APRIL 2007
Sunday, April 1
Sun 4/1 3:00 PM Chapel of the Chimes [4499 Piedmont Ave. Oakland, CA 94611]
Bay Area Chamber Symphony benefit concert for animals.
Sun 4/1 7:30 PM Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Enja recording artists Minsarah & Noertker’s Moxie CD Release Performance of Sketches of Catalonia, Vol. 2: Suite for Miró
Sun 4/1 8:00 PM Anna's Jazz Island [2120 Allston Way Berkeley, CA]
Seattle-based Reptet keeps it jazzy and plays all night in Berkeley. Bleh! www.reptet.com, www.myspace.com/reptet.
Monday, April 2
Mon 4/2 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley Campus]
Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players perform acoustic & electronic music by composers in the Berkeley New Music Project
Tuesday, April 3
Tue 4/3 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Bulbs + Oaxacan + Winning + Wobbly
Wednesday, April 4
Wed 4/4 9:00 PM Edinburgh Castle [950 Geary between Polk and Larkin SF]
Simulacra and Mute Socialite
Thursday, April 5
Thu 4/5 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Electronics/Percussion trio (Liz Allbee, Aram Shelton, Weasel Walter), Bones (Ben Bracken & Jacqueline Gordon), Influenced equally by tonality, melody and song forms as noise, absurdity and abstraction, If Volition, Then... is a quintet of improvising musicians from Mills College: Mike Dale (piano, sax), Jordan Glenn (drums, percussion), Jason Hoopes (bass), Amanda Schoofs (voice) and Andy Strain (trombone).
Thu 4/5 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
marcos fernandes - percussion/electronics, carey fosse - guitar, emily hay - flute/voice & quicksand land: phillip greenlief - saxophones, john hanes - percussion/electronics, ava mendoza - guitars
Friday, April 6
Fri 4/6 7:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
21 Grand's 2nd Cultural Product Sale - records, cds, musical gear, ephemera, odds and ends - for sale by local musicians and artists that either need the money or need to clean house or both. On view are videos documenting 21 Grand performances throughout the years.
Fri 4/6 7:30 PM Recombinant Media Labs [763 Brannan St btwn 6th and 7th st san francisco]
Asphodel and RML are pleased to present Morton Subotnick's "Until Spring Revisited", a full evening-length work of surround sound and projected images that together create an immersive audio and visual experience.
Tickets and more info
Fri 4/6 8:00 PM Herbst Theatre [401 Van Ness SF]
SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents: "Monk & Mary Lou”
Ben Riley’s Monk Legacy Band; Geri Allen Trio
Fri 4/6 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
WOMAN’S WORTH: Brand new, smokin’ trio of trumpet, sax & drums…
SWORD & SANDALS: A second unique trio setting, of two alto saxophones, & drums.
Fri 4/6 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley]
CNMAT and the UC Berkeley Regents' Lecturer program present contrabass soloist and composer Stefano Scodanibbio
Fri 4/6 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
Pianist Davide Verotta performs an exciting selection of 19th to 21st centuries piano solo works. Detailed Program Notes at: http://davide.gipibird.net
Saturday, April 7
Sat 4/7 7:00 PM Mama Buzz Cafe [2318 Telegraph Ave @23rd Oakland]
Los Angeles based flutist/vocalist Emily Hay and San Diegan percussionist/phonographer Marcos Fernandes perform abstract, intuitive improvs and eccentric grooves as a duo and with local guests.
Sat 4/7 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
FE3 CD release: Jim Ryan alto/tenor/flute, Scott Looney piano, Stephen Flinn drums . . . Dave Sewelson and Friends . . . see April 8 for all the folks who may or may not be on this fabulous set!
Sat 4/7 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Yumi Hara Cawkwell w/ Jon Raskin Quartet (Liz Allbee, George Cremaschi, Gino Robair and Jon Raskin)
Sunday, April 8
Sun 4/8 7:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Musical Meditations: Oluyemi Thomas - Bass Clarinet, Sax and Ike Levin - Tenor Sax, Bass Clarinet. Two shows: 7pm and 8:30 pm.
