Pianist Gust Burns leads a 15-member chamber orchestra in the newest in a series of compositions – duration, disjunction, relation. The pieces explore timbre, duration, silence, structure/form, and the way these are created and dealt with in an improvising context.

Duo Juum is an electro-acoustic improvisation ensemble founded in 2006 by Hugo Solís (piano, electronics) and Gabriela Villa (viola, voice, text). Both musicians, native Mexicans, share interdisciplinary interests and education which include music, music technology, digital media and speech. Tonight they present Conjuration of the Memory, a new work based on a text by Villa.

Flutists Jennifer Rhyne and Paul Taub perform an exciting and varied program of contemporary works, using amplified flutes, alto flutes, piccolos, distortion and delay pedals, prerecorded sound, and spatial movement. Works by Higdon, Yun, Dahl, Glass, Takemitsu, Kyr, a premier by Tacoma composer James L. Brown, and more.

November 1 – 15; presented by Wayward Girls Productions. Seattle Times review; Sally Anderson’s review on Paul Dorpat’s blog. Good Shepherd Center resident artist Mary Welch curates this group installation of life-sized, bio-degradable coffins suspended from the ceiling of the Good Shepherd Center chapel. Participating artists include Baltic Telegraph Company, Maisoui Barham, Clay Blankenship, Alex Branch, Johnny Chalapatas, Julie Custer, Ben Darby, Kathleen Doherty Goldfarb, Michael Dunlop, Jill Foote-Hutton, Christiana Hedlund, Wendy Lawrence, Matthiu Mendieta, Barbara Menele, Teresa Redden, Connie Sabo, Jere Smith, Joshua Waddell, Mary Welch, Mark Willson, with sound by Steve Peters.

Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival.

German pianist Georg Graewe returns for a thrilling solo recital. One of the avant-garde’s leading lights, Graewe is known for his unique blending of jazz, classical, and improvised music, and his solo efforts are complex and wholly-compelling affairs. He’s performed and recorded with Anthony Braxton, Barry Guy, Mats Gustafsson, Dave Douglas, Frank Gratkowski, Paul Lovens, Marilyn Crispell, and Evan Parker, among others. He is also founder of the excellent Random Acoustics record label.

Opening are Seattle’s own Gust Burns (piano) and Gregory Campbell (percussion, French horn). Burns strives to discover new routes to improvisation on the piano, developing alternative narrative approaches and extended techniques. His longtime colleague Campbell is a percussionist with a wide range of interests and former teachers — bassists Dave Holland and Cecil McBee, drummer Bob Moses, and Ghanaian palmwine guitarist Koo Nimo, among many others.

A bi-annual forum for Seattle artists from a variety of disciplines to show work without the pressures of more formal venues, and to enjoy inter-disciplinary dialog. This edition includes dancers Yoko Murao, Kathryn Hightower, Marissa Rae Niederhauser, Christy Fisher, NorthWest Dance Syndrome, and Sheri Brown; composers/musicians Rosalynn De Roos, Jah Breeze, Dean Moore; and visual artists Janice Fournier and Betty Hageman.

Percussionist Dean Moore returns with his extensive collection of gongs, joined by dancers Vanessa Skantze, Christy Fisher, and Yoko Murao, with Mike Shannon on field recordings.

Lori Goldston’s restless curiosity and the adaptive sounds of her cello blur the lines of genre, time and geography. Performing improvisations and original works, she’ll be joined by Greg Campbell on percussion, Steve Moore and Tom Yoder on trombone, Eric Richards and Clyde Petersen on guitar, and Alex Guy on viola.

Co-presented by Earshot Jazz Festival & Nonsequitur.

Marilyn Crispell has established herself as one of the most virtuosic and fiercely expressive pianists around, performing complex music with extraordinary precision, power, and grace. A string of successful albums for ECM debuted her trio of Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. Crispell’s most recent solo effort, Vignettes, presents her at her most effusive, performing both compositions and free improvisations in performances of profound beauty.

Premier European percussionist Paul Lytton has helped define free improvisation for over thirty years in his longstanding trio with Barry Guy and Evan Parker, in Guy’s London Jazz Composers or New Orchestras, and in Guy’s trio with Marilyn Crispell. Gifted young American trumpeter Nate Wooley is a master texturalist who regularly performs solo and has worked with Anthony Braxton, Tony Malaby, and Herb Robertson.

October 17 & 18; Nonsequitur presents Seattle composer Garrett Fisher and company in the return of their latest chamber opera. Psyche tells the story of wrathful Aphrodite’s quest to ruin Psyche, a mortal who is considered to be more beautiful than even the Greek goddess herself. Listen to an interview with Garrett Fisher on KUOW.