South Bay Sonic Circuits

A monthly open mic event for electronic music in San Jose, California

South Bay Sonic Circuits is an Open Mic for Modular Synthesizer Musicians, Electronic Musicians, Visual Artists, and Experimental Musicians.

Venue

Community of Christ, San Jose Congregation
990 Meridian Avenue, San Jose, CA 95126

Shows run 7-9pm, every 2nd Saturday of the month from September – June.

Hello!

The next event will be on March 14th, 2026

Join us for interesting music and delicious soup!

If you want to play, you can register here .


January 13th, 2026

We had a great turn out with everything between Berlin School synths and sound processed piano with a peaceful coda of beautifuly looped guitar.

The link for the full live-stream recording is here .

Viusals by Gregory White

The performers were:

Artist Performance Website
Quantum Synths video Quantum Synths
Doug Lynner and David Leikam video
Peter Nyboir video
Cactus Reactor video
Astron8te video
Bob Amstadt video

October 11, 2025

We had another great event with a lot of great performances – unfortunately, we had issues with our recording equipment, so the live stream was not recorded.
So here is only the list of the artists who performed, no sounds:

Visuals were provided by David Tristran

Artist (Click for Website)
Quantum Synths
Tom Djil
David Leikam
R Duck
Doug Lynner

September 13, 2025


We had our first event for this season on September 13, 2025. It was a great turn-out with 6 performances.
Unfortunately, we had no video artist this time and Steve was not able to join with his equipment to make his great videos.
So this is a breakdown of the live-stream, for everyone interested in a particular artist: The complete video is here .
Time Stamp Artist Website
2:27 – 18:01 Quantum Synths Quantum Synths
18:34 – 29:17 Tone E Sea
29:36 – 45:50 Astron8te
45:50 – 1:06:34 Pale Blü Dot Pale Blü Dot
1:27:27 – 1:40:03 The Stranger
1:41:00 – 1:57:10 David Leikam David Leikam

Recent Posts

  • Joerg Ferber, March 2025

    A live music performance by Joerg Ferber. Recorded live at  @gratefulgardenssanjose1058 Visuals by David Tristram

    Click to view the video

  • Tony Capellini, March 2025

    A live music performance by Tony Cappellini. Recorded live at  @gratefulgardenssanjose1058  Visuals by David Tristram

    Click to view the video

  • OMINO, March 2025

    A live music performance by OMINO. Recorded live at  @gratefulgardenssanjose1058  Visuals by David Tristram

    Click to view the video

  • David Leikam, March 2025

    A live music performance by David Leikam. Recorded live at  @gratefulgardenssanjose1058  Visuals by David Tristram

    Click to view the video

  • R Duck, March 2025

    R Duck, host of Sound Wheels KZSU 90.1FM http://www.rduck.com

    Click to view the video

  • Quantum Synths, February 2025

    https://www.youtube.com/@QuantumSynths1

    Click to view the video

  • Doug Lynner, February 2025

    www.neatnetnoise.com

    Click to view the video

  • Runcible Spoon Fight, February 2025

    Tom Djll and Clarke Robinson performing as Runcible Spoon Fight – https://soundcloud.com/runcible-spoon-fight

    Click to view the video

  • Digital Larry, February 2025

    Gary Worsham, AKA Digital Larry https://soundcloud.com/gary-worsham/

    Click to view the video

Past Events
October 2024
October 12th at Grateful Gardens
September2024
September 14th at Grateful Gardens
August 2024
Sommerbreak – no event
July 2024
Sommerbreak – no event
June 2024
June 14th at Grateful Gardens
May 2024
May 11th at Grateful Gardens
April 2024
April 13th at Grateful Gardens
March 2024
March 9th at Grateful Gardens
The very first event 🙂