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

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>

Saxophonist and composer Brenna Noonan is a proponent of new music whose works have been performed across North America, Europe, and Australia. She has received commissions from groups Transient Canvas and Birds of Passage, as well as artists such as saxophonist Dennis Shafer. Her work can be heard on Quakebasket, Holy Page, and Skellum records. She has been an Artist-In-Residence at the Arteles Creative Center in Haukijärvi, Finland where she developed her forthcoming Philip K. Dick-inspired opera "Dark Haired Girl." During her residency she helped form the international performance art collective Art On Demand. Noonan holds a BA in Contemporary Music with the distinction of summa cum laude from Santa Fe University of Art and Design. She is pursuing her MA in Composition at Mills College where she studies with Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, and Roscoe Mitchell.

http://brennanoonan.wix.com/brennanoonan

The Tortoise 4 - Brenna Noonan - Northern CA - The Marvelous Structure of the Existing World

This piece is entitled Assemblage, and is the music for the Sunset + Music events. It is designed to be played beginning 10 minutes before sunset.

Sunset + Music

This piece utilizes two field recordings, both taken during my 2014 thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. One is of many different types of flying insects inquiring at the tent in search of moisture in the arid late summer of the lava plateau country of Northern Oregon. The other is from later that same evening - shimmering fields katydids and crickets. This second field recording, however, is at such high frequencies that most people over age 50 cannot hear it. As we age, those aspects of our hearing gradually fade away, and loud summer choruses such as these become silent. 

The piece was written for bassist Scott Worthington, who performs it here.

Choruses And Inquiries 50 Years After the Clearcut on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation

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

Ancestors

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

Excerpts from the site-specific event Hungry Ghosts, which was commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and featured musicians in canoes and lanterns floating on water. For video footage of the events go here:

http://vimeo.com/57191020

...or here:

http://vimeo.com/57192700

Hungry Ghosts - three excerpts

Time Being

Unrelated - for percussion quintet - played by Ensemble 64.8 under the direction of Bonnie Whiting Smith at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on November 16th, 2012. 

Unrelated

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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