Upcoming San Francisco Area Shows

From the Bay Improviser Calendar:

Friday, October 17

Fri 10/17 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94720]
Longtime friends and musical collaborators Andy Cabic (Vetiver) and Devendra Banhart grab a couple of guitars and turn our atrium gallery into an intimate performance space. These two singer-songwriters formed the vanguard of an experimental and folk-influenced aesthetic that emerged in the Bay Area around the turn of the millennium. They will perform both individually and together, in a casual mix of older and newer material from their deep catalogs.
Programmed by Andy Cabic.

Fri 10/17 7:30 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St SF]
Zeek Sheck, Black Spirituals, Space Burn, The Fathers
Zeek Sheck
Join us in the incubator and witness the final regeneration of the legendary ZS as they hatch the live show destined for national tour in support of the FINAL Zeek Sheck album, “JOINUS” a 2xLP available now on Resipiscent Records. Music to make the body feel wild.
Black Spirituals
Celebrating the release of their debut- LP on Sige Records, set in the intimate resonant confines of Second Act. Zachary James Watkins on sines, Marshall Trammell on skins. Tiny room made big… only tell your bestest.
Space Burn
Serious analog engines, but the upholstry is pure digital. Space Burn are Brian Tester and Steven Santa Maria, well-loved for their work with Triangle, Chen Santa Maria, Love chains, Wave and Particle, and more.
The Fathers
These two were tinkering in the garage out back, typical Dad stuff, trying to fix everything with twine. If you try to help you’re immediately perplexed, drawn into a paralyzing weird dad smell wondering what’s in front of you and why it’s making sound. Members of Coagulator and Headboggle.

Fri 10/17 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Kathleen Supové is one of America’s most acclaimed and versatile contemporary music pianists, known for continually redefining what a pianist/keyboardist/performance artist is, in today’s world. Ms. Supové will offer her DIGITAL DEBUSSY PROJECT, along with electroacoustic piano works in joint appearances with composer Neil Rolnick.

Fri 10/17 8:00 PM Berkeley Hillside Club [2286 Cedar St. Berkeley, CA 94709]
Beth Custer’s Clarinet Thing

Fri 10/17 9:00 PM LeQuiVive [1525 Webster Oakland]
DunkelpeK and Alex Christie, Kristina Dutton, Teddy Rankin-Parker trio

Saturday, October 18

Sat 10/18 7:30 PM Second Act [1727 Haight St SF]
FOG RAISER – AN AMAZING NIGHT OF DIVERSE FOG MUSICS
An amazing night of diverse live electronic and electro-acoustic music featuring four different performances that have been commissioned to present their own interpretation of Fog Music. This is a special event to raise funds for the San Francisco Fog Music Festival 2015 that will be held at the Second Act January 28-31, 2015
7:30pm – Carolyn Fok
8:00pm – Matt Dean
8:30pm – Jack Hertz & rizorkestra
9:00pm – Viv Corringham & Transbay Multimedia Consort (Nancy Beckman, Tom Bickley, Nan Busse, Joe Lasqo. Suki O’Kane, Bill Thibault, Jennifer Wilsey)

Sat 10/18 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Littlefield Concert Hall
JOHN DRISCOLL
(David Tudor Composer-in-Residence)
Electronic composer/sound artist John Driscoll’s work involves rotating robotic loudspeakers, compositions for unique architectural spaces, and sound installations.

Sat 10/18 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Klaxon Mutant Jazz All Stars

Sat 10/18 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Theresa Wong and Dean Santomieri will be playing solo pieces and duets

Sat 10/18 9:30 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Jessica Lurie Ensemble

Sunday, October 19

Sun 10/19 2:00 PM The Nunnery [3016 25th. St SF]
Viv Corringham & Crew – NY-based British vocalist, composer and sound artist Viv Corringham, joined by a Transbay consort of Deep Listening practitioners and neogaku kaiju.
Ron Heglin & Kattt Atchley – a vocal mix of melody, harmony, perfectly and closely tuned pitches.

