Calendar (Past Events)

The Chromelodia Project, a trio blending just intonation, improvisation, and interactive computer music, premieres Chris Brown’s concert-length song cycle “Occhio” set to poetry by Erika Dagnino. by The trio includes Brown on piano and computer, Theresa Wong, cello and voice, and Kyle Bruckmann, oboe and electronics. The group’s name refers to Harry Partch’s Chromelodeon, a keyboard he used to support the musicians playing in his 43-tone tuning. The concert is made possible through the Musical Grant Program, which is administered by InterMusic SF, and supported by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and San Francisco Grants for the Arts. [More]

The 5 stalwart friends comprising Splinter Reeds are about to co-inhabit the same room for the first time since Feb. 2020, and we'd love for you to join us. Our program features works by Paula Matthusen, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Chris Pitsiokos, and Laura Cetilia which emphasize the interactions of bodies in spaces and sounds in space. [More]

A concert of birds and musicians from Berlin, Sweden, Barcelona, Nova Scotia, Brazil and the United States, coming together and apart, creating and performing Covid-inspired works via zoom, video and social distancing. [More]

Pianist-composer Jared Redmond returns to the Center for New Music, performing a program of contemporary works for piano including music by Beat Furrer, Wolfgang Rihm, Kaija Saariaho, Elliott Carter, and the US premiere of Sebastian Claren's "Sex" (1996). [More]

Join us for a free reception to celebrate the closing of window gallery exhibit Sound Pieces by Norman Tuck. [More]

Phillip Greenlief discussed his work with Window Gallery guest Jon Raskin. [More]

Flutist Jessie Nucho and composer Brett Austin Eastman present the second of their three-part series exploring the nature of feedback in our lives. This program examines how we relate to ourselves and to others as well the feedback systems present in those relationships. Featuring a world premiere by Brett Austin Eastman and solo flute works by Evan Williams, Jen Wang, Chelsea Loew, and Phoebe Bognár. [More]

Join us online for a journey from Ancient Rome to the Arctic and back, with an hour of new vocal and chamber music exploring stories of creation and change. Bay Area composers Davide Verotta, Kristofer Twadell, Lukáš Janata, Monica Chew and Shawne Workman present pieces for flute and piano, guitar, string quartet, and mixed voices with Persian daf. Online reception to follow. [More]

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Rova Sax Quartet's first live performances since the Plague struck will be broadcast On The Airwaves by C4NM. "Set 1" on Friday JUNE 18 at 7PM. SET 2 on Sunday June 20 at 6 PM. Each show is a unique set of pieces, including premieres composed by quartet members and other pieces that will release on ESP-Disk this coming September. [More]

The Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present a concert of solo works written by its composer members. Admission to the concert is free but donations to NACUSAsf are encouraged. The concert will be followed by a Zoom session with the composers. [More]

Rova Sax Quartet's first live performances since the Plague struck will be broadcast On The Airwaves by C4NM. "Set 1" on Friday JUNE 18 at 7PM. SET 2 on Sunday June 20 at 6 PM. Each show is a unique set of pieces, including premieres composed by quartet members and other pieces that will release on ESP-Disk this coming September. [More]

Series Finale of E4TT's exploration of music by composers who fled to Hollywood in the 1930s /40s, often credited for creating today's movie sound, well as Polish and Russia composers who stayed in Europe in the face of persecution. [More]

Women in Parallel Empires (2021) - World Premiere Flutists Jane Rigler and Tessa Brinckman present the world premiere of their 22-minute acousmatic video, a "space opera," in posthumous collaboration with Cécile Chaminade's Sérénade aux étoiles (Serenade to the stars, 1911). Women in Parallel Empires explores how we might reclaim flute compositions by women composers dismissed from the Western canon, by re-assembling them within contemporary contexts, and addressing (and/or subverting) the concept of Empire, genius, and extraction in Western “art” music. A short pre-concert discussion, between Jane and Tessa about their collaboration, starts at 4:00 PM (Pacific time). [More]

What happens when global events turn our lives upside down? When everything we thought we knew comes into question? [More]

Ensemble for These Times continues its 2020/21 home season with a timely program about women’s prophetic voices, “The Cassandra Project,”* a program of works inspired by the famed priestess in Greek mythology who was cursed to utter true prophecies that were never believed. E4TT’s annual commissions program, the concert will feature four World Premieres by composers Hannah Lash ("Wild Sage" for piano trio), Jessica Rudman ("Cassandra, or Don't Girls Love Horses?" for soprano, cello, and piano to a new libretto by Kendra Preston Leonard, with projected visuals), Valerie Liu ("The Cassandra Effect" for cello and piano), and E4TT co-founder David Garner ("Die gefluesterte Zukunft" ("The Whispered Future"), a music video by videographer Benoit LaCasse for soprano and piano trio) plus "Moerae" ("The Fates") for piano trio by Armenian-American Mary Kouyoumadjian. Pre-concert composer talk at 6:30 p.m. [More]

The Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present a concert of works written by its members and performed by a variety of artists. The program includes works for keyboard, voice, chamber groups, and modern dance. [More]

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The Center for New Music and the Paul Dresher Ensemble co-host an online Zoom event with the cast and creators of The Electronic Lover, a new podcast opera by Bay Area composer Lisa Mezzacappa and New York writer Beth Lisick, on Saturday, February 27 at 7pm PST. The free event celebrates the release of the opera’s second episode on March 1. [More]

In March 2020, two weeks after the COVID-19 lockdown, Berkeley-based audio laboratory Dogbotic teamed up with Oakland nonprofit Thingamajigs to produce “Synth In Place,” a socially-distant beginner’s workshop on the joys of DIY electronics. Designed with absolute beginners in mind, the nine-week curriculum teaches participants the art of creative electrical engineering, the cultural significance of electronic audio, and how to blend DIY music with students’ pre-existing creative practices. After building a variety of theremins, talkboxes, stepped tone generators, sequencers, and vactrols, students have the opportunity to design, engineer, and fabricate an instrument entirely of their own creation—several of which you’ll see in front of you. [More]

Phillip Greenlief celebrates the release of his newest solo saxophone recording POLYPHONETIC FOR SUN RA TED BRINKLEY AND DAVID BOYCE with a rare solo concert, including a solo set from pianist Evelyn Davis. [More]

The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA presents a streaming concert of new chamber works performed by composers and friends. The program includes seven works for solo and duo combinations of voice and/or instruments. [More]

E4TT continues our series (sold-out last season!) of music by women composers with works by ten of today's fabulous women composers, joined by guest violinist Ilana Blumberg. Featuring music by Jesse Montgomery, Missy Mazzoli, Tania Leon, Anna Clyne, Vivan Fung, Claudia Montero, Marti Epstein, Caroline Shaw, Jennifer Higdon. 7:00 p.m.: Virtual pre-concert composer talk with Elinor Armer and an intro video from Jesse Montgomery. On YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/QZM_-chVc_Y [More]

The Colibri Duo (Monika Gruber and Michele Walther) perform works by Sergei Prokofiev and Kyle Hovatter with artwork by Josh Dorman to benefit the San Francisco Union for Musicians in Need. [More]

Join Mauro Ffortissimo for a discussion with Jon Raskin and tour of his studio online on YouTube Live. Simply log on at 7:30pm on 12/17. [More]

Join Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari in an online discussion and demonstration of their new work. [More]

Four Bay Area composers join forces to present new string quartets written for remotely located players. A showcase of the enduring Bay Area composition scene performed by the acclaimed Friction String Quartet [More]

Three members of the Ives Collective will perform duo and trio works for strings and piano written by members of the Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA. The performers will be Susan Freier, violin/viola, Stephen J. Harrison, cello, and Lori Lack, piano. [More]

"Christina Braun dances and Tom Nunn plays music on invented instruments. This current collaborative improvisation is influenced by the ideas of chance and chaos." [More]

Former C4NM curator and flutist Meerenai Shim is delighted to return to the Center to premiere works by Andrea Reinkemeyer and Meerenai Shim. Also on the program are other unaccompanied works for one performer by Alice Jones, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, and Adolphus C. Hailstork. [More]

Janis Mercer plays selections from her new CD commemorating the 75th anniversary of the death of Anton Webern. Featured is The Kinderstück Project, a collection of short works for piano by local student and professional composers using Webern’s Kinderstück row. Composers include Brian Belet, Pablo Furman, Donivan Johnson, and Martha Stoddard among others. William Sorenson performs Roger Sessions’ rarely heard Piano Sonata No. 1 and Stravinsky’s Piano Rag Music. [More]

Join Jonathan Glasier in conversation with Bill Wesley's Tonal Access III, Bill's Array Fields on Facebook Live. [More]

Chris Brown performs two of his compositions for piano & interactive computer using the Buchla PianoBar keyboard interface. The show opens with a premiere performance of “Shuffle Bagatelles” (2020) in which twelve short compositions performed in random order are live sampled and transformed by the computer based stochastically on analysis data derived from the performance. Following a short intermission with video by Johanna Poethig, the concert concludes with “Obelisk” (2016), integrating a written score with improvisation between the pianist and interactive computer. [More]

Nine Bay Area composers join forces to present new string quartets in a cycle of two concerts. A showcase of the Bay Area composition scene performed by the acclaimed Friction String Quartet and guest artists. [More]

Tonight we celebrate the 10-years-ago release of Mukyoku 無曲: New Music for Taimu Shakuhachi. Taimu are the wide-bore, bass variants of the vertical bamboo flute of ancient Zen Buddhism, shakuhachi 尺八. The complete Mukyoku repertoire features 27 compositions (Japanese calligraphic scores and recordings) and instructional materials for these big flutes and serve as part of the foundation for Black Earth Shakuhachi School, Boots’ thriving global nano-community of bamboo-breathing practitioners. [More]

Join us as guest interviewer Jon Raskin discusses Lexicographies with Cheryl Leonard. [More]

A recital of songs for voice and piano from "Trinity," a song cycle by Joseph Collins Wicht, featuring Jesse Barrett (tenor), Samuel Brondfield (tenor), and Terrence McLaughlin (bass). [More]

Cellist, Natalie Raney & Helia Music Collective present a vivid program of new and established works written by women for solo cello, each piece drawing inspiration from spring and nature. The program will feature newly-commissioned works by Elizabeth A. Baker, Julie Barwick, Emma Logan, and Belinda Reynolds. Included on the program is Kaija Saariaho’s striking work, Près, which draws inspiration from the sea, vividly illustrating the calm and the storm. This concert is a ticketed (pre-sale only), live-streamed event. Tickets will be available until 45 minutes before showtime. 30 minutes before showtime, ticket buyers will be sent a private link to view the concert. [More]

After nearly 6 months of daily improvisations, pianist/arranger Andrew Barnes Jamieson will perform a set that ties together the various sound worlds he has explored during an unprecedented moment in our world. He will create and interpret solo piano pieces that bring separate elements into dialogue: familiar melodies (sometimes several at once, in different keys and tempi), unusual harmonies, rhythms from jazz and classical traditions, composition, and improvisation. [More]

C4NM hosts a Zoom launch event with the cast and creators of The Electronic Lover, a new podcast opera by Bay Area composer Lisa Mezzacappa and Brooklyn writer Beth Lisick. [More]

Join instrument inventors Alan Tower, Hans Houkes, and C4NM curator Bart Hopkin at a live online event featuring artist talks, demonstrations, and performances. Tower and Houkes innovative instruments "The Innate" are three-chambered flutes intentionally designed in a way that allows all levels of musicians, from novice to expert, to be able to have rich musical experiences both playing and listening. [More]

Cornelius Boots on bass shakuhachi (Taimu/bamboo flute) featuring compositions by Boots himself. This concert is a ticketed (pre-sale only), live-streamed event. Pre-sale tickets will be available until 45 minutes before showtime. 30 minutes before showtime, ticket buyers will be sent a private link to the YouTube video of the live-streamed concert. [More]

Sierra Ensemble will feature the San Francisco premiere of a new trio by Andrés Carrizo. The two movements, “Like a Frozen Silver Shimmer,“ and “Of Frozen Resonance,“ use extended techniques that enhance and expand the expressive possibilities of each instrument. The concert also includes pieces by Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Eric Ewazen, and Brian Wilson. Donations are kindly accepted in advance and/or during the concert (click "buy tickets" to make a donation). [More]

Composer and pianist D. Riley Nicholson, takes listeners through a program of his past musical influences, culminating in the world premiere of his recent solo piano work, Without. Works to include music by Poulenc, Satie, Meredith Monk, and Hans Otte, each providing an example of musical inventiveness that has inspired Riley's compositions. Nicholson's new work, Without, candidly and reverently displays these influences and captures an isolated and dissonant mood also influenced by current events. [More]

In lieu of a closing reception for Composing [De]Composition, we're taking you on a virtual tour of our window gallery with artist J. no.e Parker and C4NM Project Manager D. Riley Nicholson. This online event also includes an artist interview with no.e and curator Bart Hopkin. Composing [De]Composition is a sonically-oriented BioArt research project that uses home compost as a rich site for creative exploration and sonic expression. [More]

The Queer and Trans Voices Tracking Series, co-presented by C4NM and the Transgender Cultural District, is a roundtable discussion on queer, trans, and non-binary musicians’ experiences in the new music industry, their access to resources, existing barriers that don’t exist for cis/straight artists, and how we move forward to a more equitable future. Tracking Series events catalyze and build a community of new music practitioners aimed at demonstrably improving equity within the field of new music. [More]

Join us for C4NM Encore Concerts – a chance to relive some of our favorite live performances at 55 Taylor, and a chance to reconnect with our community despite social distancing. Curators and artists will join in on the conversation in real-time to answer questions and discuss musical topics. At this concert, composer Brett Austin Eastman and flutist Jessie Nucho presented the first in a three-concert series on the theme of Feedback. [More]

Living Music with Nadia Sirota and Center for New Music are pleased to co-present the world premiere of Music for Hard Times, a film and album by composer Danny Clay, filmmaker Jon Fischer, and the guitar and percussion duo The Living Earth Show. [More]

Join us for C4NM Encore Concerts – a chance to relive some of our favorite live performances at 55 Taylor, and a chance to reconnect with our community despite social distancing. Curators and artists will join in on the conversation in real-time to answer questions and discuss musical topics. At this concert, Cornelius Boots presented original compositions and improvisations emerging from a lifetime of woodwinding, and 18 years of studying and creating new repertoire for an ancient instrument, the shakuhachi. [More]

Join us for C4NM Encore Concerts – a chance to relive some of our favorite live performances at 55 Taylor, and a chance to reconnect with our community despite social distancing. Curators and artists will join in on the conversation in real-time to answer questions and discuss musical topics. At this concert, we revisit Ashley Bellouin and Ben Bracken's meditative washes of sound, and the outer limits of electric guitar drone with Gabriel Mindel Saloman. [More]

Meet our C4NM 2020 Ensemble in Residence, The Alaya Project! Through this live, virtual event you can get to know the core members of The Alaya Project and their key collaborators. The event will be bookended with a live-streamed hybrid kit (solo percussion) by Rohan Krishnamurthy and will also include an artist discussion and Q&A moderated by C4NM Project Manager, Riley Nicholson. [More]

Join us for C4NM Encore Concerts – a chance to relive some of our favorite live performances at 55 Taylor, and a chance to reconnect with our community despite social distancing. Curators and artists will join in on the conversation in real-time to answer questions and discuss musical topics. On this program, we look back on the world premiere of six solo and ensemble pieces performed by renowned guitarist David Tanenbaum and friends. [More]

Join us for C4NM Encore Concerts – a chance to relive some of our favorite live performances at 55 Taylor, and a chance to reconnect with our community despite social distancing. Curators and artists will join in on the conversation in real-time to answer questions and discuss musical topics. On this program, E4TT performed the world premiere of Chinese composer Weiwei Miao’s Blooming Flowers, Full Moon for piano trio, along with works by 8 living women composers. [More]

An online workshop for the C4NM community with Meerenai Shim, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (CM) and professional flutist. This workshop will focus on stress relief through movement exploration, with an additional focus on performance anxiety. [More]

Join us for the sixth iteration of C4NM Encore Concerts – a chance to relive some of our favorite live performances at 55 Taylor, and a chance to reconnect with our community despite social distancing. Other Mind's C4NM series Latitudes spotlights artists spanning the fields of art-rock, sound art, and interdisciplinary forms. This concert presents vocalist/composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, sound artist Chris Duncan, and the electronics and percussion duo IMA. [More]

Join us for C4NM Encore Concerts – a chance to relive some of our favorite live performances at 55 Taylor, and a chance to reconnect with our community despite social distancing. This latest iteration of the series features Inn-fest, by Innova Records, featuring a fantastic range of sonic wonders to sample including Areon Flutes, Volti, Fricton Quartet, and Pamela Z. [More]

Join us for the fourth iteration of C4NM Encore Concerts – a chance to relive some of our favorite live performances at 55 Taylor, and a chance to reconnect with our community despite social distancing. Other Mind's C4NM series Latitudes spotlights artists spanning the fields of art-rock, sound art, and interdisciplinary forms. This concert presents selections from the inception of this prolific series, including performances by Bill Orcutt, Zachary James Watkins, Tetuzi Akiyama, & John Krausbauer. [More]

Join us for the third iteration of C4NM Encore Concerts – a chance to relive some of our favorite live performances at 55 Taylor, and a chance to reconnect with our community despite social distancing. This broadcast is from the 2018 world premiere of Shimmer for piano + electronics by D. Riley Nicholson's Shimmer including projected visuals created specifically for the event by artist Robby Gilson. [More]

Join us for the second in a series of C4NM Encore Concerts – a chance to relive some of our favorite live performances at 55 Taylor, and a chance to reconnect with our community online despite social distancing. Last week we presented soothing minimal music as meditation, during a time when we need it most. This week we take that same idea from a very different musical perspective and offer you a chance to swim in heavy metal drones and let off steam through beautiful distortion. At this concert, composer/performer and C4NM Co-Founder Brent Miller presents a collection of tracks that explore pitch, noise, and drone metal. [More]

