A night of butoh/sound improvisation with Vanessa Skantze (movement) and Epos Nemo Latrocinium (sound). Epos Nemo Latrocinium is: Noisepoetnobody Jones, Vox Vespertinus, Dean Moore and Scott Yolanda Adams. Danse Perdue and Sierra La Fey will perform a series of scenes about light.

French hornist Tom Varner and saxophonist Eric Barber present an evening of music by the iconoclastic trumpeter Don Cherry, including the entire 1965 piece Complete Communion. They are joined by bassist John Seman and percussionist Paul Kikuchi. Their second set will feature compositions by Cherry’s European Quartet, with vibraphonist Ben Thomas will joining the quartet.

Ask the Ages is a Seattle-based avant-jazz band. Formed in 2010, the group includes Greg Campbell (drums and percussion), Steven Bell (vibraphone ), Brian Heaney (guitar), Kate Olson (sax/woodwinds) and John Seman (bass). Influences are Sonny Sharrock, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders. This special gig features Geoff Harper playing bass and Jacques Willis on drums. We will be playing the tunes of Ask the Ages and other pieces.  

Presented by Nonsequitur. Seattle electronic guitarist Vance Galloway presents Triptych, a three-part suite for solo electronic guitar, signal processing and field recordings based on the shifting perceptions of time and place, familiarity and belonging that occur when traveling. Special guest Charles Stanyan opens the evening with new pieces for electronics and processed field recordings.

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: Mark Wilson, Eric Scribner, Peter Freeman, Angelique Poteat, Cole Bratcher.

Robert Millis returns from his recent journey as a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in India. Tonight he’ll improvise and experiment with the resonances and dissonances of overlapping tanpura drones and field recordings in a quadrophonic, immersive environment. Matt Shoemaker returns from his own recent extended sojourn to Indonesia. He will present work sourced from both natural and electronic means, using environmental recordings, resonating objects, and discordant electronics, exploring feedback, noise, memory, and accidental refinement.

Presented by Nonsequitur. Composer and sound artist David Dunn presents works highlighting complexity in natural and human-made systems. These compositions reveal and amplify hidden auditory features of the natural world, sounds outside of normal human perception, interactions between artificial intelligence systems and living creatures, and models of chaotic change endemic to the kinds of forces currently shaping our environment. Along with three short pre-recorded works, Dunn will also perform Thresholds & Fragile States, using self-built non-linear chaotic oscillators capable of generating an infinite variety of “auditory behaviors” emergent from their status as autonomous electronic systems.

Rarely performed works by Fluxus artists George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Takehisa Kosugi, Tomas Schmit and Robert Watts, and a selection of pieces from Text Score A Day, a conceptual Twitter account consisting of a body of work with close connections to the event scores by Fluxus artists from the 1960’s. The concert is organized by Robert Blatt co-author of Text Score A Day, who will perform with a small ensemble of local Seattle musicians.

Jacob Peck is a composer and multi-instrumentalist  based in Oakland, CA, whose music interweaves realms of the avant garde with various musical traditions of the world. Derek M. Johnson is a musician and visual artist from Olympia, performing a melange of  looped and destroyed tones, all emanating from his cello and a massive array of effect pedals.

Noisegasm is Greg Weber and Brad Anderson, a two piece ensemble that explores the loud and distorted side of Electronic music. Distorrent is Brad Anderson and Clonal Machina, a two piece ensemble that explores the experimental, ambient side of electronic music.