NO WEST: artists
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SEATTLE: Gust Burns, Jeff Huston, Cristin Miller, Jason E Anderson, Bob Gallup, Jamie Potter, Eric Ostrowski, Wilson Shook, Melanie Noel, Ezra Dickenson, Robert j Kirkpatrick - BELLINGHAM:Tyler Wilcox, Corey Fuller - OLYMPIA: Rob Baxter - PORTLAND: Matt Carlson, Jonathan Sielaff, Kelvin Pittman, Mark Kaylor, Scott Goodwin, JP Jenkins, Shane Ronet, Bob Jones, Heather Vergotis, Seth Nehil, Ben Kates, David Abel, Asa Gervich, Matt Marble - Vancouver BC: Robert Pedersen, David Grove - BAY AREA: Jen Baker, Liz Allbee - NYC: Gregory Reynolds - TOKYO: Yuki Enomoto
SEATTLE
Bob Gallup - amplified objects + electronics
With an evolving assortment of electronics, pickups, microphones, resonators, and amplifed objects, Bob creates a melange of aural textures and minimalist sonic spaces.
Cristin Miller - voice
Cristin Miller is an improvising vocalist, composer and musician based out of Seattle. She's been involved in the improvised music community there for the last 6 years, and has performed both solo and as a member of collaborative groups such as Switch, Murderous Copulation of Birds, Pique, Volute, and others. She currently performs as a singer and instrumentalist in the duo Emma Zunz, with which she has toured extensively in the US and in Europe.
Gust Burns - piano, electronics
Gust Burns is a pianist, improviser, and composer based in Seattle, Washington. Foremost an improvising pianist, Gust continues to develop new routes into improvisation on the piano, working extensively with ideas concerning form, rhythm, and alternative narrative approaches, as well as new techniques for inside the piano. In addition to performing on his first instrument gust also performs on tape recorders and electronics. The relationship between these two instrument identities is always evolving and is the source of interesting new inspirations and lines to understanding music. Organizing and teaching improvised and new music are also important.
Jason E Anderson - electronics
Jason E Anderson is a sound artist from Seattle. Through the use of electronically generated, processed and natural sound, his work fits into the more abstract realm of electronic music, or musique concrete. Anderson uses analog and digital electronics as his instrument. Sounds are generated, played back, mixed and manipulated in a gestural fashion.
Jeff Huston - guitar+, electronics
Jeff Huston is a Seattle based guitarist, composer and improviser. He can be heard playing guitar+, electronics with Luminaries, a destructo-chamber quartet. He is also venturing into the realm of solo electro-acoustic experiments for recorded media and performance under the name LeVeL26. He recently performed with dancers Paige Barnes and Beth Graczyk in Minneapolis and Philadelphia through the national touring alliance SCUBA. Jeff created the score for Molt, a multi-media dance piece, directed by Paige Barnes, which was performed at Consolidated Works in May of 2006. Jeff has also created scores to accompany modern dance for Alia Swersky and Jon and Anna Dixon. He enjoys the minds ability to pick out patterns in virtually everything, and encourages everyone to listen to the sounds of the world as if they were listening to music.
Jamie Potter - electronics
Eric Ostrowski - violin
Eric Ostrowski is a freely-improvising musician and experimental filmmaker based in Seattle, WA. He has played guitar and violin as one half of the legendary improv-noise duo of Noggin since 1993. He has been concurrently developing his hand-made film style.
Wilson Shook - alto + object
Wilson Shook is not a classically trained pianist. He has never been inside the space needle. He likes music so he makes music, frequently employing an alto saxophone and/or its component parts. He is an organizing member of gallery 1412 and a founding member of We All Need A Poncho, Updog and the Swiss Family Robinsons, and Hot Chocolate. He has also performed alone and with the Seattle Improvisers Orchestra.
Melanie Noel - poetry
Melanie Noel is a poet and lives in Seattle. Her poems have appeared in Fine Madness, Filter and on the audio magazine Weird Deer. She has written poems for the installations Partsong and Collocation, and as a live score for What Remains Unseen, an experimental documentary by James Merle Thomas. She is a co-curator for the dance, music and poetry series APOSTROPHE with Gust Burns and Beth Graczyk.
