Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon, Nonsequitur, and Joshua Parmenter. Phil Kline's Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs and MP3s, and played through a roving swarm of [...]
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Vance Galloway & Friends: Resonant Planes
Vance Galloway and Charles Stanyon present an evening of music and experimental sound based on the concept of resonance. Environmental video and light by artists Peter Bill and Killing Frenzy. A multi-channel bath of sound generated by electro-magnetic, [...]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Neal Meyer: Gradus: Three Rungs
GRADUS for Fux, Tesla and Milo the Wrestler is Neal Meyer’s piano composition-in-perpetual-progress. The nutshell version of the score is: “Learn to play the piano one note at a time.” Since January 2002, Neal Meyer has been systematically realizing [...]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Trey Gunn & Beth Fleenor
Longtime friends Beth Fleenor (clarinets, voice & electronics) and Trey Gunn (touch guitar) come together with a host of other found objects for this special, one-night only improvised performan [...]
Saturday, December 10, 2011
The Tiptons Sax Quartet + Drums
Presented by Nonsequitur. The Tiptons (Amy Denio - alto saxophone, clarinet, voice; Jessica Lurie - alto and tenor saxophone, voice; Sue Orfield - tenor saxophone, voice; Tina Richerson - baritone sax, voice; John Ewing - drums) perform original compositions [...]
Friday, December 9, 2011
Michael Nicolella
Michael Nicolella performs music for classical and electric guitar written from 1945 to the present by Francis Poulenc, Elliott Carter, Steve Reich, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Joaquin Nin-Culmell, Robert Beaser, Laurence Crane, Jimi Hendrix, and Michael Ni [...]
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Hell's Bellows + James Hoskins
Hell's Bellows accordion quartet is a 21st century ensemble with the radical idea that the accordion is just another instrument. Scott Adams, Amy Denio, Marchette DuBois, and Eli Kaufman have been creating original work for the accordion since 2006, [...]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Estuary: a merging of sound & dance
Briana Jones (butoh dance) with music by Sentient Explosive (gongs with analog modular synthesizer); Victoria Jacobs (flamenco/modern/fusion) with music by Sataray with Celadon (dark sirenic vox & harmonium with industrial/ambient sound); Jessica [...]
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Darin Gray + Alchimia
Darin Gray (St. Louis) is best known as Jim O’Rourke’s go-to bassist for nearly 20 years, as half of the duo On Fillmore, and as the bassist for Grand Ulena, Dazzling Killmen, and Brise-Glace. As an improviser he has performed and recorded with Loren [...]
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Rob Angus + Stuart Dempster & Susie Kozawa
Rob Angus creates ambient-industrial soundscapes using acoustic instruments to generate sounds that are manipulated, layered, and sent out into a 4-channel surround-sound system. Stuart Dempster and Susie Kozawa explore space with small instruments, [...]
Friday, November 18, 2011
Eric Barber's MetriLodic + Bad Luck
Eric Barber's MetriLodic is a freely improvising trio that breaks most of the rules of groove-based ensembles. Featuring Eric Barber on sax and electronics, with longtime collaborators PK on electric bass and Byron Vannoy on drums, this band take rhythm, [...]
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Monktail Composers Series, Vol. 7
Monktail Creative Music Concern presents a performance of their improvising big band Non Grata. This season's performance features conduction, spontaneous composition, and full group improvisations featuring Bill Monto, Darian Asplund, Paul Hoskin, Bill [...]
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Last Minute: electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music and digital video by UW alumni and students associated with the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) and the UW School of Music. The concert includes a digital video work, Symphony By Numbers, by Donald Craig [...]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Danse Perdue + Joy Von Spain Ensemble
Danse Perdue (Alex Ruhe, Vanessa Skantze): Butoh dance/movement performance, with live improvised music by: Joy Von Spain - piano, voice/other and friends Will Hayes - prepared guitar/other, Joe Eck - percussion, Count Constantin - violin, Jacob Herring [...]
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Transport: Solstice Quintet
Presented by Jack Straw Productions & Washington Composers Forum, with assistance from 4Culture and the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs. The Solstice Quintet arrives from across the mountains to perform Gregory Yasinitsky's Wooden Miniatures, [...]
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Neil Welch: Solo + Sleeper CD release concert
Saxophonist and composer Neil Welch celebrates the release of two new albums. Iron Creek was recorded live at various performances throughout 2010 and early 2011. A player of subtle and abrasive techniques alike, this acoustic, unedited album captures [...]
