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Thursday May 29

music of Stanford Composers
Stanford University

Sunday June 8

sfSoundSeries
ODC Dance Commons
Renowned english saxophone virtuoso John Butcher performs solo and improvises with sfSoundGroup. The program also includes John Cage's "Thirteen", cellist Monica Scott performing Kaija Saariaho's "Sept Papillons", and "Seis Vicios de Garlandia" by local brazilian composer Bruno Ruviaro.

Sunday July 13

sfSoundSeries
ODC Dance Commons

Steve Reich's "Four Organs", Giacinto Scelsi's "Kya", Salvatore Sciarrino's "Muro d'orizzonte", violist Alexa Beattie performing Alan Hilario's "kibo", and new works by sfSoundGroup members.

Sunday August 10

sfSoundSeries
ODC Dance Commons

A sampling of theatrical compositions from the 1960's San Francisco Tape Music Center by Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, Robert Moran, and others. Plus works by Brian Ferneyhough, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Chris Burns and the premiere of a new work for sfSound by Erik Ulman.

Sunday September 3-7

sfSoundGroup and
Rutro and the Logs (w/ Liz Allbee, Mark Gergis, Matt Ingalls, Canner MEFE, & Jake Rodriguez)

San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
Theater Artaud

Sunday September 14

sfSoundSeries
ODC Dance Commons

Morton Feldman's 80+ minute composition, "For John Cage" performed by violinist Graeme Jennings, and pianist Christopher Jones.

September 25-28

sfSoundResidency #1
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Sunday October 12

sfSoundSeries
ODC Dance Commons

Local percussionist Gino Robair performs "Potluck Percussion" (You bring it, he'll play it - Guaranteed!) and presents ensemble pieces with sfSound augmented by laptops and voices. The program also includes two giant works from the 1980's: Gerard Grisey's "Talea" and Matthias Spahlinger's "Aussageverweigerung / Gegendarstellung: Zwei Kontra-Kontexte fur Doppelquartett".

Sunday November 9

sfSoundSeries
ODC Dance Commons

Featuring sfSound's saxophonist John Ingle in a recital of new solo and ensemble compositions, improvisations, and a concerto by local composer Josh Levine. Plus, NYC-based percussion duo Hunter-Gatherer (Russell Greenberg and Ian Antonio) perform the West Coast premiere of a new work by David Lang, David Bithell's "Whistle From Above" for percussion and robotics, and Gerard Grisey's "Stele" for 2 bass drums.

Sunday November 14-16 (tentative)

Theater Artaud
San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2008

Our annual festival presenting new and classic electroacoustic works performed in complete darkness through a 20+ channel surround-sound loudspeaker array. It's cinema for your ears!

Saturday November 15

Messiaen Festival
Old First Church
San Francisco

Saturday January 26

Helmut Lachenmann's Allegro Sostenuto
Mills College, Oakland

Wednesday February 27

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
echo de pensees sound series
PLAySPACE Gallery@California College of the Arts
1111 8th St, SF

Sunday March 9

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
also appearing: bran...pos, Vulcanus 68, & Ozmadawn

Brutal SFX Festival #46 : "Electroacoulcers"
Pharoah Maybelline's Sound Trough, No Toilet
199 San Jose St @ 24th St, SF

Wednesday April 23

21Grand
Grosse Abfahrt
French visitors Matthieu Werchowski (violin, viola) and David Chiesa (contrebasse) join locals Kyle Bruckmann, Tom Djll, Matt Ingalls, Gino Robair, Tim Perkis, John Shiurba, and Theresa Wong for an evening of improvised music.

Monday May 5

sfSound premieres new works by SFState composers
San Francisco State University

Tuesday May 6

21Grand
sfSound performs music composed by and improvised with Carl Ludwig Hubsch.

Sunday May 18

sfSound performs the music of and improvises with Stefano Scodanibbio
Old First Church
San Francisco

Saturday May 24

Worn Chamber Ensemble
Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
Presido Chapel, SF

January 26-28

The San Francisco Tape Music Festival
ODC Theater, SF

Tuesday February 20

Compomicro-dexall
21 Grand, Oakland

Friday March 9

A composition by Corey Fogel
Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley

Sunday March 11

sfSoundGroup
opens for Frederic Blondy and Le Quan Ninh
San Francisco

Sunday March 18

sfSoundGroup
San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music Thank You Party
SF

Saturday March 19

sfSoundSeries
Music by Xenakis, Ustvolskaya, Leo Smith, Goodheart, and sfSound.
ODC Theater, SF

Saturday March 24

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
as part of WOMANTIS "Noise to Noise" Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley

Friday March 30

Curated by the San Francisco Tape Music Collective, E.A.R New Music Dublin presents a program of fixed media works.
Dublin, Ireland

Sunday April 15

New Composition by Bill Wolter
Dance Mission
San Francisco

Wednesday April 18

CrusT for Clarinet and Tape
Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
&
Denis Smalley's Clarinet Threads for clarinet and tape
Improvisation with William Winant
Santa Cruz New Music Festival
UCSC

Sunday April 22

sfSound and others play New Compositions by Justin Yang, Alex Sigman, and Kristian Ireland.
Stanford University

Thursday April 26

Reading of New Works by Student Composers
Mills College, Oakland

Sunday April 29

John Cage Atlas Eclipticalis
James Tenney Swell Piece and others..
Mills College, Oakland

Saturday May 19

solo laptop "tape music improv"

The Lab
San Francisco

Friday May 25

sfSound plays New Compositions by Lowell High School Composers.
Community Music Center, SF

Saturday June 2

Berkeley/Stanford Exchange Concert
Stanford University

Saturday June 9

Matthew Sperry Festival
21 Grand, Oakland

Sunday June 24

sfSoundSeries
ODC Theater, SF
Featuring Edgard Varese's classic ensemble work Integrales (1925), Christopher Jones performing Helmut Lachenmann's monumental Serynade for solo piano, and premieres of chamber pieces by David Bithell and Christopher Jones. Plus an improvisation by George Cremaschi, John Ingle, and Kjell Nordeson.

