Thursday, Sep 2 2010 8:00 PM
Luggage Store New Music Series
1007 Market St.
@ 6th Street
SF
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~~ Face Music ~~
8:00pm Joseph Rosenzweig - voice/electonics
8:40pm Aurora Josephson - voice
9:20pm Bran...(POS) - video/synth/voice/face/film
Joseph Rosenzweig is a composer/artist whose works for performance and installation concern the extrapolation of form from complex communication systems.
His works for solo voice and live electronics are structured as improvisations in which the distribution of phonemic values and prosodic patterns is procedurally constrained. He currently resides in Oakland, CA. 
Aurora Josephson is an accomplished musician and visual artist residing in Oakland, California. Building on a foundation of operatic training and a BA in Music Performance from Mills College, she has forged a bold vocal style that is uniquely her own. To unleash the limitless range of sonic possibilities in the voice, Josephson employs a variety of extended and unconventional techniques drawn from the worlds of contemporary composition, improvisation, and rock. She has performed and recorded with international talents like improvising musicians Martin Blume, Alvin Curran, Gianni Gebbia, Henry Kaiser, Joelle Leandre, Phillip Wachsmann and William Winant, musical groups like Big City Orchestra, The Molecules, the Flying Luttenbachers and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
"bran(...)pos is the solo experimental electronic music project of Jake Rodriguez. Given life in 1995, bran(...)pos focuses on real-time sonic plasticization and voice manipulation, achieving these ends with both hardware synthesizers and a custom set of software-based sound grapplers that interface with the real world via tactile control. bran(...)pos' recordings (heavy and heady like Cannibal Corpse doing Xenakis covers) and performances (rounded out with facial interpretations and physical gesture-butoh and Max Fleischer-inspired) are consistently praised for their inventiveness and attention to detail. Come explore the Valley of the Dead as casino with bran(...)pos, gambling wildly with life issues as you teeter on the precipice of securing a good afterlife or another horrid reincarnation. Mix an aural palette that encompasses such disparate elements as The Residents in the late 1970s, Dick Hyman, Stockhausen, Runzelstirn and Gurglestock, and maybe Emerson Lake and Palmer circa Brain Salad Surgery. Assemble this palette with the compositional complexity of Ennio Morricone and Beethoven and you get close to COIN-OP KHEPRI, a collection of tracks ranging from beautifully dense and complex to whimsical, making multiple stops between: folks, place your bets! For fans of: '70s electronic music (Peter Thomas, Gert Wilden), Runzelstirn and Gurglestock, German Shepherds, Caroliner."
- Forced Exposure
Friday, Sep 3 2010 8:00 PM
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley
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L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA
Terry Riley Celebrates 75
(Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)
Programmed by Sarah Cahill
BAM/PFA welcomes back a true American original, master composer-pianist Terry Riley, in a concert to celebrate his 75th birthday. After his acclaimed performance last year, Riley returns with Gyan Riley to open the L@TE fall season, once again transforming the architecture of the museum into his own warm and welcoming living room.
Friday night programs typically begin at 7:30 p.m. in Gallery B; doors open at 5 p.m. with DJs in the lobby or Gallery B at 6:30 p.m. For more information on L@TE programs and our guest programmers, please visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late. Galleries open until 11 p.m.
$7; free for BAM/PFA members and Cal students.
Saturday, Sep 4 2010 8:00 PM
Cafe Royale
800 Post St. @ Leavenworth
SF
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Cafe Royale Presents Federico Fellini's Amarcord, with live music by Citta di Vitti
Citta di Vitti
Phillip Greenlief - alto saxophone
Lisa Mezzacappa - bass
John Hanes - drums
Citta di Vitti will perform the music of Nino Rota while Fellini's 1970's classic film Amarcord (I Remember) is projected and presented in its entirety.
Sunday, Sep 5 2010 8:00 PM
Studio 1510
1510 8th Street
Oakland
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The 1st ever ONE (Oakland New & Experimental) Festival commences with an intruiging night of videos, visuals and films by some of our most innovative local, national and internationally known visual artists. Here is a partial list, not in order. Please note that the order and lineup may change as things progress:
Film/Video Artists:
7EV3
Doron Sadja
EMA
Greg Zifcak
David Ellinof
Will Rahily
Sam the Synth Lady
Ablehearts
and more
$8 - $5 for students
Monday, Sep 6 2010 8:00 PM
Makeout Room
22nd St @ Mission, SF
The Monday Makeout Presents:
NATHAN CLEVENGER GROUP
Aaron Novik, clarinets / Nathan Clevenger, guitar / Kasey Knudsen + Sylvain Carton, saxophones
Sam Bevan, bass / Eric Garland, drums
RIVALS
Sheldon Brown + Joe DeAndreis, saxophones
Doug Morton, trumpet + tuba / Darren Johnston, trumpet / Skooter Fein, drums
AARON BENNETT’S GO-GO FIGHTMASTER
Aaron Bennett + Aram Shelton, saxophones // John Finkbeiner, guitar / Lisa Mezzacappa, bass / Vijay Anderson, drums
Monday, Sep 6 2010 8:00 PM
Studio 1510
1510 8th Street
Oakland
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The 1st ONE (Oakland New Experimental) Festival continues with four sets of amazing music sounds and creativity across a wide swath of stylistic territories. featuring:
Kristin Miltner,
Holly Herndon,
Elizabeth Orr (ORR)
James Fei and Tim Perkis
$8 - $5 for students
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Kristin Miltner | MP3 | Pulled Towards The Earth | the corplate porblem |
| Tim Perkis | REALAUDIO | Cold Gin | PISS |
| Tim Perkis | REALAUDIO | Clavitron 6000 | Artificial Horizon |
| Tim Perkis | REALAUDIO | Kikis Paris | perkolator |
| Tim Perkis | MP3 | Ga'gimme | Fuzzybunny |
| Tim Perkis | MP3 | Downtown | Square Circle |
Monday, Sep 6 2010 9:00 PM
The Ivy Room
San Pablo @Solano Avenue, Albany
Evander Music and the Ivy Room Presents: Living Jazz Series
Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone
Karl Evangelista - guitar
Gary Johnson - bass
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Phillip Greenlief | MP3 | St Louis | Collect My Thoughts |
| Phillip Greenlief | REALAUDIO | Nights of Cabiria | Live at Avalon & The Graves |
| Phillip Greenlief | MP3 | Daydream | Remembrance of Songs Past |
| Phillip Greenlief | MP3 | ready for the revolution | Dissenting Soundscapes and Songs of G.W.'s America |
Tuesday, Sep 7 2010 8:00 PM
Studio 1510
1510 8th Street
Oakland
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The 1st ONE (Oakland New Experimental) Festival continues with four sets of amazing music sounds and creativity across a wide swath of stylistic territories. featuring - in order of playing:
Warner Jepson+Bob Pacelli,
Klaus Janek/Scott R. Looney/Philip Greenlief
Secretarial Pool
Ata Ebtakar (Sote)
$8 - $5 for students
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Phillip Greenlief | MP3 | St Louis | Collect My Thoughts |
| Phillip Greenlief | REALAUDIO | Nights of Cabiria | Live at Avalon & The Graves |
| Phillip Greenlief | MP3 | Daydream | Remembrance of Songs Past |
| Phillip Greenlief | MP3 | ready for the revolution | Dissenting Soundscapes and Songs of G.W.'s America |
| Scott R. Looney | REALAUDIO | Chen - The Arousing, shock | Solo Piano |
| Scott R. Looney | REALAUDIO | Startdust | Solo Piano |
| Scott R. Looney | REALAUDIO | Track1 | Quintet |
| Scott R. Looney | MP3 | Track 1 | May 2000 |
| Scott R. Looney | MP3 | Blender | Recursive Heretics |
| Scott R. Looney | MP3 | Bell Buoy | The Left Coast Improv Group |
| Scott R. Looney | MP3 | Don't touch my Shit | Sonic Conspiracy |
Wednesday, Sep 8 2010 7:30 PM
Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street
SF
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Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Call and Response featuring Dottie Grossman (poetry) and Michael Vlatkovich (trombone).
