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Hello, friends of Jack Straw-
We're really getting a jump on spring here, with a dizzying array of artist events over the next few weeks. We've been very busy here, working on a whirlwind of overlapping educational projects and welcoming our newest resident artists into the Jack Straw fold. We're very pleased to announce the writers, musicians, and visual and sound artists who will be making up the new year of residencies at Jack Straw. It's a wonderful group and we're thrilled to have them aboard - see the full list below! The writers are writing away - including monthly sessions in our new entry space - and will make their debut in our reading series this May. Some of the ASP artists are already hard at work in the studio, and we can't wait to get to work with the rest of them. This month brings the end of one New Media Gallery installation and the opening of another: This is your last week to see Amber Cortes's Signal to Noise. Ruth Marie Tomlinson's Lost Long will open on the 22nd, and you won't want to miss that either. We're very honored to have been selected as the beneficiary of the upcoming Rock Lottery event this Saturday at the Crocodile. Twenty-five musicians will get together for a unique and exciting night of music, and the proceeds benefit Jack Straw's arts and education programs! What's not to like? Next Wednesday we have Composer Spotlight, featuring artist Rinus van Alebeek, visiting from Berlin. And then on Thursday and Friday we have our Studio Recording Workshop. There's still room, so sign up now for your chance to work closely with the very talented and wise engineer and educator Tom Stiles. As the month goes on we have two different events in our beautiful new lobby featuring recently completed Artist Support Program projects: Sean Osborn will celebrate the release of his new solo clarinet CD, Bits & Pieces, on the 15th, and Tina Hoggatt will debut her Story Chairs, chock full of audio produced here at Jack Straw, on the 27th.
Read up on all this and more - including Sonarchy Radio - below. We hope to see you at an event soon!
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2013 Jack Straw Artist Residency Recipients
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Closing this Friday
Amber Cortes: Signal to Noise
Jack Straw New Media Gallery
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Saturday, March 9, 9pm
Seattle Rock Lottery 05: A Benefit for Jack Straw Productions
The Crocodile
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Wednesday, March 13, 7:30pm
Composer Spotlight: Rinus Van Alebeek
Jack Straw Productions
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March 14-15
Jack Straw Studio Recording Workshop
Jack Straw Productions
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Friday, March 15, 7pm
Sean Osborn CD Release
Jack Straw Productions
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Friday, March 22, 7pm
New Media Gallery Opening Reception
Ruth Marie Tomlinson: Lost Long: a landscape
Jack Straw New Media Gallery
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Wednesday, March 27, 7pm
Tina Hoggatt: Story Chairs
Jack Straw Productions
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Sunday nights
Sonarchy Radio
KEXP FM
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Jack Straw Artist Residencies
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Jack Straw Productions Announces 2013 Resident Artists!
Jack Straw Productions is proud to announce the artists who have received awards in our next year of residencies. Our curator and panels selected 12 writers for our Writers Program and 24 artists/artist teams to complete projects through our Artist Support Program and New Media Gallery residencies. Congratulations to all of the artists selected!
2013 Jack Straw Writers
selected by curator Stephanie Kallos
Daemond Arrindell, Kate Carroll de Gutes, Dennis Caswell, Larry Crist, Josephine Ensign, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jay McAleer, Peter Munro, Emily Perez, Judith Skillman, Corry Venema-Weiss, and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke
2013-14 Jack Straw New Media Gallery Program Residents
Brandon Aleson: Thermal Dynamics
Yagiz Mungan: 12 Months: Seattle
Steven Scribner: The StormSound Installation
Seth Sexton and Rachel Green: Hypnagogic Jerk
2013 Jack Straw Artist Support Program Residents
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Armin Barnett will record an album of traditional and original fiddle music. Emily Doolittle will record a CD of 7 original chamber works. Greg Fields will produce a media companion to the book Sacred Breath: Pacific Northwest Culture and Medicine Teachings by Johnny Moses.
Etsuko Ichikawa will record sound in Cooling Tower #3 at the decommissioned nuclear plant Satsop for her artwork The Echo Project.  | | Etsuko Ichikawa |
Jennifer Jasper will create audio recording of her one woman show "I can hear you . . . But I'm not listening."
Martin Koenig will produce a master for a collection of recordings of traditional music collected in Macedonia in 1968 and 1973.
Dana Reason will record and master new compositions and improvisations for piano, cello, bass, and drums.
Danny Barksdale will produce an album containing the original recordings and story of Billy Barksdale, told by the people who knew him and accompanied him as musicians.  | | Paul Kikuchi |
Beth Fleenor and her Workshop Ensemble will record SILT - a continuous, meditative, conduction work - for release on vinyl.