Saturday July 15

Annual Transbay Skronkathon
21 Grand, Oakland

Sunday July 22

sfSoundSeries
ODC Theater, SF
Two classics for soloist with electronics - Jacob Druckman's Animus I for trombone and tape, and Steve Reich's Reed Phase for clarinet and computer. Plus Elliott Carter's gripping song cycle Tempo e Tempi, the Chris Jones performing the bay area premiere of "Separate Machines" for solo piano, and new electro-acoustic works by Christopher Burns and Matt Ingalls.

Wednesday August 1

Jorritt Dijkstra Improviser Pool
1510 Performance Space, Oakland

Saturday August 4

John Ingle Ensemble
21 Grand, Oakland

Sunday August 26

sfSoundSeries
ODC Theater, SF
Anton Webern's Concerto op. 24 and a host of new short works written especially for sfSoundGroup, by composers including Liz Allbee, Mark Applebau, Christopher Burns, George Cremaschi, James Fei, Matthew Goodheart, Matt Ingalls, John Ingle, Marisol Jimenez, Christopher Jones, Jon Leidecker, Hyo-shin Na, Pauline Oliveros, Dan Plonsey, Jon Raskin, Monica Scott, Moe! Staiano, Erik Ulman, Zachery Watkins, and others.

Thursday September 20

sfSoundGroup
"Day of Noise"
90.1fm KZSU, Stanford

Wednesday September 26

Duo with Corey Fogel, percussion
21 Grand, Oakland

Tuesday October 2

Special Guest Quintet ( Djll/Ingalls/Perkis/Robair/Shiruba )
Hillside Club, Berkeley

Sunday October 7

sfSoundSeries
ODC Theater, SF

October 12 and 13

John Ingle Project with Liz Allbee, Dan Joseph, Miya Masaoka, Tim Perkis, Jane Rigler, and Aarron Siegel
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY

Saturday October 20

Tinnitus Insect Volume Knobs (A High-Frequency-Only Ensemble)
featuring: George Cremaschi, Tom Djll, Matthew Goodheart, Lance Grabmiller, John Ingle, Moe! Staiano
BrutalSFX Festival #44
21 Grand, Oakland

Friday October 26

Trio with George Cremaschi and Jake Rodriguez
21 Grand, Oakland

Sunday November 4

sfSoundSeries
Ana-Maria Avram (George Cremaschi, solo bass)
Christopher Burns (premiere work written for sfSound)
Cornelius Cardew (Autumn '60 for orchestra)
Elliott Carter (Graeme Jennings, violin and Christopher Jones, piano)
Pascal Dusapin (Monica Scott, solo cello)
and others. ODC Theater, SF

Tuesday November 6

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
Temescal Arts Center
Oakland

Friday November 9

Jay Korber Group
21 Grand, Oakland

Tuesday November 13

sfSoundGroup
plays music of Stanford Composers
and Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
Stanford University

November 20-24

Sounds Electric '07 Festival
Ireland
CrusT for Clarinet and Tape
Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
Denis Smalley's Clarinet Threads for clarinet and tape
An Interactive music Concert, featuring Oeyvind Brandtsegg (Norway), Matt Ingalls (USA), Lioba Petrie (Ireland), Iain McCurdy (Northern Ireland), among others
Workshop/Lecture

Monday November 26

CrusT for Clarinet and Tape
Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
Denis Smalley's Clarinet Threads for clarinet and tape
Steve Reich's Reed Phase
University of Hull, Scarborough, England

Saturday December 1

San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music presents "A Day of Chamber Music"
sfSound performs works by Cardew, Ingle, Ulman, and sfSound.

Berkeley Piano Club

Tuesday December 18

Rutro and the Logs w/ Liz Allbee, Mark Gergis, Matt Ingalls, Canner MEFE, & Jake Rodriguez
Climate Theater Music Box Series 285 9th St (at Folsom), San Francisco

January 27-29

The San Francisco Tape Music Festival
ODC Theater, SF

Wednesday February 1

Gino Robair's I Norton
21 Grand, Oakland

Saturday February 18

sfSoundGroup

David Bithell - "Sketchbook Duos for trumpet and clarinet" (2002/2005)
Christopher Burns - "Maxwell's Demon" (2001)
Matt Ingalls - "Improvisations on Györgi Ligeti's 10 Pieces for Woodwind Quintet" (2002/2006)
John Ingle - "Mobiles" (2005)
Christopher Jones - "Four Small Forms" (2006)

ODC Theater, SF

February 21 & 22

sfSoundGroup

Class Presentations

Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT

Thursday February 23

sfSoundGroup

David Bithell - "Sketchbook Duos for trumpet and clarinet" (2002/2005)
Christopher Burns - "Maxwell's Demon" (2001)
Matt Ingalls - "Improvisations on Györgi Ligeti's 10 Pieces for Woodwind Quintet" (2002/2006)
John Ingle - "Mobiles" (2005)
Christopher Jones - "Four Small Forms" (2006)

