Ask the Ages is a Seattle based avant-jazz band comprised of Greg Campbell (drums and percussion), Steven Bell (Vibraphone ), Brian Heaney (guitar), Kate Olson (sax/woodwinds) and John Seman (bass). Influences are Sonny Sharrock, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane [...]
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Friday, December 28, 2012
Richard Webb & Mari Matsutoya
Richard Webb is a NYC based sound artist and musician usually playing and composing for the ensemble Lullabies for Falling Empires; Mari Matsutoya is a conceptual sound artist based in Berlin. Recent Transmissions, a Whisper and a Thief is a new work [...]
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Epos Nemo Latrocinium: Album Release
noisepoetnobody (analog synths & stringboard) celebrates his new CD Epos Nemo Latrocinium (Latin: Epic Nobody Mercenary) with comrades Tom Swafford, violin; Dean Moore, percussion & resonant metals; Joy Von Spain, voice & piano; Vanessa [...]
Friday, December 21, 2012
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 boomboxes [...]
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Gust Burns: REAL BOOK
Pianist Gust Burns hosts this fundraising concert for REAL BOOK, his recent collection of scores made by erasing material from popular jazz songs in The New Real Book. First Set: Burns plays solo piano. Second Set: quartet w/ Paul Kikuchi, Carmen Rothwell, [...]
Friday, December 14, 2012
John Cage: STEPS + Fontana Radif
John Cage’s STEPS: A Composition for a Painting to be Performed by Individuals or Groups (1989) receives a rare performance and Seattle premiere thanks to important performance notes provided by Ray Kass and the Mountain Lake Workshop where Cage created [...]
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Robin Holcomb + Eric Barber
This evening will feature two intimate solo sets by new music performer/composers Robin Holcomb (piano, voice) and Eric Barber (saxophones and electronics). Robin will perform songs, improvisations, and compositions for piano. Eric will perform solo [...]
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Lori Goldston & Friends
Vocalist Jessika Kenney, electric guitarist Dylan Carlson, percussionist and horn player Greg Campbell, and cellist Lori Goldston perform improvised works about love, longing, unity, wildness, mystery, e [...]
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Amy Denio & Thollem McDonas
A collaboration by two multi-faceted improvisers: Amy Denio is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and international collaborator. Her main instruments are voice, accordion, alto saxophone, clarinet, electric guitar, and bass. Thollem McDonas is a pianist, [...]
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Triptet + Ask the Ages
Triptet returns to Seattle to celebrate the release of their new CD, Figure in the Carpet. Triptet is a meeting of minds and spontaneous electrical impulses between Michael Monhart (saxophones and percussion), Tom Baker (guitars and effects), and Greg [...]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
UW Composers Collective
The composition students at the University of Washington present an evening of new music by Ivan Arteaga, Jeff Bowen, Yiğit Kolat, Doug Niemela, Marcin Pączkowski, Kim Rivera, and Anthony Vine. An eclectic array of aesthetics and approaches will be showcased, [...]
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Any Ensemble: Flexible Music
Many Seattle composers are writing flexible music, a hybrid between composition and improvisation. The ensemble will be performing original works by local composers, each with their own style. Featuring Greg Campbell, Jacob Zimmerman, John Teske, Natalie [...]
Friday, November 16, 2012
Karen Bentley-Pollick
In Violin, Viola & Video Virtuosity, each work was created expressly for Karen Bentley Pollick and explores the synergy of video and solo strings: world premieres of Jeffrey Harrington’s Grand Tango for violin with video by the composer; Seattle [...]
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Seattle Phonographers Union w/ Chris DeLaurenti
The Seattle Phonographers Union improvise collectively with unprocessed field recordings gathered in the (so-called) "real world." Sounds both common and unfamiliar are spontaneously layered to create unexpected juxtapositions, an abstract audio cinema [...]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Avram Fefer
Returning to the Chapel following his 2010 Earshot Jazz Festival appearance, NYC reed player Avram Fefer leads a Seattle trio featuring bassist Evan Flory-Barnes and drummer Greg Campbell. [...]
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Eyvind Kang: Time Medicine
Genre-defying violist/composer Eyvind Kang presents recent compositions and work from his new Tzadik CD Grass, with an ensemble of local greats: Stuart Dempster, trombone, percussion; Ahmad Yousefbeigi, Greg Campbell, Hyeonhee Park, and Dave Abramson, [...]