Piano Solo works by Hyo-shin Na, Galina Ustvolskaya, and Frederic Rzewski. [More]

This concert features a trio of three improvisers who specialize in improvisation with electroacoustic instruments: Teodora Berg on violin, Thomas Lehar on analogue synthesizer, and Chris Brown on piano and computer. Teodora Berg and Thomas Lehar have been collaborating as a duo in Europe since 2002. Chris Brown met Lehar about twenty years ago while on tour in Cologne. This will be their first collaborative performance. [More]

Join us for the first in a series of C4NM Encore Concerts – a chance to relive some of our favorite live performances at 55 Taylor, and a chance to reconnect with our community despite social distancing. Curators and artists will join in on the conversation in real-time to answer questions and discuss musical topics. Hang out online with us and enjoy minimal, mellow chamber music by Ólafur Arnalds, performed by (previous) C4NM curator and violinist, Julia Ogrydziak, and friends. Each piece will be accompanied by a tiny poem to ponder as you listen. [More]

Join us for an evening of New Music followed with a local composer meet up. Hear recent work by local composer-performers and exchange tips for success in the field. Open to everyone. Composers are particularly welcome. [More]

As a classical pianist, Rory Cowal’s repertoire spans the breadth of the American avant-garde. This program of solo music features contemporary composers who draw from avant-garde jazz traditions in their work. [More]

A multimedia concert with musical works addressing philosophical questions of our Internet age. [More]

A meetup for composers and music creators of all types. Present what you’ve been working on, ask for feedback, hear what others are up to, discuss relevant new music topics, and spend time with colleagues and good company! [More]

Cloud About Mercury Revisited” with Feat of Clay, featuring Eric Dahlman, E. Doc Smith, Edo Castro Woodhouse and Peter McKibben. The quartet will present new arrangements of the music from guitarist David Torn's "Cloud About Mercury" album, music from Bill Bruford and Tony Levin’s subsequent “Upper Extremities” album, and original compositions by McKibben, Castro Woodhouse, Dahlman and Smith. [More]

String Noise (Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris, violins) plays the score for The Decline of Western Civilization featuring music by BLACK FLAG, GERMS, CATHOLIC DISCIPLINE, X, CIRCLE JERKS, ALICE BAG BAND and FEAR. [More]

"In reimagining the Bach Chaconne and Ockeghem’s Deo Gratias, I searched for meaning and connection to the greater, mysterious universe. My collaborator Spencer Topel, and I created an expansive sonic experience. It is as close to stopping time as I can imagine.” - Pauline Kim [More]

The concert features three sets: Chessa + Howes (piano, voice, EMS Hi-FLI Signal Processing, SOMA Ether wide-band radio-wave frequency detection); Tenderloin Noise (Chessa + Williams on amplified piano and turntables); and Chessa's solo set (Voice, Piano, Micro-feedback). * Photo by Melesio Núñez [More]

A trio featuring Hafez Modirzadeh (tenor sax), Motoko Honda (piano), and Keshav Batish (drums, tabla). [More]

The third edition of SSSS, an informal series at C4NM presenting electronic artists in surround sound. This month features Maggi Payne, Michelle Moeller, Léa Boudreau, David Michalak, and Tom Nunn. [More]

Desert Magic will be premiering "The Valley Spirit," a new song cycle that primarily uses Ursula Le Guin's version of the Tao Te Ching as text. Bay Area folk musician Meg Baird will also present a solo set. [More]

Oboist and Center for New Music Curator, Dr. Glenda Bates, performs a concert of solo works for oboe and electronics, interwoven with visual projections. Electroacoustic works for oboe/English horn by Diana Syrse, Daria Semegen, and Thea Musgrave with projections of artwork by Julia Marquis tell the story of humanity's descent into darkness, and our will to create a brighter future. [More]

Music by Bay Area Composer/Pianist Ric Louchard and Michael Rothkopf, professor of composition at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. [More]

Songfest is a cross-department collaboration at San Francisco State University, featuring new music written by student composers, in collaboration with student poets and singers. [More]

Trio Electrique features Michele Walther on electric violin, Edo Castro Woodhouse on 7 string bass, and E. "Doc" Smith on zendrum. OboeTronics is an ongoing performance project performed by Glenda Bates on oboe and tape. [More]

Pianist-composer Jared Redmond returns to the Bay Area, performing a recital of piano works by himself and other contemporary composers. Program includes world premieres by composers Park Jung-eun and Noh Ji-ye, pieces by Michael Finnissy, Kurt Rohde, and Wolfgang Rihm, and Redmond's own new work for solo piano, "Doth". [More]

A meetup for composers and music creators of all types. Present what you’ve been working on, ask for feedback, hear what others are up to, discuss relevant new music topics, and spend time with colleagues and good company! [More]

Featuring performances by Del Sol String Quartet as well as other guest performers, alumni of The Walden School's program will present new works in a range of styles. Immediately following the performance of each piece, there will be a dialogue with a guest composer. Co-presented by C4NM. [More]

Dr. Tarmu and Dr. Bates perform an evening of chamber music duets written by Eldad Tarmu. Exploring the roles of classical and jazz performance practices, and the hybridization of the two, Dr. Tarmu’s compositions entrance the listener with jazz harmonies and grooving rhythms, while singing with classical phrasing and formal structure. This concert features the premiere of Winter Migrant, a through-composed suite for oboe/English horn and vibraphone, alongside compositions that leave plenty of room for improvisation and surprise. [More]

Join us for the (free!) closing reception for Bryan Day's exhibition at C4NM's Window Gallery. Clamorworks explores sounds from typically non-musical activities, blurring the lines between commonplace activities, personal expression, and music. Reception 6pm. Artist talk and demonstration, 7pm. [More]

On the next installment of Latitudes, Angel Archer indulges us in extended rituals from a dimly lit corner of kosmische psychedelia and ambient soundscape. Henry Birdsey visits from the East Coast to perform solo works for just-intoned lap steel guitar. [More]

Hailed as a “soloist with impeccable taste,” and praised by audiences and composers for his "gorgeous, lyrical tone, spectacular technique, and heartfelt musicality ..." for presenting "the soprano saxophone at the height of its beauty," Jacob Swanson has performed throughout North America and Europe on concert series, television, and radio. This performance will feature works for saxophones and electronics. [More]

The great Canadian clarinetist François Houle joins local magicians Larry Ochs, Madalyn Merkey and Tim Perkis for this quartet's only Bay Area appearance. The local trio reconvenes for their 3rd concert in the past 5 months. The hope here: to combine improvising sensibilities, setting each other up time and again to capitalize on intuited structures which in turn give rare and meaningful form to a very spontaneous music. [More]

The second edition of this monthly, informal series at C4NM features three local electronic music composers, Chris Brown, Brian Reinbolt, and Kyle Bruckmann. These composers will present their fixed media and/or live electronic music through C4NM's new 8.2-channel surround system, generously provided by Meyer Sound. The composers mix their sounds from the center of the space; the audience is free to choose their own listening location and to move within the space to hear the music from different vantage points. [More]

Composer/pianist/scholar/activist John Halle, the Mana Sax Quartet and Friction String Quartet perform two decades of Halle's obliterations and reconfigurations of jazz standards by Monk, Rodgers and others. [More]

MANA Quartet returns to the Bay Area premiering several new works from their recent collaboration with Common Sense Composers Collective. [More]

Harmonic Brewing and Center for New Music are bringing together some incredible Bay Area vinyl DJ’s & Collectors for a Beer Week event like none other! Bring your vinyl to sell/trade, bring cash to pick up some awesome new & used vinyl, or just come through for the ALL VINYL DJ sets for an epic trip through music history. The event will take place at Harmonic Brewing, 1050 26th St, San Francisco. The event is in support of C4NM, and we will be accepting donations so that new music can continue to thrive in the Bay. [More]

Areon Flutes and Siroko Duo join forces for this recital of new music for flutes. Siroko Duo will perform works by Izabel Austin, Michael Kropf, and Chelsea Loew. Areon Flutes celebrates 15 years as an award-winning new music chamber ensemble and non profit organization in 2020 by premiering their latest commissions from Julie Barwick, Jane Rigler, and Igor C. Silva. [More]

An evening of musical portraits for solo cello performed by Icelandic American cellist, Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, with contemporary works by Jane Antonia Cornish, Melia Watras, Thuridur Jonsdóttir, Michelle Ross and Kaaija Saariaho. [More]

SANS; duo is a new music duo seeking to expound upon the saxophone-guitar duet format. In their inaugural concert, they explore open form, improvisational, and performance art piece in tandem with traditionally notated and electronically augmented works. [More]

Drummer Vladimir Tarasov of the famed Russian free improvising Ganelin Trio joins Rova Saxophonist Jon Raskin, pianist and electronic musician Chris Brown, and bassist Jason Hoopes for an evening of free form sonic adventures. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Ensemble for These Times performs the world premiere of Chinese composer Weiwei Miao's "Blooming Flowers, Full Moon" for piano trio, along with works by 8 living women composers. [More]

Inspired by the poetry, songs, and activism of Woody Guthrie, This A Changing World is a collection that conjures the wind, land, and stories of unplanned migration alongside songs about the American experience of loving and losing. [More]

An evening of transcendent improvised music featuring both mastery and mystery provided by VLP (Portland's Michael Vlatkovich on trombone, Southern California's Steuart Liebig on bass guitars, and Garth Powell on drums and percussion), and Berkeley's Larry Ochs on sopranino and tenor saxophones with Kjell Nordeson on drums.  [More]

Hyphen showcases new works written for The Living Earth Show by composers representing different generations of the Iranian electroacoustic music. The concert serves as a celebration of the 80th birthday of Alireza Mashayekhi, the legendary Iranian composer often credited as being one of the first composers of contemporary classical music in Iran. His influence resonates throughout the generations of Iranian composers represented on this show (Aida Shirazi, Farnood HaghaniPour, and Nima Rowshan) alongside the world premiere of Mashayekhi’s new work Labyrinth II written for The Living Earth Show. [More]

Celebrate the release of D. Riley Nicholson’s latest album “Resurrection of Everyday People” in a special event benefiting Raices, a non-profit that provides free and low-cost legal services to immigrants and refugees. The music was originally commissioned in 2019 by David Herrera Performance Company, and the evening will include an excerpt of the original production performed by dance artist Lacy Gandenberger. [More]

San Francisco-based flutist Jessie Nucho and composer Brett Austin Eastman present a program exploring the theme of feedback from a variety of perspectives, both literal and conceptual. Featuring a premiere by Brett Austin Eastman as well as works by Elainie Lillios, Eve Beglarian, Richard Reed Parry, and Anahita Abbasi. [More]

A new monthly, informal show at CNM in which local 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 move within the space to hear the music from different vantage points. [More]

Complex, intricate, idiosyncratic, and rockin’—those are the adjectives that best describe Nomad Trio, a cross-border collaboration between Vancouver guitarist Gordon Grdina, and New York’s Matt Mitchell piano, and Jim Black drums. Also on the program is Scott Amendola and Phillip Greenlief Duo, an incredible innovative exploratory duo, creating improvised instant compositions since 1993! [More]

Bay area composer group presents The Unquiet Grave. A guitar, vocal/bodhran duo playing new music arrangements of old english ballads. New works for solo guitar and violin as well [More]

Musicians from the Bay Area’s rich improvisational jazz scene perform live music in conversation with Annabeth Rosen’s ceramic sculptures at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. The latest iteration of the series features Lisa Mezzacappa and Kara Davis. [More]

An evening of solo acoustic guitar lullabies inspired by the Welsh concept of hiraeth: longing for a place or a point in time that you cannot return to, and possibly never existed. [More]

Global Art bridges continues its mission to build bridges between diverse cultures by bringing their rich musical traditions onto a shared stage. The second part of the Inception series will feature new works, written ensemble by its founders Leo Iogansen and Sasha Burdin, Seeping Waters and Calling, as well as new solo and ensemble compositions by other members of the ensemble. [More]

Ho Ho Ho, join your fellow Center for New Music enthusiasts, members, staff, and volunteers for holiday fun! We’ll share drinks and bites, toast/commiserate to the holidays, the end of 2010's, and whatever other occasion you might like to recognize. Also featuring a special concert poster collage displaying artists who have performed on our stage in 2019!  [More]

Join us for the (free!) closing reception for Taro Hattori's exhibit "Dragging the Right Chord," which is a functioning harpsichord made of corrugated cardboard and installed on a bicycle trailer. Through his exhibit, Hattori explores how music and wisdom helps us survive through difficult times. Reception 6pm. Artist talk and demonstration, 7pm. [More]

This concert features a world premiere by Larry Polansky (composer/guitarist) ~ Five Songs for Kate and Vanessa along with Mark Applebaum’s Aphasia, Salina Fisher’s Komorebi for violin and vibraphone and solo works by Larry Polansky (34 Chords), Terry Longshore (Crash) and the world premiere of At First by Henry Cowell. [More]

Release party for Mobius Trio's sophomore album, Bon Voyage. Enjoy food, drink, great company, and listening to the brand new album with the band. [More]

Solo Bass by Mark Helias. Solo Clarinet by Ben Goldberg. Bass/Clarinet Duet by Mark and Ben (world premiere). [More]

"FutureJazz" is an electronic trio featuring E. Doctor Smith on the Zendrum EXP and samples, Peter McKibben on guitar, loops and synthesizer, and Laura Austin Wiley on flutes and effects. [More]

"FutureJazz" is an electronic trio featuring E. Doctor Smith on the Zendrum EXP and samples, Peter McKibben on guitar, loops and synthesizer, and Laura Austin Wiley on flutes and effects. [More]

#45miniatures features works for solo piano that were written as a musical response to the 45th President of the United States. This concert will present a wide selection of works from the project. [More]

#45miniatures features works for solo piano that were written as a musical response to the 45th President of the United States. This concert will present a wide selection of works from the project. [More]

C4NM and the Contemporary Jewish Museum co-present and co-curate "Experiments in Sonic Potential" which invites musicians from the Bay Area’s rich improvisational and experimental community to perform live in conversation with Annabeth Rosen’s ceramic sculptures. The wildly creative clarinetist Ben Goldberg closes this series with his vibrant, flexible, and inventive improvisational music. [More]

C4NM and the Contemporary Jewish Museum co-present and co-curate "Experiments in Sonic Potential" which invites musicians from the Bay Area’s rich improvisational and experimental community to perform live in conversation with Annabeth Rosen’s ceramic sculptures. The wildly creative clarinetist Ben Goldberg closes this series with his vibrant, flexible, and inventive improvisational music. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Patrick Galvin and Jungeun Kim are working with Elizabeth Kimble to commission a new piece for violin and piano, which will be premiered in May 2020 in San Francisco. This evening's performance is to raise awareness for this project by offering a short concert and reception, including an excerpt from the piece. The piece explores the dissolution of identity as it can be experienced through illness, or enlightenment. [More]

An evening of audio-visual improvisations with Birgit Ulher (trumpet, radio, speaker, objects), Bill Hsu (video, electronics), and Gino Robair (electronics). [More]

Meditative soundscapes generated by neurofeedback. [More]

Electroacoustic chamber works + handheld electronic music [More]

Music for shinobue (Japanese bamboo flute), koto, and piano - Old and New [More]

Music for shinobue (Japanese bamboo flute), koto, and piano - Old and New [More]

The concert features the world premieres Seeping Waters and Calling - works specifically written for Global Art Bridges ensemble by its founders Leo Logansen and Sasha Burdin, as well as compositions created by other members of the ensemble. This event is the first in a series of concerts, dedicated to building bridges between various cultures by bringing their rich musical traditions onto a shared stage. [More]

Soundwave guest curator Christo Oropeza presents vocalist San Cha alongside Guillermo Galindo’s hand-made instruments from objects found at the border, in Nochtlaca: Todos, todos, todos. This program explores how borders, walls, and unity looks, feels, and sounds like, in the face of our polarized times. The evening also features Persia, beloved SF Drag Queen, who will create a special set of performances to accompany San Cha and Guillermo’s work. Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm [More]

Free preview of new works concert before Left Coast travels to the Wunsch New Music Festival. Music by Melinda Wagner, Mei-Fang Lin, Jennifer Higdon, Kurt Rohde, Sheila Silver, and Christopher Stark. [More]

Armed with a battery of consumer-grade electronics and an unwholesome passion for sci-fi and AM radio, audio plunderer Joseph Hammer assembles found sound detritus into a palace of labyrinthine referents. Kaori Suzuki rewards endurance with transcendence in a set featuring modified melodica and oscillators. [More]

PGLRG is the newly re-christened name for what was formerly called OrcheSperry, a large ensemble led and composed for by Phillip Greenlief. On this occasion, the group will play various BW scores for trio (resulting in a performance of multiple trios at once) in the first set and a new MAP SCORE (SAINT PETERSBURG FOR PGLRG). This concert celebrates a visit by Michael Dessen - trombonist, composer and educator from Southern California. [More]

Gordon Grdina's The Marrow brings together Arabic Maqam and Persian Dastgah with western improvisation. With Mark Helias, Hank Robers, Mark Feldman and Hamin Honari. [More]

Ensemble PHASE performs recently-composed repertoires written for Korean traditional instruments. [More]

C4NM collaborates with Cinematheque to present the finale performance by our 2019 Ensemble in Residence, duo B. vs. vIDEO sAVant. The trio, an improvising intermedia ensemble of drums (Jason Levis), bass (Lisa Mezzacappa) and live video (Charles Woodman), presents a new video/music performance developed this in residence this year. The program begins with a screening of works by filmmaker Dominic Angerame. [More]

A concert of dramatic works and a call to action, featuring world premieres of "Steps" by Belinda Reynolds and "Road Trip Snapshots" by Dan Becker, plus works by Randall Woolf, Kathleen Supové, and John King. [More]