Interpretations Series
Merkin Hall, NYC

Friday February 24

sfSoundGroup

John Cage - "Concert for Piano and Orchestra" (1957-8)
Antony Braxton - "Composition No. 341" (2004)
David Bithell - "Sketchbook Duos for trumpet and clarinet" (2002/2005)
Christopher Burns - "Maxwell's Demon" (2001)
Matt Ingalls - "Improvisations on Györgi Ligeti's 10 Pieces for Woodwind Quintet" (2002/2006)
John Ingle - "Mobiles" (2005)
Christopher Jones - "Four Small Forms" (2006)
sfSoundGroup - "Improvisation" (2006)

Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT

Saturday February 25

sfSoundGroup

John Cage - "Concert for Piano and Orchestra" (1957-8)
David Bithell - "Sketchbook Duos for trumpet and clarinet" (2002/2005)
Christopher Burns - "Maxwell's Demon" (2001)
Matt Ingalls - "Improvisations on Györgi Ligeti's 10 Pieces for Woodwind Quintet" (2002/2006)
Christopher Jones - "Four Small Forms" (2006)

Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, Somerville

Monday April 3

Berkeley New Music Project
A new composition by David Coll

Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley

Tuesday April 5

Spout2
Performed by the GVSU New Music Ensemble
Program also includes works by Phil Kline, David Lang, Kurt Ellenberger, and Peter Garland.

Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI

Saturday April 23

Guided Improv Concert
21 Grand, Oakland

Saturday April 29

CCRMA's "newstage" Opening Concert

Negative Mirror Part II (2006) by Per Bloland (b. 1969)
Getz Variations (1984) for saxophone and tape by Dexter Morrill (b. 1938)
Voices (2006) for voice and live electronics by John Chowning (b. 1934)
If you Insist (2006) electroacoustic improvisation by Bruno Ruviaro (1976) and Juan Pablo Caceres (1976)
Triages (2006) Premiere for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, electric guitar, piano and computer by Robert Hamilton (b. 1973)
Replication (2006) for piano solo, DVD computer sound, DVD conductor by Chris Chafe (b. 1952)
Cloud-filtered sunlight (2006) Premiere for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and computer by Naotoshi Osaka (b. 1953)
skin for viola da gamba and electronics by Michael Edwards (b. 1968)

Featuring: Maureen Chowning,voice Marina Bosi,flute David Demsey,saxophone Emma Moon,flute Matt Ingalls,clarinet Graeme Jennings,violin Steven Harrison,cello Collin Oldham,cello Chryssie Nanou,piano Nicholas Ong,piano Loren Mach,percussion Roy Whelden,viola da gamba Chris Jones,conductor

4:00 pm, CCRMA Stage, $10, $5
Stanford University

Saturday May 6

sfSoundGroup

John Cage Concert for Piano for Orchestra
Anton Webern Op. 7
Mauricio Kagel Con Voce
Gerard Grisey Solo Pour Deux
sfSoundGroup/Matt Ingalls Exercises

Trinity Chapel, Berkeley

Saturday May 20

Godwaffle Noise Pancakes
Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
Noon-2pm
ArtSF
110 Capp Street, San Francisco

Saturday May 28

Matthew Goodheart Composition Class Concert
Berkeley

Saturday June 17

P.A.F.
Hotel Utah, SF

Thursday June 22

Neo-Realist (George Cremaschi -doublebass/electronics, Liz Allbee - trumpet/electronics, Matt Ingalls - clarinet/electronics)
Luggage Store, SF

Monday June 26

sfSoundSeries
Music by Bithell, Boehringer, Globokar, Jones, and Lindberg.
ODC Theater, SF

Friday July 7

Stuart Dempster's 70th Birthday Celebration
Hillside Club, Berkeley, CA

Monday July 17

sfSoundSeries
Music by Andriessen, Ashley, Feldman, and Rosenberg.
ODC Theater, SF

Saturday July 22

Worn Chamber Ensemble
Hans Werner Henze Festival
Presido Chael, SF

Sunday August 6

Duo:Ing
Transbay Skronkathon BBQ
21 Grand, Oakland

Monday August 7

sfSoundSeries
Music by Bryars and Bruckmann.
ODC Theater, SF

Monday August 28

sfSoundSeries
Music by Babbitt, Burns, Lucier, Riley, and sfSoundGroup.
ODC Theater, SF

Tuesday August 29

Chris Cogburn, percussionist, concert producer, and really nice guy from Austin, TX visits the Bay Area performing with local improvisers: John Bischoff, Tom Djll, Dina Emerson, Matt Ingalls, John Ingle, Gino Robair, Scott Rosenberg, John Shiurba, and others in various groupings.

21 Grand, Oakland

Friday September 1

P.A.F.
Bottom of the Hill, SF

Friday September 15

ODC Residency Showcase
Duo:Ing.
ODC Theater, SF

Saturday September 16

Music + One
21 Grand, Oakland

Monday October 2

sfSoundSeries
Music by Tenney, Leach, Joseph, and Duo:Ing.
ODC Theater, SF

Sunday October 22

5 X 5 = 21,000
Bob Marsh's Quintessentials
and: John Shiurba's 5X5
21 Grand, Oakland

Saturday November 4

Music by Olivia Block
Mills College, Oakland

Monday November 13

sfSoundSeries
Featuring a solo electronics performance and a new ensemble work for sfSoundGroup by Bay Area stalwart John Bischoff. Plus Morton Feldman’s Routine Investigations for ensemble, Luigi Nono’s ...sofferte onde serene... for piano and electronics, and new compositions by Matt Ingalls (for clarinet and interactive electronics) and John Ingle.
ODC Theater, SF

Friday November 24

A New Work for clarinet and interactive electronics and Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
The Stone, NYC

