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NOVEMBER 2008
A RARE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
san francisco friends of chamber
music now also friends of
experimental music
The San Francisco Friends of Chamber
Music (SFFCM) is launching the Musical
Grant Program, a new funding initiative
designed to support outstanding projects by
the San Francisco Bay Area professional
chamber music community.
The SFFCM Musical Grant Program will
award grants through a competitive process
to projects that seek to assist artistic,
educational, and administrative endeavors.
The program aims to foster chamber
music performance in all its diversity
from early music to jazz to experimental
and contemporary forms. As Susan Bates,
President of SFFCM’s Board of Directors,
said “We are especially proud to be the
first organization in the greater Bay Area to
offer this type of assistance to professional
musicians who enrich our community’s
cultural landscape. We hope The Musical
Grant Program will bring much needed
support to ensembles, composers, and the
many others who cherish chamber music as a
unique and timeless art form.”
The program is open to professional chamber
ensembles with budgets that do not exceed
$100,000 who reside and/or work in the nine
counties of the Greater San Francisco Bay
Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa,
San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara,
Solano, and Sonoma). Applications will also
be accepted from individuals with chamber
music projects. Composers are not eligible to
apply as individuals, but may appear on the
application of a collaborative ensemble.
The deadline for submitting grant
applications is Friday, November 14, 2008.
Grant awards will generally range from
$1,500 to $3,000. To review the Musical
Grant Program guidelines and obtain an
application, visit www.sffcm.org.
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The Transbay Creative Music Calendar is a
volunteer-produced free monthly journal for
non-commercial creative new music in the
San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to our
comprehensive listing of upcoming events,
we publish articles and reviews about local
music and the people who create it. We
talk about a wide range of modern music,
including: experimental, improvised, noise,
electronic, free-jazz, outrock, 21st century
compositions, and sonic art. Each month,
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individuals and hand-delivered to over 45
performance venues and public locations
throughout the Bay Area.
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Saturday November 1
Friday November 7
Wednesday November 11
Mountain View Cemetery • 2pm $0
Sound & Place
Sound installation artist and composer Hugh
Livingston’s cemetery installation featuring three
different performers and multichannel sound
environments
Mills College Ensemble Room • 7pm
The Claret String Quartet with clarinetist/composer
Larry London
21 Grand • 8pm $6-10
Hunter Gatherer (Ian Antonio - Zs, Russell
Greenberg - Hi Red Center)
Weasel Walter Quintet: Weasel Walter (drums),
Damon Smith (bass), Aaron Bennett (saxophones),
Aram Shelton (alto saxophone), Darren Johnston
(trumpet)
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace • 8pm
XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom
Never Before Seen/Heard Quite This Way: The
Unauthorized Biography of Woody Woodman with
Woody Woodman & IgorFinger
Sunday November 2
Herbst Theatre • 4pm & 7pm
“State of the Union”
Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra
Musicians Union Hall • 7pm $10 / $8
Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series
Bill Noertker’s season finale with Noertker’s Moxie
and Tchicai/Noertker duo
Studio 1510 • 8pm
Georg Graewe (GER) solo piano; Sextet (Kristian
Aspelin - guitar, Tony Dryer - contrabass, Phillip
Greenlief - saxophones, Jacob Felix Heule - drums,
Jacob Lindsay - clarinets, Kanoko Nishi - koto).
Tuesday November 4
Studio 1510 • 8pm
Georg Graewe (GER) piano, Damon Smith double bass, Jerome Bryerton – percussion
Uptown • 6pm to Midnight
Carla Kilhlstedt’s Experimental/Improv Election
Night Madness
Thursday November 6
21 Grand • 8pm
Jon Raskin Quintet (Jon Raskin, Liz Allbee,
George Cremaschi, Gino Robair, John Shiurba)
with opening set by Jason Levis-drums Lisa
Mezzacappa-contrabass.
