Morton Subotnik

Presented by Washington Composers Forum as part of their Transport Series.

Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. Tonight's program features The Other Piano (2007), A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur (1978), and Then and Now Forever (2008), with performers Cristina Valdes (piano), Sean Osborn (clarinet), Michael Jinsoo Lim (violin), and Morton Subotnick (electronics).

Electro-acoustic Music from DXARTS

DXARTS presents an evening of new music with electronics and video by Joshua Parmenter, Don Craig, and Stelios Manousakis & Stephanie Pan. Program: Theta (IV-Ritardando) for viola and real-time electronics by Joshua Parmenter with Melia Watras, viola (premier); Symphony of Visual Music for computer realized sound and visuals by Donald Craig (premier); three open compositions by Stelios Manousakis and Stephanie Pan.

Fred Frith: Guitar Solos

Nonsequitur presents composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith. Best known world-wide as an improvising guitarist, Fred was co-founder of the British underground bands Henry Cow (1968-78) and Art Bears (1978-81). He moved to New York in the late 1970s and came into contact with many of the musicians with whom he’s since been associated, including John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Tom Cora, Zeena Parkins, and Bob Ostertag, and groups like Massacre (with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher), Skeleton Crew (with Tom and Zeena), John Zorn’s Naked City, and Keep the Dog. In the 1980s Fred began to write for dance, film, and theatre, and this in turn has led to his composing for Rova Sax Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Arditti Quartet, Asko Ensemble, and many other groups, including his own critically acclaimed Guitar Quartet. He is currently Professor of Composition at Mills College in Oakland, California. Watch a video clip.

Matt Ingalls

San Francisco based composer and clarinetist Matt Ingalls performs solo and with local musicians Jesse Canterbury (clarinets), Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin), Greg Campbell (percussion), and Aaron Otheim (piano).

Fragments Benefit

Music, poetry, and media art by Jeffrey Taylor (of Climax Golden Twins), Sokai Stilhed, Chet Corpt, The Cursory Design Realms of the Dreaming Mind, Apparent Movement, Mickey O'Connor, Marlin Eller, and others. Proceeds help fund the publication of Fragments multimedia arts journal.

60 x 60: Electro-acoustic Miniatures

Curated by composer Robert Voisey, 60x60 is an ongoing touring program of 60 pre-recorded electro-acoustic works from 60 different composers. Each composition is 60 seconds (or less) in duration, sequenced together to create a one-hour performance.

Dean Moore & Tom Baker: 7 Winds CD release

Guitarist Tom Baker and percussionist Dean Moore celebrate the release of their debut duo CD Seven Winds, an ambient work for electric guitar and gongs/resonant metals. Listen to excerpts here.

Nathan Davis & Cristina Valdes

Nathan Davis and Cristina Valdes present music for percussion, piano, and electronics. Critically acclaimed composer and percussionist Nathan Davis makes music inspired by natural processes, acoustic phenomena, and the abstraction of simple stories. Tonight he plays his solos for triangles, river stones, and amplified laptop - probed with microphones and exaggerated with live electronic processing. Pianist Cristina Valdes (Seattle) performs the world premiere of CuoRE, a solo piano piece written for her by Seattle composer Donald Stewart. Together they play duos including the US premiere Orlando Garcia's September 2007 (Remembering Morty), a memorial to Morton Feldman.

DX ARTS: Electronic & Electro-acoustic Music

The UW's Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media presents electronic and electro-acoustic music by DXARTS composers: Donald Craig, Assonaglyph; Stelios Manousakis, Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees? + Undercover Harpsichord Agents Terrorize The Court; Wyatt Fletcher, Wrought; Hugo Solis, Improvisation for piano and electronics; Doug Niemela, Kolme + Theonity.

Subtext: Danny Snelson + Chris DeLaurenti

Presented by Subtext Reading Series.

DANNY SNELSON is an editor, writer, and archivist living in Brooklyn, New York. His online editorial work can be found at UbuWeb, PennSound and Eclipse. Gallery screenings and performances at Ontological Hysteric Theater, The State Museum in Russia, Gallery D21 Leipzig, CRG Gallery New York, Lisa Cooley Gallery New York, and free103point9 Transmission Arts. Recent publications include my Dear coUntess (Drunken Boat #9), The Book of Ravelling Women (Aphasic Letters, 2008), Endless Nameless (No Input Books, 2009), and Inventory Arousal (Editions Press, 2009).

CHRISTOPHER DeLAURENTI is a Seattle-based composer, improviser & phonographer. A new music rabble-rouser, he also writes music reviews and articles. Various CDs here, including: Favorite Intermissions - Music Before & Between Beethoven, Stravinsky, Holst.