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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260524T191500
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SUMMARY:ANTIMATTER + Jacob Felix HeuleDiane Grubbe + Meerenai Shim
DESCRIPTION:ANTIMATTER (xopher Davidson\, analog / digital electronics) and JACOB FELIX HEULE (percussion): Wave Function Collapse\, resting upon the threshold between a state of limitless potentials and one of decoherence-that which cannot be measured\, quantified\, simulated or collected as data. Forever drifting over time\, a spectral bass-relief sculpted by entropy. \nMEERENAI SHIM and DIANE GRUBBE team up to perform composed and improvised music for a variety of flutes\, including glissando and contrabass flutes. The program includes Salvatore Sciarrino’s Il pomeriggio di un allarme al parcheggio for glissando flute\, Pathways for two flutes by Efraín Amaya\, Matthew Joseph Payne’s Etude for contrabass flute and TI83+ calculator and the premiere of a duo for two glissando flutes by Diane Grubbe.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/antimatter-jacob-felix-heulediane-grubbe-meerenai-shim/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260517T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260517T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
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SUMMARY:Neil Rolnick + Alex OliviaPlonsey Scheme
DESCRIPTION:NEIL ROLNICK performs So Many Me’s\, with choreographer and dancer ALEX OLIVA (and her 8 foot ladder). measuring … selling … falling apart … acting out … surrender … Neil also performs the score to Barbara Hammer’s 1990 experimental film Sanctus\, featuring a host of x-ray skeletons playing trumpets\, drinking\, shaking hands\, shaving\, putting on lipstick\, all to the live mashup of Sanctus movements from masses by Machaut\, Bach\, Beethoven & Verdi. \n“Plonsey Scheme” has nothing to do with finding suckers to invest in this “music” thing which promises to be such a hot commodity\, with the fraudster paying off older investors with the funds provided by the younger ones — but as we get older it is admittedly a little more like it: what experiences\, revelations and revolutions can we promise you? MANTRA PLONSEY writes the words while DAN PLONSEY writes the music\, but it comes together for the first (and last) time during performance. The music is written to accommodate improvisations utilizing various constraints\, miniature compositions within compositions\, fragments of songs from Eastern Europe and Northern El Cerrito. The band includes bagpipes virtuoso MATTHEW WELCH (also accordion and Balinese suling)\, clarinet/saxophone/flutist CORY WRIGHT (also trombone)\, guitarist TOMEK SINCLAIR\, and MIC GENDREAU on turntables\, electronics and percussion (and perhaps clarinet). Mantra sings and speaks\, Dan plays reeds\, brass\, melodica\, and bits of cheap percussion. And KATTT ATCHLEY provides a backdrop of projected tableaux of dolls among art: in movement along with their lighting on a system of turntables and lazy susans. PLONSEY SCHEME is eery\, majestic\, lost\, mysterious\, ceremonial\, and more/less than just there.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/neil-rolnick-alex-oliviaplonsey-scheme/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260510T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260510T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
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SUMMARY:Micheal SchumacherMarc Perez + Jeff Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER (New York) presents various “immersive/dispersive” fixed media works\, composed for his portable 8 channel system and adapted for Dresher Studio’s  multi-channel Meyer sound system. Utilizing a radically inclusive palette of sounds\, the pieces wrap the audience in webs of potential associations\, making listening as vital to the creation of meaning as the act of composing itself. \nTrombonist/Composer/Improviser MARC PEREZ (Santa Cruz) and bassist JEFF SCHWARTZ (Santa Monica) present a set of duo improvisations. \nMarc Perez is a west coast based transdisciplinary creator/artist\, curator and organization leader whose work is concerned with freedom of agency\, access\, & improvisation. As a performer\, marc has performed and collaborated with a wide array of improvisers across the US\, including Devin Daniels\, Andrew Weathers\, Vinny Golia\, William Roper\, Matt Crane\, Dan Clucas\, Lucy Liu\, The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra\, You\, Me & The Whales\, Angel Lin & Corey Fogel. \nJeff Schwartz is very active in Los Angeles’ improvised and experimental music communities. He has performed with artists including Anthony Braxton\, Glenn Branca\, Dana Reason\, Nicole Mitchell\, Elliott Levin\, and Adam Rudolph and attended the Creative Music Studio and the Vancouver Creative Music Institute. As principal bass of MESTO\,  he has toured the Middle East playing Arabic music\, and he works with classical groups including the Santa Monica Symphony\, the Vicente Chamber Orchestra\, and the Culver City Chamber Orchestra.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/micheal-schumachermarc-perez-jeff-schwartz/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20260411T174515Z
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SUMMARY:HOMMAGES TO JANÁČEK AND KURTÀG Stenberg-Green-Scott String TrioMcCarroll-Esainko Piano Duo
DESCRIPTION:Subtle colors\, quiet nuances and intense communication – György Kurtág and Leos Janáček’s music for pianos and strings will draw you into a magical world where every sound\, every gesture conjures up memories or heightens awareness of the present. \nCellist and composer MONICA SCOTT has transcribed Janáček’s piano work The Overgrown Path for violin\, viola and cello\, inspired by the unique way the composer transforms melodies through harmonic experimentation\, and how he treats rhythms drawn from speech patterns and nature. Interspersed with the 10 short pieces in that series\, are György Kurtág’s exquisite miniatures Signs\, Games and Messages – in versions for piano four hands\, two pianos and string trio. \nThe trio is: violinist KATE STENBERG\, who has appeared numerous times at the Dresher Studio\, most recently in a commission by Pamela Z\, alongside Sarah Cahill; violist LINDA GREEN\, whose career spans teaching music in OUSD\, performing with the Oakland Symphony and many other local orchestras\, and frequent chamber music collaborations throughout the Bay Area; cellist MONICA SCOTT – who is a member of sfSound\, oakland reductionist orchestra and duo martha & monica – all of whom perform often at the Dresher Studios and West Oakland Sound Series. Pianist HADLEY MCCARROLL (of martha & monica and sfSound) is joined by KYMRY ESAINKO – another pianist well known to Bay Area audiences – for the works by Kurtág and his transcriptions of Machaut and Bach. \nThe program also includes two short works\, Hommages to Janáček and Kurtàg\, composed by Monica Scott.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/hommages-to-janacek-and-kurtag-monica-scott-kate-stenberg-linda-green-hadley-mccarroll-kymry-esainko/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260412T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260412T170000
