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| This month's Northwest creative music events |
Tuesday, September 3rd
Cognitive Dissidents presents
Plasticene R.S. Pearson
Seattle, The Coffee Messiah, 1554 E. Olive Way, (206) 861-8233, donations accepted , All Ages.
Plasticene = 1 guitar + 6 stomp boxes + 4 fx processers + 2 digital delays + 21 cables + 2 amplifiers + 5 cymbals + 2 toms + 1 snare + 1 kick drum + 5 stands + 2 pairs headphones + 1 headphone amp = driving grooves + angular rhythm phrases + soaring melodies + luscious pads + big basslines = the infinite energy and possiblity of the live + the perfect performance and repitition of the digital = Aaron Chang (guitar) + Dave Elvin (drums)
Thursday, September 5th
Monktail Presents Free Improv @ The Baltic Room
NON GRATA
Seattle, The Baltic Room, 1207 Pine St, 9pm, 21+ $5, http://www.monktail.com/calendar.htmlThe Gone Orchestra, 3MUCHFUN
Portland , Bush Gardens, 9th and SW Yamhill, 9:00 pm, donation, mike_mahaffay@yahoo.com
The Gone Orchestra explores jazz, blues, and noise, using everything from djembe and lap steel to theremin, "electronics" and sampling.
Mike Mahaffay (Traps), Eric Hausman (Electronic Stuff), Michael Lastra (Therimen and sampler), Rik Stewart (Trumpet, vibes, Perc.), Michael Stirling (vocals), Micheal Walsh (bassoon), Stan Wood (vibraband and Perc.),Scott Steel (guitar)
3MUCHFUN Features Perry Robinson (Clarinet), Jim Knodle (Trumpet), Marc Smason (Trombone).
3MUCHFUN will open the evening and then join The Gone Orchestra for the second setMutant Data Orchestra, Otis F. Odder, inBOIL, Bios+a+ic, MOFO
Seattle, COCA, 1420 11th Ave., 8pm, $5, 728-1980
"In response to Blurred, the architecture show currently at COCA, a showcase of four electronic artists who work in the realm of sound as invisible architectures or synthetic soundscapes. Often considered cinematic, these sound artists utilize improvisation and the inspiration of the moment for morphing into succeeding sonic environments."
Mutant Data Orchestra (modified electronics), Otis F. Odder (samples), inBOIL (electronics, laptop), Bios+a+ic (trumpet, effects).
Friday, September 6th
Joshua Kohl Music for Chamber Ensemble, Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra!
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue, 8 PM, $8 donation, All Ages, (206) 329-4224
"Polestar launches its fall season with a wild-and-wonderful weekend of creative chamber and orchestral (Moe!kestra!l?) music. Degenerate Art Ensemble leader Joshua Kohl premieres two sets of chamber ensemble works focused on microtones and rhythmic expansion. Percussionist, composer, and orchestra leader Moe! Staiano of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum fame leads a seventeen-piece orchestra in a performance of another bizarre Moe!kestra! score, "Piece No. 6: And They All Swore They Slept Soundly." Both groups perform Friday and Saturday evening."
Saturday, September 7th
Joshua Kohl Music for Chamber Ensemble, Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra!
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue, 8 PM, $8 donation, All Ages, (206) 329-4224
See 9/6 description above
Sunday, September 8th
HOLY GOATS! Sunday Afternoon Improvisations
Portland, Performance Works NorthWest, 4625 SE 67th between Foster & Holgate,2pm , 503-777-1907, $7 (includes coffee & bagel).
Performers to include: Catherine Egan, Ellie Laser + Ash Rivera, Seth Nehil + Bethany Wright and Super Unity.
Tuesday, September 10th
Cognitive Dissidents presents
Chuck Swaim & the Dead Air Fresheners, Dubious Duo and Friends
Seattle, The Coffee Messiah, 1554 E. Olive Way, (206) 861-8233, donations accepted , All Ages.
