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JULY 2006 Sunday, July 2 Sun 7/2 9:00 PM Stork Club [2330 Telegraph Avenue Oakland] Oaxacan; Art Lessing and the Flower Vato; Acre; Earthen Sea Drone, noise, electronics, psychedelia, etc, etc. Tuesday, July 4 Tue 7/4 3:00 PM Berkeley Marina Stage [Berkeley Marina Berkeley, CA] Guru Garage @Berkeley Marina 4th of July Festival Wednesday, July 5 Wed 7/5 7:30 PM Pacific Film Archive [2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch Berkeley] STEP ACROSS THE BORDER Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel (Switzerland/Germany, 1990, 90 mins) Experimental musician and Bay Area resident Fred Frith travels around the globe to turn noise into music, with help from John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, Robert Frank, and Jonas Mekas, among many others, in this joyfully anarchic documentary. Chosen by Cahiers du cinéma in 2000 as one of the hundred most important movies in film history. Thursday, July 6 Thu 7/6 5:45 PM Asian Art Museum [200 Larkin St San Francisco] matcha: theatre of yugen with the yugenorchestra (albee, emerson, beuthin, mclean, o'kane, staiano, stambeger and whitman) in immersive, site-specific improvisation with noh dance Thu 7/6 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] Susan Allen, harp, Nicholas Chase, electronics and live video, Rus Pearson, bass in free improvisations "NIRUSU III is a master trio pushing the edge of audio-visual improv" - Los Angeles Weekly, November 2005 Thu 7/6 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] 8pm: Lx Rudis - Matrix 12 synthesizer 9pm: Rick Walker's Loop-Pool Friday, July 7 Fri 7/7 7:30 PM Hillside Club [2286 Cedar St, Berkeley] STUART DEMPSTER CELEBRATION! Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. is pleased to host a 70th birthday concert, award ceremony and reception for Stuart Dempster. Stuart Dempster will perform solo works and his ensemble music with the Cornelius Cardew Choir, the Didjeridu Ensemble along with Bay Area Deep Listeners Please RSVP to "Lisa Barnard" lisab at deeplistening.org Fri 7/7 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St @ Capp SF] PROJECT SOUNDWAVE Presents > SOUNDSPACE: SONOLOGY. Justino, Garland Villanova and David Graves present immersive works for 6 channel speaker system. Saturday, July 8 Sat 7/8 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St @ Capp SF] PROJECT SOUNDWAVE Presents > SOUNDSPACE: MUSICOLOGY Night Night, Don Seaver, Tim Gallaher and GroundChuck present electronic music for 6 channel speaker system Sat 7/8 10:00 PM Elbo Room [647 Valencia St. San Francisco] Guru Garage @The Elbo Room with Samba Da Sunday, July 9 Sun 7/9 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland] 1st Set: Compositions Andrew Raffo Dewar (soprano saxophone, composer) Gino Robair (percussion, analog synth) John Shiurba (guitar) 2nd Set: Improvisations Andrew Raffo Dewar (soprano saxophone) Aurora Josephson (voice) Jacob Lindsay (clarinets) Gino Robair (percussion, analog synth) Damon Smith (bass) Tuesday, July 11 Tue 7/11 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] The Flying Luttenbachers + Zs (NY) Tue 7/11 8:00 PM Intersection for the Arts [446 Valencia, between 15th and 16th Mission District SF] Darren Johnston Quintet Darren Johnston on trumpet, Sheldon Brown on tenor and bass clarinet, Ben Goldberg on clarinet and contra alto clarinet, Devin Hoff on bass, and Smith Dobsen Jr. on drums and vibes. Performing all original music, including two premiers, commisioned by Intersection. Wednesday, July 12 Wed 7/12 7:30 PM KQED TV [Public TV Spark* Series] Matt Davignon curates a show with bay area musicians improvising soundtracks to experimental films by Sarah Lockhart. Featuring the duo Myrmyr, Luz Alibi and Mr. Marauder, and a quintet composed of Moe! Staiano, Kanoko Nishi, Lance Grabmiller, David Michalak, and Davignon himself Wed 7/12 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] Prodigal Sons of Darkness (violin +guitar metal-influenced duo) Ava Mendoza and Alee Karim playing a guitar duo Moe! Staiano playing solo Mujahadeen (persian metal band) Wed 7/12 9:00 PM madrone lounge [Madrone Lounge 500 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA 94117 (at the corner of Fell) ] sweet triple bill of creative music at madrone lounge in sf... compositional post-free jazz and songs with--- mathias bossi, joshua smith, evan francis, tim bulkley, kurt kotheimer, irena eide Thursday, July 13 Thu 7/13 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] 