Ezra Dickenson - dance
Ezra Dickinson has been an obsessed artist for as long as he can remember, painting, dancing, sculpting, installing, animating, photographing, and playing are what fill everyday life. At birth or some time near after Ezra began drawing and painting. At the age of four Ezra began classical ballet training. At the age of seven Ezra began a seven year apprenticeship with Good Earth Pottery where he was instructed in both hand built and thrown pottery. At eight Ezra began training at Pacific Northwest Ballet where he trained on full scholarship for twelve years including two years in PNB's Professional Division. At fifteen Ezra began his exploration of Urban Art and Installation, he has subsequently been to jail three times for vandalism. At twenty Ezra became a student in the Dance Department at Cornish College of The Arts, were he received the Merce Cunningham Scholarship, Kreielsheimer Scholarship, President's Scholarship in Dance, Male Dance Scholarship, Outstanding Dance Major Award, and Dean's List. At twenty one Ezra Joined the Maureen Whiting Dance company who he performs for. At twenty two Ezra began dancing for Zoe Scofield who he also currently performs for. At twenty four earlier this year Ezra graduated from Cornish with a BFA in Dance. Ezra would like to tell you that the creation of art is his true passion, obsession, and love.
Robert j Kirkpatrick - prepared wire strung harp & electronics
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Tyler Wilcox - soprano saxophone & bass clarinet
Born 1979, Silver Spring Maryland. Active in Baltimore. Led Trigenerational Sextet, played vibraphone and piano. Inspired by the wind through cedars and lombardy poplars, rivers, melting glaciers, Watazumido-Shuso, Sidney Bechet, Lamonte Young, Robert Bresson and Clyfford Still.
Corey Fuller - electronics
Born 1976, Corey Fuller is a sound artist and musician from Tokyo, Japan currently residing in Bellingham, Washington, USA. His family moved to Japan in 1983 where he spent 20+ years. His experiences there attending Japanese public schools, traveling across the Japanese landscape and growing up in a rural environment proximate to Tokyo have largely shaped his aesthetic and artistic vision. Geography and a sense of place are major components of Fuller’s music which incorporate field recordings from the various places that he has traveled to and resided in. Fuller’s music is a slow and gradual music composed of a myriad of infinitesimal details that only reveal themselves upon repeated listens. Comprised of processed and delicately treated acoustic instruments and other sound sources [accordion, acoustic/electric guitars, piano, rhodes, percussion, gongs, temple bells, vibraphone, glockenspiel, melodica, hammered dulcimer etc.] his music is at once organic and synthetic, austere and ornate, minimal and yet dense; often using a minimum of source material to create dense yet spacious arrangements and layers of sound that gradually evolve over time. References to the initial source materials are often obscured, and are processed and resynthesized into entirely new sounds which only intimate at their origins.
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Rob Baxter - guitar
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JP Jenkins - guitar & electronics
JP is international and flavorful. No one thing is more important than another thing. Please wait, something will happen. One idea at a time...he reserves multitasking for waiting tables (which is slightly deceptive because even there he does one thing at a time only very quickly) Sharing/caring/opening/listening/we have hands not tentacles/no earlids/high frequencies are so 2001/tea/cheap rent/time to stare/comfortable shoes/tape releases/daily porch show Functionally he resides in the space between what and huh? Trial and error, usually the latter. I will occasionally wear clothes that embarrass my friends. He lives above Citybikes at 20th and SE Ankeny in Portland OR and wants you to come over and play some music and eat salad.
Kelvin Pittman - saxophones
Kelvin Pittman thinks that musical sound is a living object that comes to life with intention and will, via the auspices of (what writer Alan Moore calls) the Ideaspace. He also reads comic books, hates clowns, and amazingly, weighs the same as he did during his secondary schools days. He's hard to find, and plays saxophones.
Matt Carlson - synthesizer, electronics
In addition to writing chamber music and electro-acoustic/musique concrete, composer Matt Carlson is known as a member of Seattle's neo-krautrock band Schlaze Cubed and ambient/drone trio Bonus. He was also a founding member of the Gallery 1412 collective and has done extensive work in Seattle's free improvisation community as an analog synth player, collaborating with Gust Burns, Angelina Baldoz, and Kazutaka Nomura among others. His most recent work is a solo CD of acoustic guitar and vocal based work entitled "Making Time", which is "an attempt to question the assumptions inherent in the 'singer-songwriter' form." The album can be downloaded in its entirity from his website: www.bucketfactory.com
Jonathan Sielaff
Scott Goodwin - electronics
He had an English Literature BA from a university in Seattle. He had been to the 924 Gilman St club when he was sixteen, at sixteen, when the graffiti all seemed like a fresh coat and the music was loud and damaging and was exciting. He had a band since 2004 with Jamie Potter and Matt Carlson called, "Bonus". He had been a Gallery 1412 collective member, a Vera Project volunteer, an Loss Leader organization lackey/go-fer, he had briefly done shows at his illegal warehouse living space and he had been a freelance music writer or a critic. He had a cellular phone that he wished he could live without. He had not played much music at all last year, until lately.
