AnyWhen Ensemble + Wayne Horvitz

The AnyWhen Ensemble (Eugene, OR) draws its influence from classical/new chamber music, jazz, and free improvisation, as well as rock, electronica, and folk music. The music is intimate and personal, blending the spontaneity of improvised music with the balance and form of chamber music. Led by composer/trumpeter Douglas Detrick, the group includes Hashem Assadullahi (sax), Steve Vacchi (bassoon), Shirley Hunt (cello), and Ryan Biesack (drums, percussion). Wayne Horvitz will perform a set of piano solos and then join the AnyWhen Ensemble for one of his compositions, arranged by Douglas Detrick.

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Rob Angus + Rich Mack

Seattle composer Rob Angus creates a 4-channel ambient surround mix of processed and looped sounds, joined by Lesli Dalaba (trumpet), Greg Powers (trombone), and Dean Moore (percussion). Rich Mack opens with digitally-transformed guitar sounds mixed with field recordings. Both sets accompanied by the artists' projected photography/artwork.

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Jones/Rawlings/Eubanks/Cogburn, night 2

Seattle Improvised Music presents a mini-festival/residency featuring four improvising musicians from around the country, each one engaged in making contemporary work and providing the physical spaces necessary for performance in their town: Bonnie Jones, electronics (Baltimore); Vic Rawlings, cello/surface electronics (Boston); Bryan Eubanks, electronics/soprano sax (NYC); Chris Cogburn, percussion (Austin). Each will play solo, in small groups, and in large ensemble with local improvisers.

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Jones/Rawlings/Eubanks/Cogburn, night 1

Seattle Improvised Music presents a mini-festival/residency featuring four improvising musicians from around the country, each one engaged in making contemporary work and providing the physical spaces necessary for performance in their town: Bonnie Jones, electronics (Baltimore); Vic Rawlings, cello/surface electronics (Boston); Bryan Eubanks, electronics/soprano sax (NYC); Chris Cogburn, percussion (Austin). Each will play solo, in small groups, and in large ensemble with local improvisers.

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Kelvin Pittman & Friends

Seattle Improvised Music presents Portland saxophonist Kelvin Pittman, playing improvised duets, quartets, and sextets with saxophonists Paul Hoskin, Wilson Shook, and Tyler Wilcox and bassists Mark Collins and John Teske.

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Seattle Percussion Collective: RRRRRRRRRRRR!

The Seattle Percussion Collective (SPC) presents its debut concert of adventurous music written for percussion instruments. Comprised of Becca Baggenstoss, Greg Campbell, Dale Speicher, Bonnie Whiting Smith and Denali Williams, SPC unites some of Seattle's most diverse and exciting percussionists to present a program featuring music by Keiko Abe, John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, and Stuart Saunders Smith.

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Jacob Zimmerman: solo saxophone

Saxophonist and composer Jacob Zimmerman is a graduate of Garfield High School in Seattle, and studied at the renowned New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He is currently a Masters Composition student at Mills College. Most recently he has been focused on a collection of solo pieces that highlight the various techniques and improvising strategies that have comprised his musical vocabulary over the years, hoping to refine his own language and improvising tendencies, while constantly seeking a balance between structure and the freedom to pursue (as Derek Bailey called it) "whatever is endlessly variable."

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Subtext: Norma Cole + Will Owen

Presented by Subtext Reading Series.

Norma Cole is a poet, painter and translator. Her most recent book is Where Shadows Will, Selected Poems 1988-2008 (City Lights). Canadian by birth, Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived since 1977. She has been the recipient of a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, Gertrude Stein Awards, as well as awards from The Fund for Poetry. Will Owen has published poems, translations, and collaborative reactions in Peaches and Bats, Slightly West and A Side, and Crawlspace's Scrawl. Since last October, he has been enthusing a bleak landscape through Gallery 1412's reading series and related evenings.

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Gust Burns & Adrienne Varner

Two local pianists of diverse musical persuasions come together for an evening of varied music spanning the last century to the present moment. Adrienne Varner performs Henry Cowell's Three Irish Legends (1912, 1919, 1922), Leo Ornstein's Impressions of Notre Dame (part 1) (1914), Jarrad Powell's Islands, Uluru Wild Fig Song, and Etude: Uncertain Descent (1981, 1986, 2001), and Lou Harrison's Reel (Homage to Henry Cowell) (1982). Gust Burns presents the premiere performance of his own itlegy neshes (2009).

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