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sounds outside 2010 - july 17 and august 14
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Sounds Outside 2009: July 25 and August 15
Author: Seman
Monktail Creative Music Concern presents
Sounds Outside 2009
Cal Anderson Park / 1635 11th Ave (between Denny & Pine)
Free and open to the public / Music from 1 – 8 pm
Saturday, July 25
1:00 Non Grata
2:30 Moraine
4:00 Washington Composers Orchestra (WACO)
5:30 Tu (Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto of King Crimson)
7:00 Sugar Skulls
Saturday, August 15
1:00 Melbatones
2:30 Figeater
4:00 Greg Sinibaldi
5:30 Syncopated Taint Horn Quartet
7:00 Bert Wilson
Figeater at 911 Media Arts Center
Author: Seman
Figeater at 911 Media Arts Center from Joseph Gray on Vimeo.
In no particular sense of order:
Beth Fleenor - vocals, clarinet
John Seman - Electric Bass
Mark Ostrowski - Percussion
Steven Parris - Electric Guitar
Paris Hurley - Violin
John Ewing - Percussion
Jeff Huston - Electronics
Samantha Boschnak - Trumpet
Gabriel Herbertson - Sound Engineer
Joseph Gray - Visualist
At Seattle’s 911 Media Arts Center, Saturday, June 6th, 2009
A production of the Harvard and Roy Arts Council and the Monktail Creative Music Concern
monktail podcast #1
Author: Seman
The first installment of mcmc podcasts. Recorded at FPS Sept. 10, 2008.
monktail podcast - 20080910
hosted by special ops (ostrowski, parris, seman)
w/ billy monto, stephen fandrich, gabriel herbertson, joseph gray
Sounds Outside - July 19 & August 23, 2008!
Author: Seman
The Monktail Creative Music Concern presents
SOUNDS OUTSIDE 2008
Cal Anderson Park, Capitol Hill
1635 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98102
July 19 & August 23, 1-8 PM, Free!
The third annual Sounds Outside festival, a celebration of adventurous music and community, presented by the Monktail Creative Music Concern.
JULY 19
1:00 Paul Harding & the Juju Detective Agency
2:30 The Owcharuk Sextet
4:00 Bill Horist
5:30 Cuong Vu featuring SPEAK
7:00 Blue Cranes
AUGUST 23
1:00 Floss featuring Zachary Watkins
2:30 Reptet
4:00 Aram Shelton + Special O.P.S.
5:30 Ahamefule J. Oluo and the New Seattle Brass Ensemble featuring Okanomodé
7:00 The Wally Shoup Free Three
Visit http://soundsoutside.com/ for more information about artists, events, and how to get involved!
MCMC Fundraiser Nov 14
Author: Seman
MCMC Benefit Concert featuring
Wayne Horvitz, Paul Rucker
Wednesday, November 14th 2007
Gallery 1412
1412 18th Ave (at 18th and Union)
$10-$25 donation / All Ages / 7 PM
The Monktail Creative Music Concern will be holding a benefit concert featuring internationally acclaimed pianist and composer Wayne Horvitz performing a rare set of solo piano music. The concert will be held at Gallery 1412 on Capitol Hill, November 14th at 7pm. The evening will also feature cellist, composer and installation artist Paul Rucker and pianist/vocalist Stephen Fandrich.
A collective of composers, musicians and artists based out of Seattle, WA, the Monktail Creative Music Concern have been the driving force behind a surge in creative, uncompromising original music from the Pacific Northwest in recent years. They won a 2006 Earshot Golden Ear Award for Concert of the Year for their performance of music by innovator Raymond Scott at last year’s Earshot Jazz Festival. They hosted the blockbuster free concert series Sounds Outside throughout the summer of 2007 at the newly refurbished Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill. And in the past year MCMC have released four new CD’s on their Monktail Records label.
The proceeds from this event will go toward maintaining the administrative side of the collective’s current and future activities. MCMC have tirelessly propagated, promoted, produced and preserved creative/experimental music in the Seattle area for over 10 years. This is an opportunity for the arts community to show their support by helping to sustain the collective’s vital activities.
Thanks!
Author: Monktail
Monktail thanks all of the supporters, performers, and above all those who attended.
Sounds Outside was a huge success. We’ll see you next year.
Enjoy a free track from the Newly Released Monktail Records CD "Show me what ya workin with" by Deals Number. This is a track called "Moses Blues"
Cheers!
