Category Archives: Event

NYC composer/performer Charles Rudig and Aaron Michael Butler perform duos for no-input mixer and electric vibraphone with support from A. F. Jones and Noel Kennon.

Charles Rudig often composes for limited sonic and material resources, pairing new music ensembles with obsolete consumer technologies such as the Game Boy and the SK-1 sampler. He has written for new music powerhouses such as the … Read More →

In celebration of the upcoming 90th birthday of my teacher, friend, collaborator, editor, provocateur, sometime landord, and closest among the virtual symposium of my senior colleagues, Benjamin Boretz, I will perform a generous selection of his works for solo piano, including (“…my chart shines high where the blue milks upset…”), the piece that grabbed hold of me at our … Read More →

81:80 is a group that explores the passage of time through the use of microtonality and improvisation. The versatile group features Ha-Yang Kim (cello), Luke Fitzpatrick (violin/adapted viola) and Jeff Bowen (electric guitar). 81:80 seeks to create new timbres that evoke a sense of wonder. Their performance of Mothra is an extended microtonal set that traverses the far reaches … Read More →

Doors open at 7 PM.

Debut performances of two large-group ensembles:

The Northwest Experimental Guitar Orchestra is an eighteen-piece ensemble comprising musicians from Seattle, Tacoma, Bremerton, and surrounding areas. Its primary focus is exploring non-traditional means of scoring, conduction, and technology integration, with an emphasis on self-guiding scores that eschew the need for traditional conduction in a large-group setting.

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The Last Milonga: contemporary sounds in guitar and composition from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela. Music of Ricardo Zohn Muldon, Quiqui Sinesi, Carlos Moscardini, Astor Piazzolla and more.

Mark Hilliard Wilson presents a short concert exploring contemporary composers from Latin America. The evening will feature both the familiar, even classic tangos and also experimental music from Venezuela, but all of … Read More →

Seattle Guitar Circle, a 9-piece acoustic guitar orchestra, brings “Simple Songs” to the Chapel (Monk, Coltrane, Corea, Satie, Coltrane, Brouwer, Monk, Fripp, Sakamoto & SGC).

Seattle Guitar Circle was founded in 1993 by Steve Ball, Bill Rieflin and Bill Van Buren. For 30 years, they have been playing eclectic, polyrhythmic prog chamber music arranged for large acoustic guitar ensemble all … Read More →

Steven Arntson is a falsettist, concertina player, and writer from the Pacific Northwest. His is a planet that closely orbits no star. Melodies set against instrumental drones and varied textures conjure a hopeful spirit and thoughts of the forest and its creatures. Tonight he performs original compositions for concertina and falsetto, as well as arrangements of works by Béla … Read More →

Please join four of Seattle’s top improvisers – Tom Varner (French horn), Heather Bentley (viola/electronics), Greg Campbell (percussion/mixed brass), and Neil Welch (saxophone/electronics) as they celebrate the summer solstice in sound. In the second half of the program, special guest artists will be joining in.

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Ricksplund is a Provo, Utah-based improvising duo consisting of Steven Ricks (trombone, electronics) and Christian Asplund (viola, piano/keyboards, electronics). Ricksplund has existed for almost 15 years.  The most recent manifestations of this duo involve one improvising on their particular acoustic instrument (trombone or viola, respectively), while the other improvises adding effects, samples, and loops created from the live instrument’s sound.

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Two American practitioners of the West African kora engage the shape-shifting landscape of the Mandinka sonic arts.

The kora is a 22 stringed harp, a creation of the great Mande civilization based in West Africa. It has migrated in somewhat recent years to be recognized as a music of global significance. Chet Corpt and Sean Gaskell are honored to be … Read More →