Seattle’s favorite internet radio station, Hollow Earth Radio, presents it’s annual Magma Festival. Shows are all over town all month long, so check their schedule. Tonight: Shana Cleveland & the Sandcastles; Jason Dodson (Maldives); Michael Hurley

Seattle’s favorite internet radio station, Hollow Earth Radio, presents it’s annual Magma Festival. Shows are all over town all month long, so check their schedule. Tonight: Sue Ann Harkey (guitar, vocals) & Lori Goldston (cello); Ô Paon; Mecca Normal.

Christopher DeLaurenti presents an evening of solo electronics, unusual field recordings from around the world, and the debut of Thrill, which features the recorded voices of jazz singers Dawn Clement, Josephine Howell, Kelley Johnson, and Greta Matassa layered in duos, trios, and quartets singing the classic torch song “You’re My Thrill.” Thrill is made possible with support from the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

Presented by Seattle Chamber Players, in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York. SCP and the extraordinary Polish vocalist Agata Zubel perform Luciano Berio’s Sequenza, the US premiere of the flute/voice version of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s Changing Light, and Estonian composer Helena Tulve’s Island for clarinet and violin, as well as Agata Zubel’s own Parlando and her dynamic and ethereal vocal tour-de-force, Cascando.

Brad Sherman presents a concert of world premieres for solo piano, solo cello and solo clarinet composed specifically for this event and for these specific performers: Julie Ives on piano, Mary Riles on cello and the composer on clarinet. Tom Bell (piano) and Sue Buttram (mezzo-soprano) join up for the performance of In Death’s Place, an earlier piece composed for mezzo-soprano and piano: a haunting setting of an e. e. cummings poem.

The Seattle Composers’ Salon is pleased to welcome composer and pianist Wayne Horvitz for a discussion and presentation of his music.

Singer/keyboardist Joy Von Spain is joined by Jean-Paul Garnier (voice, guitar/bass), Count Constantin (violin), Dean Moore (percussion), and Butoh dancers Vanessa Skantze & Briana Jones for a program of original material and unusual arrangements of contemporary and ancient songs.

Seattle composer/musician/producer Jherek Bischoff (Ribbons, Dead Science, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Xiu Xiu, Evangelista) premiers a collection of ten ambient pieces composed during a recent residency at Pt. Townsend’s Fort Warden State Park, specifically written for and recorded in the park’s massive cistern — an empty, two million gallon underground water tank boasting an incredible 45-second reverb. For this event, Jherek will be joined by a live orchestra and sound engineers to help recreate the incredible sonic ambience of the cistern.

Presented by Nonsequitur. The remarkable Amsterdam-based cellist, composer and improviser Frances-Marie Uitti has pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by using two bows in one hand, transforming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained chordal and intricate multi-voiced writing, contemporaneous cross accents, multiple timbres, contrasting 4-voiced dynamics, and simultaneous legato/articulated playing. Tonight she performs works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Jonathan Harvey, Giacinto Scelsi, Lisa Bielawa, Annie Gosfield, György Kurtág, and her own Rap’t.

Breaking away from their usual “politburo” performance set up, the Seattle Phonographers Union honors the recent passing of the German sound artist and composer of “small music” Rolf Julius (1939 – 2011) with a performative sound environment. While still using unprocessed field recordings as source material, group members will be spread (and in some cases moving) throughout the space, playing through small, localized sound systems to create a sonic environment made up of many smaller micro-climates, with the audience free to move through the space or sit if they wish.