Clifford Dunn

Flutist/composer Clifford Dunn presents a performance of new music for flute and live electronics by local and international composers, including Seattle composers Clifford Dunn, Doug Niemela, and Joshua Parmenter; Canadian composer Renée Walrafen; and Belarusian composer Aliona Yurtsevich.

Novi_Sad + Colin Andrew Sheffield

Novi_sad (Thanasis Kaproulias) lives and works in Athens, Greece. Influenced by the pioneers of audio assault, his artistic output displays a high level of technical ability, as well as a sensitivity to the nuances of location. Amplified environmental recordings, drone manipulations, ambient soundscapes, microtones vs overtones, all come together in a hyper structure of iconoclastic form. Being immersed in his sonic environment offers an absolutely visceral experience.

Colin Andrew Sheffield focuses on the strict re-contextualization of commercially available recordings. Usually only very brief sections of the original works are selected. These raw components are then contracted, expanded, layered, and/or otherwise processed until something new is forged. The resultant music is an atmospheric soundscape, gradually shifting and unfolding, offering subtle nuances and quiet restraint.

Affinity Chamber Players

Presented by Washington Composers Forum. The Affinity Chamber Players premieres works by Northwest composers, including Sarah Bassingthwaighte's Hacia el sueno, a new piece by Chris Stover, Ryan Hare's Chamber Concerto, Clifford Dunn's A New Role for Leadership in the Dawn of a New Era (chamber ensemble and electronics), and Brad Sherman's At the Precipice.

Briana Jones et al: Pulling Out the Light

Briana Jones, butoh performance with dancers Vanessa Skantze and Alan Sutherland + musicians Eric Ostrowski and noisepoetnobody.

Wally Shoup Quartet

Light, lightening-quick drums + vibes and piano + vibrant sax = Wally Shoup's latest quartet: a foursome as adept at quiet texturalism as it is fiery, fusillades of free jazz fury. Truly, one of Seattle's best free improvising units: Wally Shoup alto sax; Gust Burns, piano; Bob Rees, drums and vibes; Paul Kikuchi, drums and percussion.

Greg Campbell & Friends

Seattle drummer/percussionist/ French hornist Greg Campbell is joined by violist/pianist Christian Asplund, saxophonist Eric Barber, and clarinet whiz Jesse Canterbury, for a night of composition and improvisation.

Harold Budd & Keith Lowe

Presented by Nonsequitur. To celebrate the release of Colorful Fortune, his first book of poems and drawings being jointly published by Heavenly Monkey Editions (Vancouver) and MoonLiner Books (Seattle), proto-ambient composer Harold Budd will play 9-foot concert grand piano in his singularly elegant style in duos with Seattle bassist/MoonLiner proprietor Keith Lowe. Watch a video clip.

PRAN (Greg Powers & Stuart Dempster)

Pran is Greg Powers and Stuart Dempster presenting Dhrupad in the Dagarbhani style. Dhrupad is the most ancient style of Hindustani classical music that has survived until today in it's original form. Greg Powers is a pioneer in adapting this music to the trombone, being the only trombonist on earth to do so. Since 1992, he has been a disciple of the Dagarbhani tradition of Dhrupad, having studied with masters here and in India. While the instruments are untraditional, the music remains true to tradition.

Keith Eisenbrey: Works for Piano

Seattle composer/pianist Keith Eisenbrey performs new and new-ish piano music. The program includes preludes by Seattle composer Ken Benshoof, and by the late Seattle composers Lockrem Johnson and Greg Short. Also featured are works by Elaine Barkin, J. K. Randall, and Eisenbrey's own compositions, including the recently completed panneumiad N.

Simon Wickham-Smith + Santiago Latorre

British composer Simon Wickham-Smith has been making music since the late 1980s. Possibly best known for his collaboration with Richard Youngs, soon to be celebrated with the release on VHF of their 12"/3CD set entitled 20Years, he has spent the past decade presenting solo laptop performances. Releases include rapt (2004, Disposable Thumb), love&lamentation (2008, Pogus) and, A Seventh Persimmon (2009, Tape Drift).

Santiago Latorre is a saxophonist and audio engineer from Barcelona. He has composed music for dance, theater, fashion and video art. His work using cyclical layers of sax, accordion, piano, voice and synthesized sounds is now compiled in his debut album Órbita (Accretions).

Subtext: Jim McCrary + Paul Nelson

Jim McCrary has lived in and around and off and on Lawrence, Kansas for 40 years. His book All That (the collected chapbooks) is recently available from Many Penny Press. He is editor of Smelt Money, and has received a Phoenix Award. Paul Nelson is founder of the non-profit Global Voices Radio and co-founder of the Northwest Spokenword LAB (SPLAB!). His new book, A Time Before Slaughter, is just out from Apprentice House.