IM.PERF.ECT: IMpromptu PERFormances projECT

Institute of Emergent Technology + Intermedia (iET+I) at Cornish College of the Arts, in conjunction with the Pendleton House presents an evening of sound, movement, and video. Performances by the band Newaxeyes (William Hayes, Jordan Rundle, Tyler Coray, Bret Gardin), dancers Babette Pendleton, Mariah Martens, Baylee Reynolds, Ariana Bird, and Alexandra Maricich, video artist Tyler Coray, plus Andre Couture, Benjamin Marx, William Smith, Anthony Cammarota, Griffin Boyd, Robert Campbell, Jarrad Powell and others.

Synthesizer Night

An evening of experimental/ambient/soundscapes for electronic instruments by Fejj, Pulling Out the Light, Rainbow Wolves, and David Stutz.

minamo + loscil + Marcus Fischer

An evening of international ambience, featuring live sets from minamo (Tokyo), Loscil (Vancouver, BC) and Marcus Fischer (Portland).

S. Eric Scribner

Composer S. Eric Scribner presents music for piano, string bass, found objects and found sound. A new piece, SoundScroll IX: this is a sparse, hour-long piece for double bass, piano, and found sound. Mike Sentkewitz will play the bass. Also, Keith Eisenbrey and S. Eric will play four short Seattle Pieces, improvisations for piano and found objects, over dense collages of found sound.

DAS Oboe

DAS Oboe performs six modern works, including five world premieres. The program will include works by Doug Buchanan, Jin-Hwa Choi, Sean Doyle, Gary Powell Nash, Michael Rickelton, and Ursula Sahagian.

Hanna Benn + Kelly Wyse

Hanna Benn and Kelly Wyse present new and pre-existing works for solo piano, choir, and various chamber ensembles. Benn presents her own new compositions, Wyse performs solo piano music of John Cage, Phillip Glass, Debussy, and Jarrad Powell.

Gust Burns

Gust Burns presents work from the past 5 months that is comprised from bird song (wood thrush and lark sparrow), record reviews, field recordings, dubplate record, silence, audition, jazz standards, and strolling. Performers include: Gust Burns – piano, voice; Jacob Zimmerman – alto saxophone; Greg Campbell – percussion; Wilson Shook – turntable; Phristian Pincock – trombone + others tba.

John Teske’s Broken Bow Ensemble

mer is a new 40-minute piece for chamber orchestra that traces the many facets of human consciousness, awareness, and experience. This minimalist sound-painting by Seattle composer John Teske will be premiered by the Broken Bow Ensemble, a 26-piece group of strings and woodwinds. Guided by local tide data, the orchestra will slowly transform sound through time, unraveling layers of pitch and rhythm. Supported in part by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture CityArtist Project.

Paul Hoskin

Announcing the annual contrabass clarinet solo courtesy of Paul Hoskin. An eighty-minute adventure sounds the Chapel Performance Space. Hoskin’s approach may be labeled spontaneous composition. Periods of “jazz melody” live with extreme sonic exploration. The entire dynamic field, a five octave range, multiphonics never heard—all are in evidence.

Ostrowski/Theriault + Gyre

8:00 PM; $5 – $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/checks only); presented by Nonsequitur. Matthew Ostrowski (NYC): Glove controlling Max/Msp-electronics & Doug Theriault (Portland): Guitar controlling Max/Msp-electronics. Live electronic transformations of acoustic and electronic sound sources and manipulation of those transformations, without an escape route… Gyre (Seattle) is an experimental electronics trio formed by Michael Shannon, David Stanford, and Carl Lierman. Sounds generated entirely with oscillators, internal and external feedback circuits, simple sound generators, microphone captures, digital processing, forming swirling loops of sound layers.