Coming to San Francisco

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

Friday, April 12

Fri 4/12 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound; Ark of Bones

Fri 4/12 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
Ben Goldberg/Myra Melford Quintet + Marty Ehrlich

Fri 4/12 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
An evening of 3 short sets: Amanda Chaudhary (electronics) , Zachary Watkins (guitar and electronics), followed with a duo with Thea Farhadian (violin & electronics) with Silvia Matheus (electronics). Three 25-minute sets by three musicians/composers based in the Bay Area.

Fri 4/12 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Artists Television Access: Untitled

Saturday, April 13

Sat 4/13 12:00 PM POREHAMMER 4K [fenced area at 23rd/Shotwell SF]
ORGAN SPECTACULAR RETURNS! This SAT!!! Free show!!!!
-The Slow Poisoner
-KROB (just added!)
-Magical Cockroach Eats Shampoo
-Spider Compass Good Crime Band

Sat 4/13 7:00 PM Community of Christ San Jose [990 Meridian Avenue San Jose, CA 95126]
South Bay Modular Synthesizer and Electronic Music Open Mic is the only open mic for the South Bay electronic music community! 7-9 pm on the Second Saturday of every month in a really nice venue.

Sat 4/13 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present instrumental chamber music of beauty, searching, hope, written by its members and performed by outstanding Bay Area musicians.

Sat 4/13 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Arnold Dreyblatt
Sat 4/13 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Andrew Moses + Eliot Burk

Sunday, April 14

Sun 4/14 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
Berkeley clarinetist Ben Goldberg, trombonist DANNY LUBIN-LADEN, cellist Ben Davis and saxophonist RAFFI GARABEDIAN present INSECT LIFE – a group dedicated to olive oil cake and the work of the imagination.
BALSAMIC is a collective of sound and movement improvisors who developed their practice in (mostly) outdoor public spaces since 2020. This edition features:
KEVIN CORCORAN (percussion)
RAE DIAMOND (found object, voice)
SHOSHANA GREEN (movement)
MEGAN NICELY (movement)
Suki O’Kane (percussion)
EDWARD SCHOCKER (hichiriki, shō, ocarina)
PAIGE STARLING SORVILLO (movement)

Tuesday, April 16

Tue 4/16 8:30 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Eli Knowles and Rent Romus
Jazz ballads, ambient, and originals
Free Admission
with Special Guest: Heikki Koskinen M

Wednesday, April 17

Wed 4/17 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Outsound Presents Sholeh Asgary/Jon Carr duo
DADALOGY – Kat Eliot (sax), J Young Sun (drums), and Guinevere Q (bass)
Luggage Store New Music Series

Thursday, April 18

Thu 4/18 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Cheryl E Leonard presents a set of new instruments fashioned from objects found in nature as well as graphic scores meant for use with the instruments!

Friday, April 19

Fri 4/19 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound; Matias Arizmendi and Mystery School

Fri 4/19 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall Studio [327 Lasuen Street Stanford, CA 94305]
Bing Star: The Spatialized Audissey | Concert 1
CCRMA continues its 50th Anniversary Concerts with two new programs of works by students, faculty, staff, and alumni in the Bing Concert Hall Studio.

Fri 4/19 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Two rarely seen progressive “”silent films”” by David Michalak: NOT QUITE RIGHT, 1987 / 10m. – a symbolic dream journey into fear and Face of a Stranger 1977 / 60 min. featuring Billie-Marie in dual roles & influenced by expressionism, silent movies and the serials of the 1920s. The evening starts with short shorts by magician/filmmaker George Méilès with live music by Bruce Ackley

Fri 4/19 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Brett Carson’s Substandard Quartet