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SUMMARY:DEPARTURE DUOCHERYL E. LEONARD + WOBBLY
DESCRIPTION:Boston-based DEPARTURE DUO (Nina Guo\, soprano and Edward Kass\, double bass) probes the experimental side of soprano and double bass with commissioned pieces from Christian Wolff\, Erin Gee\, and Andrew Watts. In a program that pushes their high-low combination through the Looking Glass\, Departure Duo invites listeners to a world where voice and instrument become one sonic body\, sound off on a proto-language\, and follow gargoyles on a PM walk. Bring open ears to explore the extremities of soprano and double bass with us.  \n\nFor Charles North’s 15 Poems and Liner Notes 2 by Christian Wolff\nMouthpiece 43 by Erin Gee\nGarden Clocks by Njabulo Phungula\nLinear B by Andrew Watts\n\nCHERYL LEONARD makes field recordings of natural soundscapes\, and builds and plays electroacoustic instruments made out of natural materials such as bones\, driftwood\, shells\, seaweed\, feathers\, and stones.  WOBBLY sees the long histories of feedback and generative music as attempts to better understand what all those animals are singing about.  Recently they’ve been driving to the Marin Headlands to make hydrophone recordings of the Newt Pond that was once an anti-aircraft gun turret\, you know the one\, but if you haven’t stuck your head underwater to hear the sound of photosynthesizing pond weed\, don’t — those newts are poisonous.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/departure-duocheryl-e-leonard-wobbly/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260329T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260329T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20260318T000337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T000437Z
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SUMMARY:LEVITATOR TRIO (CLIFFORD+SHOKRAI+NORDESON) "TWO SISTERS" BY MAX ABNER
DESCRIPTION:LEVITATOR is a Bay Area–based trio featuring KJELL NORDESON (drums)\, SAFA SHOKRAI  (bass)\, and MARK PASCUCCI-CLIFFORD (vibraphone). Performing original compositions and improvisations\, the group has been developing its sound together since 2021. Rooted in the jazz tradition while drawing from free improvisation and contemporary creative music\, Levitator’s music balances structure\, spontaneity\, and collective interplay. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwo Sisters is the next installment in MAX ABNER’S series of operas that combine set librettos with improvised music. Set in the rural enclave known as Rough River\, two sets of sisters (one set unremarkable\, one set former child stars) live in adjacent riverhouses overlooking the water. Each set—guarded by deeply attentive mothers—suffers from various forms of emotional arrested development. When one of the former child stars drowns in a flood\, one of the more pedestrian sisters becomes convinced that she is the drowned sister\, still very much alive. Two Sisters plumbs the ensuing blurriness\, as mourning\, care\, delusion\, and placation mingle in a case of mistaken and troubled identification. \nTwo Sisters \na work-in-progress staged reading \nCreative Team: \nLibretto/Score by MAX ABNER\nDirected by MICHAEL ROGERSON\nMusical Direction SADIE GREYDUCK \nCast:\nMax: Max Abner\nJoseph: Joseph Dee Bradshaw\nSister (S): Captainmcsweeney (Kaitlin McSweeney)\nHer Sister (H): Truce Hansen\nMom and Mommy: Celeste Winant\nFamous Sister (F): Victoria Glavin\nOther Sister (O): Guilia Chiappetta \nEnsemble:\nSadie Greyduck: upright bass\nTravis Snyder: pedal steel\nJoseph Dee Bradshaw: acoustic guitar\nMax Abner: cassettes\nTim Decillis: drums
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/levitator-trio-cliffordshokrainordeson-two-sisters-by-max-abner/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260322T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260322T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
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SUMMARY:FREMAKAJO  SOCIAL STUTTER
DESCRIPTION:FRED FRITH (bass/viola) has been a dauntless explorer\, improviser\, and collaborator in the half-century since he made that breakthrough. From leaving Henry Cow to start Art Bears\, from leaving England to enlist in a hyperactive New York improvisational circuit that led him to join Naked City and launch his own Massacre\, Frith has situated his extended techniques and handmade instruments in dozens of different contexts. A longtime teacher at California’s Mills College\, he brings another new band\, FREMAKAJO. He has tapped intertwining Bay Area circles to build this quartet\, with curious and playful drummer JORDAN GLENN joining exploratory saxophonist KASEY KNUDSEN and stylistically globetrotting accordionist MARIÉ ABE. \n  \nSOCIAL STUTTER\, a saxophone quartet led by composer/altoist BETH SCHENCK\, blurs the line between strictly written chamber music and soaring free jazz. Solos emerge from the natural order of intricately written lines that\, although begin simply in structure\, twist and distort themselves into surprisingly complex shapes and forms. Unlike traditional saxophone quartets\, most compositions call for two altos\, tenor\, and bari\, which leads itself to denser harmonic territory and a uniquely homogenous sound. Masters of texture and nuance\, the quartet has a keen awareness of how to support and push one another’s creative boundaries. Social Stutter is comprised of some of the Bay Area’s most unique voices: KASEY KNUDSEN\, RAFFI GARABEDIAN\, CORY WRIGHT and BETH SCHENCK
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/fremakajo-social-stutter/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260315T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260315T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20260310T213351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T214535Z
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SUMMARY:BEN GOLDBERG + DILLON VADO + TIM BULKLEY  FILMS BY DAVID MICHALAK\, STEVE MOBIA\, ARTHUR GANSON
