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the san francisco bay area monthly publication for experimental/improvised/noise/electronic/freejazz/outrock/21st century transgenred music and sonic art the transbay Creative Music Calendar NOVEMBER 2008 about this thing The Transbay Creative Music Calendar is a volunteer-produced free monthly journal for non-commercial creative new music in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to our comprehensive listing of upcoming events, we publish articles and reviews about local music and the people who create it. We talk about a wide range of modern music, including: experimental, improvised, noise, electronic, free-jazz, outrock, 21st century compositions, and sonic art. Each month, 1,000 copies of the Transbay are mailed to individuals and hand-delivered to over 45 performance venues and public locations throughout the Bay Area. Contact us for a free subscription! Your kind donations help keep the Transbay alive and growing. Please send checks [payable to “Transbay Music Calendar”] to: Transbay Accounting 106 Fairmount Oakland, CA 94610 Please visit our web site or contact us directly: [email protected] for more information about getting your free subscription, submitting content, listing an event, advertising, viewing archives, or volunteering. v A RARE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY san francisco friends of chamber music now also friends of experimental music The San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music (SFFCM) is launching the Musical Grant Program, a new funding initiative designed to support outstanding projects by the San Francisco Bay Area professional chamber music community. The SFFCM Musical Grant Program will award grants through a competitive process to projects that seek to assist artistic, educational, and administrative endeavors. The program aims to foster chamber music performance in all its diversity from early music to jazz to experimental and contemporary forms. As Susan Bates, President of SFFCM’s Board of Directors, said “We are especially proud to be the first organization in the greater Bay Area to offer this type of assistance to professional musicians who enrich our community’s cultural landscape. We hope The Musical Grant Program will bring much needed support to ensembles, composers, and the many others who cherish chamber music as a unique and timeless art form.” The program is open to professional chamber ensembles with budgets that do not exceed $100,000 who reside and/or work in the nine counties of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma). Applications will also be accepted from individuals with chamber music projects. Composers are not eligible to apply as individuals, but may appear on the application of a collaborative ensemble. The deadline for submitting grant applications is Friday, November 14, 2008. Grant awards will generally range from $1,500 to $3,000. To review the Musical Grant Program guidelines and obtain an application, visit www.sffcm.org. Brothers & Sisters: join the good fight! ARTVOTE 6pm Nov 18 at Pro Arts Gallery www.artvote.org The Paleolithic Youth Dave Matthews Sewage No Wave Explosion!!! way back in July at Pharaoh Maybelline’s Sound Trough
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the san francisco bay area monthly publication for experimental/improvised/noise/electronic/freejazz/outrock/21st century transgenred music and sonic art
the transbayCreative Music Calendar
NOVEMBER 2008
about this thingThe Transbay Creative Music Calendar is a volunteer-produced free monthly journal for non-commercial creative new music in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to our comprehensive listing of upcoming events, we publish articles and reviews about local music and the people who create it. We talk about a wide range of modern music, including: experimental, improvised, noise, electronic, free-jazz, outrock, 21st century compositions, and sonic art. Each month, 1,000 copies of the Transbay are mailed to individuals and hand-delivered to over 45 performance venues and public locations throughout the Bay Area.
Contact us for a free subscription!Your kind donations help keep the Transbay alive and growing. Please send checks [payable to “Transbay Music Calendar”] to:
Transbay Accounting 106 Fairmount Oakland, CA 94610
Please visit our web site or contact us directly: [email protected] for more information about getting your free subscription, submitting content, listing an event, advertising, viewing archives, or volunteering. v
A RARE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
san francisco friends of chamber music now also friends of experimental musicThe San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music (SFFCM) is launching the Musical Grant Program, a new funding initiative designed to support outstanding projects by the San Francisco Bay Area professional chamber music community.
The SFFCM Musical Grant Program will award grants through a competitive process to projects that seek to assist artistic, educational, and administrative endeavors. The program aims to foster chamber music performance in all its diversity from early music to jazz to experimental and contemporary forms. As Susan Bates, President of SFFCM’s Board of Directors, said “We are especially proud to be the first organization in the greater Bay Area to offer this type of assistance to professional musicians who enrich our community’s cultural landscape. We hope The Musical Grant Program will bring much needed
support to ensembles, composers, and the many others who cherish chamber music as a unique and timeless art form.”
The program is open to professional chamber ensembles with budgets that do not exceed $100,000 who reside and/or work in the nine counties of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma). Applications will also be accepted from individuals with chamber music projects. Composers are not eligible to apply as individuals, but may appear on the application of a collaborative ensemble.
The deadline for submitting grant applications is Friday, November 14, 2008. Grant awards will generally range from $1,500 to $3,000. To review the Musical Grant Program guidelines and obtain an application, visit www.sffcm.org.
