The Last Minute: electroacoustic music

Electroacoustic music and digital video by UW alumni and students associated with the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) and the UW School of Music. The concert includes a digital video work, Symphony By Numbers, by Donald Craig and three surround sound pieces: Risonanza for computer-realized sound by Joshua Parmenter, Heat by Pete Moss, and Minotaur for horn and surround sound by Ewa Trebacz, with horn player Josiah Boothby. It will also include two works for viola and computer-realized sound: Retro by Douglas Niemela, and a new work by Donald Craig titled November 16, featuring violist Brianna Atwell.

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Danse Perdue + Joy Von Spain Ensemble

Danse Perdue (Alex Ruhe, Vanessa Skantze): Butoh dance/movement performance, with live improvised music by: Joy Von Spain - piano, voice/other and friends Will Hayes - prepared guitar/other, Joe Eck - percussion, Count Constantin - violin, Jacob Herring - trombone.

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Transport: Solstice Quintet

Presented by Jack Straw Productions & Washington Composers Forum, with assistance from 4Culture and the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs. The Solstice Quintet arrives from across the mountains to perform Gregory Yasinitsky's Wooden Miniatures, Oliver Knussen's Three Little Fantasies, Carl Schimmel's Towns of Wind and Wood, Ryan M. Hare's Mythos: Five Legends for Wind Quintet, and Ruth Crawford Seeger's Suite.

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Neil Welch: Solo + Sleeper CD release concert

Saxophonist and composer Neil Welch celebrates the release of two new albums. Iron Creek was recorded live at various performances throughout 2010 and early 2011. A player of subtle and abrasive techniques alike, this acoustic, unedited album captures the unique style and fervent energy of Welch's live shows. Sleeper is Welch's first recorded major ensemble work, composed in response to a Human Rights First Report chronicling the death of an Iraqi inmate during the war in Iraq. The Sleeper Ensemble includes Neil Welch, saxophones; Ivan Arteaga, saxophones; Greg Sinibaldi, bass clarinet; Vincent LaBelle, trombone; David Balatero and Natalie Hall, cello.

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Malcolm Goldstein: Alone & Together

Presented by Nonsequitur and Earshot Jazz Festival. Known for radically expanding the sonic, tonal, and expressive possibilities of the violin, Malcolm Goldstein has been a key figure of the American avant garde since the 1960s. This concert features his improvisations (Soundings) and compositions for solo violin, plus two ensemble works, Configurations in Darkness and Two Silences, performed with Seattle musicians Eric Barber (saxophones), Stuart Dempster (trombone), Beth Fleenor (clarinet), Lori Goldston (cello), and Esther Sugai (flute).

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Seattle Composers' Salon

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door.

The Seattle Composers’ Salon fosters 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! Join us this month for an evening of music and discussion with Seattle composers Nelda Swiggett, Conan McLemore, Scott Adams, and Yvonne Hoar.

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Seattle Chamber Players + Ivan Sokolov: Marriage at the Eiffel Tower

Presented by Seattle Chamber Players. Jean Cocteau's Marriage at the Eiffel Tower serves as the basis for two works on the program. One of them, a collective work by Henry Cowell, John Cage and George McKay, was choreographed and produced by Bonnie Bird at the Cornish School in Seattle in 1939. Only several movements of the score (and only the works by Cowell) have since been published and performed. Ten years after the premiere of the Cowell/Cage/McKay piece, Bonnie Bird commissioned another work with the same title from composer Lou Harrison. Tonight, SCP presents both versions, along with Lou Harrison's Music for Remy, with guest pianist Ivan Sokolov and choreographer Paige Barnes.

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