IM.PERF.ECT: IMpromptu PERFormances projECT

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/check only)

Institute of Emergent Technology + Intermedia (iET+I) at Cornish College of the Arts, in conjunction with the Pendleton House presents an evening of sound, movement, and video.

Performances by the band Newaxeyes (William Hayes, Jordan Rundle, Tyler Coray, Bret Gardin), dancers Babette Pendleton, Mariah Martens, Baylee Reynolds, Ariana Bird, and Alexandra Maricich, video artist Tyler Coray, plus Andre Couture, Benjamin Marx, William Smith, Anthony Cammarota, Griffin Boyd, Robert Campbell, Jarrad Powell and others.

iET+I (pronounced "yeti") is an entity of research, support, and community interface

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Synthesizer Night

An evening of experimental/ambient/soundscapes for electronic instruments by Fejj, Pulling Out the Light, Rainbow Wolves, and David Stutz.

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Several Secrets Behind Promoting Your own Music

Whether it is your band or perhaps a friends band, tackling promoting music outside the shelter of a large recording company is really a monumental task. However if artistic control and licencing is essential to you, or youre in a distinct segment field with little commercial interest it may be well worth the additional responsibility. The first thing you might want to consider is your history. Whether youre a music performer or an audio architectural school grad, you will want to understand what you are advertising inside out. Get ready to have the ability to carry your work upon raw quality alone.

Let us say that you're the charismatic member of the garage band. You went to sound school, but you are all no longer working commercially as musicians, or if you are this isn't your main project. For a would-be contemporary music promoter, one of the very first things in your toolkit you'll need is well nourished cable connections.

Play Where You May!

Artists deserve to be taken care of the value of their own work. But if you may, things like busking develop some initial performance encounter, as does taking not well paid gigs within bars. Depending on your music style you will see lots of conventions and festivals which are appropriate to you. There are also much less cool gigs like becoming the live band inside a corporate party or in a trade show. This builds up the reputation for reliability and showcases your ability to function a crowd, as well as introducing you to definitely the other people inside your music niche.

Record Something!

You will also wish to record some of your own music. Not only can a person offer it to such things as college radio stations, but the modern songs party makes heavy utilization of free and paid downloads to create music more accessible. And at the minimum you can sell Compact disks while busking. On the other hands, recording quality music isn't cheap!

You should look with regard to deals, for example getting recording studio space at the local audio school throughout the holiday term. You might also cut costs on sound editing when you go to audio engineering schools to find an rising student to work for you personally. Alternatively a quality recording should participate your promotional efforts spending budget. This is not something you are able to skimp on.

Make a Video!

Another option is the budget music video. Dont have much money to contend with major studios? Back to school, this time to look around film production programs for someone new having a good artistic concept. In this case, as music licencing for film could be a dauntingly expensive prospect, the film student might be happy just to achieve the rights to work together with your song.

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minamo + loscil + Marcus Fischer

An evening of international ambience, featuring live sets from minamo (Tokyo), Loscil (Vancouver, BC) and Marcus Fischer (Portland).

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Simple Metal Songs To Perform On Guitar

So you may possess started playing guitar, learning the necessary skills to obtain yourself going, and now you're about the hunt for easy steel songs to play upon guitar. Well, I salute you with regard to indulging in metal acoustic guitar since attempting this style on guitar will truly test your tempo, speed, technical detail, and patience.

Here is a collection of easy metal tunes to play on guitar which are practical goals for starting guitarists. There's always going to become a debate on what "metal" truly means like a genre, but this list is actually all about sculpting your skills for that heavier and more intense side of playing acoustic guitar.

* "Confined" by When i Lay Dying

This metal song on guitar happens to be a test of your double-picking capabilities. The tempo for this song can happen daunting, but your main focus ought to be on precision and tempo since picking is stressed in somewhat simple designs.

* "Faint" by Linkin Recreation area

Although this is regarded as "nu-metal" it still falls to the genre of metal. This song can provide you with more of a training in consistency and chord structure while you move smoothly in and from the verses and choruses.

* Most of "End associated with Heartache" by Killswitch Engage is rather easy.

When you take a stab at a simple metal song on acoustic guitar, you need a taste of the break-down riff and "End of Heartache" contains that. To be honest, most of this song is really a break-down riff. You'll also find a pleasant mix of fair lead licks to rehearse on as well.