Friday, November 9, 2012
SMO plays John Cage
Seattle Modern Orchestra opens its 2012-13 season with an immersive event in the world of sounds and ideas of John Cage. In celebration of Cage's centennial, this evening features a multimedia presentation and documentary on the life of the composer, [...]
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Powers/Ziefel/Hoskin
Paul Hoskin (contrabass clarinet, baritone sax) and Greg Powers (trombone, tuba) have played in various settings for more than thirty years. Greg and Jenny Ziefel (bass clarinet, tenro sax) have extensive experience as cohorts in the Seattle orchestral [...]
Friday, November 2, 2012
Seattle Composers' Salon
The Seattle Composers’ Salonfosters 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, [...]
Monday, October 29, 2012
Earshot: Sumi Tonooka
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival.The “fierce and fascinating composer and pianist” (Jazz Times) Sumi Tonooka performs solo. Born in Philadelphia, Tonooka started piano and music instruction at the age of seven and cites a teenage experience seeing [...]
Friday, October 26, 2012
Earshot: Jaap Blonk
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival.Dutch vocal improviser Jaap Blonk uses synthesized sounds, including samples of his own voice, in powerful, joyful performances structured by the mathematical algorithms that are his other expertise. As a vocalist, [...]
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Lubomyr Melnyk
Canadian composer and pianist Lubomyr Melnyk is the pioneer of Continuous Music — a piano technique he has developed since the 1970s that uses extremely rapid notes and note-series to create a rich, pulsating tapestry of sound. Inspired by the phase [...]
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Keith Eisenbrey: Preludes in Seattle, Part 4
Seattle composer/pianist Keith Eisenbrey continues his tour through the Prelude cycles of Seattle composers Ken Benshoof, Greg Short, and Lockrem Johnson. In addition he will perform the entirety of his own cycle of 24 Preludes for Piano (2009 - 201 [...]
Friday, October 19, 2012
Earshot: Phil Dadson & friends
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival.New Zealand home-made-instrument innovator Phil Dadson performs with three inventive Seattle soundscapers: Bill Horist, Paul Kikuchi and Steve Barsot [...]
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Earshot: Evan Flory-Barnes, 2 + 2
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival.The featured artist of this year’s festival is one of Puget Sound’s most expansive creators. Bassist/composer Evan Flory-Barnes explores new musical possibilities with stellar Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame bassist Jeff [...]
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Earshot: Tatsuya Nakatani
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival.Tatsuya Nakatani is a creative percussionist originally from Osaka, Japan, currently based in Easton, PA. He uses drums, gongs, cymbals, singing bowls and much else to create organic, intense music. Tonight he plays [...]
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Earshot: Ab Baars & Ig Henneman
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival. Support provided by the Consulate General of The Netherlands.Reeds man Ab Baars and violist Ig Henneman, both long-established members of the theatrically avant-garde New Dutch Swing pantheon, bring an unmistakable [...]
Friday, October 12, 2012
Percussion and Movement
Percussion by Dean Moore in collaboration with butoh artist Alan Sutherland and Acrobalance performers Jason Williams and Evelyn Bittner (aka Dr. Calamari & Acrophelia of Circus Contraption). With special guest percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani performing [...]
Friday, October 5, 2012
Tempered Steel + Lube Fondue
The long-awaited CD release from Tempered Steel, featuring Ffej, Frank Junk, and Dennis Rea playing amplified, electronically processed thumb pianos. The trio's seamless improvisations conjure everything from phantom harpsichords and subaquatic percussion [...]
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Broken Bow Ensemble: murmur
Composed by John Teske, murmur explores through sound the subtleties of human consciousness, awareness and experience. As our society becomes more interconnected, it can feel as if time is accelerating and the sense of self, of authenticity and intention [...]
Friday, September 28, 2012
Neil Welch: solo saxophone
Local saxophonist Neil Welch explores the underbelly of the saxophone. From whisper soft gestures to bellowing cries, Welch's musical voice centers around extremes on the instrument - multiphonics, pitches clusters, and minimalist sound-cycle repetitions [...]
Thursday, September 27, 2012
KROMER + Empty Boat
Two great quartets in the Seattle avant jazz and experimental scene. Opening the night will be KROMER, featuring Ivan Arteaga (sax), Katie Jacobson (voice), Cameron Sharif (piano/keyboards), and Evan Woodle (drums). Empty Boat, led by drummer Don Berman, [...]
