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Tuesday, July 2nd
Cognitive Dissidents presents
The Curtains / The Racket
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E Olive Way, 8 pm, free, all ages.
Coming from southern California THE CURTAINS ASK: Why make up your minds? You have ears!
'musical miniaturists the CURTAINS present their own kind of west coast cool - a muted music that never reaches the proper conclusion. aloof and alert, these CURTAINS keep their music sitting right on the edge of hot and cold. composed using their unique DYNATHOUGHT method, the pieces are like a stream of musical memos or thought bubble goofs shook out from an IBM punchcard computer. the result? something in between a weather bureau report and a private confidence: it'd seem nonchalant if it weren't so personal; it'd seem almost warm if it weren't so scientific!' http://curtains.suchfun.net
The Racket consists of Gregory Reynolds (sax) and Matt "Happy Beats" Crane (drums). Many people perhaps saw them at the I-Spy one evening but don't remember them because they had play after an epic butoh performance that featured a lot of simulated violence and soil. It detracted from the deft and passionate improvised music they brought to the stage when they finally got to play. Now is your chance to check out this killer combo again.
Wednesday, July 3rd
Gallery FreshGoods presents
Sound Art
Seattle, 211 1/2 First Ave S between Washington and Main, 6-9:30 pm, free.
"Gallery FreshGoods hosts three evenings of sound art exploration that highlights the work of contemporary sonic artists from Seattle and around the country. The first of these events, to open on July 3rd and carry over into First Thursday July 4th, will consist of works that make use of both sound and visual elements in original and often unexpected ways. In addition to the audio/visual pieces in the show, there will be several computer terminals where visitors can listen to audio recordings by many different artists through an interactive interface. The collection will highlight the space where sight and sound intersect and revel in conceptual similarity and shared intention."
Thursday July 4th
Gallery FreshGoods presents
Sound Art
Seattle, 211 1/2 First Ave S between Washington and Main, Noon-9 pm, free.
See 7/3 description, above.
Saturday, July 6th
Dan Blunck
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $8, all ages.
"A special night of two solo sets from Dan Blunck, a true aficionado of jazz, the saxophone,and improvisational approaches to music. Whether he's performing original compositions, new takes on standards, freewheeling improvising, or introspective explorations, Blunck captivates audiences with his astounding technique on saxophones, along with his command of so many aspects of old and new music, from jazz to way beyond. Since moving to the Puget sound area in 1993, he has gained a reputation as a mighty force on the saxophone, performing at the Earshot Jazz Festival, du Maurier Jazz Festival, Victoria Jazz Festival, Bumbershoot, and the Seattle Improvised Music Festival. It's not often we get to hear someone so studied and accomplished who can also throw it all to the wind. Don't miss it."
Tuesday, July 9th
Cognitive Dissidents presents
Ono / Simon Poole
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E Olive Way, 8 pm, free, all ages.
"A set by sonic explorer Simon Poole (keyboards, sounds, words), augmented by Dennis Rea's electronic lap steel guitar excursions."
Wednesday, July 10th
Composer Spotlight: Stuart Wolferman and Britta Johnson
Seattle, Jack Straw Productions, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, 7:30 pm, free.
"Stuart will discuss his collaboration with filmmaker Britta Johnson, and the challenges for him as a composer as he attempted to give the abstract plot a more narrative feel. Post Nasal Drift (11 min, produced by Britta Johnson, music by Stuart Wolferman) examines inter-species resource competition, genetic engineering, epidemics, and issues of scale. In this film, a population outgrows its space and heads out to find new places to live. Unfortunately, the pioneers end up seriously disturbing the special balances that exist among the current residents of each land they visit. As one might expect, the smallest organisms are the ones that survive these ecological disasters."Thursday, July 11th
Irregular Television
Seattle Area, Channel 77 (SCAN-Seattle Community Access Network), 9 pm.