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Malcolm Goldstein: Alone & Together
Presented by Nonsequitur and Earshot Jazz Festival. Known for radically expanding the sonic, tonal, and expressive possibilities of the violin, Malcolm Goldstein has been a key figure of the American avant garde since the 1960s. This concert features [...]
Friday, November 4, 2011
Seattle Composers' Salon
8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door. 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 [...]
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Seattle Chamber Players + Ivan Sokolov: Marriage at the Eiffel Tower
Presented by Seattle Chamber Players. Jean Cocteau's Marriage at the Eiffel Tower serves as the basis for two works on the program. One of them, a collective work by Henry Cowell, John Cage and George McKay, was choreographed and produced by Bonnie Bird [...]
Friday, October 28, 2011
Seattle Modern Orchestra: Music on Words
Led by Co-Artistic Directors Julia Tai and Jeremy Jolley, the Seattle Modern Orchestra opens its second season with two monumental pieces that interpret poetry in very different ways: Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, OP. 21 (1912), and George Crumb’s [...]
Monday, October 24, 2011
Earshot: Nelda Swiggett's Stringtet
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival. Pianist Nelda Swiggett's music is clear, direct and crisp, her improvisations coming out of her roots in classical music. For this performance, Swiggett adds Seattle Symphony members Rachel Swerdlow on viola and Walter [...]
Friday, October 21, 2011
TrimTab + Tribal Trauma
Tribal Trauma blends recent electronic styles with modern guitar motifs and classic cello melodies, enhanced with a multi-media visual production. TrimTab is the brainchild of guitarist Jason Goessl, whose study of the work of R. Buckminster Fuller informs [...]
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Earshot: Avram Fefer Trio
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival. With a distinctive voice on alto, tenor and soprano saxophones, as well as bass clarinet, Avram Fefer brings depth, intelligence and soulfulness to every situation he’s in. Tonight he takes the stage with his formidable [...]
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Earshot: Rich Halley Trio + 1
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival. Portland saxophonist Rich Halley returns with his Tap Rack Bang Trio, featuring four veterans of progressive jazz: Vancouver bass stalwart Clyde Reed, and Oregon drummer Carson Halley, plus special guest, the acclaimed [...]
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Midday Veil & Ken Ueno
David Golightly and Midday Veil present this unique improvised collaboration with SF Bay Area vocalist Ken Ueno, featuring live video feedback with Garek J. Druss (a Story of Rats, Tecumseh) at the helm. This will not be a typical Midday Veil set, but [...]
Friday, October 14, 2011
Renwick & Goldston: Charismatic Megafauna
Portland-based film maker Vanessa Renwick interweaves Super8 and 16mm film footage from her own teenage life in inner city Chicago, living and hitchhiking with a wolf dog, and stunning video documentation shot by biologists reintroducing wolves into [...]
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Jarrad Powell: Instrumental & Vocal Music
Nonsequitur presents acoustic chamber music by beloved Seattle composer Jarrad Powell, accompanied by a host of outstanding Northwest musicians. Vocal works will feature Jessika Kenney and include three premieres. Also on the program are works for solo [...]
Friday, October 7, 2011
Jon Brenner: electroacoustic music
Seattle-based composer Jon Brenner presents an evening of electroacoustic compositions. walk on was composed for a film, and was originally written for viola, electric guitar, and electric organ. tour de velo is a multi-movement piece derived only from [...]
Friday, September 30, 2011
Eric Barber + Trio Commando
Nonsequitur presents saxophonist Eric Barber performing solo saxophone compositions and improvisations, with and without electronics. Trio Commando make their public debut, performing improvisations, excavations and conversations through a high powered [...]
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tom Baker: Invisible Cities
Composer Tom Baker presents his most recent work, String Quartet No. 1 - Invisible Cities, in a lecture-recital format. Tom will discuss the genesis and inspiration of the piece, and explore the relationship to the novel by the same name by Italo Calvino. [...]
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Tiffany Lin, Lesli Dalaba, Tari Nelson-Zagar
Pianist Tiffany Lin will play selections from J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. Following will be a trio with Tiflin (piano), Lesli Dalaba (trumpet) and Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin) playing in an improvised setti [...]
