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2012 Seattle Improvised Music Festival

2012-02-08T19:00:00.000-08:00

All concerts start at 7 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/checks only). Presented by Seattle Improvised Music and Nonsequitur. Made possible in part by support from the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

Now in its 27th year, the Seattle Improvised Music Festival is the longest running festival of its kind in North America, an annual meeting place for improvisers at the forefront of improvised music in North America and around the world. SIMF offers Seattle audiences and musicians the opportunity to witness innovative experimental improvisation in music and sound by a host of practitioners representing a sampling of the world’s major players, scenes, and movements. This year’s festival features visionary musicians visiting from Tokyo, Berlin, Arizona, BC, Philadelphia, Portland and of course Seattle, performing in solo and duos, as well as first-time collaborations with Seattle Improvisers.

For a complete list of artists, instrumentation, and bios, go here.

Wednesday, February 8
Jeph Jerman / Jonathan Way / Matthieu Ruhlmann
Paul Hoskin / Lance Olsen / Wilson Shook / John Teske / Mark Collins
The Seattle Phonographers Union
Jamie Drouin / Lance Olsen / Mattieu Ruhlmann

Thursday, February 9
Jamie Drouin / John Teske / Matthieu Ruhlmann / Jonathan Way
Taku Sugimoto composition
Mara Sedlins / Jamie Drouin / Lance Olsen / Mark Collins / Jack Wright
Paul Hoskin / Jeph Jerman / Doug Theriault

Friday, February 10
Matthew Carlson / Jason Anderson
Jack Wright / Gust Burns / Tim DuRoche
Jonathan Way / Tyler Wilcox / Jeph Jerman / Mara Sedlins
Taku Sugimoto solo

Saturday, February 11
Tim DuRoche / Tari Nelson-Zagar / Wilson Shook / Mark Collins / Doug Theriault
Jack Wright solo
Taku Sugimoto / Jeph Jerman / Tyler Wilcox / Gust Burns
Large ensemble

Phil Kline's Unsilent Night + Party!

2011-12-21T18:30:00.000-08:00

6:30 PM meet up/prep
7:00 PM procession
8:00 PM party
FREE! 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 45-minute work has grown into a worldwide annual communal event that has become an essential part of many winter holiday celebrations. The more participants the better, and all levels of audio fidelity are welcome (including MP3 players and phones). Please join us for this unusual sonic celebration of the Winter Solstice and the Seattle experimental music community. You can come for the walk, the party, or both. Here's how to participate:

First, download an MP3 file of the music here. You will randomly get one of four possible parts. Don't worry, it doesn't matter which one you get; they are all similar and equally important.

Then, you'll need to burn that to a CD-R or copy it to a cassette tape. (note: if copying to CD, be sure to convert the MP3 file to WAV or AIFF CD audio using iTunes or another music program - most boomboxes will not play MP3 files!)

Bring the CD/cassette, your boombox, and fresh batteries and you are ready to go! It does not have to be a fancy player - all levels of sound quality are encouraged.

Don't have a boombox? You can also use an iPod or other MP3 device, such as a smart phone, with battery-powered speakers plugged in. If you are using an iPhone, you can download the special new app created by Josh Parmenter.

6:30 PM - Meet at the Chapel Performance Space up on the 4th floor of the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford, where we will all load up our players and go over the route.

7:00 PM - We begin a slow-moving procession as a group through Wallingford, lasting about 45 minutes.

8:00 PM - Return to the Chapel for a "New-Music Holiday Office Party", with hot cider, snacks, music, and prizes.

The Tiptons Sax Quartet + Drums

2011-12-10T20:00:00.000-08:00

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/checks only)

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

Based in New York and Seattle, the Tiptons (formerly Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet) perform original compositions and arrangements of world music on saxes, clarinet, voices and drums/percussion. With concerts that cover musical territory from New Orleans “second-line” to free jazz, Afro-Cuban to Balkan, Klezmer and beyond, the Tiptons create some of the wildest sounds ever to come out of a sax quartet. Their dynamic, playful concerts feature high-energy interaction between members, and a repertoire using sax, voice and drums that touches on soulful music from around the world. This tour features the dynamic Seattle drummer and long-time friend John Ewing from the Reptet.

The band's newest CD, Strange Flower, includes 12 songs penned by each of the players, inspired by the lonely echo of train whistles at night, scientific findings on bees from Harper’s Magazine, and covering genres from micro-Big Band to Gospel, Bluegrass to Balkan, Whimsical Jazz to Nocturnal Funk. All these diverse styles are unified by the Tiptons’ solid instrumental and vocal talent, forged from 20 years of collaboration.

Malcolm Goldstein: Alone & Together

2011-11-05T20:00:00.000-07:00

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale at the door or in advance online. Presented by Nonsequitur and Earshot Jazz Festival. Interview here.

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. As a co-founder of the seminal Tone Roads Ensemble with composers Philip Corner and James Tenney, he helped champion important American composers such as Ives, Ruggles, Cowell, Varèse, Cage, etc., as well as composers of their own generation. As a regular participant in Judson Dance Theater, Goldstein helped forge new developments in interdisciplinary post-modern performance, and continues to collaborate with dancers. He has also pioneered the use of improvisational structures via graphic notation and verbal scores. These visually beautiful calligraphic works have a conceptual and structural integrity while allowing for spontaneity and the unique qualities and abilities of each musician to come through. Far from being a free-for-all, his open-ended compositions allow tremendous freedom while demanding a high degree of focus, intention, presence, and discipline.

This concert features Malcolm's breathtaking improvisations (Soundings) and compositions for solo violin, as well as two ensemble works, Configurations in Darkness and Two Silences, performed by an all-star group of Seattle musicians including Eric Barber (saxophones), Stuart Dempster (trombone), Beth Fleenor (clarinet), Lori Goldston (cello), and Esther Sugai (flute).

Graig Taborn & Gust Burns: Two Pianos

2011-10-15T20:00:00.000-07:00

8:00 PM; UW Brechemin Auditorium; FREE ADMISSION! Co-presented by Nonsequitur and Earshot Jazz as part of the 2011 Earshot Jazz Festival.

Two leaders of East and West coast piano innovation debut their new collaborative 2 pianos project. Craig Taborn & Gust Burns each contribute compositions and combine their respective approaches to post-jazz virtuosity and musicality, supplying a contemporary voice to the tradition of 2-piano jazz improvisation.

Born in Minnesota, Craig Taborn has been performing piano and electronic music in the jazz, improvisational, and creative music scenes for 20 years. He has played and recorded with many luminaries including Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Tim Berne, Steve Coleman, David Torn, Susie Ibarra, Carl Craig, Dave Douglas, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Rudresh Manhathappa. He is a member of Chris Potter’s Underground, Roscoe Mitchell’s Note Factory and Quintet, Tim Berne’s Hard Cell and Science Friction ensembles, and Farmer's By Nature with William Parker and Gerald Cleaver. Taborn currently leads the Craig Taborn Trio, Junk Magic, and the Ancients and Moderns ensemble, and is a member of progressive noise/punk band The Gang Font and the instrumental pop group Golden Valley. In addition, he has lectured at the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, The New School for Social research, New York University, School for Improvisational Music, the AMR in Geneva, the Rhythmic Conservatory in Copenhagen, Antwerp Conservatory, and other institutions.

Gust Burns is a pianist, improviser, and composer based in Seattle. He is foremost an improvising pianist, and continues to develop new routes into improvisation working with diverse areas of music such as silence, density, structure and alternative narrative approaches, extending traditional piano technique, and developing new techniques for inside the piano. Burns performs on both traditional piano - playing the keyboard - and ‘inside piano’ or re-assembled and altered piano soundboard and strings, with or without electronics. Burns counts diverse perspectives and lines of tradition as influences: both jazz and classical traditions, the avant-garde lineages in Europe and America, the traditions of improvised music over the last 40 years, traditional musics from around the world, the hip-hop and grunge he grew up with... He has long-standing collaborations with NW improvisers Wally Shoup, Jeff Johnson, Tim DuRoche, and many others, and has performed and recorded with musicians and artists from North America and abroad, including Keith Rowe, Radu Malfatti, Andrea Neumann, Tetuzi Akiyama, Stéphane Rives, Jason Kahn, Michael Pisaro, John Edwards, Caroline Kraabel, Lori Freedman, Wade Matthews, rapper Adam ‘Dose One’ Drucker, Jack Wright, and many others. Burns was Director of the Seattle Improvised Music Festival from 2003 - 2011, and co-founder of Gallery 1412, a venue dedicated to experimental music.

Jarrad Powell: Instrumental & Vocal Music

2011-10-08T20:00:00.000-07:00

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/checks only).

Acoustic chamber music by beloved Seattle composer Jarrad Powell, accompanied by a host of outstanding Northwest musicians. Vocal works will feature Jessika Kenney and include three premieres. Powell’s collaboration with Kenney extends over many years and has produced a large body of unique vocal music that defies stylistic categories. Also on the concert will be instrumental pieces, including works for solo alto flute, solo piano, piano and vibraphone, and string trio. Featured musicians include Paul Taub, flute, Matthew Kocmieroski, percussion, Adrienne Varner, piano, Jamie Maschler, accordion, and Brad Hawkins, cello. Also featured will be the premiere of a new work for voice with chamber gamelan, featuring Jesse Snyder, rebab, and Stephanie Helm, gender.

Jarrad Powell's compositions include pieces for voice, gamelan, various western and non-western instruments, electro-acoustic music, music for theater, dance and experimental film. His work also includes numerous cross-cultural collaborations, particularly with Indonesian artists. Since the early 80’s he has directed the group Gamelan Pacifica, one of the most active and adventurous gamelan ensembles in the U.S. He created music for numerous pieces of contemporary dance with noted choreographer Molly Scott. Recent projects also include music for the short films of Robert Campbell. He has received a host of commissions, fellowships, and awards, and has been a professor at Cornish College of the Arts for more than 25 years.

Eric Barber + Trio Commando

2011-09-30T20:00:00.000-07:00

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/checks only).

(photo: Daniel Sheehan) Saxophonist Eric Barber is an innovative saxophonist and composer in the world of jazz, world, and improvised music. Complex, emotional, and spontaneous, his boundless musical energy and creativity have made him a favorite collaborator with master musicians from the United States, India, Iran, and the Balkans. Exploring the full sonic capabilities of his instruments, Barber fuses complex rhythmic structures and multiphonics with a keen ear and compositional sensibility. For this concert Eric will perform acoustic solo saxophone compositions and improvisations, as well as works with electronics. Sonic, metric, rhythmic, and melodic concepts are unified into cohesive pieces that have compositional structure yet allow for deep improvisatory exploration from performance to performance.

Trio Commando make their public debut, performing improvisations, excavations and conversations through a high powered trio configuration featuring Wayne Horvitz (piano), Samantha Boshnack (trumpets), and Beth Fleenor (clarinets/voice).

Since arriving in Seattle in 1998, clarinetist/vocal percussionist/ composer Beth Fleenor has carved a place for herself as an energetic multi-instrumentalist and dynamic generative artist. Her robust sound, organic approach, and openness to experimentation in all forms, actively fuels a long and varied list of collaborations. Ranging from shows in nightclubs, festivals, schools and galleries, to prisons, parties and concert halls, Fleenor's work has been featured in live music, theater, performance art, recordings, modern dance, film, sound art and art installations.

Samantha Boshnack has composed and performed with a plethora of Seattle-based musicians and groups since arriving from New York in 2003. The Bard College graduate uses a broad palette in her compositions, including jazz, rock, hip-hop, Balkan, and contemporary classical music influences. Her work has received acclaim from music critics around the world, and has received support from 4Culture, Jack Straw Productions, ASCAPlus, and the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

Wayne Horvitz is a composer, pianist, electronic musician, and producer. He has toured widely, and has collaborated with musicians such as Bill Frisell, Butch Morris, John Zorn, Robin Holcomb, Fred Frith, Julian Priester, Michael Shrieve, Bobby Previte, Marty Ehrlich, William Parker, Ron Miles, Sara Schoenbeck, Peggy Lee, Briggan Krauss, and many others. A recipient of numerous commissions and awards, his various ensembles include The President, Pigpen, Zony Mash, The HMP Trio, The New York Composers Orchestra, The 4 Plus 1 Ensemble, Sweeter Than the Day and The Gravitas Quartet.

Jim Haynes, Brendan Murray, Steven M. Miller

2011-06-10T20:00:00.000-07:00

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale donation at the door (cash or check only).

An evening of diverse electro-acoustic music featuring recent work by Jim Haynes (San Francisco), Brendan Murray (Boston), and Steven M. Miller (Singapore). All three of these artists bring a very distinctive approach to the electronic manipulation of acoustic sound sources, whether they be instruments, environmental sounds, or found objects.

Steven M. Miller is a composer currently based in Singapore where he is Associate Professor of Sonic Arts at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music of the National University of Singapore. His creative activity and background includes: electroacoustic, instrumental, and vocal music; collaborative intermedia projects with photographers, film/video artists, dancers/choreographers, and actors; live performance, gallery installations, compositions for recorded media, and music and sound design for video/film/new media; audio recording and production; traditional musics of Java, Bali, the Balkans, Middle East, and North Africa. He performs regularly in a variety of solo and ensemble contexts throughout the USA and Asia. Performances and radio broadcasts of his music occur in North & South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. For this evening's performance, Miller will present structured improvisations for field recordings, signal processing, and live electronics.

Brendan Murray is a self-taught musician living in Somerville, MA. He has actively recorded and performed with electronics since 1999. He regards his music as a balance between spontaneous sound making and compositional rigor, with an emphasis on drones and repetition. He records and processes instruments and tapes until all traces of instrumentality are blurred, leaving only large blocks of pure sound. He has recorded four full-length CDs, four CD-Rs, and two cassettes for various labels in the US and Europe. Murray has also toured extensively throughout the US as a solo performer and as a member of various improvising ensembles. He is actively involved with long distance collaborations with musicians and sound artists such as Seth Nehil, Richard Garet and Chuck Bettis. This is Murray's debut performance in Seattle, presenting his signature minimalist compositions for reflective vibrations, sympathetic sub-harmonics, and rich tonal frequencies.

"I rust things," is the pithy phrase that Jim Haynes employs when describing his work. Using shortwave radio static, electric field disturbances, controlled feedback, and textural scrapings, Haynes’ sound installations and performances manifest a broken minimalism in which magnetic drone convey the impression of timelessness within an active environment. He has exhibited and performed internationally at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, Electric Works (San Francisco), The Exploratorium (San Francisco), WestSpace (Melbourne, Australia), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), Eyedrum (Atlanta), and Diapason (New York). He has published his work through the Helen Scarsdale Agency, 23five Incorporated, Intransitive, and Elevator Bath. Haynes returns to the Chapel Performance Space for the third time, offering work partially sourced from recordings of thermal vents and geysers.