"You will see and hear: Symphonie Diagonale from 1924, directed by Dadaist Viking Eggeling with Cecil Taylor soundtrack - Tales [8 Whisps]. Portions of "The Hearts of Ages" - 1934, directed by Orson Welles with soundtrack by the ICP Orchestra. Our half hour program will be seen every upcoming Thursday. 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."Anansi
Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E Prospect, 7 pm, $7.
"Earshot Jazz kicks off a new season of their Voice and Vision series with Anansi, a quartet led by trumpeter Jim Knodle. Anansi plays standards, extended improvisations, and occasional oddities like a hymn setting by Vincent Persichetti."
Friday, July 12th
Bill Horist
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $6, all ages.
"Seattle's kingpin of prepared-guitar improvisations will perform two contrasting sets of music for this special Polestar performance. In his own words: Within the last few years, my solo guitar performances, though rooted in improvisation, have evolved into something separate. It may be that the use of loops have taken my work away from a more pure form of improvisation. However, the process is still the same: spontaneously act and react. The difference may exist in the space between action and reaction - an instant for scrutiny and examination afforded by repetition. I'm excited to perform two sets of solo guitar music for this event at Polestar. To take full advantage of the opportunity, the first set will be completely loop-free and the second set will be mostly loop-based."Canoofle, 1vs0 and rebreather
Portland, The Jasmine Tree, 401 SW Harrison St, 9:30pm, (503) 223-7956, $4, 21 and over
Canoofle An experiment in improvising memorable motifs (whatever the style) and then exploring them spontaneously with our own unique blend of rock, punk, jazz, avant-garde and traditional music techniques.
1vs0 Using non-musical occurances like light, heat, proximity and ekg signals captured via sensors attached to humans and mannequins to re-create music inspired from an equal mix of random human experiences and random awk-style algorithms on laptops.
rebreather Abrasive, sparse, ethereal, abrupt, and wistful; rebreather improvise live electonic music from the digital glossolalia of sabotaged consumer electronics, homebrew circuits, and obsolete devices.Perpetuating Response II
Portland, Center Space, 420 SE 6th, 8:30 pm, free, all ages.
"A free public exposure of local artists! Featuring Visual Art & Installation by: John Mace (multi-media sculpture/ installation), John Berendzen & Christoph, of Liminal Group (multi-media/ interactive installation) and others. Music and Live art performances from: Samadhi (experimental, drum & noise), Pecos B. (text-based performance) and more mainstream fare. Perpetuating Response is and ongoing public outreach event series. The exhibit is design to provide a free forum for: networking, exposure for local performers and visual artists, and education of 2 Gyrlz' mission, programming, and services."
Saturday, July 13th
Michael Bisio
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $6, all ages.
"A rare solo performance by Seattle's celebrated world-class adventurous bassist. Announcing plans for his Polestar show, Bisio quoted Seattle critic Paul DeBarros, writing in Signal to Noise: For years, free improvisers have explored the tactile aspect of performance, in which the nature of the encounter between the player and the instrument becomes the subject of the music itself. Bisio is one of the few musicians that has managed to meld this high-concept sense of physicality with the soulful charge of jazz. His fiddle-high, scraped overtones create a tangled choir that is impossible to resist; his expressiveness with the bow is unmatched. Having whirled the listener into a transportive state, he gently shows the way out."Collins-Rea-Scheer String Trio with special guest Elizabeth Falconer
Seattle area, Sonarchy live radio hour, KEXP 90.3 FM, 11 pm-midnight
"Hyperbaric chamber music from the new acoustic trio of Mark Collins (upright bass), Dennis Rea (acoustic guitar), and Karl Scheer (violin, guitar), ranging from carnival-mirror blues to Tang Dynasty melodies to blizzards of fractured sound. Virtuoso koto player Elizabeth Falconer will join the group for part of the set." "Sonarchy radio 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, Seattle."Gallery FreshGoods presents
Sound Art
Seattle, 211 1/2 First Ave S between Washington and Main, 8 pm, $4.
