San Francisco Metro: Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · Experimental · East Bay · 4 events · data version 20261021-173303
7:30 PM · Paul Dresher Ensemble: Subconscious Life · Dresher Ensemble Studio (Oakland) · experimental, live_music · rating 10
dresherensemble.org · details SUBCONSCIOUS LIFE
LARRY OCHS (tenor and sopranino saxophones) offers up a deeply felt set of improvised music, created by this stellar ensemble of San Francisco Bay Area improvisers BEN DAVIS (cello); DARREN JOHNSTON (trumpet); LISA MEZZACAPPA (acoustic bass)… and we invite you, the creative listeners, to dig in to our spontaneous but thoughtfully sculpted music as it happens, in real time.
8:00 PM · NEWT POOL (Cheryl Leonard + Wobbly) · Tom's Place (Berkeley) · live_music, experimental · rating 10
bayimproviser.com · details Thu 11/12 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF] Tom Djll Close your eyes to see your possible selves unearthed, scraped and feather dusted, then entreated to self assemble in the anthropoid menagerie of vibration. https://djll.bandcamp.com/ Tanukispidercat With as many fangs as bright yellow eyes, from crouch to pounce, her blizzard of tooth, claw, fluff, synth and sampler come full fury with lethal-swift paddycakes of pure desire.
3:00 PM · Call for Scores, Vol. 3 · Berkeley Piano (Berkeley) · $5 - $30 (in-person); free (livestream) · live_music, classical, experimental · rating 7
eventbrite.com · details Ensemble for These Times presents emerita pianist Dale Tsang performing works by 13 composers selected from E4TT's third Call for Scores for solo piano.
9:00 PM · Improvisation Workshop · Temescal Arts Center (Temescal) · Free · workshop, experimental, live_music · rating 0 · no longer listed temescalartcenter.org · details Open Workshop and Playground in free improvisation. Spontaneously Assembled Small Groups will collaborate. Bring your instrument, your body, your poetry. Come ready to be surprised. Hosted by Lewis Jordan. Inviting musicians, poets, dancers, to a non-hierarchical setting to improvise together. Spontaneously composing or contributing, can't be on a guest list.