Presented by Hollow Earth Radio and Nonsequitur. Seattle’s favorite online community radio station, throws this annual love fest for the local music community, presenting all kinds of music in venues all over town throughout the month of March. Tonight features four sets of eclectic improvised music by trios of similar instruments: Angelina Baldoz, Samantha Boshnack, Lesli Dalaba (trumpets); Byron Au Yong (erhu), Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin), Paul Rucker (cello); Beth Fleenor, Paul Hoskin, Jenny Zeifel (clarinets); Stuart Dempster, Paul Kikuchi, Susie Kozawa (percussion/toys/found stuff/homemades). Preview in the Seattle Star by Omar Willey.

Ambient electronic music in 6.1 surround sound by three emerging Los Angeles artists: Recently transplanted from Seattle to Los Angeles, Yann Novak is a sound, video, and installation artist. His sound/video installation, Blue.Hour, is currently showing at Jack Straw New Media Gallery in Seattle. Robert Crouch is an artist and curator who works across a wide range of media including photography, sound, installation, video, and sculpture. Sublamp is sound and video artist Ryan Connor. Using textural sound and images, he explores an intuitive and emotional response to sensory experiences.

Presented by Monktail Creative Music Concern. Monktail Composers Series Vol. 8 features new music from Stephen Parris, Bill Monto, and Gust Burns with performances by Adrian Varner, Beth Fleenor, Stephen Fandrich, Paul Hoskin, Darian Asplund, Kenny Mandell, Mara Sedlins, and Jonathan Way.

Seattle native/New York-based composer and trombonist Andy Clausen celebrates the release of a new album of pieces workshopped and fine-tuned over the last year-and-a-half by his Wishbone Ensemble. The album, The Wishbone Suite, is being released on Seattle label Table & Chairs. Acoustic guitar duo Thousands opens the show.

Presented by Nonsequitur. Electrogals is an organization dedicated to promoting and inspiring electronic music and digital art by women. For this show, collective members Christi Denton (Portland), Briana Marela (Olympia), and Heather Perkins (Portland) employ hand-built electronic instruments, cassette-deck-loopers, vocoders, electric guitar, hand-coded music software, and gesture-operated synthesizers, to create rich sonic environments.

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 Jay Hamilton, Clement Reid, John Teske, and Terry Wergeland.

Presented by Nonsequitur. John Cage was at Cornish College in Seattle in 1940, when he was asked by Syvilla Fort to score a new dance called Bacchanale. He was mainly writing percussion music then, but the stage was too small to accommodate his instruments. He placed a variety of objects between and on the strings of a piano, thus putting “in the hands of a single pianist the equivalent of an entire percussion orchestra.” Cage went on to compose many works for “prepared piano,” including the wonderful Sonatas & Interludes (1946-48). Tonight, acclaimed pianist Adam Tendler performs the complete 70-minute work from memory.

Crystal Beth* (multi-instrumentalist/composer Beth Fleenor) spins sound using voice, clarinet, loops and effects, weaving a participatory aural ritual that encompasses Fleenor’s body of urban tribal chants & improvisations, alien disco breaks and robot love songs.

The StringStation is a new guitar-like instrument that combines 40 strings with a vast array of original perspective and new technique. An accelerated music evolution designed by former Passport recording artist and engineer/producer Jim Bartz.

Viva Vocalists, the first class taught through Fisher Ensemble’s new education division, led by instructors Shawna Avinger and Kristen Ramer Liang, presents two one-act operas: Kurt Weill’s Down In The Valley (1945-1948) combines American folk tunes with strikingly modern harmonies to tell the Depression-era tale of two star-crossed lovers. Douglas Moore‘s Gallantry (1958) pokes fun at the melodramatic world of television soap operas.