Mike Tamburo of Crown of Eternity presents a sound meditation concert featuring 50+ overtone rich instruments including gongs, bells, hammered dulcimer and tuned metal instruments. [More]

Join us for the (free!) closing reception for Guillermo Galindo's exhibition at C4NM's Window Gallery. Galindo's exhibit features invented sonic devices made out of daily life objects. By identifying with pre-Colombian healing practices, Galindo sees his sonic objects as connectors, healers, reminders and mediators between worlds and realities. Reception 6pm. Artist talk and demonstration, 7pm. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Tim Perkis and Tom Djll, as Kinda Green, combine electronics and trumpet in softly unsettling ruminations on the meaning of smooth jazz. Kim Nucci opens with a probing solo electronics set. [More]

Composer and laptop performer Neil Rolnick will perform a program of new work with pianist and New Music Diva Kathleen Supové. The concert will include the World Premiere of Journey's End, written for Ms Supové. It will also include the West Coast Premieres of Mirages, for piano and computer, and Messages for solo laptop. [More]

Jesse Perlstein (US) & Shinya Sugimoto (JP) combine haunting vocals, field recordings, piano etudes, oscillator drones and digital algorithmic noise to create minimal soundscapes that blossom into lush nostalgia-tinged requiems. The balance between ambience and harmonic vox/keys swells give these improvised performances a feeling of intention and composition that reflects the long-standing collaboration the two artists have shared. OboeTronics is an ongoing performance project featuring twenty-first century works for oboe and tape performed by oboe and English horn virtuoso, Glenda Bates. Composers Semegen, ter Veldhuis, and Khamda, provide vibrant electronic soundscapes with which the oboe dances, sings, and improvises. [More]

Jesse Perlstein (US) & Shinya Sugimoto (JP) combine haunting vocals, field recordings, piano etudes, oscillator drones and digital algorithmic noise to create minimal soundscapes that blossom into lush nostalgia-tinged requiems. The balance between ambience and harmonic vox/keys swells give these improvised performances a feeling of intention and composition that reflects the long-standing collaboration the two artists have shared. OboeTronics is an ongoing performance project featuring twenty-first century works for oboe and tape performed by oboe and English horn virtuoso, Glenda Bates. Composers Semegen, ter Veldhuis, and Khamda, provide vibrant electronic soundscapes with which the oboe dances, sings, and improvises. [More]

Face of A Stranger (1977), a restored feature film by David Michalak with a new score by Thollem McDonas. Selected Film-Frame prints will be on view in the lobby. Rova’s Bruce Ackley opens. [More]

Research based soundscapes generated by brainwaves. [More]

Research based soundscapes generated by brainwaves. [More]

A two-day, free (with Muni fare) public performance curated by Epiphany Dance Theater artistic director Kim Epifano, pairs artists and ensembles with specific sites along San Francisco’s MUNI route, where they are invited to create an 8- to 15-minute piece in response to the physical environment, architecture and history of the area.  [More]

C4NM and the Contemporary Jewish Museum co-present and co-curate "Experiments in Sonic Potential" which invites musicians from the Bay Area’s rich improvisational and experimental community to perform live in conversation with Annabeth Rosen’s ceramic sculptures. Third in this series is Theresa Wong, a San Francisco–based composer, cellist, improvisor, and vocalist, whose output is prolific and multi-disciplinary. [More]

Friction Quartet will be joined by bass clarinetist Bruce Belton at the Center for New Music for the Bay Area premieres of new quintets by Marc Mellits, Sebastián Tozzola, and Michael Torke. [More]

C4NM and the Contemporary Jewish Museum co-present and co-curate "Experiments in Sonic Potential" which invites musicians from the Bay Area’s rich improvisational and experimental community to perform live in conversation with Annabeth Rosen’s ceramic sculptures. Third in this series is Theresa Wong, a San Francisco–based composer, cellist, improvisor, and vocalist, whose output is prolific and multi-disciplinary. [More]

A rare treat from Europe, Ensemble EKT brings an unusual trio configuration of bari sax, bass, and custom electroacoustic sound sculpture to the confines of the Center. Opening will be a new trio, I Lo U, with Matt Ingalls on reeds, Scott Looney on piano and Hyperpiano DSP, and Ken Ueno on vocals, membranes, and devices. [More]

Darius Jones is an extraordinarily gifted young alto saxophonist and composer living in New York. He makes modern, soulful, scintillating music. Jones makes a special Bay Area appearance at Center for New Music, the proceeds of which support our endeavors at C4NM, creating a space for new music to thrive. Reception hosted by the C4NM Board of Directors at 7pm, concert at 8pm.  [More]

The Chromelodia Project will perform a concert of music by Chris Brown written in Harry Partch's 43-tone just intonation. Performers are Chris Brown, keyboard and interactive computer; Theresa Wong, cello and voice; and Kyle Bruckmann, oboe. This Chromelodia Project concert is funded by InterMusic SF’s Musical Grant Program, www.InterMusicSF.org. [More]

The Chromelodia Project will perform a concert of music by Chris Brown written in Harry Partch's 43-tone just intonation. Performers are Chris Brown, keyboard and interactive computer; Theresa Wong, cello and voice; and Kyle Bruckmann, oboe. This Chromelodia Project concert is funded by InterMusic SF’s Musical Grant Program, www.InterMusicSF.org. [More]

Site: Yizkor, an interactive work for sound and video developed by the Bronx, NY interdisciplinary artist Maya Ciarrocchi and the Stockton, CA composer Andrew Conklin, explores the physical and emotional documentation of loss through the lens of Jewish Yizkor books. This presentation of the project at Center for New Music will include a new piece for live musicians in an immersive projected and sonic environment, followed by a workshop where audience members are invited to create their own Yizkor pages as a way to mourn and commemorate lost people and places. [More]

Site: Yizkor, an interactive work for sound and video developed by the Bronx, NY interdisciplinary artist Maya Ciarrocchi and the Stockton, CA composer Andrew Conklin, explores the physical and emotional documentation of loss through the lens of Jewish Yizkor books. This presentation of the project at Center for New Music will include a new piece for live musicians in an immersive projected and sonic environment, followed by a workshop where audience members are invited to create their own Yizkor pages as a way to mourn and commemorate lost people and places. [More]

San Francisco-based New Music trio, Slow Wave, presents an exciting program featuring premieres by San Francisco composers Julie Barwick and Brett Austin Eastman, a recent work by Israeli composer Aviya Kopelman, and a 20th-century work by English composer, Gordon Jacob. [More]

Burton Greene will present a set of solo piano works and improvisations. Nava Dunkelman, percussion; Gabby Fluke-Mogul, violin; and Bruce Ackley, saxophones, will play duets in an opening set, and then join Greene for a quartet. [More]

Burton Greene will present a set of solo piano works and improvisations. Nava Dunkelman, percussion; Gabby Fluke-Mogul, violin; and Bruce Ackley, saxophones, will play duets in an opening set, and then join Greene for a quartet. [More]

Brooklyn, NY based sound artist/composer Fay Victor, honing a unique vision for the vocalist’s role in jazz and improvised music, is joined in duo performance and conversation by "stalwart of the new-jazz movement" pianist/composer Myra Melford, from across the Bay, in Berkeley. Co-presented with The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, as the first double-program in its Fall 2019 In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. [More]

Brooklyn, NY based sound artist/composer Fay Victor, honing a unique vision for the vocalist’s role in jazz and improvised music, is joined in duo performance and conversation by "stalwart of the new-jazz movement" pianist/composer Myra Melford, from across the Bay, in Berkeley. Co-presented with The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, as the first double-program in its Fall 2019 In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. [More]

The Center for New Music is celebrating 7 years of serving the new music community from its home at 55 Taylor Street. This party is our 1000th event at C4NM! Join us in celebrating 7 years of creating space for new music to thrive. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres provided complimentary. Free to all C4NM members & supporters, all are invited with a $5 suggested donation. [More]

The Center for New Music is celebrating 7 years of serving the new music community from its home at 55 Taylor Street. This party is our 1000th event at C4NM! Join us in celebrating 7 years of creating space for new music to thrive. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres provided complimentary. Free to all C4NM members & supporters, all are invited with a $5 suggested donation. [More]

Dirt and Copper will be joined by artist Rebeca Bollinger for an evening of interdisciplinary works exploring the liminal spaces between sonic, textual, and visual modes of interpretation. Each piece is a sonic process generated / refracted in the visual field. [More]

Dirt and Copper will be joined by artist Rebeca Bollinger for an evening of interdisciplinary works exploring the liminal spaces between sonic, textual, and visual modes of interpretation. Each piece is a sonic process generated / refracted in the visual field. [More]

Direct from Yerevan, Armenia. Duduk master Harutyun Chkolyan makes his San Francisco solo artist debut in an evening of Armenian folk and contemporary works. With piano and percussion accompaniment, Chkolyan will perform on not only the duduk, but other Armenian and near eastern wind instruments such as the zurna, pku, shvi, ney flute, and clarinet. [More]

Direct from Yerevan, Armenia. Duduk master Harutyun Chkolyan makes his San Francisco solo artist debut in an evening of Armenian folk and contemporary works. With piano and percussion accompaniment, Chkolyan will perform on not only the duduk, but other Armenian and near eastern wind instruments such as the zurna, pku, shvi, ney flute, and clarinet. [More]

After years performing in the all-winds improvisation trio SPECTRAL, Bay Area Ochs + Johnston get together for a special first-time quartet meeting with electronics masters Tim Perkis and Madalyn Merkey. The hope here: to combine improvising sensibilities, setting each other up time and again to capitalize on structural possibilities that give rare and meaningful form to an otherwise very spontaneous music. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Christina Braun and Tom Nunn perform “Deep States,” a set of 8 pieces for dancer and original experimental instruments, each dance featuring a particular theme and instrument. [More]

Christina Braun and Tom Nunn perform “Deep States,” a set of 8 pieces for dancer and original experimental instruments, each dance featuring a particular theme and instrument. [More]

SF composer and pianist Colin Martin premieres a Piano Sonata, Cello Sonata, and song cycle/chamber opera alongside his friends and colleagues, cellist Abigail Monroe and soprano Winnie Nieh. [More]

SF composer and pianist Colin Martin premieres a Piano Sonata, Cello Sonata, and song cycle/chamber opera alongside his friends and colleagues, cellist Abigail Monroe and soprano Winnie Nieh. [More]

C4NM and the Contemporary Jewish Museum co-present and co-curate "Experiments in Sonic Potential" which invites musicians from the Bay Area’s rich improvisational and experimental community to perform live in conversation with Annabeth Rosen’s ceramic sculptures. animals & giraffes performs second on this series, a highly collaborative, improvisational project of Phillip Greenlief and Claudia la Rocco with frequent guest collaborators. animals & giraffes is an ever-changing ensemble exploring improvisation with artists from different disciplines. [More]

C4NM and the Contemporary Jewish Museum co-present and co-curate "Experiments in Sonic Potential" which invites musicians from the Bay Area’s rich improvisational and experimental community to perform live in conversation with Annabeth Rosen’s ceramic sculptures. animals & giraffes performs second on this series, a highly collaborative, improvisational project of Phillip Greenlief and Claudia la Rocco with frequent guest collaborators. animals & giraffes is an ever-changing ensemble exploring improvisation with artists from different disciplines. [More]

Amanda Chaudhary (Pitta of the Mind) and Cara Esten (Rusty Sunsets) Celebrate trans visibility in the heart of the Tenderloin, just down the block from the historic Compton's Cafeteria where the first riot for gay and trans rights occurred in August of 1966. In the nations first trans cultural district, C4NM will be creating space for, and amplifying the voices of, trans, gender non-binary, gender fluid, and gender queer musicians. [More]

Amanda Chaudhary (Pitta of the Mind) and Cara Esten (Rusty Sunsets) Celebrate trans visibility in the heart of the Tenderloin, just down the block from the historic Compton's Cafeteria where the first riot for gay and trans rights occurred in August of 1966. In the nations first trans cultural district, C4NM will be creating space for, and amplifying the voices of, trans, gender non-binary, gender fluid, and gender queer musicians. [More]

Composer-performers Matthew B. Creer and Adam Fong present a shared program of new music for voice, bass, and computers, with visual media including animation and found video. Fong will premiere two works from an ongoing research and performance project exploring Chinese-American mining and migration: Automated Fault Extraction and Specific Gravity, both involving bass and electronics. Creer will present selections from Legends of the Future, a songbook of brief sound narratives with contrapuntal video including found footage and animations by the composer, both fixed and live/real-time. [More]

Composer-performers Matthew B. Creer and Adam Fong present a shared program of new music for voice, bass, and computers, with visual media including animation and found video. Fong will premiere two works from an ongoing research and performance project exploring Chinese-American mining and migration: Automated Fault Extraction and Specific Gravity, both involving bass and electronics. Creer will present selections from Legends of the Future, a songbook of brief sound narratives with contrapuntal video including found footage and animations by the composer, both fixed and live/real-time. [More]

We come together to engage in the Deep Listening® practices of Pauline Oliveros. Led by Anna Wolfe-Pauly. [More]

We come together to engage in the Deep Listening® practices of Pauline Oliveros. Led by Anna Wolfe-Pauly. [More]

Improve ability and expand the boundaries of the possible to make deeper connections with yourself and your music with the Feldenkrais Method®. [More]

Improve ability and expand the boundaries of the possible to make deeper connections with yourself and your music with the Feldenkrais Method®. [More]

New chamber works by Jeffrey Mosier, Liam Herb, Bryan Lin and Matthew Slayton. Performances by local SF musicians. [More]

New chamber works by Jeffrey Mosier, Liam Herb, Bryan Lin and Matthew Slayton. Performances by local SF musicians. [More]

Charles Xavier has extended his crosscurrent-infused "XBOOM" project with a new set of musical influences as performed by jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown III, Matt Montgomery on electric guitar and violin, and the composer himself on drums and synthesizers. [More]

Charles Xavier has extended his crosscurrent-infused "XBOOM" project with a new set of musical influences as performed by jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown III, Matt Montgomery on electric guitar and violin, and the composer himself on drums and synthesizers. [More]

On the next installment of Latitudes, the duo of Marcia Bassett and Samara Lubelski combine violin and e-bowed guitar in a thick tranquilizing compound. Like a viscous syrup, the slow-moving drones ooze chromatically across their instruments. John Krausbauer and Kaori Suzuki’s existential and ecstatic free drone emanates an intense ritualistic vibe—the kind of music that would make a suitably ominous soundtrack to one of Hermann Nitsch’s notorious aktions. [More]

On the next installment of Latitudes, the duo of Marcia Bassett and Samara Lubelski combine violin and e-bowed guitar in a thick tranquilizing compound. Like a viscous syrup, the slow-moving drones ooze chromatically across their instruments. John Krausbauer and Kaori Suzuki’s existential and ecstatic free drone emanates an intense ritualistic vibe—the kind of music that would make a suitably ominous soundtrack to one of Hermann Nitsch’s notorious aktions. [More]

Join us for the (free!) closing reception for Johannes Bergmark's exhibition, "How Do You Invent Something?" which explores his creative process. For Bergmark, invention is an improvisatory practice; a surrealist, poetic attitude with playful, associative, analogic thinking inspires his work. Reception 6pm. Artist talk and demonstration, 7pm. [More]

C4NM and the Contemporary Jewish Museum co-present and co-curate "Experiments in Sonic Potential" which invites musicians from the Bay Area’s rich improvisational and experimental community to perform live in conversation with Annabeth Rosen’s ceramic sculptures. Oakland-based oboist, composer, and performer Kyle Bruckmann opens the series: His work is rooted in a in Western classical foundation, and extends into the genres of free jazz, post-punk rock, and the noise underground. [More]

Join us for the (free!) closing reception for Johannes Bergmark's exhibition, "How Do You Invent Something?" which explores his creative process. For Bergmark, invention is an improvisatory practice; a surrealist, poetic attitude with playful, associative, analogic thinking inspires his work. Reception 6pm. Artist talk and demonstration, 7pm. [More]

C4NM and the Contemporary Jewish Museum co-present and co-curate "Experiments in Sonic Potential" which invites musicians from the Bay Area’s rich improvisational and experimental community to perform live in conversation with Annabeth Rosen’s ceramic sculptures. Oakland-based oboist, composer, and performer Kyle Bruckmann opens the series: His work is rooted in a in Western classical foundation, and extends into the genres of free jazz, post-punk rock, and the noise underground. [More]

Collection of new pieces composed by Bay Area composers. [More]

Collection of new pieces composed by Bay Area composers. [More]

Renowned tabla player Mukta Raste has traveled from Mumbai, India to perform at C4NM as part of her international tour. Part of her performance will be accompanied by Bay Area harpist Jennifer Ellis. [More]

Renowned tabla player Mukta Raste has traveled from Mumbai, India to perform at C4NM as part of her international tour. Part of her performance will be accompanied by Bay Area harpist Jennifer Ellis. [More]

Free Improvisers Ted Moore (Chicago) on electronics and Tom Weeks (Oakland) on saxophone shred some ear drums. [More]

Free Improvisers Ted Moore (Chicago) on electronics and Tom Weeks (Oakland) on saxophone shred some ear drums. [More]

Celebrating 16 years in the Bay and 45 years on Earth, lifelong woodwind innovator Cornelius Boots invites you to his Birthday Bash at C4NM in SF on his actual birthday. There will be heavy Zen bamboo flutes (solo shakuhachi and Taimu/bass shakuhachi), a proto-Taimu ensemble premiere plus special guests joining in on Boots' compositions PLUS doughnuts, dark tea and darker beer. [More]