Steve Griggs will perform oral history recording, digital preservation of historic recordings, and production of audio excerpts for a blog and biography about the life and impact of Joe Brazil.
Paul Kikuchi will record Bat of No Bird Island, a new song cycle for chamber-jazz ensemble based on the memoir of his grandfather Zenkichi Kikuchi.
David Marriott will record the 13-piece ensemble Triskaidekaband performing original arrangements of improvisational vehicles by some of jazz music's finest improvisors.
Scott Morgan (Loscil) will a CD featuring electronic compositions based on new acoustic recordings of classic hymns referenced by early Antarctic explorers while in peril in Antarctica.
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Eric Rynes will complete recording and production of a CD of diverse virtuosic works for solo violin and violin with electronics.
Bryan Smith will record original compositions for solo overdubbed saxophone.
Anthony Vine will record a CD of recent original electroacoustic compositions, performed by Seattle musicians and ensembles.
Storme Webber will produce Blues Divine, a CD of spoken word and music, 21st century blues and freedom songs.
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New Media Gallery
|  Signal to Noise: Imagined Frequencies of Radiophonic Space
An installation by Amber Cortes
CLOSES FRIDAY!
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle
Radio is a forward moving medium that collects, controls, and radiates information. On the FM dial, radio is a highly regulated and monetized space. But on other dials, the all but forgotten AM and shortwave, illegal pirate radio stations, and citizen band frequencies, it is a different animal entirely.Imagine a space where all broadcasts are possible along a "radiophonic continuum," where voices and sounds mingle with spontaneous white noise, existing away from time and place, separate and uncontrolled and triumphant in their ephemeral power. This is the magic of radio. 4 imagined radio stations - incorporating audio from KRAB Radio's archives, pirate radio broadcasts, and other sources - will be transmitted from four different radios, each station a testament to how freeform radio space can be reimagined, re-purposed, and revitalized.Jack Straw resident artist Amber Cortes is a media producer and sound artist living in Seattle. She is currently attending the Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) program at the University of Washington. Some of her radio pieces and work can be found at www.youneverknowradio.com. |
Jack Straw Benefit
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SEATTLE ROCK LOTTERY 05
A Benefit for Jack Straw Productions
The Crocodile
2118 2nd Ave, Belltown
Saturday, March 9
Doors open at 9pm, show starts at 10pm
Jack Straw Productions is honored to be the beneficiary of the Seattle Rock Lottery, this Saturday night at the Crocodile.
The Rock Lottery is simple, but effective. Twenty-five hand picked musicians meet at 10:00AM at the evening's performance venue. These volunteers are organized into five bands through a lottery-based chance selection. The five groups are released to practice at different locations. The musicians have twelve hours to agree upon a band name and create three to five songs (with a one cover song limit). The bands then return to the venue and perform what they have created in front of a waiting audience. The twenty-five musicians included in this experiment are carefully selected in an attempt to represent a wide variety of musical styles. This event will bring together many facets of the music community that may seem incompatible, as well as musicians whose interests may conflict. The challenge for these participants is to go beyond their personal and musical differences and work together to create a unified group project that still contains the personal styles of each of its members.
PARTICIPATING MUSICIANS INCLUDE:
Guitar, Vocals -Irene Barber (18 Individual Eyes)
Guitar, bass, vocals -Cristina Bautista (Cristina Bautista + Gold Parts, Visqueen)
Guitar, drums - Chris Brokaw (Codeine, Come, The New Year)
Vocals, piano - Coreena Brown (Coreena)
Guitar, lap steel - Matthew Brown (Soft Hills, Trespassers William)
Drums -Baine Craft (Scriptures, The Quiet Ones)
MC -Nathan Fihn (State of the Artist)
Bass, guitar - Derek Fudesco (Cave Singers, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Murder City Devils)
Violin, viola - Alex Guy (Led to Sea)
Clarinet, sax, piano, accordion - Kevin Hinshaw (Orkestar Zirkonium, Circus Contraption)
Guitar, bass, keys, vocals - Jacob James (The Lashes, SHiPS, White China Gold, Boom City)
Guitar - Scott Johnson (Hot Bodies in Motion)
Drums - Lelah Maupin (TacocaT)
Theremin, guitar - Kento Oiwa (IQU)
Vocals, guitar - Kris Orlowski (Kris Orlowski)
Synths, drum machines, gameboy, vocals - Celene Ramadan (Leeni)
Drums, bass, sounds, stratagems - Bill Rieflin (R.E.M., The Humans, Robyn Hitchcock, Slow Music)
Guitar, Vocals - Alex Robert (Black Whales)
Trombone - Naomi Siegel (The Syrinx Effect, The Jefferson Rose Band)
Guitar - Jesse Strasbaugh (C-Leb & the Kettle Black)
Drums - Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy (LESBIAN, Fungal Abyss)
Drums - Lewis Warren (Knut Bell and the Blue Collars, Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers)
Guitar, bass, keys, vocals - Lesli Wood (The Redwood Plan, Lazy Animals)
Bass - Jon Wooster (Black Swedes, Breakthrough in Field Studies)
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Composer Spotlight
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JACK STRAW PRODUCTIONS AND WASHINGTON COMPOSERS FORUM PRESENT
THE COMPOSER SPOTLIGHT SERIES
RINUS VAN ALEBEEK
I have been awake long enough, it is time to dream.
