Composers Nat Evans and Ross Simonini have created a new score for dance in collaboration with Chicago-based choreographer Kate Corby. The new piece, Digging, was derived entirely from experiences in intensive meditation sessions over the summer - a direction from Corby that she and her dance troupe also followed. Since Evans and Simonini were already both daily meditators, as an alternate meditative activity they decided to create a chant to recite every day as a way to transform a phrase they found disagreeable. After deciding on the phrase, “kill two birds with one stone,” they broke the words down syllable by syllable to create a chant and began practicing daily over the course of a few weeks. Although Evans and Simonini live in Seattle and New York respectively, they were able to work on this project together remotely by recording all of their various experiments with this invented chant and experiments in ritual as related to sound and the breath. They then took this cache of recordings as source material to create a new electro-acoustic composition that builds and folds over on itself through processing and editing.

Digging will be presented by Kate Corby and Dancers along with music by composers Tim Russell and Ryan Ross Smith at the Chicago Cultural Center October 24-27th. All events are free, and the shows are at 6:30pm, with the exception of Sunday’s show, which begins at noon. 

Full info here:

http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/digging.html

Kill Two Birds with One Stone - a movement from Digging

The Tortoise and His Raincoat: Music for a Very Long Walk is a 2,600 mile journey from Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail. Nat Evans will be writing new work while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, collaborating with 8 West Coast composers along the way, and releasing all these new works in 2015 on Quakebasket Records. Read more <a href="http://natevansmusic.com/1/post/2014/03/the-tortoise-and-his-raincoat-music-for-a-very-long-walk.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.&#13;
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Carolyn Chen makes music to look into the inner lives of things, working with sounds and habits of social spaces and objects. Her interests include the guqin (ancient Chinese zither), slowness, falling, feelings, capitalism, zombies, and Western classical music.&#13;
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http://carolyn-chen.com

The Tortoise 1 - Carolyn Chen -  Southern CA - The woods are miles to sleep to sleep

The Tortoise and His Raincoat: Music for a Very Long Walk is a 2,600 mile journey from Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail. Nat Evans will be writing new work while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, collaborating with 8 West Coast composers along the way, and releasing all these new works in 2015 on Quakebasket Records. Read more <a href="http://natevansmusic.com/1/post/2014/03/the-tortoise-and-his-raincoat-music-for-a-very-long-walk.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.&#13;
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Andrew Tholl, organ; Chris Kallmyer, guitar&#13;
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Andrew Tholl is violinist, composer, drummer, and improviser. As a soloist and chamber musician he is dedicated to the performance of new music and the collaborative process between composer and performer. As a composer, Tholl’s interest lies in the exploration of the passage of time, the physicality of making music, noise, nostalgia, memory, and the synthesis of diverse musical styles. He is a member of the Formalist Quartet, wild Up, and singer/songwriter Julia Holter’s touring ensemble. He lives in Los Angeles where he is working on his first solo album and continues to be involved with music for concert halls, art galleries, films, puppet shows, bars, garages, bedrooms, and coat closets.&#13;

http://www.andrewtholl.com

The Tortoise 3 - Andrew Tholl - Southern CA - Hi / Hey

Sit With the Gaze is an immersive ambient sound work created for gazing at the sky. Participants are invited to check out a pair of headphones to listen to this ambient work and lay on the ground, gazing upwards. Balloons on long kite strings drift above this gaze space, that moment of observing balloons as they drift away suspended in time. Collectively the experience of facing an open sky with sound and airborne ephemera creates an immersive experience for contemplation.

Sit With The Gaze was commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Sit With The Gaze

music and sound to boost the immune systems of plants

http://www.interstitialtheatre.com/mutual-therapy.html

Mutual Therapy

Gradient

This piece is designed to start at sunset and continue into twilight. Headphones recommended. For information about Blue Hour listening events to go natevansmusic.com.

Viola - Heather Bentley, Cello - Rowena Hammill, Vibes and Bells - Bonnie Whiting Smith, Trombone - Doug Laustsen; Gamelan, Percussion, Field Recordings and Electronics - Nat Evans

Blue Hour

September

Grasshoppers Devouring A Corpse In The Tallgrass Prairie

Dreamtime I

Dreamtime II

Record and Response was co-composed by Nat Evans and Chris Kallmyer for the NEPO 5k art event which took place in Seattle on September 8th, 2012. The music was installed inside the Daejeon Pagoda. 

Record and Response by Nat Evans and Chris Kallmyer

Time Being

Horizon Horizon

Three movements from Hungry Ghosts performed by John Teske, Natalie Mai Hall, Neil Welch, Evan Smith, Christian Pincock, and Nat Evans in Ravenna Park, Seattle on June 15th, 2013. 

(photo by Karen Fardal)

Hungry Ghosts - Ravenna Park 2013

Nat Evans - natevansmusic.com

Seattle Composer Nat Evans writes concert music for various mixed chamber ensembles, distinctive electro-acoustic music, and site-specific music events that fuse nature, community and subjectivity of experience. His music is regularly presented across the United States and has also been performed in Europe, South America, Australia and China. Evans has received numerous commissions including the Seattle Percussion Collective, the Harrison Center for the Arts, ODEONQUARTET, Seattle Pacific University Men's Choir and Percussion Ensemble, Beta Test Ensemble, The Box Is Empty, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, among others. His music has been featured on a number of radio stations in the United States, as well as BBC3, and in the 2011 Music Issue of The Believer. He studied music at Butler University with Michael Schelle and Frank Felice.

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