Jay Hamilton et al: Honor

We would be honored by your presence at the performance of HONOR, a new musical experience by Jay Hamilton and the Turtling Dithers (Darryl Estes, Gordon Frazier, and Maurice Colasurdo).

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Chrysalis Collective + Moon & Tides

Chrysalis is a women's vocal ensemble that studies and incorporates a wide range of traditional, experimental, and contemporary vocal practices. Tonight they present an evening of new choral works by local composers curated by Hanna Benn, with members of The Esoterics and Gamelan Pacifica: Hanna Benn, Samantha Bosch, Marit Hanson, Whitney Lyman, Erica Atnip, Carly Hodgson, Jessika Kenney, Maeg O'Donoghue Williams Sukarwanto, Holly Johnson. Opening the evening will be Moon & Tides, a duo of Gwen Bayly (saxophone) and Cynthia Dillard (piano).

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Jim Haynes, Brendan Murray, Steven M. Miller

Nonsequitur presents an evening of diverse electro-acoustic music featuring recent work by Jim Haynes (San Francisco), Brendan Murray (Boston), and Steven M. Miller (Singapore).

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Bad Luck + Cristina Valdes

Following a successful West Coast tour, the hot-fresh saxophone and drums duo Bad Luck celebrate the release of their second album for Seattle new music label Table & Chairs, Two. Pianist Cristina Valdes performs an opening set of pieces by Wayne Horvitz, John Luther Adams, and Orlando Garcia.

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John Teske: new works for double bass

John Teske premieres new works for double bass along with local musicians Maria Scherer Wilson and Beth Fleenor. Ranging from meditative to raucous, these pieces are based on personal evolution, ethereal atmospheres, and playful rhythms and structures. Each composition was commissioned through the "haulin' bass" bike trailer project of 2010, all of which are currently being recorded. Two older works will also be performed with Jen Kozel and Jenn Glenn.

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Lullabies for Falling Empires

Richard Webb's indie chamber orchestra returns for another evening of lush ambient melodies.

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Richard Johnson Logan-Greene

Presented by DX ARTS. Richard Johnson Logan-Greene is a composer, improviser and instrument inventor, soon finishing a DMA at UW. This concert features solo and duo improvisations for two experimental instruments - a computer-controlled contrabass clarinet (played by Jesse Canterbury) and a motorized cello (played by John Teske) - and a 3d video of Heather Raikes' multimedia dance piece, Corpus Corvus. Also on the program are I Think I Want to Be Myself for recorded voices, instruments and algorithms, and Submersions I for Submersible and live percussionist Greg Campbell.

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