APRIL 2008
Tuesday, April 1
Tue 4/1 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
Noah Phillips / Nathan Hubbard
Ton Trio
Wednesday, April 2
Wed 4/2 9:00 PM Bluesix [3043 24th St. @ Treat St. SF]
This week at "the Listening Hut" (Wednesdays at Bluesix)....
Theresa Wong, solo Cello.
We are very excited to present Thersa in a solo setting, she is a wonderful improvisor and cellist.
Luke Westbrook, solo guitar.
Please join us from some solo and duet music for strings.
Thursday, April 3
Thu 4/3 9:00 PM Bottom of the Hill [1233 17th Street (17th @ Missouri) SF]
RECORD LABEL RECORDS Live showcase -
Fluorescent Grey, Nommo Ogo, Kush Arora, Anon Day from Record Label Records Live!
Friday, April 4
Fri 4/4 8:00 PM Mills College Lisser Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613]
Mills Senior Concert: Music X-Sound + Intermedia Arts + Dance
Saturday, April 5
Sat 4/5 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
Pianist Davide Verotta presents an exciting program of piano works from the 18th to 21st century.
Sunday, April 6
Sun 4/6 7:00 PM Musician's Union Hall [116 9th Street (at Mission) San Francisco, CA 94103]
A very special evening of music by pianist Valerie Mih's group, "Circular Dreaming," in a classic jazz trio format. Valerie (on grand piano) will be joined by the multi-talented Bill Noertker on acoustic bass and the dynamic Andre Custodio on drums. If you like modern jazz, you will love this evening of music!
Sun 4/6 7:30 PM Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Valerie Mih's Circular Dreaming
Valerie Mih - piano, composition
André Custodio - drums
Bill Noertker - contrabass
www.circulardreaming.com
Monday, April 7
Mon 4/7 9:00 PM Misanthropic Agenda [426 Jefferson St. Oakland, CA 94607]
An evening of improvised sound.
John Wiese (Sissy Spacek, Sunn0)))
Obstacle Corpse (Sissy Spacek)
Scott Arford (7Hz)
DJ Gerritt (Deathroes, Sunn0))), Misanthropic Agenda)
Wednesday, April 9
Wed 4/9 8:00 PM Meridian Gallery [535 Powell St. SF]
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Country Western
By Zachary James Watkins. Country Western is a multi media performance that involves an ensemble of musicians playing an array of instruments, spoken word, interactive computer processing of the acoustic instruments as well as interactive real-time video animation. The ensemble of musicians includes Shayna Dunkelman (percussion), Kanoko Nishi (koto), Noah Phillips (prepared guitar), Marielle Jakobsons (violin/electronics), Emily Packard (violin), Theresa Wong (cello), Aram Shelton (woodwinds/electronics), Jen Baker (trombone), Dennis Somera (voice/poetry), Zachary James Watkins (laptop/network), and Joe Gray (video/network).
Thursday, April 10
Thu 4/10 8:00 PM Outsound Presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Ross Hammond trio with Phillip Greenlief & John Hanes
9pm Phillip Greenlief & Jon Raskin's 2+2
Liz Allbee - trumpet
Jen Baker - trombone
Greenlief & Raskin - saxophones, composers
Thu 4/10 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
MUSIC FOR SIGHTSEEING
COPE
THE SOPHISTICUFFS
Punk rock, lounge, free jazz, spontaneous skronk and a little bit of madness meet up for one fun night!!
snax likely.
Thu 4/10 9:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
International Noise Conference Tour
PIGS IN THE GROUND, RUBBER O CEMENT, Weasel Walter, DOJENKEM, 200YEAROLDWOLFPUSSY, VIOLINCE, ANTIEAR, OZMADAWN, HEAD BOGGLE DIA, HORA FLORA, CELLBLOCK, DOUBLE TROUBLE, WIGGAUM, SOFT CREATURES, NERO'S DAY AT DISNEYLAND, LAUNDRY ROOM SQUELCHERS
Friday, April 11
Fri 4/11 7:00 PM Meridian Gallery [535 Powell St. SF]
Meridian Gallery presents a concert in conjunction with its current exhibition, Form +, organized by Dean Smith.
OF + OM + OR :
an evening of sound with Aero-Mic’d, Joshua Churchill (with light by Paul Clipson), and Gregg Kowalsky.
