Mon 7/27 6:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Indexical x Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music present: Sarah Hennies  More...

Mon 7/27 7:30 PM Artists' Television Access [992 Valencia SF]
Rewards Program

An improvisational music project featuring Miles Lassi, Zekarias Thompson, and Skyway Man set to expanded cinema 16mm and 35mm slide projections by Ellie Vanderlip.  More...

Tue 7/28 2:00 PM KFJC 89.7 FM [12345 S. El Monte Road Los Altos Hills]
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Live in the KFJC Pit: greensatan project
Tuesday, July 28 2:00pm — 6:00pm

KFJC welcomes artist greensatan project in for a live set in the Pit, prior to a performance at the Outsound New Music Summit.  More...

Tue 7/28 7:00 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St]
A concert of works performed by the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra penned by four under-30 composers and conducted by emerging conductors, all participating in the Conductors/Composers Workshop. FREE!  More...

Tue 7/28 8:30 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Mark Clifford's Standards Hang  More...

Wed 7/29 12:30 PM The Freight [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
FREE! Brown Bag Jazz Hangs @ The Freight: Derk Richardson — on Charlie Haden

Join us for casual daytime talks and listening sessions with leading lights of the Bay Area jazz community. Bring your own lunch or order ahead from the JazzCaffè. Wednesdays at lunchtime! Free, drop-ins welcome.

*OFFSITE at The Freight, 2020 Addison St.  More...

Thu 7/30 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
The Super P's - Unpil Baek, Chris Trinidad, Jimmy Biala  More...

Fri 7/31 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimesnions in Sound; Mutant Audio  More...

Fri 7/31 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
Andrew Dixon plays Coltrane  More...

Fri 7/31 8:00 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060]
Conducted by Cristian Măcelaru

Vivian Fung: America the Beautiful? (Festival Commission & world premiere)

Pedro Emanuel Pereira: Clarinet Concerto (Carlos Ferreira, Clarinet) (Festival Commission & world premiere)

Philip Glass: Symphony No. 15 Lincoln (Zachary James, Baritone) (West Coast premiere)  More...

Fri 7/31 8:00 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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23rd ANNUAL
OUTSOUND NEW MUSIC SUMMIT
Fusion vs Fission
SAM MORRISON'S Cosmic Trip featuring E. DOCTOR SMITH + FARALLON
The Bay Area's New Music Festival
Advance Tickets @Eventbright  More...

Fri 7/31 9:30 PM The Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
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NEW! Fridays in July: After Hours Vinyl Lounge

Located in the heart of Downtown Berkeley’s Arts District, the Jazzschool invites theatergoers, concert attendees, arts patrons, and curious night owls to gather for After Hours Vinyl Lounge—a new late-night community hang inspired by the energy that follows a great live arts experience.  More...

Sat 8/01 2:00 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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23rd ANNUAL
OUTSOUND NEW MUSIC SUMMIT
Avant Matinee
GINO ROBAIR'S RADICAL DIVINATION, NORMALWAYS W/FRED FRITH, HOOK & WIRE, SUNG KIM
The Bay Area's New Music Festival
Advance Tickets @Eventbright  More...

Sat 8/01 2:00 PM The Oakland Scottish Rite Center [1547 Lakeside Dr, Oakland, CA]
West Edge Opera presents The Turn of the Screw

Music by Benjamin Britten (1954)
Libretto by Myfanwy Piper  More...

Sat 8/01 7:00 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St, Santa Cruz CA, 95060]
Conducted by Cristian Măcelaru

Leilehua Lanzilotti: of light and stone (West Coast premiere)

James Lee III: Shades of Unbroken Dreams (Alexandra Dariescu, Piano) (West Coast premiere)

Sarah Hennies: The Grain House (Festival Creative Lab Commission & world premiere)  More...

Sat 8/01 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
Nora Free Liberation Qtet  More...

