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Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present

TIM ROOT

Wed., August 8, 7:30pm

Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle
FREE

Tim Root is a composer, performer and improviser based in Seattle, who has strong ties to the West Coast experimental music and theatre communities. His work is unabashedly experimental and a focused attempt to move music from behind the stands and towards theatre. His compositions combine highly detailed music for instrumentalists using notational techniques largely of his own invention, improvisation and theatrical instructions that push at the boundaries of how music is made.

In 1985 he was a founding member of San Diego’s Sledgehammer Theatre, a relationship that continues to the present with the Sledgehammer’s recent commissioning of A/wake (2005), Chiang Kai Chek (2006) and Beckett3 (2007). His compositions have been performed in many settings and include works for traditional instruments, electronics, found objects and instruments of his own design. A list of key works and performers includes: Stitches for Ensemble, Tom Swafford, Chris Stover, Eric Barber, Tom Baker, Lori Goldston, Beth Fleenor, Greg Sinibaldi, Jesse Canterbury, Brian Cobb, Scott Paulson. Shoes-UI-Teeth, Nathan Hubbard, percussion, S for Soloists, Greg Campbell, Travis Metcalf, Bill Horist, Nathan Hubbard, Gabriel Sundy and others in multiple performances.

Tim Root holds a BA in Music Composition from UC San Diego where he studied with Bob Erickson, John Silber and Jimmy Cheatham, and an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in Oakland, California where he studied with Anthony Braxton, Alvin Curran and Chris Brown.

attempt to move music from behind the stands and towards theatre. His compositions combine highly detailed music for instrumentalists using notational techniques largely of his own invention, improvisation and theatrical instructions that push at the boundaries of how music is made.

In 1985 he was a founding member of San Diego’s Sledgehammer Theatre, a relationship that continues to the present with the Sledgehammer’s recent commissioning of A/wake (2005), Chiang Kai Chek (2006) and Beckett3 (2007). His compositions have been performed in many settings and include works for traditional instruments, electronics, found objects and instruments of his own design. A list of key works and performers includes: Stitches for Ensemble, Tom Swafford, Chris Stover, Eric Barber, Tom Baker, Lori Goldston, Beth Fleenor, Greg Sinibaldi, Jesse Canterbury, Brian Cobb, Scott Paulson. Shoes-UI-Teeth, Nathan Hubbard, percussion, S for Soloists, Greg Campbell, Travis Metcalf, Bill Horist, Nathan Hubbard, Gabriel Sundy and others in multiple performances.

Tim Root holds a BA in Music Composition from UC San Diego where he studied with Bob Erickson, John Silber and Jimmy Cheatham, and an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in Oakland, California where he studied with Anthony Braxton, Alvin Curran and Chris Brown.

The Composer Spoltight series is presented by Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum (WCF). This series of talks and performances of new music highlights an innovative composer or performer every second Wednesday of each month at Jack Straw Productions. If you are a composer and would like to present at a Composer Spotlight event, please conatct arts manager Van Diep.

ABOUT WASHINGTON COMPOSERS FORUM

WCF is a non-profit arts organization that nurtures the creation, performance, and dissemination of new music by composers living in Washington State. Since its founding in 1984, WCF has produced concerts, readings, and lectures in the U.S. and Canada, representing many composers in the region.

COMPOSER SPOTLIGHT HISTORY

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1999