Reed player Paul Hoskin and Bryan Eubanks perform a piece for reed-driven tubes tuned to, and accompanied by, recordings of these instruments made in the Cistern at Ft. Worden State Park, part of a series of pieces using material generated by and recorded in the Cistern. Eubanks and Doug Theriault perform duo improvisations on electronics and self-designed instruments.

Gift Tapes presents a special night of outsider electronic music, featuring Portland-based Matt Carlson (Golden Retriever, formerly of Parenthetical Girls) performing modular synthesizer music, and Seattle-based RM Francis performing new electronic works and real-time compositions for computer.

The Seattle Occultural Music Festival celebrates new & experimental music in the Pacific Northwest of psychic, ecological, or otherwise deeply resonant importance. Our diverse programs incorporate performers and composers spanning the region’s breadth of genres and musical generations. Tonight: Anacortes rockers Mt. Eerie, Milton goth-folk druids Novemthree, and the droney mash of Paintings for Animals + noisepoetnobody.

Presented by Elevator Bath. Matt Shoemaker manipulates sound sourced from both natural and electronic means in an affected and often grotesque manner, so as to convey compositions that uniquely imagine a space encrypted to the point of vanishing definition. Adam Pacione is a Ft. Worth-based sound artist who’s work primarily falls within the ambient/drone genre. Colin Andrew Sheffield focuses on the strict re-contextualization of commercially available recordings, distilling the essential qualities of these works for use in new compositions.

The Seattle Composers’ Salon is an informal presentation of new music by regional composers. The salon meets the first Friday of every other month, and features finished works, previews, and works-in-progress. It brings together composers, performers and audience members in a casual concert setting that allows for discussion and experimentation. Tonight: recent music by Yvonne Hoar, Doug Palmer, Steve Scribner, Ben Houge, and Jeffrey Izzo.

Presented by UW Dept. of Music and Table & Chairs Music. A thriving student group from the UW brings together local talent and internationally acclaimed artists for IMPfest III: a yearly celebration of new, improvisation-focused music pairing local up-and-coming avant-music visionaries with some of the world’s top performers. Tonight’s concert features Juan Pampin & Matt Ingalls, Psychoangelo, and Troon.

Presented by UW Dept. of Music and Table & Chairs Music. The Improvised Music Project is an annual festival presenting adventurous young players in Seattle’s new jazz and improvisation scene, alongside more established elders at variety of venues around town. Tonight’s concert features Bad Luck, Smallface, and Humans Get Hungry

Splash! presents a program of new music, most of it by living Northwest Composers, and dance by Victoria Jacobs. Roger Nelson, piano and Janna Wachter, voice with guests Shawna Avinger (voice), Victoria Jacobs (dance), Jamie Maschler (accordion), Dale Speicher (percussion), Greg Sinibaldi (saxophone), Rob Alinder (lighting), works by Roger Nelson, William Ransom, Greg Sinibaldi and Janna Wachter, Elena Ruehr, Christian Wolff and John Cage.

Jim Knapp and Eyvind Kang’s string orchestra Scrape presents new music featuring Jessika Kenney, guest vocalist. Premieres include Eyvind’s Lady Welby, a piece based on a new algebraically inspired notational system, and three works by Jim: From Burnt Norton, Listening to Reason, and Approaching Yvones. The self-led, democratic orchestra comprises improvising-friendly professional string players with concertmaster Heather Bentley and guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi. (Video here.)

Splash! presents a program of new music, most of it by living Northwest Composers, and dance by Victoria Jacobs. Roger Nelson, piano and Janna Wachter, voice with guests Shawna Avinger (voice), Victoria Jacobs (dance), Jamie Maschler (accordion), Dale Speicher (percussion), Greg Sinibaldi (saxophone), Rob Alinder (lighting), works by Roger Nelson, William Ransom, Greg Sinibaldi and Janna Wachter, Elena Ruehr, Christian Wolff and John Cage.