DESCRIPTION:Clarinetist BEN GOLDBERG joins DILLON VADO (vibraphone) and TIM BULKLEY (drums) in a set of trio improvisations. Sound knowledge and awareness from planet Neptone. The practice of remembering what you can’t forget. Come have a listen; you won’t believe your ears. Or else\, you will believe your ears but there might be something else you don’t believe. Or maybe nothing at all. \n  \nEYE-FULL FILMS presents a set of experimental films by DAVID MICHALAK\, STEVE MOBIA\, and ARTHUR GANSON\, including the premiere showing of Michalak’s Still Movin’. \nPROGRAM \nDAVID MICHALAK – Life Is a Serious Business (1983\, color\, B+W\, 8 min.) \nGeorge Kuchar in dual roles as Instructor and hopeless nebbish attempts to instruct himself out discouragement. The dialogue has been appropriated from a “How to Overcome\nDiscouragement” instructional record. Music by Dean Santomieri \nARTHUR GANSON – Machines (various shorts 1978-2004\, color\, B+W\, 6 min) \nSTEVE MOBIA – Nudge (2012\, color\, 8min.) \na pinball percussion piece that features the sounds of vintage pinball machines\, scored by Steve and performed by members of the Composers Orchestra. \nDAVID MICHALAK – Still Movin’ (2025\, color\, 6 min) \nNature’s beautiful abstractions present themselves through a car window. World premiere! Soundtrack by Dr. Bob \nDAVID MICHALAK – The Secret Opera (2025\, color\, B+W\, 13 min.) \nGrum\, an opera singer played by Bob Marsh searches for the key to love & art attempting to perform in spite of aphonia\, inner demons and a ghost that has been haunting and dooming\nperformances in the decaying Opera House. Soundtrack by Dr. Bob. \nDAVID MICHALAK – Regenbogen (1998\, color\, 4 min.) \nan animated rainbow\, soundtrack by Reel Change
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ben-goldberg-dillon-vado-tim-bulkley-films-by-david-michalak-steve-mobia-arthur-ganson/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260308T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260308T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
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SUMMARY:Rebecca LawrenceOakland Reductionist Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:Berlin-based double bassist REBECCA LAWRENCE performs Imaginary Light\, a program of contemporary works for solo double bass. Through extended techniques and alternative tunings\, the sonic compass of the double bass is exposed\, expanded and illuminated. Known for her collaborative work as a contemporary and early music double bassist in Europe and the USA\, Rebecca is a member of berlin-based EnsembleKollektiv as well as a frequent guest with ensembles such as Klangforum Wien\, Ensemble Modern\, ensemble mosaik\, the Basel Sinfonietta and Matter of Facts Studio. She combines her interest in contemporary and baroque music with individual projects involving improvisation on early instruments. \nJacob Druckman: Valentine (1969) \nHåkon Thelin: Amarcord (2003) \nHaukur Þór Harðarson: new work (2026) \nRebecca Saunders: Fury (2005) \nThe OAKLAND REDUCTIONIST ORCHESTRA is a supergroup of Bay Area musicians with a predilection for lowercase\, fricative\, and reductionist improvisation that often sounds more electronic than acoustic\, the ensemble comes out of a rich tradition of “American reductionist” music that blossomed in the late 1990s and early 2000s.  Musicians: tom djll\, trumpet; ron heglin\, tuba; monica scott\, cello; matt ingalls\, clarinets; lisa mezzacappa\, bass; kyle bruckmann\, oboe\, english horn; kevin ck lo\, flute\, violin\, piano;  kevin corcoran\, percussion; kanoko nishi-smith\, koto; john ingle\, saxophones; jacob felix heule\, percussion; diane grubbe\, flutes; danishta rivero\, voice; cody putman\, bassoon; chris cooper\, guitar\, electronics; cheryl e leonard\, natural-object instruments; brendan lai-tong\, trombone.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/rebecca-lawrenceoakland-reductionist-orchestra/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20260203T001304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T001304Z
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SUMMARY:GACHAPON HANNA BROBACK + JOHN TESKE + NOEL KENNON with ADAM LION
DESCRIPTION:HANNA BROBACK + JOHN TESKE + NOEL KENNON (String Trio\, Seattle) is an ensemble currently working with sustained frequencies\, harmonic structures\, and open form composition. This evening\, joined by ADAM LION (Vibraphone\, LA)\, they will perform pages from Noel’s typewriter score\, 13 harmonic weather formations. This music unfolds slowly and attempts to sound a slow spectral image. \nGACHAPON\, an improvisational New Music ensemble featuring NANCY BECKMAN\, shakuhachi and percussion; CINDY SAWPRANO\, musical saw\, accordion\, voice and percussion; TOM BICKLEY\, EWI electronic wind instrument; and DEAN SANTOMIERI\, taishogoto and guitar\, performs with dancer CHRISTINA BRAUN. \nGachapon is an improvising New Music quartet with a slightly Asian music flavor characteristic of both the Shakuhachi\, an end-blown flute usually made of bamboo\, and Taishogoto\, an electric instrument with presets that mimic both Japanese and western instruments. The EWI (electronic wind instrument) also has preset sounds capable of producing flute\, brass\, reed\, woodwind\, and synthesizer sounds. The bowed saw brings unusual timbres into the mix and is capable of extreme glissandi. The guitar\, accordion\, and Taishogoto can also play chords\, which are often used to establish a key center or sound bed for the other players to solo over. Additionally\, all the group members play percussion instruments. \nGachapon often uses a Gray Code-derived score to indicate which players will play or not play on a time grid. So\, at various moments\, one member might be playing solo while the others sit out. The score determines when solos\, duos\, trios or the full quartet play\, which brings a unique listening experience to an audience more familiar with other improvising ensembles. “Gachapon” is also the onomatopoeic name given to a certain type of Japanese vending machine toy. Christina Braun will be dancing with the group during this performance. Her dancing incorporates elements of ballet\, Jazz\, Modern and Butoh styles.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/gachapon-hanna-broback-john-teske-noel-kennon-with-adam-lion/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260215T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260215T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20260203T000641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T000701Z
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SUMMARY:MOE STAIANOJOSHUA ALLEN
DESCRIPTION:MOE STAIANO continues to explore works for electric guitar ensembles with his third work-in-progress composition\, Music for Eight Guitars (The Parting Gift). This plans to be an exploration of tonal interplay and contrasting rhythms with eight electric guitars\, bass\, drums and percussion. He plans to have it feature assertive rhythmic structures and intertwining tremolo structures\, balanced by continuous play against each guitarist with bouncing rhythms and ongoing hockets while surrounding the audience with a bombastic attack. This piece comes after his Music for 48 Guitars (2023)\, which has yet to be performed. \nBay Area tenor saxophonist JOSHUA ALLEN unveils a new direction of deeply intimate solo works. Following a challenging hiatus while recovering from two recent surgeries\, Allen has spent months of intensive recovery dedicated to a meticulous “re-mapping” of his instrument. This new vocabulary of soft\, micro-textural multiphonics was refined amidst the ambient hum of the Rockridge BART station. By transforming a public transit hub into a laboratory for sonic exploration\, he has mastered the art of projecting even the softest timbres with clarity and soul. Join us for a performance that celebrates resilience and the beauty of finding a new voice in the quietest spaces.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/moe-staianojoshua-allen/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260208T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260208T213000
