Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Phil Kline's Unsilent Night + Party!

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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Fluke

A new project featuring Brian Kinsella (piano), Chris Symer (bass), and Chris Icasiano (drums), Fluke plays primarily the music of Seattle composer Jim Knapp, as well as music from films and original compositions. Fluke utilizes a traditional jazz trio [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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