This will be a busy week on the Bleeding Edge, but all the events will not begin until Thursday. They will then proceed day-by-day to Sunday. The only previously-reported offerings will take place at the Center for New Music on Saturday (the monthly pancake event) and Sunday (Meerenai Shim's album release recital). The remaining four events will be taking place at venues familiar to many (if not most) readers as follows:
Pamela Z working with her electronic gear
Thursday, September 11, 6:45 p.m., Roar Shack Live!: Music will be only a portion of the event entitled Living Earth Day: A Fundraiser Gala. The Living Earth Show, the duo of guitarist Travis Andrews and drummer Andy Meyerson, will give a short performance with Pamela Z. Hopefully, this will encourage the audience to contribute to the fundraising efforts! For those that do not yet know, the venue is located in SoMa at 34 Seventh Street. The entry is through a secret side door on Odd Fellows Way, which is called Stevenson Street on the other side of Seventh. Admission will be by donation at levels suggested between $50 and $100. Those donations may be made in advance through the Eventbrite Web page for the event.
Thursday, September 11, 7:30 p.m., and Friday, September 12, and Saturday, September 13, 9 p.m., Gray Area Art and Technology: Grey Area Festival 2025 will present three programs over the course of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. There will be two sets on opening night performed by Salomé Chatriot followed by Star Amerasu. The Friday program will present three sets with different approaches to audio environments, presented, respectively, by Onyx Ashanti, Ash Fure, and Briana Marela Lizárraga. The title of the final program is TO THE MAXX!, and it will involve choreography, sculptural interfaces, speculative sonic systems, and radical club aesthetics. A Web page has been created for tickets for both the entire Festival and the individual dates. The event will take place in the Mission at the Gray Area/Grand Theater at 2665 Mission Street.
Thursday, September 11, 8 p.m., Peacock Lounge: As usual, this will be a three-hour show consisting of four sets. Saxophonist Bruce Ackley will give a duo performance with Fred Lonberg-Holmes, who describes himself as “The Anti-cellist.” JETZTAHORA is a “fantasy supertrio,” which brings reed player Kyle Bruckmann and vocalist Danishta Riverso together with Sandy Buschman-Román, who apparently specializes in “postindustrial electronics.” Theresa Wong will perform a solo set, which will probably involve both her cello and vocals. The remaining set will be taken by Headboggle, described as “the manifestation of Derek Gedalecia's acoustic/electronic performance-art research utilizing his very own kitchen sink which at any moment might uncork with Moog, Harmonica, Banjo, Harpsichord, Irish Harp, EMS Synthi, Violin, Drums, Clavinet, Serge Modular, field recordings, or your very own squirming brain.” For those that do not yet know, the venue is located at 552 Haight Street.
Friday, September 12, 7 p.m., Medicine for Nightmares: This will be the next Other Dimensions in Sound performance curated by reed player David Boyce. For this particular evening, he will be half of the Red Fast Luck duo, performing on a diversity of reed instruments with electronic augmentation. The other duo member will be percussionist PC Munoz. As always, the venue is the bookstore located in the Mission at 3036 24th Street, between Treat Avenue and Harrison Street. There is no charge for admission, presumably to encourage visitors to consider buying a book.
Saturday, September 13, 3 p.m., San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), Golden Gate Valley Branch: This will be an Abstract Lounge performance at this particular SFPL branch. Patrons are encouraged to read, work, browse the collection or become absorbed in contemplation while enjoying a mind-expanding flow of sound. That “auditory context” will be provided by singer and improviser David Israel Katz, interleaved with examples of experimental music from his vinyl collection. The venue is located at 1801 Green Street, between Laguna Street and Octavia Street. As usual, there will be no charge for admission.
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