"This event will showcase artists that create work that must be performed live. This live dynamic complements an avant garde sound arena that is usually associated with computer tweaking and solitary studio production. It will be an evening of unique performance that will manage to occupy the gray area somewhere between noise and music. It will be a real treat for adventurous listeners and lovers of non-traditional musical composition.
On the bill: entropic advance, the mutant data orchestra, nick notis, rebreather, and (all the time) seth thomas. "Mono Pause / Alvarius B (of Sun City Girls)
Seattle, Rainbow, 722 NE 45th, 9 pm, $7. "Mono Pause is a chameleonic septet from Oakland, California (in the San Francisco Bay Area region, a hotbed for off-kilter and unclassifiable acts). Since 1993, Mono Pause has stopped their sets to stage poetry readings, inciting near-riots. They've played songs backward, just for the heck of it, or prerecorded entire sets of between-song banter, lip-synching the whole thing. The group's music is remarkable in itself: a collage of everything from Southeast Asian pop stylings to free-form improvisation and many points in between, as evidenced on their Peeping Through the Listen Hole LP (Electro Motive Records, 1999) and various compilation tracks. This is the group's first national tour." Also on the bill Aavikko (surf-spaghetti western-dance party-psyche sounds).
Tuesday, July 16th
Cognitive Dissidents presents
Frank Junk / Troy Swanson
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E Olive Way, 8 pm, free, all ages.
Wednesday, July 17th
RoMarkable / Dave Knott
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $8, all ages.
"Sure to be one of this summer's new-music highlights at Polestar, RoMarkable (Rozanne Levine & Mark Whitecage) is the extraordinary New Jersey-based duo of new music improvisor/composers Mark Whitecage on alto and soprano saxophones and clarinets, and Rozanne Levine on clarinets and wooden flute. Their performances feature electronic manipulation of their horns alongside acoustic forays." "Seattle improvisor and instrument builder Dave Knott opens the evening with a performance he's worked years to conceive, "A Day in the Life," an improvisor's journey from wake till sleep smashed into 40 minutes. For this show, Dave will utilize blanket, clock, blender, guitar, large pine cone, stringboard, and more."Seattle Chamber Music Festival
Seattle, Lakeside School, 14050 1st NE, 8 pm, $32-$15.
"On the program: Charles Ives Largo for Violin, Clarinet and Piano along with mainstream fare by Beethoven, Brahms, and Amy Beach."Digital Fusions
Seattle, Meany Theater, UW Campus, 7:30 pm, $10/$8.
"Computer music, digital video, computer animation and live performance converge on stage and in surround sound during an evening of high energy international digital art works by local and international artists. The open rehearsal from 2 to 3 pm is free."
Thursday, July 18th
Noggin
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $6, all ages.
"Noggin is noise! Michael Griffen (violin) and Eric Ostrowski (guitar and violin) have played as a duo for over ten years. Polestar's proprietors have been big fans for many of those years, and we're proud to host this two-set extravaganza. The opener will be a rare acoustic set; the closer a freely improvised, feedback-sculpting, paint-peeling noisefest. Bring your earplugs (or not) and prep your internal organs for sonic surgery!"Wally Shoup Trio
Seattle, COCA, 1420 11th Ave, 9 pm, $5 (free for COCA Members).
"The WS Trio will be playing all their favorite patriotic pieces." Wally Shoup (alto sax), Bob Rees (drums), and Dan O'Brien (bass).
Saturday, July 20th
Bob Rees
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $6, all ages.
"Masterful young percussionist Bob Rees is quite simply one of the best things to happen to Seattle's out music scene in a long time. Polestar is very pleased to host Bob's solo debut, also the premier of his RESCUE project, an approach to improvisation years in the making: Release: unfold, unwind, uncork. Evolve: to work (something) out, to develop a style of one's own. Sound: transmitted vibrations. Capricious: impulsive, unpredictable. Unity: oneness, individuality, unaccompanied, singular. Eversion: to turn inside out, the act of turning outward. Bob will perform two sets on drum kit, vibraphone, and various other percussion."Seattle Creative Orchestra
Seattle, HUB Auditorium, UW Campus, 4:15 pm, $10/$8.
