October 8, 9, & 10; co-presented by SLAM and Nonsequitur, with support from 4Culture and the Viva la Musica Club.

SLAM! returns for its second year with a focus on solo, chamber, and electro-acoustic music by Latin American composers of our time. This year’s featured composer-in-residence is Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil). Local and visiting performers include the Seattle Chamber Players, the Icicle Creek Piano Trio, guitarist Michael Nicolella, violinist Michael Lim, pianist and SLAM! founder Cristina Valdés, and flutist Margaret Lancaster.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 @ 8PM
Music by Jovino Santos Neto (Brazil), Ignacio Baca-Lobera (Mexico), German Cáceres (El Salvador), Jorge E. Campos (Ecuador), Tania León (Cuba/USA), José Luis Hurtado (Mexico), and Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil).

Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 8PM
Music by Astor Piazzolla (Argentina), Leo Brouwer’s (Cuba), Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil), Pablo Santiago Chin (Costa Rica), Adina Izarra (Venezuela), and Iván Ferrer Orozco (Mexico).

Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 8PM
The closing night features music for instruments, tape, video, and live electronics by Mario Lavista (Mexico), Rodrigo Sigal (Mexico), Ricardo dal Farra (Argentina), Marisol Jimenez (Mexico), Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil), and Arthur Kampela (Brazil).

Nonsequitur presents New Zealand-born composer Annea Lockwood directing an all-star Seattle ensemble in her gorgeous classic Thousand Year Dreaming, a rarely heard major work (originally released on Nonseq’s ¿What Next? label, recently reissued by Pogus). Ruth Anderson, a pioneer of electronic and electroacoustic music, presents I Come Out of Your Sleep (1997), a haunting four-channel sound poem based entirely on whispered vowel phonemes in Louise Bogan’s poem “Little Lobelia’s Song.”

Presented by Subtext.

Donato Mancini is author of two books of poetry from New Star Books, Ligatures (2005) and Æthel (2007); numerous chapbooks, including Tribute to a Remarkable Cat/Two Hearts Beat as One (Access 2002), 9-11/7-Eleven (Open Space 2004), Floating World (Burning Cradle 2004), Causal Talk: Interviews with 4 Canadian Poets (above/ground press 2004), and no.22 in the “Hell Passport” series published by Perro Verlag (2007). He is editor of the Canadian section of the Electronic Poetry Center, with Meredith Quartermain.

Shin Yu Pai is the author of Haiku Not Bombs (Brooklyn Artists Alliance), Works on Paper (Convivio Bookworks), Sightings: Selected Works [2000 – 2005] (1913 Press, 2007), The Love Hotel Poems (Press Lorentz, 2006), Unnecessary Roughness (xPress(ed), 2005), Equivalence (La Alameda, 2003), and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers (Third Ear Books, 1998). She has exhibited her visual work at The Paterson Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art, The MAC, and The Three Arts Club of Chicago.

After a four-year hiatus, Chris Stover‘s Acquired Involuntary Narcissism is back! This twelve-piece ensemble performs Chris’s original compositions (and his unique arrangements of music by Johannes Brahms, Elvis Costello, Bob Marley, and Alanis Morisette) and features some of Seattle’s finest improvising musicians.

The Ziggurat Quartet (Bill Anschell, piano; Eric Barber, saxophones; Doug Miller, bass; Byron Vannoy, drums) features four of Seattle’s most innovative jazz improvisers performing all original compositions. A passion for rhythmic experimentation drives the ensemble’s complex original compositions; many of the pieces are deeply influenced by the rhythms of East Indian music, as well as jazz and contemporary chamber music.

Bonnie Whiting Smith presents Linespeek: an intersection of percussion and the spoken word. Music by John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, Jerome Kitzke, and Vinko Globokar meets text by Homer, Brecht, Whitman, Ginsberg and others. The program also features two premiers: a new work by Seattle-based composer Brandon Pettit and Bonnie’s newest offering for turntable, voice, and percussion.

Death Posture (danse perdue) presents a new work, I MISS YOU, created by Death Posture (Vanessa Skantze and Alex Ruhe), based on the work of their teacher, Jinen butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi, with a solo butoh dance performance by Yuko Ota.

Nonsequitur presents Seattle composer/pianist/vocalist Robin Holcomb performing duets and trios with cellist Peggy Lee, trombonist/keyboardist Steve Moore, and vocalists Arni Adler and Nova Devonie. Also featured will be the premiere performance of two new works for solo piano.

The Tom Baker Quartet joins forces with four exquisite movers for an evening of structured dance/music improvisations. This is a reprise of the very successful debut of this octet last January. Featuring musicians Brian Cobb, Jesse Canterbury, Greg Campbell, Tom Baker; and dancers Alia Swersky, Beth Graczyk, Ezra Dickinson, Sean Ryan.

8:00 PM; $5 – $15 sliding scale donation at the door.

New Works by Seattle Composers David Mesler, Gavin Borchert, Ron Pilcher, Jesse Canterbury