December 7-9, 14-16

kunst-stoff presents a "In 4 Sections" - choreography by Yannis Adoniou to CrusT for clarinet and tape by mi.
ODC Theater, SF

Wednesday December 13

Compomicro-dexall
G3, SF

Monday January 10

The sfSoundSeries

Cage Imaginary Landscape
Webern 5 Pieces for Orchestra (transcription for chamber ensemble by Chris Jones)
Braxton Composition 341
Bithell Lumen (premiere)

ODC Theater, SF

January 20-22

The San Francisco Tape Music Festival
ODC Theater, SF

Wednesday February 9

Stanford Pan-Asian Festival

Chinary Ung Still Life After Death
Jing Jing Luo Yui, Yui

Stanford University

Sunday February 20

Sarah Cahill's radio show Then and Now
talking about The sfSoundSeries
with Chris Jones and Philippe Blume

KALW, 91.7fm, SF

Monday February 28

The sfSoundSeries presents

New Music from Germany

Blume Collaboraxium
Stockhausen Kurtzwellen
Spahlinger 128 erfüllte augenblicke
Neuwirth Quasar-Pulsar
Lachenmann Toccatina

ODC Theater, SF

Wednesday March 16

Rutro and the Logs
Stork Club, Oakland

Friday April 1

Santa Cruz New Music Works

UCSC

Thursday April 7

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
Class lecture/performance for Anne LeBaron's Composition Seminar

Mills College, Oakland

Monday April 11

The sfSoundSeries

New Works By Bay Area Composers
John Ingle, Marisol Jimenez, Jake Rodriguez, Erik Ulman, and sfSoundGroup.

ODC Theater, SF

Thursday April 14

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
Steve Reich's Reed Phase
Luggage Store, SF

Saturday April 23

Jorge Boehringer's Labyrinth
Lobot Gallery, Oakland

Tuesday May 3

New Music by Mills Composers
Marisol Jimenez, Martin McGinn, and Eric Roth
Mills College, Oakland

Monday May 30

The sfSoundSeries presents

Steve Reich's Drumming
and improvisational works by members of The sfSoundGroup
ODC Theater, SF

Sunday June 5

Matthew Sperry Memorial Concert

21 Grand, Oakland

Saturday June 11

Improvised music with Eric Glick Rieman and Friends

1510 Performance Space, Oakland

Sunday June 12

Toshi Makihara and Friends

21 Grand, Oakland

Monday June 27

The sfSoundSeries presents

An eclectic grouping of ensembles: a chamber arrangement of Krysztof Penderecki's orchestral noise composition Fluorescences , Pauline Oliveros' choral work Sound Patterns , Robert Erickson's Pacific Sirens for instruments and tape, Christian Wolff's Music for 5 or 10, and a new composition, "Trio Largo," by Matt Ingalls.

ODC Theater, SF

Wednesday July 27

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet

also appearing:
Jorge Boehringer's "Core of the Coal Man"
Commode Minstrels in Bullface

Other Minds BRINK
Hemlock Tavern
San Francisco

Monday August 1

The sfSoundSeries presents

John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra featuring soloist Christopher Jones, a new arrangment of Erik Satie's ballet Relache with the film by René Clair, the premiere of John Shiurba's Moon Cycle for soprano and ensemble, and new improvisational works by members of the sfSoundGroup.
ODC Theater, SF

Friday August 5

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet

The Milk Bar
81st and San Leandro, Oakland

Sunday August 14

5th Annual Skronkathon BBQ

All-electronics duo with John Shiurba

21 Grand, Oakland

Thursday August 18

Christopher Williams [bass]
Tom Djll [trumpet]
Ma++ Ingalls [clarinet]

The Luggage Store
San Francisco

Friday August 19

Christopher Williams [bass]
Tom Djll [trumpet]
Ma++ Ingalls [clarinet]

Line Space Line
Selah
Los Angeles

Sunday August 21

Christopher Williams [bass]
Tom Djll [trumpet]
Ma++ Ingalls [clarinet]

4862 Voltaire
San Diego

Saturday September 10

Tom Djll Ensemble with Andrew Drury
Community Music Center
San Francisco

Wednesday September 14

Gino Robair's I Norton
Meridian Gallery
San Francisco

Wednesday, November 2

New Works by Stanford Composers

Stanford

Friday, November 18

a new concert-length composition by Jorge Boehringer

Maybeck Recital Hall
Berkeley

Saturday, November 19

a new composition for:
The Oakland Chamber Ensemble

St. John's Church
College Ave
Berkeley

Monday, November 21

The sfSoundSeries presents

In memoriam: Richard Miller (1931-2004) -- we remember Bay Area composer Miller with a performance of his Corona/Penumbra for clarinet and percussion (1994). Plus Milton Babbitt's Whirled Series for saxophone and piano, the US premiere of David Bithell's new multimedia work, The President Has His Photograph Taken, and new collaborative music by members of the sfSoundGroup.
ODC Theater, SF

Friday, December 2

Rut-ro and the Logs

21 Grand, Oakland

Wednesday, December 21

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet

Winter Solstice
Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland

Saturday January 24

Music by George Cremaschi

San Francisco Community Music Center, SF

Saturday January 31

New Music Works
Music by Fred Frith, Henry Brant, Phil Collins, and others
Santa Cruz

Sunday February 1

Large Ensemble Compositions by Scott Rosenberg and Morgan Guberman

Thursday February 5

The Paramount Quartet
David Bithell, Kyle Bruckmann, Matt Ingalls, and John Ingle
Parmount Theater
Oakland

