October 2002
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| This month's Northwest creative music events |
Tuesday, October 1st
Cognitive Dissidents presents
Steve Gigante, Vance Galloway
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E. Olive Way, (206) 861-8233, donations accepted , All Ages
Wednesday, October 2nd
KMH
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue, 8 PM, $6 donation, All Ages, (206) 329-4224
Formed in spring 2001, KMH is three multi-media artists concentrating on improvisational electronic sonics, mostly using laptops for concerts. Video (live or recorded) or other media usually accompanies these performances. KMH also works in cross-over fields (physics, biology, etc) and installations.
"Time-based development of structures: sound as a physical, mental, and imaginary entity. Pictorial sonics. Perception and creation. Live sonic versions of nature / reality. (RE)constructing and (DE)forming a series of constantly changing structures (the structures being sound) UBER-physical and semi-solid." KMH comes to Seattle courtesy of curator Adrian von Egmond, with support from Cornish College, where the trio will participate in 'sound structures', a month-long series of events that includes installations, classes, workshops, lectures, and performances.
kelly (tokyo); mzweig (berlin); kristen (berlin)
Friday, October 4th
Eric Barber, Super Dupity
Portland, itisness, 3016 NE Killingsworth, , 9 pm $5 at the door, (503)288-1189
Eric Barber (los angeles) presents new works for solo saxophone followed by Super Dupity (pdx) large freely improvising ensembleProject / Object
Seattle, The Rainbow, $15, 21+
"Since its formation a decade ago, Project/Object has been rapidly gaining notoriety for its onstage dedication to its singular mission. The band continually introduces successive generations of improv-oriented music fans around the country to Zappas monumental legacy, performing music from every era of Zappas prolific career while acutely recreating the unique fun and excitement of the Frank Zappa concert experience."CCRK, Eveline Mueller-Graf / Bob Rees Percussion Duo
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue, 8 PM, $6 donation, All Ages, (206) 329-4224
The veteran improvisors of CCRK are exploring the premise (not a completely new one) that, in the hands of inventive 'instant composers', a bare minimum of pre-ordained material will give rise to unified, distinctive improvisations. One of the pieces uses only a 'menu' of ordered pitches. Another involves two simultaneous duos, one pre-composed and one improvised. Jesse Canterbury (clarinet); Mark Collins (bass); Bob Rees (drums); Jim Knodle (trumpet)
The opening set features the first improvised percussion meeting between Eveline Mueller-Graf on her own metal percussion creation, 'the Boeing', and the classical chops of drummer/vibraphonist Bob Rees.
Saturday October 5th
Chuck Swaim & the Dead Air Fresheners
Seattle, Industrial Cafe ,5503 Airport Way S., 9pm, (206) 763-0354, $5, 21+.
The post-punk experimental rock group Chuck Swaim & the Dead Air Fresheners are doing an eight show jaunt through places along I-5 with coffee in their names.Seth Nehil
Portland, SOUNDVISION, 625 NW Everett St #108, 503-238-7007, 8 pm, $5,
"Artist/Composer Seth Nehil inaugurates the opening of Soundvision gallery with a collection of recent geometric drawings made from the ink of black walnuts. Lines upon lines, hand drawn, launch various organic components built from improvised centers. Nehil, who has collaborated with Michael Northam, John Grzinich and Olivia Block will perform an intimate and rare set of electroacoustic sounds from recent recordings."Daniel Menche, inBOIL, plus a lecture on absurdist tradition by Robert Jenkins
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue, 8 PM, $8 donation, All Ages, (206) 329-4224
Daniel Menche's music is meant to express the undisciplined purity of emotion. Characterized by forcefulness of sound, this is music that strives for one goal: vehement beauty. Although his is electronic music, synthesizers have never played any part in his work. Here, the living elements are foregrounded, not the technical or electronic elements. Organic sound sources are the main emphasis in creating a living and emotional feeling to Menche's form of electronic music. Subtle and patient compositions rely on long, dense layers of droning sounds, while abrasive pieces rely on sounds amplified and processed to extreme levels, pushing the full spectrum of frequencies to the most intense limits. Other explorations could be considered musique concrète, chaotic collages displayed gracefully without ever being just "noise". Daniel's work is always on a path to explore new sound ideas for music.
inBOIL is an exploration in the careful art of sound generated from silence, slowly nurtured into a saturated eclipse. This solo project of Carl Farrow uses advanced sampling and synthesis techniques to transform familiar sounds into abstract music. inBOIL often begins with a simple palette of sounds (whispers, a bell, running water) and then develops these into a complex, turbulent force. From soothing to seething, with sudden jolts and expansive floating timbres, inBOIL is an exploration of the physical nature of sound.
Robert Jenkins has devoted his life to revitalizing the absurdist tradition. Tonight's Lecture No. 5, on the subject of Absurdist Cabaret, will consist of a review of previous lectures in the series, followed by a discussion of 'body language' and its use within the form. A brief question and answer session will follow.Jonas Tauber Septet Project
Portland, Disjecta Gallery, 116 NE Russell, 10 pm, $5 cover
"There might be more or less than seven, but the concept is a septet expansion of music written without a number of musicians in mind. Tom McNalley (electric guitar), Ken Ollis (drums), Doug Haning (Fender Rhodes and bass saxophone), Chad Hensel (bass clarinet), Jonas Tauber (upright bass); and others. The concept of the music is based on a life-time of conflict resolution practice, both through Aikido, dream-interpretation, and sound making."
