Danse Perdue: Attitudes Passionnelles

Danse Perdue/Death Posture present: ATTITUDES PASSIONNELLES, A CELEBRATION: 50 YEARS OF BUTOH DANCE, 10,000 YEARS OF HYSTERIA. In the latter half of the 19th century at the Salpetriere asylum for insane and incurable women in Paris, medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot began an exhaustive photographic documentation of the inmates diagnosed as hysterics. He held the notorious "Tuesday Lectures" during which hysterical attacks and tableaux of hypnotic suggestion would be induced/performed for an audience. As we created this work, we sought a becoming-hysteric inside our bodies to erupt in unknown voices and movements and to mutate recognizable movements and voices into strange, irrevocably compelled creatures. Dancers: Lin Lucas, Douglas Ridings, Ariel Denham, Kaoru Okumura, and Katrina Sirena with Danse Perdue (Vanessa Skantze, Alex Ruhe). Sound collaborators: celadon, Noise Poet Nobody, and Herpes Hideaway.

Tom Varner

Seattle composer and jazz French Horn virtuoso Tom Varner performs with some of Seattle’s top players: drummer Byron Vannoy, bassist Phil Sparks, saxophonist Eric Barber, and clarinetist Jesse Canterbury. The quintet performs new works recently composed at the Centrum Foundation, among them A Waltz for Steve Lacy, In Heaven, and The Silent E in Hope, as well as some pared-down sections from Varner's new piece for tentet, Heaven and Hell, to be released later in the year, and a few impromptu “music prayers/meditations” that work so well in the beautiful Chapel space.

Phase 3 w/ Vanessa DeWolf + Bill Horist

PHASE 3 is three smart men on computers and various other audio technology. They make a modern, electronic sound that strangely intertwines with sounds of a kind of nostalgia, old mechanisms, manual typewriters, the voices of the moon-space program or some kind of manual...eerie quiet sounds repeating softly like a carpet of ants, a tiny bell rings or a gear turns in the far distance then emerges in a loud vibrant suddenness in the foreground only to get smashed and vanish into the sounds in the distance of an airport. Insects and typewriters, loudspeakers, feedback and the sounds of dishes being washed mix and emerge, vanish and reappear. Seattle guitar maniac Bill Horist opens.

Transport: Yvonne Lee, piano

Presented by Washington Composers Forum, Nonsequitur, and Jack Straw Productions. WCF's Transport Series is sponsored by 4Culture.

Boston-based pianist and composer Yvonne Lee performs music by modern masters: Anton Webern's Variations, Opus 27; Elliott Carter's Retrouvailles and 90+; Morton Feldman's Palais de Mari; and Helmut Lachenmann's Ein Kinderspiel and Serynade. Also, Unsound Grounds by young composer Trevor Gureckis.

TBQ/LaBerge/Asplund/Radiosonde

The Tom Baker Quartet shares an intimate, acoustic set with flutist Anne La Berge from the Netherlands and violist Christian Asplund, exploring the edges of jazz/chamber/improvised music. Radiosonde is a performance group that integrates dance and music through structured improvisations. Consisting of 9 performers, the group is led by musician Tom Baker and dancer Beth Graczyk. Together they develop unified scores that often contain a set of events or rules coupled with potent poetic images. The musicians include Jesse Canterbury, Greg Campbell, Brian Cobb, and Tom Baker and dancers including Alia Swersky, Corrie Befort, Ezra Dickenson, Sean Ryan, and Beth Graczyk.

Tiffany Lin: Piano Racket

Seattle pianist Tiffany Lin performs Piano Racket: Music for the Unconventional Piano, a concert featuring solo music for prepared piano, string piano, re-tuned piano, and toy pianos. The program features premieres of Byron Au Yong's Flirt and Kraig Grady's Corroded Communes. Also: John Cage's Daughters of the Lonesome Isle, Lois V. Vierk's To Stare Astonished at the Sea, Miracle Ear by David Lang, We Want Production by Zach Watkins, and A Little Christmas Suite by George Crumb. There will also be a special guest appearance by the toy band, The Toy Boats.

Seattle Composers' Salon

8:00 PM; $5-15 donation at the door.

The Seattle Composers' Salon is an informal presentation of new music by regional composers. The salon meets the last Friday of every other month, and features finished works, previews, and works-in-progress. It brings together composers, performers and audience members in a casual setting that allows for discussion and experimentation. This month's composers are Marcus Oldham,
Keith Eisenbrey, PLUS this year's student composition 1st Place Winners for the Simon Fiset competition: William Zhang, Connor Jensen, Benjamin Davis, and Robert Yaman.

Subtext: Laura Moriarty + J.W. Marshall

Subtext Reading Series presents: Laura Moriarty’s most recent books are A Semblance: Selected & New Poetry 1975-2007 and An Air Force. Other recent books are Ultravioleta, a novel, and Self-Destruction. She has taught at Mills College and Naropa and is currently Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution. She is findable on-line at A Tonalist Notes and related blogs. J. W. Marshall is co-owner of Open Books, Seattle's poetry-only bookstore. He won the 2007 Field Poetry Prize and Oberlin College Press published Meaning A Cloud, his first full-length collection, in 2008. His poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Field, Golden Handcuffs, LitRag, Raven Chronicles, Talisman, and other magazines.