Nonseq at The Stone (NYC)

2011-05-01T20:00:00.000-07:00

Nonsequitur was invited to curate the first half of May 2011 at The Stone, the East Village avant music venue founded by John Zorn. We have scheduled two weeks of concerts featuring a wide range of artist friends from around the country, including many with strong Seattle connections. Very few of them live in NYC or have an established audience there, and almost none have ever played at The Stone before. So if you plan to be in New York May 1 - 15, please go and support them! There are two different shows each night, starting at 8 and 10 PM. Admission is generally $10 per set, although there are some exceptions. Full details here.

Sunday, May 1
8 PM - Matt Marble w/ Alex Waterman, Katherine Young, Tucker Dulin
10 PM - Steve Barsotti

Tuesday, May 3
8 PM - Nurit Tilles plays piano music by David Mahler
10 PM - Nurit Tilles plays newer piano music of David Mahler

Wednesday, May 4
8 PM - Steve Gorn & Ralph Samuelson, music by Teiji Ito and others
10 PM - Jeph Jerman

Thursday, May 5
8 PM - Lyn Goeringer
10 PM - Matthew Ostrowski, Jen Baker, Reuben Radding

Friday, May 6
8 PM - Tiffany Lin & Ranjit Bhatnagar
10 PM - Paul Kikuchi w/ Reuben Radding, Jason Stein, Nate Wooley

Saturday, May 7
8 PM - Crosstalk (Jesse Canterbury, Tiffany Lin, Brian Cobb, Paul Kikuchi)
10 PM - Triptet (Tom Baker, Michael Monhart, Greg Campbell)

Sunday, May 8
8 PM - Tom Swafford & friends
10 PM - Reptet (Samantha Boshnak, Chris Credit, Izaak Mills, Nelson Bell, Tim Carey, John Ewing)

Tuesday, May 10
8 PM - Lori Goldston
10 PM - Rob Millis & Steve Roden

Wednesday, May 11
8 PM - Peter Garland plays piano music by himself and Terry Jennings
10 PM - Peter Garland plays other piano music by himself and Michael Byron

Thursday, May 12
8 PM - Ellen Band & David Sholl
10 PM - Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree

Friday, May 13
8 PM - Garrett Fisher Ensemble
10 PM - Chris Stover w/ Steve Swell, Alan Ferber, Chris Washburn

Saturday, May 14
8 PM - Yann Novak & Robert Crouch
10 PM - Kamran Sadeghi

Sunday, May 15
8 PM - Lou Cohen, Tim Feeney, Vic Rawlings
10 PM - Steven M. Miller

Steve Barsotti, with Paul Kikuchi

2011-04-22T20:00:00.000-07:00

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/checks only).

Steve Barsotti presents an evening of reduced listening, performing a work in three parts featuring improvisation with invented instruments and field recordings collected around the world over the past twenty years. Barsotti will play his Spring Frame, a home-built instrument consisting of springs, strings, and other objects amplified through contact microphones. Joining him for a portion of the evening will be instrument inventor and percussionist Paul Kikuchi.

Steve Barsotti is a Seattle-based improviser, sound artist, instrument inventor and educator. His work explores notions of reduced listening through close examinations of easily bypassed sonic details – sounds that can only be heard through contact microphones and amplification or the sonic qualities of materials and objects found in everyday life. He invites the listener to forgo an attempt at literal connections with the sounds and to focus on the sounds in and of themselves.

His two solo CDs - Along These Lines and Say “tin-tah-pee-mic” - contain improvisations with object recordings, location recordings, phonography, and electro-acoustic processing. He also has an album with fellow instrument inventor Eric Leonardson, Rarebit, that features improvisations on invented instruments. His work has been described as “quite cinematic and unsettling,” and as “ushering the listener across an ambient divide”.

He is an original member of the Seattle Phonographers Union, a group of improvising field recordists, and has been responsible for many of the group's activities. The Union is described as "moving beyond habitual experience of sound and uncover what is foreign in the familiar and familiar about the foreign; to explore what we hear and relearn what we know." They have been performing together for eight years.

Frances-Marie Uitti

2011-02-18T20:00:00.000-08:00

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/checks only). Presented by Nonsequitur.

The remarkable cellist, composer and improviser Frances-Marie Uitti performs works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Jonathan Harvey, Huang Ruo, Lisa Bielawa, Annie Gosfield, György Kurtág, and her own Rap't.

Frances-Marie Uitti has pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by transforming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained chordal (two, three, and four-part) and intricate multi-voiced writing. Using two bows in one hand, this invention permits contemporaneous cross accents, multiple timbres, contrasting 4-voiced dynamics, simultaneous legato/articulated playing, that her previous work with a curved bow couldn't attain. György Kurtág, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, Louis Andriessen, Jonathan Harvey, and Richard Barrett are among those who have used this technique in their compositions dedicated to her. She has also worked closely with John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough and countless composers from the new generation. As an improviser, she plays in duos and trios with Mark Dresser, Evan Parker, Joel Ryan, Elliott Sharp, Paul Griffiths, Wilbert de Joode, Mischa Mengelberg and others, and also collaborates with various filmmakers, DJs, and video artists.

Based in Amdsterdam, Ms. Uitti performs regularly in festivals around the world, and has recorded for labels such as ECM, Wergo, CRI, BVHaast, Mode, and HatHut, and Cryptogramophone. She has written for the Cambridge Companion to the Cello, Contemporary Music Review, Musik Texte, and Tempo magazine, and given lectures and master classes at practically all of the major European conservatories and universities in the USA.

26th annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival

2011-02-09T20:00:00.000-08:00

February 9, 10, 11, 12; all shows 8:00 PM, $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/checks only). Presented by Seattle Improvised Music and Nonsequitur.

The longest running festival of its kind in North America, the annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival is your opportunity to witness innovative experimental improvisation in music and sound by a host of international artists representing a sampling of the world’s major players/scenes/movements. This year’s line up includes: Jeffrey Allport percussion (Vancouver), Gill Arno radios (NYC), Gust Burns piano, inside piano (Seattle), Lou Cohen laptop/Csound (Boston), James Coleman theremin (Boston), Mark Collins bass (Seattle), Paul Hoskin contrabass clarinet (Seattle), Andrew Lafkas bass (NYC), Radu Malfatti trombone (Vienna), Mara Sedlins viola (Seattle), Wilson Shook alto saxophone (Seattle), Tyler Wilcox soprano saxophone (Seattle), John Teske bass (Seattle)

Wednesday, February 9
Andrew Lafkas solo
James Coleman solo
Gill Arno, Mara Sedlins, Wilson Shook trio
Gust Burns, Jeffrey Allport, Tyler Wilcox trio

Thursday, February 10
Andrew Lafkas, Jeffrey Allport duo
Lou Cohen, Paul Hoskin duo
Radu Malfatti, Tyler Wilcox, Gust Burns, Andrew Lafkas quartet

Friday, February 11
Radu Malfatti, James Coleman, Mark Collins trio
Lou Cohen solo
Gill Arno, James Coleman, Lou Cohen, Jeffrey Allport, Andrew Lafkas, Gust Burns sextet

Saturday, February 12
Andrew Lafkas, Gill Arno duo
Andrew Lafkas, Radu Malfatti, Gill Arno, Lou Cohen, James Coleman, Jeffrey Allport, Tyler Wilcox, Wilson Shook, Mara Sedlins, Gust Burns, John Teske eleven
Radu Malfatti solo

Is That Jazz?: Operation ID + Dana Reason

2011-01-22T20:00:00.000-08:00

8:00 PM (doors open 7:15); $15 general, $10 student/senior suggested donation at the door. Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon and Nonsequitur.

IS THAT JAZZ? is a festival dedicated to daring and exploratory artists who are redrawing the boundaries of jazz, and infusing the genre with new forms, new sounds, and renewed sense of immediacy. Some want to limit jazz to a specific and narrow definition; IS THAT JAZZ? embraces jazz as a living, breathing art-form, one that must change and grow.

The second night of the festival features the young Seattle group Operation ID and Canadian pianist Dana Reason.

Seattle’s only minimalist, avant-garde, electro-pop, noise-cluster, synth-rock, free-jazz, experimental, dance-prog band, Operation ID is a five-piece band with a propensity to combine enormous pop energy with free improvisation. Originally interested in the spontaneity of free-jazz, Operation ID’s open-mindedness has guided them to embrace a position of willingness when experimenting with new sounds and musical approaches.

Dana Reason is one of the few pianists able to seamlessly intertwine pure mastery of classical, jazz, American music and the avant-garde on the concert stage. Reason is a Canadian-born pianist/composer currently splitting her time between teaching at Oregon State University, composing, and touring with the Dana Reason Trio (Dana Reason, Glen Moore, and Peter Valsamis) for Wild Rose Artists.

Is That Jazz?: Empty Cage + Sun Ra Tribute

2011-01-21T20:00:00.000-08:00

8:00 PM (doors open 7:15); $15 general, $10 student/senior suggested donation at the door. Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon and Nonsequitur.

IS THAT JAZZ? is a festival dedicated to daring and exploratory artists who are redrawing the boundaries of jazz, and infusing the genre with new forms, new sounds, and renewed sense of immediacy. Some want to limit jazz to a specific and narrow definition; IS THAT JAZZ? embraces jazz as a living, breathing art-form, one that must change and grow.

The festival's opening night concert features the Empty Cage Quartet and the Sun Ra Tribute Band.

The all-star ten-piece Sun Ra Tribute Band returns to open the festival and honor the inspirational iconoclast Sun Ra by playing many of his compositions from the late 1950's and early 1960's. Expect sparkly robes, processions, group vocals, flying objects and planetary realignment. The cast of characters includes Seattle new-music godfathers Stuart Dempster and William O. Smith.

The Empty Cage Quartet (Jason Mears, reeds; Kris Tiner, trumpets/flugelhorn; Paul Kikuchi, drums/percussion; Ivan Johnson, bass) has been consistently praised by critics as one of the most interesting and original new jazz groups to emerge from the American West Coast. For over eight years the group has explored new ways to integrate a diverse mix of musical influences, utilizing a unique system that blurs the lines between composition and improvisation.

Julian Priester Quartet

2010-12-17T20:00:00.000-08:00

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/checks only).

Julian Priester is the most distinctive solo voice on the trombone in jazz today. Enhancing the colors and textures of his instrument with varied timbre and definitive style, he truly plays music his way. In a career spanning five decades, he's been part of some of the most groundbreaking and important contemporary music to date. He started out in Chicago's thriving blues and R&B scene, playing with Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Lionel Hampton, and Dinah Washington, as well as with Sun Ra’s early groups in the mid 50’s. Moving to New York in 1958, he appeared as a sideman on many Blue Note recordings with notables such as Max Roach, Ray Charles, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, and Art Blakey. He recorded his first two records as a leader in 1960: Keep Swingin’, and Spiritsville. Always involved with adventurous, boundary-pushing music, Julian also worked with Sam Rivers and played in John Coltrane's Africa/Brass ensemble, and in the 70’s with Duke Ellington’s Big Band and Herbie Hancock's Sextet. Julian moved to San Francisco in 1973, soon recording two more albums as a leader for ECM, Love, Love and Polarization. In the '80s, Julian joined Dave Holland's acclaimed quintet, with whom he recorded and toured extensively. In the 90’s, Julian continued to be a vital voice in jazz, working with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, Wayne Horvitz’s 4+1 ensemble, Jane Ira Bloom, Jerry Granelli, and Reggie Workman. He also co-led (with Sam Rivers) another session of his own, Hints on Light and Shadow. Today, Julian continues to push forward as the leader of a new quartet with pianist Dawn Clement, drummer Byron Vannoy, and bassist Geoff Harper. The group's loose and adventuresome spirit is evident on their 2002 CD, In Deep End Dance (Conduit Records), Julian’s first release as a leader in over 25 years. The music is heartfelt and intensely emotional. Adding to the spiritual weight of the record is Julian’s appreciation for his second chance at life and at music that he was given by the organ transplant he received in March of 2000.

Cristina Valdes

2010-11-17T20:00:00.000-08:00

Fearless pianist Cristina Valdes performs a challenging program of solo piano works: Olivier Messiaen's Petites Esquisses D'Oiseaux, Giacinto Scelsi's Quattro Illustrazioni, Jonathan Harvey's Le Tombeau de Messiaen, Helmut Lachenmann's Ein Kinderspiel, Theo Loevendie's Strides, and Charles Ives' Waltz Rondo.

Committed to both contemporary and standard repertoire, Cristina Valdes is known for presenting innovative concerts with repertoire ranging from Bach to Xenakis. She has performed across four continents and in a multitude of venues including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Recital Hall, Nordstrom Hall, and the Kennedy Center. An avid chamber musician, Cristina has toured extensively with the Bang On a Can “All Stars” and has performed with the Seattle Chamber Players, the Mabou Mines Theater Company, the Parsons Dance Company, Antares, and Trio V. Her festival appearances include the Singapore Arts Festival, Brisbane Arts Festival, Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva in Mexico City, New Music in Miami Festival, Festival of Arts and Ideas, and the Festival of Contemporary Music in El Salvador among others. She has also performed with the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, the Binghamton Philharmonic, and the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. Cristina can be heard on several recordings on the Newport Classics, Albany, and Innova labels. She holds degrees from the New England Conservatory and SUNY at Stony Brook, and is the recipient of an Arts International Grant, the Thayer Award for the Arts, and an Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music grant. Cristina currently resides in Seattle where she is on the piano faculty of the Cornish College of the Arts.

Matana Roberts: COIN COIN

2010-10-28T20:00:00.000-07:00

Presented by Nonsequitur & Earshot Jazz Festival.

Chicago born and bred, Matana Roberts is an alto saxophonist/ composer/performer working in various mediums of improvised sound and performance, and has been active in New York since 2001. A Van Lier and Brecht Forum fellow, as well as a 2008 and 2009 nominee for an Alpert Award in the Arts, she has appeared as a collaborator on recordings and performances worldwide with her own ensembles and with a variety of collaborative ensembles, including Sticks and Stones, Burnt Sugar, Exploding Star Orchestra, the Oliver Lake Big Band, the Julius Hemphill Sextet, Myra Melford's Happy Whistlings, Jayne Cortez's Fire Spitters, and Merce Cunningham Dance. The success of her 2008 debut release as a leader, The Chicago Project (Central Control International), led critics to call Roberts "one to watch" (Kevin Legencre, Jazzwise) and "an eloquent, dramatic, tone-warping free jazz artist right out of Ayler's anti-bop tradition." (John Fordham, London Guardian)

The first half of tonight's concert features Matana's solo saxophone improvisations. The second half is devoted to her ongoing multimedia ensemble work COIN COIN: a blood narrative in blacks, browns, reds, and blues..., performed with ace Seattle musicians Tom Baker (guitar), Angelina Baldoz (trumpet), Brian Cobb (bass), Marchette DuBois (accordion), Greg Campbell (drums/percussion), Beth Fleenor (clarinets), Lori Goldston (cello), Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin), and Greg Powers (trombone).