Friday February 6

Ensemble Compositions by Meredith Monk
Mills College

Saturday February 7

The sfSoundSeries presents
An Evening of Theater Music

Beckett / Play
Bithell / Swallowing for piano and speaker
Burkhardt / Simulcast* for two players
Globokar / Dos a Dos for two players
Ovsepyan / Now in the Shadow of the Pillar...
Various Fluxus pieces

Community Music Center, SF

Thursday February 19

The new San Francisco Tape Music Center
on-air interview
KUSF

February 20-22

The sfSoundSeries
San Francisco Tape Music Festival presented by
The new San Francisco Tape Music Center, SF
CELLSpace

Thursday February 26

Presentation on my computer music

Art & Technology Symposia
San Francisco Art Institute

Saturday February 28

Solo Improvisation
Edinburgh Castle, SF

Saturday March 6

Hadley McCarroll piano concerto concert.
Mills College, Oakland

Saturday March 17

New Music Works
Santa Cruz

Friday March 19

The sfSoundSeries presents
An Evening of Music by Helmut Lachenmann
special guests Geoff Gartner, vc and Colin McAllister and Derek Keller, gt from san diego

Salut fur Caudwell for guitar duo
Allegro Sostenuto for clarinet, cello, and piano
Interieur I for solo percussion

Community Music Center, SF

Wednesday March 24

with EKG [Kyle Bruckmann (oboe+electronics) and Ernst Karel(tpt+electroncis)]
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Sunday April 4

Compositions by David Bithell
Stanford's Strictly Ballroom Series
The Ballroom at the Knoll, 660 Lomita, Stanford, 8pm

Sunday April 25

Daniel Popsicle
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Friday April 30

IMPROV MUSIC NIGHT @ The Clinic - Artist Studios
Matt Ingalls - clarinet
Liz Allbee - trumpet
Erin Olivia - flute and electronics
Bran(POS) - laptop and electronics
Canner MEFE - laptop and electronics

The Clinic - Artist Studios
2801 A 25th Street
between Potrero and Hampshire/Bryant

Friday May 14

Surprise Guest for Uncle [Myles Boisen and John Shiurba]
with Kyle Bruckmann and Dan Plonsey
SFALT Festival
Hemlock Tavern
San Francisco

May 20-23

No Idea Festival of Improvised Music
Austin and Houston, TX

Monday May 31

Trio with Ignaz Schick [electronics] and Tom Djll [trumpet]
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Saturday June 5

The sfSoundSeries presents
Omaggio a Berio

Homage to Luciano Berio through a Berio-like treatment [collage/arrangement//deconstruction/improvisation] of Berio's music

Community Music Center, SF

Sunday June 13

Duck and Cover
radical reinterpretations of popular songs performed, reformed, and deformed
21 Grand
Oakland

Tuesday June 15

with George Cremaschi, Tom Djll, Chris Brown, and Tim Perkis
The Oakland Box

Sunday June 20

Jacopo Andreini condottiero, electric guitar, alto sax, voice
with
Matt Ingalls clarinet and bass clarinet
John Shiurba electric guitar
Gino Robair percussions
Dan Plonsey reeds
Scott Rosenberg sopranino, tenor & baritone sax, contrabass clarinet
George Cremaschi contrabass
Ron Heglin tuba
Toyoji Tomita trombone
Tom Dill trumpet
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Thursday July 8

Rut-ro and the Logs
Eddie's Park
Oakland

Thursday July 15

Solo Improvisation for Clarinet
Eddie's Park
Oakland

Monday, July 12

Matthew Sperry Memorial Concert
21 Grand

Tuesday July 20

sfSoundGroup
Featuring a new work: Concerto for mi and improvisers!
The Oakland Box

Sunday August 1

Kind-of-Blue Quartet & Skronktet West
4th Annual Skronkathon BBQ
ACME Observatory, Berkeley

Saturday August 7

The sfSoundSeries presents
A Concert of Early Minimalism Classics

music by Reich, Glass, Lucier, and Andriessen

Community Music Center, SF

Sunday August 29, 1pm

Solo Improvisation for Clarinet
also: The Breezy Days Band
sevencentralandmountain
Mama Buzz Cafe 2318 Telegraph [@ 23rd]
Oakland

Thursday September 9

Rut-ro and the Logs
Edinburgh Castle, SF

Saturday September 25

The sfSoundSeries presents
sfSoundGroup

A concert of a variety of works including Xenakis, Burns, Huber, Feldman, and Ingalls.

Community Music Center, SF

Monday September 27

with the Dan Joseph Ensemble

Cornelia Street Cafe , NYC

Thursday September 30

Solo Improvisation for Clarinet

Infusion Series
Elixir Juice Bar
95 West Broadway
NYC

Friday October 1, 7pm

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
on the CALLITHUMPIAN CONSORT EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SERIES

also: Stephen Drury will perform the complete Book II of György Ligeti’s Piano Etudes, and other members of the Callithumpian Consort will play solo works by Steve Lacy, John Cage and Jacob Druckman. Plus guest Neil Leonard on saxophone and electronics.
Zeitgeist Gallery ,Cambridge, Mass

Saturday October 2

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Sunday October 3

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet

COMA Series @ ABC NO Rio, NYC

Thursday October 6

Out of the Blue Quartet
with Jonathan Segel, George Cremaschi, Bob Marsh, and Kyle Bruckmann
Epic Arts
1923 Ashby
Berkeley

Sunday October 10

Large Ensemble w/ Baltschun & Baghdassarian
with Tom Djll, George Cremaschi, Chris Brown, Tim Perkis, Gino Robair, and John Shiurba
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Saturday, October 30