Friday, September 23, 2011
Eric Amrine Group + Dennis Rea & friends
Guitarist Eric Amrine's goals in music concern bridging the gaps between idioms, then burning those bridges to forge an independent sound and laugh at chaos. For this show he is joined by his son, Julian Amrine (violin and trumpet), Kenny Mandell (reeds, [...]
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Paul Hoskin, contrabass clarinet
As a soloist, Paul Hoskin does not involve his [compositional] self with Other selves. The eighty minute contrabass clarinet performance is both a statement and a refusal to engage with statement. What occurs is (or, as close to...) the strictly sonic. [...]
Friday, September 16, 2011
Hexaphonic 3 - reduced & expanded
The Hexaphonic 3 are a local trio performing original compositions, improvisations and deconstructed standards. The first set will be a duo of Bruce Greeley (bass clarinet) and Mike Sentkewitz (bass), performing a set of improvisations and a couple of [...]
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Monktail Composers Series, Vol. 6
The sixth installment of Monktail's ongoing Composers Series features new compositions for piano from John Seman, Mark Ostrowski and Stephen Fandrich, performed by Stephen Fandrich. Founded in 1990 by John Seman and Mark Ostrowski and rooted in Seattle [...]
Friday, September 9, 2011
Dale Speicher + Nat Evans: New Media & New Music
An innovative program featuring New Music in two distinct but complementary formats. In the first half, percussionist Dale Speicher performs Herbert Brun’s Plot for Percussion (1967), a premier of Stuart Saunders Smith’s Mornings (2009), and the debut [...]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Nigel Gavin & C3
Seattle Circle presents New Zealand-based Nigel Gavin performing improvised pieces on his 7-string acoustic guitar, with all-improv backup from Seattle’s C3 (Steve Ball, Paul O’Rear, Nathan Grigg, David LaVallee, Joel Palmer). Nigel and Steve Ball collaborated [...]
Friday, September 2, 2011
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, [...]
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Neume (Canterbury/Ziefel/Hoskin)
This trio featuring Jesse Canterbury (clarinet, bass clarinet) Jenny Ziefel (clarinet, bass clarinet) and Paul Hoskin (contrabass clarinet) works with spontaneous composition in utterly refreshing ways. The range of sound defies expectation. Movements [...]
Thursday, August 25, 2011
The Box Is Empty plays Andriessen
The Box Is Empty, Seattle’s newest contemporary music ensemble, introduces itself with a performance of two works by the groundbreaking Louis Andriessen. The program offers the rare opportunity to hear Andriessen’s early masterpiece De Volharding (perserverence). [...]
Friday, August 19, 2011
Larry Karush - The Wheel
For composer/pianist Larry Karush, improvisation is integral to the music he creates out of his roots in Jazz, Indian classical, Afro-Caribbean, western classical and 20th century music. This solo concert of his "comprovisations" will feature the northwest [...]
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Microdecibel, Horist, Moe!, Pinto/Young, DAIPAN-ha
Microdecibel (Lucio Menegon/Sabrina Siegel), Bill Horist, Moe! Staiano!, and Paul Pinto/Jeff Young will set up in different areas of the space, each playing short sets and handing the music off to the next artist, creating a continuous flow of sound. [...]
Friday, August 12, 2011
Neal Kosaly-Meyer: Gradus
Performed in memory of John Cage on the 19th anniversary of his passing, Gradus: for Fux, Tesla, and Milo the Wrestler is Neal Meyer’s piano composition in perennial progress, his systematic attempt to learn to play the piano one piano key at a time. [...]
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Paper Kingdom
Paper Kingdom is the fourth in a series of experimental small press and mixed media events organized by Sharon Alexander. Come see handsome self-published and crafted things; live music in bursts and moments; aural textures; classic, obscure and reputed [...]
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Resonant Forms West Coast Tour
Four solo sound performances by West Coast artists: Jessika Kenney (Seattle), John Krausbauer (Portland), Ryan Gregory Tallman (Fresno), and Zachary James Watkins (Santa Cruz). Their works are intimate, textures unfold patiently, resonance is holy, and [...]
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Unit Trio (Asplund/Campbell/Canterbury)
Unit Trio (Christian Asplund, electric viola; Greg Campbell, drums; Jesse Canterbury, bass clarinet + sound by Mell Dettmer) perform Asplund's Unit Series, a compendious epic of over 100 micro-movements in rock, funk, jazz, contemporary classical, minimalist, [...]