Celebrating 16 years in the Bay and 45 years on Earth, lifelong woodwind innovator Cornelius Boots invites you to his Birthday Bash at C4NM in SF on his actual birthday. There will be heavy Zen bamboo flutes (solo shakuhachi and Taimu/bass shakuhachi), a proto-Taimu ensemble premiere plus special guests joining in on Boots' compositions PLUS doughnuts, dark tea and darker beer. [More]

Serial collaborator and pianist Thollem McDonas is coming to the Bay Area in the midst of his 6-month U.S. tour. At the Center for New Music, he’s joining forces with Rova Saxophone Quartet. These are 5 masters of their instruments, who bring an extraordinarily wide array of techniques and experiences to their music. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

We come together to engage in the Deep Listening® practices of Pauline Oliveros. Led by Anna Wolfe-Pauly. [More]

We come together to engage in the Deep Listening® practices of Pauline Oliveros. Led by Anna Wolfe-Pauly. [More]

On the next installment of Latitudes, Other Minds teams up with the SF Art Book Fair to present vocalist/composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, dronesmith Chris Duncan, and the electronics and percussion duo IMA at the San Francisco Center for New Music. [More]

On the next installment of Latitudes, Other Minds teams up with the SF Art Book Fair to present vocalist/composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, dronesmith Chris Duncan, and the electronics and percussion duo IMA at the San Francisco Center for New Music. [More]

A Circle Has No Beginning embodies the multi-faceted musical influences of Bay Area born, and now New York-based percussionist and composer Sameer Gupta. The album crosses numerous musical boundaries, incorporating mesmerizing Indian music, skillful jazz improvisation, potent funk, and forward-thinking progressive sounds. [More]

A Circle Has No Beginning embodies the multi-faceted musical influences of Bay Area born, and now New York-based percussionist and composer Sameer Gupta. The album crosses numerous musical boundaries, incorporating mesmerizing Indian music, skillful jazz improvisation, potent funk, and forward-thinking progressive sounds. [More]

A celebration of beautiful chaos; an ode to Ornette Coleman. [More]

A celebration of beautiful chaos; an ode to Ornette Coleman. [More]

Composer/Performer and Center for New Music Co-Founder Brent Miller celebrates the release of his album 'Nomad Vigil,' a collection of tracks that explore pitch, noise, and drone metal with assists by Arvo Pärt and Charles Bukowski. [More]

Composer/Performer and Center for New Music Co-Founder Brent Miller celebrates the release of his album 'Nomad Vigil,' a collection of tracks that explore pitch, noise, and drone metal with assists by Arvo Pärt and Charles Bukowski. [More]

Jon Raskin will be performing Steve Lacy "Practitioners Book W" saxophone solos & John Hanes and Steve Adams play improvised electronic duets. [More]

Utopic folk dreamer Andrew Weathers visits the Bay Area from his hideaway in rural West Texas with a set of guitar-driven ambient folk works that drift seamlessly between rigor and flexibility to deliver a message that’s at turns weary and optimistic. AMMA ATERIA presents a dense sonic menagerie of distant and closely mic’d subjects forming an unsteady equilibrium hovering above a bed of luxuriant drones. [More]

Utopic folk dreamer Andrew Weathers visits the Bay Area from his hideaway in rural West Texas with a set of guitar-driven ambient folk works that drift seamlessly between rigor and flexibility to deliver a message that’s at turns weary and optimistic. AMMA ATERIA presents a dense sonic menagerie of distant and closely mic’d subjects forming an unsteady equilibrium hovering above a bed of luxuriant drones. [More]

Panoramic Dissonances present the live sound performances that envision and shape the time, texture, and existence as a total nature where the dissonances become a new discipline of life. Sound artists Laetitia Sonami, John Davis, Heejin Jang create the sonic experiences that dismantle the sense of time and space into somewhere noisy but serene, a breathtaking adrift in wrath, love, disorder, and chaos. The concert consists of three solo live sound performances. [More]

Panoramic Dissonances present the live sound performances that envision and shape the time, texture, and existence as a total nature where the dissonances become a new discipline of life. Sound artists Laetitia Sonami, John Davis, Heejin Jang create the sonic experiences that dismantle the sense of time and space into somewhere noisy but serene, a breathtaking adrift in wrath, love, disorder, and chaos. The concert consists of three solo live sound performances. [More]

Los Angeles based experimental electric quartet Apollo Soul returns to the Bay Area for an evening of original and improvised music inspired by the sounds of Weather Report, “Bitches Brew”, “In a Silent Way” and other early explorations into fusion. [More]

Los Angeles based experimental electric quartet Apollo Soul returns to the Bay Area for an evening of original and improvised music inspired by the sounds of Weather Report, “Bitches Brew”, “In a Silent Way” and other early explorations into fusion. [More]

Solo performances from Peter J. Woods and Christopher Burns, blending sound, performance, and video art. [More]

Solo performances from Peter J. Woods and Christopher Burns, blending sound, performance, and video art. [More]

Pianist Ju-Ping Song showcases powerful, visceral works for solo piano, soundtrack, and video by four women with strong, individual voices: Lois Vierk (USA), Rahilia Hasanova (Azerbaijian), Nicole Lizée (Canada), and Kate Moore (Australia). Their musical styles, while different in most ways, share a similar magnetic and irresistible approach to story-telling and sound. [More]

Pianist Ju-Ping Song showcases powerful, visceral works for solo piano, soundtrack, and video by four women with strong, individual voices: Lois Vierk (USA), Rahilia Hasanova (Azerbaijian), Nicole Lizée (Canada), and Kate Moore (Australia). Their musical styles, while different in most ways, share a similar magnetic and irresistible approach to story-telling and sound. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Join us for a celebration of the Bay Area invented instrument community and C4NM's Window Gallery. 5:30-7pm, our Board of Directors will host a reception with new music by curators Bart Hopkin and David Samas. From 7-9pm Pamela Z and Donald Swearingen will perform alongside special guests Krys Bobrowski, Brenda Hutchinson, and the Karen Stackpole Trio. Proceeds from this special event will support C4NM's Window Gallery, allowing us to continue presenting the most imaginative instrument inventors and artists crossing the boundaries between visual art, acoustic craftsmanship, and music. [More]

Join us for a celebration of the Bay Area invented instrument community and C4NM's Window Gallery. 5:30-7pm, our Board of Directors will host a reception with new music by curators Bart Hopkin and David Samas. From 7-9pm Pamela Z and Donald Swearingen will perform alongside special guests Krys Bobrowski, Brenda Hutchinson, and the Karen Stackpole Trio. Proceeds from this special event will support C4NM's Window Gallery, allowing us to continue presenting the most imaginative instrument inventors and artists crossing the boundaries between visual art, acoustic craftsmanship, and music. [More]

We come together to engage in the Deep Listening® practices of Pauline Oliveros. Led by Anna Wolfe-Pauly. [More]

We come together to engage in the Deep Listening® practices of Pauline Oliveros. Led by Anna Wolfe-Pauly. [More]

CD Release Concert for multiple GRAMMY® nominated pianist Nadia Shpachenko’s new album “The Poetry of Places.” 5 San Francisco premieres of architecture-inspired works by Amy Beth Kirsten, Hannah Lash, James Matheson, Harold Meltzer, and Jack Van Zandt from Shpachenko’s new CD, as well as 2 World Premieres and 2 West Coast premieres of works by Paul Chihara, Thea Musgrave, José Serebrier, and Lewis Spratlan. [More]

CD Release Concert for multiple GRAMMY® nominated pianist Nadia Shpachenko’s new album “The Poetry of Places.” 5 San Francisco premieres of architecture-inspired works by Amy Beth Kirsten, Hannah Lash, James Matheson, Harold Meltzer, and Jack Van Zandt from Shpachenko’s new CD, as well as 2 World Premieres and 2 West Coast premieres of works by Paul Chihara, Thea Musgrave, José Serebrier, and Lewis Spratlan. [More]

Buenos Aires-based sound artist Alan Courtis will be discussing his graphic scores and other works during a short artist talk. His works are on display at the Center For New Music Atrium. [More]

Buenos Aires-based sound artist Alan Courtis will be discussing his graphic scores and other works during a short artist talk. His works are on display at the Center For New Music Atrium. [More]

EEP! (Electronic Ensemble Performance Weekend) closing act includes ambient electroacoustic improvisation by Los Angeles-based Tim Feeney, Clay Chaplin, and David Sumner. The second half of the concert features The HUB, a collaborative, and improvisational performance practice characterized by the sharing of digital information via a network. [More]

EEP! (Electronic Ensemble Performance Weekend) closing act includes ambient electroacoustic improvisation by Los Angeles-based Tim Feeney, Clay Chaplin, and David Sumner. The second half of the concert features The HUB, a collaborative, and improvisational performance practice characterized by the sharing of digital information via a network. [More]

Brendan Glasson and Sally Decker perform a collaborative set exploring chaotic events within controlled environments. Kevin Blechdom and Blevin Blectum will whisk you away to a psychedelic organic-electronic universe of sonic snauses. This performance is part of EEP! ... an Electronic Ensemble Performance Weekend. [More]

Brendan Glasson and Sally Decker perform a collaborative set exploring chaotic events within controlled environments. Kevin Blechdom and Blevin Blectum will whisk you away to a psychedelic organic-electronic universe of sonic snauses. This performance is part of EEP! ... an Electronic Ensemble Performance Weekend. [More]

Amina Kirby and Jess Tambellini open EEP by performing a duo with handmade electronic instruments, then Monopiece, a trio consisting of Nathan Corder on electronics, Matt Robidoux on guitar, and Tim Russell on percussion, collaborate with vocalist Rodolfo Cordova-Lebron. This performance is part of the EEP (Electronic Ensemble Performance Weekend). [More]

Amina Kirby and Jess Tambellini open EEP by performing a duo with handmade electronic instruments, then Monopiece, a trio consisting of Nathan Corder on electronics, Matt Robidoux on guitar, and Tim Russell on percussion, collaborate with vocalist Rodolfo Cordova-Lebron. This performance is part of the EEP (Electronic Ensemble Performance Weekend). [More]

What if Captain Beefheart had cut his teeth listening to The Fall instead of Howlin’ Wolf and Bo Diddley? The result might have sounded like Receptacles—a joyfully shambolic deconstructionist collision of rhythms and riffs. Kyle Bruckmann’s DEGRADIENT gleefully collides elements of skronk, fried analog noise and dark prog, adding significant heaviness to his signature polyrhythmic clatter, formal complexity, and black humor. [More]

What if Captain Beefheart had cut his teeth listening to The Fall instead of Howlin’ Wolf and Bo Diddley? The result might have sounded like Receptacles—a joyfully shambolic deconstructionist collision of rhythms and riffs. Kyle Bruckmann’s DEGRADIENT gleefully collides elements of skronk, fried analog noise and dark prog, adding significant heaviness to his signature polyrhythmic clatter, formal complexity, and black humor. [More]

Amina Kirby will demo handmade instruments she invented and built, and discuss her strategies for making electronic music from scratch. Later in the week, Amina will perform at EEP! (Electronic Ensemble Performance Weekend) with Jess Tambellini. [More]

Amina Kirby will demo handmade instruments she invented and built, and discuss her strategies for making electronic music from scratch. Later in the week, Amina will perform at EEP! (Electronic Ensemble Performance Weekend) with Jess Tambellini. [More]

Composers of electronic music are invited to bring a short piece to diffuse through the Center’s new 6.1 Meyer system. If you want to participate, send an email in advance to curator Chris Brown cbmuse(at)gmail.com to confirm, and bring your digital soundfile on a flash drive. This workshop opens EEP! …  an (E)lectronic (E)nsemble (P)erformance Weekend. [More]

Composers of electronic music are invited to bring a short piece to diffuse through the Center’s new 6.1 Meyer system. If you want to participate, send an email in advance to curator Chris Brown cbmuse(at)gmail.com to confirm, and bring your digital soundfile on a flash drive. This workshop opens EEP! …  an (E)lectronic (E)nsemble (P)erformance Weekend. [More]

Sonimenology: Three separate entities unite to create a cocktail hour of desirable sounds. There will be drones, there will be a wide dynamic range, there will be introspective moments, and we will do our best to create something wonderful. Sets by Christopher Jette & Chris Christensen. Barbara Nerness & Stephanie Sherriff. Solo set John Davis. [More]

Sonimenology: Three separate entities unite to create a cocktail hour of desirable sounds. There will be drones, there will be a wide dynamic range, there will be introspective moments, and we will do our best to create something wonderful. Sets by Christopher Jette & Chris Christensen. Barbara Nerness & Stephanie Sherriff. Solo set John Davis. [More]

Internationally acclaimed bass-baritone Jóhann Schram Reed makes his Center for New Music debut with the world premiere of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, a song cycle written for him by Patricia Wallinga. The program also features David Conte's 2003 cycle Everyone Sang and other selections from the 20th- and 21st century American vocal repertoire. [More]

Internationally acclaimed bass-baritone Jóhann Schram Reed makes his Center for New Music debut with the world premiere of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, a song cycle written for him by Patricia Wallinga. The program also features David Conte's 2003 cycle Everyone Sang and other selections from the 20th- and 21st century American vocal repertoire. [More]

Bay Area chamber group, Sleight Ensemble, perform their new program, Angles on Time, featuring new works inspired by alternate notations of time in music. The program includes works by ensemble members and Steve Parris, and live visuals by Jesse Austin. [More]

Bay Area chamber group, Sleight Ensemble, perform their new program, Angles on Time, featuring new works inspired by alternate notations of time in music. The program includes works by ensemble members and Steve Parris, and live visuals by Jesse Austin. [More]

Center for New Music will host the June gathering for the All Ears Interfaith Sangha! You are invited (not required!) to bring a dish to share for dinner after the program. Join us in performing sound meditations and connecting with one another, ourselves, and with Spirit through creation and awareness of sound. [More]

Center for New Music will host the June gathering for the All Ears Interfaith Sangha! You are invited (not required!) to bring a dish to share for dinner after the program. Join us in performing sound meditations and connecting with one another, ourselves, and with Spirit through creation and awareness of sound. [More]

Low-tech (Contraption Quartet) meets high-craft sound (Jeremiah Moore). Quartet members are Bodil Fox, Larnie Fox, Chris Miller and Lena Strayhorn. This is the final evening of Larnie’s installation at the Center celebrating the life of Leonardo, which ended 500 years ago this month. [More]

Low-tech (Contraption Quartet) meets high-craft sound (Jeremiah Moore). Quartet members are Bodil Fox, Larnie Fox, Chris Miller and Lena Strayhorn. This is the final evening of Larnie’s installation at the Center celebrating the life of Leonardo, which ended 500 years ago this month. [More]

The Black Cedar Trio presents the winners of their 2018 Commissioning Competition: "Tres Colores" by Chilean composer Javier Contreras, "In The Spring" by San Jose composer Andre Gueziec, and "Out of Nothing" by Minnesota composer Victoria Malawey. [More]

The Black Cedar Trio presents the winners of their 2018 Commissioning Competition: "Tres Colores" by Chilean composer Javier Contreras, "In The Spring" by San Jose composer Andre Gueziec, and "Out of Nothing" by Minnesota composer Victoria Malawey. [More]

V.L.P. (Vlatkovich, Liebig, and Powell) and the Ochs-Robinsonn Duo team up for a double bill of free improvised music at Center for New Music.  [More]

V.L.P. (Vlatkovich, Liebig, and Powell) and the Ochs-Robinsonn Duo team up for a double bill of free improvised music at Center for New Music.  [More]

ROVA saxophonist Jon Raskin joins electroacoustic pianist Chris Brown, bassist Jason Hoopes and drummer Donald Robinson in an evening of free-form improvisations. [More]

We come together to engage in the Deep Listening® practices of Pauline Oliveros. Led by Anna Wolfe-Pauly. [More]

We come together to engage in the Deep Listening® practices of Pauline Oliveros. Led by Anna Wolfe-Pauly. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Voice and piano duo performing new works by Stanford Graduate Composers and existing works by European Composers. [More]

Voice and piano duo performing new works by Stanford Graduate Composers and existing works by European Composers. [More]

Beth Custer premieres Drawdown, an evening-length chamber work based on the compelling Paul Hawken book Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming with Custer on voice/clarinets, cellist Freya Seeburger and her ensemble Juxtapositions with Mia Nardi-Huffman (violin), Naomi Stine (piano) and special guest Jim Kassis on drums/percussion. [More]

Beth Custer premieres Drawdown, an evening-length chamber work based on the compelling Paul Hawken book Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming with Custer on voice/clarinets, cellist Freya Seeburger and her ensemble Juxtapositions with Mia Nardi-Huffman (violin), Naomi Stine (piano) and special guest Jim Kassis on drums/percussion. [More]

A curated set of Icelandic contemporary music for solo cello, much of it written for Sæunn, Vernacular is the title of her first album on the Sono Luminus label. Pieces by Thuríður Jónsdóttir, Halldór Smárason, Páll Ragnar Pálsson, and Hafliði Hallgrímsson showcase a unique soundworld in intimate monologues. [More]

A curated set of Icelandic contemporary music for solo cello, much of it written for Sæunn, Vernacular is the title of her first album on the Sono Luminus label. Pieces by Thuríður Jónsdóttir, Halldór Smárason, Páll Ragnar Pálsson, and Hafliði Hallgrímsson showcase a unique soundworld in intimate monologues. [More]

An evening of instrumental guitar music and songs reflecting a variety of traditions and perspectives from the past hundred years. With David Tanenbaum, Ann Moss, Carrie Smith, Larry Polansky, Giacomo Fiore, and the SFCM guitar ensemble. [More]

An evening of instrumental guitar music and songs reflecting a variety of traditions and perspectives from the past hundred years. With David Tanenbaum, Ann Moss, Carrie Smith, Larry Polansky, Giacomo Fiore, and the SFCM guitar ensemble. [More]

