Max Abner

This is a big one! This Sunday, April 19, Beauty Supply Arts presents Carl Stone and Wobbly. Doors 7:30 / Music 8:30. $20. Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling.” and “one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.” He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between Los Angeles and Japan. Wobbly: Born in Washington D.C. in 1970, and residing in California since 1983, Jon Leidecker improvises with people, recordings and machines that listen. He is known for his work with Thurston Moore, Negativland, Cheryl E. Leonard, and phipps pt. Show flier: Max Abner

CROW’S NEST FEST As part of: Spring Mission Artists United Open Studios Performance Festival at @projectartaud Free! Tips for artists welcomed! Curated by @_klanghaus_overlord_ @macapner & @stephaniebaker9733 (Mostly) Acoustic (Mostly) Experimental Music in the 3rd Floor North Stairwell Saturday, April 11, Noon-6PM Teddy Hulsker & Max Abner Duo @billygomberg @isabelle.w.k & @sadie.siskin Duo @bdayeyesore @alice.ava.lin Kevin Lo Sunday, April 12, Noon-6PM Elan Tuvi, John Reitan & Synth Wizard @westoaklandsoundseries @fredlholm @tasyaabbot & @edaer.me Duo @josephdeebradshaw @mary.graham.art

3.15.2026// Sonic Cartographies, San Francisco Bay Area Installment IV, led by @macapner and @klank.ist at Tank Hill Park, SF. With @orcora @emilypothast @chlorinearoma @zekarias @buzzw_arl_ord @captainmcsweeney // : Thank you to @smallrockmedia for some great clips and stills. Others taken by me. : Such a pleasure to play with you all!

2 Sisters A Staged Reading Concert of Max Abner’s New Set-Libretto Improvised-Music Opera Sharing a bill w/ the great Levitator Trio in the Sun. 3/29 @westoaklandsoundseries (7PM) at the dresher ensemble studio :: 2201 poplar street, oakland california Tix info in bio! @_michaelrogerson_ is directing! @sadiegreyduck is musical directing! @travismakingthings @lurkingeye Sadie, and Joseph Dee Bradshaw are the band! The singer-actors are (oh boy) @captainmcsweeney @mothballsoup @giuliamakesmusic @digivika__ Celeste Winant, Joseph, and Max Blurb: Two Sisters is the next installment in MAX ABNER’S series of operas that combine set librettos with improvised music. Set in the rural enclave known as Rough River, two sets of sisters (one set unremarkable, one set former child stars) live in adjacent riverhouses overlooking the water. Each set—guarded by deeply attentive mothers—suffers from various forms of emotional arrested development. When one of the former child stars drowns in a flood, one of the more pedestrian sisters becomes convinced that she is the drowned sister, still very much alive. Two Sisters plumbs the ensuing blurriness, as mourning, care, delusion, and placation mingle in a case of mistaken and troubled identification.

Excited to announce the next show at Canessa Gallery in San Francisco! My pals in K/S/R out of Santa Fe, NM are going on tour in support of their upcoming LP with Nihilist Spasm Band. Check them out with a super-cool local lineup. April 12. Invite your friends.

San Francisco! We are headed your way Sat April 4 for a rockin night of music with ~full band~ Stacked lineup with @mildred___music and @macapner , doors 6:30 and music 7:00 sharp do not miss!

Friday March 27 at Beauty Supply Arts a stacked lineup of heavy hitting improvisers! Isabelle Waldner Kalb and Matt Ingalls play a duo set; Sandy Ewen (NYC by way of Houston) and Arrington de Dionyso (Olympia) are touring the West Coast together solo / duo / ensemble sets March 27, 2026 Beauty Supply Arts doors 8pm music 9 - 10:30 pm $15 / NOTAFLOF show flier: @opticalsoundexperience tour poster: @arringtondedionyso [ 🥁 please note: @opticalsoundexperience and @macapner are experimenting with a new format for experimental and free improvisation shows Beauty Supply: shorter sets with short changeovers from 9:00-10:30, with room for group ensembles and experimentation. Doors open at 8pm, come hang out before music hits at 9pm sharp! ]

Sunday, March 8, 7PM, @beautysupply.arts - an evening of experimental sound, image, and performance featuring: @silkymaria_ @millennyem @erikellestad Duo Projection art by @missionofburma and Rudie And @moestaiano1 DM for addy!

POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER! —> now SUNDAY MARCH 15, 2PM SONIC CARTOGRAPHIES An ever-evolving performance series connecting continents through sound and improvisation, unfolding transnationally through global collaboration. Next Bay Area installment: Sunday March 15, 2PM In Tank Hill Park $15 / NOTAFLOF Featuring @zekarias @emilypothast @chlorinearoma Chris Cooper @orcora @captainmcsweeney @macapner and a graphic score by @hchingcomposer Sonic Cartographies was founded by @edaer.me Curation and poster for this edition by @macapner

Next up at @ugradevaloka : PCRV (North Dakota) @fluxusmt Thoabath (Oakland) @thoabath Eloine/Pontac @bdayeyesore /@macapner Appliancide (North Dakota) PCRV is the harsh noise project of Matthew Taggart currently based out of Fargo ND. PCRV explores improvisation and immediatism with harsh electronics in a solo setting. Thoabath- Oakland experimental sounds inspired by black metal and berlin school electronics Eloine/Pontac- Collaboration project of Bryan Day and Max Abner Appliancide- Manic, noisy, immature, pointless clown music made by a misguided fool trying to relive his "glory years" as a founding member of noise scene footnote Unconditional Loathing. ***TO GET TO UGRA DEVA LOKA: Enter on Livingston and Embarcadero Then go down 22nd ave. Go almost all the way to the end of the street and make a left thru the gate then go right and unit 14 is on the right. You can also go thru the other gate where u enter from the other side of the parking lot thru the abc parking lot with all the white vans. Sometimes Google Maps takes u that way***

Sunday 2/8/26, 7PM, suggested $15: Beauty Supply Arts is proud to present an evening of weirdo Americana-adjacent sound by Aux Meadows, Joseph Dee Bradshaw, vika ft. dev01d, and the Greyduck/captainmcsweeney/Snyder/Campos-Quinn/wyrm Quintet. Aux Meadows is an Oakland-based instrumental trio that counts itself as "Home of that lonesome planet sound." Joseph Dee Bradshaw is an East Bay poet-improvisor who will be performing his dexterous fingerstyle solo acoustic guitar compositions. vika ft. dev01d is songs and words by poet-scholar-musician vika, accompanied by the sonic worldbuilding of dev01d. Greyduck/captainmcsweeney/Snyder/Campos-Quinn/wyrm Quintet is ambient soundscape Friendship chromagraphic magnificat thunder cloud mournful orca, featuring Greyduck's inimitable upright bass playing along with pedal steel, cello, tape loops, 16MM film, and more! Poster by Max Abner

12/21/25 7PM 5-Act Solstice Show @ Beauty Supply Arts -Oakland Reductionist Orchestra (@westoaklandsoundseries ) -Lonnie Garrett Memorial Library Band -Corsick/Pontac (w/ @mary.graham.art @chlorinearoma @digivika__ and Max Abner) - @isabelle.w.k & @oliv.ar - @nnakaleesax & @nickreevescello & Jacob Felix Heule Poster by @isabelle.w.k w/ characters by Max Abner