Coming to San Francisco

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

Saturday, June 15

Sat 6/15 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Lost Trio Redux

Sat 6/15 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.

Sat 6/15 9:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Hallie Smith – Akerselva
Eda Er – voice and electronics
Hallie Smith and Adrian Montufar – amplified viola, voice and flute
Akerselva is a technologically mediated violin and viola performance, accompanied by audiovisual laser elements. It examines the creative use of scale and focal points to create slowly shifting micro-environments.
Eda Er, a San Francisco Bay Area-based composer, sound artist, and singer, delves into expressivity and narrativity using a variety of mediums including singing, composition, analog and digital electronics, video, theatrical elements, and storytelling. For this event, she will be exploring ambient electronic soundscapes accompanied by her vocal performances.
Hallie Smith (viola) and Adrian Montufar present an amplified acoustic duo in conjunction with it/qué, a fabric sculpture by Anamaya Farthing-Kohl.

Sunday, June 16

Sun 6/16 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
RUBEN MATTIA SANTORSA (Italy) performs a solo electric guitar journey through diverse sonic landscapes.
KAREN YU (Hong Kong) and Ken Ueno (Berkeley) perform “Noise Box Cantos” and “Shadow Mudras,” both developed collaboratively as a reaction to their experience being pitted in improvisative situations against a collective of modular synthesizer players.

Sun 6/16 8:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
David Murray / Kahil El Zabar Duo

Monday, June 17

Mon 6/17 7:30 PM Duende [1075 Aileen St Apt B]
GOING AWAY PARTY FOR Phillip Greenlief featuring CITTA DI VITTI – an evening with citta di vitti, featuring music inspired by films of michelangelo antonioni with monica vitti. the trio will perform with video clips from the films that inspired the works. citta di vitti is: Phillip Greenlief – alto saxophone, compositions; lisa mezzacappa – contrabass; jason levis – drums

Mon 6/17 8:00 PM Dead End Vintage Mondays [3370 19th Street nr Mission]
Pocket Universe—Brutal Sound Effects Mini Fest

Tuesday, June 18

Tue 6/18 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.

Tue 6/18 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Kahil El’Zabar//David Murray Duo – Friends for Life Tour

Tue 6/18 8:00 PM Thee Stork Club [2330 Telegraph Avenue Oakland]
Noisterous Nights at Thee Stork
VAUX FLORES (Ithaca, NY)- Modular synth experiments
KEY WEST- Free wheeling, searing anti-jazz noise
BLOOD OF CHHINNAMASTIKA- Synth evil, cutups and PE
MAGICK CREATURE- Dungeon Synth
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Tue 6/18 8:30 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Elihu Knowles – Rent Romus

Wednesday, June 19

Wed 6/19 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Ken Ueno and Karen Yu present a noise set for amplified snare and bespoke noise boxes. Kevin Corcoran and Jacob Felix Heule are a Bay Area percussion duo focused on activating drums with surface friction, found objects, and amplification.

Wed 6/19 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Outsound Presents Michael Mersereau, Skullkrusher

Thursday, June 20

Thu 6/20 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Kronos Festival – June 20-23 at SFJAZZ

Thu 6/20 8:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Red Clay Sound Haus will present their work-in-progress “Magnolia Mojo |side.a|” during a limited, six-show series at Audium, June 20-29.

Friday, June 21

Fri 6/21 5:00 PM Chapel Of The Chimes [4499 Piedmont Avenue Oakland, CA 94611]
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Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes
The annual Walk-Through Concert – Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes returns again to celebrate the summer solstice.

Fri 6/21 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound; David Boyce solo set

Fri 6/21 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Kronos Festival – June 20-23 at SFJAZZ

Fri 6/21 8:00 PM Clarion Performing Arts Center [2 Waverly Place San Francisco, CA 94108]
The Erika Oba Trio (Erika Oba – piano, Chris Bastian – bass, Jeremy Steinkoler – drums) and special guest vocalist Roopa Mahadevan, celebrate the release of Ghosts on the Water, a new album themed around ecology, ritual, and heritage. The album will feature original works, as well as arrangements of Japanese and Okinawan folk songs.

Fri 6/21 8:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Red Clay Sound Haus will present their work-in-progress “Magnolia Mojo |side.a|” during a limited, six-show series at Audium, June 20-29