New York-based percussionist Melanie Sehman presents a series of newly commissioned and recent electro-acoustic works from composers across the country including Cenk Ergün (Princeton), Ben Hackbarth (University of California San Diego/IRCAM), Ryan Manchester (Brooklyn), Jordan Munson (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) and others. With guests Dale Speicher of Seattle Percussion Collective and Steven Sehman.

Presented by Nonsequitur. Seattle Phonographers Union member Steve Barsotti presents an evening of reduced listening, performing a work in three parts featuring improvisation with invented instruments and field recordings collected around the world over the past twenty years. Barsotti will play his Spring Frame, a home-built instrument consisting of springs, strings, and other objects amplified through contact microphones. Joining him for a portion of the evening will be instrument inventor and percussionist Paul Kikuchi.

Saxophonist Neil Welch spent a year living in a house tucked away in the woods on Whidbey Island. Spending his days practicing, he would periodically come back to the city and record some solo music. Boxwork is the outcome – a collection of fourteen musical vignettes spanning a wide range of Neil’s unique solo style. From explorations in pitch timbre, threads of sound energy, to extreme dynamics and guttural screams, all is performed acoustically. Opening is the Quantum String Quartet, performing Bartok’s String Quartet No. 3, and Ives’ Scherzo for String Quartet.

With music by composer Garrett Fisher and choreography by Christy Fisher, Kocho is a multimedia music-theater piece based on the Noh play by Nobumitsu that tells the story of a wandering Priest who meets a butterfly and “liberates” it by letting it dance under the plum blossom. With the support of the Fisher Ensemble, the score incorporates sounds and instruments from multiple cultures. Pianist Byron Schenkman also performs Fisher’s new Piano Raga No. 1.

With music by composer Garrett Fisher and choreography by Christy Fisher, Kocho is a multimedia music-theater piece based on the Noh play by Nobumitsu that tells the story of a wandering Priest who meets a butterfly and “liberates” it by letting it dance under the plum blossom. With the support of the Fisher Ensemble, the score incorporates sounds and instruments from multiple cultures. Pianist Byron Schenkman also performs Fisher’s new Piano Raga No. 1.

For this special “Harp and Horns” presentation, Ask the Ages (guitarist Brian Heaney, saxophonist Kate Olson, vibraphonist Steven Bell, bassist John Seman, drummer Greg Campbell) are joined by guests Stuart Dempster (trombone), Matt Reid (trumpet), Melissa Walsh (harp), Archana Bennur (classical South Indian volcals), and Dale Speicher (marimba).

The Seattle Percussion Collective will present an evening of chamber music written for percussion, including the following works: In Memoriam…Esteban Gomez by Robert Ashley, Beaten Paths by Milton Babbitt, Letters from the Earth by Sarah Bassingthwaighte (World Premiere), Transition by Nat Evans (World Premiere), Music for Magnets by Paul Kikuchi (World Premiere), Canon #5 by Larry Polansky, I Riti: Ritual March by Giacinto Scelsi, and Bicoastal by Roger Zahab.

Presented by The Frank Agency and Advocates for Abundance through Action in the Arts. An evening of performance and discussion surrounding Beth Fleenor’s expanding compositional series: Movement Exercises for Blindfolded Ensemble. A 9-piece ensemble featuring Fleenor (clarinet) with Michele Khazak (voice), Craig Flory (reeds), Chris Credit (reeds), Samantha Boshnack (trumpet), Andy Coe (guitar), Michael Owcharuk (piano), Paul “PK” Kemmish (bass), and John Ewing (drums), will present Movement Exercises No. 1 – 4.

Guitarist Rik Wright‘s group Fundamental Forces is a revolving consortium of players whose explorations center around a set number of loosely defined charts and guidelines. Stylistically, all preconceptions are out the door. Iron Kim Style is an explosive Seattle-based jazz-rock improvisational quintet who gleefully blend structure and abstraction, lyrical melodies and scalding noise, wicked funk and weightless balladry, jazz phrasing and bracing experimentalism.

Chad McCullough presents his new project, performing on effected trumpet in a trio with pianist Wayne Horvitz and guitarist Ron Samworth. Saxophonist Brent Jensen and guitarist Krispen Hartung have collaborated together for years, and this concert will bring pianist Bill Anschell into the group, expanding the dynamic interplay between the musicians.