Coming to San Francisco

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

Friday, March 17

Fri 3/17 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center – Joe Henderson Lab [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Will Bernard Trio with Scott Amendola and Lisa Mezzacappa

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 7:30 PM Grace Cathedral [1100 California St SF]
Friction Quartet

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 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
A concert of music by composer Raven Chacon. Raven Chacon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation.

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.

Sun 3/19 8:00 PM Elbo Room Jack London Square [311 Broadway Oakland]
Thomas Dimuzio/Sharkiface/Thoabath/Goatcorpse/Dismal Chant/Nine Dog Dick/visuals by Lektrik Man

Monday, March 20

Mon 3/20 8:00 PM Elbo Room Jack London Square [311 Broadway Oakland]
Hide with Harpy and Moira Scar

Tuesday, March 21

Tue 3/21 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
Jazz at the Make-Out Room (formerly the Monday Make-Out) continues! A wily evening of cutting-edge jazz, free improvisation, and creative music.
7pm San Kazakgascar (Jed Brewer – guitar, a.o.)
7:45pm Green Mitchell Trio (Cory Wright – saxophone, Lisa Mezzacappa – bass, Jason Levis – drums)
8:30pm Nathan Chamberlain/Paul Sakai Duo (Nathan Chamberlain – guitar, Paul Sakai – drums)

Thursday, March 23

Thu 3/23 8:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [272 Capp St SF]
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Resident is a monthly electronic audiovisual open mic event started in 2017. Resident is casual and cool, and the community you’ll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in the Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas.

Friday, March 24

Fri 3/24 7:30 PM San Francisco Conservatory Bowes Center [200 Van Ness Ave SF]
Del Sol String Quartet performs String Quartet no.2 by David Garner
San Francisco Conservatory Bowes Center
200 Van Ness Avenue

Fri 3/24 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
The SticklerPhonics

Fri 3/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Aine Nakamura & Srayamurtikanti

Fri 3/24 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Hinge presents a program blurring the lines between contemporary classical and avant-garde rock. This concert features pieces ranging from the lush harmonies and quirky rhythms of Dan VanHassel’s Sea Change, to the noisy electronic soundscape of Katherine Young’s Camilles, to Hinge’s reimagining of a song by extreme metal band Meshuggah. The program closes with Hinge’s interpretation of Julius Eastman’s epic and monumental minimalist work Gay Guerrilla.

Saturday, March 25

Sat 3/25 1:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
The aim of this workshop is to cultivate an intentionality and curiosity in the way that we move through and interact with our Surround, opening our senses to emergent patterns in nature. Participants will be encouraged to document their observations, found sounds, and their ephemeral works to share and discuss as a group.

Sat 3/25 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Lost Trio with Ian Carey

Sat 3/25 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Alexander Elliott Miller and Giacomo Fiore

Sat 3/25 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
AV Club is a San Francisco based algorave artist collective focused on live performance, where technology itself is the instrument. They use samplers, sequencers, livecode environments, modular synths, feedback loops, generative art, microscopes, & more to make sights and sounds you haven’t encountered before but will want to experience again