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Surround Sound Salon Series #7

SSSS is a monthly, informal show at CNM in which electronic music composers present their fixed media and/or live electronic music through the 8-channel surround system, generously provided by Meyer Sound. The composers mix their sounds from the center of the space, and the audience is free to choose their own listening location, and to […]

Noise by Noise West 2022

NOISE by NOISEWEST 2022 “It’s not that I hadn’t heard that before, it’s that I didn’t know it even existed.” THOMAS DIMUZIO SCOT JENERIK SCOTT ARFORD In the fall of 1998, Thomas Dimuzio and Scot Jenerik embarked on a stellar southwest and west coast tour. Opening the doors in many towns to sounds never before […]

10 YEARS OF NEW MUSIC | C4NM BDAY BASH | 10/1 6-9PM

HÄPPŸ BĒRFDÆŸ TO USWe’re celebrating 10 years of new music at C4NM! Come celebrate with us as we toast our first decade serving the new music community in the Bay Area and beyond and look forward to the next decade. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres provided complimentary.The party is free for members but everyone is invited […]

Nathan Clevenger Trio + Kasey Knudsen & Crystal Pascucci

Oakland musicians Nathan Clevenger, Jordan Glenn, and Cory Wright share a long and entwined history of collaboration across various projects, including Wiener Kids, Ashen Cleric, and Fellow Hominids. In early 2021, in the depths of the Covid-19 quarantine, Nathan was asked to assemble a small ensemble for a socially distanced online music festival – the […]

Thomas Schultz, piano

Bach/Busoni – Two Chorale Preludes; Frederic Rzewski – North American Ballads; Galina Ustvolskaya – Sonata Nr. 5; Hyo-shin Na – Rain Study […]

Closing Reception: Sounding Structures by Lisa Coons

Doors and Reception, 6pm Artist Talk and Demonstration, 7pm Join us for the (free!) closing reception for Lisa Coons’s exhibition at C4NM’s Window Gallery. David Samas will moderate an artist discussion. Artist Bio Lisa Renée Coons is a composer and sound artist with a special affinity to noise composition, collaboration, and experimentation. She is dedicated […]

The Alaya Project

The Alaya Project is the essential bridge between the intricate Carnatic style of Indian classical music and contemporary jazz and funk. The driving hybrid kit grooves of Indian percussionist and drummer, Rohan Krishnamurthy, the soulful Ragas and melodies of Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone, and the harmonic bedrock of Colin Hogan embodies the permanence of a […]

Jeonghyeon Joo’s “The Art of Bowing” featuring Ben Sabey

Haegeum performer and composer Jeonghyeon Joo presents her ongoing project “The Art of Bowing” together with new works for haegeum solo and haegeum with electronics by Ben Sabey. Joo and Ben will also present a duo improvisation. […]

Allegro Energico—A Lecture/Recital Tour by Angel Blanco

Guitarist Angel Blanco shall present some music/information regarding legendary Mexican composers Augusto Novaro and Julian Carrillo (creator of the “13th Sound” system) as well as some of his music where Blanco uses alternative guitar techniques such as the virtuosic “plectrodedo” from Venezuela. In this lecture/recital, virtuoso guitarist Ángel Blanco shares his experiences with the music […]

Latitudes: Charles Hutchins | James Fei | John Bischoff

Charles Celeste Hutchins joins us from London to perform his mangled algorave mashups. James Fei and John Bischoff perform in duo on laptop and analog circuitry. Their seething, unpredictable complex of sounds driven by individual action, machine interjection, and event patterning culled from the instantaneous flow of data. Charles Céleste Hutchins was born in […]