Grammy-nominated vocalist Theo Bleckmann (ECM) and electronic musician/producer Joseph Branciforte celebrate the release of their debut album LP1 (greyfade) that merges the warmth and fragility of the human voice with the clicks and whirs of machines, modular synthesizers, and broken tape loops. San Francisco-based electronic musician Billy Gomberg opens the evening with a solo performance. [More]

Grammy-nominated vocalist Theo Bleckmann (ECM) and electronic musician/producer Joseph Branciforte celebrate the release of their debut album LP1 (greyfade) that merges the warmth and fragility of the human voice with the clicks and whirs of machines, modular synthesizers, and broken tape loops. San Francisco-based electronic musician Billy Gomberg opens the evening with a solo performance. [More]

Humbly virtuosic guitarist, polymuse, and serial collaborator Alan Licht joins the Latitudes series to perform his solo electric guitar meanderings. Bay Area local Danny Paul Grody rounds out the bill on his chiming 12-string, performing works wrapped in a gauzy lilt—like watching dust motes floating in the light of cracked blinds. [More]

Humbly virtuosic guitarist, polymuse, and serial collaborator Alan Licht joins the Latitudes series to perform his solo electric guitar meanderings. Bay Area local Danny Paul Grody rounds out the bill on his chiming 12-string, performing works wrapped in a gauzy lilt—like watching dust motes floating in the light of cracked blinds. [More]

Join us to for the (free!) opening of Fiction and Fables, an exhibit representing personal narratives, political commentary and expanding cultural standards. Fiction and Fables explores a multitude of storylines through sonic mediums. This exhibit is presented in partnership with the San Francisco Art Institute. Reception 6pm. Artist talk and performance, 7pm. [More]

Join us to for the (free!) opening of Fiction and Fables, an exhibit representing personal narratives, political commentary and expanding cultural standards. Fiction and Fables explores a multitude of storylines through sonic mediums. This exhibit is presented in partnership with the San Francisco Art Institute. Reception 6pm. Artist talk and performance, 7pm. [More]

Inn-fest, the annual, nomadic Innova label showcase, features a smorgasbord of regional acts from its roster of visionary musical artists performing selections from four brand new releases. From daringly a cappella choral music (Volti), to dazzling flute trios (Areon Flutes), audacious string quartets (Friction Quartet performing works by Common Sense Composers' Collective), and breathtaking vocals with electronics (Pamela Z), there will be much sonic tastiness to sample. [More]

Inn-fest, the annual, nomadic Innova label showcase, features a smorgasbord of regional acts from its roster of visionary musical artists performing selections from four brand new releases. From daringly a cappella choral music (Volti), to dazzling flute trios (Areon Flutes), audacious string quartets (Friction Quartet performing works by Common Sense Composers' Collective), and breathtaking vocals with electronics (Pamela Z), there will be much sonic tastiness to sample. [More]

A quintet of these well-known Bay Area improvisors converge for the first time as a quintet at Center for New Music. The evening will open with duos and trios of the players in different combinations, culminating in a long form quintet improvisation on the second set. [More]

A quintet of these well-known Bay Area improvisors converge for the first time as a quintet at Center for New Music. The evening will open with duos and trios of the players in different combinations, culminating in a long form quintet improvisation on the second set. [More]

The New Haven, CT duo Tongue Depressor perform trance-inducing fiddle music that seethes with beating overtones and a high lonesome sound. The unlikely pairing of lap steel dobro and koto makes up the L.A.-based duo of Caspar Sonnet and Kozue Matsumoto. Together they scrape, bow and pluck their way through an investigation of the versatile sound palette and extended possibilities of their instruments. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Guided by Voices is the commissioning project of cellist Elinor Frey who uses two instruments, Baroque cello and five-string cello, that each have a very different sound than the modern cello. The program at the Centre for New Music features solo works by the Japanese-American composer Ken Ueno (“Chimera”) and Swedish-German composer Lisa Streich (“Minerva”) and Canadians Scott Edward Godin (“Guided By Voices”), Linda Catlin Smith (“Ricercar”), Isaiah Ceccarelli (“With concord of sweet sounds”). Each work reveals the cello’s incredible versatility and remarkable colours. [More]

Guided by Voices is the commissioning project of cellist Elinor Frey who uses two instruments, Baroque cello and five-string cello, that each have a very different sound than the modern cello. The program at the Centre for New Music features solo works by the Japanese-American composer Ken Ueno (“Chimera”) and Swedish-German composer Lisa Streich (“Minerva”) and Canadians Scott Edward Godin (“Guided By Voices”), Linda Catlin Smith (“Ricercar”), Isaiah Ceccarelli (“With concord of sweet sounds”). Each work reveals the cello’s incredible versatility and remarkable colours. [More]

New Music performed by an "Early" String Quartet. Early music performed with the élan of new music. The Galax Quartet plays music from 1607 to 2007. [More]

New Music performed by an "Early" String Quartet. Early music performed with the élan of new music. The Galax Quartet plays music from 1607 to 2007. [More]

Join us to celebrate Bay Area artists working with Bells, including Brenda Hutchinson, Taylor G., Nick DePhillipo and Bart Hopkin. [More]

Join us to celebrate Bay Area artists working with Bells, including Brenda Hutchinson, Taylor G., Nick DePhillipo and Bart Hopkin. [More]

Other Minds’ Latitudes series continues with The Master and Enigma: Paul Metzger, a bonafide American folk outsider, performs his entrancing hymnprovisations for modified 23 string banjo. Minneapolis’ mercurial mystery man John Saint Pelvyn makes an ultra-rare Bay Area appearance performing on solo electric guitar—barely harnessed feedback, f-hole howling, mid-jam retunings and whammy bar abuse all-included. Voicehandler rounds out the bill with a set of unnerving glossolalia, electronic sputter and spuming percussion. [More]

Other Minds’ Latitudes series continues with The Master and Enigma: Paul Metzger, a bonafide American folk outsider, performs his entrancing hymnprovisations for modified 23 string banjo. Minneapolis’ mercurial mystery man John Saint Pelvyn makes an ultra-rare Bay Area appearance performing on solo electric guitar—barely harnessed feedback, f-hole howling, mid-jam retunings and whammy bar abuse all-included. Voicehandler rounds out the bill with a set of unnerving glossolalia, electronic sputter and spuming percussion. [More]

Arab.AMP is delighted to present solo evening of work by Magda Mayas, a pianist living in Berlin. Over the past 20 years, she developed a vocabulary utilizing both the inside as well as the exterior parts of the piano, using amplification, preparations and objects that become extensions of the instrument itself. She explores textural, linear sound collage, and has developed a set of techniques that draw on the history of prepared and inside piano vocabulary, but are highly individualized and expand the language for internal piano music making. [More]

Arab.AMP is delighted to present solo evening of work by Magda Mayas, a pianist living in Berlin. Over the past 20 years, she developed a vocabulary utilizing both the inside as well as the exterior parts of the piano, using amplification, preparations and objects that become extensions of the instrument itself. She explores textural, linear sound collage, and has developed a set of techniques that draw on the history of prepared and inside piano vocabulary, but are highly individualized and expand the language for internal piano music making. [More]

Slow & Steady Records Presents... One big artist showcase. Short sets, community building, community hang, info session on S&S + how to get involved! [More]

Slow & Steady Records Presents... One big artist showcase. Short sets, community building, community hang, info session on S&S + how to get involved! [More]

Sacramento - based pianist Sakurako Kanemitsu performs a program of 20th century and contemporary works. Works by Henri Dutilleux, Dai Fujikura, Philip Glass, Lei Liang, Arvo Pärt, and Ryan Suleiman. [More]

Sacramento - based pianist Sakurako Kanemitsu performs a program of 20th century and contemporary works. Works by Henri Dutilleux, Dai Fujikura, Philip Glass, Lei Liang, Arvo Pärt, and Ryan Suleiman. [More]

A double bill of freewheeling and imaginative Bay Area jazz by two woman-led ensembles. [More]

A double bill of freewheeling and imaginative Bay Area jazz by two woman-led ensembles. [More]

Oakland's Grex and Brooklyn's Book of Hours share the stage for an evening of art rock, jazz, and improvisation. Grex will convene in an expanded configuration and Book of Hours will be on tour in support of its record release. [More]

Oakland's Grex and Brooklyn's Book of Hours share the stage for an evening of art rock, jazz, and improvisation. Grex will convene in an expanded configuration and Book of Hours will be on tour in support of its record release. [More]

We come together to engage in the Deep Listening® practices of Pauline Oliveros. Led by Anna Wolfe-Pauly. [More]

We come together to engage in the Deep Listening® practices of Pauline Oliveros. Led by Anna Wolfe-Pauly. [More]

Amaranth Quartet premieres D. Riley Nicholson's most recent work, Break, alongside a new quartet version of Nicholson's Bend, and selections from Philip Glass's Bent. The evening will include music by the winner of Amaranth's young composer's initiative, Alyssa Weinberg, Ryan Brown, and Sahba Aminikia. [More]

Amaranth Quartet premieres D. Riley Nicholson's most recent work, Break, alongside a new quartet version of Nicholson's Bend, and selections from Philip Glass's Bent. The evening will include music by the winner of Amaranth's young composer's initiative, Alyssa Weinberg, Ryan Brown, and Sahba Aminikia. [More]

Summits is a song cycle by Daniel Corral using texts collected over the last 10 years while hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains. Each song is based on entries documented in various summit registers (notebooks often found at the top of hiking or climbing trails). These personal chronicles from regional pinnacles portray the wisdom, humility, and humor that can only be found on a mountain peak. [More]

Summits is a song cycle by Daniel Corral using texts collected over the last 10 years while hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains. Each song is based on entries documented in various summit registers (notebooks often found at the top of hiking or climbing trails). These personal chronicles from regional pinnacles portray the wisdom, humility, and humor that can only be found on a mountain peak. [More]

Composer Patricia Wallinga hosts a salon-style concert of her own art song and chamber music. [More]

Composer Patricia Wallinga hosts a salon-style concert of her own art song and chamber music. [More]

Vocalizing the Horn is a window to the music of Egypt and Islam through the french horn. Join us for this hybrid lecture-recital featuring Amr Selim performing original and arranged Arabic tunes on the french horn. Selim will share some historical and theoretical background on Arabic Music and will discuss the performance practice of such music on the horn using his etude book: Vocalizing the Horn. [More]

Vocalizing the Horn is a window to the music of Egypt and Islam through the french horn. Join us for this hybrid lecture-recital featuring Amr Selim performing original and arranged Arabic tunes on the french horn. Selim will share some historical and theoretical background on Arabic Music and will discuss the performance practice of such music on the horn using his etude book: Vocalizing the Horn. [More]

The OFSQ premieres Matthias McIntire's "Little Worlds" for woodwind quintet, and Matthias gives the American Premiere of his "Cathedral Grove (and the Gray Jay)" for solo violin and live electronics. [More]

The OFSQ premieres Matthias McIntire's "Little Worlds" for woodwind quintet, and Matthias gives the American Premiere of his "Cathedral Grove (and the Gray Jay)" for solo violin and live electronics. [More]

113 presents work by Georges Aperghis, Chaya Czernowin, and James Dillon, as well as West Coast premieres of work by 113 composers Joey Crane, Sam Krahn, Joshua Musikantow, Tiffany Skidmore, and Jeremy Wagner, featuring performances by Duo Gelland, Nina Dante, Maria Ritzenthaler, and the Hutchins/Qiang Duo. [More]

113 presents work by Georges Aperghis, Chaya Czernowin, and James Dillon, as well as West Coast premieres of work by 113 composers Joey Crane, Sam Krahn, Joshua Musikantow, Tiffany Skidmore, and Jeremy Wagner, featuring performances by Duo Gelland, Nina Dante, Maria Ritzenthaler, and the Hutchins/Qiang Duo. [More]

Nicolee Kuester, Horn and Eric Moore, Cello present two commissioned premieres by Dongryul Lee and Sergio Cote in addition to music by Morton Feldman. They will be joined by Jennifer Hunt, Piano for a work by Alvin Lucier. [More]

Nicolee Kuester, Horn and Eric Moore, Cello present two commissioned premieres by Dongryul Lee and Sergio Cote in addition to music by Morton Feldman. They will be joined by Jennifer Hunt, Piano for a work by Alvin Lucier. [More]

Friction Commissioning Initiative brings six new works to life premiering quartets by Sarang Kim and Nick Benavides. Also on the concert will be Geoffrey Gordon's ABACISCUS. [More]

Friction Commissioning Initiative brings six new works to life premiering quartets by Sarang Kim and Nick Benavides. Also on the concert will be Geoffrey Gordon's ABACISCUS. [More]

The first show of Bard Music West's new concert series featuring composers Danny Clay and Gabriella Smith. Meet the composers and discover some of their many inspirations, including coral reefs, children's games, and Haydn! [More]

The first show of Bard Music West's new concert series featuring composers Danny Clay and Gabriella Smith. Meet the composers and discover some of their many inspirations, including coral reefs, children's games, and Haydn! [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Join award-winning concert pianist Clare Longendyke as she presents a program of solo piano works by composers currently living and working in the Bay Area. [More]

Join award-winning concert pianist Clare Longendyke as she presents a program of solo piano works by composers currently living and working in the Bay Area. [More]

Chris Brown performs live electronics in duets with Soo Yeon Lyuh, amplified haegum (a Korean bowed two-string instrument); and James Fei, analog electronics. This concert is the first in a new series at C4NM of music for live electronic ensembles that Brown will curate during the next two years. A week-long mini-festival is next, scheduled for June 18-23. A state-of-the-art sound system will be generously provided by Meyer Sound. [More]

Chris Brown performs live electronics in duets with Soo Yeon Lyuh, amplified haegum (a Korean bowed two-string instrument); and James Fei, analog electronics. This concert is the first in a new series at C4NM of music for live electronic ensembles that Brown will curate during the next two years. A week-long mini-festival is next, scheduled for June 18-23. A state-of-the-art sound system will be generously provided by Meyer Sound. [More]

We come together to engage in the Deep Listening® practices of Pauline Oliveros. Led by Anna Wolfe-Pauly. [More]

We come together to engage in the Deep Listening® practices of Pauline Oliveros. Led by Anna Wolfe-Pauly. [More]

Don’t miss this exciting night of guitar music, featuring world renowned David Tanenbaum and friends performing SEVEN World Premieres of top Bay Area Composer Belinda Reynolds and acclaimed Guitarist/Composer Ben Verdey. Everything will be explored, From Tan Dun’s quixotic’ ‘Seven Desires’ to Omid Zoufonoun’s ‘Cascade’. This show promises to be an evening of satisfying and tasty music for one’s ears. [More]

Don’t miss this exciting night of guitar music, featuring world renowned David Tanenbaum and friends performing SEVEN World Premieres of top Bay Area Composer Belinda Reynolds and acclaimed Guitarist/Composer Ben Verdey. Everything will be explored, From Tan Dun’s quixotic’ ‘Seven Desires’ to Omid Zoufonoun’s ‘Cascade’. This show promises to be an evening of satisfying and tasty music for one’s ears. [More]

Zwischenspiel: a meditative program of minimalist solo and duo piano music paired with photography exploring the interplay between musicians, art forms, and culture across two continents. [More]

Zwischenspiel: a meditative program of minimalist solo and duo piano music paired with photography exploring the interplay between musicians, art forms, and culture across two continents. [More]

Piano improvising stalwart Scott R. Looney returns to the Center for an evening of adventurous compositions and improvisations, this time in a more traditional piano trio setting with the fabulous bassist Lisa Mezzacapa and the explosive precision of Kjell Nordeson on drums and percussion. It's the night before we set our clocks ahead as well, so come celebrate the last night of regular time! [More]

Piano improvising stalwart Scott R. Looney returns to the Center for an evening of adventurous compositions and improvisations, this time in a more traditional piano trio setting with the fabulous bassist Lisa Mezzacapa and the explosive precision of Kjell Nordeson on drums and percussion. It's the night before we set our clocks ahead as well, so come celebrate the last night of regular time! [More]

Gabriel Mindel Saloman, known widely for his work in seminal noise band Yellow Swans, joins Latitudes to present his ongoing investigations into music of the liberated body. Composer and instrument-builder Ashley Bellouin is joined by guitarist Ben Bracken to conjure a sound equal parts spiritual, mental, and physical—minimal by design, maximal in spirit. [More]

Gabriel Mindel Saloman, known widely for his work in seminal noise band Yellow Swans, joins Latitudes to present his ongoing investigations into music of the liberated body. Composer and instrument-builder Ashley Bellouin is joined by guitarist Ben Bracken to conjure a sound equal parts spiritual, mental, and physical—minimal by design, maximal in spirit. [More]

Kurt Rohde’s Farewell Tour—Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 continues with PART 2, featuring new works for viola and electronics. [More]

Kurt Rohde’s Farewell Tour—Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 continues with PART 2, featuring new works for viola and electronics. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Improvised electric guitar solos and duos by Alvaro Domene & Henry Kaiser. [More]

Improvised electric guitar solos and duos by Alvaro Domene & Henry Kaiser. [More]

Composer-pianist Jared Redmond returns to his home in the Bay Area, performing a recital of contemporary piano works. Jared will premiere new pieces written for him by composers Carolyn Chen, Saman Samadi, and Kurt Rohde, and play modern masterpieces by Giacinto Scelsi, Salvatore Sciarrino, and more. [More]

Composer-pianist Jared Redmond returns to his home in the Bay Area, performing a recital of contemporary piano works. Jared will premiere new pieces written for him by composers Carolyn Chen, Saman Samadi, and Kurt Rohde, and play modern masterpieces by Giacinto Scelsi, Salvatore Sciarrino, and more. [More]

On the latest installment of Latitudes, William Fowler Collins gives voice to a spectacular chroma of dread with a performance of works from his most recent full-length record Field Music—a seething, pulsing soundtrack in honor of the landscape in which the world’s first atomic bomb was assembled. “Geneva Skeen evokes Californian vistas and the corruption festering behind them with the same uneasiness as Lana Del Rey's West Coast or Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice. Her genuinely evocative music fully communicates its ideas and intentions even without accompanying data” (Wire Magazine). [More]