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Polarity Taskmasters + Magda Mayas
Flutist/vocalist Emily Hay, pianist Motoko Honda, and percussionist Brad Dutz are all major players in the Los Angeles experimental/ improvised music scene. As the trio Polarity Taskmasters they create abstract experimental soundscapes through intense [...]
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Rova Saxophone Quartet
For over 30 years, Rova Saxophone Quartet has explored the synthesis of composition and collective improvisation, creating exciting, genre-bending music that challenges and inspires. Founded in 1978 and inspired by a broad spectrum of musical influences [...]
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Paul Hoskin
Paul Hoskin's annual eighty-minute contrabass clarinet solo improvisation. Hoskin is currently working with language form as he extends his approach. He fully recognizes the vocal elements of a solo. Besides, he is currently listening to Archie Shepp's [...]
Friday, September 14, 2012
Monktail Composers Series #10
Monktail Creative Music Concern presents an evening of new music for percussion and ensemble, featuring compositions and improvisations from Sam Yoder (Midday Veil), Nick Gonzalez (Curious Mystery), Mark Ostrowski, Stephen Fandrich and others. [...]
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Big Crinkly Trio
Big Crinkly Trio was formed in 2010 by Jim Knodle, Doug Lilla, and Pete Turner, three musicians who have a long history, but hadn't played together for some time. The trio consists of the slightly unusual instrumentation of trumpet, bass, and drums with [...]
Friday, September 7, 2012
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, [...]
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Pacific Rims Percussion Qt.: Dear John
Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet performs two works written 49 years apart on this tribute to composer John Cage on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. Credo in Us (1942) is a prime example of Cage’s early percussion work, strictly and [...]
Monday, August 27, 2012
Earshot: Splashgirl
Presented by Earshot Jazz. Splashgirl is three creative young Norwegian musicians – Andreas Stensland Løwe (piano/lofi electronics), Jo Berger Myhre (double bass/ zither/tone generator) and Andreas Lønmo Knudsrød (drums/percussion/sounds) – playing their [...]
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Cat Lamb + Bryan Eubanks
Presented by Nonsequitur. Composer/performers Cat Lamb and Bryan Eubanks present solo compositions as part of a North American tour. Lamb will perform Shade/Gradations (2012) for viola and filtered oscillators and Eubanks will perform (test)Spectral [...]
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Nick Nihil + Cameron Sharif
St. Annie is the debut album of Nick Nihil. Featuring Chris Icasiano and Neil Welch (who comprise the acclaimed experimental jazz behemoth Bad Luck) and Tim Mendonsa (with whom Nihil plays in alt-rock up and comers Sad Face), the album unfolds a dreamscape [...]
Monday, August 20, 2012
Jonah Parzen-Johnson + The Westerlies
The Westerlies are a NYC-based brass quartet comprised of four friends from Seattle. They stretch the limits of conventional chamber music by emphasizing original composition and improvisation, to create music that resides in the ever-narrowing gap between [...]
Friday, August 17, 2012
Christian Pincock + Ivan Arteaga
Saxophonist Ivan Arteaga presents Bark for solo saxophone and electronics and Kromer, his trio with Evan Woodle (drums) and Cameron Sharif (piano). Albuquerque-based composer and trombonist Christian Pincock performs his energetic original compositions [...]
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Neal Meyer: Cage's 2nd Time through the Wake
Neal Meyer performs John Cage's text piece Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegan's Wake (drawn from James Joyce's novel) in observance of the 20th Anniversary of Cage's passing (August 12), and of the hundredth anniversary of his birth (September [...]
Friday, August 10, 2012
ILLUHA + En + Marcus Fischer
Tomoyoshi Date and Corey Fuller, both currently residing in Tokyo, began collaborating as ILLUHA in 2008. Recorded in a historic 100+ year old church in Bellingham, WA, Shizuku is their debut album for 12k.San Francisco duo En is Maxwell August Croy [...]
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Mouth of Gravity
Mouth of Gravity is a trio of modern improvisation acousticians, featuring renowned saxophonist and music guru Denney Goodhew performing on piano (and various accoutrement), globe-trotting, multi-faceted guitarist Mark Oi, and dimensional drum ace Adam [...]
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Substrata: Widesky + Loscil + Hecker + Pan•American
Substrata 1.2 continues: Widesky (New Mexico); Loscil (Vancouver); Tim Hecker (Montreal); Pan•American (Chica [...]
