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Source: The Squid’s Ear.

Void Patrol (Sharp / Stetson / Martin / MacDonald) – Live @ Victo (Victo)

Junji Hirose / Kazuo Imai / Darren Moore – Be Quiet!!! (Meenna)

Jackie McLean – One Step Beyond To New And Old Gospel Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd.)

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

Friday, May 10

Fri 5/10 6:00 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes SPAGHETTI – FEATURING SAM REIDER, JIM CAMPILONGO, MAT MUNTZ, Scott Amendola

Fri 5/10 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound; Evidence Trio and Diaspora Focii

Fri 5/10 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Claire Rousay + Shanna Sordahl

Fri 5/10 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 5/10 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
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Saturday, May 11

Sat 5/11 4:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Fire at the Plantation House (FatPH) celebrates the release of their debut album “Southampton Insurrection”. An afternoon of memorable melodies and mosh-inducing riffs!

Sat 5/11 7:00 PM Community of Christ Church [990 Meridian Way San Jose, CA 95126]
It’s our FOURTH month into the new, only, free South Bay Open Mic for Modular Synthesizer and Electronic Music performers. You are invited to join a relaxed evening in our great-sounding venue in Willow Glen, 7pm on every second Saturday. Seasoned musicians welcome newcomers to come play out on your gear!

Sat 5/11 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Jacob Felix Heule, Danishta Rivero, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, and Chris Cooper perform as a quartet in 4-channel surround sound. Freely improvised music for spatially-miked 32-inch bass drum, koto, voice, guitar, and most folks doubling on electronics in interaction with their instruments. Raw, brutal, textural, and often very quiet, they obsessively explore the secret sounds of their instruments. They embrace noise, with the lines blurred between electronic processing and extended techniques. This will be the first performance by this quartet, though these four musicians have played in just about every other permutation of this personnel going back to 2007.

Sat 5/11 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Gachapon is a quartet of Nancy Beckman, Cindy Webster, Tom Bickley, and Dean Santomieri, making music with instruments and voices. They will perform with dancer Christina Braun. Included will be an improvisation structured by the Gray Code algorithm.

Sat 5/11 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, May 12

Sun 5/12 4:00 PM Epworth United Methodist Church [1953 Hopkins Street, Berkeley]
Ensemble ARI plays NEW MUSIC and SCHUMANN

Sun 5/12 5:00 PM Glen Park Station Bar [2816 Diamond Street, San Francisco, CA]
The new “FutureJazz Live at the Cadillac Hotel” album is now available on the Edgetone Records label! The duo of electric guitarist Peter McKibben and electronic percussionist E. Doctor Smith return to the Glen Park Station Bar, the site of the very 1st FutureJazz performance.

Sun 5/12 7:00 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
GRETCHEN JUDE (voice, objects, field recordings) and Cheryl E. Leonard (natural-object instruments, field recordings) present Peregrinations, a set of improvisations that delve into sonic minutiae. Very quiet sounds are amplified and dialogue with extended vocal and instrumental techniques as the duo evokes imaginary topographies and ecosystems.

Monday, May 13

Mon 5/13 6:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Gray Area, ZERO1, and Crowbar Corner are proud to present Synth Sessions, a free hands-on workshop and group jam open to all levels to expand your sonic horizons.

Wednesday, May 15

Wed 5/15 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Outsound Presents
Mit Darm, The Moth Stays
(Suki O’Kane, Rae Diamond, Edward Schocker)

Thursday, May 16

Thu 5/16 4:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream
CCRMA Open House Concert
The first day of our Open House ends with a concerts featuring works by current CCRMAlites.

Thu 5/16 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Join us for the opening reception for Peter Whitehead’s “Difficult Listening for Beginners” the latest Window Gallery Exhibit! Peter will give a demonstration of his invented instruments. Reception with light refreshments at 6pm followed by artist talk/demo at 7pm. RSVP for this FREE event!!

Thu 5/16 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
CCRMA presents a solo show by Caroline Davis playing saxophone and electronics.

