Seattle Rock Orchestra performs works by Scott Teske, Ian Williams, Emily Westman, Andrew Joslyn, Nat Evans, Jherek Bischoff, Evan Flory-Barnes, Alex Guy, Samantha Boshnack, John Teske, Barry Uhl, and more. Each piece explores the musical motifs of a different decade or genre in pop music. The evening will culminate with performances of music from Beck Hansen’s Song Reader.

Charles Buckingham and Vance Galloway present works encouraging active listening and contemplation of our shifting perceptions of time. No video: the scene behind your closed eyelids will serve as your only visual aid. Field recordings, electronic and acoustic guitar, radio interference, and signals from long-deceased stars are sources for extensive mixing and signal processing.

An evening of collaborations featuring Wayne Horvitz (piano, electronics), Briggan Krauss (saxophone), Robin Holcomb (piano, voice), and very special guests from Vancouver.

Pran is trombonist Greg Powers improvising in the Dagarbhani style of Hindustani Music. Powers is the only trombonist in the world performing this ancient style of music as Stuart Dempster holds down the drone on a big brass didjeridu. Powers is a pioneer in adapting Indian music to the trombone. He is a disciple of the Dagarbhani tradition and has studied with Jeff Lewis, Ustad Farid’uddin Dagar, Uday Bhawalkar, Baha’uddin Dagar and Wasif’uddin Dagar in Seattle and Mumbai. As a Fulbright Fellow to India he studied with Ustad Yunus Hussein Khan in New Delhi.

Analog Honking Device – tenor saxophonist Cynthia Mullis, Idaho soprano saxophonist Brent Jensen, Steve Kim (electric bass), Chris Symer (acoustic bass) and Chris Icasiano (drums) – performs music based on the modern jazz repertoire approached with a free and open, improvisatory, experimental aesthetic. The result is a seat-of-the-pants musical adventure that veers between the inside and outside parameters of the jazz experience.

Ask the Ages is a Seattle based avant-jazz band comprised of 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.

Richard Webb is a NYC based sound artist and musician usually playing and composing for the ensemble Lullabies for Falling Empires; Mari Matsutoya is a conceptual sound artist based in Berlin. Recent Transmissions, a Whisper and a Thief is a new work that is part song, part video, and part transmission, as Mari will play her parts via satellite from NYC.

noisepoetnobody (analog synths & stringboard) celebrates his new CD Epos Nemo Latrocinium (Latin: Epic Nobody Mercenary) with comrades Tom Swafford, violin; Dean Moore, percussion & resonant metals;  Joy Von Spain, voice & piano; Vanessa Skantze, butoh performance. Also: butoh performance by Alex Ruhe with sound by Sisiutl.

Presented by Seattle Composers’ Salon, Nonsequitur, and Joshua Parmenter.

Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs and MP3s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every December. People bring their own boomboxes and drift peacefully through a cloud of sound which is different from every listener’s perspective. Since 1992, this 45-minute work has grown into a worldwide annual communal event that has become an essential part of many winter holiday celebrations.

Pianist Gust Burns hosts this fundraising concert for REAL BOOK, his recent collection of scores made by erasing material from popular jazz songs in The New Real Book. First Set: Burns plays solo piano. Second Set: quartet w/ Paul Kikuchi, Carmen Rothwell, Jacob Zimmerman.