Since 2005, Matana Roberts has been evolving this epic sound narrative about the intricacies, contradictions and questions that surround the human bloodline experience. Divided into twelve "chapters", COIN COIN explores how, when broken down into the most minute details, new meanings arise beyond the surface levels of one-dimensional human acceptance, generally attached to shades of difference, and fear of the unknown. Transcending sometimes the unbearable in order to create new possibilities of understanding the human condition. Using research she has done on her own bloodline history and various ensembles she leads as the “guinea pig” in this sound endeavor, she has been able to cull a myriad of rich and awe-inspiring stories that speak many interesting truths about the flexibility and wonder of individual understanding. Traversing the American South of days past, Matana is weaving together stories and lore that speak to a very distinct, historically experimental, yet common American experience. For her, this is a very personal search in sound practice that opens a dialogue for possibilities going beyond the specific; regenerating a focus that she hopes in the end celebrates the inherent potential that resides in the overflowing capability of human love, sadness, kindred-ness, perseverance, and joy. In essence, the project is a musical monument to the human experience.

Matana writes about her work on the narrative in her print ‘zine Fat Ragged, as well as on her blog, and has also been building site-specific sound installations called COIN COIN Happenings. Excerpts are available for listening and download at WFMU’s Free Music Archive.

Eugene Chadbourne + MURAL

2010-10-16T20:00:00.000-07:00

Presented by Nonsequitur & Earshot Jazz Festival.

(photo: Sandy Carson) Eugene Chadbourne is a legendary improvising guitarist/banjo player, as well as a virtuoso on various noisy instruments of his own design and construction. As a major player in the improvised music scene since the 1970s, Chadbourne has worked with a huge range of players including John Zorn, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Jimmy Carl Black, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Camper van Beethoven, Toshinori Kondo, Paul Lovens, Frank Lowe, Sun City Girls, They Might Be Giants, and a host of other luminaries you would/should recognize. A long-time resident of Greensboro, North Carolina, "Doc Chadula" has also performed original folk/protest songs, free-improvised country & western be-bop, and crazed psychedelia with the seminal band Shockabilly. He is a keen commentator on the music scene and has written extensively for a number of music magazines over the years. His web site contains a vast storehouse of his writings and recordings. Go there now!

Sharing the evening are MURAL, a trio consisting of Norwegians Kim Myhr (guitar) and Ingar Zach (percussion), and Australian saxophonist Jim Denley. MURAL reveals large sound-surfaces that stretch across registers and territories. Several plateaus of sound happen simultaneously, reaching some “plane of consistency” where the music can dwell while discovering its own simmering nuances. The smallest vibrations can appear as monoliths: consistent, but changing when moving forward through time. MURAL creates large spaces, luminous rooms of various shapes.

Foday Musa Suso

2010-09-24T20:00:00.000-07:00

Foday Musa Suso is an internationally recognized musician and a Mandingo griot from the West African nation of Gambia. Spread across several West African nations, griots are the oral historians and musicians of the Mandingo people, a living library for the community, providing history, entertainment, and wisdom while playing and singing their songs. The history of empires and kingdoms, tribal conflicts, cultural heroes, and family lineage are all part of a griot's traditional repertoire. It is an extensive verbal and musical heritage that can only be passed down within a griot family.

Foday Musa Suso formed the Mandingo Griot Society in Chicago, and after thirty-two years there he now makes his U.S. home in Seattle. Foday has not only brought the traditional griot music of his homeland to American audiences, but he has brought the kora into more contemporary and experimental settings, collaborating with jazz, rock, and classical musicians as diverse as Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Philip Glass, and the Kronos Quartet. This special concert in the intimate setting of the Chapel will focus on his own solo compositions, drawing on his traditional roots while exploring unusual new directions.

Wyndel Hunt Benefit: CGT/Horist/Galloway

2010-09-02T20:00:00.000-07:00

On June 19, Seattle artist/experimental musician Wyndel Hunt was seriously injured in a bicycle accident. He is out of the hospital now, but has no health insurance and will probably not be able to work for quite a while. All money from this concert will go directly to his recovery fund. Please come support this valued member of our community, and enjoy an evening of very interesting guitar-based music.

Climax Golden Twins is the inscrutable and ever-morphing sonic beast animated by Rob Millis and Jeffrey Taylor. Together, individually and with others, they push the definition of a "band" to its limits, making live movie soundtracks, gallery installations, weird ethnographic films, and deeply immersing themselves in the dusty, crackling grooves of old 78s. Willfully defiant of accepted genre boundaries, their extensive catalog of recordings in various formats includes permutations of mutant rock, ungodly noise, and minimal ambient drone. Among many other things.

Bill Horist may be best known as a free improvising prepared guitarist of impeccable taste and devilish wit, or as one of the shadowy figures behind the Master Musicians of Bukkake. Most recently, astute listeners know him as a finger-picking acoustic guitarist of astonishing ability and musicality in the post-Fahey lineage. Somehow that gets mixed in with his art rock leanings and noisier tendencies to produce music of real beauty.

Vance Galloway is the proverbial Man Behind the Curtain, mainly recognized around Seattle as one of the people who makes the Decibel Festival a reality in his role as Tech Guy par excellence. But Vance is also an inventive musician who has found all manner of ways to pull beautiful sounds out of electric guitars and computers that are connected to each other with wires. We wish he would play out more often so people can hear more of his very interesting music.

Brazilian pianist Ruth Serrão

2010-08-27T20:00:00.000-07:00

Brazilian pianist Ruth Serrão performs a solo program of rarely-heard contemporary music by composers from Brazil: Heitor Villa-Lobos' Prelúdio, Claudia Caldeira's Pra Piano #1, Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes' Ciclo #3, Cesar Guerra-Peixe's The Spotted Cat and Maiden Swallow (a love story) and Five Tropical Preludes.

Ruth Serrão studied piano in Rio de Janeiro and in Paris. Currently living in Rio de Janeiro, she performs as a pianist and chamber musician throughout the country and has taught at the graduate program at UNIRIO. In the US she has appeared as a soloist, in chamber groups and with orchestras. She has worked with young musicians at the preparatory and college levels, given Master classes and participated in juries and music festivals. An acknowledged authority on Brazilian music, she has presented lectures and concerts on the subject in the US, Europe, and in her native country. She has premiered many works of contemporary composers who have dedicated their works to her. Ms. Serrão has performed in many of the Villa-Lobos celebrations in Brasilia and S. Paulo, including the world premiere of the complete series of Chôros, at the XXXV Villa-Lobos Festival in Rio de Janeiro. She has participated in the Mozart bicentennial celebrations and Festival Panamericano de Música, giving the first performance of Guilherme Bauer's Variações Rítmicas para Piano e Orquestra. Among her many recordings under the auspices of the Brazilian government, Ms. Serrão has been responsible for the revival of Padre José Mauricio’s keyboard music. Her next project, O Piano de Guerra-Peixe, is a two-CD collection presenting an overview of the composer’s piano works, from 1943 to his last composition in 1993.

Michael Pisaro (ensemble)

2010-08-21T20:00:00.000-07:00

Presented by Nonsequitur & Seattle Improvised Music. Listen to samples of his music. Tyler Wilcox, Gust Burns, Mara Sedlins, John Teske, Wilson Shook, and other Seattle improvisers perform selections from Michael Pisaro's harmony series.

Michael Pisaro (solo)

2010-08-20T20:00:00.000-07:00

Presented by Nonsequitur & Seattle Improvised Music.

Guitarist/composer Michael Pisaro performs the North American premiere of a new composition for solo guitar, fields have ears (6). Michael Pisaro is currently on the composition faculty at Cal Arts. A member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble, he has composed over 80 works for a great variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. Most of his music of the last several years is published by Edition Wandelweiser (Germany), which has also released two CDs of his work.

Joe McPhee

2010-08-14T20:00:00.000-07:00

Presented as part of a nation-wide celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Improvisor magazine, the international journal of free improvisation.

Free jazz saxophone/trumpet legend Joe McPhee plays a very rare Seattle solo show dedicated to the memory of two recently departed giants of the music, Bill Dixon and Fred Anderson. With a career now spanning over 37 years, McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and theoretician, especially notable as a pioneering practitioner of solo free improvisation.

Robert Rich

2010-07-01T20:00:00.000-07:00

Ambient music pioneer Robert Rich performs in support of his new album, Ylang, using live electronics with analog modular synthesizer, keyboards and computer, along with his signature handmade flutes and steel guitar to create a hypnotic, atmospheric blend of composition and improvisation.

Robert Rich began building his own analog synthesizers when he was 13 years old. Across three decades and over 30 albums, he has helped define the genres of ambient music, dark-ambient, tribal and trance. He has performed in caves, cathedrals, planetaria, art galleries and concert halls throughout Europe and North America. His all-night Sleep Concerts, first performed in 1982, became legendary in the San Francisco area, culminating in the 7-hour audio-only DVD Somnium, a studio distillation of the Sleep Concert experience and possibly the longest continuous piece of music ever released at the time. Rich has designed sounds for television, film scores, and video installations, and works closely with electronic instrument manufacturers. He has written software for composers who work in just intonation, and his sound design has filled preset libraries of Emu’s Proteus 3 and Morpheus, Seer Systems’ Reality, sampling disks Things that Go Bump in the Night, ACID Loop Library Liquid Planet, WayOutWare’s TimewARP2600, and synths by Camel Audio.

Dana Reason + Lisa Cay Miller: Piano Solos

2010-06-12T20:00:00.000-07:00

Dana Reason is a leading figure in the new generation of pianists who are equally comfortable on both the jazz and classical concert stages. Born in Toronto, she began studying piano at age three. She was a member of The Space Between, with Pauline Oliveros (accordion) and Philip Gelb (shakuhachi). She has worked with bassists Lisle Ellis, Barre Phillips, Jöelle Léandre, Peter Kowald, and Matthew Sperry, as well as saxophonist Joe McPhee, trombonist George Lewis, and saxophonist Jon Raskin. She currently leads a trio with bassist Dominic Duvall and drummer Tim DuRoche.

Sharing the evening is Vancouver pianist Lisa Miller. Her work combines jazz, modern composition, and free improvisation in a vibrant and challenging context. She performs with Eyvind Kang, Dylan van der Schyff, Peggy Lee, Jeremy Berkman, Jesse Zubot, Ron Samworth, Alita Dupary, Steve Smith, the NOW Orchestra, ion zoo, and stop time.

Jessika Kenney & Friends

2010-05-28T20:00:00.000-07:00

Jessika Kenney is well known to Seattle audiences as a long-time member of Gamelan Pacifica and Seattle Harmonic Voices. For this concert she performs with violist Eyvind Kang, Iranian tar player and vocalist Parvaneh Daneshvar, and jazz pianist Dawn Clement to play original poly-modal compositions and improvisations with a spirituo-linguistic relationship to Classical Persian poetry.

Jessika Kenney is a vocalist and composer based on Vashon Island. Her work demonstrates a deep appreciation and understanding of both traditional musics and experimental methods. She has performed and recorded classical Persian vocal repertoire with ney master Ostad Hossein Omoumi, new and traditional Javanese music with Gamelan Pacifica and Gamelan Madu Sari, overtone singing with Seattle Harmonic Choir, and the music of contemporary composers such as John Cage, Hans Eisler, Lou Harrison, Eyvind Kang, and Tadao Sawai. Her teachers include the jazz vocalist Jay Clayton at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and Nyi Supadmi in Central Java, Indonesia, where she studied traditional Javanese vocal music and collaborated on music and theater in experimental settings. She currently teaches voice at Cornish College of the Arts, where she completed her music degree in 2007. Her recordings can be found on the Endless, Haft Dastgah, Ipecac, Koto World, Mimicry, Present Sounds, and Tzadik labels, and include The Stonehouse Songs with Jarrad Powell, the voice/viola duet Aestuarium with Eyvind Kang, and Voices of Spring with the Hossein Omoumi Ensemble. She has created numerous experimental wayang (shadow plays) including Maya in the Bardo (1996), and Atria (2006), as well as many other works for voice and mixed ensembles.

Anna Homler & Friends

2010-05-14T20:00:00.000-07:00

Presented by Nonsequitur & Seattle Occultural Music.

Los Angeles vocalist Anna Homler sings in alternative languages that extend the possibilities of meaning and communication with a sensibility that is both ancient and post-modern, blurring the line between words and music. Tonight she is joined by some of Seattle's finest experimental musicians: Amy Denio, Lori Goldston, Byron Au Yong, Doug Haire, and Susie Kozawa.

Since 1982 Anna Homler has performed throughout Europe and the USA, collaborating with composers and musicians Steve Moshier, David Moss, Steve Roden, David Moss, Viola Kramer, Voices of Kwahn, Axel Otto, Frank Schulte, Geert Waegerman and Pavel Fajt, among many others. As a visual artist, her ongoing performance/installation Pharmacia Poetica examines the symbolic and tonal qualities of words and objects. She is presently recording a new album with Seattle musicians as part of an Artist Assistance residency at Jack Straw Productions.

Shelley Hirsch

2010-05-08T20:00:00.000-07:00

Shelley Hirsch is an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist, composer, and performance artist whose work encompasses story telling, staged performances, compositions, improvisations, collaborations, installations, and radio plays. Among other things, she'll be singing over electronic "song drapes" composed for her by the late, great Jerry Hunt.

Born and based in New York City, Shelley Hirsch has performed hundreds of concerts of improvised music with great musicians including Anthony Coleman, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Hans Reichel, David Simons, Paul Lovens, David Watson, Marina Rosenfeld, Jim Staley, DJ Olive, Joey Baron, Mark Dresser, Ned Rothenberg, Marc Ribot, Cyro Baptista, Butch Morris, Elliot Sharp, and many others. Her mostly solo multimedia performance pieces have been performed internationally, and include O Little Town of East New York, For Jerry (virtual duets with Jerry Hunt), and The Passions of Natasha, Nokiko, Nina, Nicole and Norma (with visual artist Barbara Bloom). She is currently a vocalist in Alvin Curran's Philharmonie with Fred Frith, Joan Jeanrenaud, and Willie Winant.

May Day! New Music Marathon @ Town Hall

2010-05-01T13:00:00.000-07:00

Presented by Town Hall Seattle in association with Nonsequitur.

