Coming to San Francisco

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

Saturday, May 4

Sat 5/04 7:30 PM The MilkBar [241 South 1st Street, Unit A. Richmond]
vegan butcher, baby listening party
online and at the milk bar

Sat 5/04 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
NYC jazz guitarist Paul Kogut presents selections from his ongoing project of reimagining classic Grateful Dead tunes through new harmonic lenses. He will be joined by violinst & composer Niko Omar Durr performing music by Saariaho and Corigliano.

Sat 5/04 8:00 PM Mission Santa Clara de Asís [500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053]
This spring, the Peninsula Women’s Chorus will join forces with the Golden Gate Men’s Chorus in an exciting collaboration! Together, we will perform Giacomo Puccini’s stunning Messa di Gloria, a masterpiece often regarded as his farewell to sacred music. In our solo set, the Peninsula Women’s Chorus will present the world premiere of “Night into Dawn,” the newly commissioned work written by Theresa Wong, PWC’s Composer-in-Residence and dedicated to the community of Lahaina. The program further includes a tango-inspired “Noche de Lluvia” by Canadian composer Sid Robinovich, Alice Parker’s beautiful arrangement of “How Can I Keep from Singing,” and a delightful a cappella arrangement of Mozart’s Overture to the Magic Flute.

Sat 5/04 8:00 PM Lakeside Presbyterian Church [1201 Eucalyptus Dr San Francisco]
Michael Cooke performs with The San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra

Sat 5/04 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Setting + Zekarias Musele Thompson / Peaces

Sunday, May 5

Sun 5/05 4:00 PM Mission Dolores Basilica [3321 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94114]
This spring, the Peninsula Women’s Chorus will join forces with the Golden Gate Men’s Chorus in an exciting collaboration! Together, we will perform Giacomo Puccini’s stunning Messa di Gloria, a masterpiece often regarded as his farewell to sacred music. In our solo set, the Peninsula Women’s Chorus will present the world premiere of “Night into Dawn,” the newly commissioned work written by Theresa Wong, PWC’s Composer-in-Residence and dedicated to the community of Lahaina. The program further includes a tango-inspired “Noche de Lluvia” by Canadian composer Sid Robinovich, Alice Parker’s beautiful arrangement of “How Can I Keep from Singing,” and a delightful a cappella arrangement of Mozart’s Overture to the Magic Flute.

Sun 5/05 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

Sun 5/05 8:00 PM Episcopal Church of St John the Evangelist [1661 15th Street San Francisco – walking distance from 16th street BART]
LANTSKAP LOGIC TRIO (Evelyn Davis, Fred Frith, Phillip Greenlief) play a rare performance for pipe organ, guitar and woodwinds. Celebrating two releases on Clean Feed and hailing the eminent departure of Phillip Greenlief from the Bay Area, this special event is not to be missed.

Thursday, May 9

Thu 5/09 7:30 PM The Sound Room [3022 Broadway Oakland, CA]
The SticklerPhonics CD Release
Scott Amendola, drums featuring tenor saxophonist Raffi Garabedian and trombonist Danny Lubin-Laden.

Thu 5/09 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
The UC Berkeley Eco Ensemble

Thu 5/09 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Claire Rousay + Maria BC

Friday, May 10

Fri 5/10 6:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes SPAGHETTI – FEATURING SAM REIDER, JIM CAMPILONGO, MAT MUNTZ, Scott Amendola

Fri 5/10 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound; Evidence Trio and Diaspora Focii

Fri 5/10 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Claire Rousay + Shanna Sordahl

Fri 5/10 8:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
A new multichannel sound composition & installation by Dave Shaff. Featuring musical excerpts from the album holistic management by Joel Reber.

Fri 5/10 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
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Saturday, May 11

Sat 5/11 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Fire at the Plantation House (FatPH) celebrates the release of their debut album “Southampton Insurrection”. An afternoon of memorable melodies and mosh-inducing riffs!

Sat 5/11 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Jacob Felix Heule, Danishta Rivero, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, and Chris Cooper perform as a quartet in 4-channel surround sound. Freely improvised music for spatially-miked 32-inch bass drum, koto, voice, guitar, and most folks doubling on electronics in interaction with their instruments. Raw, brutal, textural, and often very quiet, they obsessively explore the secret sounds of their instruments. They embrace noise, with the lines blurred between electronic processing and extended techniques. This will be the first performance by this quartet, though these four musicians have played in just about every other permutation of this personnel going back to 2007.

Sat 5/11 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Gachapon is a quartet of Nancy Beckman, Cindy Webster, Tom Bickley, and Dean Santomieri, making music with instruments and voices. They will perform with dancer Christina Braun. Included will be an improvisation structured by the Gray Code algorithm.

Sat 5/11 8:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
A new multichannel sound composition & installation by Dave Shaff. Featuring musical excerpts from the album holistic management by Joel Reber.