Concerts
Vance Galloway + Charles Stanyan
Seattle electronic guitarist Vance Galloway presents Triptych, a three-part suite for solo electronic guitar, signal processing and field recordings based on the shifting perceptions of time and place, familiarity and belonging that occur when traveling: A disorienting wash reveals itself to be nothing more than a common sound heard through the filter of a new …
David Dunn
Composer and sound artist David Dunn presents works highlighting complexity in natural and human-made systems. These compositions reveal and amplify hidden auditory features of the natural world, sounds outside of normal human perception, interactions between artificial intelligence systems and living creatures, and models of chaotic change endemic to the kinds of forces currently shaping our …
Two Cellos: Yanover + Rucker
Presented by Nonsequitur. An evening featuring solos (and maybe a duo or two) by two of Seattle’s more unusual cellists — totally different, yet somehow complimentary. Gretchen Yanover uses looping devices to perform tonal compositions and improvisations, including some favorites from her CD Bow and Cello, as well as material from her upcoming EP to …
Substrata 1.3: Day 1
Substrata Festival explores varying perspectives of scale though the use of sound, composition and visuals. Tonight we offer electronic structures and rhythms drawing on conceptual references ranging as far as the isolated landscapes of Iceland, the haunting woodlands of the Pacific Northwest, the celestial Music of the Spheres and imagined, encephalonic spaces between: Ethernet, The …
Girma Yifrashewa + Amy Rubin
Presented by Nonsequitur & Unseen Worlds. Girma Yifrashewa is Ethiopia’s most famous living pianist and composer. Using traditional tunes as a foundation, Yifrashewa’s compositions combine the ecstasy of Ethiopian harmony with the grandeur of virtuoso piano technique into an effortlessly enjoyable, heady mixture. Born in 1967, Yifrashewa’s life in music began at a tender age …