Earshot Jazz presents
Saadet Turkoz and guests
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery - 8pm, $12 general / $10 discount
"The stunning Kazakh-Turkish vocalist Saadet Turkoz, now based in Zurich, improvizes in inimitable fashion around her native folksongs, using traditional modes and scales. She also resembles avant-gardists like Diamanda Galas in her virtuosic, extended vocal style. She is joined by Seattle friends, Eyvind Kang, Brent Arnold, Michael Bisio, among others."Creative Music Guild presents
Mark Helias' Open Loose
Portland, Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis, 8:00 p.m.$12 / $10 members.
Mark Helias began working with the bands of Anthony Davis, Anthony Braxton, Dewey Redman and Barry Altschul in the late seventies and recorded his first album as a leader, Split Image, in 1984 for ENJA Records. In the 80s and 90s he has toured and recorded with such as Don Cherry, Ray Anderson, Marty Ehrlich, Oliver Lake, Ed Blackwell, Gary Thomas, the J. B. Horns, the Slickaphonics, and many more. Mark Helias, Tom Rainey and Tony Malaby.Regina Yeh
Seattle, Brechemin Auditorium, UW Music Building, 8 pm, $8/$10.
"Pianist Regina Yeh performs selections from Ligeti's dazzling Etudes, Books 1 and 2 (Fanfares and Ensuspens) and Regard des Anges from Messiaen's Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jesus along with mainstream fare by Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann."The HipSync Invitational Free Jazz Concert Series presents
Subspace Transmission
Seattle, 9lb Hammer Pub, 6009 Airport Way S, 9 pm, free.
"Check out the debut of avant-jazz trio "Subspace Transmission" featuring guitarist Rik Wright, percussionist Simon Grant and contrabassist Nathan Levine. This new group has been described as "sounding like radio signals that have bounced off a meteor". Warm your soul this winter by joining HipSync Records the first Friday of every month for ambient free jazz explorations. This series, hosted by HipSync founders Simon Grant and Rik Wright will feature a wide variety of guest soloists performing in the comfortable acoustic surrounding of Georgetown's new 9LB Hammer Pub located in the JEM Studios artist complex."
Saturday November 2nd
Earshot Jazz presents
Saadet Turkoz and guests
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery - 8pm, $12 general / $10 discount
See Nov 1st listing above for description.Seattle New Music Ensemble
Seattle, Town Hall, 1119 8th Avenue (at Seneca), 8 pm, $20/$15/$10, 206.417.5000.
SNME's 02-03 season kicks off with "Music of Biology, Technology, and Theology". The concert will feature a World premiere by Portland composer Forrest Pierce, a Seattle premiere by Chicago composer Stacy Garrop, and a sparkling rendition of "Quartet for the End of Time" Leslie Laibman (Flute), Brad Sherman (Clarinet), David Reeves (Percussion), Melissa Plagemann (Piano), Steve Creswell (Violin), Bradley Hawkins (Cello).Crack Sabbath
Seattle area, Sonarchy live radio hour, KEXP 90.3 FM, 11 pm-midnight.
"Crack Sabbath live at the 700 Club, recorded december 1998. The band is Skerik, Ron Weinstein, Keith Lowe and Mike Stone with several special guests. This show is the first of a two-part series from this special night of club 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."
Sunday, November 3rd
Music of Rememberance
Seattle, Recital Hall at Benaroya, 3rd & Union, 7:30 pm, $25.
Music written during or inspired by the Holocaist. David Stock's A Vanished World and two premieres: Haas' Study for String Orchestra and Pastieri's Fragments of Isabella.afterEars presents
Billy Mintz + Adam Diller / Travis Baker + Tari Nelson-Zagar
Seattle, Velocity Mainspace Theater, 915 E Pine, 10 pm, $6-10 donation.
"Billy Mintz is a wonderful drummer from LA, joined by "promising saxophonist" (Cadence) Adam Diller for a sensitive duo set. Travis Baker has established himself as one of the strongest bass players in Vancouver, BC. He will perform with violinist Tari Nelson-Zagar a veteran of the northwest improv scene. Parallel to the Earshot Jazz Festival, the afterEars concert series will present three nights of new music."
Monday, November 4th
afterEars presents
Gust Burns Quartet / The Pig Bodine Big Band
Seattle, Velocity Mainspace Theater, 915 E Pine, 10 pm, $6-10 donation.
