San Francisco Scene: September 25 – October 2, 2015

From the Bay Improviser:

Friday, September 25

Fri 9/25 6:30 PM Matatu Festival [645 West Grand Avenue Oakland]
Robinson/Spirit/Trammell/Tacuma: DEMOCRATICS // Decolonizing the Imagination #MATATU15

Fri 9/25 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
DARIUS MILHAUD: MÉDÉE (1938)
Darius-and-Madeleine-Milhaud
A tragic opera on the subject of Medea from Greek mythology.

Fri 9/25 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Scott Cazan and Carmina Escobar
Visiting composer/performers Scott Cazan (Los Angeles) and Carmina Escobar (Mexico City) present a night of works for live electronics and voice including two new works by Cazan and Escobar and opening with a performance of the seminal work “La Fabrica Illuminata” by Luigi Nono for multi-channel electronics and voice (performed live by Carmina Escobar).

Saturday, September 26

Sat 9/26 4:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Tribute to Ornette Coleman
Change of the Century – a musical tribute to Ornette Coleman
organized by Myles Boisen

Sat 9/26 7:00 PM Gaspar Brasserie [185 Sutter St @ Kearny San Francisco CA 94109]
Patrick Wolff Trio will be playing this Saturday at Gaspar Brasserie. Come out for some music, vintage cocktails and a weekly prix fixe menu, served alongside our full menu

Sat 9/26 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
William Basinski
The Lab presents William Basinski in a solo performance of his two new albums, Cascade and The Deluge.

Sunday, September 27

Sun 9/27 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Optical Sound #2 ~ Dementia (1955) ~ Frith•Custer•Stanley

Monday, September 28

Mon 9/28 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613]
Rafael Toral: Space Studies

Mon 9/28 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Ensemble Room
RAFAEL TORAL

Tuesday, September 29

Tue 9/29 7:51 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Not Electronic Music: sfSoundSalonSeries presents Rafael Toral + sfSoundGroup

Wednesday, September 30

Wed 9/30 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Silver Keys Trio – All American Music

Wed 9/30 8:00 PM Turquoise Yantra Grotto [32 Turquoise Way SF]
Inventor’s Quorum:
Neil Feather/Rosie Langabeer- Two To Tutu Too
Tom Nunn/ Kevin Corcoran/ David Samas- Pet the Tiger

Wed 9/30 8:00 PM Life Changing Ministry [Oakland]
Rafael Toral w/Gino Robair, Marc Kate, Tonal Masher More…

Thursday, October 1

Thu 10/01 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Thingamajigs presents another year of exciting new musical works for homemade instruments, found objects, DIY inventions, and alternate tunings by some of the Bay Area’s most innovative artists. Instrument inventors are a rare breed; but at this year’s 18th annual Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, a dozen of the finest experimental instrument builders will be entertaining all ages crowds at the Center for New Music.

Thu 10/01 8:00 PM LSG Creative Music Series @ 509 Cultural Gallery [509 Ellis Street SF]
NorCal Noise Fest in San Francisco
8:15pm THIRTEEN HURTS (Colorado)
8:40pm KOMPRIPIOTR (Italy)
9:10pm X-BAX (Long Beach,CA)
9:35pm CHESTNUT (Los Angeles)

Thu 10/01 8:00 PM Brava Theater Center [2781 24th St., San Francisco, CA]
Composer and bassist Lisa Mezzacappa presents the Bay Area premiere of Glorious Ravage, a panoramic song cycle featuring a large ensemble of California improvisers with new film, video and animation by Janis Crystal Lipzin, Kathleen Quillian, Alfonso Alvarez and Konrad Steiner. With: Fay Victor, Myra Melford, Mark Dresser, Nicole Mitchell, Vinny Golia, Michael Dessen, Darren Johnston, Kyle Bruckmann, Cory Wright, Dina Maccabee, Kjell Nordeson, Jordan Glenn, John Finkbeiner, Tim Perkis, and Mezzacappa.

Friday, October 2

Fri 10/02 7:30 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
ACKAMOOR/MOLINA DUET: A Ritualistic Musical Journey Improvised With Traditional & Invented Instruments

Fri 10/02 8:00 PM Brava Theater Center [2781 24th St., San Francisco, CA]
Composer and bassist Lisa Mezzacappa presents the Bay Area premiere of Glorious Ravage, a panoramic song cycle featuring a large ensemble of California improvisers with new film, video and animation by Janis Crystal Lipzin, Kathleen Quillian, Alfonso Alvarez and Konrad Steiner.
With: Fay Victor, Myra Melford, Mark Dresser, Nicole Mitchell, Vinny Golia, Michael Dessen, Darren Johnston, Kyle Bruckmann, Cory Wright, Dina Maccabee, Kjell Nordeson, Jordan Glenn, John Finkbeiner, Tim Perkis, and Mezzacappa.