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Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

Saturday, June 8

Sat 6/08 4:00 PM Building 34 [1024 Nimitz Avenue Vallejo, CA 94592 Coordinates: 38.098466,-122.2694642]
Re:Sound SUN convenes in Building 34 on Mare Island for an afternoon of sound, vision, and space from Yann Novak with G. Brenner (Los Angeles), CGRSM (Los Angeles), Christopher Robin Duncan (Oakland), Yasi Poursamad and Ami Radunskaya (Los Angeles). Come early to explore the island sounds and beautiful trails.

Sat 6/08 6:00 PM Berkeley Finnish Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
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OUTSOUND PRESENTS ANNUAL BENEFIT DINNER
Featuring Ric Louchard, Matt Ingalls, and Ben Davis
Multi-course dinner by gourmet chef and expanded cinema producer Lori Varga

Sat 6/08 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. Santa Cruz]
Stefan Maier + Sharkiface

Sat 6/08 8:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
A new multichannel sound composition & installation by Dave Shaff. Featuring musical excerpts from the album holistic management by Joel Reber.

Sunday, June 9

Sun 6/09 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
A MICROFESTIVAL OF SURROUND SOUND DIFFUSION – ixed media works projected live over a 16-channel Meyer Sound System. Featuring a wide range works by international composers and collective members. If you’ve never been to our SF TAPE MUSIC FESTIVAL or you go every year, this is a perfect amount to tide you over until January 2025!!
HILDEGARD WESTERKAMP – Kits Beach Soundwalk (1989)
LUC FERRARI – Tautolgos I (1963)
ROCÍO CANO VALIÑO – Okno (2020)
LÉA BOUDREAU – Quatre machines pour sauver le monde (2019)
THOM BLUM – Combustible (2008-09)
CLIFF CARUTHERS – New Work (2024)
Matt Ingalls – Etude (2024)
DOUGLAS MCCAUSLAND – New Work (2024)
KRISTIN MILTNER – Syrinx (2012)

Sun 6/09 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Outsound Presents Tri-Cornered Tent Show “Weird Excursions” Album Release Show
+ Moxie trio: Zamula/Knowles/Noertker

Wednesday, June 12

Wed 6/12 6:30 PM Berkeley Public Library – Claremont Branch [2940 Benvenue Ave, Berkeley]
Berkeley Public Library presents In the Stax with the Wiener Kids

Thursday, June 13

Thu 6/13 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
John Bischoff, Scott Arford, Anne Hege, Julie Herndon
Thurs June 13 8pm-11pm Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF
All-ages, $5-$15 no one turned away for lack of funds.
Please rapid-test day of show, keep each other healthy!

Friday, June 14

Fri 6/14 5:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Kahil El’Zabar and David Murray perform iin a private home in the Berkeley hills. There will be two sets: the first at 5pm, & the second at 7pm.

Fri 6/14 6:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound: Darren Johnston, Larry Ochs, Lisa Mezzacappa, and Ben Davis

Fri 6/14 8:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
A new multichannel sound composition & installation by Dave Shaff. Featuring musical excerpts from the album holistic management by Joel Reber.

Fri 6/14 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Scottish Electronics musician Drew McDowall was a key member of the legendary COIL group from the UK in the latter half of the 1990s whose seminal ritual drone masterwork “Time Machines” was re-performed by him in SF and overseas in 2018. McDowall now returns to the Bay with an adventurous live project based on “A Thread, Silvered and Trembling” his newest June release on Dais which transforms Drew’s mood driven vision of a displaced neo-industrialized music as enigma and invocation into a summoning of shrouded strings, shaken shudders, and disembodied voicings.

Fri 6/14 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Lost Trio
Fri, June 14, 8:30pm – 10:00pm


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