Presented by Jack Straw Productions.

Collectively embracing human experience in both new and retrospective work, Remembering Catherine juxtaposes experiential native American music, gestures, and idioms, with formalized chamber music composed in the Western classical tradition by Seattle composer Marcus Oldham, S’Klallam Coast Salish/Lummi composer Chenoa Egawa, and Navajo/Southern Cheyenne composer, Alex Turtle. Pre-concert program of native American storytelling for children of all ages, conducted by Chenoa Egawa and Alex Turtle.

Presented by Nonsequitur.

Bay Area pianist Sarah Cahill performs new music selected from her commissioning project A Sweeter Music, inspired by this quote from Dr. Martin Luther King’s Nobel Lecture: “We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody that is far superior to the discords of war.” Program: Terry Riley, Be Kind to One Another (Rag); Meredith Monk, Steppe Music; Frederic Rzewski, Peace Dances; Kyle Gann, War Is a Racket!; Larry Polansky, B’Midbar; Jerome Kitzke, There Is a Field; Mamoru Fujieda, The Olive Branch Speaks.

The Seattle Occultural Music Festival is a three-weekend, community-based festival celebrating new and experimental music in the Pacific Northwest of psychic, ecological or otherwise deeply resonant importance.

The Seattle Phonographers Union improvise with field recordings. Jason Kopec is an audio ethnographer and field recording artist continually in search of lesser known sonic treasures. Graham Banfield performs new works for classical guitar.

Subtext Reading Series presents…

Beverly Dahlen, a native of Portland, Oregon, has lived in San Francisco for many years. Her first book, Out of the Third, was published by Momo’s Press in 1974. Two chapbooks, A Letter at Easter (Effie’s Press, 1976) and The Egyptian Poems (Hipparchia Press, 1983) were followed by the publication of the first volume of A Reading in 1985 (A Reading 1—7, Momo’s Press). Since then, three more volumes of A Reading have appeared. Chax Press published A Reading 8—10 (1992); Potes and Poets Press: A Reading 11—17 (1989); Instance Press: A Reading 18—20 (2006). Chax Press also published the chapbook A-reading Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets in 2004. A forthcoming issue of Crayon will publish poetry and her essay on beauty.

Ezra Mark writes between things. He is author of the prose work Intention, with Retention forthcoming. Current projects are Slow Motion (completing the arc of the previous two books) and Clairefontaine. He lives and works in Seattle.

Guitarist Andrew Boscardin‘s Nickel & Brass Septet celebrates the release of their new CD, Four-Color Heroes!, featuring new music for improvising ensemble by composer and guitarist Boscardin with Chris Stover on trombone, Clark Gibson on sax, Tom Varner on French horn, Ben Thomas on vibes, Jon Hamar on bass, and Jose Martinez on drums. The songs on Four-Color Heroes! are dedicated to, and take inspiration from, artists and writers of comic books from the 1960s and 1970s.

The Seattle Composers’ Salon is an informal presentation of new music by regional composers. The salon meets the last 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 setting that allows for discussion and experimentation. This month’s composers include Greg Bartholomew, Marcus Oldham, Sean Osborn, and Neal Kosaly-Meyer with the Nova Group.

Presented by Washington Composers Forum as part of their Transport Series.

Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. Tonight’s program features The Other Piano (2007), A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur (1978), and Then and Now Forever (2008), with performers Cristina Valdes (piano), Sean Osborn (clarinet), Michael Jinsoo Lim (violin), and Morton Subotnick (electronics).

DXARTS presents an evening of new music with electronics and video by Joshua Parmenter, Don Craig, and Stelios Manousakis & Stephanie Pan. Program: Theta (IV-Ritardando) for viola and real-time electronics by Joshua Parmenter with Melia Watras, viola (premier); Symphony of Visual Music for computer realized sound and visuals by Donald Craig (premier); three open compositions by Stelios Manousakis and Stephanie Pan.

Nonsequitur presents composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith. Best known world-wide as an improvising guitarist, Fred was co-founder of the British underground bands Henry Cow (1968-78) and Art Bears (1978-81). He moved to New York in the late 1970s and came into contact with many of the musicians with whom he’s since been associated, including John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Tom Cora, Zeena Parkins, and Bob Ostertag, and groups like Massacre (with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher), Skeleton Crew (with Tom and Zeena), John Zorn’s Naked City, and Keep the Dog. In the 1980s Fred began to write for dance, film, and theatre, and this in turn has led to his composing for Rova Sax Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Arditti Quartet, Asko Ensemble, and many other groups, including his own critically acclaimed Guitar Quartet. He is currently Professor of Composition at Mills College in Oakland, California. Watch a video clip.

San Francisco based composer and clarinetist Matt Ingalls performs solo and with local musicians Jesse Canterbury (clarinets), Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin), Greg Campbell (percussion), and Aaron Otheim (piano).