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Kevin Patton
Wednesday, December 12, 7:30pm
Jack Straw Productions, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle
Kevin Patton is a composer, guitarist, and experimental sound performer interested in exploring the increasingly nebulous borderlands between humans and machines in performance. In this Composer Spotlight, he will present parts of his piece Cracked Across the Brow with saxophonist Greg Sinibaldi (see below for related concert). The integration of interactive electronic music and machine improvisation into traditional performance contexts is at the center of his practice. The Wire magazine described Kevin as genre bending: "Guitar based free playing morphs into feedback avalanches, or vice versa, and labels like jazz, noise, or rock become meaningless."
Kevin often performs his own work in both instrumental improvisation and interactive chamber music and has performed in Europe, Japan, and throughout North America. The Aphasia Project, a multi-media performance art duet with visual artist Carmen Montoya, integrates video, interactive and generative environments, and performance art in both a concert and instillation setting. "The audio and video components of Aphasia Project form intertwined frameworks for interpretation. Mutually dependent on each other for meaning, the sounds and visuals of Aphasia Project pieces form a semiotic synergy that comes alive in performance" (The WIRE, 11/4/05) His most recent project, GrayCode, combines electronic instrument design, machine improvisation with experimental jazz practice in collaboration with percussionist Frederick Kennedy and clarinetist and composer Butch Rovan.
Kevin's music and ideas have been presented at the Electronic Music Studies (EMS) International conference in Beijing, China, and the Visiones Sonoras festival in Morelia, Mexico, among many. His work in the development of a notation system for interactive chamber music will be published this fall by the British journal Organised Sound. Kevin holds a Master of Music degree in jazz studies and composition from the University of North Texas and a Master of Arts Degree from Brown University. He is currently pursuing a PhD in electronic music and multimedia composition at Brown University.
Listen to music by Kevin Patton at his Myspace.
Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present
Transport Concert Series
"Reeds Concert"
SEAN OSBORN / GREG SINIBALDI
Thursday, December 13, 7:30pm
Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, 4th Floor, Seattle
Tickets: $15 general, $10 WCF members/seniors/students
Available at door
The Reeds Concert continues the Transport series of performances by international and local artists. Clarinetist Sean Osborn will premiere Chaconne by Seattle composer Keith Eisenbrey, Clarinet Sonata by English composer Michael Finnissy, and Dante Dances (Danzi d'Inferno) by University of Texas composer Dan Welcher. Rhonda Kline will accompany on piano.
Greg Sinibaldi will premiere works for saxophone and electronics, including Cracked Across the Brow by Kevin Patton, and 101-46 by York University composer Renée Walrafen.
The evening includes recorded music chosen from a call for scores and accompanied by video created by Northwest filmmakers ForeignAmerican Pictures, as part of Washington Composers Forum's Interval series.
Photo by Jessica Oyanagi
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.
2007
| Sarah Bassingthwaighte |
| Ryan Hare |
| Brad Sherman |
| Wally Shoup |
| Steve Cavit |
| Paul Rucker |
| Martin Bresnick |
| Tim Root |
| Dean Moore |
| Eric Lanzillotta |
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| Kevin Patton |
2006
2005
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| Doublends Verts: Tom Swafford, Adam Diller, Annie Lewandowski |
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| Joshua Parmenter |
| Eric Mandat |
| Richard Karpen |
| Christopher DeLaurenti |
| Joel-Francois Durand |
2004
| Ken Benshoof |
| Gerhard Samuel |
| Wrick Wolff |
| Steve Layton |
| Robert HP Platz |
| Degenerate Art Ensemble |
| Laura Kaminsky |
| Keith Eisenbray |
| Adam Diller |
| Wayne Horvitz |
| Linda Waterfall |
| Lesli Dalaba |
2003
| Ela Lamblin & Leah Mann |
| Trimpin |
| David Mahler |
| Christi Denton & Celeste Hutchins |
| Steve Roden |
| Tom Baker |
| Nate Brown with Gary Fukushima |
| Ray Holman |
| Peter Seibert |
| Robin Holcomb |
| Curtis Taylor |
| Amy Rubin |
2002
| Seattle Chamber Players and Elena Dubinets |
| Dan Blunck |
| Rik Wright |
| Quake |
| Brian Lawlor |
| Byron Au Yong |
| Jack Straw |
| Stuart Wolferman & Britta Johnson |
| Philip Munger |
| Mark Polishook and Lisa Hutton |
| Undermind Arts Collective & Pleione |
| Lena Nietfeld & Jonathan Greene |
| Bret Battey |
2001
| Present Sounds Recordings |
| Janice Giteck and Judith Roche |
| Cindy McTee |
| Mina Miller |
| Benjamin Boretz |
| Bob Barraza and KT Niehoff |
| Jin Hi Kim |
| Munir Nurettin Beken |
| Sean Osbourn |
| Marcos Carmona |
| Koo Nimo |
| Jay Clayton |
| Carolyn Graye |
2000
| Jovino Santos Neto |
| Kevin Goldsmith |
| Michael Shannon |
| Jim Knodle |
| Janice Giteck |
| Mark Polishook |
| Chen Yi and Robert Sirota |
| Yu Ping Chen |
| Lynette Westendorf |
| David Paul Mesler |
| Musicians Accord |
| Elizabeth Falconer |
1999
| Suzie Kozawa |
| Samuel Jones |
| Gerhard Samuel |
| Christopher DeLaurenti |
| Christopher Shainin |
| Mathew Sperry |
| Gavin Borchert |
| Keith Eisenbrey |
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