$10 general; $5 students/seniors
Wednesday, Sep 8 2010 8:00 PM
Studio 1510
1510 8th Street
Oakland
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The 1st ONE (Oakland New Experimental) Festival concludes triumphantly with 4 amazing sets. Featuring in order:
Fred Frith/Patrice Scanlon duo
Ige*Timer, our guest band from Europe,
Basshaters (Jacob Felix Heule/Tony Dryer) with Simon Berz of Ige*Timer
Gino Robair on the Buchla Synth.
$8 - $5 for students
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Gino Robair | REALAUDIO | Advance | Unity in Multiplicity |
| Gino Robair | REALAUDIO | Purple Wind | Purple Wind |
| Gino Robair | REALAUDIO | Crumple | The Splatter Trio |
| Gino Robair | REALAUDIO | If Then | The Splatter Trio |
| Gino Robair | REALAUDIO | Progress | The Splatter Trio |
| Gino Robair | REALAUDIO | Bubble and Squeak | Bubble & Squeak |
| Gino Robair | REALAUDIO | Fricatives in Bovine Portraiture | Singular Pleasures |
| Gino Robair | REALAUDIO | Venables on the In and Out of Course | Singular Pleasures |
| Gino Robair | MP3 | Two | Liverpool (Bluecoat) Concert |
| Gino Robair | REALAUDIO | Track 2 | Crepuscular Music |
| Gino Robair | MP3 | A Klomghausen Flower | Klang. Farbe. Melodie. |
| Gino Robair | MP3 | A Marginal Icon | Klang. Farbe. Melodie. |
| Gino Robair | MP3 | Bangui Eng | A Night in Palermo |
| Gino Robair | MP3 | Ceilometer Reading | Jon Raskin Quartet |
| Gino Robair | MP3 | Bleckner | Jon Raskin Quartet |
Thursday, Sep 9 2010 8:00 PM
SFEMF
Brava Theater
2781 24th St (at York)
SF
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San Francisco Electronic Music Festival presents
Alessandro Cortini & Don Buchla
John M. Chowning
Ben Bracken
& Installation by Jacqueline Gordon
Alessandro Cortini (born May 24, 1976) is an Italian musician, currently based in Los Angeles. He is currently best known for touring and recording with the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from 2004 to 2008. Cortini is also the frontman for the Los Angeles based electronic-alternative band SONOIO. He also has a solo project called Blindoldfreak. www.blindoldfreak.com http://www.blindoldfreak.com
Don Buchla Educated in physics, physiology, music, and astronomy, Don Buchla's multi-faceted creativity has been applied to fields as diverse as space biophysics research, musical instrument design, and multi-media composition. Much of his work has centered on the refinement of communication channels between man and machine, notably the invention of mobility aids for the visually handicapped, the development of instrumentation for bio-feedback and physiological telemetry, and the design of interactive electronic musical instruments and performance-oriented music languages.
Don founded the alternative band Fried Suck, was a founding member of the 15 piece Arch Ensemble, and co-founded the Electric Weasel Ensemble, the Muse and the Fuse, and the Artist’s Research Collective. He served as technical director of the California Institute of the Arts, the San Francisco Tape Music Center, the Electric Circus, and the Electric Symphony. He has collaborated with such luminaries as Ami Radunskaya, David Rosenboom, Anthony Braxton, David Wessel, Morton Subotnick, Peter Apfelbaum, Suzanne Ciani, George Lewis, Nannick Bonnel, and his son, Ezra. He has developed several exotic controllers that provide expressive alternatives to traditional musical input devices; recent inventions include Thunder, Lightning III, Wind, Rain, 50 Fireflies, the Piano Bar, and the Marimba Lumina. He is currently completing a major redesign of the 200 series modular synthesizer (called the 200e) and contemplating his next project. http://www.buchla.com
John M. Chowning (b 1934) is an American composer, musician, inventor, and professor best known for his work at Stanford University and his invention of FM synthesis. Chowning's breakthrough allowed for simple yet rich sounding timbres, which synthesized 'metal striking' or 'bell like' sounds, and which seemed incredibly similar to real percussion. John Chowning graduated from Wittenberg University with a Bachelor of Music in 1959. He studied music composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and received his doctorate (DMA) from Stanford in 1966. He was the founding director in 1975 of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University. Chowning also worked for a number of years at IRCAM, in Paris.
Benjamin Bracken
For the past 15 years, Ben Bracken has slowly been creating a unique sonic language utilizing
electronics, acoustic sound sources (guitar, cymbal, bells, found objects, etc), electric guitar, and field
recordings. Primarily interested in the possibilities of echo-relocation in sound-based art, his work has oscillated from performance to installation, often blurring the lines between the two. In both, the location of the event becomes an active participant, intimately shaping the nature and direction of each work. Some previous or current musical groups include Crystal Village (With Gregg Kowalsky), Flashpapr, Tiny Lights, Remote Viewing Ensemble, Duo with Luis Maurette, Duo with Zach Wallace, and Bones (with Jacqueline Gordon). Ben has improvised with Le-Quan Ninh, Brent Guetzeit, Kevin Drumm, Peter Kowald, Chris Cutler, Phil Minton, Rhodri Davies, Werner Dafeldecker, Fred Van Hove, and Johannes Bauer, among others. In the spring of 2006, Ben received his MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College. From 2006-09 he curated the Totally Intense Fractal Mind Gaze Hut, a performance space in West Oakland, CA. Ben has just completed his most recent installation, contributing sound, live generated 3D visuals and interactivity to the Illuminated Forest installation at The Lab in San Francisco, CA. He currently resides in Oakland, CA and works at Cycling '74, the developers of Max/MSP and Jitter.
Tickets vailable through Brown Paper Tickets or at the door (cash only!)
$16 General (available online or at the door)
$10 Student/Senior/Discount (only available at the door)
$40 Festival Pass
Friday, Sep 10 2010 5:30 PM
SFEMF
Brava Theater
2781 24th St (at York)
SF
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San Francisco Electronic Music Festival co-presents
rE/visioning the Collection: New Perspectives Through Sound and Media
Dave Aju, JD Beltran, Nate Boyce, Loren Chasse, Seth Horvitz, Kadet Kuhne,
Lucky Dragons, David Wilson. Curated by Volume, commissioned by de Young.
