<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

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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.

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

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