On the latest installment of Latitudes, William Fowler Collins gives voice to a spectacular chroma of dread with a performance of works from his most recent full-length record Field Music—a seething, pulsing soundtrack in honor of the landscape in which the world’s first atomic bomb was assembled. “Geneva Skeen evokes Californian vistas and the corruption festering behind them with the same uneasiness as Lana Del Rey's West Coast or Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice. Her genuinely evocative music fully communicates its ideas and intentions even without accompanying data” (Wire Magazine). [More]

Sara Schoenbeck joins Wayne and the Snowghost Trio for an evening of duets, trio music from the recently released "Snowghost Session," and finally a quartet. [More]

Sara Schoenbeck joins Wayne and the Snowghost Trio for an evening of duets, trio music from the recently released "Snowghost Session," and finally a quartet. [More]

1st set: Adams - Mezzacappa - Nordeson TRIO: These Bay Area improvisers converge in original inventions that traverse abstract soundscapes to angular grooves, melodic flights and collective ruminations. 2nd set: Netherland expat Michael Vatcher DUO with local saxophone wizard Phillip Greenlief in a series of free improvisations. [More]

1st set: Adams - Mezzacappa - Nordeson TRIO: These Bay Area improvisers converge in original inventions that traverse abstract soundscapes to angular grooves, melodic flights and collective ruminations. 2nd set: Netherland expat Michael Vatcher DUO with local saxophone wizard Phillip Greenlief in a series of free improvisations. [More]

This program of virtuosic chamber works pushes the performer to the extreme! Featuring music by Michael Gilbertson, Gyorgy Ligeti, Bela Bartok, and Ana Sokolovic. [More]

This program of virtuosic chamber works pushes the performer to the extreme! Featuring music by Michael Gilbertson, Gyorgy Ligeti, Bela Bartok, and Ana Sokolovic. [More]

In her solo violin project "Meshes," Leslee Smucker explores the strange and unnerving relationship between dream and reality by juxtaposing the music of Conor Abbott Brown, Lera Auerbach, Luc Brewaeys, Michel van der Aa, Locatelli, and film of Maya Deren. Sound design by Conor Abbott Brown. [More]

In her solo violin project "Meshes," Leslee Smucker explores the strange and unnerving relationship between dream and reality by juxtaposing the music of Conor Abbott Brown, Lera Auerbach, Luc Brewaeys, Michel van der Aa, Locatelli, and film of Maya Deren. Sound design by Conor Abbott Brown. [More]

C4NM hosts its third Tracking Series, with a roundtable discussion focusing on women composers and gender equity in contemporary music led by Emma Logan and Julie Barwick of Helia Music Collective with featured panelists Elinor Armer, Pamela Z, Sarah Cahill, Aubrey Bergauer, Daria Novo, Maggie Payne, and Mya Byrne. This discussion is free and open to all who are interested in discussing both the current artistic and economic conditions for women in music, and future paths to increasing equality. [More]

C4NM hosts its third Tracking Series, with a roundtable discussion focusing on women composers and gender equity in contemporary music led by Emma Logan and Julie Barwick of Helia Music Collective with featured panelists Elinor Armer, Pamela Z, Sarah Cahill, Aubrey Bergauer, Daria Novo, Maggie Payne, and Mya Byrne. This discussion is free and open to all who are interested in discussing both the current artistic and economic conditions for women in music, and future paths to increasing equality. [More]

ACF is pleased to launch a new Composer Residency for the Bay Area, in partnership with the Center for New Music. In advance of this new program, ACF staff will be in town to host a composer meet-up in January! Please join us in San Francisco on January 29th for food and drink, to connect with your colleagues, and to get more information about how to apply for the upcoming Composer Residency. [More]

ACF is pleased to launch a new Composer Residency for the Bay Area, in partnership with the Center for New Music. In advance of this new program, ACF staff will be in town to host a composer meet-up in January! Please join us in San Francisco on January 29th for food and drink, to connect with your colleagues, and to get more information about how to apply for the upcoming Composer Residency. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

E4TT performs a concert of 15 short works: 9 pieces by women composers (including Missy Mazzoli, Elena Ruehr, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Laura Schwendinger, Shulamit Ran, and Tamar Diesendruck), 5 more from E4TT's first Call for Scores, at which we received 275 works by 200 composers and chose 56 x 54, plus a piece by E4TT composer David Garner. [More]

E4TT performs a concert of 15 short works: 9 pieces by women composers (including Missy Mazzoli, Elena Ruehr, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Laura Schwendinger, Shulamit Ran, and Tamar Diesendruck), 5 more from E4TT's first Call for Scores, at which we received 275 works by 200 composers and chose 56 x 54, plus a piece by E4TT composer David Garner. [More]

On the latest installment of Latitudes, Arrington de Dionyso conjures utopic zones through ritual trance and the high spirits of electrified rock and roll. The iconoclastic duo DunkelpeK transmits an amalgamated soundworld through percussion and electric guitar, chopping their many influences to bits and reassembling them in a quest for new musical possibilities. [More]

On the latest installment of Latitudes, Arrington de Dionyso conjures utopic zones through ritual trance and the high spirits of electrified rock and roll. The iconoclastic duo DunkelpeK transmits an amalgamated soundworld through percussion and electric guitar, chopping their many influences to bits and reassembling them in a quest for new musical possibilities. [More]

YinSho is Fay Kueen Wang and Brendon Randall-Myers, two composer/performers who create stark, sensual soundscapes, warped electronic rock, and surreal performance art. For this concert, they will present a set of original songs about dreams, nightmares, animals, objects, and aliens, bookended by a long-form improvisation and a piece by LA-based composer Ethan Braun. [More]

YinSho is Fay Kueen Wang and Brendon Randall-Myers, two composer/performers who create stark, sensual soundscapes, warped electronic rock, and surreal performance art. For this concert, they will present a set of original songs about dreams, nightmares, animals, objects, and aliens, bookended by a long-form improvisation and a piece by LA-based composer Ethan Braun. [More]

Marti Ruiz is director of the Taller Baschet in Barcelona and has come to San Francisco to demystify the Baschet system of applied acoustics with his latest exhibition at C4NM's Window Gallery. Reception at 6 PM, artist talk and demonstration at 7 PM. [More]

Marti Ruiz is director of the Taller Baschet in Barcelona and has come to San Francisco to demystify the Baschet system of applied acoustics with his latest exhibition at C4NM's Window Gallery. Reception at 6 PM, artist talk and demonstration at 7 PM. [More]

Join Aerocade Artists for an evening of new music, free improvisation, electronics, woodwinds, and good vibrations! Contrabass flute virtuoso Ned McGowan will join the lineup as a special guest. Complimentary refreshments! [More]

Join Aerocade Artists for an evening of new music, free improvisation, electronics, woodwinds, and good vibrations! Contrabass flute virtuoso Ned McGowan will join the lineup as a special guest. Complimentary refreshments! [More]

Pedal steel guitar player Chuck Johnson’s western-tinged ambient works drawl out slow and stately, like disappearing shadows on the desert floor while the sun rises overhead. Again the light changes with trumpet player and vocalist Leila Abdul-Rauf whose blurred melancholic songs obscure the day’s memories in a mesmeric haze. [More]

Pedal steel guitar player Chuck Johnson’s western-tinged ambient works drawl out slow and stately, like disappearing shadows on the desert floor while the sun rises overhead. Again the light changes with trumpet player and vocalist Leila Abdul-Rauf whose blurred melancholic songs obscure the day’s memories in a mesmeric haze. [More]

Ho Ho Ho and a bottle of rum (or the drink of your choice), it's time for the annual C4NM Holiday Party! There will be drinks, bites, good people, another edition of Jingle Bells in C, and optional ugly sweaters. Free for members and volunteers, others welcome but donation requested. [More]

Ho Ho Ho and a bottle of rum (or the drink of your choice), it's time for the annual C4NM Holiday Party! There will be drinks, bites, good people, another edition of Jingle Bells in C, and optional ugly sweaters. Free for members and volunteers, others welcome but donation requested. [More]

Join us for an evening of music, meditation, art and dance expiring and celebrating the consciousness or our allies in the green world. 7 PM: Plant Meditation with Michael Dooley and plant portraits by Anjelica Collard. 8 PM: Sarah Cahill, Piano: Patterns of Plants, Mamoru Fujieda. 9 PM: Pet the Tiger: Psychobotanikon. [More]

Major Arcana is a musical interpretation of the trump cards of the tarot deck, as created by SF composer and songwriter Derek Schmidt. This is a public presentation of the SF Arts Commission Individual Artist grant he received to complete this project. [More]

Major Arcana is a musical interpretation of the trump cards of the tarot deck, as created by SF composer and songwriter Derek Schmidt. This is a public presentation of the SF Arts Commission Individual Artist grant he received to complete this project. [More]

Performed by The Living Earth Show's Andy Meyerson, Humble Servant (Proof of Concept) is a work-in-progress presentation featuring a preview of five pieces, written by Samuel Adams, Amadeus Regucera, Sarah Hennies, Christopher Cerrone, and Adrian Knight. Moderated discussion led by Matthew Holmes-Linder. [More]

Performed by The Living Earth Show's Andy Meyerson, Humble Servant (Proof of Concept) is a work-in-progress presentation featuring a preview of five pieces, written by Samuel Adams, Amadeus Regucera, Sarah Hennies, Christopher Cerrone, and Adrian Knight. Moderated discussion led by Matthew Holmes-Linder. [More]

A total absorption in sound through the harmonic resonance of 50+ overtone rich instruments including Gongs, Bells, Hammered Dulcimer and tuned metal instruments. [More]

A total absorption in sound through the harmonic resonance of 50+ overtone rich instruments including Gongs, Bells, Hammered Dulcimer and tuned metal instruments. [More]

Quarks combine to form composite particles, and describe well the five musicians' adventurous melodic - rhythmical sound landscapes with influences from classical, jazz, songwriting, electronic and improv music. The eminent composer, flautist and video artist Maggi Payne opens the evening. [More]

Quarks combine to form composite particles, and describe well the five musicians' adventurous melodic - rhythmical sound landscapes with influences from classical, jazz, songwriting, electronic and improv music. The eminent composer, flautist and video artist Maggi Payne opens the evening. [More]

Mexico City electronic sound artists Enrique Arriaga and Concepción Huerta each share sound performances intersecting visible and invisible impulses circling manifestations of humanity. [More]

Mexico City electronic sound artists Enrique Arriaga and Concepción Huerta each share sound performances intersecting visible and invisible impulses circling manifestations of humanity. [More]

Composer Danny Clay and printmaker Jon Fischer present an evening of film screenings with live musical accompaniment. Exhibited in conjunction with an interactive visual art display, the screening combines the duo’s hand printed records with field footage shot across the California coastline. T.D. Skatchit & Company features Tom Nunn & David Michalak playing Nunn's inventions the Skatchbox and Skatch Platter with guests from a pool of over 20 collaborators known as The Company. For this concert, The Company features Aurora Josephson. [More]

Composer Danny Clay and printmaker Jon Fischer present an evening of film screenings with live musical accompaniment. Exhibited in conjunction with an interactive visual art display, the screening combines the duo’s hand printed records with field footage shot across the California coastline. T.D. Skatchit & Company features Tom Nunn & David Michalak playing Nunn's inventions the Skatchbox and Skatch Platter with guests from a pool of over 20 collaborators known as The Company. For this concert, The Company features Aurora Josephson. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Solo piano works by Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Phil Young, Scriabin, and Prokofiev. [More]

Solo piano works by Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Phil Young, Scriabin, and Prokofiev. [More]

Martin Azevedo, Dennis Aman & friends fold together DIY Sound Sources and video experiments to create an evening of stories, inventions and escapes. [More]

Martin Azevedo, Dennis Aman & friends fold together DIY Sound Sources and video experiments to create an evening of stories, inventions and escapes. [More]

Piano stalwart Scott R. Looney comes out of the woodwork playing duos and a trio with friends old and new. Featuring percussionist Kjell Nordeson and Joseph Noble on sax and flute. [More]

Piano stalwart Scott R. Looney comes out of the woodwork playing duos and a trio with friends old and new. Featuring percussionist Kjell Nordeson and Joseph Noble on sax and flute. [More]

On the latest edition of Latitudes—an album release show on the occasion of Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano’s new record “Brace Up.” Join Other Minds’ Blaine Todd at the C4NM as he presents two singular voices in the world of experimental guitar music. Bill Orcutt performs his convulsive blues on four-string electric, while composer and former Black Spirituals guitarist, Zachary James Watkins sketches an aural map of the C4NM through walls of feedback. 7:00pm doors, 7:30pm concert [More]

On the latest edition of Latitudes—an album release show on the occasion of Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano’s new record “Brace Up.” Join Other Minds’ Blaine Todd at the C4NM as he presents two singular voices in the world of experimental guitar music. Bill Orcutt performs his convulsive blues on four-string electric, while composer and former Black Spirituals guitarist, Zachary James Watkins sketches an aural map of the C4NM through walls of feedback. 7:00pm doors, 7:30pm concert [More]

An evening of abstract sentimental music (for lovers and loners alike) featuring the Northeastern electroacoustic piano trio, Sontag Shogun, and synth-pioneer and Mills affiliate Maggi Payne. [More]

An evening of abstract sentimental music (for lovers and loners alike) featuring the Northeastern electroacoustic piano trio, Sontag Shogun, and synth-pioneer and Mills affiliate Maggi Payne. [More]

The renowned French Tana Quartet concludes a week-long residency at CNMAT of UC Berkeley with a performance of string quartets by Bartok, Debussy, Stravinsky and UC Berkeley's own, Franck Bedrossian. This is a unique opportunity to hear Bedrossian's forceful quartet, Tracés d'ombres performed by one of the world's most energizing ensembles for contemporary music. [More]

The renowned French Tana Quartet concludes a week-long residency at CNMAT of UC Berkeley with a performance of string quartets by Bartok, Debussy, Stravinsky and UC Berkeley's own, Franck Bedrossian. This is a unique opportunity to hear Bedrossian's forceful quartet, Tracés d'ombres performed by one of the world's most energizing ensembles for contemporary music. [More]

Immerse yourself in a gradually descending and refining vocal soundscape, mirroring the process of autumn. The text scores for this work will be displayed within autumn-inspired sculptures throughout the performance space. The sculptures will be silent-auctioned following the performance. [More]

Immerse yourself in a gradually descending and refining vocal soundscape, mirroring the process of autumn. The text scores for this work will be displayed within autumn-inspired sculptures throughout the performance space. The sculptures will be silent-auctioned following the performance. [More]

The award winning, mixed quartet enhake brings a set of 21st century works for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano to the Bay Area. Pieces that range from the cerebral to the frenetic will populate the program by Gabriela Lena Frank, David Biedenbender, Jean Ahn, and John Mackey. [More]

The award winning, mixed quartet enhake brings a set of 21st century works for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano to the Bay Area. Pieces that range from the cerebral to the frenetic will populate the program by Gabriela Lena Frank, David Biedenbender, Jean Ahn, and John Mackey. [More]

Join us for the opening reception of our latest window gallery exhibition: Don Buchla, Instruments for Electronic Expression. The curator for this exhibit, Joel Davel, worked closely with Buchla for over 20 years. Davel will join us for a curator discussion and instrument demonstration. Free! [More]

Join us for the opening reception of our latest window gallery exhibition: Don Buchla, Instruments for Electronic Expression. The curator for this exhibit, Joel Davel, worked closely with Buchla for over 20 years. Davel will join us for a curator discussion and instrument demonstration. Free! [More]

In this inspired new music program, artists Jordan Curcuruto (percussion), Chelsea Villanueva (clarinet), Phoebe Wu (piano), and Jocelyn Zelasko (voice) explore empowerment within relationships. Each musical work completes the phrase: "I will learn to…" (e.g., laugh, love, grieve, empower, forgive). [More]

In this inspired new music program, artists Jordan Curcuruto (percussion), Chelsea Villanueva (clarinet), Phoebe Wu (piano), and Jocelyn Zelasko (voice) explore empowerment within relationships. Each musical work completes the phrase: "I will learn to…" (e.g., laugh, love, grieve, empower, forgive). [More]

TO....OBLIVION presents two California guitarists, San Francisco's Giacomo Fiore and Los Angeles' Alexander Elliott Miller in a program of music for electric guitar. [More]

TO....OBLIVION presents two California guitarists, San Francisco's Giacomo Fiore and Los Angeles' Alexander Elliott Miller in a program of music for electric guitar. [More]

OboeTronics II features 21st century electro-acoustic works for oboe performed by virtuosic and experimental oboists Glenda Bates and Brandon Labadie. The two present works by living composers for solo oboe with laptop and works with soundtracks or tape. Old meets new in an electrifying acoustic experience. [More]

OboeTronics II features 21st century electro-acoustic works for oboe performed by virtuosic and experimental oboists Glenda Bates and Brandon Labadie. The two present works by living composers for solo oboe with laptop and works with soundtracks or tape. Old meets new in an electrifying acoustic experience. [More]

Pianist Mari Kawamura plays new works by Joey Bordeau, Anthony Vine, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh for piano and electronics, as well as François Couperin's ' Ordre 18ème de clavecin' (1722). [More]

What happens when early and new music intersect? Liaison Ensemble and Helia Music Collective team up to explore new music by composers Emily Koh, Lily Chen, Julie Barwick, and Emma Logan in response to music by Baroque composers Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini. [More]

What happens when early and new music intersect? Liaison Ensemble and Helia Music Collective team up to explore new music by composers Emily Koh, Lily Chen, Julie Barwick, and Emma Logan in response to music by Baroque composers Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini. [More]