"Pianist Gust Burns will be joined by two of Portland's finest improvisers: "stellar young guitarist" (Willamette Weekly) Tom McNally and drummer Tim DuRoche. Bassist Travis Baker achors the quartet. Directed by Adam Diller, the Pig Bodine Big Band is an 11 piece ensemble which performs compositions designed to facilitate focused group improvisation. The band includes some of the strongest improvisers in Seattle and the Northwest. Parallel to the Earshot Jazz Festival, the afterEars concert series will present three nights of new music."
Tuesday November 5th
Earshot Jazz presents
Queen Mab, Amy Denio
Seattle, On The Boards, 8pm, $12 general / $10 discount.
"Queen Mab is Lori Freedman, a clarinet virtuoso from Winnipeg, and Marilyn Lerner, an equally gifted Toronto pianist, joined by the extraordinary Dutch violinist Ig Henneman. Uniting improvised music, jazz, classical music, and post-klezmer, their performances are intricate and intense. World traveller Amy Denio opens with a set of solo vocal and electronic pieces."Cognitive Dissidents presents
Ripit / Firestorm Viper
Seattle, Coffee Messiah, 1554 E. Olive Way, (206) 861-8233, donations accepted, All Ages.
"In the chapter helbow smash and youth deafness, you can hardly find more powerful than RIPIT (.......) some harsh - electronics - noise as we like to endure. For the Masochists only......" (special : The New French Scene - Elegy #9 - France) RIPIT was created in 1998 by electro noise artist Nyko Estrell. Since its birth, RIPIT has been destroying the dance floor in the Paris electronic underground scene with its pounding breakcore beats, setting the new standard for powerful beat driven electronics. RIPIT has collaborated and played along such acts as Hecate, Sikhara, Venetian Snares, DJ K.OZ and Voltage Regulator. A steady tour schedule in Europe has kept Nyko busy at large electronic music festivals such as the Parazit Disaster and Vatican 2K2. Nyko is also known for his skills as an audio engineer as well as the best underground promoter in Paris. He also runs his own noise label RIPOSTE REC. and helps run the European division of Radon studios Europe division Radon Uropa. RIPIT comes to the West Coast of the United States to support the TMR label cd release "Waste Cost",(due July 2002)." Waste Cost" is a excellent representation of Nykos depth relm of break/speadcore power electronics. RIPIT is a future look at what is to come of the new underground European dance floor. Aaron Berg AKA Firestorm Viper plays a mix of ardcore-breakcore-darkjungle-noise music. have been producing electronic music since 1997 under different names including: Firestorm Viper, Audio Assassins, and 66 Psycho. Have played in Seattle at venues like: Gibsons, Graceland, Vital 5 Art Gallery, EMP, Ballard Firehouse, the Rendevous and others. I also run a small limited edition CDR label and promotion crew called NOISE LIBERATION ARMY. Affiliated with Northwest Hardkore, Welfare Warfare, and Foodstamp Youth Front."afterEars presents
Shoup + Burns + Campbell / Bryan Eubanks / When Bells Breathe
Seattle, Velocity Mainspace Theater, 915 E Pine, 10 pm, $6-10 donation.
"Shoup + Burns + Campbell is Wally Shoup (saxophone), Gust Burns (piano), and Greg Campbell (percussion). Bryan Eubanks an integral part of the new music scene in Portland. He will present works for solo saxophone and voice. When Bells Breathe is Gregory Reynolds (alto sax) and Angelina Baldoz (trumpet). Each bell is a cauldron, a moon, a well. This circular music has shimmering surfaces but resonates deep in the body. Parallel to the Earshot Jazz Festival, the afterEars concert series will present three nights of new music."
Wednesday November 6th
Earshot Jazz presents
Art Ensemble of Chicago with special guest Fred Anderson
Seattle, On The Boards, 8pm, $28 general / $26 discount.
"A ground-breaking, possibly earth-shattering convocation of the titans of improvised music, in an intimate setting. With Roscoe Mitchell, Famadou Don Moye, and Malachi Favors, this is a formidable Art Ensemble. For this show, the tenor-sax wizard Fred Anderson, whose 2001 festival appearances still resonate here, joins his Chicago brethren for a night of full-on art making. Tonight, there is nowhere else to be."The Bran Flakes / Steve Fisk / Bobby Karate
Seattle, I-Spy, 1921 5th Avenue, 9 pm, $7.
