Concerts

Presented by Nonsequitur, supported in part by 4Culture.  This work-in-progress presentation features dialog with the audience after each performance. Seattle’s omni-musical treasure Amy Denio collaborates with the Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums, Coast Salish storyteller and Native American flutist Paul “Che oke ten” Wagner, visual artist Aric Mayer, and director Lisa Halpern. This award-winning creative …

Presented by Nonsequitur, supported in part by 4Culture.  This work-in-progress presentation features dialog with the audience after each performance. Seattle’s omni-musical treasure Amy Denio collaborates with the Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums, Coast Salish storyteller and Native American flutist Paul “Che oke ten” Wagner, visual artist Aric Mayer, and director Lisa Halpern. This award-winning creative …

6:30 PM meet up/prep 7:00 PM procession 8:00 PM party Presented by Seattle Composers’ Salon, Nonsequitur, and Joshua Parmenter. Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs and MP3s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every December. People …

(photo: Daniel Sheehan/ Eyeshotjazz.com) Genre-defying violist/composer Eyvind Kang presents new work with an ensemble of local greats: Stuart Dempster, trombone, percussion; Ahmad Yousefbeigi, Greg Campbell, and Dave Abramson, percussion; Moriah Neils, double bass; Taina Karr, oboe, English horn; Mary Riles, cello; Paul “Che Oke Ten” Wagner, Native flute. In the writing of musical time, every …

Video samples here, here, and here. Flutist/vocalist Emily Hay, pianist Motoko Honda, and percussionist Brad Dutz are all major players in the Los Angeles experimental/improvised music scene. As the trio Polarity Taskmasters they create abstract experimental soundscapes through intense improvised ensemble interaction combined with electronic effects, jazz idioms, extended classical techniques, primal vocals, and stories …