Wed 5/14 8:00 PM $10 general; $5 students/seniors Meridian Gallery [535 Powell St. SF]
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Tattoos and Other Markings by Thea Farhadian.

Thu 5/15 7:00 PM Free Liberty Cafe Wine Bar [401 Cortland Avenue, San Francisco (between Bennington and Wool )]
Liberty Cafe Wine Bar Presents Michael Gold Quartet: Michael Gold - Saxophone; Paul Mindrup - Piano; Ken Lenga - Bass; Tom Hassett - Drums

Thu 5/15 7:30 PM $25-$36 Palace of Fine Arts [3301 Lyon (at Bay)]
9th Annual SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents
The Bad Plus; Doctor 3
The Bad Plus is “better than anyone at mixing the sensibilities of post ’60's jazz and indie rock” (The New York Times). Italy’s Doctor 3, led by pianist Danilo Rea, redefine the music of their youth (Neil Young, Paul Simon, and much more) with staggering instrumental prowess

Thu 5/15 8:00 PM $6-10 Outsound Presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm 'unknown white male' bass clarinet, flutes and saxes
9pm Animal Vegetable Television w/Ron Chornow & Gary Schwantes-

Fri 5/16 7:00 PM Free Admission Cafe Bastille [22 Belden Place, San Francisco (1 block below Kearny, between Bush and Pine) ]
Cafe Bastille Presents Michael Gold Quartet: Michael Gold - Saxophone; Paul Mindrup - Piano; Scott Chapek - Bass; Tom Hassett - Drums

Fri 5/16 8:00 PM $15-$20 Swissnex [730 Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94111]
Nexmap presents Binary Cities Event #4:
Benoit Delbecq - pianist (Paris); François Houle - clarinetist (Vancouver)
WITH INTERACTIVE VIDEO AND MIXED MEDIA BY Frédéric St-Hilaire (Montreal)

7PM mixer and post performance artists reception (hosted bar)
@ Swissnex San Francisco - 730 Montgomery St., San Francisco at Jackson St.

Houle and Delbecq's collaborative performances include pieces for piano or prepared piano and clarinets, solo improvisation, with electronic manipulations

Sat 5/17 8:00 PM $10 Phoenix Theatre [201 washington st. Petaluma]
the Gomorran Social Aid & Pleasure Club with the Bluebellies and Or, the Whale. + far-out artwork

Sat 5/17 10:00 PM $8  Sofat  [382 bayshore blvd, san francisco ]
Saturday MAY 17th, RECORD LABEL RECORDs presents weird electronic music from it's own artists + guests!
Brian English Kush Arora Fluorescent Grey Scuzi Spukkin Faceship Anon Day Robotanist 666Gangstaz
at the soFat! community center, 382 Bayshore, San Francisco
www.recordlabelrecords.org

Sun 5/18 4:00 PM $15/12 Old First Church [1751 Sacramento, SF]
Compositions and Improvisations by composer, improviser, and contrabass virtuoso Stefano Scodanibbio. Featuring Graeme Jennings, Erk Ulman, Ellen Rose, Monica Scott, Christopher Jones, Ann Yi, and sfSound.

Tue 5/20 9:30 PM $5 Hemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street Between Post and Sutter SF]
Sudden Oak (myspace.com/suddenoak)
Ducktails (myspace.com/ducktailss)
Synt.Tofs (www.ormolycka.com/synt.tofs/)

Wed 5/21 7:30 PM $10 The MARSH [1062 Valencia Street , San Francisco (between 21st and 22nd Streets, near to 24th Street BART).]
IMPROV:21 Tonite: Scott Amendola = Beats, Sounds, Sticks and Wires

Rova:Arts presents Improv:21 as an annual series of "informances. Tonite, Amendola will join moderator Derk Richardson and you, the audience, to perform and inform, focusing on drumming with and without electronics for the 23rd and 24th centuries...

Amendola will inform you at The Marsh exactly one week before his appearance in Rovaté 2008: Rova/Nels Cline Celestial Septet @ Yoshi’s San Francisco (May 28). Questions about that show will also be answered.

Cosponsored by The Marsh in association with Other Minds and Yoshi's.

