Category Archives: Event

Local percussionist Mitchell Beck presents a night of live-looped music. Using loop pedal technology and live audio processing software, Mitchell will be building up full pieces of music one layer at a time as a one-man-band. You will hear him using standard percussion instruments, found objects, software synthesizers, and vocal layers to craft unique sound worlds that travel through … Read More →

Eric Amrine will perform “Angles Are Singing”, a spontaneous composition stolen outright from the game of billiards and from decades of improvising, studying, and performing with Robert Fripp, David Torn, Wally Shoup, Dennis Rea, Amy Denio, Lori Goldston, Jeff Greinke, John Oswald, and other luminaries.

I Can’t Trace Time emerges from the mind of Lance Watkins, with accompaniment by Casey … Read More →

Patricia Wolf is a Portland-based musician, field recordist, and sound designer. Her work sonically unites the natural and synthetic world, integrating ecological sources into her minimalist compositions. Using melody and repetition she lures listeners to a hypnotic inner space, conjuring vivid textures and atmospheres imbued with emotion. Wolf primarily works with electronics, field recordings, and acoustic instruments. Tonight she’ll … Read More →

Student Showcase: BLUEs.WEAVE and the Victory Sound, with Jai Kobi Kaleo’Okalani – guitar, vocals, and effects; Coen Rios – saxophone; Ethan Horn – drums.

BLUEs.WEAVE creates interconnected webs of sound drawing from a pool of analog recordings, programmed MPC grooves, and their own recorded performances from acoustic and electronic sources. Combining the ritual of crate digging with layers of electronic manipulation, BLUEs.WEAVE … Read More →

The music will begin promptly at 8 PM, so please arrive early.

An acoustic ensemble consisting of John Teske (contrabass), Hanna Broback (violin), Samuel Klapper (violin), Gust Burns ( piano), Aaron Micheal Butler (percussion ), Al Jones (slide guitar), Stephanie Wood (percussion), David Stanford (percussion), Justin Lazar (clarinet), Blake DeGraw (clarinet), Gregg Miller (clarinet ), Brianna Camarda (bassoon), Troy Shiefelbein … Read More →

Featuring UW Faculty and Special Guests: Lucía Pulido – vocals, Cuong Vu – trumpet, Stomu Takeishi – bass, Ted Poor – drums.

After years of working with Lucía Pulido and immersing himself in researching Colombian music, Stomu Takeishi stumbled upon the songs of Violeta Parra. He saw in Parra’s songs the rich depth and spirit that would provide a natural home … Read More →

Vox 3 (formerly Vox Arcana) is Chicago percussionist and composer Tim Daisy’s long running experimental music trio, featuring fellow cohorts Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and James Falzone on clarinet. Formed in Chicago in 2009 as an outlet for Daisy’s multi-faceted explorations bridging compositional forms with spirited, open ended improvisations, the trio has since released multiple albums and has toured … Read More →

Trio improviso is the collaboration of Andre Feriente, guitar; Linda Vogt, violin; and Sheila Weidendorf, piano. Feriante is a Segovia-trained multi-instrumentalist who has performed in the Pacific Northwest and beyond for years, both as a solist and with his Troupe de Ville and the Bohemian Entourage, in addition to Trio Improviso. Linda Vogt plays regularly with the Auburn Symphony, the … Read More →

Splinter Percussion presents an evening of percussion quartets, trios, and duets that oscillate between the meditative and jarring. The program will feature modern works by Juri Seo, Jason Treuting, Marc Mellits, Elliot Cole, and Donnacha Dennehy. The sonic landscape will oscillate between meditative keyboard harmonies and explosions of percussive sound, with thick rhythmic layers and shifting meters designed to make … Read More →

For the last twenty years, Upstate New York-based composer M. Geddes Gengras has created worlds inside of machines, bending electronics into human shapes and working in spaces between ambient, improvisation, and experimental music to build works with deep feeling. He has released music with Hausu Mountain, Leaving Records/Stones Throw, and RVNG International, and collaborated onstage and in the studio … Read More →