8pm Corey Fogel - solo drums 9pm Ross Hammond - guitar Damon Smith-bass Vijay Anderson-drums Thu 7/13 8:00 PM Royce Gallery [2901 Mariposa Street, SF (Between Harrison and Alabama)] Z PROGRAM 50 Come celebrate Pamela Z's birthday with an evening featuring a collage piece called "50 Minutes". Pamela and some of her colleagues and collaborators perform 50 mini-movements tightly scored to a timeclock. Ms. Z will also present a short set of works for voice, electronics and video to fill out the program. Thu 7/13 9:30 PM Starry Plough [3101 Shattuck Ave @ Prince Berkeley] jazz-ish, oriented on rigorous composition and cohesive group improvisation... josh smith, evan francis, tim bulkley, kurt kotheimer Friday, July 14 Fri 7/14 8:00 PM Royce Gallery [2901 Mariposa Street, SF (Between Harrison and Alabama)] Z PROGRAM 50 Come celebrate Pamela Z's birthday with an evening featuring a collage piece called "50 Minutes". Pamela and some of her colleagues and collaborators perform 50 mini-movements tightly scored to a timeclock. Ms. Z will also present a short set of works for voice, electronics and video to fill out the program. Saturday, July 15 Sat 7/15 10:00 AM Oakland Farmer's Market [Oakland Farmers' Market across from Grand Lake Theater] Guru Garage @Oakland Farmer's Market Sunday, July 16 Sun 7/16 1:00 PM Oakland Lake Merritt Sailboat House [568 Bellevue Avenue Oakland] Sail, row, paddle, or gondola with Oaklandish as we broadcast a live short-wave FM radio broadcast for your listening pleasure! http://www.oaklandish.com/events.html Sun 7/16 7:30 PM Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] Noertker's moxie performs new works for 2006 Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute Jenny Maybee - piano Jason Levis - drums Bill Noertker - bass featuring Catalunya-inspired compositions... Sun 7/16 8:00 PM Cue Productions Live! [1835 Colfax st. Concord, Ca, 94519 ] CD release concert for the Bill Wolter rock trio Inner Ear Brigade, w/ Oakland based quartet Slydini headlining. Sun 7/16 8:30 PM SF Center for Spiritual Living [280 Claremont Blvd @ Ulloa (in West Portal District) San Francisco, CA 94127] Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert Trio Concert at SFCFSL Monday, July 17 Mon 7/17 8:00 PM ODC Dance Theatre [3153 17th Street at Shotwell SF]  sfSoundSeries -- Featuring premieres of solo and ensemble compositions by Scott Rosenberg and Classic Large Ensemble Works: Andriessen's "Worker's Union" (1975), Feldman's "...Out of Last Pieces" (1961) and Ashley's "She Was a Visitor" (1967).Wednesday, July 19 Wed 7/19 7:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF] DALi’S eGg - Music by Nicholas Chase, Libretto by Ann Haroun, Sherrie Flick and R'Jeenah Bonney, Film by Randall Wakerlin DALi’S eGg is a trans-media performance work that explores the connection between interactive sound and music, audio/visual relationships and story telling. A joint production of the Musical Arts/Sound Laboratory (www.mas-lab.org) and the EGG ENSEMBLE, Dali's Egg extends the concepts of interdisciplinary collaboration. Wed 7/19 8:00 PM Cue Productions Live! [1835 Colfax st. Concord, Ca, 94519] CD release concert for the Bill Wolter rock trio Inner Ear Brigade, w/ Oakland based quartet Slydini headlining. Wed 7/19 8:30 PM 12 Galaxies [2565 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110] Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra! CD release show! With Sleeping People (San Diego) and Weasel Walter Quartet! Moe! Staiano will release his second album (via Rastascan/Amanita Records of France) of his large revolving orchestra project, Moe!kestra!. The CD will feature two scored compositions for large orchestra including Piece No.7: An Inescapable Siren Within Earshot Distance Therein and Other Whereabouts (for strings, percussion, E-stringed guitars, u-bolts, wine glasses and sirens), which will be performed at this show. Wed 7/19 9:00 PM Hemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street Between Post and Sutter SF] The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet will play the Hemlock Tavern July 19 at 9 pm. The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet pounds out experimental chamber music for bass and cello choir. Minimalism? Classical? Jazz? Metal? Classify this music and you get a kiss from each member of the band. Primal and searching, deep and gorgeous. They incorporate the full dynamic range of superb sex with all its adagios and allegros, pianos and fortes, staccatos and legatos, arias