WEST
OAKLAND
SOUND
SERIES
a weekly new music and experimental sound series every sunday
presented by new performance traditions and sfSound
dresher ensemble studio :: 2201 poplar street, oakland california
ample parking! please park perpendicular when past the trees on poplar
$10-$25 sliding scale (cash & venmo accepted at door - order advance here)
concerts start promptly at 7:15
:: late arrivals follow instructions on door to get buzzed in ::
UPCOMING
SUN AUG 24 - WEST OAKLAND TAPE MUSIC FESTIVAL
SUN SEP 7 - DRESHER OPEN HOUSE!!!! ROVA SAX 4TET + THOLLEM MCDONAS / SAKI MINAMIMOTO W/ NATHAN CLEVENGER + BEN GOLDBERG + MOTOKO HONDA / AND MANY OTHERS!
SUN SEP 14 - SILVIA MATHEUS / MATTHEW EVAN TAYLOR W/ MEZZACAPPA + NORDESON + WONG
SUN SEP 21 - FRED LONBERG-HOLM + WILLIAM WINANT / KATHRYN SCHULMEISTER + NICK SANDERS
SUN SEP 28 - VEN VOISEY / THREE TRAPPED TIGERS (DAVID BARNETT + TOM BICKLEY)
August 24 2025 7:15pm
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. Classic musique concrète pieces will be presented alongside newly created acousmatic compositions, including a new release of the 4-track version of BERNARD PARMEGIANI'S iconic La Création Du Monde.
PROGRAM
BERNARD PARMEGIANI - La Création Du Monde (part 1) (1983)
JOJI YUASA - <ICON> On the Source of White Noise (1967)
RYOJI IKEDA - ultratronics 00 + 01 (2022)
JONTY HARRISON - Klang (1982)
NATASHA BARRETT - Impossible Moments from Venice 1 (2022)
BEATRIZ FERREYRA - Murmureln (2003)
THOM BLUM - new work (2025)
CLIFF CARUTHERS - The House on the Hill (2007)
KRISTIN MILTNER - Meditation on a Rainy Afternoon in January (2023)
oakland reductionist orchestra / ingalls - east of west baying (bays laurels barks mix) (2025)
September 7 2025 7:15pm
SAKI MINAMIMOTO is a jazz vocalist, composer and improviser, who throughout her performances explores the usage of the voice not only as a singer but as an instrument. She will be performing “Homage To My Body”, with her group, BEN GOLDBERG (Clarinet), MOTOKO HONDA (Piano), NATHAN CLEVENGER (Guitar, Rhodes), presenting music, which brings her feeling of gratitude and warmth, combining colors, tones and shades utilizing a unique sonic palette and ethereal soundscapes, in which the group will be searching for a depth of delivery to share within the space and with the audience.
The ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET (Bruce Ackley, soprano sax; Steve Adams, electronics, sopranino Sax; Jon Raskin, baritone sax; Larry Ochs, tenor, sopranino sax) joins Bay Area native and rolling stone THOLLEM MCDONAS (piano, voice) in a rare meeting for a set of improvised music.
THIS CONCERT IS PART OF THE DRESHER ENSEMBLE STUDIO OPEN HOUSE COME EARLY TO ENJOY MORE GREAT PERFORMANCES, FOOD, AND WINE!
September 14 2025 7:15pm
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.
Recently 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).
September 21 2025 7:15pm
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.
Grammy-nominated bassist KATHRYN SCHULMEISTER joins pianist NICK SANDERS in a duo of improvisations and compositions.
September 28 2025 7:15pm
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.
THREE 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.