There is nothing at the Chapel today, so we suggest you go to the May Day! May Day! New Music Marathon at Town Hall (1119 8th Ave. @ Seneca), a 12-hour performer-driven celebration of contemporary music featuring 30 sets by local ensembles and soloists. Music by Seattle composers is encouraged, as are three musically inspirational “themes”: politics, pagan rituals, and calls for help in times of distress. Schedule:

1:00 PM Affinity Chamber Players; 1:24 guitarist Michael Nicollela; 1:48 ODEONQUARTET; 2:12 Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet; 2:36 pianist Cristina Valdes; 3:00 violist Mara Gearman; 3:24 guitarist Michael Partington; 3:48 conductor Julia Tai & Musicians; 4:12 violinist Hope Wechkin; 4:36 clarinetist Sean Osborn; 5:00 Brian Chin Ensemble; 5:24 Seattle Percussion Collective; 5:48 clarinetist William O. Smith; 6:12 St. Helens String Quartet; 6:36 violinist Paris Hurley & Guy Davis; 7:00 pianist Wayne Horvitz; 7:24 violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim & violist Melia Watras; 7:48 Gamelan Pacifica; 8:12 composer Byron Au Yong & Friends; 8:36 trombonist Stuart Dempster; 9:00 Gossamer Collective; 9:24 Garrett Fisher Ensemble; 9:48 trombonist Chris Stover; 10:12 pianist Robin Holcomb; 10:36 vocal ensemble The Esoterics; 11:00 Cristina Valdes & Friends; 11:24 violinist Mikhail Schmidt; 11:48 cellist Paul Rucker; 12:12 AM flutist Clifford Dunn; 12:36 Seattle Chamber Players

Peter Garland 2: Solo Piano

2010-04-24T20:00:00.000-07:00

Presented by Nonsequitur and Washington Composers Forum as part of the Transport Series. (photo: John Fago/Other Minds)

The reclusive Maine composer Peter Garland (see previous post for bio) performs his own works for solo piano spanning four decades: Three Dawns (1981-82), After the Wars (2007-08), Bush Radio Calling (1992), and The Days Run Away (1971).

Peter Garland 1: Music for Small Ensembles

2010-04-23T20:00:00.000-07:00

Presented by Nonsequitur and Washington Composers Forum as part of the Transport Series. (photo: John Fago/Other Minds)

Peter Garland is one of the great heirs of the cranky American Experimental Tradition of Ives, Ruggles, Cowell, Cage, Harrison, Nancarrow, and Partch. Currently living in Maine, Garland spent many years living in the American Southwest and Mexico, studying and absorbing various indigenous folk musics. His mature music combines elements of minimalism with folky dance rhythms and gentle lyricism. His recordings have been released on labels such as Nonsequitur/¿What Next?, Cold Blue, Tzadik, Mode, and New Albion.

Tonight's program features music for small ensembles, performed by Seattle musicians: Symphony No. 1: "New Chants" (Sarah Bassingthwaighte, flute/piccolo; Jesse Canterbury, clarinet; Chris Stover, trombone); I Have Had to Learn the Simplest Things Last (Cristina Valdes, piano; Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet, vibraphone/marimba/claves/tambourine); Songs of Exile & Wine (Emily Greenleaf, mezzo soprano; Cristina Valdes, piano).

Gebhard Ullman Trio + JA Deane

2010-04-09T20:00:00.000-07:00

Presented by Earshot Jazz & Nonsequitur, with support from the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Dept. and Goethe Institute.

German multi-reed virtuoso Gebhard Ullmann is considered one of the leading personalities in today's Berlin and international music scenes. The recipient of numerous awards, he has recorded close to 40 CDs as a leader/co-leader for labels such as Black Saint/Soul Note, Leo, Between the Lines, 482 Music, Songlines, CIMP, Drimala, Nottwo, and Clean Feed. His Clarinet Trio with Jurgen Kupke and Michael Thieke encompasses Ullmann’s many interests. Employing minimalistic techniques, overtones, multiphonics, and other techniques give the impression of more than three players, enabling the ensemble to move beyond the limitations of the source material.

J.A. Deane (Dino) is a multi-instrumentalist who performed with John Zorn on his pioneering 1985 Cobra, has been a long-time member of atmospheric trumpeter Jon Hassell's group, and has worked extensively in Butch Morris’ ongoing Conductions projects, adapting Morris' improvised conducting technique to his own Out of Context ensemble in New Mexico since 1997. Long known as a trombonist and bass flutist, he now specializes in real-time electronics. For this concert, he plays a custom-made lap steel/dulcimer/guqin, layering melodic cells, prickly harmonics, and lush, bowed backgrounds through his assortment of electronics and live samplers.

Zachary Watkins & Tiffany Lin

2010-04-02T20:00:00.000-07:00

Movable, long commutes between loved ones, music for motors and resonant strings is the elusive yet evocative title for the new composition by Bay Area composer Zachary James Watkins. This new evening length work, premiered by Seattle pianist Tiffany Lin, is scored for retuned piano and a new mechanical extension called the Piano Monster built by NYC artist Ranjit Bhatnagar that uses 16 MIDI triggered voltage controlled motors with attached objects that resonate piano strings. Zachary James Watkins received a Subito in California grant to assist in the production of this composition.

Karen Bentley Pollick: Violin & Alternating Currents

2010-03-19T20:00:00.000-07:00

Karen Bentley Pollick gives the Seattle premiere of four new compositions for violin with electronics by Alabama composers a week after their world premiere at the Birmingham Museum of Art. In collaboration with video artist Sheri Wills, Charles Norman Mason's Metaman explores the concept of soloist as a visual and aural landscape. Dorothy Hindman fuses live and recorded materials of her earlier compositions composed for Pollick in Fantasia for Karen Alone. Capital Spheres by Michael Angell presents a musical city scape in counterpoint with the voice of the violin. A Girl and Her Dog by Brian Moon weaves samples of Pollick's hound dog Bobik with live violin. Other compositions on the concert include Sole Injection by Illinois composer Zack Browning, Impossible Animals by Californian David A. Jaffe, Vista by Washington composer Alex Shapiro, and Solo Blues for Violin and Piano by New York based jazz pianist Dan Tepfer.

Crepuscule Trio + Jesse Canterbury's Vertigo

2010-03-13T20:00:00.000-08:00

A solid working unit for many years but operating under the radar of the mainstream jazz world in the Los Angeles area, the Crepuscule Trio represents the most fundamental and vital aspects and values of what came to be termed "free jazz." Consisting of three outstanding musicians – saxophonist Ken Kawamura, bassist Anthony Shadduck, and drummer Alan Cook – the trio mines the tradition of the music they know intimately while blasting it open into the realm of spacious and multi-directional musical possibility.

Seattle clarinetist Jesse Canterbury leads Vertigo, an all-acoustic ensemble in a strikingly original mix of chamber music, improvisation, and tune-oriented melodic material informed and inspired by the music of clarinetists Louis Sclavis and Michael Moore.

Lubomyr Melnyk: Continuous Music

2010-03-02T20:00:00.000-08:00

Presented in partnership with Unseen Worlds Records. Read a preview in The Stranger.

Ukrainian-Canadian composer/pianist Lubomyr Melnyk's Continuous Music is based on the principle of a ”continuous” and unbroken line of sound from the piano, created by generating a constant flow of rapid notes, usually with the pedal sustained non-stop. As in the music of composers such as LaMonte Young, Terry Riley, and Charlemagne Palestine, this requires a special technique that takes years to master, and is the very basis of the meditative and "metaphysical" aspects within the music and the art of the piano. In his earlier works, Melnyk devoted much attention to the overtones which the piano generates, but in his more recent works, he has become more and more involved with the melodic potential of this music. Melnyk's earlier music was generally classified as Minimalism, although he strongly refutes that term, preferring to call his music MAXIMALism, since the player has to generate so many notes to create these "Fourth Dimensions of Sound." His classic 1978 album KMH was reissued in 2007 by Seattle label Unseen Worlds.

Amy Denio + Beth Fleenor

2010-01-09T20:00:00.000-08:00

Amy Denio is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and singer based in Seattle. Since the mid-80s she has maintained a constant flurry of musical activity spanning many genres: free improvisation, art rock, scores for dance and film, solo and in groups such as the Tiptons Sax Quartet, Hell's Bellows accordion ensemble, Kultur Shock, Correo Aereo. Tonight she offers a set of solo vocal improvisations with live electronics.

Clarinetist/vocal percussionist/composer Beth Fleenor and her band Figeater's disjunctive, raucous, soaring, and powerful improvisations are punctuated, buttoned, and launched by original compositions and song-like psychedelic episodes, with an emphasis on environmental participation.

John Luther Adams

2009-11-21T20:00:00.000-08:00

The first Seattle concert devoted entirely to the music of Alaskan composer John Luther Adams opens with two solo piano pieces, Nunataks and Among Red Mountains, performed by Seattle pianist Cristina Valdes, and concludes with The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies, a monumental recent work for solo percussion and electronics performed by renowned percussionist Steven Schick.

Earshot: Wash. Composers Orchestra (WACO)

2009-10-27T19:30:00.000-07:00

(photo: Daniel Sheehan) Presented by Nonsequitur and Earshot Jazz Festival.

Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, and Tom Varner lead this adventurous 15-piece ensemble featuring top-ﬂight Seattle improvisers and composers including Mark Taylor, Thomas Marriott, Eric Barber, Byron Vannoy, and Phil Sparks. Tonight, WACO presents an evening of music specially suited for the gorgeous acoustics of the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center. Approaching the traditional jazz big band as a “pocket orchestra,” the program will feature four extended compositions by Holcomb, Horvitz’s concerto for clarinet “River of Whiskey,” featuring guest clarinetist Beth Fleenor, and Chris Stover’s “The Murderess.” The program will also include the Seattle premier of “Laredo,” written for saxophone quartet by Holcomb, and commissioned by the Rova Saxophone Quartet.

Phantom Orchard + Peggy Lee & Saadet Türköz

2009-10-24T20:00:00.000-07:00

(photo: Daniel Sheehan) Presented by Nonsequitur and Earshot Jazz Festival.

Long-time collaborators at the forefront of the Downtown NYC avant garde, electronic percussionist Ikue Mori and electronic/acoustic harpist Zeena Parkins (aka PHANTOM ORCHARD) weave a mix of beauty and noise amidst live video projections in a musical partnership that borders on the telepathic.

The esteemed duo of Vancouver cellist Peggy Lee and the astonishing Central Asian vocalist Saadet Türköz combine free improvisation with the Kazakh and Turkish forms of Türköz’s childhood.

Rachel Grimes + Gretchen Yanover

2009-10-22T20:00:00.000-07:00

Emerging from the creative foment of Louisville's thriving punk/art rock scene, Rachel Grimes' music has quietly evolved through a diversity of musical ventures, including six releases with indie chamber group Rachel’s. As pianist and co-composer in that pioneering collective, she helped build an impressive (and beautiful) bridge between the so-called Math Rock of post-punk bands like Rodan, June of '44, and Slint and contemporary chamber music. In the wake of their apparent retirement, Rachel has thankfully embarked upon a solo career. Tonight she plays her new album of lyrical piano compositions, Book of Leaves, as well as music by Erik Satie.

Seattle cellist Gretchen Yanover combines her classical chops and gorgeous tone with layered electronic loops to create a stunning hybrid of minimalism and romanticism. While some may know Gretchen as a member of various orchestras (Northwest Sinfonietta, Tacoma Symphony, Bellevue Philharmonic) or from her Saturday morning improvisations at Lighthouse Coffee Roasters, or as a session player for the likes of Built to Spill or KD Lang, this is her first appearance at the Chapel.

Steve Peters: 50th Birthday Retrospective

2009-09-26T20:00:00.000-07:00

Nonsequitur co-founder Steve Peters celebrates his 50th birthday with a concert of his music from the past thirty years, performed by a collection of wonderful local musicians: Chamber Music 5: Stained Glass (2008) site-specific sound installation (pre-show); Paris, once (1984) solo piano, performed by Robin Holcomb; Planctus (1993/94) Javanese gamelan, performed by Gamelan Pacifica; Brief Lives (2008) assorted instruments & objects, performed by members of Eye Music; field recording improvisation by members of the Seattle Phonographers Union; Webster Cycles (1981) performed by Stuart Dempster, Lesli Dalaba, Jeremiah Cawley, Andy Clausen, Nelson Bell, and David Marriott.

Richard Lerman + Susie Kozawa

2009-07-25T19:00:00.000-07:00

Pioneering audio artist Richard Lerman performs works for sound with video and film, assisted by Seattle's Eric Lanzillotta and members of the Eye Music ensemble. Program includes Entrance Music, for home-made microphones and Walkman cassette tape delay; Changing States 8, for metal microphones, butane torches and computer; Music for Plinky, Bicycle & Straw, for home-made instruments, bicycle, drinking straws, and Walkman cassette delay; Sections for Screen, Performers & Audience, for 16mm film and live performers; and Sonic Journeys 2, featuring excerpts from Lerman's Transducer Series of field recordings made with self-made microphones and dual video projections.

Seattle treasure and sound collector/instrument builder Susie Kozawa opens the show (starting at 7 PM) with an admiring throng of local artists joining her in a sonic celebration of her 60th birthday. Bring an object that makes a sound.

Novi_Sad + Colin Andrew Sheffield

2009-06-25T20:00:00.000-07:00

Novi_sad (Thanasis Kaproulias, b. 1980) lives and works in Athens, Greece. Influenced by the pioneers of audio assault, his artistic output displays a high level of technical ability, as well as a sensitivity to the nuances of location. Amplified environmental recordings, drone manipulations, ambient soundscapes, microtones vs overtones, all come together in a hyper structure of iconoclastic form. Every sound that occurs is treated with a sculptural integrity. His approach is similar to cinema pour l'oreille (cinema for the ear) and in turn would like to donner à voir (lead to seeing) by means of sound. Being immersed in his sonic environment offers an absolutely visceral experience. His latest project, Sirens, is based on various methods of audio analysis to explore the aesthetics of information in sound by using quantitative and numerical data from major stock market crashes in history.

Colin Andrew Sheffield (b. 1976, El Paso TX) currently focuses on the strict re-contextualization of other commercially available recordings. Using only use a turntable, a nearly 20-year-old sampler, and a portable 64-track digital workstation, his aim is to distill the essential qualities of these works and to then utilize that essence for new recordings. Usually only very brief sections of the original works are selected. These raw components are then contracted, expanded, layered, and/or otherwise processed until something new is forged. The resultant music is an atmospheric soundscape, gradually shifting and unfolding, offering subtle nuances and quiet restraint. Sheffield is the founder of the Elevator Bath recording label which has continually issued experimental works from a variety of artists from the United States and abroad

Harold Budd & Keith Lowe

2009-06-11T20:00:00.000-07:00

To celebrate the release of Colorful Fortune, his first book of poems and drawings being jointly published by Heavenly Monkey Editions (Vancouver) and MoonLiner Books (Seattle), Harold Budd will play 9-foot concert grand piano in his singularly elegant style in duos with Seattle bassist/MoonLiner proprietor Keith Lowe.