Then catch a complimentary bus (“The Mexican Bus”) in front of the de Young museum at 8:15PM to go to Brava Theater for the night's main SFEMF concert.
Friday, Sep 10 2010 7:30 PM
Jack London Aquatic Center
115 Embarcadero
Oakland, CA 94606-5138
Pythia Dance presents "TenderSwitch part i: A Dance on the Brink of the World," the first installation in a series of four dance pieces that interweave and explore ancient and contemporary human cultures in relation to the growth of the world. This site-specific dance piece to live, original music will be performed in and near the ocean at the Jack London Aquatic Center. Created by musicians Cheryl Leonard, Gregory Scharpen, Moe! Staiano; and dancers Micaela Gardner and Iu-Hui Chua, with choreography and direction by Dawn McMahan. Performances begin at sunset and admission is free. Free parking is available, and we suggest you bring a blanket. http://www.pythiadance.org/
Cost : freeAudio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Moe! Staiano | MP3 | Al Capone Died of Syphilis | The Lateness of Yearly Presentations |
Friday, Sep 10 2010 7:30 PM
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley
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L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA
Beginning of Edo Period
(Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)
Programmed by Tomo Yasuda
The sound of the koto, a traditional Japanese stringed instrument, provides the “soundtrack” for a live painting—a work of visual art completed as a public performance—by the duo the Bahama Kangaroos (artists Naoki Onodera and Yukako Ezoe Onodera). Shoko Hikage and Kanoko Nishi perform traditional works for koto ranging from the beginning of the Edo period to contemporary compositions. Beginning of the Edo Period is programmed in conjunction with the exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons.
See http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/clarkcenter for more information on the exhibition.
For more information on L@TE programs and our guest programmers, please visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late.
Galleries Open Until 9 p.m.
$7; free for BAM/PFA members and Cal students.
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Shoko Hikage | MP3 | Hana | Original Compositions & Improvisations |
| Shoko Hikage | MP3 | Bell Buoy | The Left Coast Improv Group |
| Shoko Hikage | REALAUDIO | F# | Tanka |
Friday, Sep 10 2010 9:00 PM
SFEMF
Brava Theater
2781 24th St (at York)
SF
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San Francisco Electronic Music Festival presents
MKM (Günter Müller, Jason Kahn, Norbert Möslang)
Trimpin
Pod Blotz
MKM (formed 2004) Günter Müller // ipods, electronics, Jason Kahn // analog synthesizer, Norbert Möslang // cracked everyday electronics.
Their sound hovers between the harsh rhythmic noise of Norbert Möslang´s cracked everyday electronics and the rich sonorities of Günter Müller´s percussion-based samples and electronics. Jason Kahn´s work on analog synthesizer bridges these two worlds, adding high frequency interference and processed piezo microphone and short wave radio input. http://mkm.jasonkahn.net/
GĂĽnter MĂĽller has been playing a unique drum set with a mobile pick-up and microphone system of his own invention since 1981. The system allows hand-generated sounds on drums and percussion to be modulated electronically. Since 1998 minidiscs, since 2002 an iPod are included in his electronic set. Nowadays he often plays ipod and electronics only. Various recordings released on FOR 4 EARS, the label he founded in 1990, as well as on Erstwhile, Cut, Grob, List, Audiosphere, Amoebic, Rossbin, Creative Sources and others. http://www.guentermueller.com
Jason Kahn
Jason Kahn is a sound and visual artist based in ZĂĽrich. His work includes sound installation, performance and composition. Kahn has given concerts at various festivals, art spaces and clubs throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Egypt, HongKong, New Zealand and Australia. http://jasonkahn.net
Norbert Möslang
Born in St.Gallen in 1952, plays cracked everyday-electronics. Worked with Voice Crack until the end of 2002 and played also in Poire_z. Played together with Borbetomagus, Otomo Yoshihide, GĂĽnter MĂĽller, ErikM, Jerome, Noetinger, Lioinel Marchetti, Jim O'rourke, Kevin Drumm, Jason Kahn, Oren Ambarchi,Tomas Korber, Keith Rowe, I-sound, Carlos Zingaro, Florian Hecker and others. http://moeslang.com
Trimpin is a sound sculptor, composer, engineer, and inventor. A specialist in interfacing computers with traditional instruments, he has developed ways of playing everything from giant marimbas to stacks of electric guitars via computer. Trimpin has been hailed in New York’s Village Voice as “a genius at circuitry and machinery as well as acoustics and musical structure [who] manufactures orchestras that play themselves. Born in southwestern Germany near the Black Forest, Trimpin spent several years living and studying in Berlin, working as a set designer and meeting up with artists from both Germany and the United States. He relocated in the States in 1979. In 1997, Trimpin received both a MacArthur Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship for his creative investigations of acoustic music in spatial relationship. In 2005-2007, museums and galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest mounted an extensive retrospective of Trimpin’s work. http://trimpin.blogspot.com/"
Pod Blotz is artist Suzy Poling from Oakland, California. The project is experimental and combines sonic tones with tape manipulation, vocals, theremin and organ drone. Pod Blotz aural sounds are very textured and accompany a stark visual component of video, mirrors and light experiments. Its informed by Musique Concrete and Science Fiction concepts and soundtracks. http://www.myspace.com/podblotz
Tickets vailable through Brown Paper Tickets or at the door (cash only!)
$16 General (available online or at the door)
$10 Student/Senior/Discount (only available at the door)
$40 Festival Pass
Saturday, Sep 11 2010 7:30 PM
Jack London Aquatic Center
115 Embarcadero
Oakland, CA 94606-5138
Pythia Dance presents "TenderSwitch part i: A Dance on the Brink of the World," the first installation in a series of four dance pieces that interweave and explore ancient and contemporary human cultures in relation to the growth of the world. This site-specific dance piece to live, original music will be performed in and near the ocean at the Jack London Aquatic Center. Created by musicians Cheryl Leonard, Gregory Scharpen, Moe! Staiano; and dancers Micaela Gardner and Iu-Hui Chua, with choreography and direction by Dawn McMahan. Performances begin at sunset and admission is free. Free parking is available, and we suggest you bring a blanket. http://www.pythiadance.org/
Cost : freeAudio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Moe! Staiano | MP3 | Al Capone Died of Syphilis | The Lateness of Yearly Presentations |
Saturday, Sep 11 2010 8:00 PM
SFEMF
Brava Theater
2781 24th St (at York)
SF
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San Francisco Electronic Music Festival presents
Caroliner Rainbow Shadow Walking Over Waves Somewhere
Stephan Mathieu
Joseph Hammer
Caroliner (formed in 1982, in San Francisco) is an Industrial Bluegrass/Experimental/Noise conceptual art Costume Rock band, dedicated to creating a fever dream of American psychedelia - utilizing bluegrass music instruments, weird effects, other-worldly pageantry, and day-glo character outfits similar to those of a "Disneyland ride with a Spike Jones and his City Slickers sense of individuality." According to the band, Caroliner formed as a tribute band to the singing bull of the 1800s of the same name.http://www.myspace.com/carolinerrainbowherniami
Stephan Mathieu (b 1967) is considered to be one of the most unique composers working in the field of digital and electroacoustic music today. His signature sound is largely based on period instruments, environmental sound, and obsolete media which are recorded and transformed by means of experimental microphony, re-editing techniques, and software processes involving spectral analysis and convolution. Paying close attention to detail and to the affecting content of the piece, Mathieu creates unique sonic experiences working with traces of the perceived reality. His music, at the same time soft-paced and razor sharp, has been released on 18 CDs to critical acclaim, both solo and in collaboration with Douglas Benford, Taylor Deupree, Ekkehard Ehlers, John Hudak, Janek Schaefer and Akira Rabelais. Mathieu has created sound installations for the 4th century Aula Palatina at Trier and the 19th century ironworks Völklinger Hütte UNESCO world heritages and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. www.bitstream.de http://www.sfemf.org/stephan-mathieu/
Tickets vailable through Brown Paper Tickets or at the door (cash only!)