"The Bran Flakes will be throwing another infamous CD release party on Wednesday November 6th in Seattle at the I-Spy club with their friends Steve Fisk and Bobby Karate. Cecil "Gorilla" Fudpucker and a lap-dancing Chicken will be dancing in attendance along with many other friends joining the entourage. Audience participation will be encouraged. You will leave this show smiling. The Bran Flakes combine sound-collage with live instrumentation resulting in a beat oriented blend of exotica, ez-listening, childrens music and experimentation, often with a humorous effect. Steve Fisk is a name familiar to anyone involved with music in the Northwest. He is a member of such bands as the Halo Benders, Pigeonhed, Pell Mell, Negativland, Heather Duby and many others. His latest solo CD features all manner of sound manipulation, an underlying sense of humor and a tendency toward the bizarre. Bobby karate rocks the minimalism and shoves us right into the middle of digital clicks and sliced cuts universum - down and dirty digital signal processing for the communist kids."
Thursday November 7th
Art Lande
Seattle, PONCHO Concert Hall, Kerry Hall, 710 East Roy Street, 8 pm, $12 general, $10 students, seniors, Cornish alumni & Earshot Jazz members.
Art Lande's albums on ECM are exploratory and surprising yet subtle and accessible. He will be joined by several members of the Cornish College music faculty.
Dave Peterson (guitar), Chuck Deardorf (bass), Julian Priester (trombone), and Dean Hodges (drums).Non Grata
Seattle, Patti Summers Jazz Club, 1st & Pike, 8 pm, $3.
"Another dada artwalk extravaganza [from members of the Monktail Creative Music Concern -Ed.]"
Friday, November 8th
Seattle Chamber Players
Seattle, Recital Hall at Benaroya, 3rd & Union, 8 pm, $12/$18/$20.
The SCP perform a range of music by Ukranian composer Valentin Silvestrov written 1960-2000.Gamelan Pacifica presents
Composer/Choreographer
Seattle, Velocity MainSpace Theater (2nd floor Oddfellows Building), 915 East Pine at 10th, 8 pm, $10/$15, (206) 545-8848.
"A diverse group of Seattle artists combine forces to create new collaborative works for Composer/Choreographer 6. Composer/Choreographer is a forum designed to serve as a catalyst in the emergence of new dialogues between dance and music. Within this forum the composer and the choreographer explore strategies, possibilities and relationships in an exciting and balanced collaborative process that creates opportunities for making fresh and vital new work. The concert will premiere six new works created by the following collaborative teams: Tom Baker (composer) with Corrie Befort (choreographer), Chris DeLaurenti (composer) with KT Niehoff (choreographer), Ellen Fullman (composer) with Tonya Lockyer/VIA (choreographer), Laura Kaminsky (composer) with Deborah Wolf (choreographer), Roger Nelson (composer) with Karn Junkinsmith (choreographer), Jarrad Powell (composer) with Mary Sheldon Scott (choreographer). Reservations are recommended: (206) 545-8848."
Saturday November 9th
Earshot Jazz presents
John Zorn's Electric Masada
Seattle, On the Boards, 8 & 10pm, $22 general per show / $20 discount per show.
"The first performance outside New York of saxophonist John Zorns exciting new Masada project. Zorn likens it to the bands of Miles' electric period. It features two keyboardists and an electric guitarist on out-front out-jazz. With key figures Kenny Wolleson (drums), Cyro Baptista (percussion), Trevor Dunn (bass), John Medeski and Jamie Saft (keys), and Marc Ribot (guitar). Zorn, a musical polymath, is indisputably the prime mover of the New York Downtown scene."2 GYRLZ presents
Language of Noise
Portland, Blackbird, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., Admission TBA. 21+.
Produced by Radon and 36 Invisibles, featuring music by Bastard Noise, Ripit and Sikhar with video installation by TOI. 36 Invisibles is a loose association of artists and musicians dedicated to unifying the avant-garde movements in Portland local music, and establishing connections with other like-minded groups around the globe. They regularly produce local events featuring experimental, electronic, and atmospheric explorations in music.Hugh Davies' Music for Invented Instruments: Solo Concert & Demonstration
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $7 donation, All Ages.
