Eye Music performs graphic scores by Mieko Shiomi, William Hellerman, Cornelius Cardew, Boguslaw Schaffer, Greg Bright, Malcolm Goldstein, and Earle Brown. Ensemble members include Eric Lanzillotta, Dean Moore, David Stanford, Jonathan Way, Esther Sugai, Amy Denio, Stuart Dempster, Robert Kirkpatrick, Carl Lierman, and Dave Knott.

The Seattle Phonographers Union celebrate the release of their new CD with two concerts, each night featuring a different subset of the group and opened with a solo set by a different band member. Tonight’s line-up consists of Perri Lynch, Dale Lloyd, Pete Comely, Steve Peters, and Rob Millis. Christopher DeLaurenti premieres What is Happening in Darfur?, along with urban recordings that capture unusual confluences of sound, speech, music, and silence. DeLaurenti’s set is made possible with support from 4Culture.

The Seattle Phonographers Union celebrate the release of their new CD with two concerts, each night featuring a different subset of the group and opened with a solo set by a different band member. Tonight’s line-up consists of Doug Haire, Christopher DeLaurenti, Susie Kozawa, Jonathan Way, and Steve Barsotti. Perri Lynch presents Towards Mamori, using field recordings collected from the Mamori Lake region of the Amazon. Her performance is funded by the City of Seattle’s CityArtist program.

Affinity Chamber Players opens its 2009-2010 season with a concert showcasing three works recently submitted in response to Affinity’s call for scores: Christopher Gainey‘s ballet score, No Sleep for the Wicked; Arthur Gottschalk‘s poignant cycle of Dark Songs, with texts by Walt Whitman; Neil Thornock‘s Spin; also, the haunting Eleven Echoes of Autumn by the great American composer George Crumb. The acclaimed Seattle-based mezzo-soprano Melissa Plagemann joins the ensemble, conducted by Jonathan Pasternack.

Violinist James Garlick and pianist Judith Cohen present a recital of 20th century masterpieces. The program features Charles Ives’ Sonata No. 2 (1902-1910) and Bartok’s last published work, his monumental Sonata for Solo Violin (1944). Also on the program are Corigliano’s Selections from the Red Violin Caprices (2001), Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano (1916-1917), and JS Bach’s D minor Chaconne.

Presented with support from DXARTS. Music for live electronics and solo voice with Yutaka Makino, Stelios Manousakis, and Stephanie Pan. The program includes Sequenza III for solo voice by Luciano Berio, Stelios Manousakis’ Fantasia On A Single Number for digital feedback with live electronics, The Blackest Flux for live electronics, by Yutaka Makino, and Our Lady Of Late, inspired by and excerpts from Our Lady of Late (1972) by Meredith Monk, for voice and wineglass.

Seattle guitarist Joel David Palmer pursues dreamy, swirly realms of richly harmonic and melodic electric guitar improvisations. Lush washes of sound are punctuated with stabs and eruptions of sonic crystals, the whole melting into a breath-like ebb and flow of atmospheric electronica. Scott Ezell is an artist, poet, and musician based in Seattle. He has lived and traveled for a dozen years in China, Japan, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, and other countries, where among other things he worked as a recording artist, record producer, and composer of film sound tracks. Tonight he plays a solo set for ambient/world guitar and flute.

Nonsequitur presents the first Seattle concert devoted entirely to the music of Alaskan composer John Luther Adams. The program opens with two solo piano pieces performed by Seattle pianist Cristina Valdes, Nunataks (originally commissioned by Music Northwest) and Among Red Mountains, and concludes with The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies, a monumental recent work for solo percussion and electronics performed by renowned percussionist Steven Schick.

Violinists Victoria Parker, Arthur Zadinsky (first violinist with the Seattle Symphony) and pianist Oana Rusu Tomai have chosen this program after reflecting on how expatriate composers bring to their host country colorful characteristics of their native culture. Fun, light miniature pieces by Karol Szymanowski and Dmitri Shostakovich round off the evening.

Co-led by drummer Chris Icasiano and saxophonist Neil Welch, Bad Luck is about sound art, slowly developed loops and pedals used to propel the music into new aural fields. Tight-knit original compositions meet sonic mosaics in a musical relationship cultivated by years on the bandstand. Also, Operation I.D. is a Seattle collective performing modern, original compositions and fierce improvisations.