Friday, August 5, 2011
Paul Kemmish: Small Sounds Played Quickly
Bassist Paul Kemmish, aka PK, offers four or five new pieces of music performed with Beth Fleenor on clarinet and Olli Klomp on drums, and four more compositions with special guest pianist Dara Qui [...]
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Earshot: Operation ID + Mankinson
Presented by Earshot Jazz. Earshot’s “Jazz: The Second Century” new music series concludes with Operation ID, featuring Jared Borkowski on guitar, David Balatero on bass, Rob Hanlon on keyboards, Ivan Arteaga on reeds, and Evan Woodle on drums. Opening: [...]
Friday, July 22, 2011
BLING! (Denny Goodhew, Beth Fleenor)
Screaming silence in a whirling pool of stillness, BLING! formed in 2004 to bring together mentor and student in a performance dynamic that investigates and activates new levels of awareness. The duo, featuring Denney Goodhew on piano and Beth Fleenor [...]
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Earshot: Triptet + Zubatto Syndicate
Presented by Earshot Jazz. Earshot’s “Jazz: The Second Century” new music series continues into its fifth season, and this year presents eight resident ensembles over four evenings during the month of July. Tonight's concert will feature Zubatto Syndicate. [...]
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Substrata Festival 2
Substrata Festival continues with works of great variance and diversity that defy simple classification, yet loosely ascribe to ambient or neoclassical in their approaches to instrumentation and composition. Legendary Norwegian ambient-techno pioneer [...]
Friday, July 15, 2011
Substrata Festival 1
The first Substrata Festival explores varying perspectives of scale though the use of sound, composition, and visuals. Opening night focuses on non-traditional approaches to the electric guitar: Australia's OREN AMBARCHI presents his brand of immersive, [...]
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Earshot: Hexaphonic 3 + Trio Real
Presented by Earshot Jazz. In the summer of 2006, Earshot began a comprehensive project entitled “Jazz: The Second Century”. This concert series seeks to address jazz’s progressive transition into the future, bringing the discussion into creative motion [...]
Friday, July 8, 2011
Monktail Composers V: Fandrich, Denio, Fleenor
The Monktail Creative Music Concern has created an indoor series at the Chapel Performance Space, highlighting the works of its members. Each event features a stellar line-up of Monktail composers, with numerous performers of note participating in each [...]
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Earshot: Bad Luck + Andy Clausen's Wishbone
Presented by Earshot Jazz. Earshot’s “Jazz: The Second Century” is intended to address jazz’s progressive transition into the future, bringing the discussion into creative motion where it matters most - on the stage, with an attentive audience. The series [...]
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Kris Davis/Tyshawn Sorey/Ingrid Laubrock Trio
Presented by Earshot Jazz. Vancouver pianist Kris Davis teams up with New Jersey drummer/trombonist Tyshawn Sorey and German-born saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock. The trio’s first album, Paradoxical Frog, was released last July on the Lisbon-based Clean [...]
Friday, July 1, 2011
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, [...]
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Seattle Pianist Collective: Lingua Franca
The Seattle Pianist Collective (Stephen Fandrich, Brian Kinsella, Peter Vukmirovic Stevens, Adrienne Varner and Kelly Wyse) is a modern piano and chamber music group that performs eclectic programs throughout the year, including electronic and experimental [...]
Friday, June 24, 2011
Paul Rucker: Scribe, Send, Sound
For this new interactive piece, Scribe, Send, Sound, Paul Rucker invites audience members to send stories, poems, and other writing to the band (Paul Rucker: cello, double bass; Hans Teuber: saxophone; Eric Eagle: drums) before and during the show. New [...]
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Brad Sherman + Christopher Gainey
Presented by WA Composers Forum. Seattle composer Brad Sherman and University of Iowa composer Christopher Gainey present a concert of some of their latest solo and chamber music, including two world premieres written specifically for this eve [...]
Friday, June 17, 2011
Jay Hamilton et al: Honor
We would be honored by your presence at the performance of HONOR, a new musical experience by Jay Hamilton and the Turtling Dithers (Darryl Estes, Gordon Frazier, and Maurice Colasurd [...]
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Chrysalis Collective + Moon & Tides
Chrysalis is a women's vocal ensemble that studies and incorporates a wide range of traditional, experimental, and contemporary vocal practices. Tonight they present an evening of new choral works by local composers curated by Hanna Benn, with members [...]