Mike Marlin (banjo), Eric Dahlman (trumpet/French horn), Jim Knodle (trumpet), Mark Collins (bass) and hopefully other mystery guests "Dubious Duo is a longtime collaboration of improvisors that began in 1983 in an abandoned train tunnel in Providence, R.I. Conspirators Eric Dahlman and Mike Marlin conduct freely improvised passages of irreverent sound that have captivated audiences of Canadian geese in a snowstorm and driven away fried clam stuffed families from a Rhode Island seaside amusement park.
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.Wednesday, September 11th
Lobot, Oxygen Ensemble
Seattle, The Rainbow, 722 N. 45th Ave. , 10:00 pm, cover, 21+.
Lobot will be re-scoring live Werner Herzogs brilliant documentary of post war Kuwait and a world set ablaze. Strangely Beautiful and poignant this documentary shows a portrait of environmental disaster and post war ruin you will not forget. Also appearing will be the Oxygen Ensemble.
Thursday, September 12th
Earshot Jazz and The Seattle Art Museum present
Voice and Vision series: Perry Robinson, Jim Knodle and Marc Smason - "3 much fun"
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
"Clarinetist Robinson, a part-time Seatttle resident, re-joins veteran Seattle instrumentalists to reprise a wonderful 2001 performance that was recorded for CD release."Mark Hosler
Seattle, Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater, 2320 2nd Ave., 9pm, $5-7
"Mark Hosler, founding member of Negativland, hosts this video/lecture presentation illustrating the creative projects, hoaxes, pranks and "culture jamming" that Negativland has been doing since 1980. Mark1s presentation covers issues of media-literacy, creative and humorous anti-corporate art/activism, the role of advertising and corporate power in our lives, intellectual property issues, and the evolution of art, law and resistance in a media saturated multi-national world."Eric Apoe & They
Seattle, downtown Borders Books and Music, Fourth Avenue at Pike, noon-1 pm, FREE
Eric Apoe (vocals, guitar), Dennis Rea (guitar), Damian Aitken (saxophone), Olli Klomp (percussion), Tige DeCoster (bass).
Friday, September 13th
Mark Dresser and Denman Maroney
Portland, Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis, 8:00 p.m., $12 / $10.
"Mark Dresser has been composing and performing solo contrabass and ensemble music professionally since 1972 throughout North America, Europe and Asia.His most recent projects include Mark Dresser's Force Green, the Double Trio Project (comprised of Arcade and the Trio du Clarinettes) and the Mark Dresser Trio (performing his score written for the silent film classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari). Other outlets for his compositions and performance are with two groundbreaking cooperative groups, Arcado and Tambastics."
"Composer Denman Maroney is known for his unique hyperpiano style, which involves exciting the strings directly with various objects on the keyboard."Angelina Baldoz, Jesse Canterbury & Mark Collins with Lori Goldston and Tari Nelson-Zagar
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 - 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 PM, $6 donation, All Ages.
"Two sets of acoustic improvised music from five of Seattle's finest creative players, at the instigation of trumpeter Angelina Baldoz. Set one will be the first performance by the trumpet/clarinet/bass trio of Baldoz, Canterbury, and Collins. They report having tilled much fertile soil playing in private over the past year, so this should be quite a coming-out show. For set two, Angelina will be joined by two longtime improv compatriots, cellist Lori Goldston and violinist Tari Nelson-Zagar."
Angelina Baldoz (trumpet); Jesse Canterbury (clarinet); Mark Collins (bass); Lori Goldston (cello); Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin)Coterie Exchange, Bill Horist & Mike Peterson, Electric Birds, Mesh
Seattle, CoCA,1420 11th Ave., $5, 9pm, all ages.
"Mesh is the San Francisco experimental computer music duo of Mike Donovan and Luke Calzonetti.
Electric Birds is Mike Martinez.
The as-yet-unnamed duo of Bill Horist(guitar) and Mike Peterson(drums) is a reunion of two long-time collaborators, and two of the most kinetically fierce and exciting improvisers in Seattle.