$16 General (available online or at the door)
$10 Student/Senior/Discount (only available at the door)
$40 Festival Pass
Sunday, Sep 12 2010 1:00 PM
SF Conservatory of Music/Osher Salon
50 Oak Street
San Francisco
The Emergency String (X)tet performs in the SFFCM Chamber Music Day along with 30 other groups of all kinds and eras. ESX wil be comprised of Adria Otte and Angela Hsu, violins; Bob Marsh and Doug Carroll, cellos and Tony Dryer, contra bass.
Cost : FreeAudio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Bob Marsh | MP3 | Bell Buoy | The Left Coast Improv Group |
| Bob Marsh | MP3 | Track 01 | Triangle |
| Bob Marsh | MP3 | Track 03 | Triangle |
| Bob Marsh | REALAUDIO | Track 4 | Hill Music |
| Bob Marsh | MP3 | Don't touch my Shit | Sonic Conspiracy |
| Bob Marsh | MP3 | Tweet-tweet, Twitter-twitter-squawk | Birds in the Hand |
| Bob Marsh | MP3 | ready for the revolution | Dissenting Soundscapes and Songs of G.W.'s America |
| Bob Marsh | MP3 | Take Yourself Seriously | Novo Navigatio |
Sunday, Sep 12 2010 2:00 PM
Cafe Royale
800 Post St. @ Leavenworth
SF
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Cafe Royale Presents The Lost Trio
Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone
Dan Seamans - bass
Tom Hassett - drums
Celebrating 16 years of playing together with their 5th release on Evander Music, The Lost Trio is keeping their fascination with great songs alive with new recordings and live shows. Mysterious Toboggan, their 5th release, will feature original songs by the band members and chestnuts from Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Van Heusen, Steve Lacy, and PJ Harvey.
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| The Lost Trio | REALAUDIO | Nights of Cabiria | Live at Avalon & The Graves |
| The Lost Trio | MP3 | Daydream | Remembrance of Songs Past |
Sunday, Sep 12 2010 7:30 PM
Jack London Aquatic Center
115 Embarcadero
Oakland, CA 94606-5138
Pythia Dance presents "TenderSwitch part i: A Dance on the Brink of the World," the first installation in a series of four dance pieces that interweave and explore ancient and contemporary human cultures in relation to the growth of the world. This site-specific dance piece to live, original music will be performed in and near the ocean at the Jack London Aquatic Center. Created by musicians Cheryl Leonard, Gregory Scharpen, Moe! Staiano; and dancers Micaela Gardner and Iu-Hui Chua, with choreography and direction by Dawn McMahan. Performances begin at sunset and admission is free. Free parking is available, and we suggest you bring a blanket. http://www.pythiadance.org/
Cost : freeAudio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Moe! Staiano | MP3 | Al Capone Died of Syphilis | The Lateness of Yearly Presentations |
Sunday, Sep 12 2010 7:30 PM
SIMM Series
Musicians Union Hall
116 9th St @ Mission
SF
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7:30pm
The Melanchoholics
play the music of David Beck
David Beck - baritone saxophone
Bill Noertker - contrabass
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie Trio
compositions and improvisations inspired by the art of Antoni Tápies
Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, flute
Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Bill Noertker | REALAUDIO | Gone Fission | Obsidian |
Monday, Sep 13 2010 9:00 PM
Ivy Room
San Pablo Avenue (at Solano Avenue), Albany
Evander Music and The Ivy Room Presents The Living Jazz Series
Featuring: The Lost Trio
Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone
Dan Seamans - bass
Tom Hassett - drums
join The Lost Trio at their new Monday Night residency at the Ivy Room (the trio will perform every other monday until further notice).
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| The Lost Trio | REALAUDIO | Nights of Cabiria | Live at Avalon & The Graves |
| The Lost Trio | MP3 | Daydream | Remembrance of Songs Past |
Tuesday, Sep 14 2010 9:00 PM
Uptown
1928 Telegraph Ave
@19th St
Oakland
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Oakland Active Orchestra #12
OAO plays Flockterkit + Dust Jacket
It's the 12th month of the Oakland Active Orchestra's residence at the Uptown in downtown Oakland, California. This month, the group plays Flockterkit, a suite of music composed by Aram Shelton that includes post-Ayler melodies, chamber-like sections that are developed through compositional rearrangement, drones and slowly shifting chords, and full harmony orchestrated by the 14 members of the OAO.
1st Set: Dust Jacket
Rob Ewing and Danny Lubin-Laden, trombones; Matt Nelson and Raffi Garabedian, tenor saxophones
Thursday, Sep 16 2010 8:00 PM
Luggage Store New Music Series
1007 Market St.
@ 6th Street
SF
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Outsound Presents
8pm Amar Chaudhary - solo electronics/found objects/sounds
9pm Horn Trio with Darren Johnston, Matt Nelson, & Cory Wright
Amar Chaudhary is a longtime composer and performer specializing in contemporary and electronic music, and artist, and a developer of advanced software for creativity. Amar remains actively involved in local electronic and experimental music in the San Francisco Bay Area, and performs regularly. His recent music involves experimentation with new sounds and sound-synthesis/processing techniques and new modes of musically expressive performance. He is also interested in the use of folk instruments and toy instruments in electro-acoustic music. He currently composes and performs in the group Reconnaissance Fly.
more information can be found at his web site: http://amarchaudhary.com/
“Johnston explores the limits of his instrument with a hankering for originality…running away and never looking back.”
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Ontario-born trumpeter Darren Johnston has built a web of alliances, from avant-guard excursions with the likes of the ROVA saxophone quartet, Myra Melford, and Ben Goldberg, to straight-ahead jazz outings with the likes of bassist Marcus Shelby. He was recently listed by Downbeat Magazine as one of “25 Trumpeters of the Future.” 
Cory Wright grew up in L.A., lived in NYC and now operates in the bay area.
Education: Topanga Elementary, Samohi, ISOMATA, Oberlin College, USC (M.M.)
Friday, Sep 17 2010 7:30 PM
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley
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L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA
Radical L@TE: Advance to Full Fury—Sound and Image Performances
(Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)
Programmed by Kathy Geritz, Steve Seid, and Christine Metropoulos
Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000, BAM/PFA’s book on alternative cinema in the Bay Area, ends with the year 2000. To celebrate artists who have emerged since that millennial turn, we give you a searing set of ever-morphing, optically insistent, and sonically frenzied sound and light performances by Andrew Benson and Joshua Churchill; Seth Horvitz; and Curtis Tamm and Michael Campos-Quinn.