Friday, June 10, 2011
Jim Haynes, Brendan Murray, Steven M. Miller
Nonsequitur presents an evening of diverse electro-acoustic music featuring recent work by Jim Haynes (San Francisco), Brendan Murray (Boston), and Steven M. Miller (Singapor [...]
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Bad Luck + Cristina Valdes
Following a successful West Coast tour, the hot-fresh saxophone and drums duo Bad Luck celebrate the release of their second album for Seattle new music label Table & Chairs, Two. Pianist Cristina Valdes performs an opening set of pieces by Wayne [...]
Saturday, June 4, 2011
John Teske: new works for double bass
John Teske premieres new works for double bass along with local musicians Maria Scherer Wilson and Beth Fleenor. Ranging from meditative to raucous, these pieces are based on personal evolution, ethereal atmospheres, and playful rhythms and structures. [...]
Friday, June 3, 2011
Lullabies for Falling Empires
Richard Webb's indie chamber orchestra returns for another evening of lush ambient melodi [...]
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Richard Johnson Logan-Greene
Presented by DX ARTS. Richard Johnson Logan-Greene is a composer, improviser and instrument inventor, soon finishing a DMA at UW. This concert features solo and duo improvisations for two experimental instruments - a computer-controlled contrabass clarinet [...]
Friday, May 27, 2011
Michael Owcharuk: Chamber Bomb
Composer/pianist Michael Owcharuk presents a special evening of new chamber works bringing together through-composed and improvised music. The program includes his 3 Meditations for solo clarinet, 4 Preludes for violin and piano, Maneuvers #1 for String [...]
Saturday, May 21, 2011
S. Eric Scribner: StormSound Cycle
Having presented various fragments over the past few years, Seattle composer S. Eric Scribner unveils the complete 9-hour open-form epic StormSound Cycle. The entire Cycle is twenty-one separate movements, each for instruments with prerecorded electronics [...]
Friday, May 20, 2011
Monktail Composers' Series, Vol. 4
Presented by Monktail Creative Music Concern. This edition of the Monktail Composers Series presents graphic scores by John Seman, Stephen Fandrich, Stephen Parris, Mark Ostrowski, Beth Fleenor, Denney Goodhew, and Ari Joshua performed by them and other [...]
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Bryan Eubanks/Paul Hoskin/Doug Theriault
Reed player Paul Hoskin and Bryan Eubanks perform a piece for reed-driven tubes tuned to, and accompanied by, recordings of these instruments made in the Cistern at Ft. Worden State Park, part of a series of pieces using material generated by and recorded [...]
Friday, May 13, 2011
Matt Carlson + RM Francis: Outsider Electronic Music
Gift Tapes presents a special night of outsider electronic music, featuring Portland-based Matt Carlson (Golden Retriever, formerly of Parenthetical Girls) performing modular synthesizer music, and Seattle-based RM Francis performing new electronic works [...]
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Seattle Occultural Music Festival
The Seattle Occultural Music Festival celebrates new & experimental music in the Pacific Northwest of psychic, ecological, or otherwise deeply resonant importance. Our diverse programs incorporate performers and composers spanning the region's breadth [...]
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Shoemaker, Pacione, Sheffield
Presented by Elevator Bath. Matt Shoemaker manipulates sound sourced from both natural and electronic means in an affected and often grotesque manner, so as to convey compositions that uniquely imagine a space encrypted to the point of vanishing definition. [...]
Friday, May 6, 2011
Seattle Composers' Salon
The Seattle Composers' Salon is an informal presentation of new music by regional composers. The salon meets the first Friday of every other month, and features finished works, previews, and works-in-progress. It brings together composers, performers [...]
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Improvised Music Project: IMPfest
Presented by UW Dept. of Music and Table & Chairs Music. A thriving student group from the UW brings together local talent and internationally acclaimed artists for IMPfest III: a yearly celebration of new, improvisation-focused music pairing local [...]
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Improvised Music Project
Presented by UW Dept. of Music and Table & Chairs Music. The Improvised Music Project is an annual festival presenting adventurous young players in Seattle's new jazz and improvisation scene, alongside more established elders at variety of venues [...]