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Sounds Outside!
Author: Monktail
The Final Sounds Outside show is this weekend in Cal Anderson Park. Come out and enjoy a free show in the park. The Lineup:
See you there!
The Score - Sounds Outside
Author: Monktail
In American Music in the Twentieth Century (Schirmer Books), composer and critic Kyle Gann asserts that "a creative culture is a triangle requiring three points: individual artists, a tradition to work within and against, and a public with an adequate amount of disposable attention." Gann’s triangle should also include low-cost, innovative venues that reach out beyond that small, stalwart public who frequents obscure, out-of-the-way clubs. The Monktail Creative Music Concern’s Sounds Outside concert series is a perfect example. Its central location—Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill—as well as all-points access, and price (free), abet the serendipitous, just stumbled-upon-it discovery so essential to acquainting everyone with the avant.
I enjoyed the first of this three-concert series—featuring Degenerate Art Ensemble, Sunship, Seattle Harmonic Voices, and figeater—on a bright, sunny afternoon in June. The crowd was just the right size, with enough people to make people-watching worthwhile yet scattered enough to leave space for stretching out on the grass and listening.
At first, I sat near the running water of the reservoir and listened at a distance; the turbulent hiss of running water, laughing children, the musicians onstage, and stray bits of nearby dialogue melded into a live musique concrète. Closer to the stage, the occasional (and thankfully remote) sirens and the chalky baritone sigh of airplanes aloft in the sky fit the music snugly.
The July installment of Sounds Outside features cellist, composer, and visual artist Paul Rucker; improvising pianist Gust Burns, who brings along his battered collection of tape recorders; the Orkestar Zirkonium, which clatters like the joyous Balkan brass bands of yore; and the rowdy, out-jazz Monktail big band ensemble, Non Grata. It should be a grand time.
Sounds Outside, Sat July 14, 2007, Cal Anderson Park, 1632 11th Ave, 684-4075, 2–8 pm, free.
Improvised Ecstasy
Author: Monktail
By Jonathan Zwickel, The Stranger’s Music Blog Line Out, July 14, 2007
Holy shit — Paul Rucker. The multi-instrumentalist band leader extracted a phenomenal performance from a who’s who of Seattle jazz and avant luminaries on Saturday. Part of Monktail Creative Music Concern’s concert series in Cal Anderson park, Rucker’s ensemble was all over the map but never off-target, consistently escalating from the abstract (trance-like thumb piano patterns, violin-vs-cello scratching) to the concise (full-blown soul-jazz crescendos). Tempestuous horns, crackling breakbeats, rubbery upright bass—the band snapped tight as Rucker stood and conducted or played electric bass or cello, giving enough room for surprises to unfold while never for a moment allowing doubt that they might not. Even as a weirdly skronking, off-tempo horn battle launched one song, there was no doubt that the number would go somewhere, and eventually it erupted into a hard-swinging lockstep groove reminiscent of Black Saint-style Mingus and the best Impulse or CTI jazz of the mid-’70s.
Really—this guy’s a monster. Even his solo cello number was hypnotizing. I want more of Paul Rucker and I want it now.
Also terrific during Saturday’s jazz-in-the-park sesh: Orkestar Zirkonium. The Balkan brass band paraded in past the wading pool—tuba belching, horns tooting, bass drum booming—and later stepped off stage to play in the grass, among the crowd. It was impossible to not get swept up because they were so damn close, and so damn good. The horn player from OZ later sat in with Rucker’s ensemble, as did Aham from Seattle hard-jazzers Industrial Revelation. There are some motherfucking PLAYERS in this town, and not just in the rock scene.
Speaking of: Why wasn’t Cal Anderson packed to the gills on Saturday? It was a beautiful afternoon, there was free music in the middle of Capitol Hill, and there were maybe 150 people there, 200 max. This isn’t gooey background jazz, either, but weird and potent and extremely soulful stuff. Wassup people? FREE MUSIC. IN THE PARK. BEER DRINKING WITH YOUR FEET IN A FOUNTAIN. SUMMERTIME. It’s elementary.
Also: a naked parade. What’s not to like?
Monktail is the only free summer jazz series in the city, and the talent is ferocious. Next month, Saturday, August 11 4, features Skerik and Wayne Horvitz, among others. Seriously. Don’t miss it.