Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.
Friday, April 21
Fri 4/21 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and friendsFri 4/21 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall Studio [Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen Street, Stanford, CA 94305]
Julie Zhu and Douglas McCausland present their DMA Final Projects as part of this year’s CCRMA in Bing residency.Fri 4/21 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
HYUNCHAE KIM KOREAN ZITHER (KAYAGEUM) RECITAL – Friday, April 21 at 8 pmFri 4/21 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Electric guitarist and composer Matt Sargent (Bard University) present a solo program for electric guitar and electronics, including his own works and music by Eve Beglarian and Robert Carl; students from the Electric Sound Collective perform a short opening set of improvised music for electronic and amplified instruments.Fri 4/21 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
[Black Sound Symposium] DeForrest Brown, Jr. + Stephanie Hewett.Saturday, April 22
Sat 4/22 11:00 AM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
[Black Sound Symposium] Workshop — Stephanie Hewett: Groove Sermon.Sat 4/22 4:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall and Music Building [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Presented by Mills College at Northeastern University Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music
4-6pm Resonnances in Music Building: Tobias Banks, Eryck CB, John Bischoff & James Fei, Chris Brown, Christopher Davidson, Carrie DeCunzo, Emma Doven, Andy Evans Risa, José Fernando Solares, Laetitia Sonami, Zeena Parkins, Maggi Payne and Jules Williams.
7-9pm Concert in Littlefield Concert Hall: Roco Córdova, Sally Decker, Madalyn Merkey & Julie Moon, Michelle Moeller, Matt Robidoux.Sat 4/22 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall Studio [Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen Street, Stanford, CA 94305]
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CCRMA presents “The Return of the Living B[e]ing”.Sat 4/22 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
[Black Sound Symposium] – Anthony R. Green: Zoom In + Bill SolomonSunday, April 23
Sun 4/23 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
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Wooden Fish Ensemble – From Korea to America – 120 Years and Beyond – Sunday, April 23 at 4 pmSun 4/23 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
SINK HEAD TRIO (Ben Goldberg – clarinet Jordan Glenn – drums Ben Davis – cello)Monday, April 24
Mon 4/24 7:30 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez Street San Francisco]
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players – “Fire and Water, Shadows and Dust”Mon 4/24 8:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Allison Miller Carmen Staaf DuoTuesday, April 25
Tue 4/25 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
The Ones That Got Away — Class Concert – MillsThursday, April 27
Thu 4/27 6:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Workshop: Analog Video Processing with Sean Russell Hallowell // On breadboards and with basic electronic components, we will learn how to process analog video signals and display the results on cathode-ray tube televisions. Using sources like VCRs and old security cameras, we will learn the basic architecture of the analog video signal, how it differs from digital video, and how to manipulate that architecture in artistic ways. We will also learn through doing by exploring the basics of electronic signal flow in collaborative exercises.Thu 4/27 8:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [272 Capp St SF]
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, April 28
Fri 4/28 6:30 PM Meyer Sound Pearson Theater [2837 10th Street Berkeley, CA]
10th Anniversary Screening of the ear goes to the sound: the work of Laetitia Sonami, a film portrait of the French born, Oakland based electronic sound artist Laetitia Sonami. Sonami, a student of the pioneering sound composer Eliane Radigue, is perhaps best known for her lady’s glove instrument, which controls sounds and mechanical objects with gestures of the hand.Fri 4/28 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and friendsSaturday, April 29
Sat 4/29 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Alaya Project is the essential bridge between the intricate Carnatic style of Indian classical music and contemporary jazz and funk. Born in the cultural bastion of Oakland, California, The Alaya Project explores new textures and perspectives built over two decades of friendship, dialogue, and musical immersion across genres and continents. The driving hybrid kit grooves of Indian percussionist and drummer, Rohan Krishnamurthy, the soulful Ragas and melodies of Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone, and the harmonic bedrock of Colin Hogan embodies the permanence of a changing soundscape.Sat 4/29 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Bala Raghavan: At Odds With Even Love + Roco Córdova // At Odds With Even Love is an evening of poetry and prose: the amorous song of the courtesan and queer stories from the Indian Subcontinent. This labor of love, shared in an intimate gathering, juxtaposes amorous songs from the Indian musical tradition and stories of love, longing, passion, and pain from the queer community.
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