Seminar Shadow (NYC) (Luc/ie Vítková and Teerapat Parnmongkol)
Bio: Luc/ie Vítková and Teerapat Parmongkol met in May 2021 in New York to improvise and record music, using the instrumentation of an electric guitar (Parnmongkol) and synthesizer (KORG Volca Bass), harmonica, hichiriki, and voice (Vítková). Since then, they have performed under the name Seminar Shadow, a duet whirling in a seminar (sonic) shadow, dancing themselves in continuous inconsistency between being and becoming.
Their music is influenced by experimental music, noise, jazz, rock, metal, and folk music (Czech, Morlam). The music varies according to the places they play, and they have performed at Wonderville (Uneven Geographies), Sunview Luncheonette, Living Gallery (Undisclosed Locations), Bop Dubu (Nolja), Nha Minh, Scholes Street Studio (Infrequent Seams Festival) and Roulette Intermedium Brooklyn
Peter Keller: https://www.discogs.com/artist/823826-Peter-Keller-2 A noise musician active since 1993 with his first project Bacillus, he ran the label Clotted Meat Portioning in the mid-1990’s, and collaborated with others in the noise-cassette culture. Currently also a member of the dark improvised electronic synth duo Dosenöffner, dark noise duo Jodie (, the HNW group The Climate Refugees, the label/organizer 3:15 AM, label UNEQUAL and is also active in the solo HNW project Condo Horro, and minimal ambient noise projects Unser Verhängnis, Geißt, PTRKLLR, Kōan-Din, and Dirac Sea.
Viaduct (Dave Harvey) with live score by Wilson Shook, Noel Kennon, Mark Kaylor & John Teske
Trio improvisation by Wilson Shook, Gust Burns, & Mark Kaylor
Sarah Pyle & Janna Webbon
Sound installation by Dave Knott
Viaduct
(Dave Harvey, Olympia, 2020, 27:11 min)
For this screening, Viaduct will be accompanied by a one-off live improvised score by Wilson Shook (saxophones), Noel Kennon (viola), and John Teske (double bass).
Harvey’s meditation on the crumbling, historic Alaskan Way Viaduct, and its looming presence on Seattle’s waterfront is a beguiling, hypnotic document. It stitches together Super 8 footage from an heroic 12 consecutive trips (northbound only) on the viaduct’s final open day before demolition. The resulting document presents a sense of time uniquely its own, between the slowed frame rate, the repetition of scenery, the juxtaposition of overlapped, subtly shifting moments — and the implacable greyness of an unremarkable Seattle day. Its cumulative effect is a kind of Rashomon of boredom, whose tender but unrelenting filmic caress of Seattle’s most enchanting eyesore pulls the viewer through toward a bliss state.
Wilson Shook, Gust Burns, & Mark Kaylor
Roots improv and ephemeral maneuvers by a trio of Northwest favorites. An unlikely alignment of elements crystalizes for one night only at this auspicious locale. Shook, Burns, and Kaylor spin webs of exquisite gossamer from material as old as vibration itself. A rare treat not to be missed.
Flicker Duo (Sarah Pyle & Janna Webbon )
Flicker Duo, a collaboration between Sarah Pyle, flute, and Janna Webbon, violin, creates incandescent moments that evolve between sound and noise. Based in Western Washington, they build improvised sonic worlds inspired by visual art and the rich ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest.
Dave Knott
Artist Bios:
Wilson Shook is an improvising saxophonist and manual therapist living in Oakland, CA since 2022. His approach to music has been shaped by collaborative relationships with Gust Burns, Paul Hoskin, Ben Bennett, Greg Kelley, Carol Genetti, Ted Byrnes, and others, as well as an ongoing sonic exploration of the resonant void spaces of American hydrologic and transportation infrastructure. For 10 years Wilson helped to organize the performance space Gallery 1412 in Seattle, and worked closely with the Seattle Improvised Music Festival.
A self-taught musician, Wilson approaches improvisation, study, collaboration, and performance as sites of radical experimentation with modes of being, relating, and perceiving. Wilson’s practice cultivates an awareness of human vulnerability and technological fallibility; embraces excess, fragmentation, and incompleteness; and pursues the chaotic, queer, and interdependent imperatives of an aleatory existence amidst a crumbling, toxic culture.
Attentiveness, transformation, commitment to the materiality of the musical act and its consequences; radical presence as the only avenue of escape. Always mindful of the axiom, via Éluard—There is another world, but it is in this one.
Gust Burns makes work that is woven through several major fields including experimental composition, jazz, contemporary art practices, black studies, marx and post-marxism, art-critical theory, and musicology.
With a history as an improvising pianist, he makes music by utilizing multiple procedures; problematizing divisions between performance, score, recording, and text – work that intertwines the conceptual and sonic, critical and affective.
Two ways of thinking about the project: to uncover listening as social-historically constructed assemblage, and to elaborate and rehearse ways of being together (playing and hearing music).
