Saturday, August 29, 2009

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 [...]
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

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 [...]
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Friday, August 21, 2009

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, [...]
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

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, [...]
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Saturday, August 15, 2009

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 Tes [...]
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Friday, August 14, 2009

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 [...]
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Friday, August 7, 2009

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 [...]
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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 [...]
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Saturday, August 1, 2009

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 [...]
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