Sun 4/8 7:30 PM Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Jim Ryan's Forward Energy Trio FE3 Portland CD Release performance with Robert Jones(OR) bass, Andrew Wilshusen(OR) drums. ALSO: SBTG-Q with Dave Sewelson(NY)
Monday, April 9
Mon 4/9 12:30 PM Mills Hall Living Room [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613]
Mills College Performance Collective plays Cage, Handel, Mozart, and Reich.
Mon 4/9 7:00 PM SFPALM [401 Van Ness (@ McAllister) Veterans Bldg, Room 402 SF]
Chris Brown & Tim Perkis: "MACHINES and OTHERS" ...Conversation and Performance. Hosted by Derk Richardson.
Mon 4/9 8:00 PM Yoshi's [510 Embarcadero West Oakland]
I.C.P. Orchestra 40th Anniversary Tour
Tuesday, April 10
Tue 4/10 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
8 PM Vinny Golia - Karen Stackpole duo
8:45 PM Citta di Vitti (Phillip Greenlief–a.sax,Lisa Mezzacappa-bass,Jason Levis–drums)
9:45 Vinny Golia - Steve Adams duo (awaiting confirmation)
Wednesday, April 11
Wed 4/11 8:00 PM Pacific Film Archive [2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch Berkeley]
"Zero for Conduct"
Enfant terrible Jean Vigo's lyric, anarchic account of rebellion in a boarding school meets its match in young DJs' mixes. With Vigo's Taris, accompanied by the UC Jazz Ambassadorial Quintet.
Wed 4/11 8:00 PM Meridian Gallery [535 Powell St. SF]
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance is pleased to announce the very first concert in its new 50 foot-long resonant space. Roddy Schrock present a new piece, "Here. There. (Distance Study 1)", enlisting the help of Jano Cortijo (video).
Wed 4/11 10:00 PM G3 Lounge [3910 Geary and Third Ave.]
Wendesday April 11th at G3 Lounge.3910 Geary and Third Ave.
Saplings(Yvonne),Xome,Soundtrack for a Dream about Nothing,Eiliyas
Starts at ten and always Free.
Thursday, April 12
Thu 4/12 8:00 PM Oakland Metro [201 Broadway Near Jack London Square Oakland]
Gojogo
Mitch Marcus Quartet + 13
a riotously swinging big band
Thu 4/12 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Beartrap Mind
9pm Yumi Hara Cawkwell vocalist/composer (UK)
Thu 4/12 8:00 PM Dance Mission Theater [3316 24th Street @Mission SF]
DOUBLE VISION (see 4/15 description)
Friday, April 13
Fri 4/13 8:00 PM Berkeley Piano Club [2724 Hast St. Berkeley]
Pianist Davide Verotta performs an exciting selection of 19th-21st centuries piano solo works.Detailed Program Notes and Directions on the web at: http://davide.gipibird.net
Fri 4/13 8:00 PM Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
6 Sound Festival of new music by Mills College composers.
Fri 4/13 8:00 PM Dance Mission Theater [3316 24th Street @Mission SF]
DOUBLE VISION (see 4/15 description)
Fri 4/13 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
Jacob Lindsay (clarinet), Jacob Felix Heule (drum set) & Tony Dryer (bass) strip it down. Uanco (Jorge Boehringer & Jon Almarez) make a mess of strings and electronics. Food provided.
Saturday, April 14
Sat 4/14 4:00 PM Southern Exposure [2901 Mission St (at 25th) San Francisco, CA 94110]
SL Morse (Sarah Lockhart - drums; Suki O'Kane - drums) performs "Miriam Abacha's Greatest Hits" - the sounds of spam - Godard-core recitations of Nigerian 419 emails intermittently audible then drowned out by arhythmic percussion performing morse code translation.