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SUMMARY:GIACOMO FIOREBRETT CARSON
DESCRIPTION:BRETT CARSON presents an evening of original compositions. These include Exeunt Ion for solo piano and Game Boy; Three text scores\, a series of graphic scores exploring strategies for improvisation based on experimental poetics; and a new piece\, Bacterial adhesion onto apatite minerals — electrokinetic aspects for keyboard\, percussion\, drum set\, and electronics. Performers include WILLIAM WINANT\, JORDAN GLENN\, DAVID KATZ\, SAKI MINAMIMOTO\, and DANISHTA RIVERO. \nGuitarist GIACOMO FIORE premieres Gift by MATT SARGENT\, a set of 13 variations for guitar and electronics on the Shaker tune “Simple Gifts.” The piece was commissioned by Fiore for just intonation resophonic guitar\, an instrument  originally conceived for the composition of Lou Harrison’s Scenes from Nek Chand in 2002. In Gift\, the original tune is buried and unheard an octave below the range of the guitar. What we hear\, instead\, is music blooming up from the ground that is made out of the harmonics of “Simple Gifts.” As these overtone flowers take shape on the guitar\, a ghost occasionally emerges on the right side of the stage\, building a halo of resonance around the guitarist.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/giacomo-fiorebrett-carson/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251214T071500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251214T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20251118T213107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T213145Z
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SUMMARY:West Oakland Sound Series: Benefit Fest
DESCRIPTION:END OF YEAR SERIES BENEFIT SHOW! (INGALLS + SFSOUND + OAK RDCT ORCH + OTHERS) \nMore information soon
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/west-oakland-sound-series-benefit-fest/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251207T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251207T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20251118T212346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T212514Z
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SUMMARY:HUMMINGBIRD [Evelyn Davis + Phillip Greenlief + Jordan Glenn]YON SIL
DESCRIPTION:HUMMINGBIRD: PHILLIP GREENLIEF\, EVELYN DAVIS and JORDAN GLENN make sputtering buzzes with tail feathers in meadows and open forests. Their perches tend to willows and alder from Mexico to 5\,000 year old pine forests. They add beauty by attracting audiences to hover\, increasing metabolic rates by quoting the odysseys of Pauline Oliveros and Tony Williams. Their survival depends on chasing red tailed press releases with the eloquence of epic poetry found primarily in the early work of The Slits\, and other renegade protagonists associated with the essence of iridescence; where the glowing\, intensifying\, changing colors of their sonic palette is but one brilliant example of their off-the-charts biology. \nYON SIL is visiting in Berkeley from the UK\, where he regularly performs in London’s vibrant experimental scene with artists such as Steve Noble\, John Edwards\, and Charles Hayward. Yon’s bass clarinet solos – often performed in one uninterrupted circular-breathed flow – weave multilayered sound/note textures through refractions of noise and melody\, and stem from an intensely corporeal and visceral relationship to his instrument\, partly informed by his experience as a member of Ana Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu’s Hyperion Ensemble\, whose radical\, noise-adjacent improvisational interpretation of spectral music has deeply affected him. Yon has performed with Birgit Uhler\, Angharad Davies\, Ashely Paul\, Toshimaru Nakamura\, Abstract Concrete\, John Butcher etc.\, and appears on Creative Sources\,  Editions Modern\, Aural Terrains\, Confront Recordings\, Chocolate Monk\, Hideous Replica etc.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/hummingbird-evelyn-davis-phillip-greenlief-jordan-glennyon-sil/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20251023T180952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T165745Z
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SUMMARY:Rainwater-Shim DuoAgnes Szelag + Cheryl Leonard + Gregory Scharpen
DESCRIPTION:The Rainwater-Shim Duo (pianist Anne Rainwater and flutist Meerenai Shim) performs duos and solos\, including Pencilled Wings for flute\, piano\, and electronic playback by Emma O’Halloran\, Greener Grass by Caroline Ansink\, 90+ for piano by Elliott Carter\, and Miniatures Book 4: Preset Etudes for flute and electronics by Brent Miller.\n\nThomas Carnacki\, in the performance arena\, has numbered as many as seven individuals\, and as few as zero. Primary aesthetic concerns tend to revolve around uneasy textures\, nuance\, organicity\, and peculiarity. Repeat offenders down the years have included the late Jim Kaiser\, Gregory Hagan\, Jesse Burson\, and Sheila Bosco; this evening’s incarnation consists of Cheryl E. Leonard and Gregory Scharpen alongside Agnes Szelag. Carnacki music has accompanied dance pieces\, films\, plays\, and outdoor installation spectacles across the continent and internationally. The most recent recorded documents to have been released into the world are the sibling albums Cadavre Isolé and Rencontre Fortuite\, both derived from a formal exercise of inspired happenstance in the middle of lockdown.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/meerenai-shim-anne-rainwateragnes-szelag-cheryl-leonard-gregory-sharpen/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20251023T181904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T200925Z
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SUMMARY:QueenBee Records 2-day microFEST