Thu 5/22 8:00 PM $6-10 Outsound Presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm fognozzle
9pm French Radio
Jim Kaiser, Bruce Anderson and Andy Way

Thu 5/22 8:30 PM $6-10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Music and dance performance by Berlin dancer, Yuko Kaseki and Kanoko Nishi (koto), with sets by the Wiener Kids and TrueCollapse (Charity Chan - accordion, Karl A.D. Evangelista - guitars, Alexander Vittum: drums/percussion & electronics).

Fri 5/23 7:00 PM Free Admission Cafe Bastille [22 Belden Place, San Francisco (1 block below Kearny, between Bush and Pine) ]
Cafe Bastille Presents Michael Gold Quartet: Michael Gold - Saxophone; Paul Mindrup - Piano; Scott Chapek - Bass; Tom Hassett - Drums

Sat 5/24 9:00 PM $3 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Book Release Event for No Wave by Marc Masters, with contributions by Weasel Walter, featuring rare video documentation of music performances of the period, and live music by Death Sentence: Panda! and Ettrick (Jacob Felix Heule/Jay Korber)

Sun 5/25 3:00 PM free Noh Space [840 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110]
Theatre of Yugen’s Worklights: A casual monthly series for exploration of work-in-progress, play readings, and offerings by members of the Yugen Orchestra. This month’s fieldwork: Staging of Erik Ehn’s saint play Wholly Joan with Wayne Grim, Suki O'Kane and Edward Schocker, and further YugenOrchestra exploration with Gusty Winds May Exist (Nancy Beckman, shakuhachi, Tom Bickley, tenor recorder)

Sun 5/25 8:00 PM $10-100 donation Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
In Celebration Memory of Toyoji Tomita with...
Chris Brown w/ Larry Ochs and Willie Winant
Phillip Greenlief
Brassiosaurus w/ Tom Djll / Ron Heglin / Jen Baker
Kathrynn Lyle & Marianne Macdonald
David Slusser
Lords of Outland w/ Rent Romus / Bill Noertker / Dave Mihaly
more TBA...

Friends and colleagues perform a plethera of improvisational, experimental, and genre spanning sounds reflecting the diverse sonic life of Toyoji Tomita.

Tue 5/27 8:30 PM $6-10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Suishou no Fune + Oaxacan + Lucio Menegon/Rob Price/David Grollman

Wed 5/28 8:00 PM Yoshi's San Francisco [1330 Fillmore St SF]
Rovaté 2008:
The Rova / Nels Cline Celestial Septet !!!!!!!!!!!!

Rova:Arts presents it's annual Rovaté event this year at the new Yoshi's SF. If you haven't been there yet, it's a new and beautiful room to hear music. Not one bad seat.

Rova and Nels Cline Singers join forces for the special presentation of works created or arranged by members of this septet especially for this evening. Works by John Coltrane (Living Space. Meditations) plus new pieces from other members of the band including a piece dedicated to Albert Ayler.

Nels Cline - el. gtr // Scott Amendola - drums // Devin Hoff - bass // Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs - saxophones

Smoking!!!!!!

Thu 5/29 8:00 PM $6-10 sliding scale Outsound Presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm: Charity Chan (accordion) with Travis Johns (electronics)
9pm: Kristian Aspelin/Damon Smith duo

Thu 5/29 9:00 PM $6-10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Music and media integrators, Potter-Belmar Labs (Jason Jay Stevens and Leslie Raymond) plus Language Removal Systems (Chris Kubick)

Sat 5/31 9:30 PM $7 Hemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street Between Post and Sutter SF]
Tartufi with 20 Minute Loop and Yes, Oh Yes.

Sun 6/1 7:30 PM $10 general • $8 student Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
string music with Dave Mihaly and Bill Noertker
Bill Noertker's string duos: Carey Lamprecht - violin/Bill Noertker - contrabass. Cullen Hallinan - electric bass/Bill Noertker - electric bass.
&
Dave Mihaly's '4x6=the garden in the dunes quartet'for 4 guitars
Michael Cavaseno, guitar
Chris Fortier, guitar
Brian Miller, guitar
Roger Riedlbauer, guitar


Wed 6/4 7:00 PM $10 Raven Theater [115 North Street Healdsburg, CA]
Healdsburg Jazz Festival Presents Sarah Wilson's "Trapeze Project"

Thu 6/5 8:00 PM $6-10 Outsound Presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Johan Tore Nystrom (PA) extended percussion/friction
“Failure is the path of lease persistence.”
-fortune cookie error
9pm TBA

Thu 6/5 8:00 PM MACLA Theater Space [510 South First St San Jose]
Rova @ 01SJ in San Jose = Rova performs "Flock" by composer Jason Freeman
Thursday, June 5 - 8 p.m. // Friday. June 6 - 8 p.m. // Saturday, June 7 - 4 and 6 p.m.