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Melanie Sehman
New York-based percussionist Melanie Sehman presents a series of newly commissioned and recent electro-acoustic works from composers across the country including Cenk Ergün (Princeton), Ben Hackbarth (University of California San Diego/IRCAM), Ryan Manchester [...]
Friday, April 22, 2011
Steve Barsotti, with Paul Kikuchi
Presented by Nonsequitur. Seattle Phonographers Union member Steve Barsotti presents an evening of reduced listening, performing a work in three parts featuring improvisation with invented instruments and field recordings collected around the world over [...]
Friday, April 15, 2011
Neil Welch + Quantum String Quartet
Saxophonist Neil Welch spent a year living in a house tucked away in the woods on Whidbey Island. Spending his days practicing, he would periodically come back to the city and record some solo music. Boxwork is the outcome - a collection of fourteen [...]
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Fisher Ensemble: Kocho
With music by composer Garrett Fisher and choreography by Christy Fisher, Kocho is a multimedia music-theater piece based on the Noh play by Nobumitsu that tells the story of a wandering Priest who meets a butterfly and "liberates" it by letting it dance [...]
Friday, April 8, 2011
Fisher Ensemble: Kocho
With music by composer Garrett Fisher and choreography by Christy Fisher, Kocho is a multimedia music-theater piece based on the Noh play by Nobumitsu that tells the story of a wandering Priest who meets a butterfly and "liberates" it by letting it dance [...]
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Ask the Ages: Harp & Horns
For this special “Harp and Horns” presentation, Ask the Ages (guitarist Brian Heaney, saxophonist Kate Olson, vibraphonist Steven Bell, bassist John Seman, drummer Greg Campbell) are joined by guests Stuart Dempster (trombone), Matt Reid (trumpet), Melissa [...]
Friday, April 1, 2011
Seattle Percussion Collective
The Seattle Percussion Collective will present an evening of chamber music written for percussion, including the following works: In Memoriam...Esteban Gomez by Robert Ashley, Beaten Paths by Milton Babbitt, Letters from the Earth by Sarah Bassingthwaighte [...]
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Beth Fleenor: New Music for Blindfolded Ensemble
Presented by The Frank Agency and Advocates for Abundance through Action in the Arts. An evening of performance and discussion surrounding Beth Fleenor’s expanding compositional series: Movement Exercises for Blindfolded Ensemble. A 9-piece ensemble [...]
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Fundamental Forces + Iron Kim Style
Guitarist Rik Wright's group Fundamental Forces is a revolving consortium of players whose explorations center around a set number of loosely defined charts and guidelines. Stylistically, all preconceptions are out the door. Iron Kim Style is an explosive [...]
Friday, March 25, 2011
Chad McCullough + Krispen Hartung Trios
Chad McCullough presents his new project, performing on effected trumpet in a trio with pianist Wayne Horvitz and guitarist Ron Samworth. Saxophonist Brent Jensen and guitarist Krispen Hartung have collaborated together for years, and this concert will [...]
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Hollow Earth's MAGMA Festival
Seattle's favorite internet radio station, Hollow Earth Radio, presents it's annual Magma Festival. Shows are all over town all month long, so check their schedule. Tonight: Shana Cleveland & the Sandcastles; Jason Dodson (Maldives); Michael Hur [...]
Friday, March 18, 2011
Hollow Earth's MAGMA Festival
Seattle's favorite internet radio station, Hollow Earth Radio, presents it's annual Magma Festival. Shows are all over town all month long, so check their schedule. Tonight: Sue Ann Harkey (guitar, vocals) & Lori Goldston (cello); Ô Paon; Mecca [...]
Friday, March 11, 2011
Christopher DeLaurenti
Christopher DeLaurenti presents an evening of solo electronics, unusual field recordings from around the world, and the debut of Thrill, which features the recorded voices of jazz singers Dawn Clement, Josephine Howell, Kelley Johnson, and Greta Matassa [...]
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Seattle Chamber Players & Agata Zubel
Presented by Seattle Chamber Players, in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York. SCP and the extraordinary Polish vocalist Agata Zubel perform Luciano Berio's Sequenza, the US premiere of the flute/voice version of Finnish composer Kaija [...]
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Brad Sherman
Brad Sherman presents a concert of world premieres for solo piano, solo cello and solo clarinet composed specifically for this event and for these specific performers: Julie Ives on piano, Mary Riles on cello and the composer on clarinet. Tom Bell (piano) [...]
