Doors open at 5:30 PM; performance ends at 9:45.
Seattle is a freely-improvised music hot-house. Organized by musicians Caroline Kraabel (London) and Gregg Miller, this evening’s performance will showcase the deep empathy and close listening of our music-making community. Somewhere between 20 to 40 musicians will engage in a continuous improvisation over 4 hours in a long-form, multi-player event with staggered, overlapping entrances and exits of duos/trios/quartets and more — accompanied by collaborative, visual improvisation led by artist and architect Anjali Grant.
Originally from Seattle, inveterate improviser of the London scene Caroline Kraabel is a saxophonist, artist, composer, author, and organizer. She has worked with many excellent improvisers, including Robert Wyatt, Maggie Nicols, John Edwards, Louis Moholo, Cleveland Watkiss, Hyelim Kim, Pat Thomas, Susan Alcorn, Sarah Washington, and Charlotte Hug.
Gregg Miller is a Seattle-based improviser who started Sonic Action Records to document the vibrant creative/improvisational music scene in Seattle. He has taught political theory at the University of Washington, Western Washington University, Lewis & Clark College, Brooklyn College, and elsewhere. He thinks of improvisational music as political theory.
Anjali Grant is a Seattle-based visual artist and practicing architect. She has exhibited work in New York, Chicago, Portland, Bellingham, Nairobi, and Seattle, and has designed countless record covers for improvising and avant-garde musicians.