Wednesday, March 13, 7:30pm
Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle
FREE
When Rinus van Alebeek arrives in Seattle, he will just have concluded a period of forty days on a ranch in Sonoma county. He can tell those present at the Composers Spotlight if he succeeded in writing the book, and how it was to work on it. He will present some themes he wanted to write about: on how language came into existence, or on how to experience sound. Another theme of the evening could be that his own way of working with sound resembles the process of thinking just before all the different thought threads are woven into one clear vision or image. If the question comes up, he will describe why he is convinced that he doesn't make music, and why it makes way more sense to occupy oneself with sound. And why, in the end, he is both right and wrong in thinking so. On the polemic side he could discuss why the thesis that "every sound is music" is a very conservative assumption which protects experimental musicians and blocks new thoughts and audiences that don't want to deal with avant garde music.
Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present Composer Spotlight, a series of talks and performances by composers, musicians, and scholars of new and innovative music every second Wednesday of each month.
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Jack Straw Workshops
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2013 Winter Audio Workshop Series
Jack Straw Audio Workshops are the perfect opportunity to jump start that recording project you've been thinking about, to refine your digital editing skills, or to get that first hands on introduction to the world of audio recording and editing. We still have room in our studio recording class, March 14th and 15th.
Discounts for the visually impaired are offered on Basic Studio Recording. Co-sponsored by Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences and Jack Straw Productions, with support from the Technology Matching Fund of the City of Seattle Department of Information Technology.
HOW TO SIGN UP: A nonrefundable deposit of $25 is required to register and hold a place in each class. Students are encouraged to pay in full at time of registration. To register call Jack Straw Productions at 206-634-0919 with your credit card to pay the deposit or full class fee. For more information email workshops@jackstraw.org.
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Thursday and Friday, March 14 & 15, 6-10pm
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Jack Straw Artist Event
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Sean Osborn: Bits and Pieces CD Release
Friday, March 15, 7pm
Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
FREE
Clarinetist, Composer, and Jack Straw Resident Artist Sean Osborn will perform and host a CD release event for his 2013 CD Bits and Pieces. Sean will talk about the clarinet, writing for the clarinet, his experience with Jack Straw, and play selections from his CD, including his 2011 composition for parts of the clarinet "Bits and Pieces."
Sean Osborn has traveled the world as soloist and chamber musician, and during his eleven years with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He has also appeared as guest principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and the American Symphony Orchestra. The New York Times dubbed him "...an excellent clarinetist," the Boston Globe called him "...a miracle," and Gramophone "...a master." With over forty concertos in his repertoire, Sean has also recorded dozens of CDs for London, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, CRI, and others, as well as premiering works by John Adams, John Corigliano, Chen Yi, and Phillip Glass to name a few. Sean has performed at many festivals including Marlboro, Seattle Chamber Music, Aspen, Zagreb Bienalle, Pacific Rims, and Colorado. He is also an award-winning composer whose works have been played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and members of the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Marlboro Music Festival, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic among others. Visit him online at www.osbornmusic.com or www.facebook.com/SeanOsbornMusic. |
New Media Gallery
|  Lost Long: a landscape
An installation by Ruth Marie Tomlinson
March 22 - May 17, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, March 22, 7pm
Artist Talk: Friday, April 12, 7pm
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle
Memory is malleable, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. In Lost Long the memories that fuel a long distance love affair with the horizontal landscape of Central Montana come together in a miscellanea of written words, gathered recordings, and reinvented visuals. The account holds dear to what memory believes; recounting days together, imagining reunions and making real what is distant.
Ruth Marie Tomlinson utilizes repetitive processes to exercise her passion for systems, for cataloging and for restructuring. The work often touches simple quandaries we face daily: What changes? What remains? What is remembered? What is forgotten? Tomlinson spends summers in her Montana studio, Two Dot Spot, and winters in Seattle, teaching at Cornish College of the Arts and longing for the Montana horizon.
