We would be honored by your presence at the performance of HONOR, a new musical experience by Jay Hamilton and the Turtling Dithers (Darryl Estes, Gordon Frazier, and Maurice Colasurdo).

Chrysalis is a women’s vocal ensemble that studies and incorporates a wide range of traditional, experimental, and contemporary vocal practices. Tonight they present an evening of new choral works by local composers curated by Hanna Benn, with members of The Esoterics and Gamelan Pacifica: Hanna Benn, Samantha Bosch, Marit Hanson, Whitney Lyman, Erica Atnip, Carly Hodgson, Jessika Kenney, Maeg O’Donoghue Williams Sukarwanto, Holly Johnson. Opening the evening will be Moon & Tides, a duo of Gwen Bayly (saxophone) and Cynthia Dillard (piano).

Nonsequitur presents an evening of diverse electro-acoustic music featuring recent work by Jim Haynes (San Francisco), Brendan Murray (Boston), and Steven M. Miller (Singapore).

Following a successful West Coast tour, the hot-fresh saxophone and drums duo Bad Luck celebrate the release of their second album for Seattle new music label Table & Chairs, Two. Pianist Cristina Valdes performs an opening set of pieces by Wayne Horvitz, John Luther Adams, and Orlando Garcia.

John Teske premieres new works for double bass along with local musicians Maria Scherer Wilson and Beth Fleenor. Ranging from meditative to raucous, these pieces are based on personal evolution, ethereal atmospheres, and playful rhythms and structures. Each composition was commissioned through the “haulin’ bass” bike trailer project of 2010, all of which are currently being recorded. Two older works will also be performed with Jen Kozel and Jenn Glenn.

Richard Webb’s indie chamber orchestra returns for another evening of lush ambient melodies.

Presented by DX ARTS. Richard Johnson Logan-Greene is a composer, improviser and instrument inventor, soon finishing a DMA at UW. This concert features solo and duo improvisations for two experimental instruments – a computer-controlled contrabass clarinet (played by Jesse Canterbury) and a motorized cello (played by John Teske) – and a 3d video of Heather Raikes’ multimedia dance piece, Corpus Corvus. Also on the program are I Think I Want to Be Myself for recorded voices, instruments and algorithms, and Submersions I for Submersible and live percussionist Greg Campbell.

Composer/pianist Michael Owcharuk presents a special evening of new chamber works bringing together through-composed and improvised music. The program includes his 3 Meditations for solo clarinet, 4 Preludes for violin and piano, Maneuvers #1 for String Trio and 2 Improvisers, performed by Beth Fleenor (clarinet), Mai Li Pittard (violin), Erica Johansen (violin), Nicola Reilly (violin), Jennifer Ellison (violoncello), Michael Owcharuk (piano).

Having presented various fragments over the past few years, Seattle composer S. Eric Scribner unveils the complete 9-hour open-form epic StormSound Cycle. The entire Cycle is twenty-one separate movements, each for instruments with prerecorded electronics derived from nature recordings by J. R. Storm. With performers Mike Sentkewitz (bass), S. Eric Scribner (piano/found objects), Ivan Arteaga (clarinet), Neal Kosaly-Meyer (electric guitar), Matt Kocmieroski and Dale Speicher (percussion), Bruce Greeley (bass clarinet), Jay Hamilton (mey/homemade instruments), Keith Eisenbrey (found objects), Clifford Dunn (flute), David Paul Mesler (piano), and Ryan Burt (drums).

Presented by Monktail Creative Music Concern. This edition of the Monktail Composers Series presents graphic scores by John Seman, Stephen Fandrich, Stephen Parris, Mark Ostrowski, Beth Fleenor, Denney Goodhew, and Ari Joshua performed by them and other members of the Monktail collective.