Marc Barreca & Doug Haire

Marc Barreca (digital accordion, computer/electronics) and Doug Haire (field recordings) together create a layered, multi-channel sonic environment, blending phonography, loop-based textures and live electronic instruments.

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The Box Is Empty plays Lang & Reich

The Box Is Empty, Seattle’s newest contemporary music ensemble, performs David Lang’s Pulitzer-prize-winning the little match girl passion (Northwest premiere) and Steve Reich’s Proverb. With Maria Mannisto and Christina Siemens, sopranos; Kathea Yarnell, alto; Mark Leuning and Brian Winnie, Tenors; Tim Blok and Yigit Kolat, electric organs; Becca Baggenstoss and Denali Williams, percussion. Jeremiah Cawley, conductor.

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Manna Presence

Manna Presence performs acoustic/electro-acoustic improvisations plus songs from the last 5 years by Serge Gubelman (words/vocals, didgeridu, hang, percussion, dulcimer, waterphone) and Mark Fauver (guide of the “digital brain”, keyboards, windsynth, kalimba). With support by Bill Patton (Gold Leaves, Low Hums), Davis Martin (LeRoy Bell, Maktub), Jane Hall (Spirit House, House of Tarab), Mark Renner (Spirit House, Angel Aparicio), and Terrance Stearns (Spirit House, Superkali, Red Rose Thieves).

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RONIN 3 + Ask the Ages

RONIN 3 features Kenny Mandell (sax,flute/percussion), Don Berman (drums), and Simon Henneman (guitars) performing original, unadulterated, uncompromising avant/new jazz in the tradition of the Art Ensemble, Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, and other adventurous souls.

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Phil Kline's Unsilent Night + Party!

Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon, Nonsequitur, and Joshua Parmenter. Phil Kline's Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs and MP3s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every December. People bring their own boomboxes and drift peacefully through a cloud of sound which is different from every listener's perspective. Since 1992, this project has grown into a worldwide annual communal event that has become an essential part of many winter holiday celebrations. Please join us for this unusual sonic celebration of the Winter Solstice and the Seattle experimental music community.

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Vance Galloway & Friends: Resonant Planes

Vance Galloway and Charles Stanyon present an evening of music and experimental sound based on the concept of resonance. Environmental video and light by artists Peter Bill and Killing Frenzy. A multi-channel bath of sound generated by electro-magnetic, electro-mechanical, and traditional acoustic means with extensive real-time processing. Swaths of color and light, abstract imagery and shifting geometries provide a visual component.

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Neal Meyer: Gradus: Three Rungs

GRADUS for Fux, Tesla and Milo the Wrestler is Neal Meyer’s piano composition-in-perpetual-progress. The nutshell version of the score is: “Learn to play the piano one note at a time.” Since January 2002, Neal Meyer has been systematically realizing GRADUS through extended improvisations on each individual piano tone, and all possible combinations of piano tones.

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