Sat 8/01 7:30 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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23rd ANNUAL
OUTSOUND NEW MUSIC SUMMIT
The Art of Rocks II
INNER EAR BRIGADE, MOMMY MOMMY, BRIAN KENNEY FRESNO, GREENSATAN PROJECT
The Bay Area's New Music Festival
Advance Tickets @Eventbright  More...

Sun 8/02 1:00 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St]
Anticipated 2026 Cabrillo Festival free Family Concert!  More...

Sun 8/02 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

Monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center. Bring your instrument or come to listen. Movement and other disciplines encouraged. No advance notice needed — just show up.  More...

Sun 8/02 8:00 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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23rd ANNUAL
OUTSOUND NEW MUSIC SUMMIT
Mountains of Sound
VINNY GOLIA'S OCTACONTAGON ORCHESTRA (80 musicians strong) + JOSH ALLEN
The Bay Area's New Music Festival
Advance Tickets @Eventbright  More...

Wed 8/05 12:30 PM The Freight [2020 Addison St. Berkeley]
FREE! Brown Bag Jazz Hangs @ The Freight: Sameer Gupta — on Jazz & Raga

Join us for casual daytime talks and listening sessions with leading lights of the Bay Area jazz community. Bring your own lunch or order ahead from the JazzCaffè. Wednesdays at lunchtime! Free, drop-ins welcome.

*OFFSITE at The Freight, 2020 Addison St.  More...

Thu 8/06 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland]
Do-Over Music Series at Shapeshifters with Saki Minamimoto, David Katz, Jordan Glenn, Sudhu Tewari, David James with expanded media  More...

Thu 8/06 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Leaking
Brian Pedersen on bari sax, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, and Jay Korber on the rusty gates of hell. Whether it'll be light, oil, or cerebral spinal fluid that seeps before spurting full force we can't know in advance.

(ff):
This spraypaintable ligature (ff): denotes followed by a colon to get that shit out! A searing new collaboration between Sharkiface and Ava Koohbor.

Evidence Trio
Mbira, flute and alto maestera Kersti Abrams unites with bassist Eli Pontecorvo and thereminist Andrew Joron to establish the avant-space improv Evidence Trio.

5k candle
For something so blindingly brilliant, Chris Farstad's gorgeous command of video and his mastery of resonant acoustic synthesis go conspicuosly unheralded. But come to think of it, the same could be said of your own own wildest resonant dreams. Why not bring along your sleeping mind this time? Lead it into the Peacock Lounge and there let it bite you quick and soft in the not quite dark, teeth all aflame!  More...

Fri 8/07 7:30 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2201 Poplar St Oakland]
Splinter Reeds' annual summer home-field advantage concert. Contemporary compositions for reed quintet with and without electronics by composers including Seare Ahmad Farhat, Jasmine Morris, Dan VanHassel and Paula Matthusen. Pianist Kate Campbell joins for works by Matthew Shlomowitz and Olivia Kieffer.  More...

Sat 8/08 2:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
David Boyce - JiTN @ Wyldflowr Arts  More...

Sat 8/08 3:30 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St]
A concert of works performed by the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra penned by four under-30 composers and conducted by emerging conductors, all participating in the Conductors/Composers Workshop. FREE!  More...

Sat 8/08 7:00 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St, Santa Cruz CA, 95060]
Conducted by Cristian Măcelaru

Clarice Assad: Kontrol (Philippe Quint, Violin) (Festival Commission & world premiere)

Jackson A. Waters: Defending Greenwood (West Coast premiere)

Hannah Ishizaki: Spin (West Coast premiere)

Dan Dediu: Concerto for Orchestra (U.S premiere)  More...

Sat 8/08 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland]
it could be infinite

Suki O'Kane will be joining the fray on Jurassic electronics and hand-held projection in support of the beloved Shapeshifters Cinema.  More...