"The Seattle Creative Orchestra presents a chamber ensemble performance of music by composer and musical philosopher John Cage. A composer who explored the possibilities of percussion instruments, preparred piano, electronic music and dance collaboration, Cage became known as a thinker influenced by Zen Buddhism and chance procedures. The performance includes images from Sounds of the Inner Eye: John Cage, Mark Tobey, and Morris Graves, an exhibition at the Museum.Dave Douglas New Quintet
Seattle, Meany Theater, UW Campus, 7:30 pm, $25/$20.
"As a composer, improviser and trumpeter, Douglas is committed to developing music outside the traditional language of jazz. In addition to Douglas' trumpet, the New Quintet features Chris Potter on saxophone, Uri Caine on piano, James Genus on bass and Clarence Penn on drums. Pre-performance lecture at 7 pm by Richard Will in the West Lobby of the Meany Theater."discohesive
Seattle area, Sonarchy live radio hour, KEXP 90.3 FM, 11 pm-midnight
"A trio of sonic criminals accused of digging a hole through sound institutionalization. Sonarchy radio 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, Seattle."Pacific Northwest DIY Synthesizer Meeting
Renton, Renton Technical College, Room H-102, 3000 NE 4th St, 8 am-7 pm, free.
"Pacific Northwest DIY Synthesizer Group is a resource for synthesizer builders, electronic musicians and synthesizer lovers. There wil be a general Show and Tell, possibly performances? Please bring your: DIY synthsizers Vintage modular synthesizers, Power cord, power strips, Headphones, Audio cables, Mixers, DAT recorders, Cameras, etc.
Please RSVP: john.l.marshall@gte.netand mention What will you be bringing? How much space will you need? How much table space will you need? How much power will you need? Would you like to speak to the group? Would you like a particular topic discussed? Would you like to perform for the group (music only)? Do you have any special requirements? See http://www.sound-photo.com/html/synth_meeting.html for more information."RoMarkable, Noggin, Dr. Yellow Swans
Portland, Reaction Room, 9th and SE Yamhill, 8pm,$3-$10 sliding scale.
"A series of New Music Duets. RoMarkable: Mark Whitecage and Rozanne Levine present electro-acoustic improvisations. Noggin: Violin, Guitar noise from the beautiful town of Bellingham, Washington. Dr. Yellow Swans: Freak disco beats with a large helping of presence. In your face. so there...."Sunday, July 21st
Gregory Reynolds/Gust Burns, a Switch, a Cloud of feathers
Chamber Theater@ Odd Fellows Hall 915 Pine 3:00pm $5-8 sliding scale 324-0671
Gregory and Gust have been playing duo together privately for the last 6 months, developing a personal and intense shared music referencing modern classical music through improvisation in the post-braxton/webern/cage/feldman/public enemy continuum[sic].
Gregory Reynolds - alto saxophone Gust Burns - piano
a Switch, a Cloud of feathers- an eclectro-acoustic ensemble of underground roughneck imp-rov thugs from the jet city. sounds and sounds. electronic processing of acoustic and electric instruments. --
Cristin Miller-voice, Serena Tideman -cello, Jason Anderson-guitar,laptop,signalprocessing; John Bain-electronics, Gust Burns-hacked fender rhodes, Gregory Reynolds-alto sax.
Monday, July 22nd
Seattle Chamber Music Festival
Seattle, Lakeside School, 14050 1st NE, 8 pm, $32-$15.
"On the program: the premiere of Jeffrey Cotton's Sextet for Strings along with mainstream fare by Schubert and Faure."
Tuesday, July 23rd
Cognitive Dissidents presents
rebreather / Agentsound
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E Olive Way, 8 pm, free, all ages
Thursday, July 25th
pulp ensemble
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $6, all ages.
