Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.
Friday, March 10
Fri 3/10 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Boohabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce continues his semi regular Friday residency tonight. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our gallery for a night of sonic sustenance and musical medicina.Fri 3/10 7:30 PM Southern Exposure [3030 20th Street San Francisco, CA 94100]
Public performance by Thea Farhadian with Silvia Matheus and Sahba Aminikia with Adrienne Shamszad organized by the Taneen Working Group.Fri 3/10 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Sarah Buckius is a 2023 receipient of Indexical’s new Micro-Residency Commissions for Santa Cruz-based artists. A new work stemming from her ongoing project !!! techn010ffspring !!!, her commssioned project If (x = Robot) … is an investigation into the female-coded personae of robots—from the ubiquitous disembodied voices of personal assistants Siri and Alexa to Cassie, “the Usain Bolt of robots,” who is simply a pair of fast-running torsoless robotic legs.Saturday, March 11
Sat 3/11 1:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Iconic and internationally renown poet Jerome Rothenberg and bassist Mark Dresser perform at Spruce Street Concerts. Rothenberg is author of 90 books of poetry & such anthologies as Technicians of the Sacred, & will read “In the Shadow of a Mad King” and “A Book of Infernos” to the backdrop of Mark Dresser’s bass playing.Sat 3/11 4:00 PM First United Methodist Church Palo Alto [625 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301]
The 10th anniversary New Music for Treble Voices Festival will celebrate foundational women composers Pauline Oliveros and Florence Price. The festival will include guest groups Ensemble, from the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, and the Sacramento-based Vox Musica. Together with the PWC, the groups will share a day of workshops concluding in a public concert at 4pm. The concert will highlight guest soloist Michele Kennedy, who will sing a set of art songs by Florence Price, and feature solo sets by all performing ensembles, including the premiere of “Mouth,” composed for the PWC by our first Composer-in-Residence, Julie Herndon. The concert will conclude with all choirs performing Price’s “The Moon Bridge” and Oliveros’ “Tuning Meditation.”Sat 3/11 5:00 PM Lytton Plaza [University Ave & Emerson St Palo Alto, CA]
Stephan Crump
Lytton Plaza, Saturday, March 11, 2023 5 pm, free (rain cancels)Sat 3/11 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Decoration of Hard Time: Churchill, Haynes, Steiner
Sat 3/11 8:00 PM Tom’s Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Branden Abushanab (cb) and Tom Djll (tpt, elec); Wilson Shook (sax) and Ryan Kotler (cb)Sat 3/11 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Sarah Buckius is a 2023 receipient of Indexical’s new Micro-Residency Commissions for Santa Cruz-based artists. A new work stemming from her ongoing project !!! techn010ffspring !!!, her commssioned project If (x = Robot) … is an investigation into the female-coded personae of robots—from the ubiquitous disembodied voices of personal assistants Siri and Alexa to Cassie, “the Usain Bolt of robots,” who is simply a pair of fast-running torsoless robotic legs.Sunday, March 12
Sun 3/12 7:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Stephan Crump – soloWednesday, March 15
Wed 3/15 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
LSG New Creative Music Series
System Blower
Stephen Pilolla – Synth, Keyboard, and Electronics Patrick Lema – Drums, Turntable, Sampler, and Electronics
Tom Djll & Branden Abushanab duet bass, trumpet & synthsThursday, March 16
Thu 3/16 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street, San Francisco]
Audium: New Voices II featuring the performances by Sharmi Basu, Alex Abalos & Ronald PeabodyThu 3/16 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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CCRMA presents a concert of spatial audio and audiovisual works by Jay Afrisando.Thu 3/16 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Francis Wong Special QuartetFriday, March 17
Fri 3/17 7:30 PM New Mission Yoga [2415 Mission St SF]
Psychobotanikon
Explores the soul life of plants through sound, movement, projected images and authentic interactions with low dose plant medicine.Fri 3/17 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
John P. Hastings & Ben Mayock premiere a new work, Traces, in conjunction with their new exhibition being installed in the River St. facing windows of Indexical’s space at the Tannery Arts Center. Traces is a meditation on the Southern American landscape and how those lands affect its inhabitants. Through a three-channel video installation, hanging sculptures, analog photography, and documentary interviews Hastings and Mayock tell the story of a landscape and its inhabitants. Hastings and Mayock are based in New York City and Vermont, respectively.Saturday, March 18
Sat 3/18 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
John P. Hastings & Ben Mayock premiere a new work, Traces, in conjunction with their new exhibition being installed in the River St. facing windows of Indexical’s space at the Tannery Arts Center. Traces is a meditation on the Southern American landscape and how those lands affect its inhabitants. Through a three-channel video installation, hanging sculptures, analog photography, and documentary interviews Hastings and Mayock tell the story of a landscape and its inhabitants. Hastings and Mayock are based in New York City and Vermont, respectively.Sunday, March 19
Sun 3/19 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
SOCIAL STUTTER, a saxophone quartet led by composer/altoist BETH SCHENCK, blurs the line between strictly written chamber music and soaring free jazz. Trombonist WILLIAM LANG and pianist ANNE RAINWATER perform compositions by Anne Hege, Scott Wollschleger, Arvo Pärt, Jeremy Howard Beck, and others.
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