Lori Goldston & Dana Reason

Lori Goldston, cello and Dana Reason, piano. Duo improvisations.

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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 violinist Karl Scheer. 

Rob Angus builds kinetic ambient-industrial soundscapes using a variety of acoustic instruments and toys to generate sounds that are manipulated, layered, and sent out into a multi-channel surround-sound system.

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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 August for clarinet, cello and piano.

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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 #1. The program will also include Eisenbrey's recently renovated Sonata in Two Movements (1988), and the first public performance of Seven Cues Without Film (1984).

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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 place amidst an installation based on artifacts from Turing's life and work, with gentle mechanical sounds, spoken word, and synthesized electronic drones, all algorithmically derived from Turing's own mathematical work. With Geoff Shilling, Perri Lynch, Beth Glosten, Jim Bennett, Erika Chang, Linda Strandberg, David Krueger, Markdavin Obenza, Josh Haberman, and Dean Moore.

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Bee Mask + Matt Calrson + Spare Death Icon

Presented by Gift Tapes and Debacle Records

Bee 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 couplings of 1970s west coast synthesis, the fractured gloss of sampler concrète, the iridescent thumbprint of High Minimalism on the IQ-decimating throb of trunk bass, and the barely-sublimated currents of vertigo and terror that course beneath the finest and most unsettling moments in the canon of home-recorded psychedelia. Matt Carlson is an active participant in Portland's underground and experimental music scene. In his recent music, he uses his body and voice to interact with a large analog modular synthesizer. Spare Death Icon is a solo project of Jason E. Anderson, head of the Gift Tapes/DRAFT label and half of synth duo Brother Raven. He employs "dated" synthesizers and drum machines to craft a sound recalling b-movie action and horror soundtracks, offset by influences from early 80's underground tape music and atmospheric ambient.

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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 to unfold your mind, body, and soul to the heart of the voice through improvisation in an evening of music never to be heard again.

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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, Bert Wilson, Mal Waldron, David Friesen, Diane Schurr, Jim Pepper and Itzhak Perlman! Tonight he's joined by Marc Smason (trombone), Craig Hoyer (piano), and Michael Barnett (bass) in a combo known as Better World.

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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 Guy, Michael Owcharuk, and John Teske.

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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 a 1985 performance with choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones and writer Dennis Cooper. Climax Golden Twins is the inscrutable and ever-morphing sonic beast animated by Rob Millis and Jeffrey Taylor. Together, individually and with others, they push the definition of a "band" to its limits, making live movie soundtracks, gallery installations, weird ethnographic films, and deeply immersing themselves in the dusty, crackling grooves of old 78s.

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