In Flock, music notation, electronic sound, and video animation are all generated in real time based on the locations of musicians, dancers, and audience members as they move and interact with each other. Computer vision software analyzes video from an overhead camera to determine the location of each participant, and this data is used to create music notation for four jazz saxophonists, to render a three-dimensional video animation, and to generate an electronic soundtrack. By inviting the audience to help create the unique music and visuals for each performance, Flock seeks to reconcile concert performance with the dynamics of collaborative creation, multi-player games, and social networks to create an engaging live event.

Thu 6/5 8:00 PM The Hillside Club [2286 Cedar St, Berkeley, CA 94708]
The Sixth Annual Matthew Sperry Memorial Festival, featuring John Butcher. This is the first evening of music in honor of bassist Sperry, and it features English saxophonist John Butcher, who he frequently collaborated with. Butcher is one of the most innovative improvisers on the scene today, utilizing multiphonics, upper register playing, and feedback.

Fri 6/6 8:00 PM The Hillside Club [2286 Cedar St, Berkeley, CA 94708]
The Sixth Annual Matthew Sperry Memorial Festival, featuring Carla Kihlstedt. This is the second evening of music in honor of bassist Sperry, and it features violinist Carla Kihlstedt, who he frequently collaborated with. Carla's resume reads like a Who's Who of contemporary artists, and she's equally adept at playing fully notated concert music as she is belting it out and playing in a progressive rock band.

Fri 6/6 8:00 PM MACLA THEATER Space [510 South First St. San Jose]
Rova @ 01SJ in San Jose = Rova performs "Flock" by composer Jason Freeman
at MACLA Theater space, 510 South First Street, San Jose.
Thursday, June 5 - 8 p.m. // Friday. June 6 - 8 p.m. // Saturday, June 7 - 4 and 6 p.m.

In Flock, music notation, electronic sound, and video animation are all generated in real time based on the locations of musicians, dancers, and audience members as they move and interact with each other. Computer vision software analyzes video from an overhead camera to determine the location of each participant, and this data is used to create music notation for four jazz saxophonists, to render a three-dimensional video animation, and to generate an electronic soundtrack. By inviting the audience to help create the unique music and visuals for each performance, Flock seeks to reconcile concert performance with the dynamics of collaborative creation, multi-player games, and social networks to create an engaging live event.

Sat 6/7 1:00 PM free | donations accepted Museum of Children's Art [538 Ninth Street Oakland, Ca 93607]
Treasure Mouth: a SperryFest Improv Children's Karaoke Matinee
An afternoon event of the Sixth Annual Matthew Sperry Memorial Festival for children and families based on Matthew's Treasure Mouth composition that requires a band to follow along to lyrics as fast as they can be written out for them by others. A house band of Matthew's beloved friends will assemble in the Mocha Courtyard to receive written instructions from scribbling children. Visit matthewsperry.org for updates.

Sat 6/7 6:00 PM MACLA Theater Space [510 South First StSan Jose]
Rova at Festival 01SJ = Rova performs "Flock" by composer Jason Freeman
at MACLA Theater space, 510 South First Street, San Jose.
Thursday, June 5 - 8 p.m.
Friday. June 6 - 8 p.m.
Saturday, June 7 - 4 and 6 p.m.

In Flock, music notation, electronic sound, and video animation are all generated in real time based on the locations of musicians, dancers, and audience members as they move and interact with each other. Computer vision software analyzes video from an overhead camera to determine the location of each participant, and this data is used to create music notation for four jazz saxophonists, to render a three-dimensional video animation, and to generate an electronic soundtrack. By inviting the audience to help create the unique music and visuals for each performance, Flock seeks to reconcile concert performance with the dynamics of collaborative creation, multi-player games, and social networks to create an engaging live event.

