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, The Archivist, Floralesque, Liquid Girls, and Sunset with Pink Pastoral. Lalage layers text, drones and live sampling, using only vocal sounds made by Candland during their performances. The naked human voice is heard, transformed into celestial chorales, words are understood, then reduced to shimmering shards laced with new meaning.

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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, clarinet
One7 - Neal Meyer, voice
In a Landscape - Melissa Walsh, harp
Solo - Stuart Dempster, trombone
Four6 - Stuart Dempster, Neal Meyer, William O. Smith, Melissa Walsh (any way of producing sounds)

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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 Places on Planet Earth for found objects and prerecorded sound; and Ukiyo-e, an extended piece for solo piano.

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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 Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's Allegory of the Planets and Continents (1752), while the second half features the celebrated Rothko Chapel (1971) by American composer Morton Feldman.

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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 (prepared 12 string guitar) and Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin) will play an improvisational duet to begin the evening.

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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), and Don Berman (drums).

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Novi_sad

Living and working in Athens, Greece, Novi_sad explores sound as sensation, pulling apart its physical properties to reveal its relationship with human perception. Amplified environmental recordings, drone manipulations, structured ambient soundscapes, microtones and overtones based on various methods of audio analysis and quantitative and numerical data derived from various non-musical sources.

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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 with Transmigration, a new work for field recordings, trombones, conch shells, and other natural objects. Jim Fox’s The pleasure of being lost is a suite of five short piano pieces with or without a recorded backdrop; pianist Cristina Valdes premieres it in its unaccompanied form.

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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, performers, and audience members gather in a casual setting that allows for experimentation and discussion. Everyone is welcome! Join us this month for an evening of music and discussion with Seattle composers Anne Cummings, Emily Doolittle, Steve Scribner, Yvonne Hoar.

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GRID

GRID formed after random meetings between like-minded crazy people. Gregg Keplinger, Sean Lane, Andrew Rudd, CJ Stout, Erica Carlson and Jen Gilleran have played with a bunch of different folks over the years in all different settings all over the country and in some other countries. GRID offers us the opportunity to play out instincts and to structure the edges – doing our best to create opportunity. Our guest this performance is Robert Price from Brooklyn.

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