Thu 5/16 7:30 PM Brava Theatre [2781 24th Street San Francisco, CA]
¡Chicanísima!
Don’t miss the premiere of composer Carla Lucero’s opera chronicling the life and work of legendary Chicanx leader and LGBTQ+ activist, Olga Talamante.

Friday, May 17

Fri 5/17 7:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
Rent Romus/Eli Knowles duet and Cherry Menu

Fri 5/17 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound; Sink Head Trio

Fri 5/17 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream
John Chowning & Friends
The second day of our Open House ends with a special 50th Anniversary concert curated by John Chowning.

Fri 5/17 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Carlos Giffoni & Alex Pelly + RM Francis

Fri 5/17 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 5/17 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Anna Friz + Gretchen Jude Ensemble

Source: Beyond The Dust.

Ernesto Diaz-Infante – Bats In The Lavender Sky

Joëlle Léandre & Núria Andorrà – BLA BLA BLA Duo

In addition to being a musician, Albini was audio engineer on albums from Cheer Accident, Zeni Geva, Don Caballero, Red Krayola, Melt Banana, The Ex, Tony Conrad, Liturgy, Sunn O))), Godspeed You Black Emperor, and many, many others.

Source: Dirk Serries.

For four decades, Dirk Serries has carved a unique path across genres like ambient, avant-garde, industrial, and experimental. Under the pseudonym Vidna Obmana, the Belgian artist garnered global acclaim from 1984 to 2007, leaving behind a prolific discography that showcased his vibrant creativity. Beyond Vidna Obmana, Serries ventured into new directions with Fear Falls Burning and Microphonics series, collaborating with luminaries such as Steven Wilson, Justin K. Broadrick, Low and Cult Of Luna, and touring with bands like MONO, Jesu, Low, and My Bloody Valentine.

Source: Jazz em Agosto.

The 40th edition will not be a commemorative edition, but rather another part to be added to the whole, bringing together in the festival space the musical choices that we considered to be the most striking, challenging and less conventional in jazz and creative music in the present time.

The sum of all these parts is our legacy, our Manifesto, in which the next step will always endeavour to be more disruptive than the previous one or simply different, only made possible by the constant search for these exceptional musicians.

From the role of Mahalia Jackson as a civil rights activist, remembered here by James Brandon Lewis’s quintet, to the celebration of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” in a version for two pianos by Sylvie Courvoisier and Cory Smythe, the evocation of the Fluxus movement in Darius Jones’s project, the creation of a manifesto for the Beatnik movement by Dieb 13, or through the reinvention of Mats Gustafsson’s Fire! Orchestra, there are several intersections of the past with the present in this Jazz em Agosto.

Source: Grex – The Band

Oakland experimental duo Grex (Karl Evangelista and Rei Scampavia) presents Auntie + Tebs, a brand new musical work that celebrates the sound of change – and the cost of making noise. Auntie + Tebs blends cutting-edge sounds drawn from the realms of jazz, rap, and electronic music with visuals and spoken word, underlining the relationship between Bay Area activism and hard-fought battles in countries like the Philippines and South Africa.

The project title “Auntie + Tebs” references two epochal figures: Miriam Defensor Santiago, Evangelista’s Aunt and a longtime Filipino public servant, and Louis Moholo-Moholo (“Tebs”), an innovative South African drummer and Anti-Apartheid activist. Both of these individuals devoted their lives to toppling corruption and oppression in their home countries.

Instead of simply recounting history, Auntie + Tebs explores what happens when one speaks out against injustice – and what happens in the aftermath.

Grex is joined by longtime drummer Robert Lopez, legendary cornetist Bobby Bradford, Asian Improv aRts cofounder Francis Wong (5/31), and incendiary saxophonist Zoh Amba (6/1).

Grex is an experimental music duo based out of Oakland, California. In biological terms, a “grex” is an entity composed of several smaller organisms. Grex (the band) explores the meeting point between surreal songcraft and the dark outer reaches of free jazz, industrial hip-hop, and art rock. The group has been called an “otherworldly experience” (Eugene Weekly) and “true genre warping music” (KFJC), recalling at turns the ecstatic energy of John Coltrane, the electronic squall of Death Grips, and the lilting songwriting of Mitski.