Friday, August 3, 2012
Substrata: English + Scanner + Menche
Substrata 1.2 is the second edition of Seattle’s intimate weekend festival exploring varying perspectives of scale though the use of sound, composition and visuals. The first night explores the breadth of the spectrum of amplified sound, from the acoustic [...]
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Free Form Flute
With deep roots in free improvisation, new jazz and classical music old and new, Robert Dick (NYC) has established himself as an artist who has redefined the flute, his music going wherever his imagination and boundless chops flow to at any moment. Clifford [...]
Friday, July 27, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Earshot: Robin Holcomb + BUZZ
Presented by Earshot Jazz. Jazz: The Second Century is our open question to that artistic community: So, what’s happening now? Robin Holcomb is a prolific singer, pianist, composer and songwriter with influences from free jazz piano to folk music and [...]
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Chris Stover's Acquired Involuntary Narcissism
Seattle trombone giant Chris Stover returns from New York with his band Acquired Involuntary Narcissism, playing his original compositions as well as "recompositions" of music by Elvis Costello, Bob Marley, and Johannes Brahms. It's a mix of new and [...]
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Jen Boyd + Susie Kozawa
California-based sound artist Jen Boyd records sounds in her environment and arranges them into layered soundscapes, using contact microphones to explore the textures and timbres in trees and other found objects. Some sounds unfold naturally while others [...]
Friday, July 20, 2012
Burn List + MetriLodic
Burn List features trumpeter Cuong Vu, tenor saxophonist Greg Sinibaldi, keyboardist Aaron Otheim, and drummer Chris Icasiano. Having been on the forefront of the scene as established veterans, Vu and Sinibaldi each offer unique compositional approaches [...]
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Earshot: Bill Horist + Trio Orangutan
Presented by Earshot Jazz. Seattle guitarist Bill Horist has worked with John Zorn, Wayne Horvitz, Stuart Dempster, Trey Gunn, Secret Chiefs 3, Shazaad Ismaily, Saadet Turkoz, Jack Wright, Amy Denio, Eyvind Kang, Paul Hoskin, Wally Shoup, Paul Kikuchi, [...]
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Seattle Occultural Music Festival Ends!
The final concert of the last Seattle Occultural Music Festival features Port of the Sun, Cohosh, and Drone for Peace in the Key of F, with Neil Welch, John Teske, David Balatero Jacob Zimmerman, Chris Icasiano, Jen Gilleran, Bryxan Amsterdam, Michaud [...]
Friday, July 13, 2012
Ask the Ages + Moraine
Ask the Ages and Moraine team up for a benefit concert in remembrance of the victims of the Cafe Racer tragedy, whose lives touched our own in countless ways. We're also greatly honored that master musician Stuart Dempster has written a piece to be [...]
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Earshot: MetriLodic + Lil Coop Sextet
Presented by Earshot Jazz. Jazz: The Second Century is our open question to that artistic community: So, what’s happening now? Their answers can be heard on Thursday evenings in July.MetriLodic is saxophonist Eric Barber, drummer Byron Vannoy, and bassist [...]
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Fred Sturm plays Federico Ibarra
Presented by Nonsequitur. New Mexico-based pianist Fred Sturm has specialized in the music of Latin America for over twenty-five years, most recently focusing on the music of Mexican composers, and Federico Ibarra in particular, performing all of Ibarra’s [...]
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Lori Goldston & Dana Reason
Lori Goldston, cello and Dana Reason, piano. Duo improvisatio [...]
Friday, June 29, 2012
Rob Angus + Rea/Masters
Best known for their electric playing in instrumental bands such as Moraine and Outhouse, adventurous guitarists Dennis Rea and Ken Masters pair up for a rare acoustic outing on a variety of guitars. The duo will be augmented for part of their set by [...]
Thursday, June 28, 2012
The Harvard Trio
The Harvard Trio performs Alexander Zemlinsky, Trio Op. 3 for clarinet, cello and piano; John Ireland, Trio in D minor for clarinet, cello and piano; Rick Sowash, The View from Carew for clarinet, cello and piano; Daniel Schnyder, A Friday Night in [...]
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Keith Eisenbrey
Seattle composer/pianist Keith Eisenbrey performs his own compositions, as well as exciting works by local composers Emily Doolittle and Aaron Keyt, and J. K. Randall’s exhaustive and exquisitely strange study of the spaces between notes, Greek Nickel [...]
