ANNIE GOSFIELD

DEC. 9

ASM SLEEPS AROUND

DEC. 10

ONE RING ZERO

DEC. 10

HOLIDAY SHOPPING Procrastinators and anti-commercialism die-hards, take heart! There are enough off-beat music performances lined up this weekend to distract even the most dedicated of gift buyers: Here's three to get you started.

First up, kick off your weekend early with the all-Annie Gosfield concert. Her new disc, Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites (Tzadik), hasn't left my CD listening rotation all week and the opening track, "Lightheaded and Heavyhearted," will be performed by the FLUX Quartet on Thursday night. The program will also feature a freshly penned work for SO Percussion, an ensemble riding a current of celebrity on the new-music circuit these days. Fans of Gosfield's work will also be treated to such hits from her back catalogue as "The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory" and "Four Roses."

If you're a good decision-maker, Friday will be easier for you than me. I'll be starting out the night at the Flea Theatre to catch the first of the Anti-Social Music Collective's "ASM Sleeps Around" commissioning/collaboration projects. Their first installment will feature a "very serious orchestral interpretation" of work by indie hip-hop crew dälek.

The Collective tells me that when it comes to mixing musical genres, fear is the only dirty word. "In these troubled times of moral righteousness and sexual guilt, ASM is proud to announce our support for fornication, miscegenation and all the forbidden fruit which tastes all the sweeter." I can't decide if it's that kind of marketing or the merger of hip-hop and oboes that freaks me more, but we shall see. If you miss the show and it turns out to be the hipster happening of the year, fret not. Both the original dälek version and the ASM treatment will hit the streets on a split EP/vinyl next year.

And finally, one of my top five favorite projects of 2004, One Ring Zero, will be finishing out the year in style. After months of crowding devoted fans into the backroom at Barbès in Park Slope, the boys are moving the party to Manhattan. Joe's Pub will host the ensemble as well as their slew of special guests, which is basically a list of the city's famous authors: Rick Moody, Paul Auster, Jonathan Lethem, Clay McLeod Chapman, Myla Goldberg and Jonathan Ames, just to name-drop a few, penned lyrics for the band's last disc, As Smart As We Are, and will be on hand to give the performances that special something.

Kaufman Center, 129 W. 67th St. (betw. B'way & Amsterdam Ave.), 212-501-3330; $25, 8.

The Flea Theatre, 41 White St. (betw. B'way and Church St.), 212-226-2407; $9.99, 8.

Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette St. (betw. Astor Pl. & E. 4th St.), 212-539-8778; $15, 9:30.