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 [...]
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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). [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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