Friday, June 22, 2012
David Stutz - AM Turing: Automatic Elegy
Composer David Stutz weaves new chant and experimental vocal music together with electronic drones, field recordings, the sound of looms, and percussion to create a ritualized tribute to computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing. The concert takes [...]
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Bee Mask + Matt Calrson + Spare Death Icon
Presented by Gift Tapes and Debacle RecordsBee Mask is a project of Chris Madak (Philadelphia), who over the course of thirty-plus releases has cultivated an intricately wrought and deeply warped sensibility that draws equally on the ecstatic human/machine [...]
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Molten Vocals
Molten Vocals is a dynamic quintet of seasoned vocalists – Gina Sala, Christian Swenson, Rebekka Goldsmith, Joanne Lauterjung Kelly, and Kate Thompson – singing world scat, creating lush vocal landscapes, and popping a-cappella wheelies. They intend [...]
Monday, June 11, 2012
Better World
New York drummer extraordinaire Bob Meyer returns to the northwest! Bob has garnered praise throughout the planet with his rhythmic prowess, performing with, among others, Joe Lavano, John Abercrombie, Kenny Werner, Glenn Moore, Jacki Byard, Gary Peacock, [...]
Friday, June 8, 2012
Seattle Rock Orchestra
Seattle Rock Orchestra closes its season with all new rock-inspired compositions by SRO's in-house team of composers: Scott Teske, Ian Williams, Emily Westman, Andrew Josyln, and Barry Uhl, plus winners of SRO's first annual composition contest: Alex [...]
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Chris Cochrane + Climax Golden Twins
Presented by Nonsequitur. One of downtown NYC's great, unsung guitar heroes, Chris Cochrane's raw, angular guitar style embraces a gamut of tender, bluesy lyricism and harsh noise. Tonight he performs music from his new CD, Them (Tzadik), composed for [...]
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Lalage + Asplund/Campbell Trio
Lalage is the duo of poet, librettist, playwright, screenwriter, and singer Lara Candland and Canadian-American composer/performer Christian Asplund. Co-founders of Seattle Experimental Opera, as a team they have composed A Girl’s Body at Crepuscule, [...]
Friday, May 25, 2012
Neal Kosaly-Meyer & friends: John Cage tribute
An evening of solo compositions, and one ensemble piece, spanning the career of John Cage, in the year of his one hundredth birthday.Sonata - William O. Smith, clarinetOne7 - Neal Meyer, voiceIn a Landscape - Melissa Walsh, harpSolo - Stuart Dempster, [...]
Thursday, May 24, 2012
S. Eric Scribner
S. Eric Scribner (piano), new works, with Matt Kocmierowski and Keith Eisenbrey (found objects); Bruce Greeley (bass clarinet); Natalie Mai Hall (cello); and Mike Sentkewitz (string bass). Includes SoundScrolls VII for a trio of bass instruments; Four [...]
Saturday, May 19, 2012
SMO: Music on Paintings
For its season finale, Seattle Modern Orchestra presents two pieces where the ideas and emotions unique to the visual arts are transformed into music. To start the program, French composer Hugues Dufourt's L'Asie d'aprés Tiepolo (2009) reflects on [...]
Friday, May 18, 2012
Many Duo + Sue Ann Harkey/Tari Nelson-Zagar
The Many Duo (Matt Williams, guitar; Kevin Haag, percussion) will perform improvised music in celebration of their new release, improvised democracy, which explores the tension between living joyfully and creatively amidst societal decline. Sue Ann Harkey [...]
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Monktail Composers' Series, Vol. 9
Presented by Monktail Creative Music Concern. Kenneth Mandell (sax, flute) presents new compositions for solo sax and sax/bass duo, and structured improvisations with Bill Monto (sax), John Seman (bass), Stephen Fandrich (Piano), Simon Henneman (guitar), [...]
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Nat Evans, Christopher Roberts, Jim Fox
Composer Nat Evans presents a program of recent West Coast music that explores the aesthetics of nature and place. Christopher Roberts will play Last Cicada Singing, his serene, entrancing suite of four pieces for solo qin. Nat Evans presents Still Life [...]
Friday, May 4, 2012
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, [...]
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Confluence/Influence
The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble has joined forces with Karin Stevens Dance to produce an evening of new work created through an idiosyncratic Composer/Choreographer pairing. Four composers have been paired with four choreographers to generate the [...]
