Coming to San Francisco

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

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 7:00 PM Community of Christ Church [990 Meridian Way San Jose, CA 95126]
It’s our FOURTH month into the new, only, free South Bay Open Mic for Modular Synthesizer and Electronic Music performers. You are invited to join a relaxed evening in our great-sounding venue in Willow Glen, 7pm on every second Saturday. Seasoned musicians welcome newcomers to come play out on your gear!

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.

Sunday, May 12

Sun 5/12 4:00 PM Epworth United Methodist Church [1953 Hopkins Street, Berkeley]
Ensemble ARI plays NEW MUSIC and SCHUMANN

Sun 5/12 5:00 PM Glen Park Station Bar [2816 Diamond Street, San Francisco, CA]
The new “FutureJazz Live at the Cadillac Hotel” album is now available on the Edgetone Records label! The duo of electric guitarist Peter McKibben and electronic percussionist E. Doctor Smith return to the Glen Park Station Bar, the site of the very 1st FutureJazz performance.

Sun 5/12 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
GRETCHEN JUDE (voice, objects, field recordings) and Cheryl E. Leonard (natural-object instruments, field recordings) present Peregrinations, a set of improvisations that delve into sonic minutiae. Very quiet sounds are amplified and dialogue with extended vocal and instrumental techniques as the duo evokes imaginary topographies and ecosystems.

Monday, May 13

Mon 5/13 6:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Gray Area, ZERO1, and Crowbar Corner are proud to present Synth Sessions, a free hands-on workshop and group jam open to all levels to expand your sonic horizons.

Wednesday, May 15

Wed 5/15 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Outsound Presents
Mit Darm, The Moth Stays
(Suki O’Kane, Rae Diamond, Edward Schocker)

Thursday, May 16

Thu 5/16 4:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream
CCRMA Open House Concert
The first day of our Open House ends with a concerts featuring works by current CCRMAlites.

Thu 5/16 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Join us for the opening reception for Peter Whitehead’s “Difficult Listening for Beginners” the latest Window Gallery Exhibit! Peter will give a demonstration of his invented instruments. Reception with light refreshments at 6pm followed by artist talk/demo at 7pm. RSVP for this FREE event!!

Thu 5/16 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
CCRMA presents a solo show by Caroline Davis playing saxophone and electronics.

Thu 5/16 7:30 PM Brava Theatre [2781 24th Street San Francisco, CA]
¡Chicanísima!
Don’t miss the premiere of composer Carla Lucero’s opera chronicling the life and work of legendary Chicanx leader and LGBTQ+ activist, Olga Talamante.

Friday, May 17

Fri 5/17 7:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
Rent Romus/Eli Knowles duet and Cherry Menu

Fri 5/17 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound; Sink Head Trio

Fri 5/17 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream
John Chowning & Friends
The second day of our Open House ends with a special 50th Anniversary concert curated by John Chowning.

Fri 5/17 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Carlos Giffoni & Alex Pelly + RM Francis

Fri 5/17 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 5/17 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Anna Friz + Gretchen Jude Ensemble