DESCRIPTION:Second night of freewheeling improvised music and creative jazz from some of the scene’s most adventurous and exciting ensembles. Celebrating three new recordings out this fall on Berkeley’s Queen Bee Records — the 7th\, 8th and 9th! — in a series of 12 releases coming this year. \nBeth Schenck Quintet\nA wildly creative and original musical voice\, San Francisco saxophonist and composer Beth Schenck writes bracing music that blends lush harmonies with fierce propulsiveness and surprising rhythmic twists and turns. \nBeth Schenck\, alto saxophone and compositions\nCory Wright\, tenor saxophone and bass clarinet\nMatt Wrobel\, guitar\nLisa Mezzacappa\, acoustic bass\nJordan Glenn\, drums \nAstrolabe\nNathan Clevenger’s Astrolabe Ensemble is a large jazz and experimental music group based in Oakland.The band’s name originated from a specific musical suite that Clevenger wrote. \nKasey Knudsen – alto & tenor sax\nBeth Schenck – alto & soprano sax\nCory Wright – Bb & bass clarinet\, alto flute\nPolly Springhorn – C & bass flute\, piccolo\nDanny Lubin-Laden – trombone\nCrystal Pascucci-Clifford – cello\nJon Arkin – drum set\, percussion\nJason Levis – marimba\, percussion\nTim DeCillis – vibes\, percussion\nMark Pascucci-Clifford – vibes\, percussion\nNathan Clevenger – keyboards\, percussion\nLisa Mezzacappa – contrabass \nflatways\n(Sudhu Tewari\, Jordan Glenn\, Matt Robidoux) \nflatways is a rhythm band made up of no strings guitar (Sudhu Tewari)\, drum set (Jordan Glenn)\, and drum machines + live sampling (Matt Robidoux). Sudhu makes instruments for the band\, such as a one stringed electric bass (“slap thwacker”) that Sudhu and Matt both play. flatways is drum n bass\, with numerous rhythms meshing\, clashing\, and rubbing up against one another. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/queen-bee-records-festival-day-two/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20251023T174756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T200732Z
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SUMMARY:QueenBee Records 2-day microFEST
DESCRIPTION:Two nights of freewheeling improvised music and creative jazz from some of the scene’s most adventurous and exciting ensembles\, celebrating three new recordings out this fall on Berkeley’s Queen Bee Records. \nThis first evening is devoted to the OAKLAND REDUCTIONIST ORCHESTRA‘S debut release\, west and east baying representing two sides of the ensemble’s output: a live concert recording documenting a performance at The Lab in San Francisco (West Bay) and an “only made in the studio” work recorded in a controlled environment in Berkeley (East Bay). A supergroup of Bay Area musicians with a predilection for lowercase\, fricative\, and reductionist improvisation that often sounds more electronic than acoustic\, the ensemble draws on a rich tradition of “American reductionist” music that blossomed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Musicans: Tom Djll\, trumpet; Ron Heglin\, tuba; Monica Scott\, cello; Matt Ingalls\, clarinets; Lisa Mezzacappa\, bass; Kyle Bruckmann\, oboe\, english horn; Kevin Corcoran\, percussion; Kevin ck Lo\, violin/flute/piano; Kanoko Nishi-Smith\, koto; Joshua Marshall\, tenor saxophone; John Ingle\, saxophones; Jacob Felix Heule\, percussion; Diane Grubbe\, flutes; Danishta Rivero\, voice; Cody Putman\, bassoon; Chris Cooper\, guitar\, electronics; Cheryl Leonard\, natural-object instruments; Brendan Lai-Tong\, trombone. \nMany of the members studied at Mills College\, which has had an extraordinary and foundational influence on the Bay Area’s new music scene\, particularly in experimental\, electronic\, and improvised music\, and other forms of sound exploration. Before the orchestra’s performance\, the concert features two special guest sets by other Mills alumni: \nROCO CÓRDOVA (voice\, electronics) and THERESA WONG (cello\, voice) dialogue in a realm beyond language where timbre\, textures\, noise\, and melodies are shaped through the alchemy of improvisation. \nPresenting a rare solo electronics set\, KRISTIN MILTNER is a composer and immersive sound designer based in the Bay Area. She creates music with her custom software\, which she designed to scan sound files and live input\, enabling her to restructure a single sound into tessellating multidimensional sound fabrics instantly. She applies this method to a wide variety of sonic endeavors\, whether interactive and experiential sound design\, game sound design\, ensemble performance and improvisation\, or her solo work. She studied with Maggi Payne\, Chris Brown\, and Pauline Oliveros at Mills College. She released her debut solo album\, “Grains”\, in 2007 on Praemedia\, followed by “Music for Dreaming and Playing” on Asthmatic Kitty. She has designed soundscapes for many games\, and her endeavors at Spatial Inc. (Emeryville\, CA) have led to collaborations with artists and sound designers at Meow Wolf\, National Geographic\, and researchers at the Estuary and Ocean Science Center in Tiburon\, CA\, building elaborate real-world immersive experiences.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/queen-bee-records-festival-day-one/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20251023T173114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251023T173140Z
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SUMMARY:KRYS BOBROWSKI + KAREN STACKPOLEJAMES GOODE SUNG KIM
DESCRIPTION:KRYS BOBROWSKI and KAREN STACKPOLE\, long-time collaborators in the improvising quartet Vorticella\, organically formed a duo combining Stackpole’s Gongs with Bobrowski’s Gliss Glass\, an invented instrument of her own design that consists of water-filled glass vessels mounted on telescoping stands that are interconnected with tubes and valves. By varying the height of the vessels and opening and closing the valves\, Bobrowski can dynamically alter the pitch of the sound by changing the level of the water as the instrument is played via friction\, mallets\, bare hands\, and splashes. The sounds are captured via piezo pickups and amplified. The Gliss Glass blends extremely well with the sound of the Gongs played by Stackpole\, who employs various techniques with friction mallets\, bows\, and other implements. Karen Stackpole and Krys Bobrowski create a deep sonic journey that unfurls into an engaging and transcendent soundtrack for the imagination. \nJAMES GOODE coaxes extraordinary sounds from everyday objects. Russian nested dolls are transformed into squealing narwhals; bird calls into growling lions; the voice box from a stuffed animal into a flock of hungry seagulls; and brief vocal sounds into the soundtrack for a comic and surreal conga line. Defying easy description or pigeonholing\, his music takes you to an unfamiliar place filled with luscious atonality and compelling polyrhythm. He navigates a course between austere minimalism on the one hand and pandemonium on the other.  Goode has recorded and/or performed with Chris Cohen\, John Dieterich\, Thomas Dimuzio\, Shelley Hirsch\, Bill Horist\, John Ingle\, Cheryl Leonard\, Bär McKinnon\, Roger Powell\, Jesse Quattro\, Jake Rodriguez\, Greg Saunier\, David Slusser\, Ches Smith\, Trey Spruance\, Sudhu Tewari\, Gregg Turkington\, William Winant\, and many others. \nSUNG KIM presents four of his most recent iterations of musical instruments that he has been developing for the last 36 years. In the tradition of Korean sanjo\, he improvises with a collection of melodies that were developed in tandem with the instruments. A sculptor and self taught composer operating a design and build studio in Richmond under the name of Hare and Arrow Arts\, Kim writes: \n“With every instrument that I complete\, I feel as if my goal for the full ensemble that I have been searching for gets further away and I am realizing that I may never be finished. Please come and celebrate my unending toil.”
