Vance Galloway and Charles Stanyon present an evening of music and experimental sound based on the concept of resonance. Environmental video and light by artists Peter Bill and Killing Frenzy. A multi-channel bath of sound generated by electro-magnetic, electro-mechanical, and traditional acoustic means with extensive real-time processing. Swaths of color and light, abstract imagery and shifting geometries provide a visual component.

GRADUS for Fux, Tesla and Milo the Wrestler is Neal Meyer’s piano composition-in-perpetual-progress. The nutshell version of the score is: “Learn to play the piano one note at a time.” Since January 2002, Neal Meyer has been systematically realizing GRADUS through extended improvisations on each individual piano tone, and all possible combinations of piano tones.

Longtime friends Beth Fleenor (clarinets, voice & electronics) and Trey Gunn (touch guitar) come together with a host of other found objects for this special, one-night only improvised performance.

Presented by Nonsequitur. The Tiptons (Amy Denio – alto saxophone, clarinet, voice; Jessica Lurie – alto and tenor saxophone, voice; Sue Orfield – tenor saxophone, voice; Tina Richerson – baritone sax, voice; John Ewing – drums) perform original compositions and arrangements of world music on saxes, clarinet, voices and drums/percussion, creating some of the wildest sounds ever to come out of a sax quartet.

Michael Nicolella performs music for classical and electric guitar written from 1945 to the present by Francis Poulenc, Elliott Carter, Steve Reich, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Joaquin Nin-Culmell, Robert Beaser, Laurence Crane, Jimi Hendrix, and Michael Nicolella.

Hell’s Bellows accordion quartet is a 21st century ensemble with the radical idea that the accordion is just another instrument. Scott Adams, Amy Denio, Marchette DuBois, and Eli Kaufman have been creating original work for the accordion since 2006, and you will be amazed at the variety of sounds they can get out of the instruments. James Hoskins is a gifted cellist and improviser based in Boulder, CO since 1991. He plays in the Balkan/Middle-Eastern musical groups Sherefe and Barbelfish, the jazz group County Road X, and in a duo with Akemi Iwase that plays Japanese folk-inspired music.

A new project featuring Brian Kinsella (piano), Chris Symer (bass), and Chris Icasiano (drums), Fluke plays primarily the music of Seattle composer Jim Knapp, as well as music from films and original compositions. Fluke utilizes a traditional jazz trio instrumentation – acoustic piano, acoustic bass, drum set – but its music is in the realm of free improvisation, noise, and pop classicism.

Briana Jones (butoh dance) with music by Sentient Explosive (gongs with analog modular synthesizer); Victoria Jacobs (flamenco/modern/fusion) with music by Sataray with Celadon (dark sirenic vox & harmonium with industrial/ambient sound); Jessica Ludescher & Christian Swenson (dance movement and voice) with music by Ahmad Yousefbeigi & Andrew Sorkin (Iranian percussion w/ beat box).

Darin Gray (St. Louis) is best known as Jim O’Rourke’s go-to bassist for nearly 20 years, as half of the duo On Fillmore, and as the bassist for Grand Ulena, Dazzling Killmen, and Brise-Glace. As an improviser he has performed and recorded with Loren Connors, Masami Akita (Merzbow), Josh Abrams, Jason Roebke, Axel Dorner, Kevin Drumm, Alan Licht, Thollem Mcdonas, and Jim O’Rourke. He has toured extensively in the United States, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Russia and Europe. Alchimia (Dawud Mateen: sax, flute, percussion, voice; Brad Smarjesse: violin, keyboard, percussion, voice; Robert Iwanik: bass, voice) is a trio of Seattle improvisors exploring jazz, ambient and avant territories.

Rob Angus creates ambient-industrial soundscapes using acoustic instruments to generate sounds that are manipulated, layered, and sent out into a 4-channel surround-sound system. Stuart Dempster and Susie Kozawa explore space with small instruments, sound toys and re-purposed objects.