Gust Burns composes performances of music. Drawing on his experience as a pianist, contemporary art practices, and 20th century composition, Burns’ works blur differentiations between performance, score, recording, and text. Burns earned an MFA in music/sound from Bard College, and is a graduate student at the University of Washington, Seattle. New Media Gallery 2008-09 (with […]
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Robert Blatt was born in 1984 in Anaheim, California. His practice is rooted in explorations of expanded sonic situations through varying frames and gradations of environment, notation, object, performance, text and tone. His work has been presented throughout the United States and Europe, in the context of performances, exhibitions, and a variety of unconventional methods […]
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The Monktail Creative Music Concern is a collective of composers, musicians and artists based in Seattle, WA who thrive on the atypical and exigent; the real weirdo stuff. The collective recorded the Special O.P.S. EP Backdoor Draft as part of their Artist Support Program residency at Jack Straw in 2011. Artist Support Program 2011: Record […]
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Originally formed in August 2006 to perform a student composition by Sune Smedeby, Eye Music has continued to focus on playing graphic scores since that time. Graphic scores are written music compositions that rely on visual information rather than standard notation to convey musical ideas. Often these scores are as beautiful to look at just […]
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Stuart Wheeler and Jesse Quebbeman-Turley are multi-instrumentalist singer-composers who met in 2014 through the Avant GaRawge – a DIY experimental performing arts series in Provo, Utah – where they both participated as co-curators and frequent contributors. Much of their early friendship was spent driving around, listening to Ensemble Organum’s seminal recording of Guillaume de Machaut’s […]
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Charles Corey is an American composer holding a Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory from the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied with Mathew Rosenblum, Eric Moe, Amy Williams, and Trevor Björklund. His approach to composition exploits and subverts the relationships that exist between different tuning systems; the results of this process range from pieces […]
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Cake “Alchemy!” engages with the worlds of music, performance art, and video and, in this complex of associations, they’ve devised an idea of poetic form that offers up everyday conversations and audience participation through the most far-flung music & live-event montages. Tim Coleman, master cake-alchemist, bakes up brutal percussive beats that align with the flaming […]
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Luke Fitzpatrick is a violinist, composer and improvisor. He is a founding member and artistic director of Inverted Space, a Seattle-based new music collective. Recent solo performances include Earle Brown’s Centering with Inverted Space, Alfred Schnittke’s Moz-Art with the University of Washington Chamber Orchestra, and Brian Ferneyhough’s Intermedio alla ciaccona in the presence of the composer. His February 2016 performance of Steve […]
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David Hahn is a composer and performer and the Music Director of Concert Imaginaire, an ensemble based in Seattle. He believes that, in our distracted, overly monetized world, Music has power. Artist Support Program 2014 (with Concert Imaginaire): Produce an album of eight original pieces.
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Tom Baker has been active as a composer, performer, and music producer in the new-music scene since arriving in Seattle in 1994. He is the artistic director of the Seattle Composers’ Salon, co-founder of the Seattle EXperimental Opera (SEXO), and an advisory board member of the Washington Composers’ Forum. Baker’s works have been performed throughout […]
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