Saturday, April 12
Sat 4/12 9:00 PM Bluesix [3043 24th St. @ Treat St. SF]
Ton Trio
Damon Smith, Kristian Aspelin Duo
Monday, April 14
Mon 4/14 7:30 PM Mills College Music Building/Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA 94613 ]
ELLEN FULLMAN: Video and Lecture - The composer/creator/player of the Long String Instrument screens "Event Locations No. 1," a 28 minute long composition for video.
Tuesday, April 15
Tue 4/15 8:00 PM Climate Theatre [285 9th St (at Folsom) SF]
Steve Clarke - solo acoutic guitar 8 pm (w/guests)
David Slusser & Rubber City with Ralph Carney 9 pm
Rubber City plays and improvises on melodic jazz compositions
Wednesday, April 16
Wed 4/16 7:30 PM The Marsh [1062 Valencia Street , San Francisco (between 21st and 22nd Streets, near to 24th Street BART).]
IMPROV:21 TONITE = MARK DRESSER = Spectral Delivery
The excavation of musical possibilities from the double bass is the subject of Mark Dresser's informance. Exploring the micro details of string vibration through improvisation, recording, analysis, codification, and composition has led to the development of a custom made electro-acoustic pick-up system and a rich body of music. Expect minutiae and the macro view through musical, acoustic and metaphoric lenses. Mark Dresser will join Derk Richardson and you, the audience, in an improvised discussion and informance. Should be a great one. Co-sponsored by The Marsh in association with Other Minds.
Wed 4/16 8:30 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
snacks (noise/performance art from Baltimore - not "food")
spider compass good crime band
marauder and alibi
bran pos
Wed 4/16 9:00 PM Bluesix [3043 24th St. @ Treat St. SF]
The Listening Hut is a weekly series held at Bluesix every Wednesday night at 9pm.
Every week Luke Westbrook hosts a night of acoustic improvisation with a jaw dropping cast of music makers.
This week 4/16 ...
Lisa Mezzacappa (upright bass)/Ross Hammond (guitar) duo
Luke Westbrook (guitar)/ Matt Nelson duo (sax)
Thursday, April 17
Thu 4/17 7:00 PM Liberty Cafe Wine Bar [ 401 Cortland Avenue, San Francisco (between Bennington and Wool )]
Liberty Cafe Presents Michael Gold Quartet playing live jazz from 7 - 9 pm
Thu 4/17 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [1111 Addison St. Berkeley]
VLADIMIR TARASOV - MARK DRESSER - Larry Ochs
from Vilnius, Lithuania!!! VLADIMIR TARASOV, legendary percussionist of The Ganelin Trio, the first USSR jazz band to tour in USA, visits the West Coast to join bassist MARK DRESSER (Anthony Braxton Quartet) and Larry Ochs (Rova Sax Quartet etc.) for an evening of sublime music: "Thinking of Morton Feldman."
a special one........
Thu 4/17 8:00 PM Outsound Presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8:00pm GHOST IN THE REEL CHANGE - will perform live soundtracks to experimental films w/Kyle Bruckmann, Karen Stackpole, Tom Nunn, Andrew Voigt, David Michalak, Ann Dental
9:00pm Wigwaum - 16mm and Super8 Avant Garde Film & Sound Original film from the past 40 years!
Douglas Katelus, Loren Means, Randylee Sutherland
Thu 4/17 8:30 PM Starry Plough [3101 Shattuck Ave @ Prince Berkeley]
Starry Plough Presents Nathan Clevenger Group & Citta di Vitti
Friday, April 18
Fri 4/18 7:00 PM Cafe Bastille [22 Belden Place, San Francisco (1 block below Kearny, between Bush and Pine)]
Cafe Bastille Presents Michael Gold Quartet playing live jazz from 7 to 11 p.m.
Fri 4/18 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
Aram Shelton, saxophone & bass clarinet; Damon Smith, bass; Kjell Nordeson, drums. Improvised music. First meeting of these three musicians.
Saturday, April 19
Sat 4/19 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
1510 Performance Space Presents
8pm Improvised Music and Movement: Karen Fox - movement; Phillip Greenlief - saxophone
9 pm Kristian Aspelin Quartet: Kristian Aspelin - guitar; Scott Looney, piano; Damon Smith - bass; Weasel Walter - drums
Sunday, April 20
Sun 4/20 1:00 PM The Sometime Gallery [Big Green Building at the Dutch Boy 4701 San Leandro #15C Oakland, CA]
Cheryl E. Leonard, with A.L. Dentel and Karen Stackpole, will perform new compositions and improvisations for amplified natural objects, inspired by ocean tides. Larnie Fox's Crank Ensemble creates rhythmic and repetitive patterns by using handmade crank-operated machines. And yummy brunch snacks will be available from Wafflicious! http://www.allwaysnorth.com http://www.myspace.com/crankensemble
Sun 4/20 7:30 PM Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
More safe and fun black metal free jazz to make a happy day!