Monday, October 7th
and the Dual Dooldrums, Plain Pain
Seattle, Chamber Theater, 4th floor Oddfellow's Hall, 915 E. Pine, 10 pm, donation, gustb@angelfire.com
Monday night improvised music at the Chamber Theater, curated by Adam Diller and Gust Burns. This week Seattle masters Tari Nelson-Zagar and Greg Powers perform. Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin), Greg Powers (trombone, tuba), Gust Burns (piano), Adam Diller (clarinet, tenor saxophone)
Tuesday, October 8th
Cognitive Dissidents presents
Voltage Regulator, Nathan Lavine's Trombarkestra
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E. Olive Way, (206) 861-8233, donations accepted , All Ages
Thursday, October 10th
Earshot Jazz and The Seattle Art Museum present
Voice and Vision - Timothy Young and Andrei Otraskin - Guitar Monks
Seattle, Seattle Asian Art Museum, at 1400 E. Prospect on Seattle's Capitol Hill, 7pm, $7 general, with a $2. discount for Earshot Jazz and SAM members
"The refreshing new recording by this Seattle duo is called Songs For Oblivion. Tim Young, best known as a member of the Zony Mash group, joins Andrei Otraskin for duo performance of original work on acoustic, classical guitars."
Friday, October 11th
Phonographers' Union 111002
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue, 8 PM, $6 donation, All Ages, (206) 329-4224
Participants: Steve Barsotti; Chris DeLaurenti; Doug Haire; Alex Keller; Dale Lloyd; Perri Lynch; Heather Perkins; Toby Paddock
"What is phonography? The simple answer is that phonography (literally "sound-writing") refers to field-recording. This entails the capture of any event that can be reproduced and represented as sound. Auditory events are selected, framed by duration and method of capture, and presented in a particular format and context, all of which distinguishes a recording from the original event during which it was captured. In this respect, phonography is analogous to any other form of recording. It is distinct from recording in general only to the extent that the capture of sound is privileged over its production. This bias reflects an attempt to discover rather than invent. Curated by Isaac Sterling, this performance will consist entirely of live mixing of recordings of environmental sounds: e.g. a toaster, elephant seals, luggage being dragged through an airport, ambience inside a stairwell, wasps, trees in wind, heat vents, hippos, radiator pipes, hinges, water under a dock, screaming crowds, and so on. None of the sounds will be processed in any way except for occasional equalization. Initially, each of the eight participating phonographers will present recordings individually. Then multiple participants will begin to mix field recordings in tandem. The entire event will be completely improvisational."
Saturday, October 12th
Axiom of Choice
Seattle, Meany Theater 8pm $24 206-543-4880
"Axiom of Choice is a collective of Persian émigrés and American compatriots currently at the forefront of the experimental music world. With musical roots in the radif (the repertoire of classical Persian music), this innovative ensemble combines exotic instrumentation, soaring vocals and adventurous improvisation in deeply reflective performances that merge East and West, ancient and modern."Artie Smudges Trio
Seattle area, Sonarchy live radio hour, KEXP 90.3 FM, 11 pm-midnight.
Smooth noise/free improv on 12 or so instruments by Caroline Buchalter, Adam Griffen, Micheal Griffen and Danielle Morgan. Quite crafty and dedicated to the music.
Sonarchy is heard live from the studios at Jack Straw Productions on KEXP (90.3) every saturday night from 11pm to midnight. These live music and sound broadcasts are produced and mixed by Doug Haire for Jack Straw Productions. Jack Straw is now in it's 40th year of supporting the sonic arts in the pacific NW.Radon is Invisible - A Fundraiser for Radon and The 36 Invisibles Network
Portland, PSWhat? 1968 SW 5th, near PSU, 9:30 pm, Donations accepted, vacuum@evilemail.com
"Radon and 36 Invisibles, hyper-altruistic promoters and railworkers on the international experimental music line, are breaking with tradition by asking for a little bit back. This benefit show, featuring a selection of truest friends and newest finds, will go toward the fulfillment of their daunting holiday schedule. Darker, quieter music will be featured in the downstairs Chill Saloon; while the living room will be opened up to larger bands and an ongoing improv circle - bring instruments!"
Sunday, October 13th
Tugboat Complex Trio, Adam Diller Small Ensemble, Ilyas Ahmed
Seattle, Chamber Theater, 4th floor Oddfellow's Hall, 915 E. Pine, 3 pm, $5-8, gustb@angelfire.com
"Sunday Chamber Theater Mattinee Series continues! More exciting new music to lend content to your otherwise empty same-old Sunday afternoon." Tugboat Complex Trio: Kelvin Pittman (saxophone), Gust Burns (piano), Matt Krane (drums)
Adam Diller small ensemble music: Gregory Reynolds (alto), Jesse Canterbury (clarinet), Greg Sinibaldi (bass clarinet)
Ilyas Ahmed (solo guitar)
Monday, October 14th
Chorus Taught to Pitch - Monday Improvised Music Series
Seattle, Chamber Theater, 4th floor oddfellows hall, 915 E Pine, 10:00 pm, donation, gustb@angelfire.com
Another installment of improvised music at the monday night chamber theater series. curated by Adam Diller and Gust Burns.