Mark E Kaylor has spent most of his life involved with the world of percussion. First starting with school band & orchestra, followed by various punk, rock, pop and some jazz outfits Mark eventually succumbed to the allure of improvisation. For the last 20 years this has been the focus of Mark’s musical endeavors with some short tangents in composition along the way.
Mark has great interest in rhythm & raw sound/texture. Both are seen as equally important and much time has been spent in investigating new & old ideas/techniques.
Over the years Mark has collaborated with numerous musicians and has appeared on dozens of recordings, has performed all over, played festivals, etc.
A short cross section of past projects includes Cex Fucx, Hammer of Hathor, Haiku Ambulance, Cells, Thee Oregon Artificial Limb Co, Tat Vamasi, Htoo Trio, Kinetic Harpoon, etc. As well as appearing as “side man” on various other bands’ recordings.
Currently Mark resides in Olympia Wa. but has also lived in Lancaster, Pa., Portland, Or., Philadelphia, Pa., and rural Maine.
Seattle-based composer John Teske writes contemporary concert music for soloists, chamber groups, and chamber orchestra. Founder of the Broken Bow Ensemble and a series of “any ensemble” performances, he focuses on enhancing the listener experience, utilizing extended techniques and guided improvisation to create pieces that are crafted while maintaining a human and organic feel. His recent work includes topographies, a series of musical contour maps through which musicians navigate, site-specific performances in Seattle parks, and a series of works for chamber orchestra exploring consciousness and awareness. His music has been performed across the United States, in France, Brazil, and Russia, and has been supported by the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, the Jack Straw Foundation, and the City of Seattle.
Dave Harvey is a rock’n’roll musician and film photographer from the Pacific Northwest. Harvey performs with Nudity and was a member of such groups as Sex Vid and Behead The Prophet NLSL. Harvey operates High Command analog recording studio in Olympia, WA.
Flicker Duo, a collaboration between Sarah Pyle, flute, and Janna Webbon, violin, creates incandescent moments that evolve between sound and noise. Based in Western Washington, they build improvised sonic worlds inspired by visual art and the rich ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest.
TRIPTET lands the mothership in Seattle for one night only. Gallery 1412 (1412 18th Ave, Seattle) 8:00 PM – All Ages – $5-15 sliding scale (pay-what-you-can).
TRIPTET … is a meeting of minds and spontaneous electrical impulses between: Michael Monhart (saxophones and electronics) Tom Baker (fretless guitar, theremin and electronics) Greg Campbell (percussion, French horn, cornet, budget electronics)
The Tom Baker Quartet (Tom Baker, guitar; Greg Campbell, drums; Jesse Canterbury, clarinet; Brian Cobb, bass) will share an evening with our friend violist Heather Bentley. New tunes, new collaborations, new sounds will abound. Hope you can join us for this show at the most intimate listening gallery in town. All ages. $5-15 sliding scale.
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8:00 p.m. at Gallery 1412 (1412 18th Ave, Seattle)
“It is impossible to talk about the unmistakable sound of Pacific Northwest rock music without including the name Steve Fisk. A legend in the Northwest and renowned the world over, Fisk has made an indelible mark on the scene as a producer, engineer, teacher and performer. From the underground to the mainstream, from alternative to indie-pop, artists have been benefiting from his keen ear, superior technical skills, and inventive sound for nearly four decades. “
Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.
S. Glass
Glands of External Secretion began on February 8, 1992, when Barbara Manning was recording tracks for a solo single to be released by the Majora label, and summoned Bananafish writer/editor Seymour Glass for assistance pushing the record button. Ask a first-year science student, what’s the first thing one does if there’s any sign of abnormal chemistry? That’s right — goggle up. The room was filled with it and the protective eyeware is permanent. After 30 years of recording and performing together and apart, wobbling in the crosswalk at the intersection of song-craft and the type of audio event referred to by some people as, after hearing it for the first time, “whatever the hell that was supposed to be,” Manning and Glass push each other into the other’s oncoming traffic, so to speak, only to yank themselves back to the relative safety of a sweet little patch of the parking lot known as “somewhat listenable, a lot of the time.”
An evening of music ; Feb 18th 8pm 10 -20 suggested donation
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Ben Bennet makes a rare appearance on the west coast for a string of shows we are lucky enough to have him join us on this run of shows
Ben Bennet Arrington De Dionyso and Noel Kennon will play a trio performance followed by Ben playing a solo. An opening set will be made by Eric Lanzilotta
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Ben Bennet : Columbus, Ohio artist Ben Bennett creates an exquisite racket armed with a mutant kit of recycled and modified acoustic instruments and found objects
Arrington de Dionyso : Arrington de Dionyso conjures Utopic Spaces with multiphonic vocal work & minimalist instrumentation. It’s shamanic seance meets rock and roll ecstasy; “TRANCE PUNK” combining traditional ritual trance, electrified experimental approaches, dancehall rhythms, gamelan scales and mystically inspired Indonesian incantations. Shocking and hallucinatory, MALAIKAT DAN SINGA always aims to channel Spirit.