"A special evening of electro-acoustic improvisational compositions from this former Stockhausen assistant and member (along with Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, and Jamie Muir) of the seminal British free-improvising unit, Music Improvisation Company. The Polestar performance and demonstration will cover the whole range of Hugh Davies' solo compositions (Shozyg I [1968], Spring Song [1970, rev. 1979], Porcupine [2000], Shozyg Sequence No. 3 [1990-92]) for his invented instruments, from the earliest to the most recent concert instruments. All the instruments are amplified and played over a stereophonic loudspeaker system; they are designed to sound partly as if live electronic treatments are used, although none are, and only one of them produces electronically-generated sounds (and then only as half of its sonic possibilities). Davies will deliver a brief talk on his approach to and history with electro-acoustic music, along with introducing each piece."Gamelan Pacifica presents
Composer/Choreographer
Seattle, Velocity MainSpace Theater (2nd floor Oddfellows Building), 915 East Pine at 10th, 8 pm, $10/$15, (206) 545-8848.
See 11/8 description, above.Acoustic Reign
Seattle area, Sonarchy live radio hour, KEXP 90.3 FM, 11 pm-midnight.
"A free-blowing jazz quartet making new music while drawing from many music traditions. Led by drummer Jack Gold and featuring Brian Kent, Jim Knodle and Dan O'Brien."
"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."Locus Productions presents
Jim Fink
KMLP Internet Radio www.locusproductions.com 9 pm PST
"Solo bassist. Multi-layered. Multi-basses. Melodic anarchy. Stylistically chaotic melodic statements against trance-like, abstract backgrounds and rhythms and the use of space."
Sunday November 10th
Earshot Jazz presents
John Zorn's Electric Masada
Seattle, On the Boards, 8 , $30 general / $28 discount (two sets).
see Nov 9th listing above for descriptionGamelan Pacifica presents
Composer/Choreographer
Seattle, Velocity MainSpace Theater (2nd floor Oddfellows Building), 915 East Pine at 10th, 8 pm, $10/$15, (206) 545-8848.
See 11/8 description, above.Cornish College presents
Johanna Kunin / Dawn Clement
Seattle, Soundbridge at Benaroya, 2nd & Union, 2 pm, $7.
"Johanna Kunin is a young Jazz Vocalist with an experimental edge who works beyond the limits of the traditional jazz singer, exploring what has traditionally been instrumental repertoire, tackling material few other singers have attempted and often working improvisationally. At Connecticut's Wesleyan University, Kunin studied improvisation with legendary saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton. Currently, Kunin sings with the Charlie Smith Circle, an eleven-piece jazz ensemble, in which she functions as a member of the horn section. Dawn Clement is a composer, pianist and teacher in the Seattle area."
Tuesday, November 12th
The John Schuller Super Density BAND / Paul Moore
Seattle, Rebar 1114 Howell St, 9 pm, $7.
"John Schuller Super Density BAND will feature top secret members...at least five of them. Paul Moore is included in himself. This is the show no one was waiting for! John Schuller's Lesser Angel of Failure CD release party. John Schuller has put together a very special group for the evening and they will play hit songs from the hit record. Paul Moore has agreed to play tonight as well...seeing Paul Moore play solo?!?!?! YES, we like this much for our pleasure."Quake
Seattle, Recital Hall at Benaroya. 3rd & Union 7:30 pm, $10/$15.
"The program, entitled Behind the Lines, focuses on music written during or about war - an important theme, considering the current political climate, and especially when presented on the day after Veteran's Day. Along with mainstream fare, his concert begins with a new work by Quake and local artist John Pai entitled 9066. On the second half will be Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time."
Thursday, November 14th
Earshot Jazz and The Seattle Art Museum present
Voice and Vision: Gust Burns Ensemble
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.
"Seattle pianist/composer/improviser Gust Burns has assembled a ensemble specifically for this Voice and Vision concert. The new works, for 4-8 musicians, focus on the interconnections and juxtapositions of composed and freely improvised sections."
Friday, November 15th
2 GYRLZ presents
Language of Dissent, featuring Thomas Dimuzio
Portland, Jasmine Tree, 401 SW Harrison, Admission $5-$12. 21+w/ ID. Full Bar.
