Trey Gunn & Beth Fleenor

Longtime friends Beth Fleenor (clarinets, voice & electronics) and Trey Gunn (touch guitar) come together with a host of other found objects for this special, one-night only improvised performance.

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The Tiptons Sax Quartet + Drums

Presented by Nonsequitur. The Tiptons (Amy Denio - alto saxophone, clarinet, voice; Jessica Lurie - alto and tenor saxophone, voice; Sue Orfield - tenor saxophone, voice; Tina Richerson - baritone sax, voice; John Ewing - drums) perform original compositions and arrangements of world music on saxes, clarinet, voices and drums/percussion, creating some of the wildest sounds ever to come out of a sax quartet.

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Michael Nicolella

Michael Nicolella performs music for classical and electric guitar written from 1945 to the present by Francis Poulenc, Elliott Carter, Steve Reich, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Joaquin Nin-Culmell, Robert Beaser, Laurence Crane, Jimi Hendrix, and Michael Nicolella.

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Hell's Bellows + James Hoskins

Hell's Bellows accordion quartet is a 21st century ensemble with the radical idea that the accordion is just another instrument. Scott Adams, Amy Denio, Marchette DuBois, and Eli Kaufman have been creating original work for the accordion since 2006, and you will be amazed at the variety of sounds they can get out of the instruments. James Hoskins is a gifted cellist and improviser based in Boulder, CO since 1991. He plays in the Balkan/Middle-Eastern musical groups Sherefe and Barbelfish, the jazz group County Road X, and in a duo with Akemi Iwase that plays Japanese folk-inspired music.

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Fluke

A new project featuring Brian Kinsella (piano), Chris Symer (bass), and Chris Icasiano (drums), Fluke plays primarily the music of Seattle composer Jim Knapp, as well as music from films and original compositions. Fluke utilizes a traditional jazz trio instrumentation - acoustic piano, acoustic bass, drum set - but its music is in the realm of free improvisation, noise, and pop classicism.

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Estuary: a merging of sound & dance

Briana Jones (butoh dance) with music by Sentient Explosive (gongs with analog modular synthesizer); Victoria Jacobs (flamenco/modern/fusion) with music by Sataray with Celadon (dark sirenic vox & harmonium with industrial/ambient sound); Jessica Ludescher & Christian Swenson (dance movement and voice) with music by Ahmad Yousefbeigi & Andrew Sorkin (Iranian percussion w/ beat box).

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Darin Gray + Alchimia

Darin Gray (St. Louis) is best known as Jim O’Rourke’s go-to bassist for nearly 20 years, as half of the duo On Fillmore, and as the bassist for Grand Ulena, Dazzling Killmen, and Brise-Glace. As an improviser he has performed and recorded with Loren Connors, Masami Akita (Merzbow), Josh Abrams, Jason Roebke, Axel Dorner, Kevin Drumm, Alan Licht, Thollem Mcdonas, and Jim O'Rourke. He has toured extensively in the United States, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Russia and Europe. Alchimia (Dawud Mateen: sax, flute, percussion, voice; Brad Smarjesse: violin, keyboard, percussion, voice; Robert Iwanik: bass, voice) is a trio of Seattle improvisors exploring jazz, ambient and avant territories.

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