For more information on L@TE programs, see our website http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/late/about
Galleries Open Until 9 p.m.
$7; free for BAM/PFA members and Cal students.
Sunday, Sep 19 2010 4:00 PM
Community Music Center
544 Capp Street
Btwn 20th and 21st
SF
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The India Cooke – Bill Crossman Duo (with India on violin and Bill on piano) plays beautiful, passionate improvised music. Within each piece, the Duo weaves in elements of various world musics yet maintains an overall sound based in African-rooted musics (jazz and blues). The Duo has performed at the Berkeley Arts Festival and other venues, been featured on KCSM-FM radio, and has recorded three CDs. India and Bill are also currently performing together in Bill's multi-genre, musically-improvised opera John Brown's Truth, which is being performed throughout the Bay Area and will be performed at SFCMC in November 2010. Sweets and drinks will be available for purchase.
$15 General; $10 Students
Sunday, Sep 19 2010 8:00 PM
Community Music Center
544 Capp Street
Btwn 20th and 21st
SF
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sfSoundSeries
Join us for our final 2010 sfSoundSeries concert!
featuring a rare performance of Train, a 20+ minute scene from Philip Glass's seminal opera, Einstein on the Beach (1976), and music by Beat Furrer, Hans Thomalla and sfSoundGroup. Plus a solo clarinet work by Matt Ingalls.
PROGRAM
Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach (1976) - Act I, Scene 1: Train
Beat Furrer - Aer (1991) clarinet, cello, and piano
Hans Thomalla - Lied (2008) saxophone, percussion, and piano
sfSoundGroup - Collective Composition (2010)
Matt Ingalls - Improvisation for Solo Clarinet (1997-2010)
PERFORMERS
Matt Ingalls, clarinet
John Ingle, saxophone
Christopher Jones, piano
Hadley McCarroll, organ, voice
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Monica Scott, cello
and others
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Matt Ingalls | REALAUDIO | Improvisation | Recent Work |
| Matt Ingalls | MP3 | Sign Four | Signs of Life |
| Matt Ingalls | MP3 | Sign 2 | Signs of Life |
| John Ingle | MP3 | Trance patterns Part 1 | trancepatterns |
Monday, Sep 20 2010 9:00 PM
The Ivy Room
San Pablo Avenue @Solano Avenue, Albany
Evander Music and The Ivy Room Presents Monday Night Living Jazz Series
Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone
Karl Evangelista - guitar
Dan Seamans - bass
Two sets, 9 pm - 11 pm
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Phillip Greenlief | MP3 | St Louis | Collect My Thoughts |
| Phillip Greenlief | REALAUDIO | Nights of Cabiria | Live at Avalon & The Graves |
| Phillip Greenlief | MP3 | Daydream | Remembrance of Songs Past |
| Phillip Greenlief | MP3 | ready for the revolution | Dissenting Soundscapes and Songs of G.W.'s America |
Thursday, Sep 23 2010 8:00 PM
NOHSpace
2840 Mariposa Street
SF
13th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs
Pauchi Sasaki
Adam Fong
Gretchen Jude
Matthew Montfort
Reservations: (510) 444-1322 or reserve@thingamajigs.org
The Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival is an annual event dedicated to promoting experimental music that incorporates made/found instruments and alternate tuning systems. Each year, MFP&T invites artists who design their own musical instruments to join in a festival of workshops, music making, and performances with the goal of reaching a large, diverse audience of all ages. It is also a festival where the public can participate in instrument building and tuning educational workshops, as well as hear unique sounds and compositions from up and coming artists.
$15 General $10 Students/Seniors [sliding scale]
Thursday, Sep 23 2010 8:00 PM
Luggage Store New Music Series
1007 Market St.
@ 6th Street
SF
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A Birthday Tribute to John Coltrane.
Come celebrate the life and times of Trane!
Music by:
Dan Plonsey
Steve Horowitz
Vinny Golia
Plus other special guests TBA
Readings by:
Craig Clevenger - novelist
Nicole Henares – poet
D. Scott Miller – afro-surrealist
Master of ceremonies: Bernard Meisler (publisher, Sensitive Skin Magazine)
Dan Plonsey was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied composition with Martin Bresnick and David Lewin at Yale, with Roscoe Mitchell at the Creative Music Studio, and with Anthony Braxton at Mills College. Since 1978, he has written several hundred works, mostly for his own ensembles, but recent commissions have come from The Jewish Music Festival (Berkeley), Real Time Opera (New Hampshire), the Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund (New York), Theatre of Yugen (San Francisco), the Museum of Children's Art (Oakland), Milkbar International Film Festival (Oakland), the Berkeley Symphony Children's Concert Series, and New Music Works (Santa Cruz). Plonsey was awarded several "Meet the Composer" grants, and an American Composers Forum "Subito" grant for the work with Theatre Yugen. Plonsey was one of just seven musicians nationwide to win a United States Artist Broad Fellowship in 2009. Much of Plonsey's music has been documented on more than 20 CDs. As a saxophonist, clarinetist, and oboist, he has recorded the music many others, including Anthony Braxton, Eugene Chadbourne, and Tom Waits. Plonsey is profiled in Tim Perkis's documentary film, Noisy People. 
"Steve Horowitz is a creator of odd but highly accessible sounds and a diverse and prolific musician. He has released 15 albums of original music ranging from classical to funk and back again. He penned the score to the indi-film sensation Super Size Me as well as other high profile TV and Video Game projects. Mr. Horowitz is a bass player and the founder of The Code International. Steve studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnik, Mel Powell, Steven Mosko, and Mike Fink, and has received performance underwriting and commissions from numerous organizations. For more information on Steve Horowitz, visit www.thecodeinternational.com.
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Dan Plonsey | REALAUDIO | Dance of Ignorant Passion | Ivory Bill with Dan Plonsey |
Friday, Sep 24 2010 4:00 PM
Ann Hamilton's sound tower at the Oliver Ranch
Pickup at the Wells Fargo Center:
50 Mark West Springs Rd
Santa Rosa, CA
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TERRIBLE NOISES FOR BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
Participatory Sound-Improv Event
At Ann Hamilton’s Sound Tower on the Oliver Ranch in Sonoma County
Friday, Sept 24 and Sunday, Sept 26, 2010
http://www.oliverranchfoundation.org/towerperformances/upcomingperformances.php
Events at The Tower often sell out quickly!
Buy your tickets now if you want to attend
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This is a participatory performance- a noise-music show with no performers, in which all sounds are make by the audience, using their voices. Participants make sounds and improvise together, in a series of structured exercises and games. There is a bit of running around and yelling. Parts are very noisy and chaotic; parts are very calm and quiet.
It is a fully participatory event, with no spectators. No previous experience of any sort is required: You don’t have to be a musician or singer to take part, or have ever done anything like this before.
The events take place at Ann Hamilton’s Sound Tower - a spectacular 80-foot site-specific sculpture located on the Oliver Ranch in Sonoma County.