and cadenzas. This is Id-music for your super-ego. For more information and photos please go to: www.myspace.com/thecjboydsexxxtet Thursday, July 20 Thu 7/20 8:00 PM Delta of Venus [122 B St, Davis, CA 95616-4610] The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet will play the Delta of Venus on July 20 at 8 pm. The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet pounds out experimental chamber music for bass and cello choir. Minimalism? Classical? Jazz? Metal? Classify this music and you get a kiss from each member of the band. Primal and searching, deep and gorgeous. They incorporate the full dynamic range of superb sex with all its adagios and allegros, pianos and fortes, staccatos and legatos, arias and cadenzas. This is Id-music for your super-ego. Please see our website for more information and photos: www.myspace.com/thecjboydsexxxtet Thu 7/20 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] PROJECT SOUNDWAVE Presents > I AM SOUND --Albert Ortega (Los Angeles, CA) --Stefan Smuvolitz & Viviane Houle (Vancouver, Canada) --Alon Nechustan featuring Damon Smith (New York, NY & Oakland, CA) Friday, July 21 Fri 7/21 8:30 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] 9pm: 8-bit electronic punk with ON AND OFF SUPERFAST 10pm: LA avant-rapper BIZZART solo and with a band of local improv folks (Jacob Felix Heule - drums, John Hanes - drums, MaryClare Brzytwa - Guitar/Flute, Lance Grabmiller - laptop, Matt Davignon - bass gtr/electronics) Saturday, July 22 Sat 7/22 12:00 PM ArtSF [110 Capp St. (@ 16th) SF] Godwaffle Noise Pancakes IDX1274 w/ Warning Broken Machine Thomas Dimuzio Wobbly Cliff Carruthers Tarpita Fleisch Sat 7/22 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space [1510 8th Street Oakland] Jacob Lindsay with Strings (improvised music with food) Featuring Jacob Lindsay - Ab, Bb, Bass and Contrabass Clarinets, with Henry Kaiser - Guitar, Kristian Aspelin - Guitar, Ava Mendoza - Guitar, Kanoko Nishi - Koto, Scott R. Looney - Inside Piano, Tony Dryer - Double Bass, and Damon Smith - Double Bass, Cello. Sat 7/22 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] samo-wilmo-tek presents Bay Area electronic artists K. Atchley, John Bischoff, Tim Perkis and Kattt Sammon Sat 7/22 8:00 PM Artists' Television Access [992 Valencia Street @21st SF] Mummers (Eype); Commode Minstrels in Bullface; Replicock; Ju Suk Reet Meate Sunday, July 23 Sun 7/23 6:30 PM Mama Buzz Cafe [2318 Telegraph Ave @23rd Oakland] Alone and Forsaken: A Night of Solo Sets Solo sets by: Mary Clare Brzytwa (flute); Alicia Byer (clarinet, etc); Ava Mendoza (guitar); Theresa Wong (cello, bass, a kitten) Sun 7/23 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] Trio: Mark Miller, Larry Ochs, Tim Perkis...First meeting for this all-star trio. 2 sets. Miller deconstructs rhythms on the drums; Ochs morphs saxophonic sound; Perkis wails on electronics... Your basic Sunday serenade. Thursday, July 27 Thu 7/27 8:00 PM Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] The 2006 EDGETONE MUSIC SUMMIT  Living Sound, a night of intermedia performance with:Pamela Z, voice/movement/electronics (SFO) Positive Knowledge with Oluyemi Thomas, Ijeoma Thomas, Spirit (OAK) NIRISU III Susan Allan(LAX), Nicholas Chase(LAX),Rus Pearson (UK) The San Francisco Bay Guardian says the Edgetone Music Summit is "Breaking the rules". Supported in part by a generous grant from Meet the Composer's Creative Connections Grant program. Friday, July 28 Fri 7/28 8:00 PM PLAySPACE Gallery [1111 8th St SF CA 94103] Echo de Pensees Sound Series & The Museum Of Viral Memory present live performances by Conure & Wobbly at PLAySPACE Gallery. The event is free. Sound artist Conure (Mark Wilson, also of 15 Degrees Below Zero) creates complex and original works of electronic manipulation full of rich textures and fine details that don't fall into an easy category. Composer, DJ and remixer, Wobbly reconfigures and re-imagines popular music. With 17 years of pop culture-jamming, five CDs (two on Tigerbeat6) and innumerable collaborations behind him, Wobbly is an important contributor to the electronic and composed music scenes in San Francisco. He is a founding member of local audio-video group Sagan. Fri 7/28 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] The 2006 EDGETONE MUSIC SUMMIT Sonic Foundry, a night of inventions played by the inventorsBob Marsh performing on Silver Park Steven Baker performing on The RING Tom Nunn performing on The Mothics Krystyna Bobrowski performs her quartets