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/krys-bobrowski-karen-stackpolebrjames-goode-sung-kim/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251026T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251026T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20251007T213049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251023T171753Z
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SUMMARY:MATTHEW RYALS NUNNPHONICS(Sudhu Tewari\, David Michalak & Jordan Glenn)
DESCRIPTION:MATTHEW RYALS is a NYC-based synthesist and composer-improviser. He has released three studio albums and a series of EPs on 3OP\, SØVN and dingn\dents\, and will release records on Infrequent Seams in Fall 2025 and Oxtail Recordings in 2026. \nMatthew performs internationally and will be featured on High Zero Festival and Ex Nihilo Festival. He has collaborated with Madison Greenstone\, Nava Dunkelman\, and Stephan Haluska. Matthew received a 2025 Art Omi: Music Residency\, 2025 Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant\, a 2022-23 New Music USA Award\, and a 2021 IEA Electronic Media Residency. He also co-curates Artifact\, a Brooklyn-based experimental music series that was awarded a 2025 Brooklyn Arts Council grant. \nInstrument inventor SUDHU TEWARI\, filmmaker/improviser DAVID MICHALAK and percussionist JORDAN GLENN join forces in NUNNPHONICS: an improvised set featuring instruments built by the late\, great inventor\, TOM NUNN. \nNunn’s over 200 instruments include: The Skatchbox\, Skatchplatter\, T-rodimba\, Bug Belly\, Crustacean. Lukie Tubes\, The Crab\, Space plates and many others. All of Tom Nunn’s instruments are amplified using contact microphones and have sculptural qualities.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/matthew-ryals-nunnphonics/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251019T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251019T210000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20251007T211616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251007T212106Z
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SUMMARY:EUDIMORPHODON  PHIL STONE  MELTYKISS
DESCRIPTION:MELTYKISS is a Brooklyn-based duo project of drummer Max Goldstein and vocalist Ariel Vera. Meltykiss focuses on guided improvisation based off a conceptual form created collaboratively. The sound of Meltykiss is influenced by the likes of Sun Ra\, Chris Corsano\, Marcela Lucatelli\, Zach Hill\, and more blending stylistic ideas based on free jazz and heavy idioms to create charged\, scribbly\, loop-based noise. \nPHIL STONE presents Another Day at the Entropy Mine for solo improviser in a one-node network. Using software processes and instruments (mostly) of his own design*\, Stone initiates and nudges cascades of probabilistic responses to the notes he plays on electric bass. In his work with the network band “The Hub”\, Stone often employed self-connected network processes during development and testing\, to simulate the group dynamic. He found interesting results from this ‘one-node network’ and began to think of it as a musical instrument in its own right\, worthy of its own body of technique and practice. \n(*) In addition to his own software voicing\, Stone employs the Free Open Source “Surge XT” software synthesizer\, to which he has contributed an OSC interface. \nEUDIMORPHODON\, is an early pterosaur AND a new duo with Dan Plonsey (saxophones) and Matthew Welch (bagpipes). Featuring compositions and improvisations by both for this unique combination of reeds\, Plonsey and Welch dig deep into their love for odd creaturesand characters to summon forth wild sonic beasts of imagination.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/eudimorphodon-phil-stone-meltykiss/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251005T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251005T211500
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20250910T002850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002850Z
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SUMMARY:sfSoundgroup performs Morton Feldman\, Sofia Gubaidulina\, Tom Johnson\, Peter Eötvös\, and Monica Scott
DESCRIPTION:sfSOUNDGROUP presents a concert honoring recently departed composers.  The first half features works by the Russian composer SOFIA GUBAIDULINA (1931 – 2025)\, known for her spiritual and dramatic works.  The second half includes a circular breathing wind duo by the pioneering minimalist composer TOM JOHNSON (1939–2024)\, and a work for improvisers and tape by the celebrated composer and conductor PETER EÖTVÖS (1944–2024). \nThe evening will also include Instruments II  by MORTON FELDMAN\, a prime example of his often overlooked output in the mid-70’s. sfSound’s own MONICA SCOTT rounds out the program with a duo for cello and piano. \nPROGRAM\nMORTON FELDMAN – “Instruments II” 1975\nchamber ensemble \nTOM JOHNSON – “Kientzy Loops” 2000\ncircular breathing wind duo \nPETER EÖTVÖS – “Music For New York” 1971\ntape playback with improvisers \nMONICA SCOTT – “more than nine minutes” 2016\ncello and piano \nSOFIA GUBAIDULINA – “Piano Sonata: III. Allegretto” 1965\npiano \nSOFIA GUBAIDULINA – “Dots\, Lines and Zigzag” 1976\nbass clarinet and piano \nSOFIA GUBAIDULINA – “Sounds of the Forest” 1978\nflute and piano \nSOFIA GUBAIDULINA – “In croce” 1979\ncello and organ \nMUSICIANS\nDiane Grubbe\, flute\nKyle Bruckmann\, oboe\nMatt Ingalls\, clarinet\nJohn Ingle\, saxophone/conductor\nBrendan Lai-Tong\, trombone\nHadley McCarroll\, piano/organ\nKjell Nordeson\, percussion\nMonica Scott. cello\nLisa Mezzacappa. bass
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/sfsoundgroup-performs-morton-feldman-sofia-gubaidulina-tom-johnson-peter-eotvos-and-monica-scott/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250928T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250928T211500
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20250910T001617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001617Z
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SUMMARY:VEN VOISEY THREE TRAPPED TIGERS