Eric Lanzillota : Founder of Anomalous Records, Ri Be Xibalba and Bixobal magazine. Eric Lanzillotta has been involved in sound in various aspects since the late 1980’s. As a live performer, he has appeared in United States, Canada and Japan, both solo and in duets with Bernhard Günter, Aube, Withdrawal Method, and Richard Lerman. He is the father of Tanith Lanzillotta with whom he co-owned the Dissonant Plane record store
What will happen: four dear friends will share sounds and stories in three sets, with instruments and voices, sharing the sense of collective revolutions and towards many hearts opening into the possibility of another world. Yalda Mubarak! Bring back the light! Hyske, Siem!!!!
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an evening of music . ‘ 8pm 5-15 suggested donation
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Paul Chiyokten Wagner is a Saanich Nation tribal member which is located on so called Vancouver Island BC Canada. As a Traditional Coast Salish Storyteller & flutist he brings us on a wonderful, profound and humorous journey to the world of Mermaids, Leprechauns, Grandmother cedar trees and marauding giant ogresses in traditional story, song and Native American flute music of his Coast Salish territory. We don’t simply listen to the story… we are part of the story! We will travel to the ancient forests, meadows and waters of the Salish Sea and experience the eternal connective sounds of nature with masterful deliverance of Coast Salish Native American flute music and storytelling. His debut CD “Journey Of The Spirit” won the JPF National Music Award “Best Native American Album 2009” Chiyokten is also the founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea of who actively stand up for the tree, plant and animal peoples as well as our human peoples of Mother Earth and the livable future for all children. Here is both my music and Protectors of the Salish Sea info: Websites: http://www.sacredbreath.ca https://protectorsofthesalishsea.org/
Email for supporters to volunteer or receive news letters: protectorsofthesalishsea@gmail.com
Supporter’s donations can be sent to: https://venmo.com/code? user_id=2701238126772224529&created=1663014817.839995&printed=1
Paypal ID is: @paulwagner792
Hiswke (Thank you)
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Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney are a duo devoted to geomusicalities and music at the border of sound, currently on tour supporting their new and upcoming recordings. Their previous albums include Cypress Dance (Ed. Mariana Calo & Francisco Queimadela), the face of the earth, Aestuarium (Ideologic Organ), Reverse Tree (Black Truffle), Seva/Fixiones (self released cassette), and At Temple Gate with Hyeon Hee Park (Weyrd Son). As a duo they have worked with poet Anne Carson and randomizer Bob Currie, the bands Sun City Girls, Sunn O))), Animal Collective, composers Annea Lockwood and others. Kenney was the singer for punk bands Cause and Ex Nihilo, and later for ASVA. She released the solo album Atria (Sige), has recorded the music of Alvin Lucier and Jarrad Powell, and has recorded and performed with Lori Goldston, Holland Andrews, Trimpin, Simone Forti and Wolves in the Throne Room. Her film compositions include the vocal music for Midsommar (dir. Ari Aster). She has made several installations including multi room sound/video piece Anchor Zero, shown at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle in 2015. Kenney is currently working in collaboration for color a body who flees at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Kang is a composer and violist who has released many albums, including the recent Sonic Gnostic (Aspen Edities) and Ajaeng Ajaeng (Ideologic Organ), going back to Sweetness of Sickness (Rabid God Inoculator). He has worked with a wide range of musicians including Laurie Anderson, Skuli Sverrison, Bill Frisell, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and many others. He is a disciple of spiritual jazz violinist Michael White, and a lifelong student of North Indian classical music with Padma Bhushan Dr. N Rajam. Beginning in 2021, he has focused on the viola d’amore. Both Kang and Kenney are faculty at California Institute of the Arts. Together they created Concealed Unity and Siheung Tablatures for orchestra, choir, and soloists for the Tectonics festivals in Reykjavik, Athens and Glasgow. Their most recent collaboration was the installation Spokane River Sound Action, shown at the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center (GUAAC) in 2022.
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Lori Goldston
Lori Goldston is a cellist and composer from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist draws connections between far-flung idioms, and explores timbral thresholds of her instrument. Her work glides easily and across borders, building on a restless curiosity and a long history of collaborations with bands, orchestras, composers, film makers and choreographers, including Earth, Nirvana, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Mirah, Jherek Bischoff, Jessika Kenney, Eyvind Kang, Ilan Volkov, Vanessa Renwick, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Lonnie Holley, Stuart Dempster, Torben Ulrich, Shelley Hirsch, Ghedalia Tezartes, Senga Nengudi, Ellen Fullman, Lynn Shelton, Natacha Atlas, Jim Fletcher, Matana Roberts, Marisa Anderson, Maya Dunietz, and many, many others.
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, the HNW group The Climate Refugees, the label/organizer 3:15 AM, label UNEQUAL and is also active in the solo HNW project Condo Horro, and minimal ambient noise projects Unser Verhängnis, Geißt, PTRKLLR, Kōan-Din, and Dirac Sea.
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