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English: Japanese avant-garde jazz pianist and...
English: Japanese avant-garde jazz pianist and composer Satoko Fujii (藤井郷子) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

From the Bay Improviser Calendar:

Fri 6/13 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
23five Incorporated presents two performances of field-recording based dissonance, disruption, and electro-acoustics from the Australian multi-media trio of Camilla Hannan, Van Sowerwin, and Martine Corompt, and from the Brooklyn based sound-art Melissa F. Clarke. More…

Saturday, June 14
Sat 6/14 2:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
The 2nd Annual Richard Waters New Music Festival – a festival of musical invention inspired by Richard Waters and his creation, the Waterphone.

Sat 6/14 9:30 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Todd Sickafoose‘s Tiny Resistors More…

Sun 6/15 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF]
Sheldon Brown Ensemble – World Premiere
Bay Area saxophonist and composer Sheldon Brown presents the world premiere of Blood of the Air: The Subconscious Music of Philip Lamantia, a new large-scale piece dedicated to the work of Beat Generation-era surrealist poet and San Francisco literary fixture Philip Lamantia. More…

Mon 6/16 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Gench Music Series: DIMMER + ANTIMATTER + ETHEL DARE TRIO More…

Wed 6/18 7:30 PM Second Act [1727 Haight Street]
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Schurt Kwitters, Diagram: A, Horaflora, Waxy Tomb – EARLY SHOW

Wed 6/18 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
8 pm KGB Lorin Benedict – voice; Ben Goldberg – clarinet; Kasey Knudsen – alto saxophone – 9 pm Nathan Clevenger Trio: Kasey Knudsen – alto

Wed 6/18 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Satoko Fujii‘s Orchestra Oakland More…

Thu 6/19 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8pm David Katz – solo voice
9pm Doug Carroll – solo cello/found sound More…

Thu 6/19 9:00 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Thumbscrew – Michael Formanek + Mary Halvorson + Tomas Fujiwara More…

Fri 6/20 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Switchboard Presents: Friction Quartet + Jeff Anderle, Makeunder

Fri 6/20 9:30 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Thumbscrew – Michael Formanek + Mary Halvorson + Tomas Fujiwara More…


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