Composer/pianist Neal Kosaly-Meyer performs a new installment of his composition-in-perpetual progress, Gradus: for Fux, Tesla, and Milo the Wrestler. The nutshell version of the score is “Learn to play the piano one note at a time.” Read a preview in Seattle Weekly.

Yesod dissects, digests and reshapes their individual influences and experiences into a uniquely familiar musical sum. Best described as a blend of world, blues, jazz and ambient music styles, Yesod creates rich, living soundscapes.

Triptet is a meeting of minds and spontaneous electrical impulses between Michael Monhart (saxophones and electronics), Tom Baker (fretless guitar, theremin and electronics), and Greg Campbell (percussion, french horn and electronics). Tonight they celebrate a new CD on Engine Records, Figure in the Carpet (review here).

The Cornish Live Electronics Ensemble (CLEE) is a new performing ensemble that has grown out of a Live-Electronics class at Cornish College of the Arts. Directed by Tom Baker, the ensemble features ten Cornish student-composers who have been building electronic instruments on which to improvise and create unique and experimental works. Student composers are Cameron Armstrong, Griffing Boyd, Cole Bratcher, Anthony Cammarota, David Dossett, Mithcell Gustin, Sierra Klingele, Julio Lopez, Shohei Ogami and Lucas Werdal.

Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble, with support from 4culture, presents the first annual SJCE New Works concert this December. Premiering eight new works for 10-piece ensemble, the performance will feature commissions by Wayne Horvitz, Samantha Boshnack, Beth Fleenor, David Marriot, Michael Owcharuk, Andy Clausen, Thomas Marriott, and Nate Omdal.

An evening of exploratory synthesis emphasizing gradual transformations in texture, complexity in phasing patterns, and spectrally-rich timbres. Sarah Davachi (Vancouver, BC), Kaori Suzuki (Seattle),
Total Life (Olympia).

Roro is a drummer who experiments with free percussion sounds. Besides playing in improv group Dagora he plays solo and with different musicians and solo: Anne LaBerge, Jaap Blonk, Dylan Carlson, Eugene Chadbourne, Geoff Leigh, and many more…  Ti Femme is the solo project of artist Helena Sanders. Rituals in voice, harmonica, tape, found sounds, accordion, keyboards, and fx. These two exotic visitors will be joined by Seattle cellist Lori Goldston.

Seattle Modern Orchestra opens its season with an exploration of musical pluralism. This concert features music that allows the performers to change the form at each reading, which means that no two performances are ever the same. Works by Earle Brown (Event: Synergy II), Sylvano Bussotti (Couer Pour Batteur), a rare performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Zyklus by percussionist Bonnie Whiting Smith, and a world premiere by Seattle composer Tom Baker (Shendos No. 12) commissioned by SMO.

Presented by The Box Is Empty and Nonsequitur. Denver pianist R. Andrew Lee performs the Northwest premiere of Dennis Johnson’s proto-minimalist masterwork November. The piece is spare and meditative, and nearly five hours long. It holds the unique and auspicious place in American music history of having inspired La Monte Young’s The Well-Tuned Piano. November went unheard for decades until Young gave an ancient cassette recording of a partial performance to composer Kyle Gann, who then reconstructed it with the help of the composer.

This evening with Concert Imaginaire will include something for everyone: electro-acoustic chamber music, the vocal talents of Kathryn Weld, a 3-way tango featuring the Orango-Tango dancers, and an appearance by hula hoop professional Korena, from Enso Hoops.