Sharon Cheslow has been experimenting with sound in various contexts, such as installations, events, and digital audio, over the past four years. For this tour she'll be performing as Coterie Exchange (with Miya Zane Osaki of Tiny Bird Mouths/TheTeethe), doing stripped down versions of material from "Lullabye From The Sky" due out on her label Decomposition in September."Bill Horist with Mike Peterson
Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art, 1420 11th Ave (Capitol Hill), 8pm, ALL AGES!
"Prepare for a blistering set of aggressive guitar/drum improvisations from 2/3rds of free-shredding behemoths, Ghidra. Also on the bill are some folks from California doing laptop stuff."
Saturday, September 14th
Scott Amendola Band
Seattle, Old Town Ale House, 5233 Ballard Ave NW, cover.
"Scott Amendola landed in San Francisco in 1992 after graduating from Berklee College of Music. He met guitarist Charlie Hunter soon after arriving in San Francisco. The two joined forces along with Will Bernard and John Schott to form the innovative band TJ Kirk (Warner Bros.). TJ Kirk went on to be nominated for a Grammy in 1995. A year and a half later, Scott joined the Charlie Hunter Quartet. The band toured worldwide and recorded three records for Blue Note. Scott's latest project is his own Scott Amendola Band."
Jenny Scheinman (Violin), Nels Cline(Guitar), Eric Crystal, Todd Sickafoose (Saxophones), Scott Amendola (drums).David Haney and Adam Diller
Seattle area, Sonarchy live radio hour, KEXP 90.3 FM, 11 pm-midnight.
"Cadence Jazz Records recording artist David Haney, piano and Adam Diller, clarinet, perform works by Herbie Nichols plus instant compositions."
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.MDO+
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 - 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 PM, $6 donation, All Ages.
"Mutant Data Orchestra brings together like-minded folks to once again explore the intersection of acoustic and electronic sound in an improvisational setting. The Polestar performance will feature two horn players utilizing both acoustic sounds and amplification-processing via two containers of water with hydrophones. Often considered cinematic, the MDO+ resembles a sound art that warps and morphs into new sonic spaces; an alien landscape of urbanism."
Mutant Data Orchestra (John Bain) Plus: Ffej (analog synthesizer), Otis F Odder (samples), Carl Farrow (laptop processing), Angelina Baldoz (trumpet), Gregory Reynolds (alto sax).twelve unaccompanied solos
Portland, Disjecta, 116 NE Russel St., 9:30 pm $3-$10
first set: wilson zorn (electronics), steveschneider (tenorsaxophone), steev hise (electronics), caryl Keintz (violin).
second set: doug theriault (guitar), markkaylor (drums), teri nelson-zagar (violin), mark burdon (percussion), john berendzen (electronics).
Monday, September 16th
Chuck Swaim & the Dead Air Fresheners
Olympia, Charlie's Lounge, 9pm, 620 4th Ave. E., (360) 786-8181, FREE, 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.
Tuesday, September 17th
Cognitive Dissidents presents
Wormhole (from San Diego)
Seattle, The Coffee Messiah, 1554 E. Olive Way, (206) 861-8233, donations accepted , All Ages.
"Armed with an arsenal of percussive and electronic source material, Marcos Fernandes, Nathan Hubbard and Robert Montoya join forces to explore structured and open improvisation, soundart, beats and other sonic marvels of the 21st century. Wormhole began in 1994 as an improvisational duo of percussionists Marcos Fernandes and Robert Montoya. As a quartet, they recorded three tracks that appear on "Trummerflora" (1995 Accretions), a compilation of experimental groups, and toured Hong Kong as part of Cyberfest, a trans-global art, culture and telecommunications expo. Wormhole Effect's 1997 eponymous release and the 1998 follow-up "The Bastard Musicians of Mesmer" featured a six-piece ensemble. They collaborated on various dance projects in San Diego during 1999-2000, contributing music to Continuums: one (1999 Merge Frequency Recordings), a Tommy Award-winning performance art piece, and performing as residents at Project Cathedral, an ambient multi-media performance installation. Fernandes and Montoya explored the world of electronica as the Wormhole Brothers, collaborating with members of the Nortec Collective and contributing tracks to the Track Whore compilations (2002 Pan Handler). With the addition of Nathan Hubbard, Wormhole continues its mission of creating a globally-informed experimental and improvisational music in 2002."Matthias Ziegler
Tacoma, Pacific Lutheran University, Lagerquist Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center, 7:30 pm, (253) 535-7787 for ticket info.