* The lead riff associated with "Enter Sandman" by Metallica is not too bad.

This riff is considered a vintage and anybody who's anybody like a guitarist usually knows that one. It's at a moderate tempo and isn't too difficult for any beginner.

* "All That's Left" through Thrice

This easy metal tune on guitar starts having a sweet riff that will get fists pumping immediately. As the song proceeds, you'll find a nice mixture of power chords and strong palm-muted rhythms to rehearse.

* "It's Dangerous Company Walking Out Your Entrance Door" by Underoath

Again, this can be considered another kind of metal, but Underoath usually does not disappoint. "Dangerous Business" gives a person some experience with power chords together with some more diverse chord formations right right from the start of the tune.

* "Change" by The actual Deftones

Another "nu-metal" tune that is easy on guitar with regard to metal players, "Change", should introduce style in to your playing. Although this tune seems to be side-splittingly simple, the subtleties of the song lie inside your ability to emulate the actual band's style.

In your guitar travels I'm certain that you'll start your very own list of metal acoustic guitar songs that are easy that you should play, but these can get a foot in the door if you are not sure where to visit yet. And who knows? Maybe you'll find a brand new favorite band from this list.

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Blues Guitar Secrets Revealed

Living with the misconception that there is nothing new to learn can leave people feeling unfulfilled. We can always learn new skills that keep us challenged and excited. Blues guitar secrets revealed is incredibly exciting. For those blues guitar players who have become stuck in a rut and are beginning to lose the thrill of playing the blues learning other blues guitar secrets will reignite their passion.

People need to know the truth. Blues guitar doesnt need to be encased in mystery and protected from the masses. Only those who truly want to learn blues guitar will. The reason a lot of the secrets were kept hidden was mainly to do with the lack of communication. With the introduction of the Internet anyone can access the wonderful majestic world of blues guitar.

Human nature tends to think that to learn a skill it has to be hard. We choose the hardest guitar tunes to copy or the most difficult blues scales. This just makes learning the guitar so much harder, and certainly more painful.

Pride can overcome anyone trying to learn the guitar. Pride stops people in their tracks, because they are too proud to ask simple questions about the easiest way to learn blues guitar. If only they could see what a huge handicap this can be. There is no shame, and actually more pride is associated with asking the dumb questions.

Some secrets to help learn the blues quicker and easier can be a simple as;

Finding out what are the most simple blues guitar songs to learn. Listening to them first and really getting to the know the chords and scales will help enormously when taking that first lesson

Choose a really simple riff with only a few chords

There are some really easy riff and chord patterns that create great blues sounds  it will surprise a lot of people to learn just how simply these patterns can be learned.

Of course practice is key, and you dont have to be a technical genius to pick up the guitar and start playing the blues

You have to have some confidence to command the fretboard and take on some energy to jump all over it, those fingers will work like magic and the more you do it the easier it becomes

Learn the secrets behind blues guitar that really shouldnt be secrets any longer. Learning bite size chunks of chords and patterns is digestible and will be far more alluring than harder lessons. The myths and secrets are all about to be revealed!

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S. Eric Scribner

Composer S. Eric Scribner presents music for piano, string bass, found objects and found sound. A new piece, SoundScroll IX: this is a sparse, hour-long piece for double bass, piano, and found sound. Mike Sentkewitz will play the bass. Also, Keith Eisenbrey and S. Eric will play four short Seattle Pieces, improvisations for piano and found objects, over dense collages of found sound.

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DAS Oboe

DAS Oboe performs six modern works, including five world premieres. The program will include works by Doug Buchanan, Jin-Hwa Choi, Sean Doyle, Gary Powell Nash, Michael Rickelton, and Ursula Sahagian.

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Hanna Benn + Kelly Wyse

Hanna Benn and Kelly Wyse present new and pre-existing works for solo piano, choir, and various chamber ensembles. Benn presents her own new compositions, Wyse performs solo piano music of John Cage, Phillip Glass, Debussy, and Jarrad Powell.

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Gust Burns

Gust Burns presents work from the past 5 months that is comprised from bird song (wood thrush and lark sparrow), record reviews, field recordings, dubplate record, silence, audition, jazz standards, and strolling. Performers include: Gust Burns - piano, voice; Jacob Zimmerman - alto saxophone; Greg Campbell - percussion; Wilson Shook - turntable; Phristian Pincock - trombone + others tba.

