Seth Nehil & Matt Marble + Corey Fuller

Nonsequitur presents sound artists Seth Nehil & Matt Marble (Portland), and Corey Fuller (Bellingham). All three explore a wide range of textures and formal strategies with an emphasis on the microscopic details of everyday sounds and objects. Residing somewhere between ambient drone and musique concrete, it's a music of radical subtlety and intimacy. Nehil & Marble will collaborate on a duo set; Fuller plays solo.

Stephen Drury plays Rzewski & Feldman

Nonsequitur & Washington Composers Forum present renowned Boston pianist Stephen Drury, performing Morton Feldman's Palais de Mari and Frederic Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated!.

Gavin Borchert

Presented by Nonsequitur and Washington Composers Forum.

Well known as a classical music writer for the Seattle Weekly and radio commentator on KUOW, Borchert is also an accomplished composer whose works are heard all too infrequently. Performing along with the composer/pianist will be an ace ensemble of local musicians: soprano Hope Wechkin, pianists Amy Rubin and Keith Eisenbrey, cellists Dave Beck and Julian Schwarz, violinist Matthew Weiss, guitarist Mark Wilson.

Amy Rubin & Friends in Motion

Pianist, composer, and photographer Amy Rubin & Friends in Motion, featuring Matthew Weiss, violin; Jacques Willis, vibes and percussion; and Alex Sprout Guy, viola. VJ Hugo Solis joins the ensemble in the premiere of Rubin's new work The Hidden Life of Flowers, in which he uses a computer to manipulate and transform Amy's photographs in real time. The rest of the evening is devoted to music by the late, great Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla.

Frederic Rzewski

Frederic Rzewski is one of America's great maverick composers and a virtuoso pianist. A student of Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt, and Luigi Dallapiccola, his music freely combines elements of minimalism, atonality, improvisation, folk songs, and political texts. Rzewski was a co-founder, with Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum, of MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva), a group known for its pioneering work in live electronics and improvisation. Program: War Songs (2008 - first performance), Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier (2003), Mayn Yingele (1988), and Four Pieces (1977).

Jozef van Wissem & Tetuzi Akiyama Duo

Chapel Performance Space; co-presented with Seattle Improvised Music as part of the 23rd annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival. Dutch musician Jozef Van Wissem plays perhaps the most unlikely instruments in the world of contemporary improvised music: the Renaissance and Baroque lute. He has accomplished the odd feat of bridging the idiom of seventeenth century lute literature and twenty-first century free improv of the silent type. Well-versed in the traditional lute repertoire, he also composes his own pieces for lute, using palindromes and mirrored structures. Tetuzi Akiyama is a highly unique and experimental guitarist heavily applying free improvisation and noise. Akiyama started playing electric guitar at the age of thirteen. He later became very interested in free improvisation and classical music. Since 1998, together with Sugimoto and Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board), he has been organizing the important concert series, The Improvisation Meeting at Bar Aoyama (renamed The Experimental Meeting in '99, and Meeting at Off Site in 2000).

Illusion of Safety

Celebrating 25 years of Illusion of Safety, as well as two new releases, core member Daniel Burke intrepidly charts the terra incognita where sound, silence, noise and music intersect. Using conventional instruments, sound generating devices and random objects, IOS hews sonic sculptures that deliberately provoke, mesmerize and even affront listeners. Expect minimal drone, maximum power, location references, amplified objects, subtle electronic synthesis, and samples of mysterious origin that will stimulate memory and disturb your status quo.