Sun 8/09 5:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Rova saxophonist Jon Raskin performs in duo with experimental poet Carla Harryman in the intimacy of a home concert. Raskin's and Harryman's 4-decade collaboration has explored the sonic possibilities of improvisation and the interactive possibilities of spoken language and music.  More...

Sun 8/09 7:00 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [307 Church St, Santa Cruz CA, 95060]
Conducted by Cristian Măcelaru

Eunike Tanzil: Ascending Creatures (West Coast premiere)

Lisa Bielawa: Pulse (Tessa Lark, Violin) (West Coast premiere)

Elena Kats-Chernin: Rainbow Promise (U.S. premiere)

Sean Shepherd: Wanderlust (West Coast premiere)  More...

Wed 8/12 5:30 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
The second gathering of the techno-counterculture opens with the San Francisco premiere of Nova ’78, Craig Baldwin’s Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America, and Tony Parisi and Marina Berlin’s AI God Answers Your Questions, and it continues with the mad Mondoids, techno rhythm & vibes of Cyrnai, the incandescent boundary transgressions of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and much more. Expect a phantasmagoric combination of film, conversation, speculative technology, and eccentric visual chaos.  More...

Thu 8/13 7:00 PM Mr Tipple's [39 Fell St SF]
Motoko Honda Quartet - 2 sets
7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
8:45 pm - 10:00 pm  More...

Thu 8/20 7:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Sixtyhurts 3:
- TION (Kyle Bruckmann & Zachary James Watkins)
- Ava Koohbor
- Antimatter & Jacob Felix Heule.
- Jules LC & Isabelle WK  More...

Sat 8/22 10:00 AM Flip Flop Farms [640 Cabrillo Hwy, Pescadero, CA 94060]
Woodstockhausen West  More...

Sun 8/23 5:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
ECHO’S BONES + EVIDENCE TRIO  More...

Sun 8/23 8:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
KENNY WARREN QUARTET
Kenny Warren, trumpet; Liberty Ellman, guitar;
Raffi Garabedian, saxophone; Ben Goldberg, clarinet  More...

Wed 8/26 7:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
FRED FRITH’S FREMAKAJO + JORDAN GLENN’S BEAK  More...

Fri 8/28 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Merope w/ Shahzad Ismaily + David Wesley Golightly  More...

Sun 8/30 4:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
Concert: Mike Monford - An Evening Of Jazz & Afrofuturism  More...

Tue 9/08 7:30 PM Brava Theatre [2781 24th Street SF]
SF Contemporary Music Players - ARTZenter Institute Emerging Composer World Premiere Concert I  More...

Wed 9/09 7:30 PM Goldman Theater, the David Brower Center [2150 Allston Way Berkeley, CA 94704]
How does one listen with rather than listen to? And how might listening with allow the listener to more fruitfully conceptualize climate change? On Wednesday, September 9, 2026, Other Minds welcomes musician, anthropologist, and philosopher of sound Marina Peterson to discuss this question at the Goldman Theater, David Brower Center.  More...

Thu 9/10 8:00 PM Thee Stork Club [2330 Telegraph Avenue Oakland]
Grex "Auntie + Tebs" Album Release Show, with Naytronix and Feefawfum

Oakland experimental/art rock band Grex releases their new album "Auntie + Tebs" at the Stork Club, joined by alternate pop polymath Naytronix and post-punk powerhouse Feefawfum. "Auntie + Tebs” explores stories of revolution in the Philippines and South Africa. Half of all proceeds from this record will go to support immigrants’ rights organizations and artists recovering from the 2025 LA wildfires.

Grex: Karl Evangelista (gtr, voice, misc), Rei Scampavia (keys, voice, misc), Cory Wright (el. bass), Robert Lopez - drums

Naytronix: Nathaniel Brenner, etc.

Feefawfum: Farley Miller (vocals, guitar, drums), Kevin Sullivan (bass, vocals), Emma Greenbaum (keyboards, mellotron,vocals), Theo Slavin (guitar), Eli Streich (drums)

TICKETS  More...