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EJF is donation-based & takes place at 18th & Union theater | 1406 18th Ave Seattle WA
11 am music Bach & Pancakes with Erin Jorgensen Listen to a Bach cello suite performed on 5-octave marimba & eat pancakes made on-site. Today we'll listen to Suite No. 3 in C Major. All-ages welcome! |
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12 pm music + mini-class
live from Vienna Austria! Chess & MIDI with Brian Lawlor Chess heads, tech-heads, & music heads: this is the session for you. Composer & musician Brian Lawlor will demonstrate his astounding MIDI chess set, created by him and executed by Danielle McPhatter, and talk about the two different programs written for them in MAX (one sample-based program, one MIDI-based program). Lawlor will also play an example on the board replicating a classic Paul Morphy miniature (miniature= short chess match), and another one playing against himself using certain pitch sets on certain squares. Brian Lawlor is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, and educator from New Jersey currently residing in Vienna, Austria. In 2005, he was named Keogh Dwyer Correctional Facility's "most promising inmate." brianlawlor.bandcamp.com |
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2 pm mini-class
Sew & Tell with Alina To Alina To is a Seattle-based multi-genre violinist and an avid self-taught home sewist. You may know her from her work as a professional performing musician. Over the last 5 years, she has started pursuing sewing more, incorporating sewing as a regular practice into her life. Alina will talk about her journey in sewing, the trials and tribulations, tips (and encouragement) for beginners, and what she’s working on now. You may have seen Alina To perform with Tomo Nakayama, Auburn Symphony Orchestra, Scrape, or the Passenger String Quartet. She enjoys sewing for herself, solving the relationship between 2-dimensional sewing patterns and the physical dimensions of a finished garment, understanding her own body and fit, and talking with others about sewing.When she is not playing violin or sewing, she enjoys eating cake, playing with small dogs, and playing mahjong with her mom and boyfriend. HelloAlinaTo.com |
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4pm film
Surprise Art Film! adult-ish themes, ages 12+ only! You gotta to show up to find out what it is. Hint: secret compartments & neurotic fantasies galore. Freud would have a field day. |
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5 pm music
Marimba Happy Hour with Erin Jorgensen An hour of acoustic/electric marimba, vocals, layers, loops, and whatever else Erin feels like doing. Spend the 5pm hour getting in some good vibes. Join anytime. |
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6 pm record listening
Intentional Record Listening | record chosen by Blaise Agüera y Arcas Let's listen to a record together – no cell phones allowed! Each artist has written a short blurb on why they chose a particular record. We'll read this together, and then hit play. Reduce your screen time while expanding your musical knowledge. Win-win. Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a Fellow and VP at Google Research, where he works on AI. Which will totally not lead to the end of the world, though it may be incompatible with capitalism. He also plays instruments sometimes (but only to himself) and writes. His AI novella, Ubi Sunt, just won a design award from AIGA (and is available for free online), and he has a new book, Who Are We Now? coming out in the Fall. |
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7 pm mini-class
Music Transcription & Analysis with Derek Johnson Music nerds, metal-heads, & other outcasts: this is the class for you. This transcription and analysis class will focus on Derek's transcription work for Paul Simon’s new album/song cycle Seven Psalms: Derek has been working closely with Paul Simon’s music director and guitarist Mark Stewart and his arranger Bob Sirota on the official transcriptions. Derek's talk will address cyclic form (drawing comparisons to early Schoenberg, Meshuggah and others) and his techniques and tools for transcription and analysis. Derek Johnson Derek Johnson is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and educator. Deeply engaged in the emerging position of the electric guitar in concert music, Derek is active as a soloist and chamber musician performing with new music ensembles and orchestras including the Bang On A Can All-Stars, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, New Music Detroit, Prism Saxophone Quartet and Partch, Present Music and St. Louis Symphony. Frankly he has too many ongoing projects to list. Listen here, here, and HERE. |
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8 pm music + film
Confluence with James Doyle "I’m most centered and mindful when in close proximity to moving water. Ocean tides, flowing streams, and crashing waterfalls bring a deep sense of calm awareness. Perhaps the abstract nature and impermanence of the surfaces draws me in. Perhaps it’s the continuous sound masking my equally unrelenting tinnitus. What I'm absolutely certain of, there’s a desire to capture the moment. To revisit the awareness found while sitting still, void of human noise within the environment, I’ll capture recordings to interact with days, weeks, or months later. These interactions are in the form of improvisations. While the water recordings are of a fixed length, the improvisations are free to move as if there’s no beginning nor end. Confluence explores this process through collaborative improvisation with projections of moving water." – JWD James W. Doyle is a percussionist, teaching artist, and wishful nature enthusiast. He’s a member of Striking Music, a Seattle-based hybrid percussion ensemble exploring light, sound and design, and Apricity Trio, a U.S./Japan-based flute, clarinet, and percussion chamber group collaborating with sculptor Koshi Hayashi. James serves on the faculties of the University of Puget Sound and St. Martin’s University, and performs in a variety of settings as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral percussionist throughout the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky Mountain region. His newest endeavor, Miscellany, curates solo and chamber concerts in collaboration with moving image, food and beverage, light/sound design, visual/physical arts, poetry/spoken word, nature, and/or movement. JamesWDoyle.com |
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