Deep Listening Band

2009-05-23T19:00:00.000-07:00

The Deep Listening Band - Pauline Oliveros (accordion, electronics), Stuart Dempster (trombone, electronics), and David Gamper (keyboards, electronics), all pioneers of new/experimental music since the 1960s - celebrates the 20th anniversary of their historic first recording in the "Cistern Chapel" at Pt. Townsend's Fort Worden with two concerts in the intimate space and gorgeous acoustics of the Good Shepherd Chapel.

Olivia Block

2009-05-15T20:00:00.000-07:00

Chicago composer/sound artist Olivia Block presents new and recent works with an ensemble of ace local musicians, including Tiffany Lin, piano; Paul Taub, flute; Jesse Canterbury, clarinet; Lori Goldston, cello; Tari Nelson-Zagar, violin; Sarah Bass, viola; and Julia Tai, conductor. Stupid Afternoon for chamber ensemble explores the complex timbral qualities of acoustic instruments through extended techniques and carefully blended combinations between players. Untitled for piano and electronics is a loosely scored/partially improvised piece for prepared piano and electronic sounds which uses the complexity of overtones and rich timbres from low amplified piano tones.

Sarah Cahill, piano pieces for peace

2009-05-08T20:00:00.000-07:00

Bay Area pianist Sarah Cahill performs new music selected from her commissioning project A Sweeter Music, inspired by this quote from Dr. Martin Luther King’s Nobel Lecture: "We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody that is far superior to the discords of war." Program: Terry Riley, Be Kind to One Another (Rag); Meredith Monk, Steppe Music; Frederic Rzewski, Peace Dances; Kyle Gann, War Is a Racket!; Larry Polansky, B'Midbar; Jerome Kitzke, There Is a Field; Mamoru Fujieda, The Olive Branch Speaks.

Fred Frith: Guitar Solos

2009-04-25T20:00:00.000-07:00

Best known world-wide as an improvising guitarist, Fred Frith was co-founder of the British underground bands Henry Cow (1968-78) and Art Bears (1978-81). He moved to New York in the late 1970s and came into contact with many of the musicians with whom he’s since been associated, including John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Tom Cora, Zeena Parkins, and Bob Ostertag, and groups like Massacre (with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher), Skeleton Crew (with Tom and Zeena), John Zorn’s Naked City, and Keep the Dog. In the 1980s Fred began to write for dance, film, and theatre, and this in turn has led to his composing for Rova Sax Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Arditti Quartet, Asko Ensemble, and many other groups, including his own critically acclaimed Guitar Quartet. He is currently Professor of Composition at Mills College in Oakland, California.

Yvonne Lee, solo piano

2009-03-19T20:00:00.000-07:00

Presented by Washington Composers Forum, Nonsequitur, and Jack Straw Productions.

Boston-based pianist and composer Yvonne Lee performs music by modern masters: Anton Webern's Variations, Opus 27; Elliott Carter's Retrouvailles and 90+; Morton Feldman's Palais de Mari; and Helmut Lachenmann's Ein Kinderspiel and Serynade. Also, Unsound Grounds by young composer Trevor Gureckis.

Ana Cervantes: Rumor de Páramo

2009-02-12T20:00:00.000-08:00

Based in Guanajuato, México, US-Mexican pianist Ana Cervantes makes her Seattle debut, performing commissioned works by eight composers from five countries: Georgina Derbez Roque, Marcela Rodríguez and Hilda Paredes (México); Zulema de la Cruz (Spain); Anne LeBaron and Alex Shapiro (USA); Silvia Berg (Brazil), and Stephen McNeff (UK).

Eric Glick Rieman & Lung Tree

2009-01-24T20:00:00.000-08:00

(Photo: Peter B. Kaars)

Lung Tree is a trio of Bay Area composer/improviser Eric Glick Rieman (prepared Rhodes Electric Piano and piano) and Seattle musicians Lesli Dalaba (trumpet), and Stuart Dempster (trombone.) Brought together by Glick Rieman in 2004, the trio has released one CD on the ReR Megacorp label and performed sporadically since then. Coming from the subtle edges of post-modern Jazz and New Music, Lung Tree's members have worked (as individuals) with artists as diverse as Fred Frith, Elliott Sharp, Cecil Taylor, and the Merce Cunningham Dance Troupe.

Kristen Loree & Jack Ox: Schwitters' Ur Sonata

2009-01-07T19:30:00.000-08:00

Co-presented by Subtext Reading Series and Nonsequitur.

The Dada intermedia artist Kurt Schwitters' epic Ur Sonata is arguably the great sound poem to emerge from the various experimental art movements of the early 20th century. Structured in a classic four-movement sonata form (plus introduction, finale, and cadenza), the work explodes language (German) and recasts the fragments as a primal verbal music of disjointed syllables and phonemes.

This performance of the Ur Sonata merges two distinct approaches to the material. Actress and vocalist Kristen Loree gives a tour de force performance of the complete text, set against a backdrop of projections by visual artist Jack Ox. The images are derived from Ox's translation of the poem into a series of paintings that run continuously for 800 feet. Loree will also perform By Language Embellished: I, a work for solo actor/percussionist by composer Stuart Saunders Smith.

Marilyn Crispell + Paul Lytton & Nate Wooley

2008-10-22T19:30:00.000-07:00

Co-presented by Earshot Jazz Festival & Nonsequitur.

Marilyn Crispell has established herself as one of the most virtuosic and fiercely expressive pianists around, performing complex music with extraordinary precision, power, and grace. A string of successful albums for ECM debuted her trio of Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. Crispell's most recent solo effort, Vignettes, presents her at her most effusive, performing both compositions and free improvisations in performances of profound beauty.

Premier European percussionist Paul Lytton has helped define free improvisation for over thirty years in his longstanding trio with Barry Guy and Evan Parker, in Guy's London Jazz Composers or New Orchestras, and in Guy's trio with Marilyn Crispell. Gifted young American trumpeter Nate Wooley is a master texturalist who regularly performs solo and has worked with Anthony Braxton, Tony Malaby, and Herb Robertson.

Garrett Fisher Ensemble: Psyche

2008-10-17T20:00:00.000-07:00

Friday, October 17 & Saturday, October 18. Listen to an interview with Garrett Fisher on KUOW.

Seattle composer Garrett Fisher and his ensemble return to the Chapel with the definitive version of their latest chamber opera. Psyche tells the story of wrathful Aphrodite’s quest to ruin Psyche, a mortal who is considered to be more beautiful than even the Greek goddess herself. Libretto by Thom Schramm, co-direction and dramaturgy by Ken Cerniglia, choreography and co-direction by Christy Fisher, and puppets/costumes by Tori Ellison. Performers include Linda Strandberg (Aphrodite), Ben Black (Eros), Vanessa De Wolf (the Sister), Gary Zinter (the King), Ines Andrade, Mary Cutrera, and Archana Kumar (the Chorus), Dean Moore and Stan Shikuma (percussion), Esther Sugai (flute, harmonium), Taina Karr (oboe), and Greg Bagley (bass).

SLAM! Seattle Latin American Music Festival

2008-10-08T20:00:00.000-07:00

October 8, 9, & 10; co-presented by SLAM and Nonsequitur, with support from 4Culture and the Viva la Musica Club.

SLAM! returns for its second year with a focus on solo, chamber, and electro-acoustic music by Latin American composers of our time. This year's featured composer-in-residence is Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil). Local and visiting performers include the Seattle Chamber Players, the Icicle Creek Piano Trio, guitarist Michael Nicolella, violinist Michael Lim, pianist and SLAM! founder Cristina Valdés, and flutist Margaret Lancaster.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 @ 8PM
Music by Jovino Santos Neto (Brazil), Ignacio Baca-Lobera (Mexico), German Cáceres (El Salvador), Jorge E. Campos (Ecuador), Tania León (Cuba/USA), José Luis Hurtado (Mexico), and Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil).

Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 8PM
Music by Astor Piazzolla (Argentina), Leo Brouwer's (Cuba), Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil), Pablo Santiago Chin (Costa Rica), Adina Izarra (Venezuela), and Iván Ferrer Orozco (Mexico).

Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 8PM
The closing night features music for instruments, tape, video, and live electronics by Mario Lavista (Mexico), Rodrigo Sigal (Mexico), Ricardo dal Farra (Argentina), Marisol Jimenez (Mexico), Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil), and Arthur Kampela (Brazil).

Annea Lockwood & Ruth Anderson

2008-10-04T20:00:00.000-07:00

New Zealand-born composer Annea Lockwood directs an all-star Seattle ensemble in her gorgeous classic Thousand Year Dreaming, a rarely heard major work (originally released on Nonseq's ¿What Next? label, recently reissued by Pogus). Ruth Anderson, a pioneer of electronic and electroacoustic music, presents I Come Out of Your Sleep (1997), a haunting four-channel sound poem based entirely on whispered vowel phonemes in Louise Bogan's poem "Little Lobelia's Song."

Robin Holcomb: Solos & Small Ensembles

2008-09-12T20:00:00.000-07:00

Seattle composer/pianist/vocalist Robin Holcomb performs duets and trios with cellist Peggy Lee, trombonist/ keyboardist Steve Moore and vocalists Arni Adler and Nova Devonie. Also featured will be the premiere performance of two new works for solo piano.

Carl Stone

2008-08-22T20:00:00.000-07:00

Carl Stone performs recent works for solo computer including compositions from his recent CD AL-Noor (Intone). He has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972, using computers in live performance since 1986, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as "the king of sampling" and "one of the best composers living in the USA today."

Dennis Rea & Friends

2008-08-08T20:00:00.000-07:00

Noted guitarist and veteran of the Northwest creative music milieu Dennis Rea leads sets by three widely varied groupings: unclassifiable improvised music for electric guitar trio with Tom Baker and Brian Heaney; the Tanabata Ensemble - Dennis Rea (acoustic guitar), Elizabeth Falconer (koto), John Falconer (shakuhachi), Jim DeJoie (bass flute, reeds), Greg Campbell & Paul Kikuchi (percussion) - performs an arrangement of an ancient Chinese piece; and Tempered Steel, a trio with Ffej and Frank Junk playing improvised music on a variety of amplified, electronically processed thumb pianos.

Michael Gendreau

2008-07-26T20:00:00.000-07:00

Bay Area electro-acoustic composer Michael Gendreau emerged in the 1980s underground as half of the duo Crawling with Tarts. After studying composition at Mills College he went on to get a PhD in physical acoustics. Applying his occupational skills to his creative work, Gendreau uses the tools of his trade to activate the very buildings in which he performs, using the materials of the room itself as a large, resonant instrument.

Seattle Circle: Music from Tuning the Air

2008-07-12T20:00:00.000-07:00

Forming in 1994, Seattle Circle has its origins in King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp's seminars in Guitar Craft. Expect intricate arrangements of lively and dancing rhythms, broad atmospheric gestures, original compositions, and free-wheeling improvisation in the mix of tight ensemble playing.

Wayne Horvitz & Gravitas

2008-06-28T20:00:00.000-07:00

Wayne Horvitz' Gravitas Quartet visits Seattle for one night only. One Dance Alone, the group’s second release on the Songlines label, magnifies the group language that has evolved through exploring Horvitz’ compositions for this unique ensemble consisting of Horvitz on piano; Peggy Lee, cello; Ron Miles, trumpet; and Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon.

Larry Karush + Dawn Clement

2008-06-10T20:00:00.000-07:00

Larry Karush (Los Angeles) is an improvising pianist/composer with roots in Jazz, 20th century western music, African-based percussion, and the music of North India. From Carnegie Hall to the Purple Onion, he has performed Jazz with John Abercrombie, Jane Ira Bloom, Eddie Gomez, Jay Clayton, Bennie Wallace and Oregon, World Music with Kanai Dutta, Francisco Aguabella, Geetha Ramanathan and Glen Velez, and New Music with Steve Reich. He has recorded on the ECM, Vanguard, Inner City, AudioQuest, Music of the World, and NAXOS labels, and received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the NEA/Arts International, Meet the Composer, the California Arts Council, and is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition.

The musical delicacy and vivaciousness of pianist/composer Dawn Clement (Seattle) has performed in some of the world's premier venues including Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Le Conservatoire Superieur in Paris, and Benaroya Hall, as well as numerous clubs, art museums, and theaters. Dawn has also toured the U.S. with a number of projects including the Sabella Consort, the Rubin/Clement Piano Dialogues, and Jane Ira Bloom. Her first CD, Hush, is released on Conduit Records, and she will soon release a new album featuring Matt Wilson (drums) and Martin Wind (bass). She teaches at Cornish College of the Arts.

Seth Nehil & Matt Marble + Corey Fuller

2008-05-09T20:00:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-18T19:30:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-12T16:00:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-07T20:00:00.000-08:00

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

2008-03-01T20:00:00.000-08:00

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

2008-02-09T20:00:00.000-08:00

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

2008-01-31T20:00:00.000-08:00

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.

Jhababa + Eric Lanzillotta

2007-12-22T20:00:00.000-08:00

Jhababa (James R. Cobb) is a former rock drummer who comes from a lineage of Texas musicians that include Bloodrock, Lost Gonzo Band, 13th Floor Elevators, Don Henley, and Armadillo World HQ. These days he is a composer of ambient art songs, with an affinity for simple motifs extended through various methods of spectral synthesis, silence, improvisation, percussion, field recordings, murmuring and poetics.

Eric Lanzillotta has been involved in sound in various aspects over the last two decades. He has collaborated with Ralf Wehowsky, Andrew Chalk, John Hudak, Hands To, Bernhard Gunter, Aube, and others. For several years now he has been performing live with the Moog analog synthesizer.

Paul Rucker: Project 12 Finale

2007-12-12T19:00:00.000-08:00

Wrapping up a year-long effort, Seattle composer, cellist/bassist, and visual artist Paul Rucker celebrates the completion of Project 12, in which he set out to create a year of monthly visual art exhibits. The evening features two sets of music: solo cello, and a quintet with Isaac Marshal (flute, mbira), Neil Gitkind (trombone), Bill Horist (guitar), and Erik Anderson (drums, percussion). Also on view will be his interactive video works Catalyst and Eleven Conversations, along with his latest video work, Busker.

