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The WMBR Noise/Experimental Music Concert Report

  • Sunday, October 23:
    • High Aura'd, Stillbirth, & The Successeries - 186 Carpenter St, Providence, 9 pm, more info: scottnoise@mindless.com

  • Monday, October 24:
    • DJ's Nathan Christopher Trites and William David Mayo - O'Brien's Pub
    • Luke Moldof and Reuben Son - Weirdo Records, 9:30pm

  • Tuesday, October 25:

  • Wednesday, October 26:
    • Todd Reynolds and Michael Lowenstern - Atlantic Wharf, free!

  • Thursday, October 27:
    • Melt-Banana, TeraMelos, & Grass Is Green - TT the Bear's Place
    • Soundings on Ancient Strings: Koto performance by Yuki Yasuda - Pierce Hall at New England Conservatory, 5 pm, free
    • Horror Sounds: A evening of horror films and bleak electronic music, featuring music by Reviver, Xela, Zerfallt, Xiphoid Dementia, & The Vomit Arsonist - Yes Oui Si, 7-11 pm
    • [Thursday-Saturday] Vowel Movement: A dialogue for video and voice with yodeler Tomas Mario Kalmar - Mobius

  • Friday, October 28:
    • Film: Nosferatu with live music accompaniment by Brendan Cooney and friends - The Center for Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, 8 pm

  • Saturday, October 29:
    • Film screening: "Faust, " directed by F.W. Murnau, & with live music accompaniment by Martin Marks and Ellen Harris - Killian Hall at MIT, 7-9 pm, free!
    • Thrones, Danava, & The Proselyte - Midway Cafe, Jamaica Plain

  • Sunday, October 30:
    • The Field, & DJ Carbo - Great Scott
    • Thrones, Danava, La Otracina, & Locutions - Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket

Coming Up...

  • Monday, October 31:
    • Pictureplane - Great Scott
    • Tarp, Xela, & Hunnie Bunnies Halloween party - Weirdo Records

  • Tuesday, November 1:
    • Omar Souleyman - Brighton Music Hall
    • Poet Susan Howe and composer David Grubbs (ex-Gastr del Sol) will perform "Frolic Architecture", & based on Howe's 2010 poem of the same name - Harvard University, Thompson Room in Barker Center, 5 pm, free!

  • Thursday, November 3:
    • Pterodactyl - O'Brien's Pub

  • Friday, November 4:
    • Gamelan Si Betty - Harvard University, 7:30 pm, more info

  • Saturday, November 5:
    • Sonorium presents: Josh Baker, Auddity, Dei Xhrist, I'd M Thfft Able, Crank Sturgeon, Work/Death, & The Paranoid Critical Revolution - The Griffen Theatre, 7 Lynde Street, Salem, 8 pm

  • Monday, November 7:
    • Fossils, Howard Stelzer, Middle Kingdom, Korriban, & Typical White Male - O'Brien's Pub

  • Wednesday, November 9:

  • Thursday, November 10:
    • MIT Composers Forum featuring a talk by Julia Wolfe of Bang on a Can All Stars - MIT music library, 5 pm, free!

  • Friday, November 11:
    • Felix Kubin - Goethe-Institut, 8 pm
    • SamulNori (from Korea) with founding member Kim Duk Soo - Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, 8 pm

  • Saturday, November 12:
    • Bang on a Can and Trio Mediaeval perform Julia Wolfe's Steel Hammer, & Mantra Percussion perform Michael Gordon's Timber for 4 percussionists playing sawhorses - Kresge auditorium at MIT, 8 pm
    • Alloy Orchestra performs a live soundtrack for the film "Metropolis" - Somerville Theatre, 8 pm
    • Plaid - The Paradise

  • Sunday, November 13:
    • AIDS Wolf, Mind Yeti, Unicorn Hard-on, & Fjords - Church

  • Tuesday, November 15:
    • Birthdays, Eat Cloud, Doldrums, Double Awake, & DJ Coralcola - O'Brien's Pub
    • Non-Event presents: High Aura'd - Cafe Fixe, 8 pm

  • Thursday, November 17:
    • [Thu-Sat] The Art of Interpretation Festival: Celebrating 60 Years of electroacoustic music tradition in France and Germany - Fenway Center

  • Friday, November 18:
    • Morikeba Kouyate Griot (master kora musican from Senegal) - New College Theatre, Harvard University, 8 pm, free tickets available through Harvard Box Office starting 11/2

  • Sunday, November 20:
    • M83 - The Paradise
    • New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble with guest Frank Epstein perform works by William Kraft, Christopher Deane, & Steve Reich - Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, 8 pm, free!

  • Wednesday, November 30:
    • Panel discussion with Florian Hecker, Ute Meta Bauer, & Stefan Helmreich - MIT List Visual Arts Center, 7:30 pm
    • Bora Yoon - Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress St, Boston, free!

  • Friday, December 2:
    • Florian Hecker - TBA

  • Saturday, December 10:
    • Gradient Us performs Philip Glass's Glassworks and an original composition by Katarina Miljkovic - Yes Oui Si, 8-10 pm

  • Monday, December 12:
    • MIT Composers Forum featuring a talk by Terry Riley about his new work for gamalan - MIT music library, 5 pm, free!

  • Thursday, December 15:
    • Terry Riley and MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika perform a new gamelan piece by Riley, & new works and improvisations by Riley for piano and pipe organ - Kresge Auditorium at MIT, 7:30 pm

  • Sunday, December 18:
    • Arborea, Glenn Jones, Cian Nugent, & Reuben Son - O'Brien's Pub

  • Friday, March 30:
    • Fromm Players with Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) perform music composed by Charles Wuorinen, Gerard Grisey, Jonathan Harvey, Kaija Saariaho, Alvin Lucier, Roger Reynolds, & Charles Wuorinen - John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University, 8 pm, free!

  • Saturday, March 31:
    • Fromm Players with Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) perform music composed by Kaija Saariaho, Alvin Lucier, Roger Reynolds, & Charles Wuorinen - John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University, 8 pm, free!

Please Note:
  • Addresses of many Boston area clubs can be found here.
  • Local bands are only listed the week of the show.
  • Additions, changes and corrections for rock/pop/punk shows only can be made by writing to: rock-listings email address
  • To submit announcement about upcoming roots/americana/blues/cajun/zydeco shows, please use the address: roots-listings email address
  • To submit announcement about upcoming Jazz shows, please use the address: jazz-listings email address
  • To submit announcement about upcoming World Music shows, please use the address: world-listings email address
  • To submit announcement about Any Other music shows, please use the address: other-listings email address
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