Saturday, April 5
Sat 4/05 7:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Ghost Ensemble: Sarah Davachi’s “Basso Continuo”
Sat 4/05 7:30 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [2150 Allston Way, Suite 240]
Other Minds welcomes pianist Geoffrey Burleson to present his solo piano recital “From Antheil to Zappa” on Saturday, April 5, 2025, at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. Burleson’s performance will feature forgotten mid-century masterpieces by American composers, including such rarities as the Piano Sonata No. 12, “Mirror Sonata,” (1982) by Vincent Persichetti, “Mirrorrorrim” (1931) by Gerald Strang, Music for Piano (1947) by Irving Fine, Piano Sonata No. 3 (1947) by Norman Dello Joio, Samuel Barber’s Four Excursions, as well as works by George Antheil, Frank Zappa, Mary Kouyoumdjian, and Herbie Nichols.
Sat 4/05 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita
Sat 4/05 7:30 PM Campbell Recital Hall [541 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305]
Composer and harpist Renée Qin presents her Multimedia Concert “Beneath the Waves, Beyond the Stars.” The program features original compositions blending acoustic and electronic soundscapes, showcasing the harp, violin, cello, piano, and percussion, with immersive audiovisual elements and interactive technologies.
Sat 4/05 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Elliott Sharp + Abe Gibson & GTAR Ensemble
Sunday, April 6
Sun 4/06 3:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th Street oakland, CA 94706]
The Deep End’s sextet performance will delve into the work of such classic giants as Lee Morgan, Thelonious Monk, and Horace Silver as well as contemporary artists including Alan Broadbent, Jack DeJohnette, and James Williams.
Sun 4/06 5:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to [email protected]]
In the intimacy of a home concert, Elliott Sharp will perform The Hidden Variable– solo electroacoustic music performed on 8-string guitarbass with electronics. In addition, Sharp will read from his upcoming book Feedback: Translations From The IrRational which will be published by Wesleyan University Press, Nov. 2025.
Sun 4/06 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)
Sun 4/06 7:30 PM Artists’ Television Access [992 Valencia SF]
KL/PN OptoSonic InterPlays – video-audio works by Katherine Liberovskaya in collaboration with Phill Niblock
Tuesday, April 8
Tue 4/08 7:30 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Grdina/Lil’inger with Myra Melford & Ben Goldberg
Grdina/Lil’inger
Phenomenal genre-mashing juggernaut Grdina/Lil’inger mixes electronica, drum and bass, metal, punk, and freejazz into their explosively self-expressive sound.
Thursday, April 10
Thu 4/10 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St, Emeryville, CA]
Thursday, April 10, 7pm – 9pm
Chris Brown (piano and electronics), Thea Farhadian (violin & electronics)
Wyldflowr Arts
Thu 4/10 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Com£♡ (compound love)
Returning from Japan to San Francisco, where in the 1990s he ran the Drum Machine Museum
Thomas Carnacki
The eponymous detective ghost-finder and occultist might have vanished in 1912 or… may yet stir in the limbs of Gregory Scharpen, Cheryl Leonard, Agnes Szelag, et alia.
Thomas Dimuzio
Dimuzio is the wizard the land of Oz wished for, boundless, benemalevolent, shrouded in torrents of sound, daring lions to speak and machines to weep.
W.O.E.
Blending minimal techno, IDM, and noise, JaMile Jackson and Brian Tester absorb and reflect the shredded energies of our times via live performance.
Thu 4/10 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Sam Reider, Mat Muntz & Scott Amendola Trio
Friday, April 11
Fri 4/11 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Fumi Davis and Fred Moten
Fri 4/11 7:00 PM The Crown – Royal Coffee Lab and Tasting Room [2523 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612]
An evening of Tuvan Shamanism and throat singing with Chingiz Kam and Arrington de Dionyso. Closing sounds provided by Hair and Space Museum.
Fri 4/11 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Aaron Bennett Trio with Dan Seamans, bass, and Tim Bulkley, drums