Katsura Yamauchi + Arrington de Dionyso

2007-12-07T20:00:00.000-08:00

Katsura Yamauchi has been active in the free jazz scene in Japan for nearly three decades, playing with notable improvisers such as Otomo Yoshihide, Toshinori Kondo, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Barre Phillips, and Michel Doneda. Playing every member of the saxophone family, he is known for his intimate explorations of music in nature - he has made recordings of his playing while almost completely submerged in rivers! For many years a businessman for a very important Japanese company, he chose to retire early with very little security to pursue music exclusively without any regard for compromise. A short interview can be found here. Old Time Relijun frontman Arrington de Dionyso returns to his love of free improvisation with the bass clarinet and multi-phonic throat singing.

Alison Knowles: North Water Song

2007-12-05T20:00:00.000-08:00

Co-presented with Subtext. Listen to an interview with Alison by Jen Graves of the Stranger.

Alison Knowles makes performances, books, poems, and visual artworks. Since the 1960s she has been a key participant in Fluxus, an international group of artists working in/across various disciplines. For her first appearance in Seattle, she presents North Water Song, originally composed as a tribute to John Cage on his 75th birthday and realized as a sound work commissioned by West German Radio. This performance will include three simultaneous realizations of the score, with spoken text by Knowles, movement by her daughter Jessica Higgins, and sound by Joshua Selman. The text is published in her book Spoken Text.

Iva Bittová

2007-11-02T19:30:00.000-07:00

Presented by Nonsequitur and Earshot Jazz Festival. Reviewed in the Seattle P-I.

Czech violinist/vocalist Iva Bittová performs a kind of "personal folk music" that blooms in a fertile sonic delta where Eastern European folk, contemporary classical, improvisation, and rock traditions meet. Her vocal elasticity matches her instrumental and compositional skill, note for breathtaking note. In her singularly original and powerful performances, Bittova sings, plays, and acts simultaneously to create compositions and improvisations that are highly abstract yet deeply rooted in the classical and gypsy music of the tiny Moravian villages where she spent her formative years. Uninhibited and unaffected, Bittová sings about issues that affect women in poetry that is sensual, fervent and evocative.

Russian guitarist Alexei Pliousnine

2007-11-01T20:00:00.000-07:00

Russian guitarist Alexei Pliousnine plays music in a wide range of styles: experimental rock, free jazz, improvising metal, noise, and electro-acoustic, mostly concentrating on intuitive composition and spontaneous improvisation. His guitar technique varies from noise soundscapes and drones in Keith Rowe or Sunn O))) style to free improvisation in the manner of Derek Bailey or Fred Frith.

Malcolm Goldstein

2007-10-30T20:00:00.000-07:00

Malcolm Goldstein, as composer/violinist, has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960's in New York City, as co-founder of the Tone Roads Ensemble and as participant in the Judson Dance Theater, the New York Festival of the Avant Garde and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. His "soundings" improvisations have received international acclaim for extending the range of tonal/sound-texture possibilities of the violin and revealing new dimensions of expressivity. His work has been presented internationally, and released on record labels such as Experimental Intermedia (XI), da capo, Wergo, Nonsequitur/ ¿What Next?, 0.0.Discs, Eremite, Folkways, and others. He has written extensively on improvisation and is the author of the book Sounding the Full Circle.

Gino Robair: I, Norton, an opera in real time

2007-10-20T20:00:00.000-07:00

Presented by Nonsequitur, Seattle Improvised Music, and Earshot Jazz.

"At the request of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton declare myself Emperor." So began the proclamation by which Joshua Norton, on September 17, 1859, became Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. During his 20-year reign, Norton I abolished Congress, decreed bridges be built between Oakland and San Francisco, enjoyed free passage by rail and ship, printed and used his own money, and corresponded with kings, queens, and presidents. I, Norton is an improvised collage structure that combines conduction (hand cues), graphic scores, and memory-based improvisational structures. It can be performed by any number of people - in this case, a large ensemble of Seattle improvisers. Bay Area composer and percussionist Gino Robair has recorded with Tom Waits, Anthony Braxton, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, John Butcher, Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, and Eugene Chadbourne, and has performed with John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Otomo Yoshihide, Cecil Taylor, Myra Melford, and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. Gino is one of the "25 innovative percussionists" included in the book Percussion Profiles (SoundWorld, 2001), and Senior Editor at Electronic Musician magazine.

Andrea Parkins + Dalaba & Angus

2007-10-18T20:00:00.000-07:00

Presented by Nonsequitur

Andrea Parkins is a New York-based sound artist, composer and electro-multi- instrumentalist known for her dynamic timbral explorations on the electric accordion and inventive use of customized sound processing. Lesli Dalaba is a well-respected Seattle trumpeter known for her sparse, thoughtful improvising style. Rob Angus is a veteran of the Seattle electronic music community. For this performance he will electronically process Lesli Dalaba's trumpet within a four-channel sound field.

SLAM Festival

2007-09-27T20:00:00.000-07:00

Thursday - Saturday, September 27 - 29 (see schedule below); all concerts $5 - $15 suggested donation at the door. Presented by Nonsequitur and Washington Composers Forum with support from Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program, City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, and Viva la Musica Club. Read the Seattle Times' preview.

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month the Seattle Latin-American Music Festival offers three nights of music for solo instruments, chamber ensemble, and electronic media by contemporary composers hailing from Argentina, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Conceived and organized by pianist Cristina Valdés, the inaugural SLAM festival features composer-in-residence Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez, and some of the Seattle area's most dynamic classical instrumentalists.

The festival kicks off on Sept. 26 at 7:30 PM with a free talk by composer-in-residence Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez at Benaroya Hall's Soundbridge, sponsored by the Viva la Musica Club. Born in Mexico City in 1964, Sánchez-Gutiérrez grew up in Guadalajara, and later studied at the Peabody Conservatory, Yale University, Princeton, and Tanglewood under Henri Dutilleux, Jacob Druckman, and Martin Bresnick. He is currently Associate Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

CONCERT SCHEDULE:

Thursday, September 27, 2007 @ 8PM

Solo Piano Extravaganza with pianists Amy Rubin, Oksana Ezhokina, Cristina Valdés, Harumi Flesher, and Chadd Merrigan. music informed by the tango and cowboy traditions of Argentina by Piazzolla and Ginastera, moves to the folk traditions of Mexico in the music of Sánchez-Gutiérrez, and includes the spacious music of Jacinto Garcia, influenced by Morton Feldman. Tania León’s work is a synthesis of her Cuban and American identities. Program:

Three Preludes – Astor Piazzolla
Piezas Imaginarias – Roberto Sierra
Danzas Argentinas – Alberto Ginastera
Momentum – Tania León
A Deux Mains – Mauricio Kagel
Simurg – Mario Lavista
Resonancia – Orlando Jacinto Garcia
Mano a Mano – Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez

Friday, September 28, 2007 @ 8PM

Seattle Chamber Players with friends Ben Hausmann (oboe), Michael Jinsoo Lim (violin), Matthew Kocmieroski and Rob Tucker (percussion), and Cristina Valdés (piano). The second concert offers a rich evening of chamber music, including Barroso’s music for clarinet and tape, lyrical oboe writing from Sánchez-Gutiérrez, and an arresting quartet by Ecuadorian composer Campos. A discussion with composers Zohn-Muldoon, Sanchez-Gutierrez, and Barroso will follow the intermission, moderated by composer and Seattle Weekly writer Gavin Borchert. Program:

Jácaras – Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
Two Portraits – Eddie Mora Bermudez
Quartet – Jorge E. Campos
Sandunga – Sergio Barroso
M.E. in Memoriam – Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez

Saturday, September 29, 2007; panel discussion 7:30 PM, concert 8 PM

Electro-Acoustic Works + More Chamber Music with flutist Paul Taub, violist Melia Watras, violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim, viola, piano and electronics ensemble Dúo Juum, and pianist Cristina Valdés. The closing night of the festival features one of the great masters of electronic music, Mario Davidovsky, and includes the fresh new compositional voices of Juan Pampin and Nicolas Varchausky, and a new work by Dúo Juum. Pre-concert discussion with composers Pampin, Varchausky, and Hugo Solis of Dúo Juum, moderated by Chris DeLaurenti, composer and columnist for The Stranger. Program:

Twittering Machines for flute and piano – Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez
Synchronisms No. 9 for violin and tape – Mario Davidovsky
Nada for viola and live electronics – Juan Pampin
The Chapel Sessions (live feedback set and visuals) – Nicolas Varchausky
Instante crónico; La equivocación de una hoja; Tornillos de la memoria - Dúo Juum

Raster-Noton showcase at Decibel Festival

2007-09-23T17:30:00.000-07:00

Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle

Nonsequitur is pleased to collaborate once again with the mighty Decibel Festival to present this year's Experimental Showcase featuring artists on the German electronic music label Raster-Noton: Olaf Bender, Pixel, and Kangding Ray.

Gamelan Pacifica

2007-09-22T20:00:00.000-07:00

Seattle's venerable Indonesian classical percussion ensemble Gamelan Pacifica, directed by composer and Cornish professor Jarrad Powell will be joined by renowned Javanese musician and composer Sutrisno Hartana for a program of traditional and contemporary music from Java and the US, including Sutrisno's composition Ganjil, recently commissioned by Gamelan Pacifica as part of a project celebrating 25 years of gamelan in Seattle.

Festival of Wayward Music

2007-07-20T20:00:00.000-07:00

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Good Shepherd Center, and to officially introduce our new music venue, this festival celebrates the diversity of the Seattle creative music community. Read previews in The Stranger, Seattle Weekly, and Seattle P-I; also, find a review in the Seattle P-I. In case you didn't attend, it went like this:

Friday, July 20: The Piano Christening – Gust Burns, Dawn Clement, Wayne Horvitz, Julie Ives, Duo Juum, Johanna Kunin, Victor Noriega, Amy Rubin, and Cristina Valdes.

Saturday, July 21: The Marathon – 12:00-2:00 - Steve Barsotti, environmental sound interludes (Phonographers Union); Robert Mittenthal & Nico Vassilakis, text (presented by Subtext); Stuart Dempster, trombone; Matt Weiner & Del Rey, double bass & ukelele (presented by Jack Straw Prods.); Amy Denio, voice & accordion; Claire Evans, text (presented by Clear Cut Press); Bob Rees, vibraphone (presented by Jack Straw Prods.); Bill Horist, acoustic guitar; Jim Knodle & Rosalynn DeRoos, trumpet & clarinet

2:00-4:00 - Perri Lynch, environmental sound interludes (Phonographers Union); Sam Lohmann, text (presented by Clear Cut Press); Dave Knott, nylon string guitar; Lori Goldston & Angelina Baldoz, cello & trumpet; Heidi Drucker, voice; Travis Nichols, text (presented by Clear Cut Press); Gavin Borchert, piano (presented by WA Composers Forum); Keith Eisenbrey, piano (presented by WA Composers Forum); Shulamit Kleinerman & Michael Connolly, medieval fiddle tunes (presented by Jack Straw Prods.)

4:00-6:00 - Katie Gately, environmental sound interludes (Phonographers Union); Bryant Mason, text (presented by Subtext); KnotPineBox, electric guitar & vocals; Dennis Rea & Ed Petry, electric guitar duo; Jesse Canterbury & Greg Sinibaldi, clarinet duo; Ezra Mark, text (presented by Subtext); Eric Lanzillotta, analog synthesizer; Marc Barreca, laptop & digital accordion; Yann Novak, laptop

6:00-8:00 - Rob Millis, environmental sound interludes (Phonographers Union); Jeanne Heuving, text (presented by Subtext); Unused Lexical Variable, 2 guitars & contrabass (presented by Seattle Composers Salon); Tom Baker/Jesse Canterbury/Greg Campbell, guitar/clarinet/percussion (presented by Seattle Composers Salon); Paul Taub & Michael Partington, flute & classical guitar; Seattle Chamber Players & friends (presented by DoubleSharp): Juliana Svetlichnaia, ancient Russian ritual songs; Paul Taub (flute) plays Antanas Kucinskas (Lithuania); Laura DeLuca (clarinet) & Joshua Roman (cello) play Derek Bermel (USA); Mikhail Shmidt (violin) plays Michel van der Aa (Netherlands); Anna Stovall (voice, guitar) & Luba Malkina (domra) play Russian folk songs and Georgy Sviridov (Russia)

8:00-10:00 - Jonathan Way, environmental sound interludes (Phonographers Union); Garrett Fisher Ensemble, musical theater; Paul Rucker, cello; Susie Kozawa, Esther Sugai, Mike Shannon, Asian & homemade instruments; Gamelan Pacifica, Indonesian percussion chamber ensemble; Charles Mudede, text (presented by Clear Cut Press); Wally Shoup, alto saxophone; Climax Golden Twins, guitars, junk, metaphones; One World Taiko, Japanese drum ensemble (presented by Jack Straw Prods.)

Francisco López & Matt Shoemaker

2007-07-13T20:00:00.000-07:00

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Over the last 25 years, Francisco López (Madrid, Spain) has developed an astonishing sonic universe based on a profound listening of the world – destroying boundaries between industrial and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion.

Matt Shoemaker (Seattle) focuses upon the treatment of sonic phenomena sourced from both natural and electronic means, manipulating sound in an affected and often grotesque manner, molding it into compositions that uniquely imagine a space encrypted to the point of vanishing definition. His essential technique is one of obsessive artifice; it is the clarity of nuance and attention to detail that contrasts and balances any intended obscurities.

Lisa Moore: The Pianist Speaks

2007-07-10T20:00:00.000-07:00

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Australian-born, New York-based pianist and Bang on a Can All-Star Lisa Moore performs Frederic Rzewski's De Profundis with spoken text by Oscar Wilde, and Martin Bresnick's Willie's Way and For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, with a text by William Blake. (reviewed in the Seattle P-I)

However

2007-06-23T20:00:00.000-07:00

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Seattle-based improvising quartet However rides a fragile balance between sound, line and pulse, readily open and receding into a silence (which is never quite silent). The group is comprised of Lori Goldston, cello; Angelina Baldoz, trumpet, flute, bass; Jaison Scott; drums; and Torben Ulrich, text/voicing.

Doug Haire: Summer Phenomena

2007-06-22T21:00:00.000-07:00

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Doug Haire is one of the unsung heroes of the Seattle music community: sound artist, field recordist, card-carrying member of the Phonographers Union, recording wizard at Jack Straw Productions, and producer of KEXP's Sonarchy Radio. With the Chapel's stained-glass windows flung wide open, he responds to the Grand Improvisor (the world around us) with a surround mix of summer nature sounds he has recorded in many places around the world.