Featuring music by nationally acclaimed Thomas Dimuzio, msngr, and Romulus and Remus. The gyrl grip performs the second installment of 'war pig' starting in the Jasmine Tree, and ending at PSWhat? (1968 SW 5th Ave). Photography by Bette Lee. San Francisco-based Thomas Dimuzio is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, experimental and electronic musician, and recording studio owner. The sort who's just as likely to play a modified bicycle as an analog synthesizer. Gathering a circle of devotees since the '80s, he has become "a true sonic alchemist who can seemingly create music events out of almost anything," and whose "wide range of musical interests make it impossible to pin a label on him" (Steffen Silvis, Willamette Week). Thomas will perform a piece from "The War on Television," and undertake an improvised collaboration with Portland sound + vision artist msngr.Eveline's Klang Quintet
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $6 donation, All Ages.
"Eveline's Klang Quintet isn't necessarily a quintet, but Eveline doth play in it and it doth Klang! For this show EKQ will be a quartet comprised of Eveline Muller-Graf (metal percussion), Bob Rees (vibraphone, percussion), Stuart McLeod (vibraphone, electronics) and James Drage (electronics). Eveline plays her self-built 'Boeing,' pots, bells, saws, and assorted metals. Bob and Stuart will add dueling vibraphones, and Stuart and James will process the sound electronically, sending the metallic drones and bell tones into a swirling maelstrom of beauty and fury."
Saturday, November 16th
Bran Flakes
Seattle area, Sonarchy live radio hour, KEXP 90.3 FM, 11 pm-midnight.
"This duo use samplers and vinyl to make a mess out of your life. Later you will thank them for recalling your years as a child and reminding you about baptist motivations."
"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."Locus Productions presents
Noggin
KMLP Internet Radio www.locusproductions.com 9 pm PST.
Free electric scree broadcast live from a birthday party for Xaxis Wye.intimate stage presents
Dappin' Butoh in Imprints
Seattle, Greelake area call 526-5756 for directions, 8 pm, $12.
"November's intimate stage features Mish Curtis, Mary Cutrera, Joan Laage, Willy Manalang, d.K. Pan, and Helen Thorsen in a remounting of Imprints which deposits the audience in an urban atmosphere abundant with personal history. Set to a score by Daniel Menche."
Sunday, November 17th
Henry Brant: Ghost and Gargoyles
Seattle, Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave, 7:30 pm, $10/12/17.
"Ghost and Gargoyles by composer Henry Brant features Paul Taub as soloist and an ensemble of professional flutists. Also includes Mr. Brant's "Mass in Gregorian" and Janice Giteck's "When the Crones Stop Counting. [Ed. note The 88-year old Brant is a pioneer in allocation of sound in space and renowed for his massive agglomeration of musical traditions from around the world]."Kelly Fried Churko Quintet
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $7 donation, All Ages.
"The KFC 5 was intitially formed as a repertory band to play the music of various diverse composers such as John Zorn, Chris Speed, Ornette Coleman, and Ken Vandermark, as well as original material. Initially meant to be a 'one-off' project for an evening at Vancouver's Sugar Refinery last fall, overwhelming audience response and the tangible enthusiasm of the players called for subsequent concerts. An inspired group led by guitarist Churko (now based in Tokyo), featuring four stalwarts of the Vancouver creative music scene, this band brings a fresh vision and palpable excitement to idiomatic tunes not often performed. Kelly Churko (guitar, electronics); Masa John Anzai (alto sax); J. P. Carter (trumpet); Travis Baker (bass); Skye Brooks (drums)."intimate stage presents
Dappin' Butoh in Imprints
Seattle, Greelake area call 526-5756 for directions, 7 pm, $12.
See 11/16 description above.Billy Mintz and Adam Diller
Portland, Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi, 4-6pm, price unknown.
LA-based drummer Billy Mintz and saxophonist Adam Diller will perform two sets of duo and solo improvising.
Monday, November 18th
Monday Night Chamber Series
Seattle, Chamber Theater at Oddfellows Hall 4th floor, 915 E Pine, 9 pm, donation.
"Curated by Adam Diller and Gust Burns. This week features important young representatives of the Vancouver BC scene.
With: Travis Baker( bass) Masa Anzai (alto sax/electronics), Kelly Churko( laptop), J.P. Carter (trumpet) Skye Brooks (drums)."
Tuesday, November 19th
Big Electric Cat
Bellingham, Old Main Theater, Western Washington University, 8 pm, free, Bruce.Hamilton@wwu.edu; 360-650-3711.
Electroacoustic music, including works for performers and interactive computer by Raymond May and Bruce Hamilton; recent works by Colby Leider, James Mobberley, Flanger, Merzbow and others TBA; and Ligeti's classic Articulation.