Friday, April 27, 2012
Confluence/Influence
The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble has joined forces with Karin Stevens Dance to produce an evening of new work created through an idiosyncratic Composer/Choreographer pairing. Four composers have been paired with four choreographers to generate the [...]
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Pacific Exchange 2012
The Pacific Exchange concert series brings composers and performers from diverse areas of the Pacific Rim together in order to exchange ideas and emphasize their commonalities. This year’s Pacific Exchange events have taken place in Tokyo, the SF Bay [...]
Friday, April 20, 2012
Adrienne Varner, piano
Pianist Adrienne Varner performs music for solo piano: Philip Glass, Opening; Janice Giteck, Tara's Love Will Melt the Sword; Henry Cowell, The Tides of Manaunan and The Voice of Lir; Jarrad Powell, Ellie and Prelude; John Cage, In A Landscape and Dream; [...]
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic
Presented by Nonsequitur. Composer Steve Peters and over thirty Seattle artists commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic tragedy with an epic realization of The Sinking of the Titanic (1969), by British composer Gavin Bryars. The three-hour performance [...]
Friday, April 13, 2012
Natalie Lerch & Guinever Saenger
Come experience the visions of spring through the music of Messiaen, Crumb and Heggie - and featuring music by Seattle composers, David Duvall and Don Skirvin. The music in this concert evokes images of birdsong, rustling leaves, moonlight and the spring-like [...]
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Jay Hamilton: Who are you, and how do you know?
Jay Hamilton & the Turtling Dithers ( Maurice Colasurdo, Roger Nelson, Paul Karaitis). Who are you, and how do you know? explores how we perceive ourselves, how we think we are perceived, and how we are remembered. The piece is in three sections: [...]
Friday, April 6, 2012
Clifford Dunn, Anne LaBerge, Lisa Miller
Improvisations and compositions by Clifford Dunn, flute and electronics; Anne LaBerge, flute; Lisa Miller, piano; with guests Tom Baker, guitar and Jessika Kenney, voi [...]
Thursday, April 5, 2012
SCRAPE + Bill Frisell: Village
Scrape, an original music string orchestra, performs a selection of recent music by Bill Frisell, including pieces from the Sign of Life and Kaddish suites, composed at the Vermont Studio Center in 2010/11. Also on the program are pieces by Eyvind Kang [...]
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
SCRAPE + Bill Frisell: Village
Scrape, an original music string orchestra, performs a selection of recent music by Bill Frisell, including pieces from the Sign of Life and Kaddish suites, composed at the Vermont Studio Center in 2010/11. Also on the program are pieces by Eyvind Kang [...]
Friday, March 30, 2012
Anton Batagov: Drowned Cathedral, Pt. 2
Presented by DoubleSharp. Distinguished Russian composer/pianist Anton Batagov returns to Seattle with the Drowned Cathedral project, offering three recitals with different programs each night. This second concert is devoted entirely to Batagov's own [...]
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Anton Batagov: Drowned Cathedral, Pt. 1
Presented by DoubleSharp. Distinguished Russian composer/pianist Anton Batagov returns to Seattle with the Drowned Cathedral project, offering three recitals with different programs each night. This first concert pairs music of Philip Glass with Debussy's [...]
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Magma Festival
Presented by Hollow Earth Radio, Bad for Jazz, Table & Chairs Music. Tonight’s event features four diverse performances by just a fraction of Seattle’s young and seasoned jazz interpreters: King Tears Bat Trip, Figeater, WA, T'th & Hare. All [...]
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Seattle Pianist Collective
The Seattle Pianist Collective (Julie Ives, Brian Kinsella, Tiffany Lin, and Peter Vukmirovic Stevens) perform an unusual and eclectic program of works in the spirit of the “end times” and the apocalypse. Four players will feature piano works of Olivier [...]
Friday, March 16, 2012
Magma Festival: 3 x 4
Presented by Hollow Earth Radio and Nonsequitur. Seattle's favorite online community radio station, throws this annual love fest for the local music community, presenting all kinds of music in venues all over town throughout the month of March. Tonight [...]
Saturday, March 10, 2012
The City As Allegory: Three from L.A.
Ambient electronic music in 6.1 surround sound by three emerging Los Angeles artists: Recently transplanted from Seattle to Los Angeles, Yann Novak is a sound, video, and installation artist. His sound/video installation, Blue.Hour, is currently showing [...]