"The pulp ensemble was formed in August 2001 by illegally blind Seattle banjoist Mike Marlin and Cambridge trumpeter/cornetist and longtime Dubious Duo collaborator Eric Dahlman. Originally a seven-piece ensemble intended to be even larger, the mission of the group is to fuse swampy swing and meditative arrangements with unfettered free improvisation, reaching forward into yesteryear when banjos and brass ruled the streets. The ensemble has not been compared to Henry Threadgill's orchestras or Hal Russell's NRG Ensemble, but they'd be mighty flattered if anyone mentioned them in the same fortnight."
Mike Marlin (tenor and five-string banjos); Jim Knodle (trumpet); Jesse Canterbury (clarinet); Troy Grugett (alto saxophone); Mark Collins (acoustic bass); Bob Rees (drums and percussion).
Friday, July 26th
Jeffrey Morgan & Michael Bisio
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $8, all ages.
"Puget Sound expatriate Morgan, an astounding improvising saxophonist who has long lived in Cologne, Germany, is joined by acoustic bass master Michael Bisio. Don't miss the fireworks before Morgan returns to Europe."Whatissound?
Seattle, Experience Music Project, Sky Church, 325 5th Ave N, 9 pm
"Whatissound? is a project which was developed by the international non-profit arts collective www.whatisart.org. Whatissound? features various experimental sound, installation, and video art. This eclectic exhibition is an exchange of underground electronic sounds from Mannheim, Germany and Seattle, Washington. This event will be web cast live the day of the event, July 26th 2002 from 9pm -1am in the Sky Church at the EMP. Representing the United States: Maktub's Reggie Watts will be creating experimental digital sounds. Micheal Manahan, the creator of the Oracle Gatherings, will be spinning tribal underground beats, and D.J. D-Tox will spin dub creating transitions to each sound atmosphere. Artist Max Keene will be exhibiting his sensory motion installation, turning the human into the art object. American video artists Lucky O' Donnell and Gregory D'Elia will be presenting experimental video footage as well as a preview of Heide Strangesky's video "Revolver" which speaks of the romance between technology and Man."Seattle Composers Salon
Seattle, Soundbridge at Benaroya, corner of Union & 2nd Ave, 8 pm, $5.
"The Seattle Composers' Salon is a monthly, informal presentation of new music by Seattle composers. The salon features finished works, previews and works-in-progress, and brings together composers, performers and audience members in a casual setting that allows for discussion and experimentation."
Saturday, July 27th
Jesse Canterbury
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $6, all ages.
"Over the last two years, through his studies with clarinet wizards William O. Smith and Francois Houle, and through countless performances and rehearsals with some of Seattle's finest improvisers, clarinetist Jesse Canterbury has developed a unique approach to solo playing. The first set of his Polestar show will include at least three fresh solo improvisations. Paying tribute to his musical roots and mentors, Jesse will also include an arrangement for double clarinet of Eric Dolphy's Something Sweet, Something Tender, and performances of two of William O. Smith's compositions for solo clarinet: Five Fragments (1977) and Epitaphs (2000). For the second set, Jesse will be joined by percussionist Bob Rees and other special guests for performances of new compositions and new takes on the work of Franz Schubert and Claude Debussy."Anansi
Seattle area, Sonarchy live radio hour, KEXP 90.3 FM, 11 pm-midnight
"Jim Knodle (trumpet), Don Berman (drums), Ken Masters (guitar), and Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin). This is acoustic music made through deep listening.Sonarchy radio 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, Seattle."Berceuse Bedlam: Somnolent Experimental Improvisations from Arnoux, The Hypnogogic Orchestra, Brainwarmer and Nequaquam Vacuum
Portland, The Jasmine Tree, SW 4th & Harrison, 9:30 pm, $4.
