Seattle Composers' Salon

Carson Farley Film Music , for piano, cello, and flute Film Music was composed for a commercial video project for sculptor R. Carlson. Originally scored for piano, string quartet, and synthesizer, this version has been arranged for piano, cello, and flute. Though I am usually a structural composer, this piece was written quickly and entirely from a visual perspective to conform to the visual content of the video project. It has a very simple surface texture with themes, transitions, and modulations from section to section. carsonicsproductions.com/ Aaron Keyt Music for Wallace , for piano While living in Somerville, MA for a couple years, we adopted an old, neglected spinet piano. We named the piano Wallace. I wrote an album of short, mostly simple pieces for Wallace, a few of which will be played at the Salon. Ian McKnight The Trees Awaken , for alto flute, cello, and piano This tone poem describes a sleeping forest that comes to life with dancing tree folk befo...

An evening of music and discussion with Seattle composers: Carson Farley Aaron Keyt Ian McKnight Patrick O'Keefe Friday, January 5, 2018, 8 pm Chapel Performance Space 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, 4th Floor $5–15 suggested donation

Clement Reid Realizations for Horn and Piano I had written “Realizations” for a friend’s son, Carlin Krause, and it began with the notion of seeing a particular circumstance a certain way when young, and arriving at a different point of view after the passage of time. I had tried a technique of adding attacks, one after another for subsequent phrases, starting with three, and eventually arriving at twenty five. Calvin Senter Colloquies: Moon, Rain, Sun, Wind , for solo guitar This is a work in progress to discover a serious conversation with a subject and guitar. I do this to create a tension between what I present and how it will become or relate to a subject such as the moon and then I go from there while playing my guitar to listen to what is there. Here is a link to a video of me playing in the Seattle Guitar Orchestra, an excerpt of Elegy for a church in Seattle in 2017: http://youtu.be/9J4RcJPLMac Nicole Truesdell Ghost Story , for piano four hands The germ for m...

An evening of music and discussion with Seattle composers: Clement Reid Nicole Truesdell Calvin Senter Mark Wilson Friday, November 3, 2017, 8 pm Chapel Performance Space 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, 4th Floor $5–15 suggested donation

Cole Bratcher Transit Maps , fixed media with projection The series of pieces are called Transit Maps Basically I’m collecting transit maps from around the world and converting them into some form or another of parameters for the music, mostly form and instrumentation. The two pieces presented on the salon will be “San Francisco BART” and “Copenhagen S-Train”. soundcloud.com/colebratcher Blake Degraw Diler , for strings One of my favorite ways to produce variation in live performance is through orchestrated failure: providing the musicians with a clearly-defined objective, and then making it as difficult as possible to reach that objective. The music that I personally want to hear lies in the struggle to find, even if the objective is never met. Diler is the latest in my exploration of this concept. A group of violinists and violists is fed a series of wide-ranging pitches through headphones. Each chooses a single string on their instrument and is tasked with matching th...

An evening of music and discussion with Seattle composers: Patrick O'Keefe S. Eric Scribner Blake Degraw Cole Bratcher Friday, September 1, 2017, 8 pm Chapel Performance Space 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, 4th Floor $5–15 suggested donation

Clement Reid Theater Piece #2 I’ve been putting a group of solo pieces for a program together, and the feeling of this piece is of a long journey, as shown in the first movement, “Narration”, where a particular note series seems to define a road or path. The general sound of the instrument seemed to suggest characterizations, especially in mvt. IV. “Side Shows”, which has a circus-like environment. The piece has been performed on Tacoma New Music and on a concert, At the Western Front , a US-Canada composer exchange program. Jay Hamilton Out Keith Eisenbrey Ghosting Doubles (second sighting) Earlier this year—having been dutifully plodding along, working out yet another overly ornate concept for yet another solo piano piece—I was brought up short by Amy Denio’s lovely solo accordion melody “Ghosting”. I immediately knew I wanted to work with it somehow. Amy graciously gave her permission (thank you thank you thank you!) so I ditched the overly ornate and wrote three se...