03	Tue 8PM	Tat Vamasi Tat Vamasi is a recently christened trio of improvisors based in Portland, OR with Mark Kaylor (drums and percussion/bass clarinet) Bryan Eubanks (alto/soprano saxophones) and Steve Schnieder (tenor saxophone). All three of these musicians are very active in the Portland creative music scene and together represent over forty years of experience in improvisation, however thirty of these belong to Mr. Schnieder, player and poet, most recently of Pittsburgh, PA. Eubanks and Kaylor have been developing the duo language for the last two years in Portland, and the three recognized and immediate connection after the first sounds.	The Space 916 West Washington St. Mission Hills, San Diego $5
05 06 07	Thu Fri Sat 8PM	Available Space Dancing, music, voice, light and amazing improvisation... Jane Blount, Rebecca Bryant, Margaret Paek, Andrew Wass, Nina Martin, and Karen Schaffman will be performing along with guest vocalizer and mover, Jeff Morrison, guest percusionist from Red Fish Blue Fish, Don Nichols, and guest light and sculpture artist, Deanne Sabeck. Plus, the participants of LL's newest training program, "Construction Site," will also be performing a beautifully constructed, in-the-moment piece.	Sushi Performance & Visual Art 320 11th Ave San Diego $15/12/10
06	Fri 8PM	Rova Saxophone Quartet Internationally acclaimed saxophone quartet's twenty-fifth anniversary tour. The members are recognized as pioneers in the fields of experimental and improvised music and described as "Thelonius Monk crossed with Bartock." They have combined the expressive richness of the jazz saxophone with the structural precision of the European string quartet.	Spruce Street Forum $20/15
07	Sat 8PM	Rubble on Spruce lowercase-sound - Curated by Josh Russell. Featuring Tucker Dulin, civyiu kkliu, Ilya Monosov, Josh Russell. lowercase-sound concerns a disparate group of musics, sound art & listening experiences that emphasize or include some or all of the characteristics of low volume, silence, soundscape/environmental/field recordings, indeterminacy, psycho/acoustic treatments of space, environment & context & possible relationships of this work to art in other media ie painting, drawing & film & poetry. Some examples include the music of Morton Feldman, AMM, John Cage, Artists on the Trente Oiseaux label (eg bernhard gunter, Francisco Lopez, Steve Roden), Field recordings of Chris Watson & visual work by Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman , Stan Brakhage & Andre Tarkovsky.	Spruce Street Forum $10
12	Thu 8PM	Ellis/Leandre/Winant/Lewis William Winant, percussionist; Joelle Leandre, bassis from France, George Lewis, trombone and Lisle Ellis, electronics will perform.	Spruce Street Forum $20/15
14	Sat 7PM	Unsilent Night New York composer Phil Kline created Unsilent Night as an electronic music carolling party, and for the past ten years it has been an annual event in downtown Manhattan, making it a new music holiday classic. For the first time it will be performed in the streets of San Diego, starting at the Gaslamp Trolley Station on Harbor Drive and winding through the streets of the Gaslamp to Horton Plaza. Unsilent Night is an audience participation work, an outdoor ambient music piece for an INFINITE number of boom box tape players. It's like a Christmas carolling party except that we don't sing, but rather carry boom boxes, each playing a separate tape which is part of the piece. In effect, we become a city block long stereo system! Performances in New York have been using hundreds of participants. The more people that are involved, the more joyous a sound we can create. The piece will happen on Saturday, December 14th. We will meet at the Gaslamp Trolley Station at 5th and Harbor at 6:40pm, and starting at 7:00pm walk through the streets of San Diego's Gaslamp down to the outdoor ice rink in Horton Plaza. The whole walk takes about 40 minutes. All you need to join in the sound is a portable tape player with fresh batteries, and we will provide you with a cassette tape of the music. Just send me an email so I can know how many copies to bring on the 14th. If you don't have a tape player you are still welcome to join the procession and just enjoy the music. Unsilent Night is also kid-friendly, so bring the whole family! If you would like to take part in Unsilent Night, contact Marcos Fernandes at (619) 299-5371 or sounds@accretions.com. This event is presented by a coalition of San Diego musicians.	Gaslamp Trolley Station to Horton Plaza Downtown San Diego Free to all participants
17	Tue 8PM	Other Ideas at The Space 8:00 - Screening of Frontier Life, a feature-length documentary that explores Tijuana through interwoven stories of car worship, drag racing, wastewater treatment, and new musical hybrid forms. Drawing on filmmaker Hans Fjellestad's musical background, the film features the music of Panóptica, Titicacaman, Las Cajas del Ritmo, Clorofila, Latinsizer, Point Loma, Discar, and Marcos Fernandes. 9:30 - Titicacaman (aka Marcelo Radulovich) will perform.	The Space 916 West Washington St. Mission Hills, San Diego
19	Thu 8PM	Frosty the Snowman on Existentialism Radio appearance/performance by members of the Trummerflora Collective on KSDS Jazz 88.3 FM (San Diego). Join DJ Vince Outlaw as he shares a reindeer moment with Trummerflora.
19	Thu 9PM	Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's winter tour with Skeleton Key. Also performing will be ZZYZX and 21st Century Lepers will be in the Atari Lounge.	The Casbah $8

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