Georg Graewe + Gust Burns & Greg Campbell

Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival.

German pianist Georg Graewe returns for a thrilling solo recital. One of the avant-garde's leading lights, Graewe is known for his unique blending of jazz, classical, and improvised music, and his solo efforts are complex and wholly-compelling affairs. He's performed and recorded with Anthony Braxton, Barry Guy, Mats Gustafsson, Dave Douglas, Frank Gratkowski, Paul Lovens, Marilyn Crispell, and Evan Parker, among others. He is also founder of the excellent Random Acoustics record label.

Opening are Seattle's own Gust Burns (piano) and Gregory Campbell (percussion, French horn). Burns strives to discover new routes to improvisation on the piano, developing alternative narrative approaches and extended techniques. His longtime colleague Campbell is a percussionist with a wide range of interests and former teachers — bassists Dave Holland and Cecil McBee, drummer Bob Moses, and Ghanaian palmwine guitarist Koo Nimo, among many others.

!!ArtsLaunch!!

A bi-annual forum for Seattle artists from a variety of disciplines to show work without the pressures of more formal venues, and to enjoy inter-disciplinary dialog. This edition includes dancers Yoko Murao, Kathryn Hightower, Marissa Rae Niederhauser, Christy Fisher, NorthWest Dance Syndrome, and Sheri Brown; composers/musicians Rosalynn De Roos, Jah Breeze, Dean Moore; and visual artists Janice Fournier and Betty Hageman.

Dean Moore & Friends: Three Winds

Percussionist Dean Moore returns with his extensive collection of gongs, joined by dancers Vanessa Skantze, Christy Fisher, and Yoko Murao, with Mike Shannon on field recordings.

Lori Goldston & Friends

Lori Goldston’s restless curiosity and the adaptive sounds of her cello blur the lines of genre, time and geography. Performing improvisations and original works, she'll be joined by Greg Campbell on percussion, Steve Moore and Tom Yoder on trombone, Eric Richards and Clyde Petersen on guitar, and Alex Guy on viola.

Marilyn Crispell + Paul Lytton & Nate Wooley

Co-presented by Earshot Jazz Festival & Nonsequitur.

Marilyn Crispell has established herself as one of the most virtuosic and fiercely expressive pianists around, performing complex music with extraordinary precision, power, and grace. A string of successful albums for ECM debuted her trio of Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. Crispell's most recent solo effort, Vignettes, presents her at her most effusive, performing both compositions and free improvisations in performances of profound beauty.

Premier European percussionist Paul Lytton has helped define free improvisation for over thirty years in his longstanding trio with Barry Guy and Evan Parker, in Guy's London Jazz Composers or New Orchestras, and in Guy's trio with Marilyn Crispell. Gifted young American trumpeter Nate Wooley is a master texturalist who regularly performs solo and has worked with Anthony Braxton, Tony Malaby, and Herb Robertson.

Garrett Fisher Ensemble: Psyche

October 17 & 18; Nonsequitur presents Seattle composer Garrett Fisher and company in the return of their latest chamber opera. Psyche tells the story of wrathful Aphrodite’s quest to ruin Psyche, a mortal who is considered to be more beautiful than even the Greek goddess herself. Listen to an interview with Garrett Fisher on KUOW.

SLAM! Seattle Latin American Music Festival

October 8, 9, & 10; co-presented by SLAM and Nonsequitur, with support from 4Culture and the Viva la Musica Club.

SLAM! returns for its second year with a focus on solo, chamber, and electro-acoustic music by Latin American composers of our time. This year's featured composer-in-residence is Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil). Local and visiting performers include the Seattle Chamber Players, the Icicle Creek Piano Trio, guitarist Michael Nicolella, violinist Michael Lim, pianist and SLAM! founder Cristina Valdés, and flutist Margaret Lancaster.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 @ 8PM
Music by Jovino Santos Neto (Brazil), Ignacio Baca-Lobera (Mexico), German Cáceres (El Salvador), Jorge E. Campos (Ecuador), Tania León (Cuba/USA), José Luis Hurtado (Mexico), and Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil).

Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 8PM
Music by Astor Piazzolla (Argentina), Leo Brouwer's (Cuba), Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil), Pablo Santiago Chin (Costa Rica), Adina Izarra (Venezuela), and Iván Ferrer Orozco (Mexico).

Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 8PM
The closing night features music for instruments, tape, video, and live electronics by Mario Lavista (Mexico), Rodrigo Sigal (Mexico), Ricardo dal Farra (Argentina), Marisol Jimenez (Mexico), Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil), and Arthur Kampela (Brazil).

Annea Lockwood & Ruth Anderson

Nonsequitur presents New Zealand-born composer Annea Lockwood directing an all-star Seattle ensemble in her gorgeous classic Thousand Year Dreaming, a rarely heard major work (originally released on Nonseq's ¿What Next? label, recently reissued by Pogus). Ruth Anderson, a pioneer of electronic and electroacoustic music, presents I Come Out of Your Sleep (1997), a haunting four-channel sound poem based entirely on whispered vowel phonemes in Louise Bogan's poem "Little Lobelia's Song."

Subtext: Donato Mancini & Shin Yu Pai

Presented by Subtext.

Donato Mancini is author of two books of poetry from New Star Books, Ligatures (2005) and Æthel (2007); numerous chapbooks, including Tribute to a Remarkable Cat/Two Hearts Beat as One (Access 2002), 9-11/7-Eleven (Open Space 2004), Floating World (Burning Cradle 2004), Causal Talk: Interviews with 4 Canadian Poets (above/ground press 2004), and no.22 in the "Hell Passport" series published by Perro Verlag (2007). He is editor of the Canadian section of the Electronic Poetry Center, with Meredith Quartermain.

Shin Yu Pai is the author of Haiku Not Bombs (Brooklyn Artists Alliance), Works on Paper (Convivio Bookworks), Sightings: Selected Works [2000 - 2005] (1913 Press, 2007), The Love Hotel Poems (Press Lorentz, 2006), Unnecessary Roughness (xPress(ed), 2005), Equivalence (La Alameda, 2003), and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers (Third Ear Books, 1998). She has exhibited her visual work at The Paterson Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art, The MAC, and The Three Arts Club of Chicago.