Darius Milhaud's Opera: Les Malheur d'Orphée
Mills College

Thursday November 6

Out of the Blue Quartet
George Cremaschi, bass
Fritz Welch, percussion (New York)
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe, etc
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
Jack Wright, saxes (Easton, PA)
Bob Marsh, cello, accordion

Bob's
475 43rd Street
Richmond

Monday, November 22

New Works by Stanford Composers
Stanford University

Tuesday November 23

French bassist Joëlle Léandre and Houston trombonist David Dove
join local musicians Matt Ingalls, Tim Perkis, Gino Robair, and Toyoji Tomita in various groupings.
ACME @ CNMAT
8:00 PM $6-10
1750 Arch Street Berkeley

Thursday, January 2

Kyle Bruckmann and Friends
The Luggage Store
San Francisco

Monday, January 6

Helmut Lachenmann Allegro Sostenuto
Iannis Xenakis Charisma
Matt Ingalls New Work
Geoff Gartner, cello | Matt Ingalls, clarinet | Chris Jones, piano
Stanford University
Palo Alto

Thursday, January 9

Works by John Shiurba
New Langton Arts
San Francisco

Thursday & Friday, February 27 & 28

Large Orchestra Organized by Tom Djll Celebrating Jack Wright's Birthday
Oakland Metro

Sunday, March 1

Music by Kyle Bruckmann
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

March 12-21

Scott Rosenberg's Skronktet

March 12, 13 - Poitiers, Le Carre Bleu
March 14 - Nantes, Pannonica
March 18 - Belgium, Bruges
March 19 - Brussels, Café Central
March 21 - Paris, Instants Chavires

Friday, April 11

sfSound Group
works by burns, varese, cage, ligeti, shiurba
Stanford New Music Festival
Stanford University
Palo Alto

Friday, May 2

Helmut Lachenmann Allegro Sostenuto
Iannis Xenakis Charisma
Matt Ingalls New Work
Geoff Gartner, cello | Matt Ingalls, clarinet | Chris Jones, piano
UCSD

Sunday May 11

Duo with Greg Kelley, trumpet
SFALT Festival

Sunday June 1

Big Sur SoundShift

Thursday June 19

Matthew Sperry Memorial Concert
21 Grand

Thursday June 26

Music by Eric Satie
Gallery Opening for sculptor/furniture builder/inventor Gregg Fleishman
Dialogs with Hugh Livingston

Thursday July 10

RUBBER O CEMENT
GUSTAV HOlGURTZ and HERR MEYER
mi solo clarinet/violin
LI PO COCKTAIL LOUNGE, Chinatown

Friday/Saturday July 11-12

Choreographers and Composers Consortium
World premiere collaborations with live music. Coreography / Music by:
Janice Garrett / Matthew Pierce, Amy Seiwert / Jonathan Norton, and Amy Helmstetter / Nurit Jugend
SummerFest Dance
San Francisco State University

Sunday July 27

An evening of fixed media compositions presented by
The New San Francisco Tape Music Center
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival

Thursday July 31

Matthew Sperry Memorial Concert
Victoria Theater, San Francisco

Sunday August 3

A Night of Music by Kenneth Gaburo
CNMAT
UC Berkeley

Sunday August 10

Solo Clarinet
3rd Annual Skronkathon BBQ
ACME Observatory, Berkeley

Sunday September 3

Quartet with Ernst Karel, Gino Robair, and John Shiurba
Cornelius Cardew's Treatise [with the sfSoundGroup ]
ACME Observatory, Berkeley

Saturday September 13

The sfSoundSeries
BLOCK
3 composers and their ensembles
Thomas Day / Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet
Ma++ Ingalls / sfSoundGroup
Canner MEFE / Zeek Sheck

Community Music Center, SF

September 25 - October3

Texas Tour

9/25 - Lecuture/Peformance @ University of Houston
9/26 - Lecuture/Peformance @ Houston's High School for the Performing Arts
9/28 - Solo and Improvisations with Houston [POF] Improvisers @ SuperHappyFunLand
9/29 - CrusT, spout3, and Improvisation - Aura Contemporary Music Ensemble @ UH
9/30 - Csound Lecuture, University of Texas @ Austin
9/30 - Discussion with Austin's New Music Coop
10/1 - Lecuture/Peformance, University of Texas @ Austin
10/1 - Solo & 4tet w/ Chris Cogburn, Holland Hopson, and Kurt Newman @ Red Door, Austin
10/2 - Lecuture/Peformance, University of Texas @ Arlington
10/3 - Lecuture/Peformance, University of North Texas, Denton

Saturday October 18

The sfSoundSeries presents The sfSoundGroup

Iannis Xenakis -Charisma [Ma++ Ingalls , clarinet and Monica Scott , cello]
John Cage - Arrangements of 6 Sonatas and Interludes for Chamber Ensemble
[arr. by Chris Burns, David Bithell, Ma++ Ingalls,and John Shiurba ]
James Tenney -Critical Band for 16 sustaining instruments
Salvatore Sciarrino -Cappriccio [David Ryther solo violin]
David Bithell -A View of the Santa Rosa Mountains, as seen from the Borrego Badlands, Spring 1999
Tim Perkis, Gino Robair and John Shiurba -Improvisation