Uptown • 8pm
Plays Monk - with Steven Bernstein
New Nothing Theater • 8pm Free
Visual Music Meet Up
live visual/sound programming by Tim Thompson
plus movies and live improvised soundtracks by
Wiggwaum
Luggage Store • 8pm $6-10 sliding
Outsound Presents The New Music Series
Jacob Lindsay - clarinets, Kristian Aspelin - guitar &
Jerome Bryerton – percussion
Simon Rose – saxophone (UK) Jerome Bryerton
– percussion (CHI) Damon Smith - double bass
(SF)
Community Music Center • 8pm
Trio: Georg Graewe- piano, Jon Raskin- sax and
Donald Robinson-drums
Quartet: Darren Johnston, Myra Melford, Vijay
Anderson and Lisa Mezzacappa
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace • 8pm
XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom Special
One Night Event
Greg Goodman (piano parts) & John Gruntfest
(refingered saxophone) plus
The Greatest Exhibition & Demonstration of John
Gruntfest: Drawings & Paintings
Saturday November 8
Diana Marto Studio • 10am $50 includes materials
& refreshments
Whalesongs
Interactive performance and paper art workshop
with Diana Marto, acclaimed paper and
performance artist, and Suellen Primost, cellist.
artSF • 12pm donations accepted
Godwaffle Noise Pancakes!
Duo Pisano, Al Qaeda, Daddy, fognozzle, and
Alienslang
Mills College Lisser Hall • 8pm $12
Keith Rowe solo, and with Mills students and
faculty presents Cornelius Cardew’s “The Tiger’s
Mind”
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace • 8pm
XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom
Another Fine Mess with Greg Goodman, objets
d’interier; George Cremaschi, contrabass &
cantilevered chopsticks and Kjell Nordeson, silent
repercussions
Misanthropic Agenda • 9pm $5
Howard Stelzer (Intransitive), Jim Haynes (23five),
Gerritt Wittmer (Misanthropic Agenda)
Sunday November 9
ODC Dance Theatre • 8pm $5
sfSoundSeries
Saxophonist John Ingle in a recital of new solo
and ensemble compositions, improvisations, and
a concerto by local composer Josh Levine; NYCbased percussion duo Hunter-Gatherer (Russell
Greenberg and Ian Antonio) perform works by
David Lang, David Bithell and Gérard Grisey.
Thursday November 13
Luggage Store Gallery • 8pm $6-10
Outsound Presents The New Music Series
Ross Hammond w/Darren Johnston-trumpet, and
Devin Hoff-bass
No Sugar: George Cremaschi (bass/electronics) &
Liz Allbee (trumpet/electronics)
Friday November 14
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace • 8pm
XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom
Two World Premieres
Part 1: The Two Bald Chicairanians: Taking A Bath
Roham Sheikhani, Ali Dadgar, Targol Mesbah
Part 2: The Last Story of The Moon: Hiromi Vardy
Saturday November 15
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace • 8pm
XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom
Two World Premieres
Part 1: The Two Bald Chicairanians: Taking A Bath
Roham Sheikhani, Ali Dadgar, Targol Mesbah
Part 2: The Last Story of The Moon: Hiromi Vardy &
Tim Perkis
Mills College Lisser Hall • 8pm FREE!
New Keys 2008
The 5th annual concert of new music for the piano
will feature works by Roscoe Mitchell, Michael
Ippolito, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Paul Hembree,
Benjamin O’Brien, Jason Reed, Paul Naughton, and
Philip Schuessler performed by Regina Schaffer,
Kate Campbell, Erika Pipkin, Paul Naughton, and
vocalist Zach Kurth-Nelson.
