Concerts

Keith Rowe (tabletop guitar) in trios with Northwest improvisers Gust Burns (piano), Jeffrey Allport (percussion), Gregory Reynolds (saxophone), Leif Sundstrom (percussion, turntable) Gallery 1412 1412 18th Ave., Seattle Keith Rowe – see October 2 listing for bio. Vancouver-based percussionist Jeffrey Allport approaches the physical nature of his chosen instrument through a variety of preparations and …

Gallery 1412 1412 18th Ave., Seattle A rare West Coast appearance! A founding member of the legendary British improvisation collective AMM, Keith Rowe’s profound, ongoing reappraisal of the electric guitar’s potential has redefined the idea of instrumental virtuosity by virtue of the extraordinary sounds he draws from the instrument and the minutely varying degrees of …

Gallery 1412 1412 18th Ave., Seattle Expect a glorious tweak fest of epic proportions by these two stars of the German electronic music scene. Lehn is a master of ancient analog synthesizers, especially the little VCS3 suitcase model that Eno used to mangle Roxy Music. Wielding patch cables and twiddling knobs like a wildman, he …

Gallery 1412 1412 18th Ave., Seattle British pianist Veryan Weston performs “Tessellations,” a composition for solo piano. Stucturally, the work is inspired by and resembles some of the principles of geometric tessellations – repeated, non-overlapping shapes that create infinite patterns (think of artworks by M.C. Escher). In this work, visual interlocking symmetries and geometric shapes …

Gallery 1412 1412 18th Ave., Seattle In 1999, Jeph Jerman left Seattle for the warmer climes of Arizona. A couple of years later, Paul Hoskin relocated to the distant shores of the Olympic Peninsula. After a five-year break from playing together, these two important members of the Seattle improvised music community reunite this June to …