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Artist Events




Composer Spotlight Series


Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
FREE

Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present Composer Spotlight, a series of talks and performances by composers, musicians, and scholars of new and innovative music every second Wednesday of each month.

Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composer Forum present

Composer Spotlight:
STEPHEN PARRIS
Indeterminacy and Performer Interpretation in Contemporary Composition

Wed, January 11, 7:30pm

Stephen Parris will share his recent works that delve into allowing a higher level of interpretation and freedom by the performer, and aleatoric contraptions for improvising musicians. We encourage you to bring an instrument of preference to try out one of these pieces if you are so inclined.

These compositions will be recorded in 2012 as part of the Monktail Creative Music Concern's Jack Straw Artist Residency and presented at the Monktail Composers Series at the Good Shepherd Chapel January 21 and March 9.

 

See our Composer Spotlight page for more information.



New Media Gallery

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

The Network Is a Blind Space
Stelios Manousakis

December 9, 2011 - January 27, 2012

Gallery Opening: Friday, December 9, 7pm

Artist Talk: Friday, January 20, 7pm

Jack Straw New Media Gallery
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle 98105


The Network Is a Blind Space is a distributed, micro-telematic, site-specific sound installation that explores the physical yet invisible electromagnetic spaces created by Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Two computers installed in opposite parts of Jack Straw, one in the gallery and another in the main studio, create an electromagnetic line-space that can be transversed and examined – perhaps broken. The piece spreads out from the gallery space, extending as far as the installation’s WLAN can reach. Sound is generated and modified in real time by visitors logging into the network with ordinary, wifi-enabled, mobile electronic devices (smartphones, iPods, tablets, laptops, etc).

See our New Media Gallery page for more details

Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, PONCHO, ArtsFund, Seattle Foundation, and individual contributors for their support of Jack Straw Artist Programs.


Writers Events

 

Jack Straw Literary Podcasts
Now online at www.jackstraw.org/blog

Jack Straw Productions produces bi-monthly podcasts featuring live readings, interviews, and other audio programs highlighting literary artists from the Jack Straw Writers Program. The companion Jack Straw Writers Blog will be your direct line to what's going on with the podcasts and the Writers Program. The blog will feature program news and the latest from all Writers Program participants past and present. You'll find links to their websites, event announcements, and hopefully random outbursts of literary genius.




Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, PONCHO, ArtsFund, Seattle Foundation, and individual contributors for their support of Jack Straw Artist Programs.




Workshops

Jack Straw Audio Workshops are the perfect opportunity to jump start that recording project you've been thinking about, to refine your digital editing skills, or to get that first hands on introduction to the world of audio recording and editing.

Discounts for the visually impaired are offered on Basic Field Recording and Microphone Workshop. Co-sponsored by Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences and Jack Straw Productions, with support from the Technology Matching Fund of the City of Seattle Department of Information Technology.

Microphone Workshop Friday, December 2, 6 - 10pm
Basic Field Recording Saturday, December 10, 9am - 5pm
Beginning ProTools Wednesday - Friday, December 14 - 16, 6 - 10pm



Education Events

Foster High School: Stories of Arrival

Jack Straw Productions, Foster High School, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio present

Stories of Arrival

Seattle Poet and 2008 Jack Straw Writer Merna Ann Hecht worked with Foster High School students from around the world to write poems about their experiences for a project titled Stories of Arrival, produced with support from The Institute for Poetic Medicine; Bread for the Journey; The Tukwila School District; the Tukwila Arts Commission; the Washington State Arts Commission; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

KBCS Community Radio broadcast the Stories of Arrival poems throughout the month of April. They are now archived here on our site.

See our Stories of Arrival page for details.


Foster student with Jack Straw engineer Tom Stiles






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