Friday, March 4, 2011
Seattle Composers' Salon: Wayne Horvitz
The Seattle Composers' Salon is pleased to welcome composer and pianist Wayne Horvitz for a discussion and presentation of his mus [...]
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Joy van Spain & Eratoxin
Singer/keyboardist Joy Von Spain is joined by Jean-Paul Garnier (voice, guitar/bass), Count Constantin (violin), Dean Moore (percussion), and Butoh dancers Vanessa Skantze & Briana Jones for a program of original material and unusual arrangements [...]
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Jherek Bischoff's Ambient Chamber Orchestra
Seattle composer/musician/producer Jherek Bischoff (Ribbons, Dead Science, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Xiu Xiu, Evangelista) premiers a collection of ten ambient pieces composed during a recent residency at Pt. Townsend’s Fort Warden State Park, specifically [...]
Friday, February 18, 2011
Frances-Marie Uitti
Presented by Nonsequitur. The remarkable Amsterdam-based cellist, composer and improviser Frances-Marie Uitti has pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by using two bows in one hand, transforming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument [...]
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Seattle Phonographers Union: for Julius
Breaking away from their usual "politburo" performance set up, the Seattle Phonographers Union honors the recent passing of the German sound artist and composer of "small music" Rolf Julius (1939 - 2011) with a performative sound environment. While still [...]
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
26th Annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival
February 9 - 12. Presented by Seattle Improvised Music and Nonsequitur. The longest running festival of its kind in North America, the annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival presents a host of international improvisers representing a sampling of the [...]
Friday, February 4, 2011
Tribute to Tricia Woods
Pianist/composer Tricia Woods recently lost a long battle with breast cancer. She was an important contributor to the Seattle music scene before moving to New York, and was part of an influential group of young musicians that included Mike Stone, Briggan [...]
Thursday, February 3, 2011
S. Eric Scribner + Hexaphone
S. Eric Scribner performs new, partially improvised works for environmental sound, piano, hammer dulcimer and found objects, including two pieces from his “SoundScrolls” cycle. Eric’s music is modal and/or microtonal, often contemplative, and explores [...]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Artur Avanesov, pianist
Presented by Seattle Chamber Players. Armenian pianist/composer Artur Avanesov performs his own works, as well as music by his mentor, the great Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian, Ukrainian master Valentin Silvestrov, the SCP commission Linee e Contorni [...]
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Is That Jazz?: Triptet + Nels Cline Singers
Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon and Nonsequitur. The IS THAT JAZZ? festival concludes with Seattle's own Triptet and the Nels Cline Singers featuring Cibo Matto co-founder Yuka C. Hon [...]
Friday, January 28, 2011
Is That Jazz?: Denio/Menegone + Anywhen Ensemble
Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon and Nonsequitur. The second weekend of the IS THAT JAZZ? festival begins with the duo of Seattle multi-instrumentalist Amy Denio and New York guitarist/composer Lucio Menegone and the AnyWhen Ensemble, led by trumpeter [...]
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Is That Jazz?: Operation ID + Dana Reason
Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon and Nonsequitur. The second night of the IS THAT JAZZ? festival features the young Seattle group Operation ID and Canadian pianist Dana Reas [...]
Friday, January 21, 2011
Is That Jazz?: Empty Cage + Sun Ra Tribute
Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon and Nonsequitur.IS THAT JAZZ? is a festival dedicated to daring and exploratory artists who are redrawing the boundaries of jazz, and infusing the genre with new forms, new sounds, and renewed sense of immediacy. [...]
Friday, January 14, 2011
Amy Rubin & Mary Kantor + ChoroLoco
FASCINATING RHYTHMS OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA presents music from the US, Argentina and Brazil. The first half features the classically-based duo of pianist/accordionist Amy Rubin and clarinettist Mary Kantor performing new, original arrangements of [...]
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Sounds Outside Benefit 3/3
Presented by Monktail Creative Music Concern. For five years, Sounds Outside: A Celebration of Adventurous Music & Community has brought creative music of the highest caliber to audiences, for free, in Seattle's Cal Anderson Park. Due to tremendous [...]
Friday, January 7, 2011
Seattle Composers' Salon
The Seattle Composers' Salon is an informal presentation of new music by regional composers. The salon meets the first Friday of every other month, and features finished works, previews, and works-in-progress. It brings together composers, performers [...]
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