Friday, March 9, 2012
Monktail Composers Series, Vol. 8
Presented by Monktail Creative Music Concern. Monktail Composers Series Vol. 8 features new music from Stephen Parris, Bill Monto, and Gust Burns with performances by Adrian Varner, Beth Fleenor, Stephen Fandrich, Paul Hoskin, Darian Asplund, Kenny Mandell, [...]
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Andy Clausen: "Wishbone Suite" CD Release
Seattle native/New York-based composer and trombonist Andy Clausen celebrates the release of a new album of pieces workshopped and fine-tuned over the last year-and-a-half by his Wishbone Ensemble. The album, The Wishbone Suite, is being released on [...]
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Electro-Gals
Presented by Nonsequitur. Electrogals is an organization dedicated to promoting and inspiring electronic music and digital art by women. For this show, collective members Christi Denton (Portland), Briana Marela (Olympia), and Heather Perkins (Portland) [...]
Friday, March 2, 2012
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, February 25, 2012
Adam Tendler: Cage's Sonatas & Interludes
Presented by Nonsequitur. John Cage was at Cornish College in Seattle in 1940, when he was asked by Syvilla Fort to score a new dance called Bacchanale. He was mainly writing percussion music then, but the stage was too small to accommodate his instruments. [...]
Friday, February 24, 2012
Crystal Beth
Crystal Beth* (multi-instrumentalist/composer Beth Fleenor) spins sound using voice, clarinet, loops and effects, weaving a participatory aural ritual that encompasses Fleenor's body of urban tribal chants & improvisations, alien disco breaks and [...]
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Jim Bartz/StringStation
The StringStation is a new guitar-like instrument that combines 40 strings with a vast array of original perspective and new technique. An accelerated music evolution designed by former Passport recording artist and engineer/producer Jim Bar [...]
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Viva Vocalists: Two One-Act Operas
Viva Vocalists, the first class taught through Fisher Ensemble’s new education division, led by instructors Shawna Avinger and Kristen Ramer Liang, presents two one-act operas: Kurt Weill's Down In The Valley (1945-1948) combines American folk tunes [...]
Monday, February 20, 2012
Viva Vocalists: Two One-Act Operas
Viva Vocalists, the first class taught through Fisher Ensemble’s new education division, led by instructors Shawna Avinger and Kristen Ramer Liang, presents two one-act operas: Kurt Weill's Down In The Valley (1945-1948) combines American folk tunes [...]
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Presented by Seattle Improvised Music and Nonsequitur. Made possible in part by support from the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.Now in its 27th year, the Seattle Improvised Music Festival is the longest running festival of its [...]
Friday, February 3, 2012
Leviathan Worship Service + Derek Johnson + Ffej
Leviathan Worship Service creates a cocktail of space-age drone with uncontrollable noise through the keyboards and percussion of J. James Taylor and the guitar and theremin of B. Arthur Rouda. Utilizing broken loops and a bi-polar guitar they construct [...]
Thursday, February 2, 2012
SIMF Benefit: One-Minute Solos
A broad range of Seattle musicians improvise solos, each lasting one minute, in support of the 2012 Seattle Improvised Music Festival. Performers include Andrew Joslyn, Andrew Olmstead, Begin Scarseth, Brad Hawkins, Bruce Greeley, Cynthia Marie, Eric [...]
Friday, January 27, 2012
Marc Barreca & Doug Haire
Marc Barreca (digital accordion, computer/electronics) and Doug Haire (field recordings) together create a layered, multi-channel sonic environment, blending phonography, loop-based textures and live electronic instrumen [...]
Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Box Is Empty plays Lang & Reich
The Box Is Empty, Seattle’s newest contemporary music ensemble, performs David Lang’s Pulitzer-prize-winning the little match girl passion (Northwest premiere) and Steve Reich’s Proverb. With Maria Mannisto and Christina Siemens, sopranos; Kathea Yarnell, [...]
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Manna Presence
Manna Presence performs acoustic/electro-acoustic improvisations plus songs from the last 5 years by Serge Gubelman (words/vocals, didgeridu, hang, percussion, dulcimer, waterphone) and Mark Fauver (guide of the “digital brain”, keyboards, windsynth, [...]
Friday, January 13, 2012
RONIN 3 + Ask the Ages
RONIN 3 features Kenny Mandell (sax,flute/percussion), Don Berman (drums), and Simon Henneman (guitars) performing original, unadulterated, uncompromising avant/new jazz in the tradition of the Art Ensemble, Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, and other adventurous [...]
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