Saturday, March 27, 2010

Clifford Dunn & Racketology

Seattle’s newest ensemble dedicated to new music, Racketology, gives its first public performance with a program full of new works intended to reinvigorate excitement for experimental music. Ensemble members include Clifford Dunn (flute), Brianna Atwell [...]
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Occultural Music Festival Benefit

This fundraiser for the upcoming third annual Seattle Occultural Music Festival features ten very different guitarists performing 10-minute sets: Dave Knott, Lori Peterson, Ken Jacobson, Resistor, Tom Baker, Crystal Perez, Demian Johnston, Sky Lynn, [...]
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Danny Holt + Steven Arntson

Los Angeles-based pianist Danny Holt’s Piano/Percussion Project situates the pianist amidst an array of percussion instruments, as he is called on to perform on both simultaneously. An eclectic lineup of composers from around the globe has written works [...]
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Splash! – Contemporary Cowboy"

Seattle chamber group Splash! (Roger Nelson, piano; Janna Wächter, voice; special guest soprano Anneliese von Goerken) present an evening of traditional cowboy songs, Morton Feldman and Jarrad Powell piano works, Ivan Sokolov and Charles Ives songs, [...]
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Karen Bentley Pollick: Violin & Alternating Currents

Presented by Nonsequitur. Karen Bentley Pollick gives the Seattle premiere of four new compositions for violin with electronics by Alabama composers: Charles Norman Mason's Metaman, Dorothy Hindman's Fantasia for Karen Alone, Capital Spheres by Michael [...]
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Splash! – Contemporary Cowboy"

Seattle chamber group Splash! (Roger Nelson, piano; Janna Wächter, voice; special guest soprano Anneliese von Goerken) present an evening of traditional cowboy songs, Morton Feldman and Jarrad Powell piano works, Ivan Sokolov and Charles Ives songs, [...]
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Crepuscule Trio + Vertigo

Presented by Nonsequitur. Operating for many years under the radar of the Los Angeles mainstream jazz world, the Crepuscule Trio represents the most fundamental and vital aspects and values of what came to be termed "free jazz." Saxophonist Ken Kawamura, [...]
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Wyndel Hunt + Christopher DeLaurenti

Wyndel Hunt integrates melody and noise using electronics, acoustic instruments, field recordings, and the occasional piece of amplified trash. His recent work focuses on conceiving narrative, painting, and sculpture as analogues for structuring composition [...]
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Affinity Chamber Players: Young Adventurers

The Affinity Chamber Players plus soprano Kimberly Giordano, present a program of adventurous new music chosen from works submitted in response to Affinity’s call for scores, the call for scores for the Young Adventurers Competition, plus the music of [...]
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Friday, March 5, 2010

Seattle Composers' Salon

The Seattle Composers’ Salon fosters the development, performance and appreciation of new music by regional composers and performers. At bi-monthly, informal presentations, the Salon features finished works, previews, and works in progress. Composers, [...]
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Transport Series: Mari Kimura

Presented by Washington Composers Forum. Violinist Mari Kimura continues the great tradition of the virtuoso composer/performer. She embraces the worlds of extended violin techniques and interactive computer music, making them her own. She is also well [...]
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Lubomyr Melnyk: Continuous Music

Presented by Nonsequitur & Unseen Worlds Records. Read a preview in The Stranger.Ukrainian-Canadian composer/pianist Lubomyr Melnyk's Continuous Music is based on the principle of a continuous, unbroken line of sound from the piano, created by generating [...]
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