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John Teske's Broken Bow Ensemble

mer is a new 40-minute piece for chamber orchestra that traces the many facets of human consciousness, awareness, and experience. This minimalist sound-painting by Seattle composer John Teske will be premiered by the Broken Bow Ensemble, a 26-piece group of strings and woodwinds. Guided by local tide data, the orchestra will slowly transform sound through time, unraveling layers of pitch and rhythm. Supported in part by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture CityArtist Project.

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Paul Hoskin

Announcing the annual contrabass clarinet solo courtesy of Paul Hoskin. An eighty-minute adventure sounds the Chapel Performance Space. Hoskin's approach may be labeled spontaneous composition. Periods of "jazz melody" live with extreme sonic exploration. The entire dynamic field, a five octave range, multiphonics never heard—all are in evidence.

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Ostrowski/Theriault + Gyre

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/checks only); presented by Nonsequitur. Matthew Ostrowski (NYC): Glove controlling Max/Msp-electronics & Doug Theriault (Portland): Guitar controlling Max/Msp-electronics. Live electronic transformations of acoustic and electronic sound sources and manipulation of those transformations, without an escape route... Gyre (Seattle) is an experimental electronics trio formed by Michael Shannon, David Stanford, and Carl Lierman. Sounds generated entirely with oscillators, internal and external feedback circuits, simple sound generators, microphone captures, digital processing, forming swirling loops of sound layers.

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Danse Perdue

A night of butoh/sound improvisation with Vanessa Skantze (movement) and Epos Nemo Latrocinium (sound). Epos Nemo Latrocinium is: Noisepoetnobody Jones, Vox Vespertinus, Dean Moore and Scott Yolanda Adams. Danse Perdue and Sierra La Fey will perform a series of scenes about light.

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Complete Communion: The Music of Don Cherry

French hornist Tom Varner and saxophonist Eric Barber present an evening of music by the iconoclastic trumpeter Don Cherry, including the entire 1965 piece Complete Communion. They are joined by bassist John Seman and percussionist Paul Kikuchi. Their second set will feature compositions by Cherry's European Quartet, with vibraphonist Ben Thomas will joining the quartet.

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Ask the Ages

Ask the Ages is a Seattle-based avant-jazz band. Formed in 2010, the group includes Greg Campbell (drums and percussion), Steven Bell (vibraphone ), Brian Heaney (guitar), Kate Olson (sax/woodwinds) and John Seman (bass). Influences are Sonny Sharrock, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders. This special gig features Geoff Harper playing bass and Jacques Willis on drums. We will be playing the tunes of Ask the Ages and other pieces.  

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Vance Galloway + Charles Stanyan

Presented by Nonsequitur. Seattle electronic guitarist Vance Galloway presents Triptych, a three-part suite for solo electronic guitar, signal processing and field recordings based on the shifting perceptions of time and place, familiarity and belonging that occur when traveling. Special guest Charles Stanyan opens the evening with new pieces for electronics and processed field recordings.

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Seattle Composers' Salon

The Seattle Composers’ Salonfosters 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! Composers for this month: Mark Wilson, Eric Scribner, Peter Freeman, Angelique Poteat, Cole Bratcher.

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Robert Millis + Matt Shoemaker

Robert Millis returns from his recent journey as a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in India. Tonight he'll improvise and experiment with the resonances and dissonances of overlapping tanpura drones and field recordings in a quadrophonic, immersive environment. Matt Shoemaker returns from his own recent extended sojourn to Indonesia. He will present work sourced from both natural and electronic means, using environmental recordings, resonating objects, and discordant electronics, exploring feedback, noise, memory, and accidental refinement.

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David Dunn

Presented by Nonsequitur. Composer and sound artist David Dunn presents works highlighting complexity in natural and human-made systems. These compositions reveal and amplify hidden auditory features of the natural world, sounds outside of normal human perception, interactions between artificial intelligence systems and living creatures, and models of chaotic change endemic to the kinds of forces currently shaping our environment. Along with three short pre-recorded works, Dunn will also perform Thresholds & Fragile States, using self-built non-linear chaotic oscillators capable of generating an infinite variety of “auditory behaviors” emergent from their status as autonomous electronic systems.

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