Angelina Baldoz (trumpet, etc.), Bob Rees (vibraphone), Jesse Canterbury (clarinet), Gust Burns (piano), Adam Diller (clarinet, tenor sax)Monktail Improvised Music Series
Seattle, Temple Billiards, 126 S Jackson Street, 9pm, 21+, $3, info@monktail.com
"Presenting new and creative ideas in improv performance from Seattle's and elsewhere's most refreshing artists."
Tuesday, October 15th
Cognitive Dissidents presents
The Darth Maul Challenge, Eveline Muller-Graf and Bob Rees
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E. Olive Way, (206) 861-8233, donations accepted , All Ages
"There is a disturbance in the force. A diverse cast of characters have banded together to form the supergroup known only as The Darth Maul Challenge! Ffej (Mutant Data Orchestra and Little LuAnn) as the Young Omish Jedi. Opus (Sounds in my Head) as the Droid with a Broken Battery. Gabe (Monktail Creative Music Concern) as the Evil Scorcerer's Familiar Cat. Ken (Lake City Orchestra) as the Bounty Hunter with a Banjo Michael (some Canadian) as the Wookie Pimp.
Eveline Mueller-Graf & Bob Rees Percussion Duo: Improvised percussion duos on metal percussion creations Variations of sounds, rhythms, dynamics and personalities Waves of waves of delicate waves of exploration Listen! Shut up for just once and open up your ears! It's way too loud in here. Toru Takemitsu, can you hear this?"Irregular TV
Seattle area, Channel 77 (SCAN-Seattle Community Access Network), 9pm.
See the antithesis of caustic commercialism: visionary genius Cecil Taylor, circa 1981. Cecil Taylor's intense atonal percussive approach involves playing the piano as if it were a set of drums. He generally emphasizes dense clusters of sound played with remarkable technique and endurance, often during marathon performances. In this performance he dances -- he crouches, hops forward on all fours, and then rises and urgently expelling air from his pursed lips. Then returning to the piano, his explosive phrases declaim meaningfully, leap playfully, and weave dense patterns of tone and color. Irregular TV broadcasts rarely televised images and commentary from the worlds of Art and Politics - from absurd and exciting to historical issues that corporate media avoids.Amy Denio and Friends
Seattle, Consolidated Works, 500 Boren, 8 pm, $5.
"Denio presents solo and electronic compositions. Meetspace is a Live Digital Jam session and Experimental Performance Laboratory, where media artists, electronic musicians and theatrical performers immerse themselves in a collaborative workspace, wielding DV cameras, graphics algorithms, samplers, and software in order to present new media culture with the flair of avant-garde theater."
Wednesday, October 16th
Creative Music Guild presents
Frode Gjerstad Trio
Portland, Fez Ballroom, 316 SW 11th, 8:00 p.m., $10 / $8 members, 21+
Free jazz blowing atop a top-notch rhythm section.
Frode Gjerstad (saxophones, clarinets); Paal Nilssen-Love (drums); Oyvind Storesund (bass)
Thursday, October 17th
Frode Gjerstad Trio
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 - 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 PM, $10 donation, All Ages.
"Free jazz blowing atop a top-notch rhythm section, with the highly acclaimed young monster Paal Nilssen-Love on drums. Seattle is one of Gjerstad's favorite spots to visit in the States, so this show promises to be a barnburner. For many years, Frode Gjerstad has been the most dedicated free jazz player in Norway. He is one of the few Norwegian musicians playing modern improvised music outside the 'ECM school'. He has played mainly with international musicians because there is no tradition in Norway for playing this avant music. However, thanks in large part to his efforts, a number of younger musicians are now picking up on the music."
Frode Gjerstad (saxophones, clarinets); Paal Nilssen-Love (drums); Oyvind Storesund (bass)
Friday, October 18th
Project W with special guest Bob Rees
Seattle, Vital 5 Gallery (corner of Denny & Westlake), 9:00 pm, $5.
"Vital 5, the gallery that looks like a car dealership and known for its cutting-edge art and performance, will soon be history. Project W will play a special set of elegiac noise to commemorate its passing."
Wally Shoup (alto sax), Brent Arnold (cello), Greg Campbell (drums and french horn), Bob Rees (Vibes and percussion)AdHoque: A night of rotating improvisations
Portland, Polyp and Fury, 3967 N Mississippi, 9pm, Donation at door.
"The people who brought you The Improvised Music Workshop now present a new monthly series aimed at bringing together free improvisors in the Portland community. Modeled after Derek Baileys renowned Company performances, we will invite 5-8 performers to join in rotating duets/trios/solos etc. The musicians/dancers etc will be drawn from the ever increasing pool of experienced performers that seem to be flooding into Portland by the minute as well as established names in the local improvising community. "
Kerry (Dance), Kelvin (Sax), Caryl (Violin), Kathleen (Dance), Toto (Percussion) Oliver (Doublebass), Jean-Paul (Guitar)
Saturday, October 19th
Steve MacKay, Smegma, and Elf
Portland, The Jasmine Tree, SW 4th and Harrison, 9 pm, cover.