Sat 4/14 8:00 PM Dance Mission Theater [3316 24th Street @Mission SF]
DOUBLE VISION (see 4/15 description)
Sat 4/14 10:00 PM Recombinant Media Labs [763 Brannan St btwn 6th and 7th st san francisco]
Pamela Z: Sonic Gestures (Premiere) a brand new multi-channel video, audio, and performance work commissioned by NexMap and site specific to RML's immersive performance facility.
Sunday, April 15
Sun 4/15 4:30 PM Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society [307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay]
HIROMI and SONICBLOOM
Sonicbloom is pianist Hiromi’s trio with guest guitarist and iconoclastic jazz-rocker, Dave “FUZE” Fiuczynski, playing from her new CD “Time Control.”
Sun 4/15 5:30 PM Dance Mission Theater [3316 24th Street @Mission SF]
Enjoy a free concert by NYC composer Shawn Onsgard and Bay Area composer Bill Wolter.
Sun 4/15 7:00 PM Jon Sims Center [Jon Sims Center 1519 Mission st. (Between 11th St. and S. Van Ness, SF]
Jennifer Hicks butoh/movement Aurora Josephson Voice Henry Kaiser Guitar Chris Muir Buchla 200E Damon Smith Bass Weasel Walter Drums
Sun 4/15 8:00 PM Dance Mission Theater [3316 24th Street @Mission SF]
Hailing from the bay that brought you the Grateful Dead, Emperor Norton, and the iPod, San Francisco’s intermedia performance group DOUBLE VISION continues to crank the cogwheel by presenting dance, video, noise, speed, energy, and seismic activity for stage. Works range from world premiers of Three Canons and Mise en Scénes and Video Action Painting, to reconstructions of the Futurist sintesi Macchina del 3000 (The Love of Two Locomotives for the Station Master) and Macchina Tipograpfica.
Sun 4/15 8:30 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Michael Hartman/Aram Shelton/Steini Gunnarson trio + Ettrick (Jacob Felix Heule/Jay Korber) + Clan of the Cave Bear (experimental/progressive/grindcore from Ohio)
Monday, April 16
Mon 4/16 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA 94613 ]
A lecture on the early electronic music of Luigi Nono by musicologist Veniero Rizzardi featuring a discussion of Nono’s “Découvrir la subversion: Hommage à Edmond Jabès” and other works.
Tuesday, April 17
Tue 4/17 8:30 PM Cafe Du Nord [2170 Market (near 16th & Sanchez) SF]
Amy X Neuburg and her Cello ChiXtet perform "The Secret Language of Subways", Emily Bezar premieres new songs with violinist Alan Lin, and Debora Petrina from Italy performs songs from her "New Eyes Songbook".
Wednesday, April 18
Wed 4/18 8:00 PM Pacific Film Archive [2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch Berkeley]
"8 Bit"
Joe McKay and Xik in Performance
Marcin Ramocki and Justin Strawhand's raving report about the demimonde of game hackers and chip tuners is complemented by the Nintendo-modulated sounds of Xik, a sound artist who authored an interface that allows MIDI to run the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment Station. Joe McKay is a media artist who specializes in unique, often whimsical, and non-combative videogames.
Wed 4/18 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Keynote+
Kate Ryder and Jane Chapman
Harpsichord, prepared piano, electronics, video:
Early and modern instruments at the cutting edge of new music. Kate Ryder and Jane Chapman, two highly original and engaging performers from the UK combine forces with some of today's most creative transatlantic musical voices, to generate a vibrant new language.
Wed 4/18 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
3 shortish sets: Kanoko Nishi (koto)/Ava Mendoza (guitar)/Jacob Felix Heule (drums); Michael Carter (electronics); Paul Scriver (bass clarinet)/Charity Chan (accordion)/Shayna Dunkelman (drums)/Andy Strain (trombone)
Thursday, April 19
Thu 4/19 5:00 PM Temescal Cafe [4920 Telegraph @49th St Oakland]
Cascando Clarinet Duo at Temescal Cafe
Phillip Greenlief - Bb clarinet
Cory Wright - Bb clarinet
Phillip Greenlief & Cory Wright take Bartok's earthy 44 duos for violins and use them as a springboard for free improvisation in a chamber jazz setting.