V. Delay, Loscil, Son of Rose, Phonog Union

2007-05-24T20:00:00.000-07:00

Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle

Decibel and Nonsequitur present a night of Experimental and Ambient music featuring:

VLADISLAV DELAY (Finland)
LOSCIL (Vancouver, BC)
SON OF ROSE (Seattle)
THE PHONOGRAPHERS UNION (Seattle)
Visuals by KILLING FRENZY

ALSO: The Recording Academy (Grammy U) and S.L.U.G. host a free Ableton Live workshop prior to the concert, featuring Ghostly Recording artist LUSINE.

Read a review.

Short Circuits: Cracked, Hacked & Wacked

2007-04-20T20:00:00.000-07:00

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Murky ambient samplings by Elevator Bath label founder Colin Andrew Sheffield (samples, processing) & his Texan compadre James Eck Rippie (turntables, processing); Seattle's atlatl (Phil Hendricks) exploring the inner workings of voltage-controlled vacuum tube electronics and modular synthesizers; rebreather (Alex Keller and Chris DeLaurenti) improvise live electronic music from the digital glossolalia of sabotaged consumer electronics, homebrew circuits, and obsolete devices.

The Microscores Project

2007-03-17T20:00:00.000-07:00

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

The Microscore Project is an ongoing collaboration between violinist Johnny Chang and cellist Jessica Catron that began in December 2001 and has since led to the commissioning and performance of over 225 miniature works from artists around the world - including distinguished composers such as Pauline Oliveros, Peter Ablinger, Philip Brownlee, Harold Budd, and James Tenney. Each piece written for the project is approximately 30-seconds in duration and the pieces are performed back-to-back to create a larger "work" that is unique to each concert. In addition to several premiere pieces written by local Seattle composers for this program, the selection of microscores for this performance will be framed by several works from James Tenney's "Postal Pieces" as well as "Just Another Bagatelle," a duo he composed for the Microscore Project in 2004.

Henry Brant: Antiphony and Authenticity

2007-02-25T19:00:00.000-08:00

Town Hall, Seattle

Nonsequitur and the Seattle Chamber Players present the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Brant (Montréal, 1913). A true American individual, Brant’s spatially conceived music is perfectly suited for the architectural and acoustic wonder of Seattle’s Town Hall, and this program has been designed with that in mind. The music on the program spans over 70 years of the composer’s life, including Wind, Water, Clouds and Fire, a large scale work set to text by Leonardo da Vinci and featuring many of Seattle's top instrumentalists along with the voices of the Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! conducted by Joseph Crnko. Also on the program: Partita (1932) for flute and piano; Crossing the Bridge Before You Come To It (1959, revised 1984) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and harp; Headhunt (1962) for trombone solo with bass clarinet, bassoon, cello and percussion.

Andrea Neumann @ SIMF

2007-02-12T11:47:00.000-08:00

Gallery 1412, Seattle

With Seattle Improvised Music, we are pleased to co-present the appearance of German improviser Andrea Neumann at the 22nd annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival. She performs on Friday at 10 PM in a quartet with Gust Burns (piano), Nate Wooley (trumpet), and Jeffrey Allport (percussion). On Saturday she plays solo at 8 PM, and at 9 PM in a trio with Nate Wooley and Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion). In the process of exploring the piano for new sound possibilities, Andrea Neumann has reduced the instrument to strings, resonance board and metal frame. With the help of electronics to manipulate and amplify the sounds of her custom-made lightweight piano innards, she has developed numerous new playing techniques, sounds, and ways of preparing the dismantled instrument. She has worked intensively in the crossover area between composition and improvisation, and in the field between electronic and handmade sounds, with Berlin musicians such as Annette Krebs, Ignaz Schick, Axel Dörner, Robin Hayward and Burkhard Beins.

Camilla Hannan & TARAB + Dale Lloyd

2007-02-01T20:00:00.000-08:00

Gallery 1412

Adventurous ambient/ electroacoustic music with Australian sound artists Camilla Hannan and Eamon Sprod (aka TARAB), along with Seattle sound artist Dale Lloyd. All three artists share a common approach in their use of treated location recordings to create evocative sonic atmospheres that are hauntingly beautiful, hypnotic, and rich in sonic detail. Fans of artists such as Francisco Lopez, Steve Roden, and Jeff Greinke will find much to appreciate here.

Jeph Jerman & Animist Orchestra

2007-01-27T20:00:00.000-08:00

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center

Arizona-based improviser Jeph Jerman founded animist orchestra in 1999 while living in Seattle. Using only unamplified natural objects as instruments - rocks, shells, feathers, seeds, twigs, etc. - the group's aim is to create a listening environment that is not based on traditional reasons for making music, such as the sharing of emotion or the demonstration of instrumental prowess. Rather, they make sound to listen to, intuitively and with the simplest of means – delicate, extremely quiet, and completely spellbinding.

2006 Nonsequitur Events

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January 6 - February 24, 2006
Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle

Renowned sound artist Trimpin moved to Seattle from his native Germany at the dawn of the digital revolution. Surveying his early contraptions, assemblages, and artifacts – playful jumbles of cannibalized analog circuitry, toys, household objects, and motors - Archival Investigations offers a fascinating glimpse into his early work. Co-presented with Jack Straw Productions as part of a year-long tribute organized by curator Beth Sellars.

February 8 - 12, 2006
Gallery 1412, Seattle

The Seattle Improvised Music Festival is the longest running annual festival of its kind in North America. Co-presented with Seattle Improvised Music, this year's festival (#21) features local artists from Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, as well as esteemed visitors from Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Portugal.

February 10, 2006
Evergreen State College, Olympia

Di Terra is an international trio comprised of Alberto Braida of Milan (piano), Fabrizio Spera of Rome (drums, amplified objects, electronics), and the New York-based Canadian Lisle Ellis (electro-acoustic bass). The group's classic jazz piano trio format in no way corrals the expansiveness of their music and the unit's highly personal process accentuates the depth and maturity of each musician. Co-presented with TESC Performing & Media Arts.

March 10, 2006
Gallery 1412, Seattle

Based in California and New Mexico, MAD Trio is an electro-acoustic ensemble led by Alan Lechusza (woodwinds) and featuring Mark Weaver (tuba), and Carolyn Lechusza (amplified cello). Lechusza's compositions combine subtle and heavy textures onto a sonic canvas which is both enlightening and challenging for the listener and performer alike.

March 11, 2006
The Moore Theater, Seattle

Degenerate Art Ensemble's new music/movement/dance work, Cuckoo Crow, is inspired by the cuckoo, a parasite bird that lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. Abstracted from an invented myth, this work is performed by DAE's collaborating crew of dancer-performer-composers who have had an ongoing working relationship over the past ten years. Artistic Director Haruko Nishimura incorporates her unique combination of modern Asian dance, physical theater, intense performance art, and music-driven choreography. Co-presented with Degenerate Art Ensemble and Seattle Theater Group.

March 17 - April 28, 2006
Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle

Veteran intermedia artist Richard Lerman explores the US/Mexico border as metaphor and harsh reality in his sound & video installation Fences-Borders. Field recordings of the steel fences separating the two countries are played back through a giant coil of bougainvillea vine dividing the gallery like razor wire. A laser intermittently surveils the border on aerial photo maps lining the walls, while projected video documents the recording sites. Co-presented with Jack Straw Productions. Reviews in Seattle Weekly and The Stranger.

April 22, 2006
Taoist Studies Institute, Seattle

Mei Han and Randy Raine-Reusch have created a radical new repertoire, combining Chinese musical traditions with those of experimental music, world music, and jazz. Performing powerfully evocative compositions for the Chinese zheng (21-string zither), the duo's performances also feature a host of other instruments from Asia and elsewhere, extending their use beyond classical and folk forms to explore contemporary innovations. These include the Japanese ichigenkin (1 string zither), the Japanese sho (bamboo mouth organ) and its Thai relative the khaen, the Chinese bawu (free reed pipe), the hauntingly beautiful hulusi (free reed pipe), and the radiant dizi (transverse flute). Co-presented with Taoist Studies Institute.

May 14, 2006
Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Seattle

Seattle Chamber Players, Nonsequitur, and Washington Composers Forum present Japanese/Dutch pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama and her video performance work haar/haar (her/hair), an hour-long piece that involves video projection on two screens adjacent to the piano, a pre-recorded soundtrack that interacts with the live piano and musical sources that range from Bach and Beethoven to Ligeti and Thelonious Monk. The first half of the program features the Seattle Chamber Players performing works by Dutch composers, including Louis Andreissen, with a film by Hal Hartley.

June 23-25, 2006
Traditions Café and Yes Yes, Olympia

Co-presented with the Olympia Strange Music Society, the 12th annual Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics features concerts and film/video screenings with live soundtracks by Murderous Copulation of Birds (Seattle/NYC), Pan (Japan), Paper Boots (Japan/USA), Teruki Tamayagani (Japan), Maon (Japan), Shiu Yeung Hui (Hong Kong/Denmark), Sans Deer (Japan), Paul Hoskin & Doug Haning (Astoria/Portland), Jim Ryan’s Forward Energy (SF Bay Area), Marcos Fernandes & Emily Hay (San Diego/Los Angeles), Bill Horist & Knot/Pine Box, aka Ineffectual Healing (Seattle), Gust Burns & Gregory Reynolds (Seattle/NYC), Maher Shalal Hash Baz (Japan), Dead Air Fresheners + Aaron Cayko, Derek Johnson & Jen Grady, Doug Theriault & Artis the Spoonman, Blood Clot with Super 8s by Kevin Jacobs, Doug Lane & Jason Gutz, Bridget Irish, and 16mm shorts by Jon Behrens, Sara Biagini & Eric Ostrowski, Bryan Frye, Noggin, , Devon Damonte & , and Foque Mopus. (Whew!)

July 6, 2006
Gallery 1412, Seattle

Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Torsten Müller (bass), Michael Zerang (percussion). This trio teams two top-notch improvisers from the vibrant Chicago music community with one luminary of European improvised music.

September 16, 2006
Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle

Our first time collaborating with Decibel Festival in co-presenting the experimental showcase at this year's festival, featuring electroacoustic music by Richard Chartier (Washington, DC), Taylor Deupree (Brooklyn, NY), Yann Novak (Seattle), and (Son of Rose) (Seattle).

October 23, 2006
Poncho Concert Hall, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle

Still New York's most fascinating piano iconoclast, Matthew Shipp has thrilled listeners with his collaborations with David S. Ware and other vanguardists. His new album, One, is "brave and beautiful," according to Dream magazine. Seattle-based pianist, improviser, and composer Gust Burns is one of the most exciting young players in this city, or far around. He draws on elements of free jazz, avant chamber music, hip-hop, and much else, and lately has been exploring the inside of the piano to gorgeous effect, using various preparations to coax ghostly sounds from the strings. Co-presented with the Earshot Jazz Festival.

October 29, 2006
Town Hall, Seattle

Dempster Diving is a tribute to world renowned trombonist, composer, didgeridoo player, aural provocateur, beloved teacher and mentor, and master punster Stuart Dempster on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Dempster has been an inspiring presence in Seattle for 40 years, an intrepid supporter of several generations of adventurous musicians of all stripes. Joining him are some of the many leading creative lights who have accompanied him on his journey through decibels, drones, and echoes: Trimpin, Paul Taub, David Mahler, the Didgeri Dudes, Degenerate Art Ensemble, DJ Tamara Weikel, Michael Monhart, Susie Kozawa, a trombone choir, a lyrical juggler, and others to be announced. Co-presented with the Earshot Jazz Festival.

November 3, 2006
Seattle Asian Art Museum

This is the first-ever West Coast performance by groundbreaking composer, pianist, and chanteuse Annette Peacock, an artist of complex harmonic language and vocalist of singular style who has been pivotal in creative music for 40 years. (For a longer profile, see the September issue of Earshot Jazz magazine; or listen to this terrific radio interview) Opening is the outstanding local saxophonist Eric Barber and his Chamber Quartet, featuring Gust Burns (piano), Jesse Canterbury (clarinets), and Tom Swafford (violin). Co-presented with the Earshot Jazz Festival.

2005 Nonsequitur Events

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February 5, 2005
Gallery 1412, Seattle

Montreal-based composer/improviser Lori Freedman is a master of all the major members of the clarinet family, known internationally as one of Canada's most provocative and creative performers. Solo set, followed by a trio with Seattle improvisers Gust Burns, piano and Tom Swafford, violin.

February 12, 2005
Town Hall, Seattle

The Sylvia Smith Percussion Duo (Sylvia Smith and Ayano Kataoka) presents music-theatrical works by Stuart Saunders Smith. Also, local percussionist Dale Speicher performs works by himself, Tom Baker, John Cage, Udo Kasemetts, and Roger Zahab. Co-presented with Washington Composers Forum and DoubleSharp.

April 27, 2005
Gallery 1412, Seattle

British saxophonist John Butcher explores the subtlest details of his instrument at the limits of its dynamic and tonal range. Joining him on tour are two fine young improvisers from Texas: trombonist Dave Dove (Houston), and percussionist Christopher Cogburn (Austin).

June 16, 2005
Gallery 1412, Seattle

Arizona improviser Jeph Jerman serves as listener/spirit medium to an array of unamplified natural objects. Paul Hoskin (clarinets, baritone sax) has been integral to the improv communities of Seattle and New York. Together they range from "burning free jazz" to delicate imitations of nature in her manner of operation.

August 30 - October 9, 2005
CoCA, Seattle
Presented as part of In Resonance, curated by Fionn Meade and Robert Millis for the Bumbershoot Arts Festival.

Installation by sound artist Steve Peters and visual artist Christine Wallers. Hushed voices are electronically transformed into increasingly pure, abstract tones heard through a series of large brass bowls suspended from the ceiling, flowing through the space in a quiet wave and gradually subsiding into silence.

August 30, 2005
Gallery 1412, Seattle

British pianist Veryan Weston performs Tessellations, a composition for solo piano inspired by some of the principles of geometric tessellations - repeated, non-overlapping shapes that create infinite patterns (think of artworks by M.C. Escher).

September 8, 2005
Gallery 1412, Seattle

An epic tweak fest featuring two stars of the German electronic music scene: Thomas Lehn is a master of ancient analog synthesizers, wielding patch cables and twiddling knobs like a wildman. Computer whiz Marcus Schmickler proves that analog and digital can play nice together.

October 2 + 3, 2005
Gallery 1412, Seattle

A founding member of the legendary British improvisation collective AMM, Keith Rowe's profound, ongoing reappraisal of the electric guitar as a source of electro-acoustic sound and noise has redefined the idea of instrumental virtuosity. The first night is solo. On Monday he plays in trios with young Northwest improvisers Gust Burns (piano), Jeffrey Allport (percussion), Gregory Reynolds (saxophone), and Leif Sundstrom (percussion, turntable).