Bhakti Mandir • 8pm $10
Ecstatic Trance Music with Axis Mundi
Stuartji Sovtasky > Kundalini Trance Chant with
Live Looping; Auntie Matter > Doumbec, D’Jembe,
Klong Yaw, Shakers, Gongs; Sangita Moskow >
HandSonic Electronic World Drums & Samples;
Ron Heglin > Didjeridoo, Ney
Sunday November 16
Musicians Union Hall • 8pm $10 / $8
Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series
Left Coast Improv Group w/Doug Carroll, Michael
Cooke, Ron Heglin, Jeff Hobbs, Scott R. Looney,
Bob Marsh, Tom Nunn, Jim Ryan, Karen Stackpole
Lukas Ligeti (NY) - solo electronics
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Monday November 10
Mills College Ensemble Room • 7pm FREE
Kaffe Matthews presents improvised digital
soundscapes
Yoshi’s Oakland • 8pm
Willem Breuker Kollektief
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Monday November 17
Mills College Ensemble Room • 7pm Free
Sergi Jorda will lecture on his work developing the
ReacTable.
Tuesday November 18
Uptown • 9pm
21 Grand presents
3rd Tuesday Avant Garde Night
Weasel Walter ensemble (personnel tba); simon
rose (saxes)/Jen Baker (trombone)/Ava Mendoza
(guitar)/alex vittum (drums); pink canoes
Wednesday November 19
Cafe Du Nord • 8pm $18
An Evening With the Nels Cline Singers
21 Grand • 8pm $5-10
Wiggwaum (Randy Lee Sutherland and pals)
+ Death Worth Living + quintet: Weasel Walter
(drums), Aurora (voice), Liz Allbee (trumpet), Jacob
Lindsay (clarinets), William Winant (percussion)
Thursday November 20
Luggage Store Gallery • 8pm $6 - $10 sliding
Outsound Presents The New Music Series
Music by the Eyeful with Peter Nyboer solo and
Andy Strain and Kevin Shea Adams duo
Freight & Salvage • 8pm
Celestial Septet- Rova + Nels Cline Singers
Friday November 21
Mills College Art Museum • 8pm $12
ReacTable solos and duets featuring guest
composer Sergi Jorda and Mills instrumentalists
Saturday November 22
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace • 8pm
XXXth WoodTennial: Into The Maelstrom
The Commonists: Adjust The PeepHole!
Witold Wolfe, IgorFinger, Vizor/Vizier
Studio 1510 • 9pm
Matthew Goodheart-piano, Jon Raskin-Sax and
Vladimir Tarasov-drums (Lithuania)
Monday November 24
Kingman’s Ivy Room • 9pm FREE
Improv Noise Hootenany and Social Club
with host Lucio Menegon and many performers,
including Lude, the Narcotics-Addicted Clown.
Mills College Ensemble Room • 7pm FREE
Pianist Sarah Cahill “A Sweeter Music” preview
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Sunday November 30
Musicians Union Hall • 7pm $10/8/5
Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series
Myles Boisen’s Past-Present-Future
Touch & Go Quintet, featuring Avram Fefer with
Ben Goldberg, Darren Johnston, Lisa Mezzacapppa
& Vijay Anderson
venue information
21 Grand
416 25th Street, Oakland [at Broadway]
ARTSF
110 Capp Street [at 16th], SF
Bhakti Mandir
6225 Doremus Avenue, Richmond
Cafe Du Nord
2170 Market Street [near 16th & Sanchez], SF
Community Music Center
544 Capp Street [Btwn 20th and 21st], SF
Diana Marto Studio
1329 61st St., Studio C, Emeryville
Freight & Salvage
1111 Addison Street [near San Pablo], Berkeley
Herbst Theare
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Kingman’s Ivy Room
858 San Pablo, Albany
Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Street, San Francisco [at 6th]
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland
Musicians’ Union Hall
116 9th Street, San Francisco [at Mission]
Misanthropic Agenda
426 Jefferson Street, Oakland
Mountain View Cemetery
5000 Piedmont Ave Oakland
New Nothing Theater
16 Sherman Street [near Howard], San Francisco
ODC Dance Commons
351 Shotwell, San Francisco
Studio 1510
1510 8th Street, Oakland
Uptown
1928 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland
Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace
903 Cedar Street, Berkeley
Yoshi’s Oakland
510 Embarcadero West, Oakland
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