"Arnoux of Omaha's Seagull Label, three-city file sharing project The Hypnogoci Orchestra of Denver's Kallisti Kollectif, and Portland experimental improv crews Brainwarmer and Nequaquam Vacuum join forces to present BERCEUSE BEDLAM, an exposition of somnolent noise, at The Jasmine Tree."
Sunday, July 28th
Lori Goldston
Seattle, Titlewave Books, 7 Mercer St (lower Queen Anne), 7:30 pm, free.
"Readers: Stacey Levine is the author of the Pen/Faulkner Award winning My Horse and Other Stories. Christine Felton is a poet living in Seattle. Doug Nufer's novel where no word appears more than once, Never Again, is at ubu.com. Tonight he'll flash stunts from a novel in progress, Circus Solus. Music: Lori Goldston plays cello, composes and arranges, and collaborates with artists of many stripes. She's the co-founder and co-director of the Black Cat Orchestra."
Monday, July 29th
Freedom from Summer Tour presents Mammal / Neon Hunk / Hair Police
Seattle, Graceland, 109 Eastlake Ave E, time and cover unknown
"Out of the harsh northern tundra comes the unexpected Hot Beats from Hell.....Mammal. Crushing electronic pulse noise from Detroit that will induce simultaneous Pleasure and Pain as your equilibrium is destroyed by the mam-moth sound. Neon Hunk is a drum & synthesizer outfit consisting of the magnetic radiation Storm force miraculously compressed into the corpus of two beastly dinosaurs who draw their Life-Juices from a magical future eland located under lake Michigan. The music is spastic, fast, and furious. Carefully structured more often than not, with occasional bursts of ecstatic nonstructure at peak points. Brawling enthusiasts from Lexington, Kentucky playing [avant] rock in the vein of Melt-Banana."
Tuesday, July 30th
Cognitive Dissidents presents
Arnoux / James Davis
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E Olive Way, 8 pm, free, all ages.
"Arnoux's (from Omaha, NE) one constant member is Lonnie Methe, who utilizes scraping violins, piano, howling woodwinds, homemade electronics, and more. The music ranges from the very stark, to celebratory, sweeping arcs of sound. Joining Methe on tour will be Brian Poloncic. City of Habits features a revolving cast of Southern California artists, including James Davis, Les Hodgkins, Dylan Shearer, Kiowa Hammons, and Colleen Russell. Their intense exercises in improvisation include a wide array of traditional and non-traditional instruments: prepared and tabletop guitars, reeds, strings, percussion, magnetized tools, household utensils, electronics, and more. Working out of a minimalistic framework, the artists listen in and follow the music, which sometimes gives way to a meditative chaos. The two groups will unite and free-improvise as one for every performance, as opposed to playing seperate sets."Axolotl / Hyapatia Lake
Seattle, Rebar, Howell at Boren, 9:30 pm, $5.
"Axolotl is an exploratory instrumental rock quartet featuring Dennis Rea and Bill Horist, two of the Northwest's most sonically adventurous guitarists, plus badass electric bassist Ryan Berg and multidimensional drummer Randy Doak. Named for an outlandish primitive salamander species, the group performs wildly varied sets of original material ranging from maniacal punk-jazz to stirring anthems to twisted neo-metal, interspersed with explosive improvisations. Rea and Horist's guitar playing is all over the sonic map in this group, propelled by Berg's huge bass grooves and Doak's deft jazz-rock drumming."
Wednesday July 31st
Wally Shoup Trio, Oxygen Ensemble
Seattle, The Rainbow, 722 NE 45th, 9:30PM, 21+$5
Wally Shoup Trio - Wally Shoup (Sax), Bob Rees (drums), Greg Campbell (drums)
Oxygen Ensemble - Thomas Bell (bass), Brian Kent (sax), Dara Quinn (keys), Don Goodwin (Keys), Olli Klomp (drums), Bob Rees (percussion), Tor Dietrichson (tabla), Franklin Mazzeo (drums/electronics), Bill Wolford (electronics/samples).
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