San Francisco Scene: October 28 – November 4, 2016

From the Bay Improviser Calendar.

Friday, October 28

Fri 10/28 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Celeste Oram is joined by violinists Keir GoGwilt and (remotely, from New Zealand) Alex Taylor in performing the works of Vera Wyse Munro (1897-1966): a pioneering New Zealand radio ham, improviser, and sonic/electronic experimenter. The telematic duet will be joined in person by layers of archival text and recordings of ham radio logs and activity, from both New Zealand and Santa Cruz. The performance will be broadcast over low-power radio transmitters on many different channels, and audience members are invited to come prepared with battery-powered radios to tune in to the performance live in the space.

Fri 10/28 8:00 PM Turquoise Yantra Grotto [32 Turquoise Way SF]
Tender Buttons rewinds classic electronic musics in a swarm of devices and languages, composed in the moment via a shared esthetic of severe improvisational methods. Friendly spirits Fluxus, WDR, Cage, On-U and Kling Klang are never far away.
Tender Buttons: Deconstructed/Reconstructed
Piano Solos and Ensemble Improvisation
Gino Robair – modular electronics
Tania Chen – piano, electronics, toys
Tom Djll – modular and circuit-bent electronics

Fri 10/28 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Phillip Greenlief / Fred Frith / Rashaun Mitchell

Fri 10/28 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Caballito Negro (Tessa Brinckman, flutes & Terry Longshore, percussion) with special guest Left Edge Percussion: Resist

Flute and percussion duo, Caballito Negro, (with special guest Left Edge Percussion) presents Resist, a diverse concert program utilizing six flutes, a truckload of percussion, spoken word, film and images. Resist is a passionate interplay of contemporary chamber groove and creative narratives, defining the word’s meaning and freight from surprising sources.

Saturday, October 29

Sat 10/29 3:00 PM KFJC 89.7 LIve From The Pit [12345 El Monte Rd. Los Altos Hills, Ca]
Tender Buttons (Gino Robair, Tania Chen, Tom Djill) will play a live set of their improvisational electronic deconstruction of sound at KFJC radio station from The Pit. Broadcast live on radio, the internet and hd live cam. 89.7 FM on the radio and kfjc.org for live streaming. Saturday, October 29, 3pm.

Sat 10/29 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Flute and percussion duo, Caballito Negro, (with special guest Left Edge Percussion) presents Resist, a diverse concert program utilizing six flutes, a truckload of percussion, spoken word, film and images. Resist is a passionate interplay of contemporary chamber groove and creative narratives, defining the word’s meaning and freight from surprising sources.

Sunday, October 30

Sun 10/30 3:00 PM Berkeley Piano Club [2724 Haste St., Berkeley, CA]
Ensemble for These Times and guest cellist, Anne Lerner- Wright, will perform new works by their 2016 Call for Scores winners: Craig Carnahan, Emily Doolittle, Christopher Hopkins, Justin Merritt, Naftali Schindler, Bob Siebert, and Bartos Smoragiewicz. The program will also include David Garner’s “Mein blaues Klavier,” from E4TT’s new CD “Surviving: Women’s Words” and the world premiere of Bay Area composer Bruce Nalezny’s Toccata for piano, dedicated to Dale Tsang

Sun 10/30 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. Berkeley]
Eli Wallace, solo piano: explorations in composition and improvisation
Seating is limited. Get your required online reservation here.

Sun 10/30 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave. Berkeley, CA]
The Shelton-Ochs Quartet
The Shelton-Ochs Quartet features Larry Ochs and Aram Shelton on saxophones, Scott Walton on bass and Kjell Nordeson on drums.

Sun 10/30 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Music for the Underworld
Susan Rawcliffe, sculptor and scholar, creates and performs on ancient mezo-american style flutes and ocarinas, exploring diverse timbres, beating and near hallucinatory dissonances.
Pahoehoe is a ballet for butoh dancers performed by the invented instrument collective “Pet the Tiger” and composed by David Samas. The action follows a young Orpheus from the entrance to the underworld, down to the throne of Hades and back in a foolish attempt to reclaim his bride.

Tuesday, November 1
Tue 11/01 7:30 PM Tom’s Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Aram Shelton, sax, with Chris Brown, piano and Jordan Glenn, percussion
and
Øyvind Brandtsegg, percussion and electronics with Matt Ingalls, clarinet

Tue 11/01 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
patchtax: Viola and Saxophone Duo
patchtax is Boston’s most beloved saxophone and viola duo. This program consists of the duo’s idiosyncratic video work interwoven with compositions by Georges Aperghis, Lei Liang, Rosalie Burrell, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and J.S. Bach.

Wednesday, November 2

Wed 11/02 7:30 PM Tom’s Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Per-Anders Nilsson, synthesizer, with Gino Robair, weapons of mass displacement and Tom Djll, trumpet/synthesizer
Alexei Plousnine and Henry Kaiser, guitars

Wed 11/02 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Unseen series | Jets of Love. Two new collaborations: composer Luciano Chessa and multimedia artist Darrin Martin collaborate on the abstraction of erotic display; and percussionist/electrician David Easlick and musician/punk comedy bus owner John Trevor Benson crawl around in the rafters. Gray Area’s UNSEEN Series presents site-specific, collaborative performances by Bay Area artists and explores current practices in immersive media, including expanded cinema, video and sound art, experimental music and technology. The UNSEEN series is curated by Oakland artist Matt Fisher, and presented in 8 channel surround sound with audio engineering and equipment by Recombinant Media Labs.

Thursday, November 3

Thu 11/03 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8pm Portrait Maker
An improvising chamber ensemble that experiments with time and space. The group combines elements of theater and dance with sublime yet intricately complex music.
9pm Marshall/Wallace/Bafus
Joshua Marshall, tenor and soprano sax
Eli Wallace, keyboard
Jon Bafus, drumset

Thu 11/03 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Per Anders Nilsson/Gino Robair/Tom Djll
Improvisations and works by Anthony Braxton, Miles Davis, and Sun Ra

Friday, November 4

Fri 11/04 11:30 AM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Øyvind Brandtsegg
Description:
“Cross adaptive processing as musical intervention – Exploring radically new modes of musical interaction in live performance”
Øyvind Brandtsegg (Norwegian University of Technology and Science)

Fri 11/04 7:30 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Lecture: Bonnie Jones and Suzanne Thorpe – TECHNE: Implementing Community Enactment of Radical Transformation with Sound and Technology.