Sat 6/7 8:00 PM $6-$10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Sextet: Kristian Aspelin - Guitar, Tony Dryer - Double Bass, Phillip Greenlief - Reeds, Jacob Felix Heule - Drums, Jacob Lindsay - Clarinets, Kanoko Nishi - Koto. Micro-orchestral collective improvisation. Opening solo set by Damon Smith - 7-string ergo bass and lloopp.

Sun 6/8 8:00 PM $6-10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING CELEBRATING WERNER HERZOG'S ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD showing excerpts from the feature and copious secret outtakes, including Seal Men ( Antarctic parody of Herzog's Grizzly Man)
+ live improvising ensemble from the film playing to deleted underwater scenes with Henry Kaiser, William Winant, Cheryl Leonard, Jen Baker, Damon Smith and Danielle DeGruttola.

Sun 6/8 8:00 PM $5 ODC Dance Commons [351 Shotwell, SF]
sfSoundSeries: Renowned english saxophone virtuoso John Butcher solo and with sfSound. The program also includes John Cage's "Thirteen" (1992), Kaija Saariaho's "Sept Papillons" (2000) for solo cello, and "Seis Vícios de Garlândia" (2006) for clarinet, cello, and percussion by local brazilian composer Bruno Ruviaro.

Tue 6/10 8:00 PM $6-10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
John Butcher - soprano & tenor saxophones
Damon Smith - double bass, laptop
Weasel Walter - percussion

http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk
http://nowave.pair.com/weasel_walter/
http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon

Wed 6/11 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
An evening of improvisations with
John Butcher, saxophones
David Wessel, SLAB/computer
Bill Hsu, electronics

Wed 6/11 8:30 PM $6-10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Mute Socialite CD Release: Mute Socialite (Moe! Staiano, Ava Mendoza, Alee Karim, Shayna Dunkelman) w/Chubby Behemoth and Little Teeth

Fri 6/13 9:00 PM $6-10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Comedies for the Young (percussion duo of Matthias Bossi and Scott Amendola); Carla Kihlstedt and Wellington Bowler travelogue performance.

Sat 6/14 9:00 PM $6-10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Atomic Bomb Audition + Bone Awl + Gregg Kowalsky + Agnes Szelag

Thu 6/19 8:00 PM $6-10 Outsound Presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm TBA
9pm Noah Phillips - guitar; Andy Strain - trombone; Jason Hoopes - bass


Tue 6/24 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [1111 Addison St. Berkeley]
Carla Kihlstedt - Satoko Fujii Duo (opening set)
Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core (second set)

Satoko Fujii - Carla Kihlstedt Duo = (opening set) deeply passionate and meditative chamber duo
Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core = (second set) - rocking improvisational music including a cool film music piece dedicated to Akira Kurosawa.

You may learn nothing new, but you will feel way better when you leave than when you got there.... Come on out and help make this one happen!

Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core: OCHS- saxophones // AMENDOLA - Drums // FUJIIi - Synthesizer, piano // the amazing TAMURA - trumpet // ROBINSON - drums

Fujii- Kihlstedt DUO: Satoko Fujii - piano and Carla Kihlstedt - violin


Thu 6/26 8:00 PM $6-10 Outsound Presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8:00pm Phog Masheeen (Costa Mesa)
Celebrating thier Split release 'beautiful' on Edgetone Records
8:30pm CJ Borosque + Robert M (San Diego)- no-input effects pedals
9:00pm INSTAGON - the band with the gyrating roster!

Phog Masheeen sounds Like Pierre Schaeffer, John Hassell, or an engine room with a soul. It is a rockin’ electro-acoustic flex out of crusty brass melted over saturated electronics! Harsh and beautiful!

Thu 6/26 8:30 PM $6-10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Weasel Walter/Josh Berman duo + tba

Fri 6/27 8:00 PM Royce Gallery [2901 Mariposa (@ Harrison) San Francisco, CA 94110]
The Pendulum
Pamela Z performs a three-evening run of her new solo intermedia work for voice, electronics, and video.

Sat 6/28 8:00 PM Royce Gallery [2901 Mariposa Street #18 (@ Harrison) San Francisco, CA 94110]
The Pendulum
Pamela Z in a solo performance of her new intermedia work for voice, electronics, and video.

