Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.
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.Fri 3/31 7:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
mB & FAULTS
FAULTS is Jorge Bachmann (electronics), Kevin Corcoran (percussion) and Jaroba (bass clarinet). They are joined for this performance by Gabby Wen (electronics) and Andrej Hronco (generative visuals).
mB is multimedia artist Michael Bailey performing with bass and feedback on this current tour as he returns to California.Fri 3/31 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Experience the culmination of Mills College’s graduate students’ work at Signal Flow 2023 – the final installment of this historic student-run festival. From March 31st to April 2nd, the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall will be filled with the sounds of innovative and thought-provoking compositions.Saturday, April 1
Sat 4/01 2:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Handcrafting Soft Circuits — From soft circuits and paper switches to pen and paper drawing we will examine the ways you can work with your hands to combine electricity, interactivity, light and imagination. We will use paper to draw our own circuits and then use conductive tape and LEDs to create various types of circuits.Sat 4/01 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present instrumental and vocal chamber music written by its members and performed by outstanding Bay Area’s musicians. The concert will be presented to a live audience at the Center for New Music in San Francisco on Saturday April 8, 2023Sat 4/01 8:00 PM All Saints’ Episcopal Church [555 Waverley Street Palo Alto, CA 94301]
Streaming and in-person
21V opens its second season with “Sonic Reflections on Interconnectedness.” As we emerge from a global pandemic, we yearn more than ever for community and reminders of the many ways we are intertwined.Sat 4/01 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Experience the culmination of Mills College’s graduate students’ work at Signal Flow 2023 – the final installment of this historic student-run festival. From March 31st to April 2nd, the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall will be filled with the sounds of innovative and thought-provoking compositions.Sat 4/01 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Faults is the improvising trio of Jorge Bachmann, Kevin Corcoran and Jaroba, joined for this performance by Gabby Wen, an Oakland-based musician working with electronics, field recordings, and guqin, with live visuals by Andrej Hronco. Faults works with electronics, percussion and bass clarinet sometimes including the use of field recordings and graphic or text scores to guide their live performances.Sunday, April 2
Sun 4/02 4:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Experience the culmination of Mills College’s graduate students’ work at Signal Flow 2023 – the final installment of this historic student-run festival. From March 31st to April 2nd, the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall will be filled with the sounds of innovative and thought-provoking compositions.Sun 4/02 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)Wednesday, April 5
Wed 4/05 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Full: Radical Divination
Composer and visual artist Gino Robair presents Radical Divination, his “opera of augury through papermaking.”Wed 4/05 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
LSG New Music Series – Ambitious, experimental music!
Sumdeus Trio
Rome Yamilov, Kazuto Sato, Patrick Talesfore, Jr.
Lords of Outland
Anthony Flores, Philip Everett, Ray Schaeffer, Rent Romus More…Thursday, April 6
Thu 4/06 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Tom Djll’S SPEED OF SILENCE: OPENING RECEPTIONThu 4/06 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Caterina BarbieriFriday, April 7
Fri 4/07 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
QUINTETO LATINO: “THE SPANGLISH DANCES” PREMIEREFri 4/07 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Kali Malone
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