Join us for the closing reception of "Inventions from The Maze and The Machine," by Daniel Schmidt and Paul Dresher. Their creations are visually beautiful and easily played, inventions made for American Gamelan in dialogue with composer Lou Harrison and his partner Bill Colvig. The evening will include a discussion and instrument demonstration with Paul Dresher and Daniel Schmidt. [More]

Join us for the closing reception of "Inventions from The Maze and The Machine," by Daniel Schmidt and Paul Dresher. Their creations are visually beautiful and easily played, inventions made for American Gamelan in dialogue with composer Lou Harrison and his partner Bill Colvig. The evening will include a discussion and instrument demonstration with Paul Dresher and Daniel Schmidt. [More]

Hear from select artists and musicians of Future Sonic Cities, featuring Aja Archuleta, Lexagon (Alexa Burrell), Michal Ho None of Them, and Erica Stucky, moderated by Soundwave guest curator Sharmi Basu at The Center for New Music. Future Sonic Cities is an international concert in partnership between Soundwave Biennale (8) Infrastructure, The Center for New Music, and Zurich Meets San Francisco: a festival of two cities on the topic of intersectional identity and building opportunities for collaboration and exchange in culture, art and music today. The event features a moderated discussion with a curated selection of the festival musicians. [More]

Hear from select artists and musicians of Future Sonic Cities, featuring Aja Archuleta, Lexagon (Alexa Burrell), Michal Ho None of Them, and Erica Stucky, moderated by Soundwave guest curator Sharmi Basu at The Center for New Music. Future Sonic Cities is an international concert in partnership between Soundwave Biennale (8) Infrastructure, The Center for New Music, and Zurich Meets San Francisco: a festival of two cities on the topic of intersectional identity and building opportunities for collaboration and exchange in culture, art and music today. The event features a moderated discussion with a curated selection of the festival musicians. [More]

In this hands-on composition workshop, we’ll explore how to transform audio recordings into MIDI events and music notation. In the process, we’ll reverse-engineer Austrian composer Peter Ablinger’s "Deus Cantando," get our hands dirty with sound information in various formats and representations, and come away with some practical knowledge about acoustics, data compression, and pattern recognition. [More]

In this hands-on composition workshop, we’ll explore how to transform audio recordings into MIDI events and music notation. In the process, we’ll reverse-engineer Austrian composer Peter Ablinger’s "Deus Cantando," get our hands dirty with sound information in various formats and representations, and come away with some practical knowledge about acoustics, data compression, and pattern recognition. [More]

This concert will feature guitar and tenor voice performing works by living composers, three of whom are active in the Bay Area. Several world premieres! [More]

This concert will feature guitar and tenor voice performing works by living composers, three of whom are active in the Bay Area. Several world premieres! [More]

Composer/performers Pamela Z, Donald Swearingen, and Eric Lyon will perform composed and improvised works for gesturally controlled electronics and voice, in various combinations of solos, duos, and trios. [More]

Composer/performers Pamela Z, Donald Swearingen, and Eric Lyon will perform composed and improvised works for gesturally controlled electronics and voice, in various combinations of solos, duos, and trios. [More]

Arguably the most popular instrument during the Japan's Edo period, the shamisen, with its simple three-stringed construction, was on the edge of the contemporary trend in the performing arts milieu of the 19th century Tokyo. Hidejiro Honjoh, this year's Japanese Cultural Envoy, interweaves Hauta short song repertoire from the Edo period with the contemporary works written by Lou Harrison, Dai Fujikura, Hiroya Miura, and Yuji Takahashi, as he takes us to the journey of re-discovering and renewing the past. [More]

Arguably the most popular instrument during the Japan's Edo period, the shamisen, with its simple three-stringed construction, was on the edge of the contemporary trend in the performing arts milieu of the 19th century Tokyo. Hidejiro Honjoh, this year's Japanese Cultural Envoy, interweaves Hauta short song repertoire from the Edo period with the contemporary works written by Lou Harrison, Dai Fujikura, Hiroya Miura, and Yuji Takahashi, as he takes us to the journey of re-discovering and renewing the past. [More]

Keyed Kontraptions will premiere works by Brett Austin Eastman and Emily Koh. Also on the program are works by Lily Chen and Isaac Schankler. [More]

Keyed Kontraptions will premiere works by Brett Austin Eastman and Emily Koh. Also on the program are works by Lily Chen and Isaac Schankler. [More]

Improvised Painting from Live Music & Improvised Music from Visual Compositions: Live Abstract Painting by Ethan Cranke w/ Music by Gino Robair, Palle and Per Anders from Sweden + Tomas Dimuzio, Phillip Greenlief, and David Samas. GAZE EMANATIONS, drawings by Brian Lucas, performed by Pet the Tiger and Co. Cheryl Leonard, Tom Nunn, Tom Djll, Gino Robair, Bryan Day, Phillip Greenlief, David Samas. [More]

Improvised Painting from Live Music & Improvised Music from Visual Compositions: Live Abstract Painting by Ethan Cranke w/ Music by Gino Robair, Palle and Per Anders from Sweden + Tomas Dimuzio, Phillip Greenlief, and David Samas. GAZE EMANATIONS, drawings by Brian Lucas, performed by Pet the Tiger and Co. Cheryl Leonard, Tom Nunn, Tom Djll, Gino Robair, Bryan Day, Phillip Greenlief, David Samas. [More]

Guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama brings his motorik “infinite boogie” and graveside blues minimalism to the Center for New Music. Akiyama will be supported by ecstatic music aesthete John Krausbauer whose explorations of amplified violin and stroboscopic lighting induce states of heavy trance. [More]

Guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama brings his motorik “infinite boogie” and graveside blues minimalism to the Center for New Music. Akiyama will be supported by ecstatic music aesthete John Krausbauer whose explorations of amplified violin and stroboscopic lighting induce states of heavy trance. [More]

Schultz plays Frederic Rzewski's monumental masterpiece from 1975, THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED and Hyo-shin Na's RAIN STUDY (1999) and SMALL NOISE (2018). [More]

Curium presents an all-female program of music for piano trio through the ages, including music by Kaija Saariaho, Jennifer Higdon, and Clara Schumann. Curium is a piano trio based in San Francisco that highlights the works of female composers along with traditional repertoire. [More]

Curium presents an all-female program of music for piano trio through the ages, including music by Kaija Saariaho, Jennifer Higdon, and Clara Schumann. Curium is a piano trio based in San Francisco that highlights the works of female composers along with traditional repertoire. [More]

To finish up their year-long residency at the Center for New Music, animals & giraffes presents two sets of interdisciplinary improvisation. The evening also celebrates LANDLOCKED BEACH, their new CD release on Creative Sources (Portugal). [More]

To finish up their year-long residency at the Center for New Music, animals & giraffes presents two sets of interdisciplinary improvisation. The evening also celebrates LANDLOCKED BEACH, their new CD release on Creative Sources (Portugal). [More]

Exploring the exciting scene of Korean contemporary music through works by composers living and composing on three different continents. [More]

Exploring the exciting scene of Korean contemporary music through works by composers living and composing on three different continents. [More]

The Center for New Music is celebrating 6 years of serving the new music community from its home at 55 Taylor Street. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres provided free of charge to all C4NM members, volunteers, artists, partners, and supporters, past and present! [More]

The Center for New Music is celebrating 6 years of serving the new music community from its home at 55 Taylor Street. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres provided free of charge to all C4NM members, volunteers, artists, partners, and supporters, past and present! [More]

A two-part evening of visual and sonic experiments and environments, featuring Thingamajigs Performance Group, and viDEO sAVant (Charles Woodman + duo B.). Both ensembles explore the intersection of improvised music with live video performance, and will transform the Center for New Music into an immersive sensory environment. [More]

A two-part evening of visual and sonic experiments and environments, featuring Thingamajigs Performance Group, and viDEO sAVant (Charles Woodman + duo B.). Both ensembles explore the intersection of improvised music with live video performance, and will transform the Center for New Music into an immersive sensory environment. [More]

An evening of original compositions exploring the boundaries between composer and performer, structure and decomposition, agency and performance practice. The concert will feature works by Julie Herndon, John Ivers, Golnaz Shariatzadeh, Michelle Lee, Tony Gennaro, and Matt Robidoux. [More]

An evening of original compositions exploring the boundaries between composer and performer, structure and decomposition, agency and performance practice. The concert will feature works by Julie Herndon, John Ivers, Golnaz Shariatzadeh, Michelle Lee, Tony Gennaro, and Matt Robidoux. [More]

Join us for this unique and intimate chance to see Thumbscrew, comprised of contemporary jazz heavyweights Mary Halvorson on guitar, Michael Formanek on double bass, and Tomas Fujiwara on drums. All proceeds from this event benefit C4NM, supporting our efforts to create a space for new music to thrive in the Bay Area and beyond. We invite you to join us before the concert for a reception hosted by our Board of Directors including libations and light bites. Connect with our new music community, then experience a special opportunity to see Thumbscrew perform up close at C4NM. [More]

Join us for this unique and intimate chance to see Thumbscrew, comprised of contemporary jazz heavyweights Mary Halvorson on guitar, Michael Formanek on double bass, and Tomas Fujiwara on drums. All proceeds from this event benefit C4NM, supporting our efforts to create a space for new music to thrive in the Bay Area and beyond. We invite you to join us before the concert for a reception hosted by our Board of Directors including libations and light bites. Connect with our new music community, then experience a special opportunity to see Thumbscrew perform up close at C4NM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Charles Xavier’s Cow Walk Orchestra combines the creative arts of sonic electronica explorations with the percussive arts, jazz improvisations, audio effects and ambiances, and spoken word narratives is intended to create an immersive experience that explores the purpose and frustration of the journey as dreams unfold. The Orchestra features Clifford Brown III – trumpet, Matt Montgomery – Guitar/Violin, and composer Charles Xavier – Drums/Synthesizers. [More]

Charles Xavier’s Cow Walk Orchestra combines the creative arts of sonic electronica explorations with the percussive arts, jazz improvisations, audio effects and ambiances, and spoken word narratives is intended to create an immersive experience that explores the purpose and frustration of the journey as dreams unfold. The Orchestra features Clifford Brown III – trumpet, Matt Montgomery – Guitar/Violin, and composer Charles Xavier – Drums/Synthesizers. [More]

Current Vibrant duo performs an evening of through-composed music written by Eldad Tarmu. With room for improvisation, exploring the roles of classical and jazz performance practices, and the hybridization of the two, Tarmu’s compositions entrance the listener with jazz harmonies and grooving rhythms, and sing with classical phrasing and formal structure. [More]

Current Vibrant duo performs an evening of through-composed music written by Eldad Tarmu. With room for improvisation, exploring the roles of classical and jazz performance practices, and the hybridization of the two, Tarmu’s compositions entrance the listener with jazz harmonies and grooving rhythms, and sing with classical phrasing and formal structure. [More]

Political Debate 2018 as Subtext Wrestling Match/Genderbending wrestling love orgy. The Vietnam Vet gone AWOL and the Russian thinly disguised sing a collection of cabaret songs, controlled by a distant puppet master, operatics newer and not so new, Tanzlieder, a deconstructed Pur ti miro. The Karabister arrives, we proceed into darkness but end with love and courtesy. Featuring Nikola Printz and Laura Bohn as the contestants, Hadley McCarroll as the master, Erling Wold master of ceremonies. [More]

Political Debate 2018 as Subtext Wrestling Match/Genderbending wrestling love orgy. The Vietnam Vet gone AWOL and the Russian thinly disguised sing a collection of cabaret songs, controlled by a distant puppet master, operatics newer and not so new, Tanzlieder, a deconstructed Pur ti miro. The Karabister arrives, we proceed into darkness but end with love and courtesy. Featuring Nikola Printz and Laura Bohn as the contestants, Hadley McCarroll as the master, Erling Wold master of ceremonies. [More]

London-based Jamaican poet David Neita and British composer Deborah Pritchard collaborate as a duo of spoken word and double bass through contemporary classical and jazz sounds. [More]

London-based Jamaican poet David Neita and British composer Deborah Pritchard collaborate as a duo of spoken word and double bass through contemporary classical and jazz sounds. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

San Francisco-based composers Kyle Hovatter and Emma Logan present extended works for soprano and chamber ensemble, featuring text from "A Stone a Leaf a Door" by 20th-Century American writer Thomas Wolfe and real letters by Americans serving in past wars. [More]

This project represents cultural unity through deep respect for musical traditions of Indian Classical Music and American Jazz. The concert will feature modern improvisation and musical synergy between strong unique voices coming from diverse influences. [More]

This project represents cultural unity through deep respect for musical traditions of Indian Classical Music and American Jazz. The concert will feature modern improvisation and musical synergy between strong unique voices coming from diverse influences. [More]

Tammen, currently in residence at Lucas Artists Residencies Montalvo, makes a rare appearance in San Francisco with new works for Steve Horowitz's Code Ensemble. Hans borrows from Charles Ives’ polytonality, Steve Coleman’s rhythmic complexity, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s organization of sounds and Earle Brown’s approach to form. [More]

Tammen, currently in residence at Lucas Artists Residencies Montalvo, makes a rare appearance in San Francisco with new works for Steve Horowitz's Code Ensemble. Hans borrows from Charles Ives’ polytonality, Steve Coleman’s rhythmic complexity, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s organization of sounds and Earle Brown’s approach to form. [More]

Los Angeles sound artists White Boy Scream and William Hutson performing their individual works as part of their two-week-long tour. [More]

Los Angeles sound artists White Boy Scream and William Hutson performing their individual works as part of their two-week-long tour. [More]

Woodwind brass string ensemble performing creative improvised music. [More]

Woodwind brass string ensemble performing creative improvised music. [More]

Opera on the Spot will be presenting a fun mix of classical and contemporary opera scenes and arias. Just like any other opera on the spot concert, get ready for a fun, immersive and unconventional evening of opera! [More]

Opera on the Spot will be presenting a fun mix of classical and contemporary opera scenes and arias. Just like any other opera on the spot concert, get ready for a fun, immersive and unconventional evening of opera! [More]

Violinist Robert Simonds (Louisville Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music), performs unaccompanied works for violin by American women composers. Featuring music by Missy Mazzoli, Cindy Cox, Patricia Van Ness, TJ Cole, Molly Joyce, Elizabeth Kennedy Bayer, and Alexis Bacon, this program explores the influences of the Baroque era, the Renaissance, and folk music on some of today's most dynamic composers. [More]

Violinist Robert Simonds (Louisville Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music), performs unaccompanied works for violin by American women composers. Featuring music by Missy Mazzoli, Cindy Cox, Patricia Van Ness, TJ Cole, Molly Joyce, Elizabeth Kennedy Bayer, and Alexis Bacon, this program explores the influences of the Baroque era, the Renaissance, and folk music on some of today's most dynamic composers. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Mauro ffortissimo and Dean Mermell, cofounders of the Sunset Piano project, will bring their "avant-garden" music to the Center. Playing a prepared piano and a "liberated" piano, they stretch the conventional limitations of the twelve tone scale. [More]

Mauro ffortissimo and Dean Mermell, cofounders of the Sunset Piano project, will bring their "avant-garden" music to the Center. Playing a prepared piano and a "liberated" piano, they stretch the conventional limitations of the twelve tone scale. [More]

Get lost in Hans Otte’s 12-movement masterwork for solo piano, The Book of Sounds (1979-1982), performed by pianist D. Riley Nicholson. This underperformed piano cycle uses rare architectures and structures to weave minimal, subtle, haunting sounds in and through the piano. It “lets sounds be sounds” (John Cage). Casual seating and drinks will be on hand to help you through the journey. [More]

Koto player Shoko Hikage, a core member of the acclaimed Wooden Fish Ensemble, will play compositions by innovative composer and Wooden Fish colleague Hyo-shin Na [More]

Koto player Shoko Hikage, a core member of the acclaimed Wooden Fish Ensemble, will play compositions by innovative composer and Wooden Fish colleague Hyo-shin Na [More]

Margaret Noble creates interactive, multi-sensory sculptures and installations layered in sound and gesture. I design these works with recycled objects, raw materials, and circuitry. Join us for the (free!) opening reception at 6pm, artist talk and demonstration at 7pm. [More]

Margaret Noble creates interactive, multi-sensory sculptures and installations layered in sound and gesture. I design these works with recycled objects, raw materials, and circuitry. Join us for the (free!) opening reception at 6pm, artist talk and demonstration at 7pm. [More]

7-11: Yes! It's your lucky day. Aram Shelton is here from Budapest. Kjell Nordeson is here from San Diego. Scott Walton is not in France this summer. And Ochs is always ready to play in this quartet. Compositions and Extra Sensory Perception combine = Expect the Unexpected. The concert is a prelude to a recording session, so the focus will be dialed up. Come on out. [More]

7-11: Yes! It's your lucky day. Aram Shelton is here from Budapest. Kjell Nordeson is here from San Diego. Scott Walton is not in France this summer. And Ochs is always ready to play in this quartet. Compositions and Extra Sensory Perception combine = Expect the Unexpected. The concert is a prelude to a recording session, so the focus will be dialed up. Come on out. [More]

Vladimir Tarasov, the incredible drummer/composer/artist from Vilnius, is joining local musicians Chris Brown (piano & electronics), Jason Hoopes (electric bass) and Jon Raskin (saxophones) for an evening improvised music. [More]

Sicilian composer/pianist Francesco Di Fiore and video artist Valeria Di Matteo perform their series “Visual Piano” featuring composers from around the world. They will be joined by their San Francisco friends, ZOFO piano duo and saxophonist Michael Hernandez. [More]

Sicilian composer/pianist Francesco Di Fiore and video artist Valeria Di Matteo perform their series “Visual Piano” featuring composers from around the world. They will be joined by their San Francisco friends, ZOFO piano duo and saxophonist Michael Hernandez. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. [More]

Samuel Blaser and Marc Ducret will give a rare San Francisco performance at the Center for New Music. Blaser’s grounding in jazz and classical music produces tunes which develop seamlessly through wonderful interaction with French guitarist Marc Ducret (known for his work with Tim Berne). They have just released a new album in trio with Danish drummer Peter Bruun on legendary Swiss label HatArt to coincide with the performance. [More]

Samuel Blaser and Marc Ducret will give a rare San Francisco performance at the Center for New Music. Blaser’s grounding in jazz and classical music produces tunes which develop seamlessly through wonderful interaction with French guitarist Marc Ducret (known for his work with Tim Berne). They have just released a new album in trio with Danish drummer Peter Bruun on legendary Swiss label HatArt to coincide with the performance. [More]

9 San Francisco Premieres! Multiple GRAMMY® nominated pianist Nadia Shpachenko performs a solo recital featuring newly-written homages for piano, voice, electronics, and multimedia by composers Adam Borecki, Daniel Felsenfeld, Tom Flaherty, Vera Ivanova, Missy Mazzoli, Nick Norton, Isaac Schankler, and Peter Yates. Celebrating Shpachenko’s new CD “Quotations and Homages,” released on Reference Recordings on April 6, 2018. [More]

9 San Francisco Premieres! Multiple GRAMMY® nominated pianist Nadia Shpachenko performs a solo recital featuring newly-written homages for piano, voice, electronics, and multimedia by composers Adam Borecki, Daniel Felsenfeld, Tom Flaherty, Vera Ivanova, Missy Mazzoli, Nick Norton, Isaac Schankler, and Peter Yates. Celebrating Shpachenko’s new CD “Quotations and Homages,” released on Reference Recordings on April 6, 2018. [More]

Join our second Tracking Series event, a roundtable discussion on wealth, equity, and 21st-Century jazz. We’ll react to recent talks, including the SFJAZZ Town Hall, on the needs of the Bay Area’s jazz community with Andy Gilbert (SF Classical Voice), Cory Combs (bass, composition, Executive Director of InterMusicSF), and Darren Johnston (trumpet); dig into data on recent commissions and the programs of major arts organizations compiled by C4NM co-founder Adam Fong (bass); and, with help from local leaders Lisa Mezzacappa (bass), Destiny Muhammad (harp), and others, examine the structures that support the Bay Area scene to help identify what is working, and where more work is needed.

