Coming to San Francisco

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

Friday, July 14

Fri 7/14 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind

istoric Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years

Fri 7/14 7:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Zekarias Musele Thompson: Possible Dialogues Vol. 1
Zekarias Musele Thompson (they/them) is an artist based in Oakland, California, and Reykjavik, Iceland, who is interested in humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures and how we bring them into material form.

Saturday, July 15

Sat 7/15 11:30 AM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Black Life: Zekarias Thompson: Possible Dialogues, Vol. 1
Zekarias Musele Thompson is an artist based in Oakland, California, and Reykjavik, Iceland, who is interested in humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures and how we bring them into material form.

Sat 7/15 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind
Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years

Sat 7/15 8:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Lydia Lunch

Sunday, July 16

Sun 7/16 11:30 AM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Black Life: Zekarias Thompson: Possible Dialogues, Vol. 1
Zekarias Musele Thompson is an artist based in Oakland, California, and Reykjavik, Iceland, who is interested in humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures and how we bring them into material form.

Sun 7/16 1:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Main Library’s Koret Auditorium [100 Larkin St. San Francisco, CA 94102]
Free video screening of two remarkable photography slideshow works with custom soundtracks, collaborations between American electroacoustic composer Ingram Marshall (1942-2022) and American photographer Jim Bengston (b. 1942; active in Norway). Both multimedia works are suggestive of the history of their subjects. Introductory remarks by librarian John Smalley.

Sun 7/16 3:30 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
LYDIA LUNCH + TIM DAHL + MATT NELSON
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William Winant
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Myles Boisen’s KLANG!!
Doors open at 3:00. Music starts at 3:30

Sun 7/16 7:00 PM Lytton Plaza Palo Alto [200 University Avenue Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Jim Campilongo Ben Davis Duo at Lytton Plaza

Sun 7/16 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
CircleCircleCircleSquare
KRIS TINER, trumpet; BETH SCHENCK, saxophones
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass; NATHAN HUBBARD, percussion
sfSoundGroup
MONICA SCOTT, cello; HADLEY MCCARROLL, piano
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass; BRENDAN LAI-TONG, trombone
John Ingle, saxophone; Matt Ingalls, clarinets; DIANE GRUBBE, flutes

Tuesday, July 18

Tue 7/18 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.
6pm doors/7pm show // No Cover/Donations Accepted
7pm Ghost Dub (David Michalak – lap steel, phantom harp, junk; Polly Springhorn – bass flute; Kerstie Abrams – sax; Bruce Ackley – sax)
7:45pm Nathan Bickart/Marshall Williams Duo
8:30pm Tumble (Robert Heirendt, mbira; Sean Kerrigan, guitar; Randy McKean – clarinets, tenor sax)

Wednesday, July 19

Wed 7/19 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Click to make donation
LSG New Music Series – David Molina’s Transient, Joshua Marshall+Joshua Allen

Thursday, July 20

Thu 7/20 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
WINDOW GALLERY RECEPTION: ADVENTURES IN CASUAL INSTRUMENTS

Thu 7/20 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind
Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years

Friday, July 21

Fri 7/21 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind
Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years

Saturday, July 22

Sat 7/22 12:01 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S is back!!!! NOON!!!
JAMES TWIG HARPER/Eurostache/Amphibious Gestures/Cruel Work/Blood of Chhinnamastika

Sat 7/22 6:01 PM Brutal Sound Effects Festival @ Graphed Horror Tongue Titan Thong Club [1220 4th St, Berkeley, CA]
Brutal Sound Effects Festival #96:
6PM EARLY SHOW
James Twig Harper—Slusser, David—Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase—Kanoko Nishi—Kyle Bruckmann—
Dominic Cramp—Fluorescent Grey—Midmight—Foreskin Shashimi in Paradise—
Human De-Selection & Realization Nature Group

Sat 7/22 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium V: Rewind
Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years

Sat 7/22 7:30 PM St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church [1661 15th Street San Francisco, CA 94103]
Latitudes continues featuring a triple bill spanning the spectrum of experimental ambient music. Drones ebb and flow while girded by rumbling floor toms in Christopher Robin Duncan‘s SEASONS, Joel St. Julien summons and subdues chaos on modular synth, while CGRSM (Christopher Reid Martin and Gabie Strong) erect monoliths of feedback from electric guitars.

Sat 7/22 7:30 PM Uma Gallery [3630 Telegraph Ave. Oakland]
Normal with Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari
7pm doors
7:30 show