Sun 6/29 8:00 PM Royce Gallery [2901 Mariposa Street #18 (@ Harrison) San Francicso, CA 94110]
The Pendulum
Pamela Z in a solo performance of her new intermedia work for voice, electronics, and video.

Wed 7/2 8:30 PM $7-10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Carla Bozulich's Evangelista + tba

Thu 7/3 8:00 PM $6-10 Outsound Presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Daryl Shawn (Oaxaca, Mexico)
9pm TBA

Using a common Tascam four-track and a microcassette dictaphone, Daryl Shawn twists his able nylon-string guitar into shapes both unrecognizable and familiar, from pastoral soundscapes to glitchy wails.

Fri 7/11 8:00 PM Royce Gallery [2901 Mariposa St San Francisco, CA 94110]
room: Batterie! at 8pm as part of Z Programs ROOM at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA. The first of four Summer 2008 concerts.

Wed 7/23 7:15 PM $12/$6 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
Outsound Presents
The 7th Annual Edgetone New Music Summit
SonicLight
Q&A Session 7:15 -7:30 pm
Performance Starts @ 8:15 pm
No More Twist! (sound and light lie detector), Kwisp (holographic sound presentation), Thickness/Monolayer (cut-up film and sound track)


Thu 7/24 7:15 PM $12/$6 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
Outsound Presents
The 7th Annual Edgetone New Music Summit
SonicExplore
Q&A Session 7:15 -7:30 pm
Performance Starts @ 8:15 pm
Birgit Ulher Trio w/Gino Robair & Tim Perkis, (the) giants of gender (from Ohio), Shudder w/special guest from Sweden Jorrit Dijkstra

Thu 7/24 8:30 PM $7-10 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
William Hooker (percussion) and Damon Smith (bass) perform live music to the film, Symbol of the Unconquered by Oscar Michaux + tba

Fri 7/25 7:15 PM $12/$6 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
Outsound Presents
The 7th Annual Edgetone New Music Summit
SonicPulse
Q&A Session 7:15 -7:30 pm
Performance Starts @ 8:15 pm
Different Strokes, C.O.M.A.
Noertker’s Moxie, Aaron Bennett’s GoGo Fight Master

Fri 7/25 8:00 PM Royce Gallery [2901 Mariposa St San Francisco, CA 94110]
room: 117 Strings at 8pm as part of ROOM at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Z Programs ROOM Summer 2008 continues with “101 Strings”

Sat 7/26 8:00 PM $12/$6 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
Outsound Presents
The 7th Annual Edgetone New Music Summit
SonicIndustrial
Performance Starts @ 8:00 pm
15 Degrees Below Zero, Say Bok Gwai, Mute Socialite

Mon 7/28 8:00 AM Summerfield Waldorf School and Farm [655 Willowside Rd Santa Rosa, CA 95401]
Manfred Bleffert workshops begin in Santa Rosa

Thu 8/7 8:00 PM $6-10 Outsound Presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Nick Lyons (NYC) Solo saxophones
9pm Organization of Society

Sound For the Organization of Society is a creative music ensemble founded in New Orleans in 2004. The group plays original music by all of its members, and presents works which equally balance composition and improvisation. The music draws from a variety of traditions and musical styles: jazz, classical, the avant-garde, and various ethnic musics.

Fri 8/8 8:00 PM Royce Gallery [2901 Mariposa St San Francisco, CA 94110]
room: Low Bows at 8pm as part of ROOM at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Z Programs ROOM Summer 2008 continues with an evening of electric and acoustic bowed strings of the bass clef persuasion:

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Sunday, May 18 2008 7:00 PM

The Silent Movie Theater
611 N. Fairfax Avenue - just south of Melrose Park Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles Film Forum Presents Noisy People, a film by Tim Perkis. Noisy People features: Damon Smith, Tom Djll, Phillip Greenlief, George Cremaschi, Greg Goodman, Cheryl Leonard, Dan Plonsey, Gino Robair

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Monday, Jun 2 2008 8:00 PM

True Love Coffeehouse
2315 K Street Sacramento, CA 95816

Cool Cat Gallery Presents shudder, featuring Kyle Bruckmann, Lance Grabmiller, Phillip Greenlief