Earshot: Matana Roberts' COIN COIN

Presented by Nonsequitur & Earshot Jazz Festival.

Chicago born and bred, Matana Roberts is an alto saxophonist/ composer active in New York since 2001. She has appeared on recordings and performances worldwide with her own ensembles and with a variety of collaborative groups, including Sticks and Stones, Burnt Sugar, Exploding Star Orchestra, Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill, Myra Melford, Jayne Cortez, and Merce Cunningham Dance. The first half of the concert features Matana's solo saxophone improvisations. The second half is devoted to her ongoing multimedia ensemble work COIN COIN, an epic sound narrative about the intricacies, contradictions and questions that surround the human bloodline experience, performed with ace Seattle musicians Tom Baker (guitar), Angelina Baldoz (trumpet), Brian Cobb (bass), Marchette DuBois (accordion), Greg Campbell (drums/percussion), Beth Fleenor (clarinets), Lori Goldston (cello), Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin), and Greg Powers (trombone).

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Christoph Heeman

Christoph Heemann (born 1964 in Aachen, Germany) began his musical work in 1983 as a founding member of the group HIRSCHE NICHT AUFS SOFA, who released several albums of their surreal collagemusic between 1985 and 1993, drawing inspiration from such diverse elements as musique concrete, avantgarde, krautrock and improvised music. After the group disbanded Heemann continued working solo and with the group MIMIR (with Edward Ka-spel and Jim O'Rourke), the drone projects MIRROR (with Andrew Chalk), and IN CAMERA (with Timo van Luyck). Heemann's solo compositions have often been described as "ear-movies", in which he fuses field recordings, acoustic instruments, electronics, and electroacoustic sounds into audio narratives. Aside from this Heemann has done a series of musical collaborations (with Jim O'Rourke, Lee Ranaldo, Charlemagne Palestine, William Basinski) and works as a producer (Keiji Haino, Charlemagne Palestine, Limpe Fuchs, Current 93). Since 1994 he runs the Streamline label.

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Earshot: Eugene Chadbourne + MURAL

Presented by Nonsequitur & Earshot Jazz Festival.

Hailing from North Carolina, Eugene Chadbourne (aka "Doc Chadula") is a legendary improvising guitarist/banjo player, as well as a virtuoso on various noisy instruments of his own design. A long-time resident of North Carolina, he has also performed original folk/protest songs, free-improvised country & western be-bop, and crazed psychedelia with the seminal band Shockabilly.

Sharing the evening are MURAL, a trio consisting of Norwegians Kim Myhr (guitar) and Ingar Zach (percussion), and Australian saxophonist Jim Denley.

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Paul Hoskin

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door.

Veteran multi-reed player and founder of the Seattle Improvised Music Festival performs his annual concert of solo contrabass clarinet improvisations.

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Natalie Lerch & Lucy Wenger: She said/He said

Soprano Natalie Lerch and pianist Lucy Wenger explore the writings of female poets as interpreted by male composers. With only a few known selections by Debussy and Poulenc, the duo have assembled a program of new music featuring piano solos and songs for voice and piano by contemporary composers on texts by Emily Dickenson, Edna St. Vincent Milay, Roxanne Rea and Louise de Vilmorin. Included in the program are songs by Eric Banks, Gordon Getty, Bill Rea, Adam Stern and Paul Vasile. Piano rags by William Bolcom and tangos by Ernesto Nazareth offer additional variety.

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Open Graves (& Friends)

Open Graves is a duo consisting of Bay Area multi-instrumentalist Jesse Olsen and Seattle percussionist/instrument builder Paul Kikuchi. FLIGHTPATTERNS is the second Open Graves album to be recorded in the Dan Harpole Cistern in Port Townsend, WA. Joined by cistern veteran Stuart Dempster, the ensemble covers a broad expanse of musical territory, from meditative drones to feedback psychedelia. The FLIGHTPATTERNS release concert will include Kikuchi, Olsen, and Dempster, along with Seattle musician/sound artist Chris DeLaurenti.

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Seattle Percussion Collective

The Seattle Percussion Collective present a diverse program of chamber music for percussion and other instrumentalists. The concert features a world premiere of Seattle composer Greg Sinibaldi’s Quintet for percussion and piano (with pianist Tiffany Lin); Mark Applebaum's percussion trio, Catfish, for metal and wood instruments and drums; Peter Garland’s monumental Three Songs for Mad Coyote; Wake by Dale Speicher, for found metal sounds and drums; Exercise 26 and 27 by Christian Wolff for solo snare drum; and Corporel, a percussion solo for the human body by Vinko Globokar. SPC is joined by guitarist Tom Baker, flautist Sarah Bassingthwaighte, and clarinetists Jesse Canterbury and Jenny Ziefel for 96 by Frederic Rzewski, a canon composed as a celebration of one of Elliot Carter’s many birthdays.

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Double Yoko + Orkes Manohara

Experimental performance duo Double Yoko (Beth Fleenor and Paris Hurley) weave their unusual blend of lush orchestral scoring, pointillism and keening noir-pop, using clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, voices and electronics. Orkes Manohara (Krusnedi Sukarwanto and Maeg O'Donoghue-Williams Sukarwanto) play experimental and traditional Javanese keroncong music, centered around the cello and voice.

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