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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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