Wednesday November 20th
Creative Music Guild presents
Lisle Ellis and Paul Plimley
Portland, First Christian Church, 1315 SW Broadway, 8:00 p.m.$10 / Free to CMG members.
"Critically acclaimed for their duo recordings (as well as their projects with such great folks as Andrew Cyrille, Gregg Bendian, Donald Robinson and Joe McPhee), Plimley and Ellis are two of the world's great forces in improvisation. Paul Plimley is a pianist of astonishing speed and clarity. His playing is richly resonant, brimming with the beauty of sound, lyrical melodies, and rhythms that dance within an acutely developed mise en sc?ne - not to mention spurred on by his singular good humor. Lisle Ellis's mastery as a bassist is characterized by a deeply felt lyricism an the ability to inspire musicians he chooses to play with to reach their highest capacity of playing. He has created a complete musical language on his instrument, where the resources of the bass are pushed to give the listener an experience of the richest levels of musical expression, as powerful as it is personal."
Paul Plimley (piano, marimba); Lisle Ellis (bass)
Friday, November 22nd
Sean Meehan / Angelina Baldoz
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $7 donation, All Ages.
"The fascinating New York-based master of intricate percussion Sean Meehan plays a rare Seattle solo set. He's then joined by Seattle trumpeter Angelina Baldoz for a set of delicate freely improvised music. Polestar's intimate space and excellent acoustics should help make this show a very special one. 'Meehan is one of the best, though least documented percussionists around - a king of small gestures and smears.' - Byron Coley, The Wire. Also perform is trumpeter Angelina Baldoz and guests."Tom Swafford
Seattle, Gift of Grace Lutheran Church, 40th and Meridian N, 8 pm, donation.
"Seattle composer/violinist/improvisor Tom Swafford has just returned after 11 years of study and travel in Boston, Berkeley and, most recently, Amsterdam (where he studied with Louis Andriessen and played a lot of violin in the wild improv scene there). Tonight Tom will present an evening of his best compositions from the last 10 years. Styles range from Romantic to neo-Bartok/Shostakovich to funk and Latin American influenced music. Tom's pieces feature driving rhythms, catchy tunes and passionate emotions. And there will be some improvising as well."
Saturday, November 23rd
2 GYRLZ presents
Language of the Body (explorations)
Portland, Center Space 420 SE 6th Ave, Admission $5-$12. All ages, Bar available with 21+ ID. Music from Nequaquam Vacuum w/ P.A.N.. Also featuring the comeback of local performance troupe Human Sculpture, nationally acclaimed performance artist Jeffery Byrd, and osseus labyrint.Francois Houle
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $7 donation, All Ages.
"The great Canadian clarinet virtuoso plays a rare Seattle solo set. Over the last decade Fran?ois Houle has been active in several musical spheres, including musique actuelle, new music, and more recently classical chamber music and world music. A founding member of Standing Wave, the Turning Point Ensemble, the Vancouver New Music Ensemble, and Safa, Fran?ois has also collaborated on several projects with some of today's leading international performers, improvisers, and composers. He has appeared on major festivals across Canada, the United States, and Europe, and has released many recordimgs of his own music on Canadian labels such as Spool, Songlines, and Red Toucan, as well as on Germany's between-the-lines label. He is currently busy recording three new projects, including one of commissioned electroacoustic works by Giorgio Magnanensi, Paul Dolden, John Oliver, and Pierre Boulez's 'Dialogue de l'ombre double' for Earsay records."Guardian Alien
Seattle area, Sonarchy live radio hour, KEXP 90.3 FM, 11 pm-midnight.
"Guy Davis leads this genre hopping band out of the holler, through the ghetto and into a squat in central europe." "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."
Monday, November 25th
Frank Gratkowski with Michael Bisio & Greg Campbell
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $7 donation, All Ages.