Thu 4/19 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
The darkest of the the dark deathjazz: Amazon Inceptum, Lords of Outland, VHOLTZ
"...that flame egregiously, thematic sketches becoming instant excuses for the instruments to coalesce into a gruelling mass of Pollockian sonic painting that plumps on the brain and self-adjusts until your synapses are completely disjointed."
Thu 4/19 8:00 PM Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Pianist Debora Petrina plays recent Italian music.
Thu 4/19 9:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Experimental dental school, Bad Dudes (LA), Totally Radd!(LA), Stiletta are playing @21 Grand Gallery on April 19th!!! FUN FUN FUN~
Thu 4/19 9:30 PM Hemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street Between Post and Sutter SF]
Spezza Rotto CD release
Le Flange du Mal
Edmund Welles
Friday, April 20
Fri 4/20 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
An Evening with: Bush of Ghosts
Fri 4/20 8:30 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Moe! Staiano CD Release - Moe! Staiano (solo), Edmund Welles, Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment
Saturday, April 21
Sat 4/21 8:00 PM Mills College Lisser Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA]
PARTCH DANCES: An evening of music by Harry Partch.
Sat 4/21 10:00 PM Hemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street Between Post and Sutter SF]
Kid 606 vs. Christopher Willits, The Psychic Paramount, Numinous Eye
A night of melted guitar and fried electronics and rhythms, something for the whole family to enjoy
Sunday, April 22
Sun 4/22 1:00 PM Red Hill Books [401 Cortland Ave SF]
Red Hill Books Presents: The Lost Trio
Phillip Greenlief - saxophone, Tom Hassett - drums, Dan Seamans - bass
Sun 4/22 7:00 PM The Fishtank [3405 Piedmont Ave Oakland, CA]
miRthkon, Invincible Czars , Brian Kenney Fresno An Eastbanian Avant-Prog Fest.
Sun 4/22 7:30 PM Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Rob Price - guitar and David Grollman - drums (NY)
8:30pmBruce Anderson - solo guitar/electronics
Sun 4/22 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]
Rovaté 2007: Eye Music for Ears, Mix One (April 22) Rova Saxophone Quartet is joined by guests Joan Jeanrenaud and Theresa Wong on cellos, Mark Dresser on bass, and Mark Trayle on electronics for a night of music from graphic scores by Rova members Steve Adams and Jon Raskin, and visual artist Amy Trachtenberg.
Wednesday, April 25
Wed 4/25 8:00 PM The Fillmore Poster Room [1805 Geary Blvd. San Francisco, CA ]
V Neck (Ross Hammond-Guitar and Tom Monson-drums) will play the Poster Room of the Fillmore. Mike Patton's Peeping Tom is on the main stage.
Wed 4/25 8:00 PM Pacific Film Archive [2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch Berkeley]
World Premiere! Tim Perkis' film NOISY PEOPLE, profiles of bay improvisors George Cremaschi, Tom Djll, Greg Goodman, Phillip Greenlief, Cheryl Leonard, Dan Plonsey, Gino Robair, Damon Smith. Also appearing are dozens of other creative musicians, including Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith and Jack Wright.
Wed 4/25 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
duo pantoMorf
Palle Dahlstedt and Per Anders Nilsson, electronics
http://onsight.id.gu.se/%7Epalle/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Works.DuoPantoMorf
Wed 4/25 8:00 PM Yoshi's [510 Embarcadero West Oakland]
Nels Cline Singers (Nels Cline-guitar, Devin Hoff-bass, Scott Amendola-drums)
Thursday, April 26
Thu 4/26 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Atman-Sibling (viola and guitar/loops and drones) +Deathray (Bruce Anderson and Dale Sophiea, members of O-Type and MX-80) +Maleficia is the work of Bay Area noise artist Andy Way (French Radio, NF Orchest) and avant-vocalist Ilysea Simpson.+Lauren Murphy (film)
Thu 4/26 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Music by the Eyeful: Bill Wolter and Edward Schocker in the first of three concerts featuring inventions in visual audio , exploring the moving boundaries between music, film, optics, graphics, loops and reels.