"Known to American audiences as one third of the Mark Dresser Trio, Matthias Ziegler presents the US debut of his extraordinary solo program on the contrabass flute; exploring loops, drones, triggers and extended techniques on the big instruments."
Wednesday September 18th
The Abodox / Nervewheel / Herzog
I-SPY/NATION, 1921 5th Ave (alley entrance), 9pm, 21+
"Opening the show will be Herzog, the improv side project of well-known locals Kinski. If you weren't among the numbers at Nervewheel's debut gig last month, tonight's your chance to find out what all the buzz is about. Rounding out the evening is the Abodox, providing hard-hitting instrumentals from former members of Stradhoughton Echo."
Thursday, September 19th
The Collins-Rea-Scheer String Trio
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue, 8 PM, $6 donation, All Ages (206) 329-4224
"The recently formed acoustic trio of Mark Collins (acoustic bass), Dennis Rea (guitars), and Karl Scheer (violin, mandolin, guitar) performs hyperbaric chamber music encompassing carnival-mirror blues, demented bop, Tang Dynasty melodies, and blizzards of fractured sound. For its Polestar performance, the trio will play an all-acoustic set of improvisations and compositions, followed by its first-ever electric set featuring tabletop guitar and electronic keyboards."Wormhole ,Elevated Risk
Portland, Polyp and Fury, 3967 N Mississippi , 8pm
Wormhole continues its mission of creating globally-informed experimental music in 2002. Armed with an arsenal of percussive and electronic source material, Marcos Fernandes, Nathan Hubbard and Robert Montoya join forces to explore structured and open improvisation, soundart, beats and other sonic marvels of the 21st century.
Elevated Risk consists of : Doug Theriault (Guitar, Computer), Mark Burdon- (Drums), Craig Burke (Guitar, Vocals), Joel Taylor (Shakuhatchi, Synth, Computer )Degenerate Art Ensemble presents
New Sketches and Experiments
Seattle, COCA 1420 11th Ave, 8:00 pm, $5-10 donation
"Degenerate Art Ensemble presents an evening of new sketches and experiments in music, dance, sculpture, animation and more at the Center On Contemporary Art (COCA) on Capitol Hill. The evening will include an entire set of newly composed music by Joshua Kohl, Josh Stewart, Sam Mickens and Jherek Bischoff. The night will also feature collaborations between composers and other artists. Composer Josh Stewart will team up with sculptor Nikolaus Weisend on a huge music making structure, which will be played by four suspended musicians and connected to dancer Haruko Nishimura. Composer Sam Mickens will collaborate with a butoh dancer and a break dancer. DAE percussionist Robert Walker will accompany a newly animated short film."
Friday, September 20th
Wormhole, Matt Crane - Gregory Reynolds Duo
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue, 8 PM, $8 donation, All Ages, (206) 329-4224
"An evening of creative percussion-driven music, from acoustic free jazz to electronic sound art.
Armed with an arsenal of percussive and electronic source material, the unusual San Diego percussion trio Wormhole explores structured and open improvisation, sound art, beats, and other sonic marvels of the 21st century. Wormhole's players are Accretions and Circumvention recording artists and members of San Diego's creative music umbrella group, the Trummerflora Collective. Marcos Fernandes, Nathan Hubbard, and Robert Montoya - all three on percussion and electronics.
