Concerts

The Seattle Phonographers Union is a collective of sound artists coming together from diverse creative backgrounds to improvise with unprocessed field recordings. Always looking for new modes of presentation, this is their first concert improvising with other instrumentalists, including Tom Varner (French horn) and others TBA. Instead of the usual “wall of laptops” all plugged …

Briggan Krauss is an internationally recognized saxophonist with a signature sound and unique technical approach to the instrument. But his music took a dramatic turn about five years ago when he became obsessed with playing the guitar, which has completely changed the way he thinks about and approaches music; it has even had a surprising …

Part I: Factotum: Music of Work and Place – For Piano and Voice Maria Mannisto – Soprano: Cristina Valdes- Piano In remembrance of the centennial of the Everett Massacre, the first half of the evening will feature selected songs from Smokestack Arias. Additional works will include songs from Joe Hill, Me gustas cuando callas (with …

In the spring of 1966, in Rome, a handful of artists laid the foundations of a free improvisation group where everything is allowed. Fifty years later, three founding members keep searching for the unheard. In the history of improvised music, MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA is up there, on the ladder of importance, with AMM and the …

Renée Baker is a violinist/violist, composer, and improviser who has been at the extreme forefront of creative/avant garde music. She has performed and recorded with Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Strings, Karl E. H. Seigfried’s New Quartet and Galaxy String Quartet, the David Boykin Expanse, Orbert Davis, George Lewis, Mwata Bowden, the Great Black Music Ensemble, …