for Kelp E. "Doc" Smith on The Drumstick, Eric Dahlman on The Tri-tone Trumpet Larnie Fox & The Crank Ensemble, A Human Machine of Cranks The San Francisco Bay Guardian says the Edgetone Music Summit is "Breaking the rules". Supported in part by a generous grant from Meet the Composer's Creative Connections Grant program. Fri 7/28 8:00 PM Sacred Grounds Cafe [2095 Hayes Street San Francisco] Fire Museum Records is proud to announce the CD Release Party for our newest release: Nai Htaw Paing Ensemble - Mon Music of Burma. Noted ethnomusicologist Rick Heizman (who recorded the ensemble in Yangon, Burma) will be on hand to discuss the recording of the CD and other related topics, as well as perform on some of the unique instruments that are heard on this recording. Admission is free, CD's will be available for $10 each. Saturday, July 29 Sat 7/29 2:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] The 2006 EDGETONE MUSIC SUMIT Phonography as Art and Activism Discussion Panel Marcos Fernandes will facilitate a public discussion panel of phonographers. Free and Open to the Public Sat 7/29 4:00 PM Bruce Beasley Sculpture Garden [3rd St, between Lewis and Henry West Oakland] Strings & Machines presents a garden soundscape by Hugh Livingston at the sculpture garden of noted sculptor Bruce Beasley An unusual series of sonic explorations, including massive bronze plates suspended by crane, interactive learning virtual birds in cages respond to their environment and teach their rhythms to the others. Sat 7/29 7:30 PM 24th Street Theater Works Gallery and Performance Space [2405 24th Street @ Vermont SF] Direct from The Finger Palace, THE AMAZING GREG GOODMAN performing piano slight of mind. “They can tap your phone but not your Heels; they can snap your neck but not your Fingers: this does not leave a lot of free time....” Woody; THE GREATEST LITTLE BIG BAND IN THE HISTORY OF THE MEGAVERSE:John Gruntfest, alto sax, Megan Bierman, tenor sax, Jack Duval, drums. “I can hear the little-big band idea.....Same spirit of swing and interplay I hear in the Basie band of the 30’s, as if channeled through a Venda flute duet.” Dave Casini, drummer; ART EXHIBIT: WORKS ON PAPER, MEGAN BIERMAN; Admission Price includes DELECTABLE HERBAL BREWS and LOVEMORE GOURMET CHOCOLATES by Laura and Trish. BEST DEAL IN TOWN! Sat 7/29 8:00 PM COBALT SUN [411-A COLOMA ST. SAUSALITO CA 94965] Prepare yourself for a scintillating evening of varied styles of electronic music and video at Cobalt Sun with Foundry label artists Saul Stokes, Carl Weingarten, Thermal, Dean Santomieni, Ben Swire, Brian Naas and Foundry founder M. Bentley. Sat 7/29 9:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] The 2006 EDGETONE MUSIC SUMMIT Sound of a Thousand Pictures, a night of the mysterious worlds of phonographysmgsap featuring Shea Gauer/Scott Peterson (Long Beach),Marcos Fernandes (SD), Glenn Bach (LA), Aaron Ximm "Quiet American", (SF), Guillermo Galindo a.k.a. gal*in_dog (OAK via Mexico) The San Francisco Bay Guardian says the Edgetone Music Summit is "Breaking the rules". Supported in part by a generous grant from Meet the Composer's Creative Connections Grant program. Sunday, July 30 Sun 7/30 2:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] The 2006 EDGETONE MUSIC SUMIT Lecture – Improvisation and Social Activism in the United States This presentation by saxophonist Dr. Jason Robinson will examine ways in which musicians have used improvisation to engage critical social questions. Free and Open to the Public Sun 7/30 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland] The 2006 EDGETONE MUSIC SUMMIT BIG BLOW-OUT CLOSING NIGHT Saxophonists [Who Play Other Things]an exploration of multi-instrumentalism: Jason Robinson (San Diego) & The S[wpot] Ensemble, growing to include: Ralph Carney, David Slusser, Phillip Greenlief, Jeff Hobbs, Dan Plonsey, Joshua Smith, Elizabeth Torres, Ettrick (Jacob Felix Heule, Jay Korber) The San Francisco Bay Guardian says the Edgetone Music Summit is "Breaking the rules". Supported in part by a generous grant from Meet the Composer's Creative Connections Grant program. Click Here for events after 7/31/2006Events outside the Bay Area Saturday, Jul 1 2006 5:00 PM Cafe Metropol Cafe Metropol Presents Thursday, Jul 13 2006 8:30 PM Club Tropical Cryptogrammophone Records Presents CryptoNight@Club Tropical Saturday, Jul 15 2006 6:00 PM Dagny's Coffee Company Circuit Biscuit @ Dagny's Downtown! Thursday, Jul 20 2006 8:30 PM Fool's Foundation Check 1,2,3 Series @Fool's Foundation |