The Seattle area's Matt Crane (drums) and Gregory Reynolds (alto saxophone) open with a set of hard-driving acoustic free jazz. Technique, heart, soul, and more come pouring off the stage when these two put their musical heads together."Mecca Normal, Nequaquam Vacuum with P.A.N., Bobby Karate, Gardy Loo
Seattle, CoCA,1420 11th Ave., $5, 9pm, all ages.
Openers Gardy Loo consist of Ed Petry(fretless elcetric guitar), Michael Monhart(saxes), Mark Collins(upright bass), Andrew Luthringer(electric bass), and Dalton Davis.(drums)Led by Ed Petry, Gardy Loo promises a dense, heady set of free improv.
Bobby Karate: Freqs, grains, & inside-out filters Karate's tracks aren't intended to stir up the bourgeoisie--they tweak the relay between your ears & your brain. Rather than parody the socioeconomic status quo, he parodies the pitiable state of dance music that's released these days.
Portland improvisers Nequaquam Vacuum will perform as musical foil for local Butoh Ensemble P.A.N.;a squirming, screaming organism of sheer expression.
Mecca Normal consist of Jean Smith (vocals) and David Lester (guitar).Saturday, September 21st
MASON JONES, SIKHARA, SAMADHI and SOLIP/SCHISM
Portland, THE JASMINE TREE, SW 4th and HARRISON, 9:00 pm, $5, radonstudio@yahoo.com, vacuum@evilemail.com
"Noise guitar heavyweight Mason Jones, makes an all-too-rare trip to Portland. Sikhara, flagship industribal project of the international Radon collective, play their first date in the U.S. since embarking on a tour of Europe and Asia last April. Samadhi, the current collaboration between Crash Worship alumni Markus Wolff and Sasha Drummure, lend their own modern primitive hypnogogia. Opening, music critic John Graham plays as Solip/Schism."Chuck Swaim & the Dead Air Fresheners, Oslo
Tacoma, Bob's Java Jive, 2102 S. Tacoma Way, 9pm, (253) 475-9843, $3, 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 Also performing are Oslo featuring Vern, formerly of Unwound and John, formerly of Bunny Foot Charm.Mowgli
Seattle area, Sonarchy live radio hour, KEXP 90.3 FM, 11 pm-midnight.
Aaron Str8 (didjeridoo), Jordin Corbin (keys/vocals), Eddie Nonog (turntables), Jon Ryser and Steve Scalfati (reeds).
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.An Evening with the SoniCabal
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue, 8 PM, $6 donation, All Ages (206) 329-4224
An evening of electronic collaborations among members of the Seattle area's collective of exploratory sound artists, the SoniCabal.
Participants will include: Mutant Data Orchestra (John Bain); inBOIL (Carl Farrow); Ottis F. Odder; Ffej; Intonarumori (Kevin Goldsmith); Alex Keller; Steve Barsotti; Biostatic (Wesley Davis); Kelli Wise; XI S IX; Xaxis Wye (Jeff Muller); R.S. Pearson; and Vance Galloway.NON GRATA, SNMNMNM and The Classics
Seattle, The Rainbow, 722 NE 45th St,9pm, 21+, cover
NON GRATA with friends from LA."Interstellar Chemistry" CD Release Celebration w/Nervewheel & Selector Matt Williams
Lulu's, 421 2nd Ave Extension S (in Pioneer Square), 9pm, 21+
Come on out and celebrate the long-awaited release of "Interstellar Chemistry", the new collaboration CD between Bill Horist and KK Null(Zeni Geva). Although Null and Bill won't be appearing together at this event, music will be provided by Bill's new trio, Nervewheel, and Matt Williams, who will be spinning avant hits all night long!. This celebration is also to help Bill raise funds to cover travel costs for his October tour of Italy and Slovenia.Benefit for Four Wall Cinema Collective featuring
Jackie O Motherfucker, Sean Croghan, Telephone, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Portland, DISJECTA , 116 NE Russell St., allages, $5-10 suggested donation, (503)335-6979
All funds raised go to help cover the cost of presenting film and video work this Fall season.
