Rob Angus loops, layers and processes acoustic instruments, creating ambient industrial music presented in surround sound. Neil Welch is a saxophonist using largely non-traditional techniques that explore sonic resonance. He is also a composer and performs in a variety of bands and projects. Don Berman is a jazz drummer and percussionist, and a composer and bandleader

Marc Barreca will be playing electro-acoustic loop based compositions with a laptop, modular synth, and MIDI accordion. He has been making electronic music in Seattle since the mid-1970s, releasing a number of projects over the years on the Hawaii-based Palace of Lights label. His most recent releases are the solo project Shadow Aesthetics, and a double CD collaboration with K. Leimer, Dual Mono. Brian Fergus will be playing several compositions of electro-acoustic music featuring ukulele- and theremin-controlled synthetic instruments. Brian taught electronic music for twenty eight years at City College of San Francisco, and currently teaches ukulele technique at Woodstock Ukulele Studio in Portland. Marc and Brian will each play a solo set, followed by a duo set.

An evening of scored improvisations consisting of 3 sound and 3 movement artists working with variations of THREE. Trios and sextets will perform a series of sets using the theme of THREE to guide each improvisation. Each set’s duration will be a different multiple of three. Triangles, trinities, and triads, the vast meanings and dynamic potentials of the magic number will guide this improvisational performance.

Sound: Ruby Dunphy (drums), Kaley Lane Eaton (voice/electronics), Troy Schiefelbein (bass)
Movement: Rachael Lincoln, Aaron Swartzman, Brian Evans

What happens when seasoned musicians and movers come together to create variable durations of improvisational performance? B.S.T.S. events consist of a varying selection of curated sound and movement artists who will be brought together in purposeful improvisational collaborations. These ongoing performance happenings will selectively group artists with the intention of instigating dynamic collaborations. Each event will consist of a unique set of guidelines in relation to body, space, time and sound, but the constant for each grouping is that they connect in some way before the performance. Selected artists will be introduced, then asked to score and rehearse their piece in accordance with the indeterminacy of meeting one another, the performance themes of each event, and the convening of their shared interests. A goal is to bring together artists in different disciplines, and bridge diverse improvisational aesthetics. Performers will be asked to create structured scores that harness the unknown spontaneity of improvised performance.

Inverted Space opens its 7th Season with the music of Kerrith Livengood and Pauline Oliveros. The concert will feature Livengood’s scrawl etude I and new works for Adapted Viola and Intoning Voice performed by Luke Fitzpatrick as well as the Seattle Premier of Pond Frog Translations for Adapted Guitar 1 and Intoning Voice performed by Charles Corey. The second half will feature a sonic meditation by Oliveros.

A night for 4 drummers presenting solo works for drum set, focusing on each musician’s singular relationship with the drums, solo performance, music and identity.

Mike Gebhart is a Colombian-American Drummer, who relocated to Seattle in 2013. In that time he studied with Ted Poor, Greg Sinibaldi, Cuong Vu and Huck Hodge. He has performed with Bill Frisell, Ben Street, Pete Rende, Ryan Ferreira, Bill McHenry, Wayne Horvitz, Geoff Harper, Jeff Johnson and Simon Henneman. He co-leads The Sky Is A Suitcase and plays in Terror/Cactus, February, and New Series One. Currently he is focused on singing and drumming, and performing his compositions.

Ruby Dunphy is a Chicago born, Seattle based performer, composer and percussionist. She moved to Seattle in 2014 to attend Cornish College of the Arts and attained her Bachelors in Music in 2018. She has studied western classical, jazz, ragtime, Brazilian, Ghanaian, chamber, improvisational, soundpainting, conduction, rock, and gamelan music. She loves feedback, resolution and loud noises, but as of late tends to loathe all three. Her biggest fear is humiliation.

D’Andre Fontanelle has been described by critics in the New Haven Register, and independent magazines in the New York City area as a very life-influenced, organic, and musical percussionist. He gradauted with his Bachelor of Music in Classical Percussion from New York University, and acquired his Masters in Music Education from a small liberal arts college in Connecticut – The University of Bridgeport. As a resident of Seattle for 3 years, D’Andre is one of the leading drummers on call for many singer-songwriters, playing with The Backslide gospel, Kate Dinsmore and Elena Loper.

