Earshot presents Jazz: The 2nd Century

The final concert in Earshot's Jazz: The 2nd Century series features Monktail Creative Music Concern's rambunctious offshoot Reptet, manifesting the zany spirit (and killer chops) of Amsterdam's ICP Orchestra, and the voracious Balkan/Indian/whatever-inflected Ziggurat Ensemble, comprised of pianist Bill Anschell, saxophonist Eric Barber, bassist Doug Miller, and drummer Byron Vannoy.

Dragon's Eye Recordings 2nd Anniversary

Presented by Dragon's Eye Recordings

The Cotton compilation and showcase mark the second anniversary of Seattle label Dragon's Eye Recordings' continued examination of the intersection between minimalist electronics and unique textures and drones. This concert features guitarist Marc Manning & Yann Novak, Corey Fuller, and Son of Rose.

Bling! + Figeater

Presented by the Frank Agency.

An evening of highly experimental chamber works and mildly explosive psychedelic dance fiascos featuring clarinetist Beth Fleenor. BLING! is a duo with pianist/percussionist Denney Goodhew that pushes the boundaries of chamber music. A completely improvised, raw, spiritual journey, screaming silence in a whirling pool of stillness… Figeater is Beth (clarinet/bass clarinet/voice/percussion) with Jeff Huston (guitar/electronics), and Mike Hams (percussion). Improvisations are punctuated, buttoned, and launched by original compositions and psychedelic dance explosions. Disjunctive, raucous, soaring, and powerful – a textural, tribal exploration of organic movement.

Earshot presents Jazz: The 2nd Century

Presented by Earshot Jazz. Trumpeter Matthew Postle and keyboardist Derek Terran have looked for inspiration not just to modern American greats like Kenny Wheeler and Ron Miles, but also to European masters such as Tomasz Stanko, Arve Henriksen, and Nils-Petter Molvaer. They create striking textures of sound for the new century. Bassist Nate Omdal and drummer Mike Hams accompany the imaginative pianist Michael Owcharuk, who leads this all-originals trio which draws on elements of jazz, Ukrainian traditional and sacred music, Brazilian music, rock, gospel, and contemporary art music.

NO WEST: NW Festival of Improvised Music

NO WEST is a music festival dedicated to developing the fast-growing community of Northwest improvisers. The festival is designed to present improvised music in both informal and formal settings. Each city will host a semi-private daytime show at a player's home, followed by an evening performance at a public venue. 36 improvisers from Vancouver B.C., Portland, Bellingham, Olympia, Seattle, NYC, California, & Tokyo will perform in Seattle & Portland. This year the festival will also include to improvisers in the fields of dance and poetry.

Gregory Reynolds, Gust Burns, JP Jenkins

A visit from alto saxophonist Gregory Reynolds, who used to live in Seattle and now resides in NYC, presents the rare and happy occasion for a concert with longstanding collaborator and pianist Gust Burns. For the second set, they will be joined by the fantastic electro-acoustic musician Jean Paul Jenkins from Portland, OR.

Jim Haynes + Eric Lanzillotta

presented by Jack Straw Productions

Drawing from shortwave radio static, electric field disturbances, controlled feedback manipulation, and numerous textural scrapings, San Francisco sound artist Jim Haynes aims towards a broken minimalism whose magnetic drones lend the impression of timelessness, when in fact the environment is quite active. Eric Lanzillotta has been involved in sound in various aspects over the last two decades, with releases on Anomalous, Selektion, Alluvial, RRRecords, etc. His recent work uses live analog synthesizer, with a focus on long form works which follow the path of the electronics' subtle changes, a music of timbres and textures rather than notes and melodies.

Earshot presents Jazz: The 2nd Century

Presented by Earshot Jazz. The Durán/Schloss/Mitri Trio featuring Hilario Durán (piano), Andrew Schloss (radiodrum/electronics), and Irene Mitri (violin) combine Afrocuban jazz with live electronics and interactive computer music to create a sound entirely their own. While Durán is a world-class jazz pianist and composer from Cuba, Schloss is known as an experimenter in high-tech interactive computer music in concerts around the world, and Mitri is a lyrical violinist who has expanded into Latin Jazz. The Paul Rucker Ensemble, led by the always creative cellist/bassist, with Neil Gitkind (trombone), Isaac Marshall (flute, thumb piano), Erik Anderson (drums), and Hans Teuber (saxophone).

Death Posture: VIVA! flowers of dissection

Death Posture and In the Deep Museum present a theatrical meditation on love, memory and cutting it all apart. Butoh performance & voice by Death Posture: Vanessa Skantze, Alex Ruhe, Alan Sutherland, Kaia Selene, with Azrael, Appalachia Martine, Ariel Denham, Helen Thorsen. Music by In the Deep Museum: celadon (bass, soundscapes), natasatan (guitar, percussion)

Gretta Harley & Margie Pos

Composer Gretta Harley presents a vocal setting of Ovid's Metamorphoses, sung by The Stylin' Sirens: Juliana Brandon, Sarah Burgess, Marchette DuBois, Maeg O'Donoghue- Williams, Margie Pos, Katy Webber; narrated by Sheila Daniels and Sarah Rudinoff; Megan Smithling, dramaturg and script editor. Also, an hour of ensemble music by bassist Margie Pos.

Earshot presents Jazz: The 2nd Century

Guitarist Dennis Rea heads a thrilling electric string quartet + drums featuring Ruth Davidson (cello), Alicia Allen (violin), Domenico Chiaverini (bass), and Jay Jaskot (drums). The new trio Snapbite, with saxophonist Eric Barber, bassist PK, and drummer Matt Crane, is a powerhouse of improvisation underpinned by swing, extended techniques, and a ferocious rhythmic attack steeped not only in jazz but also in world music, funk, and contemporary chamber music.

Ives & Burns: Dynamic Accord

Featuring two distinct paths in the world of contemporary piano performance, this double bill showcases the two pianists' talents in a different collaborative context. Julie Ives performs Ligeti's Etudes Pour Piano, Book 1 and Takemitsu's Litany for Piano and Rain Tree Sketch II (in memoriam Olivier Messeian); Gust Burns performs new improvisations for solo piano.

Subtext Reading Series: Culley & Donahue

Presented by Subtext

Peter Culley lives south of Nanaimo, BC and has written several books of poetry including The Climax Forest, Hammertown, and the forthcoming Age of Briggs & Stratton. Joseph Donahue currently teaches at Duke University. Born in TX, raised in MA, this ex-New Yorker & part-time Seattle-ite is author of Before Creation, Monitions of the Approach, Incidental Eclipse, World Well Broken, Terra Lucida, and In This Paradise.