Tuesday, September 24th
Cognitive Dissidents presents
Noggin, Artie Smudges Trio
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E. Olive Way, (206) 861-8233, donations accepted , All Ages
Noggin will be performing a small amp version of their sound to fit with the small setting of the Coffee Messiah.
Artie Smudges performs smooth noise.Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, *Pi*
Seattle, The Rainbow, $15, 21+
"From Tulsa, Oklahoma, Brian Haas (Fender Rhodes, melodica and acoustic piano), Jason Smart (drums) and Reed Mathis (bass) pull influences from nearly every genre of music, diverse as John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Thelonious Monk and KRS-ONE. Together since 1994, JFJO is constantly expanding their horizons by collaborating with the likes of Les Claypool, Charlie Hunter, Karl Denson, DJ Logic and the list goes on and on& They have integrated their improvisational music deeply into the jazz and festival scenes."
Wednesday, September 25th
SIL2K presents
Return of the Night of Games featuring the SIL2K Ensemble and Spaceboat.TV
Seattle, Consolidated Works, 500 Boren Ave N, 7:30 pm, $5/$2 for members,
"Return of the Night of Games feature interactive works specially written for this event. Stuart McLeod's "Triangulate" creates parameter relationships between dancer, musician and video artist. James Drage's "Grideo" is a piece for video mixers using game rules for artistic ends. Stuart McLeod's "Alchemy" trades and develops music between musicians, computers and the audience. And Brian Eno's "Oblique Strategies" has been retooled for audio/visual performance. Eno's Zen-like instructions flash on the screen and the brave musicians and the video artists Spaceboat.TV draw upon them for inspiration. SIL2K uses game rules, computers, graphs and hand gestures to integrate music, video and movement into a true synthesis of intent."
Thursday, September 26th
Polestar presents
Gust Burns Quartet
Seattle, Globe Cafe, 14th Avenue at East Pine, 8 PM, $6 donation, All Ages,
"Two sets on the Globe Cafe's 1926 Yamaha grand with Gust Burns. He'll be joined by three of the area's best creative musicians, including Greg Campbell on percussion. For the first set, Gust will perform two duo pieces, one with Jesse Canterbury, one with Gregory Reynolds. Gust has been collaborating with both of these wind players in duo context for the past six months, developing two independent and contrasting personal duo languages. The second set will consist of a new composition for quartet, utilizing extensive free improvisation, as well as notated and 'in-between' material. While so much of the music is improvised, a general form, framing, and strategy preserves the identity of the piece over different performances. Much of this material will be a preview, in amended form, of a piece Gust is preparing for larger ensemble for Earshot Jazz's Voice & Vision series on November 14 at the Seattle Asian Art Museum."
Gust Burns (piano); Greg Campbell (percussion); Jesse Canterbury (clarinet); Gregory Reynolds (alto saxophone)
Friday, September 27th
HalfNormal, Nequaquam Vacuum
Portland, The Jasmine Tree, SW 4th and Harrison, $4.Sympathetic Toe, Harper/Rea/Scheer String Trio
Seattle, Mr. Spot's Chai House, 5463 Leary Way NW (NW Market & Leary in Ballard), 8 pm, Donation.
Bubbling up from the primordial regrade ooze, Sympathetic Toe barges into Mr. Spot's for their debut gig of the BBWI (before Bush was impeached) era. This amalgamation of deranged souls is sure to make your toe hairs bristle with impromptu wonderment and freely improvised shenanigans.
Sympathetic Toe is: Mike Marlin (banjo), Jim Knodle (trumpet), Geoff Harper (acoustic bass), Jesse Canterbury (clarinet), and Debbie Scott (voice/percussion). The acoustic trio of Mark Collins (acoustic bass), Dennis Rea (guitars), and Karl Scheer (violin, mandolin, guitar) performs hyperbaric chamber music encompassing carnival-mirror blues, demented bop, Tang Dynasty melodies, and blizzards of fractured sound.KMH, Sound Structures
Seattle, Panama Hotel Tea & Coffee House, 607 1/2 South Main, $6 suggested donation, 8 pm.
