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 [...]
Saturday, February 19, 2011
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 [...]
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