Community Music Center, SF

Thursday October 23

new San Francisco Tape Music Center
A concert of new and classic works for tape, diffused live over CCRMA's new multichannel sound system.
Max Mathews - Bicycle Built for Two
ma++ ingalls - Scherzo
Thom Blum - Patzcuaro Postcard/Pedal Stolen
Cliff Caruthers - new piece
Jonty Harrison - Unsound Objects
Bernard Parmegiani - sons/jue
Pete Stollery - Onset/Offset
Walter Ruttman - Weekend
Ryoji Ikeda - C
Elainie Lillios - Dreams in the Desert

Stanford's Strictly Ballroom Series
The Ballroom at the Knoll, 660 Lomita, Stanford, 8pm

Sunday November 16

Triaxium West plays the music of Anthony Braxton
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Wednesday November 19

Gino Robair conducts a 40-piece improvising orchestra
21Grand
Okaland

Sunday November 23

The sfSoundSeries presents
Matt Ingalls, clarinet and special guest Mark Menzies, violin

Pierre Boulez, Domaines for solo clarinet
Matt Ingalls, New Work for clarinet and computer
Matt Ingalls, Improvisation for solo clarinet
Christopher Jones, Tesserae for solo violin
Luigi Nono, La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura for violin and 8-channel live sound diffusion

Community Music Center, SF

Monday December 1

Collaborative Music
A concert of new collaborative works by Stanford Graduate Composers
performed by Matt Ingalls, clarinet, Elaine Kreston, cello, & Terry Longshore, percussion.
[ also performed a solo clarinet piece ]
Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University, 8pm; free.

Thursday December 12

Anthony Braxton tentet
Anthony Braxton: reeds; Liz Allbee: trumpet; Matt Ingalls: clarinets; Greg Kelley (Boston): trumpet; Dan Plonsey: reeds; Gino Robair: percussion; Scott Rosenberg (LA): reeds; Jay Rozen (NY): tuba; Sarah Schoenbeck (LA): bassoon; John Shiurba: guitar
Victoria Theater, San Francisco

2002

Saturday, January 12

Fingerling - fixed media composition
Transparent Tape Music Festival
Transparent Theater
Berkeley

Friday, February 8

Works by John Shiurba
with Lara Bruckman, Morgan Guberman, mi, Dan Plonsey, Tom Djll, and Tom Yoder
New Langton Arts
San Francisco

Saturday, February 23

New Work by Matthew Goodheart
Catalyst: Peace Pieces in Violent Times
Mills College, Oakland

Monday, February 25

Concert/Lecture about my recent music software
Songlines
Mills College, Oakland

Tuesday, March 26

sfSound Orchestra
plays early 'box notation' by Morton Feldman: Marginal Intersection(1951)/Intersection#1(1951)/Atlantis(1959)
and a new structured improvisation
The Black Box
1928 Telegraph, Oakland

Tuesday, April 9

John Shiurba's 5x5
and Daniel Popsicle The Black Box
1928 Telegraph, Oakland

Friday, April 26

Benjamin Piekut's Lecture on Identity
The Lab
San Francisco

Saturday, April 27

Bun Ching Lam's The Child of God
Mills College
Oakland

Sunday, April 28

John Zorn's Cobra
The Lab
San Francisco

Friday, May 10

sfSound Group
SF-ALT Festival
21grand
Oakland

Friday, May 17

2 of II for solo piano
Christopher Jones, piano
Stanford

Friday-Saturday, May 31-June 1

Pauline Oliveros Restrospective Festival
San Francisco

Sunday, June 2

Worn Ensemble
Xenakis' Anaktoria
Presidio Chapel, San Francisco

Sunday, June 23

Triaxium West plays the music of Anthony Braxton
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Friday, June 28

John Shiurba's 4x5
Olympia Experimental Music Festival
Olympia, WA

Saturday, July 13

a String Orchestra Composition by Adam Lane
New Langton Arts
San Francisco

Sunday, July 14

sfSound Duo [David Bithell, trumpet, mi, clarinet]
--> Composed Improvisations and Improvised Compositions
and Dan Plonsey's Garbaggio Truckio Fantastico
The 2nd Annual Transbay Skronkathon BBQ
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Fri-Sun, July 19-20

sfSound Group
Hugh Livingston's New Opera Premiere: Underground Gardens
Goat Hall
San Francisco

Saturday, July 27

Dan Plonsey's Music of El Cerrito
New Langton Arts
San Francisco

Sunday, August 18

Scherzo new work for fixed media
The Transparent Tape Music Festival 2
Berkeley

Sunday, September 1

Triaxium West plays the music of Anthony Braxton
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Sunday, October 6

CrusT for clarinet and tape
performed by Rob Bailis
Old First Church
San Francisco

Monday, October 7

John Shiurba's 5x5
Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands

Tuesday, October 22

Triaxium West Orchestra plays the music of Anthony Braxton
The Black Box
1928 Telegraph, Oakland

Wednesday, October 23

The Day of Noise
90.1fm KZSU, Stanford
sfSound Group

Thursday, October 24

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE (Nagoya)
CAROLINER
DEERHOOF
BURNING STAR CORE
MIDNIGHT MOVIES
ANTARCTICANS
DECEMBER STARZ
The Derby, Los Angeles

Saturday, October 26

Caroliner
Sacramento

Tuesday, November 12

sfSound Group
play Available Forms I and Modules I & II by Earle Brown
The Black Box
1928 Telegraph, Oakland

Saturday, November 23

Solo for Clarinet
Duo with Sean Meehan, percussion
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Sunday, November 24

Music by Charles Shere with texts by Gertrude STein
Mills College
Berkeley

Saturday, December 7

An Evening of FLUXUS Performances

Yoko Ono Lighting Piece
Tomas Schmit Sanitas No. 35
Emmett Williams Counting Songs
George Brecht Symphony #2
George Brecht Symphony #3
Mieko Shiomi Wind Music, Fluxversion II
George Maciunas Solo for Conductor
Emmett Williams For La Monte Young
Tomas Schmit Sanitas No. 151
George Brecht Solo for Wind Instrument

ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Saturday, December 14

sfSound Group
Plays music of Earl Brown.
Memorial/50th Anniversary of "December 1952"
also: Centering, String Quartet, Folio, Octet I, and 4 Systems
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Saturday, December 14

Brutal Sound Effects Festival
Caroliner Rainbow Spring Skulls Line up to Swelter, Thomas DiMuzio's Ha Ha Holster, The Bran...Pos, Skozey Fetisch, The Anti Ear (from Tx), Prion
5lowershop
992 Peralta, San Francisco

Friday, January 13

Invalid Sync - improvisation for 2 computers and violin
The 4th Annual CEAIT Electronic Music Festival
Cal Arts
Valencia, CA

Friday, January 26

guest on Carl Stone's Music of the World
KPFA 94.1
10am

Saturday, January 27

SFSOUND COLLECTION
21st Century Compositions for Clarinet
by Bay Area Composers
by Joseph Anderson, Thomas Day, Morgan Guberman, Matt Ingalls,
Dan Joseph, Brian Kane,and John Shiurba
Community Music Center
544 Capp St., SF
8pm
FREE
 

Wednesday, January 31

Border Bend
with David Horton, Thomas Day and John Shiurba

Pro Arts
Downtown Oakland

Saturday, February 3

Toshi Makihara [percussion]
John Shiurba [guitar]
matt ingalls [clarinet]
Scott Looney[piano/electronics]
1502 Performance Space
West Oakland

Thursday, February 22

Detritus.net presents:
An Elecro-Improv Jamboree
A gaggle of musical geeks with sound-making circuitry will spend the evening combining and recombining into various free-improv duets, trios, and even larger groups.
The Luggage Store
San Francisco

Saturday, February 27

Jack Wright[reeds]
Bob Marsh [cello]
matt ingalls [clarinet/electronics]
21grand
Oakland

Thursday, March 8

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
The Luggage Store
San Francisco

March 19 - April 15

djerassi artist residency
Woodside, CA

Saturday, March 24

sfSound Group - a NEW New Music Ensemble
ODC Theater's Spring New Music Series
San Francisco

Sunday, April 12 & 13

Miya Masaoka's The Sound of Naked Men
with the sfSound Group
Yerba Buena Gardens
San Francisco

Sunday, April 15

Scott Rosenberg Skronktet
ACME Observatory
Berkeley

Saturday, April 29

Improvisation for Solo Clarinet
in a benefit for

21grand
Oakland

Wednesday, May 2

Brian Kane's
new composition for Soprano, Clarinet, Piano, and Cello

Hertz Hall
Berkeley

Sunday, May 7

Herbert Ho's
Peeling the Lint for chamber ensemble

Hertz Hall
Berkeley

May 5

The 2nd Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
Invalid Sync - improvisation for computer computer and clarinet and/or violin
San Francisco

Saturday, May 13

The Premiere of 2 of II for solo piano
Hadley McCarroll, piano
Community Music Center
544 Capp St., SF
8pm

Tuesday, May 15

with George Cremaschi[bass] and Jon Raskin[saxophones]
Bruno's
San Francisco

Thursday, June 7

Bob Marsh's Illuminated Orchestra
The Luggage Store
San Francisco

Thursday, June 28

With Chris Heenan [saxophones from LA]
The Luggage Store
San Francisco

Saturday, July 14

genetic algorithmic mandana
by Randy Nordschow with John Ingle
new langton arts
San Francisco

Sunday, July 15

Transbay Creative Music BBQ
ACME Observatory Contemporary Music Series
@TUVA Space
Berkeley

Friday, July 20

Stanford Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven 4 and Schumann Piano Concerto

Thursday, August 9

Improvisations and Compositions for Clarinet, Violin, and Computer
The Luggage Store
San Francisco

Sunday, August 12

Mood Chart for solo clarinet by Tom Swafford
Berkeley Art Center

Thursday, August 23

Improvisation with Kyle Bruckman [oboe] and John Shiurba [guitar]
The Luggage Store
San Francisco

Friday, August 24

Concert-Length Solo Improvisation
Curious Friday's at Eddie's Park
West Oakland

Sunday, September 2

Improvisations and Compositions for Clarinet, Violin, and Computer
ACME Observatory at TUVA Space
Berkeley

Sunday, September 9

John Cage's Clarinet Sonata [1933], Radio Music [1956] and Seven(2)[1990]
ACME Observatory at TUVA Space
Berkeley

Friday, September 28

Trio with Tim Perkis [electronics] and Matthew Sperry [bass]
part of the 2nd Annual Trio Festival
ACME Observatory at TUVA Space
Berkeley

Sunday, October 7

Cornelius Cardew's Treatise
ACME Observatory at TUVA Space
Berkeley

Saturday, October 13

Solo for Clarinet
TUVA Space
Berkeley

Monday, October 15

Stick Your Head in the Dryer
for chamber ensemble by Hubert Ho
UC Berkeley

Wednesday, October 17

new work
by randy nordschow
The Lab
San Francisco

Friday, November 9

f(Art) fixed media
l e c t r o a c o u s t i q u e s u n i v e r s i t È C o n c o r d i a u n i v e r s i t y E l e c t r o a c o u s t i c s
serie XX series
Concordia University
Montreal

Sunday, November 25

Trio with John Butcher and Sara Schoenbeck
ACME Observatory
Berkeley