Static, hum, the bluff above the train yard, the roar of wind against an ear, the inkling of tinnitus before falling asleep, the frying of onions.
Mark Kaylor - drums, sousaphone
Shane Ronet - tenor saxophone
Bob Jones - bass
Heather Vergotis - saxophone
Seth Nehil - electronics
Seth Nehil (US, b. 1973) is a sound and visual artist. He has composed sound works for CD, multi-speaker installation, solo and large-group concerts, dance, theater and multi-media performance. Published recordings include collaborations with jgrzinich and Olivia Block and solo works such as Tracing the Skins of Clouds (Kaon FR); Uva (20City JP); and Umbra (...edition US), among others. He has performed throughout the US, in Europe and Japan. Seth Nehil is also co-editor and designer of FO A RM magazine, a journal of arts and research with a focus on sound art.
Ben Kates - saxophone
Ben Kates is an alto saxophonist living in Portland. I play in Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! with Heather Vergotis, Seth Brown and John Niekrasz as well as a duo with John called Thicket and with New York City/Illinois drummer Richard Gilman-Opalsky in Fire&Flux. My music is generally pretty extreme drawing on Peter Brotzmann, Kaoru Abe, Charles Gayle and my youth spent playing hardcore/punk music. However, I'm interested in exploring the spectrum of sounds that the saxophone can make.
Matt Marble - amplified objects
David Abel - poetry
David Abel is a poet, performer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon. Recent projects and publications include the visual and text installation Weather Report (with Barbara Tetenbaum) at New American Art Union, the multimedia lecture-opera Theory of Love (with Liminal Performance Group) at various venues in Portland and Seattle, the audio installation Eclipse (with John Berendzen) at the Light and Sound gallery of Portland Art Center; and the chapbooks Twenty- (Crane's Bill Books, Albuquerque) and Black Valentine (Chax Press, Tucson).
Asa Gervich - percussion
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Robert Pedersen - trombone, electronics
Robert Pedersen is currently interested in re-wiring cassette players and creating feedback across their entire circuit grids using condenser microphones and prepared amplification. He performs in an electronics duo in Vancouver with Jeff Allport called Rough Noble, and is much influenced by the sounds of Ken Roux, a Vancouver radio and circuit builder.
David Grove - electronics
Working backwards instead of forward in regards to technology, David Grove builds and performs simple analog synthesizers. Currently the sounds coming from the workshop are top-notch.
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Jen Baker - trombone
Jen Baker is a classical and experimental trombonist whose creative identity has no boundaries. She has performed around the country in orchestras, brass quintet and as a soloist. Though she is still an active classical musician, she also performs new music, free jazz, and free improvisation. She received degrees in music from Interlochen Arts Academy, Oberlin Conservatory, and Mills College.
Liz Allbee - trumpet/electronics
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Gregory Reynolds - saxophone
Gregory Reynolds is a musician whose drive to investigate and explore the dynamics of modern sound making has shaped his unique identity as a performer, composer, listener, and thinker. At the root of his practice is an attempt to present a personal vocabulary of sound events and spaces that challenge and re-orient the listener by emphasizing a new relationship to acoustic phenomena outside the usual context of 'historical' listening particular to well worn tropes and styles. He endeavors to facilitate an experience of heightened sensitivity and awareness of physical, architectural, and spiritual qualitites by leaving enough room to engage each listener in a unique dialogue. His unlikely vehicle in these pursuits has been the alto saxophone, on which for many years he has been developing an astonishing variety of acoustic extended techniques drawing from such influences as water, white noise, cd skips, and the complex drones of industrial and domestic machinery. Currently, he is an artist in residence at CAVE artspace in Brooklyn, NY where he has been collaborating with an international cast of Butoh dancers in addition to working on a multi media project focusing on the horizon and the nature of thresholds.
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Yuki Enomoto - dance
Yuki Enomoto began studying modern dance at the age of eight in Kanagawa, Japan. When she moved to Seattle, WA, in 2000 she intensively studied contemporary modern dance techniques at Velocity Dance Center. Enomoto pursued different styles and philosophies by taking various classes, workshops, and projects. Since 2000 she has danced in about 20 different works mainly in Seattle, in particular for the Crispin Spaeth Dance Group company from January, 2004 until leaving the U.S. in July, 2005. After moving back to Japan, she began working with Corrie Befort for her new works and films in Yokohama and Tokyo, Japan.
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