DESCRIPTION:VEN VOISEY is a sculptor\, composer\, and designer who currently splits his time between Oakland\, CA and Wonder Valley (Twentynine Palms)\, CA. His work is informed by an attention to surroundings; he creates rituals\, tools and circumstances as a means of exploring the relationship between internal and external space; between the spiritual and physical. \nTHREE TRAPPED TIGERS Recorder Duo (David Barnett and Tom Bickley) present Pilgrim songs from the 14th c. Llibre Vermell de Montserrat\, selections from “Music for Every Occasion” by Alvin Curran\, a ballade by 14th c. Italian Francesco Landini\, a 13th c. aubade\, Bickley’s Hibernian Cities/Hebridean Islands for alto recorder and electronics\, and Medieval Nights for solo tenor recorder by Pete Rose. As the styles and periods juxtapose\, with improvisation as a through line\, the duo invites you to explore pre modern music for post modern ears and vice versa.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ven-voisey-three-trapped-tigers/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250921T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250921T211500
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20250910T000226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T000633Z
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SUMMARY:Fred Lonberg-Holm + William Winant Kathryn Schulmeister + Nick Sanders
DESCRIPTION:FRED LONBERG-HOLM is trying to make sense of this world while making sounds on the cello and just about anything else he can get his hands on. He performs a duo of improvised music with Grammy-nominated percussionist WILLIAM WINANT\, internationally regarded as a leading performer of avant-garde music. \nBassist KATHRYN SCHULMEISTER—praised for her “expressive and captivating performance” and a faculty member at the University of the Pacific—and jazz pianist NICK SANDERS—a Sunnyside Records recording artist celebrated for his inventive\, acrobatic style—draw on their eclectic musical backgrounds to perform original compositions and improvisations\, including previews from Schulmeister’s upcoming debut solo album Imagining Hands.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/fred-lonberg-holm-william-winant-kathryn-schulmeister-nick-sanders/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250914T071500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250914T211500
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20250909T235416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250909T235416Z
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SUMMARY:Sylvia MatheusMatthew  Evan Taylor +  Theresa Wong + Kjell Nordeson + Lisa Mezzacappa + Matt Ingall
DESCRIPTION:SILVIA MATHEUS\, composer and sound artist\, presents Recycling — a solo performance with Kyma\, Eurorack\, and Buchla systems. Past works are dismantled and rebuilt live\, their fragments reshaped by algorithmic processes and hands-on control. The result is a constantly shifting sonic environment where memory and invention collide\, creating an experience that is irreproducible and shared in the moment with the audience. \nRecently relocated to the Bay Area to serve as Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of California\, Berkeley\, MATTHEW  EVAN TAYLOR (winds) performs a solo work and group improvisations with local musicians THERESA WONG (cello)\,  KJELL NORDESON (percussion)\, LISA MEZZACAPPA (bass)\, and MATT INGALLS (clarinet).
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/sylvia-matheusmatthew-evan-taylor-theresa-wong-kjell-nordeson-lisa-mezzacappa-matt-ingall/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250824T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250824T220000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20250806T182014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T182014Z
UID:10000069-1756062900-1756072800@dresherensemble.org
SUMMARY:WEST OAKLAND TAPE MUSIC FESTIVAL
DESCRIPTION:THE SAN FRANCISCO TAPE MUSIC COLLECTIVE presents their summer east bay festival of fixed media works projected live over a 16-channel Meyer Sound System. Featuring a wide range of works by international composers and collective members.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/west-oakland-tape-music-festival/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250817T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250817T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20250806T180409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T223404Z
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SUMMARY:ERIC THEISE + ABIGAIL HINSON LARRY OCHS with FRED LONBERG-HOLM & BEN DAVIS
DESCRIPTION:In the perfect environment for close listening\, the two cellos and saxophone TRIO BEN DAVIS – FRED LONBERG-HOLM – LARRY OCHS invite you\, the avid listeners\, to join the musicians in enjoying their spontaneous but carefully sculpted music as it happens\, in real time. Through repeated performances\, musical discussions after shows and rehearsals\, this music slowly but confidently evolves. And the audience and the performance environment matter. There’s no more perfect environment than Paul Dresher’s studio space in which to hear the intimate improvisations that this trio hopes to deliver. \n  \nERIC THEISE presents a set of performances\, solo and in collaboration with ABIGAIL HINSON (movement) and local musicians. The concert involves an invented\, map-driven sound maker; dance improvisations over a map animation project onto the floor; and improvised cartography projected onto the back wall that responding to music and dance. Theise’s work was recently seen atop San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower Top.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/eric-theise-abigail-hinson-larry-ochs-fred-lonberg-holm-ben-davis/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250727T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250727T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
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SUMMARY:ERNST KAREL: ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS THE GLITCH BLOOM + SADA
