Allport/Olive + Anderson/Miller

Improvised music (two duos + a quartet) from Canada/Japan and Seattle: Canadian-born/Japan-based guitarist Tim Olive & Vancouver-based percussionist Jeffrey Allport + Seattle's EYRIE, the duo project of Cristin Miller, voice & Jason E Anderson, electronics.

Au Yong & Blasdel: BreathPlay

Direct from his Tokyo recital Shakuhachi exTemporal, which celebrated 35 years of studying shakuhachi in Japan, Christopher Yohmei Blasdel performs with Seattle composer/musician Byron Au Yong. Together they present BreathPlay, a concert exploring sounds from around the Pacific Rim using shakuhachi (Japanese end-blown bamboo flute), Chinese percussion, piano, water, and voice.

However

Presented by Nonsequitur

Seattle-based improvising quartet However rides a fragile balance between sound, line and pulse, readily open and receding into a silence (which is never quite silent). The group is comprised of Lori Goldston, cello; Angelina Baldoz, trumpet, flute, bass; Jaison Scott; drums; and Torben Ulrich, text/voicing.

Doug Haire: Summer Phenomena

Presented by Nonsequitur

Doug Haire is one of the unsung heroes of the Seattle music community: sound artist, field recordist, card-carrying member of the Phonographers Union, recording wizard at Jack Straw Productions, and producer of KEXP's Sonarchy Radio. With the Chapel's stained-glass windows flung wide open, he responds to the Grand Improvisor (the world around us) with a surround mix of summer nature sounds he has recorded in many places around the world.

Death Posture: The denial of the body

Butoh dance by Death Posture: Alex Haverfield, Vanessa Skantze, Kaia Selene, with Alan Sutherland; Sound by celadon (of In the Deep Museum), bass & soundscapes; Susan Dummett, voice

New Media: Open Studio Group Show

Local emerging artists in the University of Washington's DX ARTS program present time-based works within the digital art and experimental media domain: Timothy Jared Friend • Michael McCrea • Stefan Moore • Gary Pennock • JD Pirtle • Naasir Ramji • Matthew Salton • Cale Schupman • e.thompson • Allison Urban • Lei Zhang

Subtext Reading Series: 13th Anniversary

Tonight Subtext celebrates its 13th anniversary and its move to the Chapel from Richard Hugo House. Readings by Curtis Bonney, Joseph Bradshaw, Daniel Comiskey, Christine Deavel, April Denonno, Diana George, Adriana Grant, Marion Kimes, Drew Kunz, Sarah Mangold, Ezra Mark, Bryant Mason, Robert Mittenthal, Paul Nelson, Mickey O’Connor, John Olson, Roberta Olson, C.E. Putnam, Willie Smith, Craig Van Riper, Nico Vassilakis, and Maged Zaher. Read all about it in The Stranger.

Dean Moore + Bill Horist

Dean Moore is a versatile percussionist who specializes in music for gongs an cymbals. His solo concerts are hypnotic and trance-inducing, setting up deep standing waves of metallic resonance. Guitarist Bill Horist is a well-known fixture in the local improv/experimental music scene. Recently he has been playing with Seattle rock gods Kinski.

Dúo Juum

Dúo Juum is an improvisational electroacoustic ensemble featuring Gabriela Villa (viola) and Hugo Solís (piano, electronics). Juum (the Mayan word for noise) hints at the aesthetic direction of this duet, formed in 2006.