Concerts
Substrata 1.3: Day 3
Concluding Substrata’s evening performance program, this showcase presents an amalgam of the most acutely distinct vocabularies to be heard in the sub-genres of post-minimalist and electro-acoustic music. Pure digital programming giving voice to glistening architectural spires. Continental monoliths of physical mass and keening tonalities. These evoke pastoral landscapes generated by the acoustic melodicism of the …
Substrata 1.3: Day 2
The second night of Substrata plays host to an evening of the 21st century continuance of folk, psychedelic, free form and non-rock traditions of the electric guitar. Far removed from its central pop culture role as the locus of the rock band, these artists explore the guitar through obfuscation of the ego, in abstract forms …
Stuart Dempster & Dennis Rea: Double Tanabata Birthdays!
Seattle composers Stuart Dempster and Dennis Rea celebrate their shared birthday that falls on July 7, which is also Tanabata, a Japanese festival that celebrates the only day of the year when two lovers cross the Milky Way to meet. (Although this concert is on the 6th, it will already be Tanabata in Japan.) Dempster …
East-West Collective + Harth/Mueller duo
Presented by Nonsequitur, Earshot Jazz, & Polestar. Tonight’s double bill begins with the duo of German saxophonist/multimedia artist Alfred 23 Harth and the Vancouver-based, German 5-string bass player Torsten Mueller, both of whom have illustrious histories of collaboration with a host of international improvisers. The East-West Collective is a trans-national collaboration exploring the intersection of …
French-American Peace Quartet
Presented by Nonsequitur & Earshot Jazz. The cultural threads connecting France, New Orleans, and New York are explored by this ensemble, featuring a new suite of music by 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award recipient William Parker. The powerful and elastic duo of bassist Parker and drummer Hamid Drake teams up with the venerable New …