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Saturday November 1Mountain View Cemetery • 2pm $0 Sound & Place Sound installation artist and composer Hugh Livingston’s cemetery installation featuring three different performers and multichannel sound environments
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace • 8pm XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom Never Before Seen/Heard Quite This Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Woody Woodman with Woody Woodman & IgorFinger
Sunday November 2Herbst Theatre • 4pm & 7pm “State of the Union” Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra
Musicians Union Hall • 7pm $10 / $8 Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series Bill Noertker’s season finale with Noertker’s Moxie and Tchicai/Noertker duo
Studio 1510 • 8pm Georg Graewe (GER) solo piano; Sextet (Kristian Aspelin - guitar, Tony Dryer - contrabass, Phillip Greenlief - saxophones, Jacob Felix Heule - drums, Jacob Lindsay - clarinets, Kanoko Nishi - koto).
Tuesday November 4Studio 1510 • 8pm Georg Graewe (GER) piano, Damon Smith - double bass, Jerome Bryerton – percussion
Uptown • 6pm to Midnight Carla Kilhlstedt’s Experimental/Improv Election Night Madness
Thursday November 621 Grand • 8pm Jon Raskin Quintet (Jon Raskin, Liz Allbee, George Cremaschi, Gino Robair, John Shiurba) with opening set by Jason Levis-drums Lisa Mezzacappa-contrabass.
Uptown • 8pm Plays Monk - with Steven Bernstein
New Nothing Theater • 8pm Free Visual Music Meet Up live visual/sound programming by Tim Thompson plus movies and live improvised soundtracks by Wiggwaum
Luggage Store • 8pm $6-10 sliding Outsound Presents The New Music Series Jacob Lindsay - clarinets, Kristian Aspelin - guitar & Jerome Bryerton – percussion Simon Rose – saxophone (UK) Jerome Bryerton – percussion (CHI) Damon Smith - double bass (SF)
Friday November 7Mills College Ensemble Room • 7pm The Claret String Quartet with clarinetist/composer Larry London
Community Music Center • 8pm Trio: Georg Graewe- piano, Jon Raskin- sax and Donald Robinson-drums Quartet: Darren Johnston, Myra Melford, Vijay Anderson and Lisa Mezzacappa
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace • 8pm XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom Special One Night Event Greg Goodman (piano parts) & John Gruntfest (refingered saxophone) plus The Greatest Exhibition & Demonstration of John Gruntfest: Drawings & Paintings
Saturday November 8Diana Marto Studio • 10am $50 includes materials & refreshments Whalesongs Interactive performance and paper art workshop with Diana Marto, acclaimed paper and performance artist, and Suellen Primost, cellist.
artSF • 12pm donations accepted Godwaffle Noise Pancakes! Duo Pisano, Al Qaeda, Daddy, fognozzle, and Alienslang
Mills College Lisser Hall • 8pm $12 Keith Rowe solo, and with Mills students and faculty presents Cornelius Cardew’s “The Tiger’s Mind”
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace • 8pm XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom Another Fine Mess with Greg Goodman, objets d’interier; George Cremaschi, contrabass & cantilevered chopsticks and Kjell Nordeson, silent repercussions
Misanthropic Agenda • 9pm $5 Howard Stelzer (Intransitive), Jim Haynes (23five), Gerritt Wittmer (Misanthropic Agenda)
Sunday November 9ODC Dance Theatre • 8pm $5 sfSoundSeries Saxophonist John Ingle in a recital of new solo and ensemble compositions, improvisations, and a concerto by local composer Josh Levine; NYC-based percussion duo Hunter-Gatherer (Russell Greenberg and Ian Antonio) perform works by David Lang, David Bithell and Gérard Grisey.
Monday November 10Mills College Ensemble Room • 7pm FREE Kaffe Matthews presents improvised digital soundscapes
Yoshi’s Oakland • 8pm Willem Breuker Kollektief
Wednesday November 1121 Grand • 8pm $6-10 Hunter Gatherer (Ian Antonio - Zs, Russell Greenberg - Hi Red Center) Weasel Walter Quintet: Weasel Walter (drums), Damon Smith (bass), Aaron Bennett (saxophones), Aram Shelton (alto saxophone), Darren Johnston (trumpet)
Thursday November 13Luggage Store Gallery • 8pm $6-10 Outsound Presents The New Music Series Ross Hammond w/Darren Johnston-trumpet, and Devin Hoff-bass No Sugar: George Cremaschi (bass/electronics) & Liz Allbee (trumpet/electronics)
Friday November 14Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace • 8pm XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom Two World Premieres Part 1: The Two Bald Chicairanians: Taking A Bath Roham Sheikhani, Ali Dadgar, Targol Mesbah Part 2: The Last Story of The Moon: Hiromi Vardy
Saturday November 15Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace • 8pm XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom Two World Premieres Part 1: The Two Bald Chicairanians: Taking A Bath Roham Sheikhani, Ali Dadgar, Targol Mesbah Part 2: The Last Story of The Moon: Hiromi Vardy & Tim Perkis
Mills College Lisser Hall • 8pm FREE! New Keys 2008 The 5th annual concert of new music for the piano will feature works by Roscoe Mitchell, Michael Ippolito, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Paul Hembree, Benjamin O’Brien, Jason Reed, Paul Naughton, and Philip Schuessler performed by Regina Schaffer, Kate Campbell, Erika Pipkin, Paul Naughton, and vocalist Zach Kurth-Nelson.