Sun 10/19 3:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Dan Plonsey – Daniel Popsicle

Sun 10/19 7:30 PM SIMM Series [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Room 47
gabby fluke-mogul – violin / Adam Hirsch – reeds
8:30pm Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole – gongs, percussion / Bill Noertker – contrabass

Sun 10/19 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]
Sonic Body Series #7 – 8 pm Phillip Greenlief – saxophone; Leyya Tawil – movement 8:45 pm Improvisation Group with: Phoebe Osborn, Sophia Wang, Rosemary Hannon and Christine Bonansea – movement; Tom Djll – trumpet; Jacob Felix Heule – percussion; Kanoko Nishi-Smith – koto; Suki O’Kane – percussion; Kyle Bruckmann – oboe, english horn; Tim Perkis – electronics; Zachary James Watkins – electronics

Monday, October 20

Mon 10/20 7:30 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills College Ensemble Room
ANNIE LEWANDOWSKI & TIM FEENEY
Finding a shared interest in works of abandonment and stasis, Tim Feeney (percussion) and Annie Lewandowski (piano/electronics) improvise to the short videos of artist Michael Ashkin.

Tuesday, October 21

Tue 10/21 12:00 AM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
An evening of Experimental Music and Film:
Annie Lewandowski and Tim Feeney with films by Michael Ashkin & Craig Shepard, Larry Polansky, and David Kant with a film by Beth O’Brien

Tue 10/21 8:30 PM Stork Club [2330 Telegraph Avenue Oakland]
Celebrating “Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio” – w/Martin Bisi, Grex, Steve Mackay, and Savage Riposte
A new documentary on Martin Bisi’s legendary BC Studio screens at The New Parkway Theatre on October 21 (7pm), and Bisi has assembled a special bill to celebrate the film’s release (Stork Club, 8:30pm, $5), featuring Bay Area art rock trio Grex, Steve Mackay of the Stooges (with his Third Thursday Band), French punk band Savage Riposte, and improvisations with Mark Miller (Toy Killers) and Fred Frith (Massacre).

Wednesday, October 22

Wed 10/22 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Since 1990 Satoko Inoue has been commissioning new piano music and performing new works to sold out audiences in Japan and throughout Europe. Her playing brings a sensitive and evocative form of expression to new music, sometimes surprising listeners with its beauty. Now she makes her first trip to the west coast bringing new compositions by Jo Kondo, Yuji Itoh, Yori-aki Matsudaira, Satoshi Tanaka, and Robert Coburn, as well as works by John Cage and others. Her annual concert series in Tokyo, “Music Documents – nothing but music”, and her featured performances at the Tokyo Opera City play to enthusiastic audiences and her recordings of music by Feldman, Ferrari, and Kondo are highly regarded.

Wed 10/22 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]
8 pm Ape Like Impact: Britt Ciampa, drums; Jake Leckie, bass; Ryan Pate, guitar https://soundcloud.com/ape-like-impact 9 pm Host Family: Karl Evangelista & Nathan Clevenger – guitar; Jason Hoopes – electric bass; Jordan Glenn – drums

Thursday, October 23

Thu 10/23 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Alcyone Ensemble is excited to be a part of the Thursday night series at the Center for New Music. Their program will showcase 4 dynamic works for two flutes and piano by Ian Clarke, Yuko Uebayashi, Carol Barnett, and Daniel Felsenfeld.

Thu 10/23 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8:00pm Ricardo D’Orlando
8:40pm Ear Spray
Carlos Jennings – Electronics and Conduction
Ann O’Rourke – Vocals, Videos, Vdeo and Audio Processing, Percussion
Mark Pino – Percussionist
9:20pm Dani Cardevore & Mark E. Miller
Electronics & Drums

Thu 10/23 8:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Little Nicky’s presents: Chuck Johnson + Special Guest Clarinetist Ben Goldberg

Thu 10/23 8:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Solo sets by clarinetist Ben Goldberg and guitarist Chuck Johnson.

Friday, October 24

Fri 10/24 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94720]
This all-star quintet of Bay Area musicians breathes new life into contemporary music for woodwinds and blows audiences away. Not your grandmother’s woodwind quintet, Splinter Reeds adds bass clarinet and saxophone to the mix to create a more robust and dynamic sound. They premiere a new work by composer Marc Mellits, among other music written specifically for the ensemble.
Programmed by Sarah Cahill.

Fri 10/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Rova Sax Quartet (Steve Adams, Bruce Ackley, Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs) returns to CNM distilling and evolving its 3+ hours of music performed at the Garden of Memory in Oakland from June 21, 2014. (This show will be shorter! About 60 to 80 minutes, tbd…) At the Garden of Memory, the band used simple structures created out of its “Radar” music vocabulary to perform extended “structured improvisations” with all kinds of subtly added nuance included in the performances at Chapel of the Chimes. Expect the Unexpected. http://www.rova.org