The events are part of “Terrible Noises for Beautiful People”, an ongoing series of experiments into participatory sound improvisation created by Canadian artist Misha Glouberman. Glouberman has been doing performances like this for several years in Toronto, where they have been described as “legendary” (MusicWorks Magazine) “a cross between an asylum and the best carnival in the world” (Eye Weekly) and “a very, very good time” (music critic Carl Wilson). He recently presented a series of sound events through Southern Exposure, and will be presenting “Open Cobra”, an audience-participatory version of John Zorn’s Cobra at Mills College early in October.
The events are presented as benefits for the Arts Council of Sonoma County and the Arts Education Alliance through the support of the Oliver Ranch Foundation.
Events at the Sound Tower often sell out quickly: Those interested in attending are advised to buy tickets early.
For more information, and links to purchase tickets:
http://www.oliverranchfoundation.org/towerperformances/upcomingperformances.php
** IMPORTANT NOTES IF YOU ARE ATTENDING:
1) The end time of the Sept 24 performance is 8:00 pm, not 6:00 pm as noted on the ticketing web site.
2) If you buy a ticket, you will be given the option to opt out of email communication from the event organizer. Please DO NOT do this, as the event organizers will be emailing important news and updates in the days leading up to the event.
Friday, Sep 24 2010 8:00 PM
Community Music Center
544 Capp Street
Btwn 20th and 21st
SF
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Kihnoua
Dohee Lee: vocals
Scott Amendola: drums and electronics
Larry Ochs: sopranino, tenor saxophones
http://www.ochs.cc/groups/kihnoua_intro.html
Eneidi+Golia Quartet
Marco Eneidi, alto saxophone
Vinny Golia, woodwinds
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Vijay Anderson, drums
http://www.vinnygolia.com/
http://www.marcoeneidi.com/
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Scott Amendola | MP3 | St Louis | Collect My Thoughts |
| Scott Amendola | MP3 | The Noodler | Steps |
| Vijay Anderson | MP3 | Newts in Space | s/t |
| Marco Eneidi | MP3 | Alberts Ghost | Coalition |
| Larry Ochs | REALAUDIO | Perguitary | Music for Guitar, Saxophone and Percussion |
| Larry Ochs | REALAUDIO | Composition #20 | Music for Guitar, Saxophone and Percussion |
| Larry Ochs | REALAUDIO | Some of the Part | Room |
| Larry Ochs | REALAUDIO | Water Under the Bridge | Bingo |
| Larry Ochs | REALAUDIO | Laredo | the Works (volume 3) |
| Larry Ochs | MP3 | Were | Never Was |
Friday, Sep 24 2010 8:00 PM
Uptown Body & Fender
401 26th Street, Oakland
13th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs
Terry Berlier, Ricardo Rivera and Christophe Fellay
Bart Hopkin
Open Graves (Paul Kikuchi, Jesse Olsen with Alex Vittum and Stuart Dempster)
Reservations: (510) 444-1322 or reserve@thingamajigs.org
The Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival is an annual event dedicated to promoting experimental music that incorporates made/found instruments and alternate tuning systems. Each year, MFP&T invites artists who design their own musical instruments to join in a festival of workshops, music making, and performances with the goal of reaching a large, diverse audience of all ages. It is also a festival where the public can participate in instrument building and tuning educational workshops, as well as hear unique sounds and compositions from up and coming artists.
$15 General $10 Students/Seniors [sliding scale]
Friday, Sep 24 2010 8:00 PM
College of Marin
Lefort Recital Hall, Fine Arts Rm. 72, corner of Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Laurel Avenue, Kentfield
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe/English horn; Jen Clare Paulson, viola; Jason Stein, bass clarinet; Anton Hatwich, contrabass; and Timothy Daisy, percussion.
Oboist Kyle Bruckmann founded Wrack in Chicago in 2002. The debut record (with trombonist Jeb Bishop and bassist Kurt Johnson, omitting Hatwich and Stein) on Red Toucan demonstrated the band's "ability to combine turned-up flame with clear-headed attention to texture and space" and was hailed as "a document of exciting new directions from some of Chicago's best players." Bruckmann moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, but has maintained ties to Chicago's vibrant avant-jazz and improvised music community ever since. The currently active lineup solidified during a 2005 homecoming visit. The resulting album on 482 Music, Intents & Purposes, provides "dazzling proof that intricately arranged, angular modern jazz can be accessible and enjoyable." (The Wire)
Press
"Bruckmann effortlessly occupies the space between jazz and classical music, generating movements of somber reflection one minute, turbulent intensity the next. From Morton Feldman-esque minimalism to Charles Ives-like bluster, Wrack has few equals." (All About Jazz)
". . . Bruckmann is an excellent composer, striking the right balance between form and freedom, setting up abundant opportunities for his mates to express themselves." (Signal to Noise)
"For a highly unusual instrumentation . . . Bruckmann has constructed tunes . . . which combine two seemingly improbable approaches: the post-Vandermark Chicagoan tendency to lace together shifting rhythmic bases and free sections, and a decided New Music influence . . . Bruckmann's pieces are patient constructs that morph slowly and ask the improvisers (who he's very generous about featuring) to build along with the composition rather than blow over or through it. . . Highly recommended." (Dusted Magazine)
". . . Bruckmann has played oboe, English horn, and/or electronics in a wide variety of contexts . . . but it's still possible to find a single sentence to describe his entire body of his work: he makes creative use of the tension between seemingly irreconcilable musical elements." (Chicago Reader)
"Historically, attempts to combine classical music with jazz often tend toward the programmatic and cerebral. Bruckmann's writing sounds wholly organic and natural. With Intents & Purposes, he delivers an album rich with tricky contrapuntal writing, bolstered by unusual arrangements and intricate interplay. Whether Wrack qualifies as free jazz, chamber jazz or some other hybrid is irrelevant: this is music made by artists unafraid of genre constraints." (All About Jazz)
More information and MP3s available at: www.kylebruckmann.com/wrack.htm
These concerts are made possible in part thanks to the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music’s Musical Grant Program, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the W & F Hewlett Foundation, and Subito, the quick advancement grant program of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the the American Composers Forum.
$10; $5 student/senior
Saturday, Sep 25 2010 7:30 PM
Mama Buzz Cafe
2318 Telegraph Ave @23rd
Oakland
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Light A Fire: Creaky Things (An Evening of Detailed Music)
1. Matt Hettich/Wake
Matthew Michael Ahern Hettich is Wake. Wake draws his influences from flamingos, pink ‘n purple, Roland Tr-808 drum machines, and late night handholding sessions on the beach. Having spent his early years in Miami, Florida, Wake is a product of suntans, booty shorts, and of a lifetime of obsessing over I.D.M., hip-hop, and 1980’s electro music. By using MOD Trackers and custom software, Wake attempts to fuse all of these elements into a complex, coherent, and unique musical style.
2. Karl Evangelista/Jordan Glenn Duo
KE: guitar
JG: drums
At times brainy, at times unremittingly intense, Evangelista/Glenn operate on the fringes of jazz and somewhere in the fertile cracks of garage-y creative music. As half of Bay Area quartet Host Family, the duo combines free improv and rock/jazz aesthetics into something dark and weird. (For this set, Evangelista/Glenn will have written a series of short things that they will combine into a big thing.)
3. Sarah Elena Palmer Solo
Lovingly disorienting vocal music, integrating processing, dark speech, and eerie intonations into a cyclical, meditative whole.