7:45 Sudden OakJohn Ward/Matt Erickson
8:35 Shatter Cast(Rent Romus/Philip Everett/Mikey Yeda)
9:15 Dancin Baby
Brian Pedersen/Jeff Lievers
no-nonsense, 'go for the juggular', manic free- jazz
Monday, April 21
Mon 4/21 9:00 PM Kingman's Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave near Solano Ave Albany]
EXPERIMENTAL MONDAYS
Three live experimental groups getting down in a funky lounge.
Evan Morris: www.lostscience.org
Wyat Gurp: Psycadelic/Live Electronics/Breakcore
& Harbour:
Tuesday, April 22
Tue 4/22 7:00 PM Mama Buzz Cafe [2318 Telegraph Ave @23rd Oakland]
Matt Nelson/Luke Westbrook duo
Timosaurus. (Matt Nelson - Sax, Andrew Conklin - guitar, Sam Ospavat - drums)
Come to Mama Buzz and see a bunch of frustrated young musicians groping in the dark.
Wednesday, April 23
Wed 4/23 8:00 PM Artists' Television Access [992 Valencia Street @21st SF]
Bruce Ackley / Jen Baker / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter
Moe! Staiano
Murder Murder
Wed 4/23 8:00 PM Memorial Auditorium [551 Serra Mall Stanford, CA]
Grammy-winning percussionist Evelyn Glennie can wrest an expansive orchestral sound out of a single snare drum. A captivating improviser and composer, she has challenged the music world to reimagine the vast possibilities of percussion through her highly communicative music making. Fred Frith—guitarist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, featured with Glennie in the documentary Touch the Sound—joins her for an evening of improvisation on traditional and unconventional instruments.
Wed 4/23 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Bay Area Supergroup The Acme House Band welcomes guest artists from France Mathieu Werchowski (violin) and David Chiesa (contrabass) for another incarnation of Grosse Abfahrt, or the Art of Gigantic International Improvisations Carried Out With Extreme Sensitivity. The Acme House Band is: Gino Robair, Kyle Bruckmann, Theresa Wong, Matt Ingalls, John Shiurba, Tim Perkis, and Tom Djll.
Wed 4/23 9:00 PM Bluesix [3043 24th St. @ Treat St. SF]
The Listening Hut is a weekly series held at Bluesix every Wednesday night at 9pm.
Every week Luke Westbrook hosts a night of acoustic improvisation with a jaw dropping cast of music makers.
4/23..
David Slusser and special guests TBA
Luke Westbrook - Solo guitar
Thursday, April 24
Thu 4/24 8:00 PM Outsound Presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm: Andrew Kaluzynski solo electroics
9pm: Mathieu Werchowski - violin & David Chiesa - double bass (from France, on West Coast tour)
http://mwerchowski.free.fr, http://david.chiesa.free.fr
Thu 4/24 8:00 PM Mills College Lisser Theatre [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Charity Chan's final thesis recital. Solo, duo and trio improvisations with Fred Frith, Aurora Josephson, Bob Marsh, and Damon Smith.
The event is free and open to the public. A reception follows the event.
http://www.charitychan.com
Thu 4/24 8:30 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Miya Masaoka joins an ever-expanding group of stellar local improvisors including: Liz Allbee, John Ingle, Kjell Nordeson, and Tim Perkis.
Friday, April 25
Fri 4/25 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
evander music presents at 1510 - 8 pm bush of ghosts: Jen Baker - trombone; Phillip Greenlief - saxophones; Damon Smith - bass
Spirit - percussion
9 pm efft: sarah palmer - voice, guitar; noah phillips - guitar;
alee karem - bass; jordan glenn - drums
Fri 4/25 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Joker Nies (Germany), circuit-bending performance and discussion, with Gino Robair, percussion. Special guests: instrument designer Rob Hordijk (Netherlands), and vocalist Amy X Neuburg
Fri 4/25 8:00 PM Mama Buzz Cafe [2318 Telegraph Ave @23rd Oakland]
Folk Songs of Fractured Space
Eli Wise with Damon Waitkus
Jack o the Clock - Damon Waitkus (oogog), Emily Packard (Opabinia), Nicole Reisnour, and Jordan Glenn
Discomedusae - Kristine Barret, Ri Crawford
The Grit the Beauty and the Interstellar, as best we can express it.