"Pictorial sonics: (RE)construct and (DE)form a series of constantly changing structures (the structures being sound) UBER-physical & semi-solid."Soundbridge Seattle Symphony Music Discovery Center presents
The Seattle Composers' Salon - Kickoff to the FOURTH Season
Seattle, Soundbridge Seattle Symphony Music Discovery Center, Located in Benaroya Hall, corner of Union Street and 2nd Avenue, $5 suggested donation.
September Composers: Daine Thome, Tom Baker, Len Bassham, David Messler, Matt Ward-Steinman, Tom Swafford
Performers to Include: Samuel Beckert, Tom Swafford, Lorri Frogget, Ryan Hare, David Mesler, Matt Ward-Steinman, Dennis Calvin, Matthew Nelson
"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."Third Rail Delivery, Monster Definace Headquarters
Seattle, 2nd Ave Pizza, 2015 2nd Ave., (206) 956-0489, 8 pm, all ages, free, beer 21+
Third Rail Delivery is"noisy rock" and Monster Definace Headquarters is "rockin' noise."
Saturday, September 28th
Dead Air Fresheners, Terran Spiral
Chehalis, The Matrix, 434 NW Prindle St., 8-9pm, all-ages, cover, terransp@terranspiral.com
Olympia's Dead Air Freshener "FALL NW CAFE TOUR 2002" makes a stop in Chehalis at The Matrix.
"Cinematic Electronic best describes the music of Terran Sprial. Music that takes you on a journey into lands of the mind and imagination. Like watching a movie, one that plays inside ones head, instead of on the screen."Alex Keller and Atlatl
Seattle area, Sonarchy live radio hour, KEXP 90.3 FM, 11 pm-midnight.
Hard core electronics as delivered by Alex Keller and Atlatl.
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.Bob Bellerue / halfnormal
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue, 8 PM, $8 donation, All Ages, (206) 329-4224
"Los Angeles electroacoustic sound artist Bob Bellerue's West Coast tour brings him to Polestar to perform two works employing everything from his laptop computer to bowed panes of glass to his tongue and gluttoral palette."Axolotl farewell show / Brothers of Max Catharsis
Seattle, Lulu's, 421 Second Avenue Extension S in Pioneer Square, 9 P.M., $5
Alas, Axolotl's final show with founding bassist Ryan Berg. Although the group will carry on with a new bassist, it's unlikely that we'll be performing again for several months, so please come on down to tip your hat to Mr. Berg and get your last fix of the Ax for a while to come. Impressive instrumental trio The Brothers of Max Catharsis (guitarist Joe Messer, bassist Ryan Ferris, and former Axolotl drummer Jay Jaskot) is tentatively scheduled to open.entropy accelerator presents
://RELAPSE 4 further explorations in sonic mayhem
The Earwigs, Natural Order, Bruzed, Monster Defiance Headquarters
Seattle, Second Ave. Pizza, 2015 2nd ave., 8:30-11:00, Free, all ages, beer 21+
"This is the fourth installment of ://Relapse, a monthly showcase for power-electronics, rhythmic noise, harsh ambience, chaotic experimental music, and more at the Second Ave. Pizza. This show will feature everything from the thick overwhelming layers of nature-sourced sounds of Natural Order to the freak-out improvised electronic perfomance art of Monster Defiance HQ. Something for the whole dysfunctional family."
Sunday, September 29th
Eric Barber, Jason Anderson
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue, 8 PM, $8 donation, All Ages, (206) 329-4224
"The Los Angeles weekend continues at Polestar with a solo set from outstanding new music performer Eric Barber on tenor and soprano saxophones. Eric will be performing a set of original solo compositions and improvisations. These pieces stem from and are a workshop for his improvisational language: complex metric structures, multiphonics, and cyclical melodic structures all integrated in a very personal way.
