Friday, July 27, 2012

GRID

In GRID, we set ourselves as the audience: to each other, to sound, to the space between sounds. We may borrow a theme as a street corner, a place to meet. We may play familiar instruments or objects we’ve never touched before. We may use principles [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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