Danse Perdue: Irruptions

Butoh: Danse Perdue (Alex Ruhe, Kaoru Okumura, Vanessa Skantze)
Sound: Noisepoetnobody, Joy Von Spain, loopool

An exquisite night of structured improvisation encompassing surges and shocks, dancing the adaptive mutation of creatures and nature's unbridled exuberance in the face of humankind's wanton destruction. We celebrate the scavengers foraging at the borders of the civilized world, crafting their own makeshift environments and thriving in their afflictions. Each dancer will be paired with a musician. There will be three solos — each dancer with their musician partner, then one brief duet as a dancer/musician pair comes in at the final of last solo, and then a trio as the third dancer/musician pairing enters the fray.

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Eye Music

For this concert, Eye Music will be performing prose pieces by Christian Wolff, Fluxus performance scores, and the world premiere of Clifford Burke's 96.

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John Teske: Six Graphic Scores

John Teske is a composer, improviser and double bassist who writes music that provokes thought and reflection. These scores are based on the idea of sound coming in and out of focus. Each score will be performed twice: once with an instrumental ensemble and once with a vocal ensemble, to explore different interpretations of the same forms.

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Scrape: an original music string orchestra

Jazz geniuses Jim Knapp and Eyvind Kang unveil the first phase of a new musical project called Scrape, a conductor-less, democratic ensemble of 15 string players and 2 harpists with Eyvind as soloist/ improviser. The all-original music composed by Jim and Eyvind is gorgeous and fascinating stuff. The ensemble's ranks are filled with conservatory-trained, improvising-friendly string players, with violist Heather Bentley leading as concertmaster.

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Denney Goodhew & Beth Fleenor = BLING!

Screaming silence in a whirling pool of stillness, BLING! formed in 2004 to bring together mentor and student in a performance dynamic that investigates and activates new levels of awareness. The duo, featuring Denney Goodhew on piano and Beth Fleenor on clarinet, explores mostly spontaneously composed chamber music, occasionally throwing in a composed work by Goodhew, with a commitment to ensemble intention and focused energy. BLING! opens itself to the space and the audience to channel, reveal and magnify subtleties in texture, timbre and tone and their inherent rhythm, melody and harmonic form - a meditation on presence and being.

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Seattle Composers' Salon

The Seattle Composers' Salon is an informal presentation of new music by regional composers. The salon meets the first Friday of every other month, and features finished works, previews, and works-in-progress. It brings together composers, performers and audience members in a casual setting that allows for discussion and experimentation. This month's featured composers include Keith Eisenbrey, David Mesler, Doug Palmer, and Tom Baker.

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Wyndel Hunt Benefit: CGT/Horist/Galloway

Presented by Nonsequitur.

On June 19, Seattle artist/experimental musician Wyndel Hunt was seriously injured in a bicycle accident. All money from this concert goes directly to his recovery fund.

Climax Golden Twins is the inscrutable and ever-morphing sonic beast animated by Rob Millis and Jeffrey Taylor. Their extensive catalog of recordings includes permutations of mutant rock, ungodly noise, and minimal ambient drone. Among many other things.

Bill Horist is a free improvising prepared guitarist of impeccable taste and devilish wit, and a finger-picking acoustic guitarist of astonishing musicality in the post-Fahey lineage.

Vance Galloway is one of the people who makes the Decibel Festival a reality. He is also an inventive musician who pulls beautiful sounds out of electric guitars and computers.

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