Music, poetry, and media art by Jeffrey Taylor (of Climax Golden Twins), Sokai Stilhed, Chet Corpt, The Cursory Design Realms of the Dreaming Mind, Apparent Movement, Mickey O’Connor, Marlin Eller, and others. Proceeds help fund the publication of Fragments multimedia arts journal.

Curated by composer Robert Voisey, 60×60 is an ongoing touring program of 60 pre-recorded electro-acoustic works from 60 different composers. Each composition is 60 seconds (or less) in duration, sequenced together to create a one-hour performance.

Guitarist Tom Baker and percussionist Dean Moore celebrate the release of their debut duo CD Seven Winds, an ambient work for electric guitar and gongs/resonant metals. Listen to excerpts here.

Nathan Davis and Cristina Valdes present music for percussion, piano, and electronics. Critically acclaimed composer and percussionist Nathan Davis makes music inspired by natural processes, acoustic phenomena, and the abstraction of simple stories. Tonight he plays his solos for triangles, river stones, and amplified laptop – probed with microphones and exaggerated with live electronic processing. Pianist Cristina Valdes (Seattle) performs the world premiere of CuoRE, a solo piano piece written for her by Seattle composer Donald Stewart. Together they play duos including the US premiere Orlando Garcia’s September 2007 (Remembering Morty), a memorial to Morton Feldman.

The UW’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media presents electronic and electro-acoustic music by DXARTS composers: Donald Craig, Assonaglyph; Stelios Manousakis, Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees? + Undercover Harpsichord Agents Terrorize The Court; Wyatt Fletcher, Wrought; Hugo Solis, Improvisation for piano and electronics; Doug Niemela, Kolme + Theonity.

Presented by Subtext Reading Series.

DANNY SNELSON is an editor, writer, and archivist living in Brooklyn, New York. His online editorial work can be found at UbuWeb, PennSound and Eclipse. Gallery screenings and performances at Ontological Hysteric Theater, The State Museum in Russia, Gallery D21 Leipzig, CRG Gallery New York, Lisa Cooley Gallery New York, and free103point9 Transmission Arts. Recent publications include my Dear coUntess (Drunken Boat #9), The Book of Ravelling Women (Aphasic Letters, 2008), Endless Nameless (No Input Books, 2009), and Inventory Arousal (Editions Press, 2009).

CHRISTOPHER DeLAURENTI is a Seattle-based composer, improviser & phonographer. A new music rabble-rouser, he also writes music reviews and articles. Various CDs here, including: Favorite Intermissions – Music Before & Between Beethoven, Stravinsky, Holst.

Danse Perdue/Death Posture present: ATTITUDES PASSIONNELLES, A CELEBRATION: 50 YEARS OF BUTOH DANCE, 10,000 YEARS OF HYSTERIA. In the latter half of the 19th century at the Salpetriere asylum for insane and incurable women in Paris, medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot began an exhaustive photographic documentation of the inmates diagnosed as hysterics. He held the notorious “Tuesday Lectures” during which hysterical attacks and tableaux of hypnotic suggestion would be induced/performed for an audience. As we created this work, we sought a becoming-hysteric inside our bodies to erupt in unknown voices and movements and to mutate recognizable movements and voices into strange, irrevocably compelled creatures. Dancers: Lin Lucas, Douglas Ridings, Ariel Denham, Kaoru Okumura, and Katrina Sirena with Danse Perdue (Vanessa Skantze, Alex Ruhe). Sound collaborators: celadon, Noise Poet Nobody, and Herpes Hideaway.

Seattle composer and jazz French Horn virtuoso Tom Varner performs with some of Seattle’s top players: drummer Byron Vannoy, bassist Phil Sparks, saxophonist Eric Barber, and clarinetist Jesse Canterbury. The quintet performs new works recently composed at the Centrum Foundation, among them A Waltz for Steve Lacy, In Heaven, and The Silent E in Hope, as well as some pared-down sections from Varner’s new piece for tentet, Heaven and Hell, to be released later in the year, and a few impromptu “music prayers/meditations” that work so well in the beautiful Chapel space.

PHASE 3 is three smart men on computers and various other audio technology. They make a modern, electronic sound that strangely intertwines with sounds of a kind of nostalgia, old mechanisms, manual typewriters, the voices of the moon-space program or some kind of manual…eerie quiet sounds repeating softly like a carpet of ants, a tiny bell rings or a gear turns in the far distance then emerges in a loud vibrant suddenness in the foreground only to get smashed and vanish into the sounds in the distance of an airport. Insects and typewriters, loudspeakers, feedback and the sounds of dishes being washed mix and emerge, vanish and reappear. Seattle guitar maniac Bill Horist opens.

Presented by Washington Composers Forum, Nonsequitur, and Jack Straw Productions. WCF’s Transport Series is sponsored by 4Culture.

Boston-based pianist and composer Yvonne Lee performs music by modern masters: Anton Webern’s Variations, Opus 27; Elliott Carter’s Retrouvailles and 90+; Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari; and Helmut Lachenmann’s Ein Kinderspiel and Serynade. Also, Unsound Grounds by young composer Trevor Gureckis.