saturday, Apr 9 2005 6:00 PM
Avalon
Eureka, CA
Phillip Greenlief Trio w/Shao Way Wu, Ed Campbell
Sunday, Apr 10 2005 11:00 AM
Muddy Waters
Arcata, CA
Phillip Greenlief – Theresa Wong duo
11am to 1pm
Tuesday, Apr 12 2005 8:00 PM
Oregon Festival of Music
Shedd Recital Hall
Eugene, OR
Phillip Greenlief – Theresa Wong duo
Wednesday, Apr 13 2005 2:00 PM
Western Oregon University
Salem, OR
workshop with Phillip Greenlief – Theresa Wong duo
Wednesday, Apr 13 2005 8:00 PM
Western Oregon University
Salem, OR
Concert with Phillip Greenlief – Theresa Wong duo
Thursday, Apr 14 2005 2:00 PM
The Tao of Tea
Portland, OR
Phillip Greenlief – Theresa Wong duo
Thursday, Apr 14 2005 8:00 PM
Contemporary Crafts Museum & Gallery
Portland, OR
Phillip Greenlief – Theresa Wong duo
Friday, Apr 15 2005 8:00 PM
The Art House
Olympia, WA
Phillip Greenlief – Theresa Wong duo