DESCRIPTION:ERNST KAREL: ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nERNST KAREL presents his multichannel\, ongoing iterative work\, Atmospheric Rivers. This piece’s subject is a key component of the global water cycle: the enormous streams of concentrated water vapor which flow through the sky from the tropics towards the poles\, releasing heavy rain in high wind\, particularly in the western U.S\, and anticipated to increase in frequency and intensity with climate change. Performed in surround sound\, the piece consists of unprocessed stereo and multichannel location recordings of atmospheric rivers\, made over the past few years\, as they pass by our house at the rocky northern California coast. \nTHE GLITCH BLOOM + SADA\nTHE GLITCH BLOOM (EDA ER & DANNIEL RIBEIRO) operates in an indefinable musical territory where the lines between composed work\, improvisation\, and multimedia blur into a distinctive sonic fusion. Their artistic practice combines vocals\, electronic elements\, electric guitar\, and video with transducers\, unconventional playing techniques\, and sculptural objects\, establishing a fluid relationship between planned structure and spontaneous creation. Founded on mutual investigation of sound possibilities\, collaborative processes\, and multimedia integration\, Glitch Bloom embraces unexpected outcomes—where harsh sounds intermingle with melodic elements\, acoustic manipulations transform through electronic processing\, and sound manifests as both physical and transient. Their performances create immersive environments that explore the convergence of music\, physical movement\, and visual components to deliver an experience that defies traditional classification. \nSADA is a vocal duo between SARAH GRACE GRAVES and EDA ER\, both singers and composers who each stumbled upon experimental music somewhat unexpectedly: Graves began her artistic path as a choral singer\, Er as an actor. In combining Graves’ innocent virtuosity with Er’s disarming honesty\, the two hope to build a narrative\, aesthetic\, and technical habitat for stories only they can tell.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ernst-karel-atmospheric-rivers-the-glitch-bloom-sada/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250713T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250713T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
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SUMMARY:GEORGE ROGERS + LORIN BENEDICT  LISA MEZZACAPPA 5(ISH)
DESCRIPTION:LISA MEZZACAPPA 5(ISH) \nBassist and composer LISA MEZZACAPPA (acoustic bass) brings her newest ensemble to the WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES in advance of its NYC debut at The Stone later this month. Mezzacappa’s previous works have drawn inspiration from Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster’s lean noir crime novels and Italo Calvino’s hilarious and poignant Cosmicomics stories. Now she’s exploring the concept of worldbuilding in the otherwrldly cycle\, a suite of music inspired her fascination with the speculative fiction of Ursula Le Guin\, Haruki Murakami\, Samuel R. Delany\, and David Mitchell— as a way to envision new kinds of musical interaction\, storytelling\, structure and play. \nAARON BENNETT\, tenor saxophone\nKYLE BRUCKMANN\, oboes/modular synth\nMARK PASCUCCI-CLIFFORD\, vibraphone\nBRETT CARSON\, keyboard\nLISA MEZZACAPPA\, acoustic bass\nJORDAN GLENN\, drums \n____________________________ \nGEORGE ROGERS + LORIN BENEDICT \nGrand Prize winner of the 2025 Vandoren Emerging Artist competition\, GEORGE ROGERS is a saxophonist\, improviser\, composer\, teacher\, and facilitator from the San Francisco Bay Area\, currently based in Oberlin\, Ohio. Rogers—a mentee of saxophone legends Gary Bartz\, Justin Robinson\, and Dann Zinn—has performed at venues across the nation\, including Dizzy’s Club\, SFJAZZ\, LIBRETTO\, the Concord Jazz Festival\, the Vail Jazz Party\, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Drawing inspiration from a diverse array of genres\, Rogers’s playing and composing styles blend elements of traditional\, modern\, and avant-garde jazz\, while also embracing influences from popular\, experimental\, and singer-songwriter music. For WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES\, Rogers joins LORIN BENEDICT\, an improvising vocalist (scat singer\, essentially) living in Emeryville\, California. Most of Lorin’s work in this area is centered loosely in the jazz idiom. Lorin has co-led small groups (duos\, trios) in which the roles of the musicians are somewhat mutable even in contexts where highly structured forms are being played. Examples include Bleeding Vector with Emeryville guitarist Eric Vogler\, and another duo project with east bay saxophonist Kasey Knudsen. Together\, these three musicians jointly lead the trio project\, The Holly Martins. He has also co-led duo projects with Helsinki-based drummer Sam Ospovat and LA-based musician Logan Kane.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/george-rogers-lorin-benedict-lisa-mezzacappa-5ish/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250511T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T161306
CREATED:20250501T201122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T212033Z
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SUMMARY:Adam Lion (solo vibraphone)sfSoundGroup performs Lucier and Erickson
DESCRIPTION:Adam Lion (Solo Vibraphone)   \nsfSoundGroup performs Lucier and Erickson \n\nAdam Lion: Los Angeles-based percussionist presents his new vibraphone album “When a Line Bends\,” a study on acoustic phenomena and the possibilities of sound.​\nsfSoundGroup: Performing Alvin Lucier’s “Two Circles” (2012) and Robert Erickson’s “Pacific Sirens” (1969)\, featuring performers Sam Weiser (violin)\, Monica Scott (cello)\, Kjell Nordeson (percussion)\, Lisa Mezzacappa (bass)\, Hadley McCarroll (piano)\, Brendan Lai-Tong (trombone)\, John Ingle (saxophone)\, Matt Ingalls (clarinet)\, and Diane Grubbe (flute).​
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/adam-lion-solo-vibraphonesfsoundgroup-performs-lucier-and-erickson/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250504T213000
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SUMMARY:Double CD Release Show: "Cracking the Surface" & "Jongleurs"
DESCRIPTION:Cracking the Surface: Featuring David Michalak (instruments of skatch)\, Scott Looney (piano\, hyper-piano)\, and Thomas Dimuzio (Buchla 200E\, processing). This performance celebrates their new release recorded at Fantasy Studios with Tom Nunn\, marking his last recording.​\nChris Brown & Ben Davis: Celebrating the release of “Jongleurs\,” this duo explores free improvisation with influences from classical contemporary music\, utilizing just intonation\, noise\, and live interactive electronics.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/double-cd-release-show-cracking-the-surface-jongleurs/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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