"Steve MacKay, saxophonist for The Stooges is considered dead by the popular press. Seriously. But he's not. He's a member of the Radon Collective, living in San Francisco and playing some of the most scorching music in the land. He plays his first Portland show in decades with fellow O.G. musical saboteurs Smegma and New York's concept-prog freakout crew Elf."Acoustic Reign
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 - 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 PM, $6 donation, All Ages.
"Free-blowing jazz quartet with drums and bass leading the charge. Acoustic Reign consists of long-time members of the Pacific Northwest and East Coast music communities. The musicians in this group, brought together by drummer and percussionist Jack Gold, have influences ranging from classical, jazz, avant-garde, and traditional folkloric music to blues, rhythm-and-blues, and rock."
Jack Gold (drums); Dan O'Brien (bass); Jim Knodle (trumpet); Brian Kent (saxophone)intimate stage presents
rebreather
Seattle, Green Lake, 8 pm, $12 (includes post-show food & drink), reservations required. Call Dappin' Butoh at 206-526-5756 for reservations and directions.
"Abrasive, sparse, ethereal, abrupt, and wistful, rebreather (alex keller and christopher delaurenti) improvise live electonic music from the digital glossolalia of sabotaged consumer electronics, homebrew circuits, and obsolete devices. An evening of stylized film noir, butoh dance, fine fedoras, fragmented sound and a touch of evil."
Sunday, October 20th
Elizabeth Falconer and Year of the Horse
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 - 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 PM, $6 donation, All Ages.
Solo compositions from master kotoist Elizabeth Falconer; then a set of trio improvisations as 'Year of the Horse' with cellist Lori Goldston and percussionist Greg Campbell.
"Like the wild horses that roam various regions of the world, this group explores music that defies boundaries. Combining cello, percussion, and koto, the members bring with them elements of jazz, Asian, improvisation, and European folk sensibilities to create a colorful palate of musical sounds."intimate stage presents
rebreather
Seattle, Green Lake, 7 pm, $12 (includes post-show food & drink), reservations required. Call Dappin' Butoh at 206-526-5756 for reservations and directions.
See 10/19 description above.Cornish College presents
Beck Henderer-Peña
Seattle, Soundbridge at Benaroya, 2nd & Union, 2 pm, price unknown
"Current and former Cornish College students will perform at Soundbridge: this recital features a performance by Beck Henderer-Peña, guitar; with Joe Dierker, electronics; Chris Stover, trombone; and Greg Sinibaldi, bass clarinet. This group, led by Beck Henderer- Peña, combines elements of free improvisation, chamber music, jazz, and electronic music, moving seamlessly from lush improvised soundscapes to more formal written compositions. They will be playing a collection of new pieces by Beck Henderer-Peña and Seattle composer Charlie Smith (a fellow Cornish College graduate) as well as contributions by other members of the group."Monday, October 21st
Monday Night Chamber Series
Seattle, Chamber Theater, 4th floor Oddfellows Hall, 915 E pine, 10:00pm, donation, gustb@angelfire.com
Greg Campbell (percussion), Tom McNally (guitar), Adam Diller (tenor, clarinet), Gust Burns (piano)Monktail Improvised Music Series
Seattle, Temple Billiards, 126 S Jackson Street, 9pm, 21+, $3, info@monktail.com
"Presenting new and creative ideas in improv performance from Seattle's and elsewhere's most refreshing artists."
Tuesday October 22nd
Cognitive Dissidents presents
Kelli Wise & R.S. Pearson Angelina Baldoz with Jesse Canterbury & Mark Collins
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E. Olive Way, (206) 861-8233, donations accepted, All Ages
"Kelli Wise is the founder of Chaos Is Your Destiny, an industrial ambient project utilizing found sounds, environmental noises, as well as traditional instruments such as synthesizer and guitar. Her goal is to marry the musical with the non-musical, random with the orderly, with occasional experiments into a purely mathematical compositional process. She eagerly awaits the grand unifying theory which she is convinced will be a subset of the Mandelbrot set. http://www.chaosisyourdestiny,com Kelli will be collaborating with R.S. Pearson who will be providing his trademark hypnotic and surreal synthesizer style, using unqiue generative music techniques and combinatoric modalities. http://www.rspearson.com/rsmusic.html
Jesse Canterbury (claranet), Mark Collins (upright bass), and Angelina Baldoz (trumpet) have banded together after making music with many other lovely musicians here and abroad. The result is some pretty good music 'goin' on'. They've been working together as a trio for awhile though, and this is their first gig as one. Curving out the grooves. Getting the girls into moods. Planning to see death metal bands perform. Okay, seriously, although the above is true, it's not going to make the hardcore 'improv' seekers respect them, although they would probably still sleep with them."entropic advance / Skylobby
Seattle, Tost, 513 N 36th, 9 pm, $5.
"A night of live electronics with cutting edge hybrids of modern experimental noises and heavy down tempo glitch beats. entropic advance is the electronic duo of bios+a+ic (wesley davis) on lush proccessed trumpet, vocals, and sample manipulations, with noise poet nobody (casey jones) on slide guitar textures and multi-layered glitch rhythms. Skylobby is a 5 piece of tastey multi-instrumental electronic players."