"Polestar's fall season of special international performers continues with a solo set by German reed player Frank Gratkowski (alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, composer). He'll be joined in the second set by Seattle's 'first call' out-music rhythm section, bassist Michael Bisio and percussionist Greg Campbell. Gratkowski has given solo performances since 1990. His music has been developed on the basis of improvisation, and it makes use of various resources. Formal processes, tone material, and sound generation are used to create structural architecture, so that every piece has its own specific character. One main component of the concept is the experimental exploration of the instrument. With his solo music, Gratkowski has also looked for cooperation and meetings with other art forms such as painting, literature, sculpture, dance, film, and multimedia projects. 'Mind you, Gratkowski's playing and style successfully fuse the so-called avant-garde with more accessible qualities both on record and, obviously, live in concert... Do yourself a favor and check out Frank Gratkowski before everyone else on your block beats you to him and his records. Then maybe he'll come to your town, too.' All About Jazz"Monday Night Chamber Series presents
Sound of the Brush
Seattle, Chamber Theater @ Oddfellows Hall 4th floor, 915 E Pine, 9 pm, donation.
"The chamber series' resident quartet, Gregory Reynolds (alto sax), Jason Anderson (electronics,guitar), Adam Diller (tenor sax,clarinet), and Gust Burns (piano), have a wide range of sonic spaces to choose from, and do not flinch at the idea of playing both loud and quiet, not to mention mezzo forte."
Friday, November 29th
Paul Rutherford & Torsten Mueller
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 8 pm, $8 donation, All Ages.
"A special evening featuring two great European free improvisors. Towering trombonist Rutherford was there in the 1960s at the beginning of the U.K. free improvising revolution, extending trombone technique and changing forever what we expect from the instrument. German bassist Mueller, now living in Vancouver, B.C., has long been one of the finest improvising bassists in the world. Their duo promises to be one of the highlights of Polestar's fall season."
Saturday, November 30th
Recorded Works in Concert: "Who Guards the Guardians?" & The Speakeasy Fire, May 2001: A Chance Field Recording
Seattle, Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Avenue (at East Union), 9:30 pm, $6 donation, All Ages.
"At 11 PM, Polestar will air Sonarchy Radio's live broadcast of the premiere of "Who Guards the Guardians?", Chris DeLaurenti's unusual sequel to his acclaimed "N30: Live at the WTO Protest", issued in 2000. "Who Guards the Guardians?" mixes and melds radio and cell phone transmissions from November 30, 1999. The title comes from the Roman satirist Juvenal, who questioned Plato's call for elite Guardians to rule his ideal state in that classic of Greek philosophy, The Republic. Addressing the erosion of individual rights in the early Roman Empire, Juvenal asked, "Who guards the Guardians?" Earlier in the evening, Seattle musician, instrument inventor, and electronics saboteur Troy Swanson treats us to his stunning chance half-hour field recording of the fire that burned the Speakeasy CafZ in May 2001. Recorded inside the first floor 'back room' performance space as the second floor burned, this sonic document captures the fire from the call to evacuate and arrival of the fire department, to the persistent popping of planes of glass and the eerily soothing sounds of water dripping-then-pouring down from the fire hoses above. Both DeLaurenti and Swanson will introduce their work and then make themselves available for questions and answers."N30: Who Guards The Guardians?
Seattle area, Sonarchy live radio hour, KEXP 90.3 FM, 11 pm-midnight.
"Chris DeLaurenti presents N30: Who Guards The Guardians?. This sequel of sorts to N30: Live at the WTO Protest fuses law enforcement radio and cell phone transmissions made during November 30, 1999. A gripping oral history made in the moment. Created with assistance from CoCA, the King County Arts Commission, and The Three Shadows." "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."
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.November 13th through 24th
The Listening Post
Seattle, On the Boards Studio Space, 100 W Roy St, See below for times, free.
"What does the collective voice of the Internet sound like? The much heralded Listening Post, created by sound artist Ben Rubin and researcher/statistician Mark Hansen gives voice to the vast, silent world of the Internet, transforming collective online activity and communication into a multi-layered sound installation. This uniquely designed space monitors thousands of online exchanges in real time, revealing the patterns and rhythms of people communicating with each other. The visible and audible text in this installation is live, collected in real-time from tens of thousands of chat rooms, forums, newsgroups, bulletin boards, and other public online communication channels. Statistical analysis creatively organizes the messages into topic clusters based on their content, tracking the ebb and flow of communication on the Web. A tonal soundscape is created under the spoken text, its pitches and timbres occurring in response to changes in the flow and content of the messages. See The Listening Post in its only West Coast engagement before its move to the Whitney Museum of American Art." Open Nov. 13-24, 5pm-8pm Wednesdays through Fridays, 1pm - 8pm Saturdays and Sundays. The exhibit cycles continuously.