Friday, April 27
Fri 4/27 7:00 PM Cafe Bastille [22 Belden Place - between Bush and Pine and between Kearny and Montgomery - San Francisco]
Michael Gold Quartet at Cafe Bastille
Saturday, April 28
Sat 4/28 9:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Kwisp, Winston Tong, Kristin Miltner and Lx Rudis transport the audience to a most surreal place, using realtime video manipulation, streamed content, ritualistic song and spoken word, props, puppets, spatial monitors and electro-acoustic sound.
Sunday, April 29
Sun 4/29 1:00 PM Laney College Flea Market [7th & Fallon, Oakland]
Community Sound Project with Lisa Mezzacappa, Jon Brumit, Suki O'Kane, Dan Plonsey and various members of Daniel Popsicle in a portable recording studio and improvisation lab.
Sun 4/29 3:00 PM Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble plays Cage and Tenney.
Sun 4/29 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Evander Music & Rova:Arts Present Phillip Greenlief & Jon Raskin's 2 + 2 Series:
8 PM: Phillip Greenlief & Jon Raskin, saxophones
David Kendall & Bill Hutson - electronics
9 PM: Cory Wright Trio, featuring Lisa Mezzacappa and Jason Levis
Events outside the Bay Area
Thursday, Apr 26 2007 1:00 PM
Bakersfield College
1801 Panorama Drive · Bakersfield, CA 93305
The 2 + 2 Project
Composer/Improviser Phillip Greenlief will lead a performance workshop on composition and improvisation strategies used in Greenlief and Raskin's 2 + 2 Project.
For this run of performances in Southern California, there will be a special grouping of the 2 + 2 Project.
Phillip Greenlief - woodwinds
Cory Wright - woodwinds
David Kendall - electronics
Bill Hutson - electronics
Thursday, Apr 26 2007 8:00 PM
Metro Galleries
1604 19th St.
Bakersfield, CA 93301
An Evening of Music and Film at Metro Galleries
Traveling Light
Kris Tiner - trumpet
Isaac Schankler - accordion
James Ilgenfritz - acoustic bass
The 2+2 Project
Phillip Greenlief - woodwinds
Cory Wright - woodwinds
David Kendall - electronics
Bill Hutson - electronics
Ragamuffin Plus
Music for electronic instruments and silent film
The Jazz and Improvised Music Series at Metro Galleries continues at gallery owner Don Martin’s spacious new downtown location. This unique concert will include three ear-opening sets by local and international performing artists.
The collective trio Traveling Light performs first, featuring Bakersfield trumpet player and composer Kris Tiner along with San Diego bassist James Ilgenfritz and Los Angeles accordionist Isaac Schankler. The trio weds an unlikely instrumentation with an exploratory spirit to interpret original compositions as well as material from sources as diverse as the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson and avant-garde jazz composer Anthony Braxton.
Innovative Bay Area saxophonist Phillip Greenlief brings a new quartet project to close the evening. Based on a series of collaborative improvisational pairings he calls 2+2, this group will bring together two saxophonists and two electronic musicians culled from one of the most forward-thinking musical communities on the West Coast.
Also featured in brief interludes throughout the evening will be the inventive local electronic music duo Ragamuffin performing interactive live improvisations with silent film projections.
All ages are welcome. Doors open at 7 p.m., music begins at 7:30. Coffee and refreshments will be available.
Saturday, Apr 28 2007 9:00 PM
Il Corral
662 North Heliotrope Dr. (just off Melrose) Los Angeles, CA 90004
Il Corral Presents
The 2 + 2 Project
Phillip Greenlief - woodwinds
Cory Wright - woodwinds
Bill Hutson - electronics
David Kendall - electronics
Combining new ideas in composition and improvisation he has developed with c0-conspirator Jon Raskin, composer/musician Phillip Greenlief takes the 2+2 Project to Southern California.