Thursday October 24th
Earshot Jazz presents
Ralph Alessi Quintet, featuring Don Byron
Seattle, Tula's Restaurant, 8:30pm, $15 general / $13 discount
"Trumpeter Ralph Alessi, with his tremendous classically trained chops and expressive range, has been in the vanguard of new jazz in New York for 10 years, playing with the likes of Steve Coleman, Uri Caine, and Don Byron. Byron, justly the most acclaimed clarinetist in modern jazz, joins Alessi, pianist Andy Milne, bassist Ben Street, and drummer Gerald Cleaver in this extraordinary, intimate, four-night run."Creative Music Guild presents
Bobby Previte's Bump
Portland, The Fez Ballroom, 316 SW 11th, 9:00 p.m.$14 / $12 members, 21+
Bobby Previte1s Bump with Wayne Horvitz, Curtis Fowlkes, Steve Swallow, Marty Ehrlich and Bobby Previte
"These are a handful of some of the more innovative, electric names in jazz from the last 20 years - or in Swallow's case, the last 40."Music of Our Time
Seattle, Recital Hall at Benaroya, 3rd & Union, 7:30 pm, $24.
"Christopher Kendall, conductor Lucy Shelton, soprano On the program: James Primosch: Sacra conversazione, Roger Marsh: Song of Abigail, Scott Lindroth: Stomp, Jacob Druckman: Lamia - Pre-concert lecture one hour before performance; post-concert discussion immediately following performance."
Friday October 25th
Earshot Jazz presents
Ralph Alessi Quintet, featuring Don Byron
Seattle, Tula's Restaurant, 8:30pm, $15 general / $13 discount
see 10/24 listing for description.Keith Eisenbrey
Seattle, University Temple United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd, 8 pm, $10.
"Seattle Composer/Pianist/Improvisor Keith Eisenbrey presents a program of his own compositions, and of piano music by Lockrem Johnson and Benjamin Boretz. Keith will play 8 Preludes from Johnson's 24 Preludes, op.50, and Boretz's seminal ("...my chart shines high where the blue milks upset..."). Of his own works, Keith will perform 3 Strathspeys (1979), Toccata (2002), and A Cat's Life, a little opera for solo piano (1990). Neal Meyer will join the pianist as Narrator on A Cat's Life. The $10 suggested donation will benefit the ministries of the University Temple United Methodist Church. (Keith Eisenbrey, piano; Neal Meyer, narrator).Meme Concert Series presents
Nels Cline Singers / Xiu Xiu / Ripit / Sikhara
Seattle, CoCA, 1420 11th Ave, 9 pm, $5, All Ages.
"Opening the show is Radon Studios' world-traipsing nightmare band Sikhara, They utilize a ton of giant percussion, samples, and processing to build up towering industrial/primitive mecha-godzillas, and have performed all over the world in tons of traditional and guerrilla settings. Ripit, from Paris, creates glitchy harsh-break music with traditional electronic elements and super-unusual self-made contructions and is an over-arching organizer of experimental music concerts and art happenings in Paris.
Nels Cline has been one of the most exciting and sought-after experimental guitarist of the last couple of decades, working with everyone from Sonic Youth and Mike Watt to Tim Berne and the Mark Dresser(as well as being the driving force in indie-stars The Geraldine Fibbers). His highly emotive, fierce style has been brought to bear on reworkings of Coltrane and Willie nelson, as well as volumes and volumes of his own music and in improv settings. His incredibly kinetic, telepathic working group Nels Cline Singers have just releeased their debut album, "Instrumentals" on LA's Cryptogrammophone Records. further info at www.nelscline.com."Northwest Symphony Orchestra
Burien, Highline Performing Arts Center, 401 S 152nd St, 7:30 pm, $10/$13, 206.242.6321, www.northwestsymphonyorchestra.org
Conductor Anthony Spain leads the orchestra in David Paul Mesler's The March Macabre and mainstream fare by Stravinsky (Petrouchka) and Dvorak. "In 1995, while attending the Film Scoring program at the University of Southern California, I wrote a short cue for orchestra, only a minute-and-a-half long, which I titled The March Macabre. Cut to the year 2000. I decided to turn the piece into something of an overture, complete with various contrasting tunes. I also wanted to capitalize on my freedom to expand the piece for the concert hall: This freedom allowed me to create a more demanding and adventuresome listening experience. Consequently, there are things you wouldn't hear in a film score. There are surprisingExperiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) Northwest Reunion and Symposium
Seattle, Meany Hall UW Campus, 8 pm, $4/$8. http://courses.washington.edu/eatreun/
"35 years later, artists and engineers who banded together to revolutionize contemporary art reunite and celebrate a significant chapter in twentieth-century art history and the history of Northwest art. E.A.T., a nonprofit organization founded in New York City in 1967, promoted the interaction between art and technology. Founded by artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman, and engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer, E.A.T.'s primary goal was to give artists access to new technologies, including video, electronics and computers. Northwest chapters of E.A.T., started by local artists and engineers, were active in Seattle and Portland in the late 1960s and '70s. The programs instigated by these local chapters led to an upsurge of new media artwork in the region and spawned what later became key arts institutions in the area. This is an evening with founders of the E.A.T. organization established in 1967 in New York City, and the West Coast premiere of a newly edited documentary film, Open Score, Robert Rauschenberg's performance from the legendary 1966 9 Evenings series in NYC. Master of Ceremonies: David Ross, former director of Whitney Museum of American Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Presenters: Billy Klüver (ex-Bell Laboratory engineer and co-founder of E.A.T.), Robert Whitman (multimedia artist, E.A.T. co-founder), Julie Martin (New York E.A.T. staff), David Ross. Lobby artwork: Composite, Julia Cole and Timea Tihanyi (MFA candidates, University of Washington); Chris Ewing and Josh Parmenter, PhD candidates, Music."interjections, long overlays of conflicting material, bursts of chaos."