Bhakti Mandir • 8pm $10 Ecstatic Trance Music with Axis Mundi Stuartji Sovtasky > Kundalini Trance Chant with Live Looping; Auntie Matter > Doumbec, D’Jembe, Klong Yaw, Shakers, Gongs; Sangita Moskow > HandSonic Electronic World Drums & Samples; Ron Heglin > Didjeridoo, Ney
Sunday November 16Musicians Union Hall • 8pm $10 / $8 Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series Left Coast Improv Group w/Doug Carroll, Michael Cooke, Ron Heglin, Jeff Hobbs, Scott R. Looney, Bob Marsh, Tom Nunn, Jim Ryan, Karen Stackpole Lukas Ligeti (NY) - solo electronics
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Monday November 17Mills College Ensemble Room • 7pm Free Sergi Jorda will lecture on his work developing the ReacTable.
Tuesday November 18Uptown • 9pm 21 Grand presents 3rd Tuesday Avant Garde Night Weasel Walter ensemble (personnel tba); simon rose (saxes)/Jen Baker (trombone)/Ava Mendoza (guitar)/alex vittum (drums); pink canoes
Wednesday November 19Cafe Du Nord • 8pm $18 An Evening With the Nels Cline Singers
21 Grand • 8pm $5-10 Wiggwaum (Randy Lee Sutherland and pals) + Death Worth Living + quintet: Weasel Walter (drums), Aurora (voice), Liz Allbee (trumpet), Jacob Lindsay (clarinets), William Winant (percussion)
Thursday November 20Luggage Store Gallery • 8pm $6 - $10 sliding Outsound Presents The New Music Series Music by the Eyeful with Peter Nyboer solo and Andy Strain and Kevin Shea Adams duo
Freight & Salvage • 8pm Celestial Septet- Rova + Nels Cline Singers
Friday November 21Mills College Art Museum • 8pm $12 ReacTable solos and duets featuring guest composer Sergi Jorda and Mills instrumentalists
Saturday November 22Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace • 8pm XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom The Commonists: Adjust The PeepHole! Witold Wolfe, IgorFinger, Vizor/Vizier
Studio 1510 • 9pm Matthew Goodheart-piano, Jon Raskin-Sax and Vladimir Tarasov-drums (Lithuania)
Monday November 24Kingman’s Ivy Room • 9pm FREE Improv Noise Hootenany and Social Club with host Lucio Menegon and many performers, including Lude, the Narcotics-Addicted Clown.
Mills College Ensemble Room • 7pm FREE Pianist Sarah Cahill “A Sweeter Music” preview
Sunday November 30Musicians Union Hall • 7pm $10/8/5 Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series Myles Boisen’s Past-Present-Future Touch & Go Quintet, featuring Avram Fefer with Ben Goldberg, Darren Johnston, Lisa Mezzacapppa & Vijay Anderson
venue information21 Grand 416 25th Street, Oakland [at Broadway]ARTSF 110 Capp Street [at 16th], SFBhakti Mandir 6225 Doremus Avenue, RichmondCafe Du Nord 2170 Market Street [near 16th & Sanchez], SFCommunity Music Center 544 Capp Street [Btwn 20th and 21st], SFDiana Marto Studio 1329 61st St., Studio C, EmeryvilleFreight & Salvage 1111 Addison Street [near San Pablo], BerkeleyHerbst Theare 401 Van Ness Avenue, San FranciscoKingman’s Ivy Room 858 San Pablo, AlbanyLuggage Store Gallery 1007 Market Street, San Francisco [at 6th]
Mills College 5000 MacArthur Boulevard, OaklandMusicians’ Union Hall 116 9th Street, San Francisco [at Mission]Misanthropic Agenda 426 Jefferson Street, OaklandMountain View Cemetery 5000 Piedmont Ave OaklandNew Nothing Theater 16 Sherman Street [near Howard], San FranciscoODC Dance Commons 351 Shotwell, San FranciscoStudio 1510 1510 8th Street, OaklandUptown 1928 Telegraph Avenue, OaklandWoody Woodman’s Finger Palace 903 Cedar Street, BerkeleyYoshi’s Oakland 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland
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