Casey Adams is a Spokane native and (fairly) recent transplant to Seattle, who self-defines as a drummer, electronic musician and DJ. He plays drums in a variety of improvised ensembles, and records/releases/performs as Dorian Slay and nothing but the dead and dying, outputting electronic music ranging from harsh noise to left-field dance music. Casey’s music explores the strange periphery of many diverse genres, and attempts to fuse seemingly disparate sounds and styles through their music, aiming for personal understanding and self-actualization.

Tamara Zenobia is an Alaskan born storyteller, performance artist and vocal alchemist. Tonight she will be joined by Dick Valentine, who will add his extraordinary flute playing to the performance.

Tamara brings a unique artistic philosophy to her work and that is to hone the gift of the intuitive and improvisational artist/healer within each of us. Her process combines the elements of Vocal Alchemy, percussion, electronic music and other world instruments to create a very authentic sound that is all her own. As an Improvisational Storyteller she craftily weaves divination, vocal alchemy mastery, song and spoken word into her performance to create a very eclectic mix of groovy sounds and hypnotic beats.

Tamara lived five years abroad in Paris, where she trained privately with vocal instructors in the areas of opera and jazz. Tamara’s experience includes singing in gospel choirs in the U.S. and abroad including, Martin Luther King Choir in Anchorage, AK, The American Church Choir in Paris, and the Taliesin Choir at the Frank Lloyd Wright Institute in Scottsdale, AZ.

As the founder of Butterfly Jazz Intuitive Arts LLC, which she now operates out of Seattle, Tamara performs and gives workshops, classes and private healing sessions, which she offers both locally and internationally.

With the Heather/Dio Duo (Heather Bentley, viola and Dio Jean Baptiste, drums, plus Darren Palmer, video artist), reflecting on the current connecting viola, drums, and imagery. Improvised music/images.

The new ensemble CHA: Carol Levin, Electric harp, Heather Bentley, viola + electronics, and Amelia Love Clearheart, vocals, spoken word + electronics, explores spontaneously arising lyrical/poetic/musical journeys. Featuring the 7-string electric violin (aka The Beast). CHA’s recent incubation has benefited from appearances as curators at Racer Sessions and a recent opening for bassist Kelsey Mines’ album release party.

Composer Neil Rolnick pioneered the use of computers in musical performance, beginning in the late 1970s. Based in New York City since 2002, his music has been performed world wide, including recent performances in China and Mexico and across the US. Throughout the 1980s and ‘90s he developed the first integrated electronic arts graduate and undergraduate programs in the US, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Though much of his work connects music and technology, and is therefore considered in the realm of “experimental” music, Rolnick’s music has always been highly melodic and accessible, and has been characterized by critics as “sophisticated,” “hummable and engaging,” and as having “good senses of showmanship and humor.”

Rolnick is joined in this concert by his frequent collaborators, Jennifer Choi on violin, and Kathleen Supové on piano. Both are stars in their own rights, performing regularly around the world with a virtual who’s who of contemporary composers and adventurous ensembles.

Tonight’s program will feature Deal With The Devil, which was written for Jennifer and Kathy in 2017, involving a virtuosic combination of instrumental playing and real time digital processing, controlled by all three players. Rolnick will also perform a couple of his signature “mash-up” pieces, featuring unusual takes on some folks tunes, and on two classic Everly Brothers recordings.

Presented by Nonsequitur.

Doors at 7 PM / Sets at 7:30, 8, 9; no one turned away for lack of funds.

An evening of abstract sentimental music (for lovers and loners alike) featuring work for harp, voice, piano, electronics, live foley and tape collage.