Saturday October 26th
Earshot Jazz Presents
Ralph Alessi Quintet, featuring Don Byron
Seattle, Tula's Restaurant, 8:30pm, $15 general / $13 discount
see 10/24 listing for description.Earshot Jazz Presents
Jack DeJohnette & John Surman
Seattle Art Museum, 8pm, $25 general / $23 discount
"British sax legend John Surman (soprano/bari sax, bass clarinet, synthesizers) and drum titan Jack DeJohnette (drums, electronic percussion, piano) play uplifting, atmospheric improvised music of sonic depth and richness. DeJohnette, the veteran of Miles Davis‘s electric bands and other crucial turns in jazz, is now best-known for his long collaboration with Keith Jarrett. Surman is as important a European jazzman as any. A world-class virtuoso on several horns, he pioneered the use of electronics to venture from jazz orthodoxy in the 1970s. A guaranteed memorable performance."Ripit, Sikhara and Nequaquam Vacuum
KMLP Internet Radio, 9 pm, vacuum@evilemail.com
Ripit - mindboggling harshbreak from the squats of Paris
Nyko Esterle (samplers, laptop, turntables, etc.)
Sikhara - hypnotic cut-up primitivism
(Scott Nydegger - drum, drum triggers, drum machine sampler), Paul Smith (keyboard sampler)
Nequaquam Vacuum - post-asiatic free industrial improv
Tyler Armstrong (percussion, vocals, wind instruments, double steel cello, etc.), Noah Mickens (percussion, vocals, toys, etc.), Travis McAlister (wind instruments, percussion, string can, vocals, etc.)Opus 7
Seattle, St. James Cathedral, 804 Ninth Ave, 8 pm, $17
Music will include Missa canonica by Brahms; Messe Basse by Fauré for women's voices; Missa Breve Deutschen Liturgie by Mendelssohn and music by Northwest composer Bern Herbolsheimer, including his setting of Let us sing sweet songs for oboe, percussion and piano.Degenerate Art Ensemble European Tour Benefit
Seattle, The Shack, 1621 12th Ave at Pine (formerly Morningside Academy), 8 pm, $10 suggested donation.
"Featuring Dutch Flat (Portland), Biography of Ferns (Seattle), Xiu Xiu (San Jose), Nerve Wheel (Seattle), Degenerate Art Ensemble (Seattle). Degenerate Art Ensemble and a powerful line-up of West Coast bands will throw a benefit party to support DAE1s coming tour of Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, France and Switzerland. The party will feature five bands, an art exhibition and auction, dance performance, video projection and more!
Degenerate Art Ensemble is a big-band-garage-orchestra / movement-theater company / multi-discipline art army - dedicated to the creation of new cutting edge works combining music and other media. The band's eloquently excecuted high-energy repertoire, combined with the breathtaking imagery of the movement theater ensemble, and their inspired work for silent film, DAE has invented a unique, raw and passionate language of expression."Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) Northwest Reunion and Symposium
Seattle, Henry Art Gallery Auditorium, UW Campus, 10-12:30 am & 2:30-4 pm, free.
See 10/25 description above, and:
Morning, 10-12:30 am: Conversation with the founders and artists of E.A.T. chapters in Seattle and Portland. Films and other visual documents will be presented, including the first animation of the human figure on computer. Participants: LaMar Harrington (founder, Seattle E.A.T. chapter, former Associate Director of the Henry Art Gallery), lliam Fetter (Seattle engineer, founder, Seattle E.A.T. chapter, Boeing Graphic Designer, 1927-2002 Son Brant Fetter will make presentation), Doris Chase (Seattle artist), Bob Brown and Frank Olvey (Seattle filmmakers), Don Paulson (Seattle light show artist), Jack Eyerly (founder, Portland E.A.T. chapter), Gary Ewing (Portland light show artist and graphic designer), Robin Oppenheimer (Seattle media arts historian, moderator). Afternoon, 2:30pm: "The Artist as Cultural Capital: Re-thinking E.A.T. in 2002" A discussion addressing past and current challenges for artists working with new technologies in corporate environments such as Microsoft and Xerox PARC. Participants: Alvy Ray Smith (computer animation artist, co-founder of Pixar, and first Graphics Fellow at Microsoft), Carolyn May (Seattle Interactive and Broadband Digital Media Consultant), Rich Gold (Director, Xerox PARC Artist In Residence program)Billy Klüver (E.A.T. founder), David Ross (former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), Patricia Failing (Professor of Art History, University of Washington, moderator)."