Saturday, Sep 25 2010 7:30 PM
Southern Exposure
3030 20th street
SF
Infrasound 25, A spatial acoustic concert
by Scott Arford and Randy Yau with guest Michael Gendreau
Two projects exploring the physicality of sound, the translation of sound into physical force, and the relationship between sound, architecture, perception, and the body
7:30 pm: Talks by Scott Arford, Randy Yau, and Michael Gendreau
8:30 pm: Concerted Structures: Southern Exposure (New Building) by Michael Gendreau
Gendreau performs a new, site-specific psycho-spatial-acoustic composition designed for Southern Exposure’s new 20th Street space. Using the SoEx building as his speaker, he records the infrasonic vibrations of the space. He then performs using the structure’s resonances as an additional instrument in his site-specific composition.
9:30 pm: Infrasound 25 by Scott Arford and Randy Yau
All of life is a cycle. All that exists is vibration. Nearly a decade ago, sound artists Scott Arford and Randy Yau put forth the framework for a project that explores the complex relationship between sound, space, perception, and the body.
Saturday, Sep 25 2010 8:00 PM
Old First Concerts
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness
SF
What is reality? Sentient beings clamoring for existence, the wind whistling through leafy vegetation, the silence and noise of this stony planet. Come along on musical safari with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral — a tour of the Earth’s scenic and sonic wonders, in compositions by Michael Cooke, Loren Jones, Jorge Liderman, Terry Riley, Lisa Scola Prosek, Erling Wold, and Mark Alburger.
The latter’s Animal Farm: Grand Zoological Fantasy-Variations is a dark, Orwellian spin on creatures great and small, including a visual presentation of surrealistically-altered YouTube videos. In biological distinction, Jones will offer Banyan: an aural giving-tree of multicultural musical delights. Answering this will be a revival of Riley’s celebrated minimalist-improvisatory anthem In C, in all of its crystalline and granitic splendor.
Also along for the journey are Michael Cooke’s deeply-felt Love Letters; Lisa Scola Prosek’s vibrant Piano Sonata; a retrospective work of the late, great Jorge Liderman; and an exciting new work by Erling Wold. John Kendall Bailey will join Alburger in the zoomusicological tour-guiding responsibilities.
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| Steve Adams | REALAUDIO | Water Under the Bridge | Bingo |
| Steve Adams | REALAUDIO | Laredo | the Works (volume 3) |
| Michael Cooke | MP3 | 35˘ | Statements |
| Michael Cooke | MP3 | Viva Guatemala! | Statements |
| Michael Cooke | MP3 | Unreleased Track 13 | The Is |
| Michael Cooke | MP3 | Goddess | Searching |
Saturday, Sep 25 2010 8:00 PM
Trinity Chamber Concerts
2320 Dana St, Berkeley
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe/English horn; Jen Clare Paulson, viola; Jason Stein, bass clarinet; Anton Hatwich, contrabass; and Timothy Daisy, percussion.
Oboist Kyle Bruckmann founded Wrack in Chicago in 2002. The debut record (with trombonist Jeb Bishop and bassist Kurt Johnson, omitting Hatwich and Stein) on Red Toucan demonstrated the band's "ability to combine turned-up flame with clear-headed attention to texture and space" and was hailed as "a document of exciting new directions from some of Chicago's best players." Bruckmann moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, but has maintained ties to Chicago's vibrant avant-jazz and improvised music community ever since. The currently active lineup solidified during a 2005 homecoming visit. The resulting album on 482 Music, Intents & Purposes, provides "dazzling proof that intricately arranged, angular modern jazz can be accessible and enjoyable." (The Wire)
Press
"Bruckmann effortlessly occupies the space between jazz and classical music, generating movements of somber reflection one minute, turbulent intensity the next. From Morton Feldman-esque minimalism to Charles Ives-like bluster, Wrack has few equals." (All About Jazz)
". . . Bruckmann is an excellent composer, striking the right balance between form and freedom, setting up abundant opportunities for his mates to express themselves." (Signal to Noise)
"For a highly unusual instrumentation . . . Bruckmann has constructed tunes . . . which combine two seemingly improbable approaches: the post-Vandermark Chicagoan tendency to lace together shifting rhythmic bases and free sections, and a decided New Music influence . . . Bruckmann's pieces are patient constructs that morph slowly and ask the improvisers (who he's very generous about featuring) to build along with the composition rather than blow over or through it. . . Highly recommended." (Dusted Magazine)
". . . Bruckmann has played oboe, English horn, and/or electronics in a wide variety of contexts . . . but it's still possible to find a single sentence to describe his entire body of his work: he makes creative use of the tension between seemingly irreconcilable musical elements." (Chicago Reader)
"Historically, attempts to combine classical music with jazz often tend toward the programmatic and cerebral. Bruckmann's writing sounds wholly organic and natural. With Intents & Purposes, he delivers an album rich with tricky contrapuntal writing, bolstered by unusual arrangements and intricate interplay. Whether Wrack qualifies as free jazz, chamber jazz or some other hybrid is irrelevant: this is music made by artists unafraid of genre constraints." (All About Jazz)
More information and MP3s available at: www.kylebruckmann.com/wrack.htm
These concerts are made possible in part thanks to the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music’s Musical Grant Program, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the W & F Hewlett Foundation, and Subito, the quick advancement grant program of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the the American Composers Forum.
$12; $8 student/senior
Saturday, Sep 25 2010 8:00 PM
21 Grand
416 25th St @Broadway
Near 19th Street BART
Oakland
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13th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs
Wendy Reid
CMBLS
Ben Taylor
Conner Lacy
RReservations: (510) 444-1322 or reserve@thingamajigs.org
The Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival is an annual event dedicated to promoting experimental music that incorporates made/found instruments and alternate tuning systems. Each year, MFP&T invites artists who design their own musical instruments to join in a festival of workshops, music making, and performances with the goal of reaching a large, diverse audience of all ages. It is also a festival where the public can participate in instrument building and tuning educational workshops, as well as hear unique sounds and compositions from up and coming artists.
$15 General $10 Students/Seniors [sliding scale]
Sunday, Sep 26 2010 1:00 PM
Museum of Children's Art (mocha)
538 Ninth Street, Oakland
13th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs
Doug Carroll
Conner Lacy
CMBLS
Tom Nunn
Ralph Lewis
Alex Potts
Tom Kaufman
Reservations: (510) 444-1322 or reserve@thingamajigs.org
The Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival is an annual event dedicated to promoting experimental music that incorporates made/found instruments and alternate tuning systems. Each year, MFP&T invites artists who design their own musical instruments to join in a festival of workshops, music making, and performances with the goal of reaching a large, diverse audience of all ages. It is also a festival where the public can participate in instrument building and tuning educational workshops, as well as hear unique sounds and compositions from up and coming artists.
Monday, Sep 27 2010 8:00 PM
Swedenborgian Church
2107 Lyon Street
SF
R U D H Y A R I N R E T R O S P E C T
Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985) was a unique figure in 20th-century American culture: a composer, thinker, painter, poet, novelist, and the pre-eminent figure in astrology. Rudhyar was American modernism's proto-multiculturalist. He connected dissonance to his studies in comparative religion, theosophy, and metaphysics, was a leader and mentor to fellow composers Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Carl Ruggles, and later influenced a new generation including John Cage, Lou Harrison, James Tenney, and Kyle Gann.
