<i>The Tortoise and His Raincoat: Music for a Very Long Walk</i> 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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<b>Carolyn Chen</b> 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

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

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

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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

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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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