Trio Tritticali (Helen Yee, violin; Leanne Darling, viola; Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, cello) draws upon their training in jazz, classical, Arabic, Chinese, avant garde and improvisational traditions to create a new jamming universe of string sound. It’s Turtle Island meets Haitian voodoo trance, and Jean-Luc Ponty in arabesque. It’s minimalism moves to Mongolia, and Thelonius Monk with a ticket around the world. Since its founding in 2008, Tritticali has appeared at the Summer on the Hudson series, Roulette, Caffè Vivaldi, and The Stone, as well as a regular show at Linger Café.

Also on the bill is 2125 Stanley Street: choreographer Dahlia Nayar joins Queens-based artists Margaret Paek (dancer), and Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (cellist/composer) in exploring notions of home. The project is a deeply personal investigation of cross-cultural belonging and not-belonging, and the beauty and challenge of creating a habitat or multiple habitats scattered around the globe in contemporary society. Using minimal domestic objects and tasks (socks, clotheslines, pots and pans) and an evocative soundscape, we attempt to reconstruct or re-imagine a poetic consciousness with a focus on intimate exchange within the realm of the domestic. Ultimately, we aim to invite the audience into a home that is constructed primarily through movement and sound, a home that is both familiar and yet cannot exactly be located.

Parnassus Project is a collective of musicians dedicated to presenting a fresh take on the chamber music experience. We seek to create a more social atmosphere at concerts and to break down barriers between performers and audiences by performing in alternative venues and encouraging interaction. In addition to promoting local musicians, Parnassus Project also strives to present new works by local up-and-coming composers. Tonight we present a program of new works by west coast composers George N. Gianopoulos, Cole Bratcher, and Kenji Bunch, as well as modern masterpieces by John Cage, Philip Glass, and Elliott Carter.

Visiting from Miami, Gustavo Matamoros and Rene Barge perform Chapel, an evening-length immersive composition for 6 channels, akin to the sonic explorations they create (along with David Dunn) in the context of Frozen Music Ensemble presentations. The sound world will consist of recorded sounds manufactured by the duo through the manipulation of objects at Audiotheque’s sound studio. It will also contain processed and virgin outdoor recordings made in Miami for this event as well as electronically generated sounds intended to highlight otherwise inaudible acoustical features found in the performance space.

Working in multiple media, Rene Barge produces sound works, prints and videos. These are prismatic relays of the patterns he perceives around him. In each work lies the traces of complex orderings of distortions and filters. As records they simultaneously reflect multiple aspects of change at once, analogous to post-studio, post-digital cubism. Gustavo Matamoros is a composer-sound artist who creates and curates listening experiences in Miami since the mid 1980s. His current art and curatorial projects include Listening Gallery, Subtropics 23 and Audiotheque.

Presented by Nonsequitur.

San Francisco based composer/musician Jesse Olsen Bay is well known as part of the eclectic folk group Ramon & Jessica, as well as for his frequent collaborations with dance, theater, and film. His recent work has been supported by the American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, and and the Ucross Foundation. Tonight he celebrates the album release of Makings, a song cycle based on unpublished writings by his grandmother, legendary author/activist Tillie Olsen. This work was composed using what Tillie called her “Blueys” – blue and white sheets of typewriter paper on which she wrote notes, ideas, bits of prose and poetry. Performing on guitar, percussion, piano, toy instruments and found objects, and joined by Seattle percussionist Paul Kikuchi, Jesse weaves Tillie’s words into a tapestry of vivid emotion and imagery.

Megan O’Donoghue-Williams is a vocalist originally from Los Angeles, but with deep ties to Seattle. Megan will be presenting original work from her upcoming album, Peshawar, a series of songs written while living in Central Java and working as traditional singer for shadow puppet theater. The songs use a mixture of English, Javanese and Indonesian languages and were originally written using the cuk, a three string Javanese ukelele. Megan will also present several pieces written by the late Sri Joko Raharjo, a Javanese shadow puppet master and musician, who passed away on June 9th, 2014. She’ll be joined by Seattle friends Samantha Boshnack (trumpet), Maggie Brown (guitar/cuk), John Ewing (drums), Beth Fleenor (clarinet), Jessika Kenney (voice), and Adrienne Varner (piano).

Lawson is the large-ensemble project of Seattle-based saxophonist and composer Jacob Zimmerman. Comprised exclusively of sustaining instruments (strings, winds, synthesizers) the sound of Lawson features complex, slowly shifting counterpoint, orchestrated to make the ensemble function as a massive instrument unto itself.

Joining them are Park Details Band and Peter Kolovos (both from LA) and 75 Dollar Bill (Brooklyn).

Saxophonist Brad Linde and pianist Erika Dohi improvise duets informed by their experiences in Baroque counterpoint, 20th Century music and modern jazz. Free improvisation is developed from variations and themes from original compositions inspired by Jimmy Giuffre, Lennie Tristano, Paul Motian, Stockhausen, Cage, and Ligeti.

Sharing the evening is Seattle duo Syrinx Effect (Kate Olson, soprano sax/electronics & Naomi Siegel, trombone/electronics).

In Earshot Jazz’s annual Jazz: The Second Century series, six Seattle-area artists present original work in a concert setting. This line-up was selected and programmed by a peer panel of Seattle artists through a “blind jury” process. In response to a call for submissions, more than 30 ensembles submitted projects they felt question and expand the jazz form.

Gregg Belisle-Chi performs solo, and in duos with vocalist Chelsea Crabtree, mining the relationship between composition and improvisation with dark and rich guitar work. His playing is creatively ambiguous: what seems structured is loose and free, what is improvised is focused and informed.

Trimtab was formed in Minneapolis by guitarist Jason Goessl, who enlisted bassist Phil Cali and drummer Brian Oppel when he moved west. Inspired by 20th century architect and theorist R. Bukminster Fuller, the trio uses sound to express the link between architecture and musical form.

The Noise Makers explores the essence of music by weaving in and out of pre-composed material and group improvisation. By means of medley, The Noise Makers tonight will present their concept through a more theatrical approach. Inciting the help of an M.C. known as Sister Nader, The Noise Makers will take you on a journey of surreal entertainment.

Seattle ex-pats Briggan Krauss and Timothy Young reunite with long time collaborator Wayne Horvitz along with some of Seattle’s finest for an evening of mixed-ensemble improvisations.

Alex Guy-Viola, Violin
Timothy Young-Guitar
Naomi Siegel-Trombone
Briggan Krauss-Alto Sax and Guitar
Beth Fleenor-Clarinet and Bass Clarinet
Wayne Horvitz-Piano and Electronics