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Artist Event
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Opening Reception:
Wednesday, March 27, 5:30-8pm
Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, Washington 98105
Story Chairs, a temporary audio installation by Tina Hoggatt featuring the work of over 30 writers and musicians, will be installed in Jack Straw's new lobby beginning March 25. The project will have an online presence and will be available on STQRY, a free mobile app that will allow the listener to browse the audio from any location and learn about the contributors to the project. Originally conceived and designed for a 2008 installation in the Missoula Art Museum, the two chairs are artist-designed and crafted, in collaboration with Jeffry Mitchell and Ben Oblas. Audio plays through speakers hidden in the upholstery, triggered by the weight of the sitter. Tina Hoggatt received a Jack Straw Productions 2012 artist residency that supported audio production for this second installation of the Story Chairs. Over an hour of unique audio for each chair is made up of original stories and music by more than 30 writers and composers. Nearly all of the audio was recorded at Jack Straw with the help of engineer and musician Moe Provencher.
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Sonarchy Radio airs on Sunday nights, midnight-1am, on KEXP 90.3FM or kexp.org
Sonarchy Radio is a program of Jack Straw Productions. Doug Haire is the producer and mixes these shows live in the studios at Jack Straw. This hour-long broadcast features new music and sound art made by Pacific Northwest artists, and is now in its 17th year (!) of airing on KEXP Seattle (90.3 FM). The show can be heard live at KEXP.org and is available in its entirety for two weeks following the broadcast in several streaming audio formats. All shows are now also available as podcasts. to find the Sonarchy Podcast. Contact Doug for more information at (206) 634-0919 or doug@jackstraw.org.
MARCH 2013 SHOW SCHEDULE
March 10th: The Fabulous Party Boys return to Sonarchy with their horn-heavy funk party. Elliot Gray - keys, Tazlyn Gue - vocals, Jon Hansen - tuba, Ray Larsen - trumpet, Jason Cressey - trombone, Scott Macpherson - saxophone, Marshall Petryni - drums and Andy Short - guitar. March 17th: GemsDeep, danceable grooves full of twists and turns. Dan Rapport and Gary Palmer - synthesizers, Adrian Van Batenburg and Jacob Evans - drum kits. March 24th: The Suffering FuckheadsBreaking all the jazz, punk and noise rules. Ron Weinstein - hammond B-3 organ and keys, Mike Peterson - drums and effects. March 31st: Matt Carlson Portland modular analog and digital synth dynamo brings deep tone and texture solos to the show.
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Support Jack Straw
Jack Straw Productions relies on the support of individual contributors to make our programs possible. Please help us continue to support the work of Pacific Northwest artists working with sound and all our art and technology education programs.
Become a Jack Straw Member!
For a $35 annual membership donation, you can receive discounted recording time in our studios, as well as discounted rates on Jack Straw audio workshops. A Jack Straw membership pays for itself in no time! Donate any amount by clicking the button below, or sending a check directly to us 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195.
Match your donation
If your company participates in an employee matching gifts program, you could double or even triple your gift to Jack Straw! Just ask your HR or personnel department. Questions? Please contact us at (206)634-0919 or jsp@jackstraw.org.
Thank you for your support!
Jack Straw Productions is a nonprofit organization, exempt from taxes under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to Jack Straw Productions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Pursuant to RCW 19.09, Jack Straw Productions is registered as a charitable organization with the Secretary of State of Washington. For more information, call the office of the Secretary of State, 1-800-332-4483.
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| Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, City of Seattle's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, ArtsFund, Humanities Washington, HumanLinks Foundation, Harvest Foundation, School's Out Washington, City of Seattle Department of Information Technology, The Seattle Foundation, The D.V. and Ida J. McEachern Charitable Trust, and individual contributors for their support of our Programs. |
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If you have questions about any of our events, please call us at (206) 634-0919.
Jack Straw Productions(JSP) is the Northwest's only non-profit multidisciplinary audio arts center. A community-based resource since 1962, we provide a production facility that is unlike any other in the region for local artists who work creatively with sound. Jack Straw Productions' history began in 1962, when a group of artists, educators, and journalists formed the Jack Straw Foundation, which founded KRAB-FM, one of the first community radio stations in the United States. Jack Straw focuses on annual artist residencies through our Artist Support Program, our Writers Program, and our Gallery Residency Program; art and technology education for all ages; arts & heritage partnerships; and radio production. Our full-service recording studio is also available to the community for a broad range of projects.
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