Now, 25 years after Rudhyar's death (September 13, 1985 in San Francisco), Other Minds presents a celebration of the work of this "seed man" of the avant-garde, with performers David Abel and Julie Steinberg (violin and piano), Sarah Cahill (piano), and the Ives Quartet. The September 27 program will also include a pre-concert panel discussion with the composer's widow Leyla Rudhyar Hill, and biographer Deniz Ertan (University of Nottingham), moderated by Other Minds Artistic Director Charles Amirkhanian. A special exhibition of Rudhyar's paintings, manuscripts, and correspondence will be displayed at both concerts.
Concert Program (same for both dates):
Poem for Violin and Piano (1920)
Works for solo piano:
Transmutation, tone sequence in seven movements (1976)
Stars from Pentagram No. 3 (1925)
Granites (1929)
Crisis & Overcoming (String Quartet No. 2) (1979)
PERFORMERS
David Abel & Julie Steinberg (violin and piano)
Sarah Cahill (piano)
Ives String Quartet (Bettina Mussumeli, Susan Freier, Jodi Levitz, Stephen Harrison)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27: at Swedenborgian Church, San Francisco
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29: at Valley Presbyterian Church, Portola Valley
Rudhyar in Retrospect is presented in association with Leyla Rudhyar Hill and the Estate of Dane Rudhyar, and has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.
Monday, Sep 27 2010 9:00 PM
The Ivy Room
San Pablo Avenue (@Solano Avenue) Albany
Evander Music and The Ivy Room Presents The Living Jazz Series
Featuring: The Lost Trio
Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone
Dan Seamans - bass
Tom Hassett - drums
join The Lost Trio at their new Monday Night residency at the Ivy Room (the trio will perform every other monday until further notice). The trio will play two sets starting at 9 pm
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| The Lost Trio | REALAUDIO | Nights of Cabiria | Live at Avalon & The Graves |
| The Lost Trio | MP3 | Daydream | Remembrance of Songs Past |
Monday, Sep 27 2010 9:00 PM
Kingman's Ivy Room
860 San Pablo Ave
near Solano Ave
Albany
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Active Music Series presents Cylinder + Arts and Sciences
Set 1: Cylinder Aram Shelton, alto saxophone & clarinet; Darren Johnston, trumpet; Lisa Mezzacappa, bass; Kjell Nordeson, drums.
Set 2: Arts and Sciences: Jacob Zimmerman, alto saxophone; Matt Nelson, tenor saxophone; Michael Coleman, wurlitzer; Jordan Glenn, drums.
Wednesday, Sep 29 2010 12:00 PM
The Lost Trio Plays SF JAZZ Festival
Come out to hear a free lunch time concert with The Lost Trio at Levi-Strauss Plaza in downtown SF
The Lost Trio
Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone
Dan Seamans - bass
Tom Hassett - drums
Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
| Artist | Format | Song (Click To Play) | CD Title |
| The Lost Trio | REALAUDIO | Nights of Cabiria | Live at Avalon & The Graves |
| The Lost Trio | MP3 | Daydream | Remembrance of Songs Past |
Wednesday, Sep 29 2010 7:30 PM
Valley Presbyterian Church
945 Portola Road
Portola Valley
Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985) was a unique figure in 20th-century American culture: a composer, thinker, painter, poet, novelist, and the pre-eminent figure in astrology. Rudhyar was American modernism's proto-multiculturalist. He connected dissonance to his studies in comparative religion, theosophy, and metaphysics, was a leader and mentor to fellow composers Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Carl Ruggles, and later influenced a new generation including John Cage, Lou Harrison, James Tenney, and Kyle Gann.
Now, 25 years after Rudhyar's death (September 13, 1985 in San Francisco), Other Minds presents a celebration of the work of this "seed man" of the avant-garde, with performers David Abel and Julie Steinberg (violin and piano), Sarah Cahill (piano), and the Ives Quartet. The September 27 program will also include a pre-concert panel discussion with the composer's widow Leyla Rudhyar Hill, and biographer Deniz Ertan (University of Nottingham), moderated by Other Minds Artistic Director Charles Amirkhanian. A special exhibition of Rudhyar's paintings, manuscripts, and correspondence will be displayed at both concerts.
Concert Program (same for both dates):
Poem for Violin and Piano (1920)
Works for solo piano:
Transmutation, tone sequence in seven movements (1976)
Stars from Pentagram No. 3 (1925)
Granites (1929)
Crisis & Overcoming (String Quartet No. 2) (1979)
PERFORMERS
David Abel & Julie Steinberg (violin and piano)
Sarah Cahill (piano)
Ives String Quartet (Bettina Mussumeli, Susan Freier, Jodi Levitz, Stephen Harrison)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27: at Swedenborgian Church, San Francisco. 6:30pm Reception, 7pm Panel Discussion, 8pm Concert.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29: at Valley Presbyterian Church, Portola Valley. 7:30pm Concert, Reception to follow.
Rudhyar in Retrospect is presented in association with Leyla Rudhyar Hill and the Estate of Dane Rudhyar, and has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.
Thursday, Sep 30 2010 8:00 PM
Luggage Store New Music Series
1007 Market St.
@ 6th Street
SF
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Outsound Presents
8pm Animal Vegetable Television
"Street Noise, Passing BART Train, Brian Eno, Chainsaws, Stockhausen, Squeaking Door, Skronkathon, Coil, John Cage, John Zorn, Morton Feldman, more....."
9pm AU:TONE:NAL w/André Custodio/Kevin Yuen/Dave Ed
About Animal Vegetable Television
Ron Chornow has been a percussionist for over 20 years and recently has added the clarinet. He is a veteran of many Punk, Industrial and Alternative Bands such as Forms of Things Unknown, Samsara, Color Failure, Dinosaur Lullaby, Lots of Trees, New Assault and Krunk. In addition to traditional percussion instruments, Ron likes to create unusual sounds with objects originally intended for other purposes.
Gary Schwantes-Saxophone, Bamboo Flutes, Electric Guitar Gary Schwantes has toured and recorded 2 CDs with North Carolina based Hip Bones. He is founder of Ultra World X-tet, and has performed with S.F. Guzheng Music Society, Klezmania, Pam Tillis, Lou Harrison, Allen Ginsberg, John Cipolina, Animal Vegetable Television and many others. He has performed on many recordings and released a CD with Chinese composer Gang Situ. He has composed music and done sound design for many organizations including Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company, Mickey Hart, Craig Baldwin, Dimensions Dance Theater, ACT, and S.F. Legion of Honor.
Equally comfortable playing jazz, hardcore punk, soft rock or free experimental improv, Custodio's drumming draws from a myriad of influences without genre boundaries. He is in demand as a performer and improviser, working with the Valerie Mih Trio, Eddie Gale, Rent Romus, David Slusser and The Splatter Trio, among others. He has several critically acclaimed independent recordings to his credit as a sideman, including those with Ernesto Diaz-Infante, LX Rudis, Tri-Cornered Tent Show and Say Bok Gwai. In addition to his work as a drummer, he has developed recordings and performances in experimental electronics under the moniker Nihil Communication.