The Many Duo (Matt Williams, guitar; Kevin Haag, percussion) will perform improvised music in celebration of their new release, improvised democracy, which explores the tension between living joyfully and creatively amidst societal decline. Sue Ann Harkey (prepared 12 string guitar) and Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin) will play an improvisational duet to begin the evening.

Presented by Monktail Creative Music Concern. Kenneth Mandell (sax, flute) presents new compositions for solo sax and sax/bass duo, and structured improvisations with Bill Monto (sax), John Seman (bass), Stephen Fandrich (Piano), Simon Henneman (guitar), and Don Berman (drums).

Living and working in Athens, Greece, Novi_sad explores sound as sensation, pulling apart its physical properties to reveal its relationship with human perception. Amplified environmental recordings, drone manipulations, structured ambient soundscapes, microtones and overtones based on various methods of audio analysis and quantitative and numerical data derived from various non-musical sources.

Composer Nat Evans presents a program of recent West Coast music that explores the aesthetics of nature and place. Christopher Roberts will play Last Cicada Singing, his serene, entrancing suite of four pieces for solo qin. Nat Evans presents Still Life with Transmigration, a new work for field recordings, trombones, conch shells, and other natural objects. Jim Fox’s The pleasure of being lost is a suite of five short piano pieces with or without a recorded backdrop; pianist Cristina Valdes premieres it in its unaccompanied form.

The Seattle Composers’ Salon fosters 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! Join us this month for an evening of music and discussion with Seattle composers Anne Cummings, Emily Doolittle, Steve Scribner, Yvonne Hoar.

GRID formed after random meetings between like-minded crazy people. Gregg Keplinger, Sean Lane, Andrew Rudd, CJ Stout, Erica Carlson and Jen Gilleran have played with a bunch of different folks over the years in all different settings all over the country and in some other countries. GRID offers us the opportunity to play out instincts and to structure the edges – doing our best to create opportunity. Our guest this performance is Robert Price from Brooklyn.

The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble has joined forces with Karin Stevens Dance to produce an evening of new work created through an idiosyncratic Composer/Choreographer pairing. Four composers have been paired with four choreographers to generate the new work, together, from the ground up. Featured artists: Karin Stevens Dance + Michael Owcharuk, UMAMI Performance + Beth Fleenor, Amy Weaver + Catherine Grealish, and Khambatta Dance Company + Stephen Fandrich.

The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble has joined forces with Karin Stevens Dance to produce an evening of new work created through an idiosyncratic Composer/Choreographer pairing. Four composers have been paired with four choreographers to generate the new work, together, from the ground up. Featured artists: Karin Stevens Dance + Michael Owcharuk, UMAMI Performance + Beth Fleenor, Amy Weaver + Catherine Grealish, and Khambatta Dance Company + Stephen Fandrich.

The Pacific Exchange concert series brings composers and performers from diverse areas of the Pacific Rim together in order to exchange ideas and emphasize their commonalities. This year’s Pacific Exchange events have taken place in Tokyo, the SF Bay Area, and now Seattle, featuring new music and collaborations by Paul Kikuchi (Seattle) with his group Portable Sanctuary, and the Thingamajigs Performance Group (Oakland). Pacific Exchange 2012 is co-presented by Prefecture Records.

Pianist Adrienne Varner performs music for solo piano: Philip Glass, Opening; Janice Giteck, Tara’s Love Will Melt the Sword; Henry Cowell, The Tides of Manaunan and The Voice of Lir; Jarrad Powell, Ellie and Prelude; John Cage, In A Landscape and Dream; Bunita Marcus, Sugar Cubes (for John Cage).