Discussion will run from 5:30 to 7:00 PM. Light refreshments provided.
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Join our second Tracking Series event, a roundtable discussion on wealth, equity, and 21st-Century jazz. We’ll react to recent talks, including the SFJAZZ Town Hall, on the needs of the Bay Area’s jazz community with Andy Gilbert (SF Classical Voice), Cory Combs (bass, composition, Executive Director of InterMusicSF), and Darren Johnston (trumpet); dig into data on recent commissions and the programs of major arts organizations compiled by C4NM co-founder Adam Fong (bass); and, with help from local leaders Lisa Mezzacappa (bass), Destiny Muhammad (harp), and others, examine the structures that support the Bay Area scene to help identify what is working, and where more work is needed.

Discussion will run from 5:30 to 7:00 PM. Light refreshments provided.
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Struck by the loss of artistic giant Cecil Taylor in April, the Rovas felt compelled to pay respects to a hero. Each quartet member has invited guests to create special ensembles for the concert. The desire is to assemble groupings that enable the broader music community to participate in this farewell tribute to a man who impacted us all so much, both as creative artist and as a fearless and unapologetic innovator. Join Rova and 9 dedicated and inventive practitioners to explore sonic realms presaged by Taylor’s iconic work. [More]

Struck by the loss of artistic giant Cecil Taylor in April, the Rovas felt compelled to pay respects to a hero. Each quartet member has invited guests to create special ensembles for the concert. The desire is to assemble groupings that enable the broader music community to participate in this farewell tribute to a man who impacted us all so much, both as creative artist and as a fearless and unapologetic innovator. Join Rova and 9 dedicated and inventive practitioners to explore sonic realms presaged by Taylor’s iconic work. [More]

Let your hair down and put your feet up at our relaxed, intimate spin on the classical concert. The Campout Music Party. We’ll provide the wine (first drink is free), the floor pillows, the soothing timelapse videos. Hang out and enjoy minimal, mellow chamber music by Ólafur Arnalds, performed by Center for New Music curator and violinist, Julia Ogrydziak, and Friends. Each piece will be accompanied by a tiny poem to ponder as you listen. [More]

Let your hair down and put your feet up at our relaxed, intimate spin on the classical concert. The Campout Music Party. We’ll provide the wine (first drink is free), the floor pillows, the soothing timelapse videos. Hang out and enjoy minimal, mellow chamber music by Ólafur Arnalds, performed by Center for New Music curator and violinist, Julia Ogrydziak, and Friends. Each piece will be accompanied by a tiny poem to ponder as you listen. [More]

Check out new works for electronics and live performers by participants in this year's Soundvoice program.

This set of new pieces, composed through the Soundvoice workshop, will be brought to life by C4NM Ensemble-in-Residence, Animals and Giraffes (saxophone and voice duo), plus special guest Matthew Creer (electronics), and the composers themselves!

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Check out new works for electronics and live performers by participants in this year's Soundvoice program.

This set of new pieces, composed through the Soundvoice workshop, will be brought to life by C4NM Ensemble-in-Residence, Animals and Giraffes (saxophone and voice duo), plus special guest Matthew Creer (electronics), and the composers themselves!

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Los Angeles- based violist Diana Wade presents an evening of horse videos, vocal fry, stomping, and a drainage tube. Featuring works by Beglarian, Borecki, Hearne, Knox, Norman, Sciarrino, and Wade. [More]

Los Angeles- based violist Diana Wade presents an evening of horse videos, vocal fry, stomping, and a drainage tube. Featuring works by Beglarian, Borecki, Hearne, Knox, Norman, Sciarrino, and Wade. [More]

Friction Quartet premieres new works by Grammy-nominated composer, pianist, and producer Pascal Le Boeuf and beloved local composer Danny Clay. The evening includes Pascal’s "Ritual Being" (with jazz ensemble) and the premiere of the multimedia collaboration "CounterPaint: The Art of the Fugue" led by Danny, Pascal & Friction. This occasion will mark the world premiere screening and release of the CounterPaint music video. [More]

Friction Quartet premieres new works by Grammy-nominated composer, pianist, and producer Pascal Le Boeuf and beloved local composer Danny Clay. The evening includes Pascal’s "Ritual Being" (with jazz ensemble) and the premiere of the multimedia collaboration "CounterPaint: The Art of the Fugue" led by Danny, Pascal & Friction. This occasion will mark the world premiere screening and release of the CounterPaint music video. [More]

Sonic exploration stretching the boundaries of what a "bass & drum" duo means. Drawing from trap, dub, metal, hip-hop and improv and re-contextualizing the minutiae of all of the above. [More]

Sonic exploration stretching the boundaries of what a "bass & drum" duo means. Drawing from trap, dub, metal, hip-hop and improv and re-contextualizing the minutiae of all of the above. [More]

German singer, violist, and composer Anka Draugelates performs her transcendent works for viola and voice. The compositions interweave polyrhythms, natural and unexpected time signatures and metrics, invented language, simple melodies, and free improvisation, placing the listener in the middle of moment, “im Fluß der Zeit” ( in the river of time). The concert will be followed by a wine reception. [More]

German singer, violist, and composer Anka Draugelates performs her transcendent works for viola and voice. The compositions interweave polyrhythms, natural and unexpected time signatures and metrics, invented language, simple melodies, and free improvisation, placing the listener in the middle of moment, “im Fluß der Zeit” ( in the river of time). The concert will be followed by a wine reception. [More]

In this vocal workshop, we use the resonance of our voice as a bridge to awaken our awareness and open us to new possibilities of feeling and expression. Using time-tested group vocal exercises, master teacher and therapist, Anka Draugelates, will guide us to let go of our egos and go on a search to ‘the now.’ Everybody is welcome – trained and untrained voices alike. [More]

In this vocal workshop, we use the resonance of our voice as a bridge to awaken our awareness and open us to new possibilities of feeling and expression. Using time-tested group vocal exercises, master teacher and therapist, Anka Draugelates, will guide us to let go of our egos and go on a search to ‘the now.’ Everybody is welcome – trained and untrained voices alike. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM.

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The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM.

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New pieces for the Friction Quartet, written by students of the John Adams Young Composers Program! [More]

New pieces for the Friction Quartet, written by students of the John Adams Young Composers Program! [More]

Michael Bang presents "In T" and other pieces for various keyboard ensembles. [More]

Michael Bang presents "In T" and other pieces for various keyboard ensembles. [More]

Featuring world premieres of works for solo viola, and viola and piano [More]

Featuring world premieres of works for solo viola, and viola and piano [More]

Permutations presents the West Coast debut of New York's Ghost Ensemble, with an evening of music by Pauline Oliveros, Ben Richter, Sky Macklay, Andrew C. Smith, and Liisa Hirsch. Ghost Ensemble is dedicated to new musical perspectives that explore the experience of listening, creating sonic spaces that shift our attention, perception, or experience of time. [More]

Permutations presents the West Coast debut of New York's Ghost Ensemble, with an evening of music by Pauline Oliveros, Ben Richter, Sky Macklay, Andrew C. Smith, and Liisa Hirsch. Ghost Ensemble is dedicated to new musical perspectives that explore the experience of listening, creating sonic spaces that shift our attention, perception, or experience of time. [More]

Brooklyn Art Song Society members soprano Charlotte Mundy and pianist Miori Sugiyama present highlights from BASS's New Voices series, include premiere works by UC-Davis graduate students alongside works by Messiaen and Saariaho. [More]

Brooklyn Art Song Society members soprano Charlotte Mundy and pianist Miori Sugiyama present highlights from BASS's New Voices series, include premiere works by UC-Davis graduate students alongside works by Messiaen and Saariaho. [More]

Join us for the opening reception of "Space is the Plate, Shifting Resonances in Contemporary Instrument Design," with works by Tom Nunn, Richard Waters, Neil Feather, Fred “Spaceman” Long, Brooks Hubbert III, Bart Hopkin, and Brothers’ Quarrel (Saxton/Samas). The evening will include a panel discussion moderated by Bart Hopkin and demonstrations by Tom Nunn, Brooks Hubbard III, and Fred Long. [More]

Join us for the opening reception of "Space is the Plate, Shifting Resonances in Contemporary Instrument Design," with works by Tom Nunn, Richard Waters, Neil Feather, Fred “Spaceman” Long, Brooks Hubbert III, Bart Hopkin, and Brothers’ Quarrel (Saxton/Samas). The evening will include a panel discussion moderated by Bart Hopkin and demonstrations by Tom Nunn, Brooks Hubbard III, and Fred Long. [More]

Two different trios come together in a quartet of tones, textures, melodies, and creative interplay sure to please the discerning ear. Come explore the sonic possibilities! [More]

Two different trios come together in a quartet of tones, textures, melodies, and creative interplay sure to please the discerning ear. Come explore the sonic possibilities! [More]

SLUGish Ensemble is an amoeba-like musical gathering under the direction of composer / saxophonist Steven Lugerner. Their music utilizes traditional acoustic band instruments to create layers of pocketed-grooves and melodies that blur the lines between pop, r&b, jazz & minimalism. [More]

SLUGish Ensemble is an amoeba-like musical gathering under the direction of composer / saxophonist Steven Lugerner. Their music utilizes traditional acoustic band instruments to create layers of pocketed-grooves and melodies that blur the lines between pop, r&b, jazz & minimalism. [More]

San Francisco-based composers Kyle Hovatter and Emma Logan present extended works for soprano and chamber ensemble, featuring text from "A Stone a Leaf a Door" by 20th-Century American writer Thomas Wolfe and real letters by Americans serving in past wars. [More]

An evening of new solo works composed and performed by UC Berkeley graduate composers. The pieces reflect a broad array of compositional and performative techniques including improvisation, live electronics, and prepared western and nonwestern instruments. A collective improvisation will cap the program. [More]

An evening of new solo works composed and performed by UC Berkeley graduate composers. The pieces reflect a broad array of compositional and performative techniques including improvisation, live electronics, and prepared western and nonwestern instruments. A collective improvisation will cap the program. [More]

Contemporary Classical solo voice with piano, flute and cello [More]

Contemporary Classical solo voice with piano, flute and cello [More]

Hypercolor (Lukas Ligeti - drums, Eyal Maoz - guitar, and James Ilgenfritz - electric bass) combines avant-jazz, new music, no wave, African and Israeli traditions, holding its opposing urges in an electrifying tension that is both melodic and deconstructive. Hypercolor are preparing to record the follow-up to their eponymous debut album, which was released 2015 on John Zorn's Tzadik label. [More]

Hypercolor (Lukas Ligeti - drums, Eyal Maoz - guitar, and James Ilgenfritz - electric bass) combines avant-jazz, new music, no wave, African and Israeli traditions, holding its opposing urges in an electrifying tension that is both melodic and deconstructive. Hypercolor are preparing to record the follow-up to their eponymous debut album, which was released 2015 on John Zorn's Tzadik label. [More]

Join Mohan, Adam and George for a special evening of original music and jazz standards. [More]

An afternoon of works for solo instrument and/or electronics composed by UC Berkeley Undergraduate Composers. [More]

Join Mohan, Adam and George for a special evening of original music and jazz standards. [More]

An afternoon of works for solo instrument and/or electronics composed by UC Berkeley Undergraduate Composers. [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM.

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The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM.

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TwoSense: Ashley Bathgate cello & Lisa Moore piano perform a duo concert of music they have commissioned, focusing on West Coast Bay Area composers: Paul Dresher, Ryan Brown, Martin Bresnick, and Amy Beth Kirsten. [More]

TwoSense: Ashley Bathgate cello & Lisa Moore piano perform a duo concert of music they have commissioned, focusing on West Coast Bay Area composers: Paul Dresher, Ryan Brown, Martin Bresnick, and Amy Beth Kirsten. [More]

Original songs by Monica Chew, along with songs by Bartok, Strauss and Wagner. Sung by soprano Jamie Lee with pianist Monica Chew. [More]

Original songs by Monica Chew, along with songs by Bartok, Strauss and Wagner. Sung by soprano Jamie Lee with pianist Monica Chew. [More]

Immerse yourself in a spring-inspired soundscape, produced by traditional and extended vocal techniques. Text scores for the work will be displayed within distinct sculptures throughout the performance space, and will be sold in a silent auction after the performance. Q&A follows the performance. [More]

Immerse yourself in a spring-inspired soundscape, produced by traditional and extended vocal techniques. Text scores for the work will be displayed within distinct sculptures throughout the performance space, and will be sold in a silent auction after the performance. Q&A follows the performance. [More]

Composers Michael Rothkopf and Ric Louchard met in 1972 at college. They have been doing joint concerts of their music for over 40 years. [More]

Jill Morgan Brenner presents an evening of art, poetry, and music for solo voice and electronics about the resilience of the human spirit as viewed through the female experience. Curated as the final installment of Emma Logan’s "Alone/Not Alone" series, featured composers will include: Mary Jane Leach, Cecilia Ore, Kaija Saariaho, Kate Soper, and Nina C. Young. [More]

Jill Morgan Brenner presents an evening of art, poetry, and music for solo voice and electronics about the resilience of the human spirit as viewed through the female experience. Curated as the final installment of Emma Logan’s "Alone/Not Alone" series, featured composers will include: Mary Jane Leach, Cecilia Ore, Kaija Saariaho, Kate Soper, and Nina C. Young. [More]

Canadian percussionist Noam Bierstone performs his first solo show in the US, featuring works for both percussion and piano! [More]

Canadian percussionist Noam Bierstone performs his first solo show in the US, featuring works for both percussion and piano! [More]

Piano Music on Guitar by John Cage, and a bit of India with Vineet Shende’s Carnatic Preludes, After J.S. Bach, the latter will be paired with their Bach WTC counter parts. All are California premieres and the Cage & Bach are arranged by Larget-Caplan. [More]

Piano Music on Guitar by John Cage, and a bit of India with Vineet Shende’s Carnatic Preludes, After J.S. Bach, the latter will be paired with their Bach WTC counter parts. All are California premieres and the Cage & Bach are arranged by Larget-Caplan. [More]

Join SopraDuo as they celebrate the release of their new album, “House of Dreams.” Every ticket includes a copy of “House of Dreams” album, food, drink, and a concert featuring selections from the album. [More]

Join SopraDuo as they celebrate the release of their new album, “House of Dreams.” Every ticket includes a copy of “House of Dreams” album, food, drink, and a concert featuring selections from the album. [More]

Vocalist Nina Dante presents explorative and dramatic contemporary solo works by Pablo Chin, Stratis Minakakis, Tiffany Skidmore, and herself. [More]

Vocalist Nina Dante presents explorative and dramatic contemporary solo works by Pablo Chin, Stratis Minakakis, Tiffany Skidmore, and herself. [More]

Emily Sternfeld-Dunn, soprano, will present a program of American art song by contemporary composers Ricky Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie, and Aleks Sternfeld-Dunn. Emily will be joined by Stephanie Patterson (bassoon), Meerenai Shim (flute), Jeffrey Sykes (piano), and Lacey Waggener (horn). [More]

Emily Sternfeld-Dunn, soprano, will present a program of American art song by contemporary composers Ricky Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie, and Aleks Sternfeld-Dunn. Emily will be joined by Stephanie Patterson (bassoon), Meerenai Shim (flute), Jeffrey Sykes (piano), and Lacey Waggener (horn). [More]

The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM.

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The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM.

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Daniel Corral’s Polytope exists somewhere between a string quartet, Kraftwerk, James Turrell, and an Indonesian dhalang (master shadow puppeteer). A multimedia electronic piece for a live MIDI quartet performed entirely in darkness, it combines just intonation and hypnotic rhythms with colorful live feed projections acting as a visual score. [More]