Sunday October 27th
Earshot Jazz Presents Ralph Alessi Quintet, featuring Don Byron
Seattle, Tula's Restaurant, 8:30pm, $15 general / $13 discount
see 10/24 listing for description.Earshot Jazz presents
Bobby Previte's Bump, Zony Mash
Seattle, EMP Sky Church, 8pm, $16 general / $14 discount
"Earshot Jazz and EMP present the essential drummer/composer in New York Downtown new jazz, Bobby Previte. In his Bump band, he joins forces with fellow high-profilers Wayne Horvitz (keys), Curtis Fowlkes (trombone), Marty Ehrlich (sax), and an inspired choice of bassists, the veteran Steve Swallow. Expect virtuoso, dynamic group playing. Opening is the acoustic version of Zony Mash, the most enduring of Wayne Horvitz's many excellent ensembles."Clarinettissimo
Seattle, Soundbridge at Benaroya Hall, 2nd and Union, 3 pm, free.
Chamber music for clarinet: the Grand Quartet by James Waterson, and the West-Coast Premiere of Sean Osborn's Miniature Trio along with more mainstream fare.Stuart Dempster and Michael Monhart
Seattle, Brad's Swingside Cafe, 4212 Fremont Ave N, 633-4057, 7:30 pm, $10.
"Stuart Dempster and Michael Monhart continue their collaborative exploration in the intimate setting of Brad's Swingside. Come early for dinner. Reservations advised. Stuart Dempster (trombone, hamburgers and other instruments) and Michael Monhart (saxophone, terrapins and other instruments)."
Monday October 28th
Earshot Jazz Presents
Tin Hat Trio, Raw Materials w/ Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa
Seattle, Poncho Concert Hall, Cornish College, 8pm, $15 general / $13 discount
"The improvisational chamber-jazz sensation, Tin Hat Trio, fuses umpteen musical forms: tangos, waltzes, country, blues, bluegrass, Eastern European folk in a startling, seamless music of their own. Virtuosity and imagination make it all work for the conservatory-trained trio of Carla Kihlstedt (violin), Rob Burger (accordion, piano, pump organ, harmonica, marxophone), and Mark Orton (guitar, dobro, tenor banjo). In Raw Materials, rising star Vijay Iyer (piano) and alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa refresh jazz with other musical traditions, primarily those of their ancestral South Asia. New York-based Iyer's own discs (and his work with Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory) have made him among the most-watched of new-generation jazzmen."Monktail Improvised Music Series
Seattle, Temple Billiards, 126 S Jackson Street, 9pm, 21+, $3, info@monktail.com
"Presenting new and creative ideas in improv performance from Seattle's and elsewhere's most refreshing artists."
Tuesday October 29th
Earshot Jazz Presents
Mark Helias's Open Loose
Seattle, Poncho Concert Hall, Cornish College - 8pm $12 general / $10 discount
" A scintillating next-generation-of-jazz band. Bassist Mark Helias - one of New York's finest composers, thinkers, and instrumentalists, says Peter Watrous - has since the late 1970s accompanied key innovators (Anthony Braxton, Don Cherry, Ray Anderson, Ed Blackwel). Here, he presents his spirited, improvisational Open Loose with hard-blowing saxophonist Tony Malaby and much-in-demand drummer Tom Rainey, both stand-outs on the New York scene."Cognitive Dissidents presents
Dr. Precarious & Fiends
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E. Olive Way, (206) 861-8233, donations accepted, All Ages.
"Ffej's evil twin brother Dr. Precarious is at it again! With the aid of his various minions, he plans to take over this innocent experimental music series and transform it into a spawning ground for frightening sounds combined with tales of pure terror. Come if you dare."
Wednesday October 30th
Earshot Jazz Presents
Jessica Lurie Ensemble
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 - 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8pm, $12 general / $10 discount
"Jessica Lurie, the acclaimed alto saxophonist (Living Daylights, Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet), leads an all-star Ensemble, where post-bop blurs boundaries between jam-band textures, avant-jazz colors, and much more (Andrew Bartlett, Seattle Weekly). With Sue Orfield and others. With Paintings with Strings, a visual/musical installation by artist Danijel Zezelj and instrument maker and improvisor David Knott."Earshot Jazz Presents
Bert Wilson Group
Seattle, EMP Sky Church, 8pm, $10 general / $8 discount
"EMP and Earshot presents the Northwest legend Bert Wilson, performing pieces for octet that he composed with a New Works Award from Chamber Music America. The multi-reed master has been likened to John Coltrane, howlers like Illinois Jacquet and Earl Bostic, and modernists like Albert Ayler and Sonny Simmons; like them, he takes the music's next, giant steps."UW Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (dxarts)
Seattle, Meany Hall, UW Campus, 8:00 pm, $10 general, $5 student / senior, (206) 543-4218, cewing@u.washington.edu, trebacze@u.washington.edu
An evening of new digital music.
