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