Upcoming Wayward Music Shows

September 12, 2009 — Mike

From Seattle’s Wayward Music:

SAT. 9/12, 8 PM – Danse Perdue, butoh performance based on Reinaldo Arenas‘ novel El Asalto (The Assault)

FRI. 9/18 – David Haney & Julian Priester + friends, new jazz

SAT. 9/19, 8 PM – Bill Horist, guitar improvisations and new pieces from his upcoming release, Covalent Lodge: one set acoustic, one electric

FRI. 9/25, 8 PM – Gamelan Pacifica, music by Jessika Kenney & Lou Harrison, w/ guest violist Eyvind Kang

SAT. 9/26, 8 PM – Nonsequitur presents Steve Peters, 50th birthday retrospective concert of his music performed by Gamelan Pacifica, Robin Holcomb, Stuart Dempster, Eye Music Ensemble & more, plus an improvised set by the Seattle Phonographers Union

TUE. 9/29, 7:30 PM – DoubleSharp presents legendary Russian pianist Anton Batagov

WED. 9/30 – ArtsLaunch, artists TBA

FRI. 10/2 – Duo En, contemporary music for shakuhachi and koto

SAT. 10/3 – EQ Lateral Ensemble, eclectic electronic chamber music

WED. 10/7 – Subtext Reading Series presents David Buuck & Joel Felix

THU. 10/15 – WA Composers Forum presents flautist Richard Craig performing music by Munakata, Bång, Lindwall, Ferneyhough, Dillon & Stewart

FRI. 10/16 – Paul Hoskin, solo contrabass clarinet improvisations

SAT. 10/17 – Jesse Canterbury, new music for clarinet

MON. 10/19, 7:30 PM – Earshot Jazz Festival presents 3rd Man, with Han Bennink (percussion), Michael Moore (sax), Will Holshouser (accordion)

THU. 10/22, 8 PM – Nonsequitur presents Louisville pianist Rachel Grimes (of the band Rachel’s) + Seattle electronic cellist Gretchen Nicole Yanover

SAT. 10/24, 8 PM – Earshot Jazz Fest + Nonsequitur present Phantom Orchard (Zeena Parkins, harp & Ikue Mori, laptop) + Peggy Lee, cello & Saadet Türköz, voice

TUE. 10/27, 7:30 – Earshot Jazz Fest + Nonsequitur present WA Composers Orchestra, performing music by Robin Holcomb, Tom Varner, and Wayne Horvitz

THU. 10/29, 7:30 – Earshot Jazz Festival presents Tom Varner Tentet + Andy Clausen & Sjenka

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Newsbits

September 12, 2009 — Mike

Bennie Maupin is interviewed about his work on newly-discovered Eric Dolphy compositions.

James Beaudreau has launched a new label, and posts free MP3s each week.

Washington DC’s Mayor Fenty Endorses Sonic Circuits, an experimental music series.

Feedback Loop is a new experimental music netlabel with a semi-free donor-based business model.

Dal Niente has scheduled an October 2nd Chicago performance featuring the music of Augusta Read Thomas, Franco Donatoni, Jason Eckardt, John Luther Adams.

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Flexible Music at the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music

September 12, 2009 — Mike

From the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music

Friday, October 9, 2009, 8 pm
$15/$10 students & seniors
Conservatory Concert Hall
Flexible Music
New and recent works for an unusual combination of saxophone, guitar, piano, and percussion.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music’s New Music Collective will open the 2009-10 Conservatory concert season with the exciting, highly acclaimed Flexible Music. Blurring the lines between jazz, rock and classical, Flexible Music is comprised of Haruka Fujii, percussion, Eric Huebner, piano, Tim Ruedeman, saxophones and Dan Lippel, guitars.

Inspired by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen‘s Hout for saxophone, guitar, piano and percussion the group has commissioned over 30 pieces including new works by Nico Muhly, Orianna Webb, Vineet Shende, John Link, Ryan Streber, and Mikel Kuehn among others.

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DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos

September 12, 2009 — Mike

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

September 08, 2009
Centric 3, The Stone
Shoko Nagai, Ryan Sawyer, Elliott Sharp
Super Seaweed Sex Scandal, The Stone
Joe Merolla, Borey Shin, Justin Veloso, Paul Wheeler, Nonoko Yoshida

September 07, 2009
Gordon Grdina Trio, Bar 4
Gordon Grdina, Mark Helias, Kenton Loewen
Justin Peake & Jacob Wick, Bar 4
Justin Peake, Jacob Wick

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DMG Newsletter September 11th, 2009

September 12, 2009 — Mike

From DMG:

Anthony Braxton Creative Orchestra 1978! Ken Vandermark/Barry Guy/Mark Sanders! Laswell-Kondo Method of Defiance! Stephan Kerecki/Tony Malaby! Death Cube K! Jim O’Rourke! Dunmall/Park/Smith/Sanders! Weightless: Butcher/Braida/Edwards/Spera!

Sylvian/Parker/Rowe/Fennesz! John Blum/William Parker/Sunny Murray! Borah Bergman & Stefano Pastor! Jennifer Choi Solo! Frank Gratkowski! Fay Victor! Earle Brown-Contemporary/Mainstream Box! Sainkho Namchylak! ..and so much more

…as well as a Palmetto Jazz label Price Reduction Sale: Marty Ehrlich, Andrew Hill, Bobby Previte, Matt Willson, Dewey Redman, Trio 3, Ben Allison, Larry Goldings, Fred Hersch..!!!

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Chicago Jazz Festival Coverage

September 12, 2009 — Mike

Below are a handful of links and articles on the avant goings-on at this past weekend’s Chicago Jazz Festival.

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Coming to the ISSUE Project Room

September 12, 2009 — Mike

From New York’s ISSUE Project Room:

09/13 @ 5pm – Honne Wells and Juan Comas Sacred Harp Greg Jamie FREE SHOW
ISSUE Project Room presents in collaboration with the Old American Can Factory Market: FREE Honne Wells and Sacred Harp Honne Wells and Juan Comas Honne Wells hails from America’s Bible Belt South. It is there that he has been mining below the “underground” music scene for the past four years. After settling in Baltimore, Wells, originally billed as the [...]

09/13 @ 8pm – Share – all night free open audio & video jam
What is share? SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the [...]

09/15 @ 8pm – Artist In Residence: Ha Yang Kim
Cellist, composer and improviser Ha-Yang Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. Ha-Yang made her professional solo debut at age 16 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Hailed as “phenomenal” and playing with “brilliant technique full of energy, concentration, musicality and expression” (Mainpost, Germany), she performs new music as a soloist and with ensembles and artists in [...]

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