Thea Farhadian image by michaelz1 via Flickr
From Bay Improviser:
Thursday, December 1, 8pm
Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market St. (@ 6th St.), San Francisco
OutSound presents the Luggage Store New Music Series
* 8:15pm – Headboggle (Derek Gedalecia)
* 8:45pm – Thea Farhadian
* 9:30pm – Later Days (Wayne Jackson)
From CCRMA Stanford:
Thursday, December 1, 8pm
Stanford University, CCRMA Stage, The Knoll Building, 660 Lomita Dr., Stanford
CCRMA musicians present an evening of experimental electronic music by:
* Kurt Werner
* Dohi Moon
* Bill Schottstaedt
* Chris Chafe, Bruno Ruviaro, Bernardo Barros, Juan Parra (over the network from Belgium)
* Negativwobblyland (special guest appearance!)
From Berkeley Arts Festival:
Thursday, December 1, 8pm
Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Ave., Berkeley
Berkeley Arts Festival and New Spectrum Foundation present:
* Stratic: (Michael Coleman, Aram Shelton, Alex Vittum).
* Chris Brown (solo piano & electronics).
From Bay Improviser:
Friday, December 2, 8pm
Turquoise Yantra Grotto (to reserve, contact joe (at) joelasqo.com)
Joe Lasqo (piano, percussion), Tom Bickley (winds, synth), David Samas (Tuvan throat/overtone singing), Nancy Beckman (shakuhachi).
Friday, December 2, 9:30pm
Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. (@ Prince), Berkeley
The members of Reconnaissance Fly and their pals are ready to cram themselves into a phone booth once again and burst forth all suited up and makeup-caked as ReCARDIACS Fly! Their set list has bloated up to twice its first-gig size! And they’ve lured the delicious Dominique Leone and the wacky Wiener Kids to share the bill with them in a joyously deranged art-rock spectacular!
Friday, December 2, 10pm
Mills College, Lisser Hall, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland
Six Legged Creature: an evening of adventurous works from three graduate composers at Mills – Sam Withrow, Andrew Weathers and Rachel Trapp. Each pair of legs stands in a different tradition, but together forms a single creature. With performances by Jacob Peck, Joshua Marshall and Shanna Sordahl.
Saturday, December 3, 8pm
784 65th St., 784 65th St. (2 blocks from Ashby BART), Oakland
784 65th St. presents the 2nd concert of our new series, featuring:
* Phillip Greenlief (solo saxophone)
* the duo of Jon Raskin (saxophones) and Kanoko Nishi (Koto).
Saturday, December 3, 8pm
Trinity Chapel, 2320 Dana St., Berkeley
Trinity Chapel presents Nightshade
Nightshade is San Francisco bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa’s electro-acoustic chamber ensemble, performing her original compositions and unusual arrangements inspired by the work of contemporary visual artists and filmmakers from Israel, Paris, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The group’s musical world encompasses evocative melodies, abstract sonic landscapes and playful rhythmic juxtapositions. At Trinity, Nightshade performs compositions by Lisa Mezzacappa, Cory Wright, Jason Levis and arrangements of Olivier Messiaen and others.
Saturday, December 3, 8pm
Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell St., San Francisco
Meridian presents Grex: Karl Evangelista (guitar, vox), Margaret Rei Scampavia (keys, winds, vox) with special guests Jordan Glenn and Karen Stackpole (percussion), performing selections from its newly released album, “Second Marriage”, and previews the second part of its Filipino-American trilogy–a fantastical exploration of the band’s World War II-era ancestry, tentatively titled “Mushroom.”
From Berkeley Arts Festival:
Saturday, December 3, 8pm
Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Ave., Berkeley
Berkeley Arts Festival presents Cloud Shepherd with special guest violinist India Cooke.
Cloud Shepherd is: Brian Lucas (6 string bass, electronic devices, vocals), Andrew Joron (theremin), Joseph Noble (wind instruments), Mark Pino (cloud kit).
From Bay Improviser:
Saturday, December 3, 9:30pm
Disco Volante, 347 14th St. (@ Webster), Oakland
Disco Volante presents Go Van Gogh
Sunday, December 4, 8pm
Freight & Salvage, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley
The quartet of pianist Myra Melford, drummer Scott Amendola, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, and bassist John Shifflet will present a concert of original compositions. A percentage of the proceeds will go to the The Jazz and Improvised Music Fund of the Department of Music, UC Berkeley (JIM Fund). Plus, all ticket holders will be able to download audio from the show for free!
Monday, December 5, 8pm
Make-Out Room, 22nd St. (@ Mission), San Francisco
The Monday Makeout Presents:
* Eric Glick Reiman (solo prepared Fender Rhodes)
* Bollywood Sax (Aaron Bennett, Cory Wright, TBA – reeds)
* Autonomous Rogers: Mike Abraham (guitar), George Ban-Weiss (bass), Eric Garland (drums)
Tuesday, December 6, 7:30pm
Tuesdays at Tom’s Place, 3111 Deakin St., Berkeley
Metal Shop: Karen Stackpole (gongs & other metallophones) and Die Elektrischen (Drew Webster)(electronic processing).
From Berkeley Arts Festival:
Wednesday, December 7, 8pm
Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Ave., Berkeley
Berkeley Arts Festival presents: Bristle
(new compositions, from ragtime to no-time, & new instruments, from bass violins to 1/2 clarinets)
Randy McKean & Cory Wright (reeds), Murray Campbell (violins & oboes), Lisa Mezzacappa (bass).