October 21, 2005
Gallery 1412, Seattle

Currently based in Jersey City, NJ, Nate Wooley's solo trumpet improvisations are an organic mixture of the lower-case, new music, free jazz, and noise-improv traditions. Living in Seattle and Boulder, Lyn Goeringer's interest in gestural controlled music led to her use of the theremin as a controller for her laptop computer, exploring the extremes of frequency and volume.

October 28, 2005
Consolidated Works, Seattle
Co-presented with Earshot Jazz Festival

Dedicating himself to the art of free improvisation since the mid-1970s, saxophonist Wally Shoup is a Seattle institution, and this concert celebrates his 20th year in the city. Tonight he plays in a trio with Los Angeles guitar genius Nels Cline and the versatile Seattle percussionist Greg Campbell.

November 3, 2005
Consolidated Works, Seattle
Co-presented with Earshot Jazz Festival

Seattle-based pianists Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz reprise their gorgeous release on the Songlines label, playing their own tunes, each other's, and pieces by some essential American tunesmiths.

November 6, 2005
Benaroya Hall, Seattle
Co-presented with Earshot Jazz Festival

The Seattle Chamber Players join Wayne Horvitz (piano, conductor), Bill Smith, (clarinet), Stuart Dempster (trombone), and Trimpin (midi-controlled turntables) to play open form works by these Seattle Mavericks, along with group improvisations and conductions. The all-star ensemble includes local luminaries Julian Priester (trombone), Eyvind Kang (violin), and Vancouver ringers Peggy Lee (cello) and Dylan van der Schyff (drums).

2004 Nonsequitur Events

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January 17, 2004
UNM Keller Hall, Albuquerque
Co-presented with the UNM Music Dept.

While the piano has a long history of being approached as a percussion instrument, Colorado-based composer Stephen Scott has spent years developing techniques that explore its possibilities as a string orchestra. Moving around the lid-less instrument in precisely choreographed movements, the ten-person ensemble draws an astonishing range of timbres and unusual effects from this familiar instrument.

March 11, 2004
Gallery 1412, Seattle

British vocalist Viv Corringham uses a wide range of extended vocal techniques to not only interact with other musicians, but as a way of responding to particular places and situations. She is especially recognized for her recorded "walks," in which she traverses a particular terrain and responds to it vocally as she goes, taking acoustic ecology's "soundwalk" and transforming it from a receptive experience into a performative event. After a solo set, she will play a set of trios with two of Seattle's musical treasures, sound artist and instrument builder Steve Barsotti and the superb violinist Tari Nelson-Zagar.

May 7, 2004
Gallery 1412, Seattle

British saxophonist John Butcher has been at the forefront of redifining the instrument's role and capabilities. His use of amplification, feedback, and electronics finds the minute detail in the mechanics of breath, reed, pads, and metal and makes them available as the prime material of his exploration. Bay Area percussionist Gino Robair has an equally inquisitive approach, open to all sound that can be achieved by tapping, rubbing, scraping and pounding on anything within reach, often with electronic enhancement.

July 29-31, 2004
Co-presented with Consolidated Works, Seattle

A new multimedia performance by composer and Long String Instrument designer Ellen Fullman, with guest musicians Tom Baker (zither, LSI), Elizabeth Falconer (koto), Dave Knott (LSI), and Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin); with video projections by Christine Wallers and Susan Zoccola, and choreography by Tonya Lockyer.

September 1 + 3, 2004
Hugo House & Jack Straw Productions, Seattle
Co-presented with Subtext Readings Series and Jack Straw Productions.

Chris Mann is an Australian composer based in NYC working in Compositional Linguistics. His work is a dense rush of words - philosophical musings, theoretical babble, Aussie vernacular - delivered at a superhuman velocity that transforms sentences into melodic lines, blurring the distinction between "reading" and "singing." He'll be performing The Plato Songs; the Subtext show is "unplugged," the Jack Straw show involves a live computer sampling system that chops his speech into tiny phonemes and scatters them around the room via an 8-speaker array.

October 16, 2004
Evergreen State College Recital Hall, Olympia
Co-presented with the Evergreen Expressions Series

Canadian film maker Pierre Hébert and San Francisco composer Bob Ostertag collaborate as Living Cinema, using innovative software that allows them to perform an animated movie with soundtrack in real time. A master at creating animation by engraving directly on film, this software allows Hébert to employ whatever materials he wishes to use. Sampling pioneer Ostertag uses a variety of objects and techniques to improvise a live soundtrack that is synchronized with the image.

November 20, 2004
Gallery 1412, Seattle

French bassist Joëlle Léandre is important as an improviser and as a virtuoso performer of contemporary repertoire, not only as a member of ensembles such as 2E2M, Itinéraire, and l'Ensemble Intercontemporain but particularly through the works of Cage and Scelsi, several of which have been recorded by her. A founding member of The Lost Trio, saxophonist/composer Phillip Greenlief performs solo, in duo with Joelle Leandre, in a saxophone trio with Frank Gratkowski and Jon Raskin, and with other ensembles internationally.

2003 Nonsequitur Events

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January 24, 2003
Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque

Mephista, featuring Susie Ibarra (percussion), Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), and Ikue Mori (laptop)

January 25, 2003
Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque

i2o (video artist/composer David Stout & Gareth Davis, woodwinds & electronics) presents House of Shadows, a new intermedia work exploring the dramatic potential of a networked interactive video, sound, & instrumental performance system that aims to synthesize the visual, sonic, performing, and cinematic arts into an integral hybrid form. The system utilizes both MIDI and acoustic input, allowing for direct control of visual form, color, texture, image layers, sequence order, tempo and scale.

February 2, 2003
Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque

The world’s first professional toy pianist, Margaret Leng Tan is an internationally celebrated artist renowned for her performances of American and Asian music. She has transformed the toy piano into a legitimate concert instrument, inspiring composers to create an adventurous new repertoire. She will perform works by John Kennedy, John Cage, Lennon & McCartney, Stephen Montague, Laura Liben, Frederic Rzewski, Henry Brant, Alvin Lucier, Bela Bartok, Hans Otte, Philip Glass, Guy Klucevsek, Toby Twining, Toby Twining, and Raphael Mostel.

March 1, 2003
Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque

Keith Rowe (guitar)
Djalma Primordial Science, with Ephia (butoh) and Jeff Gburek (guitar, etc.)

March 22, 2003
Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as "the king of sampling" and "one of the best composers living in (the USA) today." Since 1986 he has used computers in live performance to make gorgeous sonic tapestries out of fragments of recorded music and the sounds of everyday life.

April 19, 2003
Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque

Composer/violinist Malcolm Goldstein has, in a way, reinvented violin playing. His sighs, rasps and bumps have finer gradations and a more varied range of color than pure tone has. And they make complex, fantastic phrases that twist, wail, slide, and hiss at unexpected moments, but always with an intuitive rightness. (Village Voice) For this concert, he presents solos and ensemble pieces with members of Out of Context, a large group of New Mexico improvisers led by J.A. Deane.

June 2003

Aether Fest is a month-long festival of international radio art co-presented with KUNM-FM and Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque.

Robert Ashley (USA) Yellow Man with Heart with Wings
Samuel Beckett & Morton Feldman (Ireland/USA) Words & Music
Kenneth Patchen & John Cage (USA) The City Wears a Slouch Hat
Hildegard Westerkamp (Canada) Kits Beach Soundwalk

Lidia Camacho & Jorge Reyes (Mexico) Zocaloop
Oscar Alonso Inclan (Mexico) Cinco Radioartes Basados en la Obra de Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Laboratorio de Experimentación Artística Sonora (Mexico) Radio Gutura
Antonio López (Santa Fe, NM) Radio Alchemist
Francisco López (Spain) Sonic Dust
Mario Mota (Mexico) Sinicuichi
Jorge Reyes (Mexico) Los Proverbios del Enfierno
Anabella Solano (Mexico) Canto a la Muerte
Mario Verandi (Argentina/Germany) Traces & Shadows and Fréquences de Barcelona

Christian Banasik (Germany) Letzte Gebärde offener Münder
Steve Bradley & John Sturgeon (Baltimore, MD) Dotted Lines
Loren Chasse (San Francisco, CA) Apparition Radio
Martin Daske (Germany) Newt, Contemplating a Sunken Chess Game
Chantal Dumas (Canada) Send
Slavek Kwi (Czech Republic/Ireland) Pet Radio
Seth Nehil (Brooklyn, NY) Naos
Lidia Zielinska (Poland) Musica Humana, or: How Symphonies Are Born

Dean Santomieri (Oakland, CA), A Book Bound in Red Buckrum

Deborah Begel (La Madera, NM) Ode to Rain
Warren Burt (USA/Australia) Point King Beach Memories
Chris Cutler (UK) Twice Around the World
Rebecca Marshall (UK) Empty Building Dreams
Andra McCartney (Canada) Canada Trainradio 1: Montreal-Winnipeg
Michelle Nagai (Brooklyn , NY) Study for Ec(h)olocator
Sarah Peebles (USA/Canada) Walking Through Tokyo at the Turn of the Century
Philip Perkins (Albany, CA) Choral Works
Peter Stollery (Scotland) ABZ/A
Massimo Toniutti (Italy) Omaggio Radiofonico alla Stazione di Topolo

Ann Racuya-Robbins (La Puebla, NM) War and the Inevolution of Grace (commissioned by Aether Fest)

Christopher deLaurenti (Seattle, WA) Two Secret Wars
Barrett Golding (Bozeman, MT) Bright Chrysanthemum
René Mogensen (Denmark/Belgium) Terror of Penge
Pauline Oliveros (Kingston, NY) Poem of Change
Helen Thorington (Brookline, MA) 9.11.01 Scapes

Anna Rubin & Laurie Hollander (Baltimore, MD) Family Stories: Sophie, Sally
David Kolber (Canada) Wheel.Chair.

Terry Allen (Santa Fe, NM) Bleeder
Sheila Davies (Berkeley, CA) What is the Matter in Amy Glennon?
Willem deRidder & Hafler Trio (Netherlands) Report
Malcolm Goldstein (USA/Canada) Ishi: timechangingspaces
Glenn Gould (Canada) The Latecomers
David Moss (USA/Germany) Language Linkage
and others TBA...

Raylene Campbell (Canada) Arctic
Arsenije Jovanovic (Serbia-Montenegro) Four Winds
Eric LaCasa (France) Remanances
Richard Lerman (Phoenix, AZ) From Dark to light...but Dark
Lou Mallozzi (Chicago, IL) Things in Their Place

Experimental Studio of Slovak Radio (Slovak Republic) The Woman with Black Wings
Morten Sondergaard (Denmark/Italy) Aether

Thomas Ashcraft (Lamy, NM) Jumpering Wild Electricities from Outer Space (commissioned by Aether Fest)

Alchemical Burn (Albuquerque, NM) It Is, Is It
Charles Benefiel (Albuquerque, NM) Drift
Brownsierra (UK) Oral Project: Something Here in the Recordings
John Duncan (USA/Italy) Phantom Broadcast
Jeff Gburek (Albuquerque, NM) Improvisation for Shortwave Radio #2
Gydja New Zealand) Khora
Jim Haynes (San Francisco, CA) Magnetic North #1
Robert Horton (El Cerrito, CA) Radio Scrape
Elsa Justel (Argentina/France) La Radio, ca detend
Antonio López (Santa Fe, NM) AM Clockradio Jam
René Mogensen Denmark/Belgium) News Clips Study #1
Steve Roden (Los Angeles, CA) The Radio
Sidanik (Albuquerque, NM) 1710 kHz
Eva Sjuve (Sweden) Fake Radio

Melody Sumner Carnahan (Santa Fe) Dido's Revenge (commissioned by Aether Fest)

Jacki Apple (Los Angeles, CA) Kokoro No Mai/Spirit Dancer
Ed DeBuvitz (Albuquerque, NM) He Was Told
María Esteves (Argentina/USA) We All Gonna Be Homeless Pretty Soon
Monica Kidd (Canada) Exciting Silence
Tae Hong Park (Princeton, NJ) Omoni/Aboji
Susan Stone (Berkeley, CA) Jump + Couch
Deborah Stratman (Chicago, IL) In Order Not to Be Here
Gregory Whitehead (Boston, MA) Proposition Two + Evil Axis

Chantal Dumas (Canada) In the Pale Grey Days
Paul Goodman & Jos Janssen (Netherlands) Les Petites Mortes

June 6-27, 2003
Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque

Transmission is Aether Fest's visual art exhibit on the theme of radio.

Ted Apel (San Diego, CA)
Thomas Ashcraft (Lamy, NM)
Seth Brignell (UK)
Thomas Cates (Albuquerque, NM)
Matthew Chase-Daniel (Santa Fe, NM)
Margot Geist (Albuquerque, NM)
Seth Nehil (Brooklyn, NY)
Steve Roden (Los Angeles, CA)
Augustine Romero (Albuquerque, NM)
Lu Sage (Albuquerque, NM)
Karl Stalnaker (Albuquerque, NM)
Luke West (Albuquerque, NM)

June 8-9, 2003
KUNM-FM, 89.9 FM

Aether Fest presents acclaimed Bay Area ambient/electronic composer Robert Rich, performing a special live-on-air version of Somnium, a composition for sleeping audience. Recently released as a 7-hour audio-only DVD, Rich usually performs this piece as a Sleep Concert, with the audience camped out in the performance space. But since it's a work night, we thought we'd let you experience it in the comfort of your own cozy bed, without a bunch of strangers snoring all around you.

August 17, 2003
Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque

Steven M. Miller uses electronic technology to explore the sonic properties of acoustic instruments and the sounds of the world around him. Tonight he premiers Recirculations, a new piece for live computer-based digital processing of acoustic feedback. CK Barlow works primarily by manipulating samples of everyday sounds: machinery, kitchen implements, insects, etc. For this concert, she is presenting Name Day, for pre-recorded electronics with live oboe (Kevin Vigneau) and cello (Katie Harlow); and Moth TV, a recent multimedia work for sampled sounds of moths with projected video by media artist Hue Walker.

October 11, 2003
Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque

Panaiotis, electro-acoustic music

November 8, 2003
Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque

Stuart Dempster

, sound gatherer (trombone, didjeridu).

December 13, 2003
Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque

Recently relocated from Seattle to Tucson, Jeff Greinke is known worldwide as an early pioneer of ambient and "Fourth World" music. Using various acoustic and electronic instruments, found sounds, and extended studio techniques, Jeff sculpts sound worlds that conjure a strong sense of place, hovering somewhere between the exotic and the familiar. He is founder of the group LAND, and with former Sky Cries Mary vocalist Anisa Romero has a collaborative duo called Hana. Tonight he presents an evening of solo music for keyboards, electronics, trombone, and voice.