Bad Luck (Neil Welch, saxophones/electronics & Chris Icasiano, drums) perform tonight as a send off for their week long tour down the West Coast. Tonight’s music will explore hyper-repetitive melodic cycles, performer-specific notation, and their ever-present use of live electronics. WA (Simon Henneman, guitar & Gregg Keplinger, drums), is becoming a don’t-miss band on the Seattle creative music scene. They perform fully improvised music, with deep roots in the blues and the avant garde.

Presented by shibui_oto. immersound is a concert event/philosophy initiated by France Jobin (i8u) which proposes to create a dedicated listening environment by focusing on the physical comfort of the audience through a specifically designed space and pushing the notion of “immersion” to its possible limits. immersound_SEA will showcase Canadian artists Christopher Bissonnette and Tim Hecker for an evening of performances in an immersive 6.1 channel installation.

The Many Duo is a showcase for two Seattle-based improvisational musicians: percussionist Kevin Haag and guitarist Matt Williams. Jenn Carreto contributes violin and/or keyboards, depending upon the collective trajectories. They create both free and structured sound textures derived from many musical “genres,” including jazz & blues, no wave, punk, ambient and heavy music. The Many Duo’s approach to soundcraft often employs hand-drawn shapes, pictures, random dictionary entries, graphic scores, dialogue, politics/social issues and loosely organized integers. The “shifting shades of green and grey” winter climate of Cascadia informs their dynamic yet understated musical aesthetic–pairing timekeeping with timelessness, hyperactivity with minimalism, and skepticism with hope.

Presented by Nonsequitur & Earshot Jazz Festival with support from Chamber Music America. Seattle-based percussionist, composer, educator and instrument inventor Paul Kikuchi presents the premiere of his song cycle for chamber jazz ensemble, inspired by the memoir and 78 RPM record collection of his great grandfather, Zenkichi Kikuchi, a 1901 Japanese immigrant to the Yakima Valley. With Stuart Dempster (trombone, conch shells), Bill Horist (prepared guitar), Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin), Eyvind Kang (viola), Maria Scherer Wilson (cello).

The Seattle Composers’ Salonfosters the development, performance and appreciation of new music by regional composers and performers. At bi-monthly, informal presentations, the Salon features finished works, previews, and works in progress. Composers, performers, and audience members gather in a casual setting that allows for experimentation and discussion. Everyone is welcome! Composers for this month: Phillip Arnautoff, Hope Wechkin, Kevin Williams, Kam Morrill.

Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival and Nonsequitur. Two distinctive Seattle composers present works for large ensembles: Trumpeter Samantha Boshnack‘s alt-chamber orchestra B’shnorkestra
’s bold
 and undulating blend of horn lines,
 strings and percussion is conducted by
 Joshua Kohl, co-founder of the Degen
erate Art Ensemble. Clarinetist Beth Fleenor’s Workshop Ensemble (WE) presents exploratory scores grounded in Fleenor’s 20 Etudes for Blindfolded Musicians; WE also performs conduction, sonic meditation and Fleenor’s cross-stitched graphic scores.

Inverted Space, the University of Washington’s modern music ensemble, plays music of John Cage, Frederic Rzewski and new works from UW composers Josh Archibald-Seiffer, Jeff Bowen, Luke Fitzpatrick, Luke Morse, and Adrian Swan.

Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival. Trombonist Naomi Siegel appears with two very different projects: Sunchasers – her new quartet with Geoff Harper (bass), Thione Diop (percussion), Claudio Rochat-Felix (drum set), Steven Bell (vibraphone) – employs deep grooves, folk-like melodies and collective improvisation in compositions inspired by Siegel’s influences while traveling in Senegal, Gambia and Costa Rica. Syrinx Effect is an experimental platform for Siegel and soprano saxophonist Kate Olson processing their horns with live electronics.

Lori Goldston is a cellist and composer from Seattle. Restless and semi-feral, her work ranges far and wide, drifting across borders that often separate genre, geography, and time. Tonight she celebrates her 50th birthday with fellow travelers Greg Campbell, Susie Kozawa, and Karen Hancock.

Presented by Nonsequitur. Welladay! Welladay! sweeps through 36 James Joyce love poems. Soprano Betsy Baeskins, a piano trio (violinist Tari Nelson-Zagar, cellist Lori Goldston, pianist Tiffany Lin), and special guests perform in this site-specific musical ceremony by composer Byron Au Yong.