Seattle's Jason Anderson opens with a set of guitar and electronics improvisations. The show will be enhanced by a rooftop microphone via which Jason will improvise with the overhead jet traffic heading into and out of SeaTac airport "John Cage: A Musical Retrospective Featuring the Odeon String Quartet
Seattle, PONCHO Concert Hall, Kerry Hall, 710 East Roy Street, 7 p.m, $12 general; $6 students, seniors & Cornish alumni.
"John Cage: A Musical Retrospective will be performed at Cornish College of the Arts, featuring music by John Cage. The concert will feature the Odeon String Quartet (Lehmann-Ensemble-in-Residence), including Gennady Filimonov (violin), Ami Campbell (violin), Michael Lieberman (viola), and Paige Stockley (cello). The Odeon String Quartet will be joined by Cornish College Music faculty Roger Nelson (piano), Natalie Lerch (soprano), and Paul Taub (flute). Works will include String Quartet in Four Parts, Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Songs, A Flower and works for piano and prepared piano. John Cage, Mark Tobey and Morris Graves met in Seattle in the mid-1930s. Although distinct in style, these three historically significant artists share a similar philosophy toward life and art. Their great interest in each others' creative process is revealed in the written texts, poems and prefaces they wrote for each other. Sounds of the Inner Eye: John Cage, Mark Tobey and Morris Graves is the first exploration of the artistic and biographical connections that bind the three artists."
(Lehmann-Ensemble-in-Residence): Gennady Filimonov (violin,) Ami Campbell (violin), Michael Lieberman (viola), and Paige Stockley (cello). With Roger Nelson (piano), Natalie Lerch (soprano), and Paul Taub (flute).
Monday, September 30th
Sound of a Handshake
Seattle, Chamber Theatre, 4th floor Oddfellows Hall, 915 E Pine, 10pm, donation, gustb@angelfire.com
The first installment of the new monday night improvised music series curated by Adam Diller and Gust Burns! different improvisers every week playing in different groupings over the night.
Gregory Reynolds (alto sax), Jason Anderson (electronics), Adam Diller (clarinet, tenor sax), Gust Burns (piano)Thursday, September 5th - Saturday, September 28th
Sound Structures
Seattle, Fisher Gallery (Kerry Hall),Cornish College of the Arts,710 East Roy Street, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 10 - 6pm, By appointment: 206-726-5142, $6 suggested donation
Sound Structures is an exhibition that explores divergent manifestations within the current practice of sound art. This exhibition will provide visitors with a range of listening experiences from sound objects and sound-oriented video pieces to kinetic instruments and captured sound events. Works on view will encourage viewers and listeners to interact and experiment with sound. In addition there will be a group of environmental sound installations at the Cornish North Campus.
Participants include: John Burrow, Seoungho Cho, Andrew Deutsch and Ann Hamilton, Christopher DeLaurenti, Doug Haire, Max Keene, Susie Kozawa, Dave Knot, KMH (kelly/mzweig/kristen_), Minoru Sato, Dan Senn, Trimpin, Stephen VitielloThursday September 12th -Saturday September 14th
Reclaim The Media: Rally for the Public Interest
Seattle, Freeway Park, 8th and Seneca, Thurs 3-5pm, Fri/Sat 11am-5pm, jonathan@indymedia.org
"A Three-day rally in the park adjacent to where the National Association of Broadcasters will be hold ing their annual corporate radio conference. Join the fight for media democracy! Performers include local experimental hip-hop acts Leña and tree root (Friday), avant-jazz trio Mothra (Knodle/Ross/Mueller-Graf, Saturday) and Amy Denio (Saturday)."Wednesday, September 25th - Sunday September 29th
John Moran
Seattle, On the Boards, 100 W. Roy St, 8 pm all dates; 10:30pm 9/27 and 28, $18, 206-217-9888
"Obie-award winning composer John Moran fashions music from the sound of everyday life, lays the soundtrack on live actors, like a odd sort of lip sync, manipulating the action on stage. The show at OtB will be selections from his full-evening works: A Manson Family Opera, Jack Benny!; and Book of the Dead(2nd Avenue)."
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