Tim Root: Pound Fifty Turns

Pianist, composer, and experimentalist Tim Root presents his new music/theater/performance work, Pound Fifty Turns, for amplified instruments, voices, electronics, movement and projection. The project combines absurdist theater, aleatoric composition, improvisation, and visual images in a celebration of the composer’s 50th birthday. With Beth Fleenor (amplified clarinet, voice, electronics), Queen Shmooquan (voice, performance), Kate Olson (soprano sax, electronics), Greg Sinibaldi (tenor sax), Sam Boshnack (trumpet), Naomi Siegel (trombone, electronics), Tom Peters (bass, electronics, projection), Steve Ball (guitar), Greg Campbell (percussion, horn, electronics) and Tim Root (inside/prepared piano, voice, electronics).

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Tom Peters: Nosferatu

Director F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) stands as one of the most important films to come out of pre-World War II Germany. After almost 90 years, it still delivers chills! Tom Peters’ live electronic score seamlessly weaves through Nosferatu’s dark alleys to create an experience like no other. Peters is a composer and bassist in Los Angeles who specializes in creating music for silent films, performing original scores through looping electronics and synchronized electronic soundscapes.

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East-West Collective + Harth/Mueller duo

Presented by Nonsequitur, Earshot Jazz, & Polestar, supported by the French-American Jazz Exchange and administered by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and Cultural Services of the French Embassy. The East-West Collective is a trans-national collaboration exploring the intersection of Asian traditions with the compositional structure and sounds of free jazz, with Larry Ochs (sax), Miya Masaoka (koto), Didier Petit (cello), Sylvain Kassap (clarinet), and Xu Fengxia (guzheng). Opening set is the duo of German saxophonist/multimedia artist Alfred 23 Harth and  Vancouver-based, German 5-string bass player Torsten Mueller.

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French-American Peace Quartet

Presented by Nonsequitur & Earshot Jazz, supported by the French-American Jazz Exchange and administered by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and Cultural Services of the French Embassy. The cultural threads connecting France, New Orleans, and New York are explored by this ensemble, featuring a new suite of music by 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award recipient William Parker. The powerful and elastic duo of bassist Parker and drummer Hamid Drake teams up with the venerable New Orleans saxophonist Kidd Jordan and piano innovator François Tusques.

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Cloud Drawings: an evening of computer music

Presented with assistance from DXARTS. UK composer Charles Celesté Hutchins comes to Seattle as part of his west coast tour and is joined by Seattle composers and performers Don Craig, Ewa Trebacz, Hector Bravo Benard, and Joshua Parmenter for an evening of digital and experimental music with video.

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Yesod

YESOD is Bill Wolford (banjo, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, trumpet, harmonica, found objects), Ahmad Yousefbeigi (percussion, found objects), and Jerry Schroeder (bass, effects, percussion, found objects). The group dissects, digests and reshapes their individual influences and experiences into a uniquely familiar musical sum, delivering deep rhythms and delicate acoustic textures. Vocalist Infinite Milam brings her warm, soulful voice and shamanistic depth to the mix. 

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Avant Drum Night

A meeting of four drummers on the Seattle creative music scene: Don Berman, Greg Campbell, Chris Icasiano, and Gregg Keplinger. The first half features a solo by each musician; post-intermission, they team up for a quartet.

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Leslie Ross

Presented by Nonsequitur. NYC-based bassoonist and instrument builder Leslie Ross performs a series of pieces for micro-amplified bassoon and quadraphonic speakers, with/without laptop. With fifteen microphones placed directly on the tone holes of the bassoon, the signals are directed to four speakers, taking apart the sound of the instrument to create a thickly textured listening environment.

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Ivan Arteaga

Composer/saxophonist Ivan Arteaga presents an evening of new works. Ivan Arteaga - compositions, alto saxophone; Neil Welch - tenor saxophone; Greg Sinibaldi - baritone saxophone; Jared Borkowski - guitar; Katie Jacobson - voice; Cameron Sharif - piano; Evan Woodle - drums; Greg Belisle-Chi - guitar.

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Seattle Modern Orchestra: Music in Space

For its season finale, Seattle Modern Orchestra is very excited to present three pieces of contemporary classical music that each use space in a unique and nontraditional format: György Kurtág's ....una quasi fantasia..., Iannis Xenakis' Eonta, and EisBerg, by SMO's own Jérémy Jolley. With guest pianists Cory Hamm and Cristina Valdes.

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