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Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

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
San Francisco

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 8:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [UC Berkeley Berkeley]
ARTEMIS
Renee Rosnes, piano and musical director
Ingrid Jensen, trumpet
Alexa Tarantino, alto saxophone, flute
Nicole Glover, tenor saxophone
Noriko Ueda, bass
Allison Miller, drums

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.

Sunday, March 26

Sun 3/26 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
Created by violinist/composer DAN FLANAGAN, “The Bow and the Brush” integrates the visual arts with new music. Dan is joined by cellist VICKY EHRLICH, trombonist BRUCE CRISP, and violinist GABRIELLE WUNSCH to perform new works by Libby Larsen, Nathaniel Stookey, Linda Marcel Marcel, Shinji Eshima, Jacques Desjardins, Cindy Cox, Maija Hynninen, Jose Gonzalez Granero, Edmund Campion, Emily Onderdonk, Peter Josheff, Evan Price, Michael Panther and Dan Flanagan. All compositions will be Oakland premieres and will be performed with projected images of the paintings and sculptures that inspire them.

Monday, March 27

Mon 3/27 6:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
As a part of Indexical’s Micro-Residency Program, Kumi Maxson is facilitating weekly collective improvisation workshop spaces, every Monday* from March 27 to May 29 from 6-8pm. The workshops will consist of a short reading and listening session, followed by discussions of the liberatory political implications of musical improvisation. The workshops will cater to all levels of improvisational and musical experience (including none!), striving to create an accessible space for non-hierarchical participation and experimentation. Musicians are encouraged to bring their own instruments, however some will be provided for those who do not have their own. Masks are required for these workshops. Wind players and vocalists may perform without masks if needed.

Mon 3/27 7:30 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St San Francisco]
Earplay: knock, breathe, shine
Earplay’s 38th season continues on March 27th with a concert program that traverses the topical, the poetic, and the sonic space where they overlap.

Mon 3/27 8:00 PM Bottom of the Hill [1233 17th Street SF]
Winston Tong & Lx Rudis ~ Two Toiling Midgets (Paul Hood & Craig Grey) ~ Longshoremen

Friday, March 31

Fri 3/31 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and Friends
Boohabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce continues his semi regular Friday residency tonight.