Sontag Shogun is a collaborative electroacoustic piano trio from Montreal and New York City (Ian Temple, piano; Jeremy Young, tapes/oscillators/amplified surfaces/objects; Jesse Perlstein, voice/field recordings/electronic treatments). They’ll perform new works from a forthcoming LP due out in March, folded into improvisations for 1/4″ tape, treated vocals and sine waves, and of course solo piano. Their sound sits in between the emotive solitude of Nils Frahm and the immersive “maximal-ambient” intensity of Tim Hecker and Ben Frost, but with live electroacoustic processing and performed foley tactics, no sampling and no synths. All of which combines nostalgically to depict abstract places in our memory, bringing us back, like a faded passing scent or any emotive trigger, but to where? The wordless journey there will inevitably be more revealing than the destination itself. This is Sontag Shogun’s first official tour of the West Coast.

Dolphin Midwives is Portland-based Sage Elaine Fisher is echo jungle chaos magic moon milk ocean murmurating orchid sleeper holy hands/helping hands interface nodes/architecture/lace gravity doesn’t exist change the laws of physics levitation shapeshift/shadow energy density clarity prismic sound microtonal vision quest whirling rainbow vortex portal opening reverberating witch sister who plays harp/zither/voice/noise/electronics and everyday objects.

Blessed Blood is an electronics-based project by Seattle’s Rachel LeBlanc. Utilizing hardware effects to expand upon the natural resonances of singing, she processes harmonies into ecstatic hymns, wherein ethereal vocals glide above pulsations and sharp angles. The sound is informed by the artist’s life-long home of the PNW, traditional music forms and choral assemblies, and the exploration of history both personal and cultural, resulting in what is at once familiar and unsettling.

Chloe Harris (aka Raica) has been an integral and influential figure in the Pacific Northwest music community for over two decades. Her contributions as a musical artist, producer, DJ, mentor, record label owner (Further), and record shop owner have helped lay the groundwork and build the foundation upon which rests the current success of Seattle’s underground electronic music scene. Chloe and her husband Mark Cullen have three beautiful children, and Cameron, their youngest, was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer (Neuroblastoma). All ticket sales and artist fees from this show will be donated to their GoFundMe campaign to help with Cameron’s medical expenses. If you can’t attend, please donate anyway.

Emerging from a love of early electronics, concrete/tape music, soundtracks and early new age, Norm Chambers (aka Panabrite) creates worlds of sound that touch on many elements and moods, from spatially motivated ambient to aspects of minimalist composition and improvisation. Chambers utilizes an array of synthesizer equipment to achieve his sounds, in addition to field sounds and occasional acoustic elements.

Hair and Space Museum is the duo of David Golightly and Emily Pothast, who are also the co-founders of the band Midday Veil and the record label Translinguistic Other. Their music combines rapturous new age textures and dark, dramatic incantations for synthesizer and voice. Previous Hair and Space Music projects have included a 12-hour improvisation and a custom-built meditation pyramid full of sound.

Leo Mayberry has been working with video for over 18 years, in forms from edited documentary to live performance. At events such as Seattle’s Decibel Festival, he performs improvised sets to accompany experimental and ambient music. Working with multi-media performance groups such as Degenerate Art Ensemble, he expanded into a designer’s role.

Presented by Nonsequitur.

World premieres of works written by and for the groundbreaking clarinetist and composer William O. “Bill” Smith will be performed by Bill with flutist Jeffrey Cohan and violinist Sharyn Peterson in seven performances around the Pacific Northwest. Seattle composer Huntley Beyer and Slovenian composer Igor Dekleva (Ljubljiana) have written works for the occasion.

Smith recently turned 92 and is well known not only to Northwest audiences but to jazz fans and clarinetists throughout the world. A founding member of the Dave Brubeck Octet, Smith pioneered the use of contemporary techniques on clarinet in the 1960s and has continued to experiment with them throughout his life, both in his jazz improvisation and classical composition. Bill was professor of clarinet, composition and contemporary music at the University of Washington for 30 years.

The program will include Session for clarinet, flute and violin, Jazz Set for flute and violin and Five Pages for solo violin by William O. Smith, along with It’s Personal by Huntley Beyer and Nostalgic Fantasy by Igor Deklevaoth for the trio. All world premieres!