On the Program: Jean-Claude Risset: Elementa for 4-track magnetic tape Richard Karpen: Solo / Tutti for violin and computer Joe Anderson Kyai Pranaja for computer-realized sound Ewa Trebacz Spinning Zone for computer-realized sound and percussionSIL2K presents
Chris Cutler and Thomas Dimuzio, Climax Golden Twins, transAtlantic iceFloe
Seattle, I-Spy 1921 5th Ave, alley entrance, 9:00pm, $8 Advance tickets at http://www.ticketweb.com/
Chris Cutler has led a varied and surprising career as a drummer, record label executive, hard line socialist, and ethnomusicologist, among other labels, spanning over three decades of work and close to 100 records.
San Francisco-based Thomas Dimuzio is great unsung artistic figure. Composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, experimental electronic musician, sideman and recording studio owner, Dimuzio is a true sonic alchemist who can seemingly create music events out of almost anything. Dimuzio's listed sound sources on his various CDs include everything from "modified 10 speed bicycle" and "resonating water pipe" to short-wave radios, loops, samplers and even normal instruments such as clarinet and trumpet.
Climax Golden Twins are Jeffrey Taylor and Rob Millis. They have numerous releases that you have most likely never heard on Anomalous Records, on Milan International, on Scratch, on Meme, and others besides. Soundtracks, scores for choreography, installations in galleries, a haze of electrics, scratchy records, field recordings, manipulations, skewed punk rock outbursts, old songs...a group of loincloth-clad sloth herders snacking on toucan drumsticks and rubbing the electronic equipment left behind by a recently cannibalized National Geographic crew...co-ordination of this kind within a group of primates without language is a rare and beautiful thing. Films provided by Jesse Paul Miller.
transAtlantic iceFloe plays instrumental rock method-core and features members of the SIL2K Ensemble.
Thursday October 31st
Earshot Jazz presents
Oluyemi & Ijeoma Thomas with Mike Bisio
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 - 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8pm
"Avant jazz with poetry and spirit."October 4th and 5th, 11th and 12th, 25th and 26th
American Voices: Bukowski, Micheline & the First Amendment
Seattle, Union Garage Theater, 1418 10th Ave.,8 pm, 206 720-1942,
Written and performed by Vincent Balestri with original music performed live by Michael Bisio.Friday, October 11th through Sunday October 13th
"White Girls" for d9 Dance Collective's 10th Anniversary Performance
Seattle, Velocity Dance MainSpace Theater, 915 E. Pike St, 2nd floor, 8pm, charge.
Music composed by Amy Denio, with guests Luisa Cottifogli (voice) and Serena Tideman (cello).
Also on the program: "Incognito" by Pablo Cornejo, and "Tethered" by Lisa Race. Choreographed by KT Niehoff.Monday October 13th & Tuesday, October 14th
On the Boards Presents 12 Minutes Max
Seattle, On the Boards Studio Space, 100 W Roy St, 7 pm, $7.
On the Boards is proud to showcase five new works by regional dance, theater, and music artists. Erin Jorgensen plays two selections on the marimba, one of her own creation and the other by Johnny Thunders. This edition of 12 Minutes Max was curated by Lori Goldston and Kyle Hanson, co-directors of the Black Cat Orchestra."Thursday October 24th - Sunday October 27th
Earshot Jazz Presents Ralph Alessi Quintet, featuring Don Byron
Seattle, Tula's Restaurant, 8:30pm, $15 general / $13 discount
"Trumpeter Ralph Alessi, with his tremendous classically trained chops and expressive range, has been in the vanguard of new jazz in New York for 10 years, playing with the likes of Steve Coleman, Uri Caine, and Don Byron. Byron, justly the most acclaimed clarinetist in modern jazz, joins Alessi, pianist Andy Milne, bassist Ben Street, and drummer Gerald Cleaver in this extraordinary, intimate, four-night run."Friday October 25th - Sunday October 27th
Rhythm of the Landscape A New Work by Lelavision Physical Music
Seattle, Lelavision Gallery, 701 34th Avenue, (Fri & Sat 8 pm, Sunday at 7pm), $15, Reservations Required (but no one turned away!), lela@lelavision.com
"The world premiere of Lelavision's "Rhythm of the Landscape" bursts onto the stage with a whimsical physical-music performance that weaves outrageous kinetic sound-sculptures with cutting edge choreography, original compositions, and dazzling video projections.
In a landscape where trees have leaves of stone, the mountains have strings, and the sun, the stars, and the moon are drums, gongs and cymbols, three Kachina -like characters (Ela Lamblin, Leah Mann and Sheli Potmesil) kindle percussive thunder in the sky. Bounding and rebounding on spider-like, elastic cords; they splash musical colors from a rainbow of river stones by rubbing the strings with rosin gloves. They bring alive the sounds of fall by tapping out interlocking rhythms in the trees. They emerge from within a whirling steel volcano to bow and hammer out the melodies of seismic movement."Monday nights
Monktail Improvised Music Series
Seattle, Temple Billiards, 126 S Jackson Street, 9pm, 21+, $3, info@monktail.com
"Presenting new and creative ideas in improv performance from Seattle's and elsewhere's most refreshing artists."Thursday nights
Monktail Creative Music Concern Residency
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E. Olive Way, 8pm, all ages, free, info@monktail.com
A weekly performance of improvised music featuring largegroup, smallgroup, and solo performances by members of the Monktail Collective.
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