Saturday, April 26
Sat 4/26 2:00 PM Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University [471 Lagunita Dr. Stanford, CA]
Public screening of a documentary about a contemporary music project followed by a panel presentation with the composer, Xiaogang Ye of Beijing, the musicians and producer and featuring a performance of the work Datura, scored for flute, violin, cello and piano.
Sat 4/26 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
Jus CD Release Concert Extraveganza, featuring Music and Food from the new CD on Balance Point Acoustics, plus very special guests. Charity Chan opens with a solo piano set, followed by the "Jus" Quartet: Jacob Lindsay - Clarinets, Ava Mendoza -Guitar
Damon Smith - 7-string ergo bass, lloopp, Weasel Walter - Drums. Damon and Weasel are joined by special guests Marco Eneidi - alto saxophone, and Henry Kaiser - guitar for a slam bang special finale.
Sat 4/26 8:00 PM Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
The Jazz School Presents: Quijerema, Latin American jazz fusion project "Archeology of Memory", featuring: Quique Cruz (composer, strings, flutes); Maria Fernada Acuna (drums); Jeremy Allen (bass); David Barrows (sax); John Calloway (piano and flute); Sarah Wilson (trumpet)
Sat 4/26 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
INSTANT TRIO MUSIC
Johnston/Ochs/Nordeson Trio +
Raskin/Goodheart/Tarasov Trio
An evening of instant compositions, stylistically suspended somewhere between jazz and modern classical music.
Sat 4/26 8:00 PM Western Sky [2525 8th Street (between Dwight Way & Parker St.) in Berkeley. Near Cafe Trieste and Good Vibrations]
Moment's Notice
- a monthly performance series devoted to improvised music, dance & theater
Sunday, April 27
Sun 4/27 8:00 PM Artists' Television Access [992 Valencia Street @21st SF]
EYE-FULL FILMS and ATA present: GHOST in the Reel Change - A night of experimental films with live music by GHOST IN THE HOUSE and Reel Change.
Monday, April 28
Mon 4/28 8:30 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Shelton / Walter Duo (Aram Shelton/Weasel Walter)
Paper Legs (Brooklyn / SF)
Mon 4/28 9:00 PM Kingman's Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave near Solano Ave Albany]
An evening of experimental and electronic music featuring ambient noise structures from San Francisco act fognozzle .
Tuesday, April 29
Tue 4/29 7:30 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland]
solo basura + sophisticuffs
SOLOBASURA: John Betteo(piano/typewriter/cornet), Christopher Brown (bass), Curtis Hollenbeck (cornet), Alan Anzalone (reeds) Jeremy Kearney (reeds)
SOPHISTICUFFS: Alan Anzalone (reeds) Jeremy Kearney (reeds), Micaela Peterson (percussion), Errol Stewart (guitar)
Wednesday, April 30
Wed 4/30 8:00 PM Mills College Lisser Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
“Celebrating Creative Music II: An Afrocentric Perspective”
The Mills College Music department presents the ninth annual lecture performance series, “PATTERNS: MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TRADITION, A Lecture-Performance Series hosted by India Cooke and Mills College Music 170 - African American Music: The Meaning and The Message".
Panel will include:
Dr. David Bernstein…..Mills College Music Dept.
Melanie Berzon……….Program Director of KCSM AT 91.1FM
Greg Bridges, KCSM-FM, KPFA-FM
Dr. Karlton Hester.….. U.C. Santa Cruz, Jazz Studies, assoc. prof.
Roscoe Mitchell……....Mills College, Darius Milhaud Chair of Composition
Andrew Rosenthal…... New College media studies
Art Sato………….……. host of "In Your Ear" on KPFA
Angela Wellman……... Oakland Public Conservatory, founding director
Wed 4/30 9:00 PM Bluesix [3043 24th St. @ Treat St. SF]
The Listening Hut is a weekly series held at Bluesix every Wednesday night at 9pm.
Guitarist Luke Westbrook hosts a night of acoustic improvisation with a jaw dropping cast of music makers.
This week 4/30
Saxophonist Dayna Stephens http://www.daynastephens.com/index.php graces the Hut with improvisations and originals from his latest recording *The Timeless Now". Dayna will be accompanied by Luke Westbrook on acoustic guitar.
Events outside the Bay Area
Thursday, Apr 24 2008 8:00 PM
Cool Cat Gallery
918 24th Street Sacramento, CA
Cool Cat Gallery Presents
8pm
Phillip Greenlief, solo saxophone
9pm
Luke Westbrook Trio
