Artist of the Week Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The Jack Straw Artist of the Week Podcast highlights work created through the Artist Residency Programs at Jack Straw Cultural Center.
Jack Straw artist River Coello talks with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation HAMPI.
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Kora player and Jack Straw resident artist Chester Corpt recorded his arrangement of the traditional Mandinka song “Tabara,” performed with Eric Likkel on clarinet and Brady Kish on bass, as part of his Artist Support Program recording project. Chet writes, “I try in the group to introduce the principles of West African music, as I understand them as a player of the kora, to two players who are far more versed in the American musics that show heavy African influence.”
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This week we’re sharing the first chapter of Kathya Alexander‘s audiobook of Keep A’Livin’, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. This speculative fiction novel “explores the reality of activism as more than just a handful of speeches given at protests, the costs to those who dedicate themselves to activist work, and the passion that drives us ever onward to a better, more just future.”
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This week’s selection is “Keep It to Your Soul,” from the soundtrack to KTNA’s Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation The Kelp Forest. The Kelp Forest opens this Friday, June 26th at 7pm!
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Jack Straw resident artists Black Ends just released “All I’m Bone,” the first single produced through their Artist Support Program residency. Make sure to follow the band for more music and live performances.
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Jack Straw artist Tara Youngborg talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation not a town but a landing page.
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“Four Women” is from the forthcoming album Don’t Explain, the product of an award-winning, deeply expressive performance project led by celebrated vocalist Jacqueline Tabor and pianist-composer Marina Albero. Inspired by the enduring influence of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, the project blends original compositions with reimagined repertoire to create a powerful, contemporary jazz experience.
The Don’t Explain album, produced through Jacqueline’s Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency, will be released on May 20th. Tickets are available now for the release celebration at the Triple Door.
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“I didn’t really decide to do music, I kind of just kept doing it.” This Artscape radio piece was produced during Eyvind Kang‘s Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency in 1994, the first year of the program. He talks about his approach to creating music, his inspirations, and his collaborative process with musicians such as Tim Young and Mari Murao.
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Jim Knodle, Pamela Moore Dionne, and Lynette Westendorf performed selections from their 2001 Jack Straw artist residency project Keeping the Devil Out: Poems and Music for Sabina Spielrein, at Jack Straw’s artist showcase in October 2022, celebrating 60 years of Jack Straw. The entire showcase is available to stream on our YouTube channel.
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Jack Straw artist Tara Tamaribuchi talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Groove Bardos.
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This week we share an excerpt from the audiobook of Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist River Coello‘s HAMPI, produced at Jack Straw. River’s Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation HAMPI, which incorporates sound from the audiobook, opens April 3rd, with a reception and performance from the artist.
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Jenny Peterson and Kaitlin McCarthy/The Bonnies produced “Cowboy Bob” as part of their Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. In their residency, they created audio for their show I’m on Fire, You’re on Fire, We’re on Fire, presented through the Velocity Regionally Established Creative Incubator Program. The show opens tonight at 12th Ave. Arts and runs through Saturday, March 7th.
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LaVon Hardison performed her song “28 Days” as part of her set with Cyd Smith at the Jack Straw Artist Showcase in April 2023. The whole showcase is archived on Jack Straw’s YouTube channel.
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This recording of Florence Price’s “Silk Hat and Walking Cane” is included on William Chapman Nyaho’s album Kete: Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program and released in 2020 on MSR Classics.
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Performer Christian Swenson produced Off-Road Vocals, an album of vocal improvisations, as part of his 1999 Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency.
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Alex Keller recorded his electro-acoustic work The Four Hundred Boys, based on the Mayan Book of Creation, as part of his 1998 Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency.
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Robert Flor produced radio adaptations of a number of his plays through his Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. In The Christmas Snow Globe, a young, wheelchair-bound Filipino girl accidentally drops the family’s snow globe, which held her favorite ice skater and inspiration, breaking it. Her mother seeks to repair the family heirloom.
Link: Robert’s play A Christmas in the Cordilleras.
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Jack Straw artist Maya Nguyen talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation huh ugh uh hm mhm.
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Randal Bays‘s new album Trad and True, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, is a collection of Irish traditional music and original tunes, recorded in Ireland and the US over the last few years with contributions from Susan Waters, fiddle; Willie Bays, flute; Owen Bays, concertina; Geraldine Cotter, piano; Mick Kinsella, harmonica; Clint Dye, guitar; and John Coyne, bouzouki.
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“The Want of You” is from a new song cycle based on the poetry of Harlem Renaissance writer Angelina Weld Grimké by composer/pianist Sheila Bristow and soprano Ellaina Lewis, recorded through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. On November 21st at Jack Straw, Sheila and Ellaina will perform the songs and discuss the joys and challenges of being the voice of a historical person and a historical period. The evening’s music will also include other music by Sheila, including Six Preludes on a Theme for solo piano, which she recorded at Jack Straw in 2022.
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Suchitra Iyer’s album Sunaad, produced through her artist residency at Jack Straw, is a collection of Hindustani classical compositions by Indian-American composers from the Pacific Northwest. The album reflects the nurturing community of classical music practitioners who have created a space for shared learning and growth. The songs showcase different aspects of North Indian music, from lyrical to percussive to devotional.
Inspired by these mentors, Suchitra composed the music for a piece of poetry by 14th century female poet Soyrabai. In “Mazhe Mazhe,” the poet urges us to remove ourselves from the illusion of the world and stop pursuing material success. Suchitra is accompanied by Manoj Deshpande on tabla (drums) and Deepashri Joglekar on harmonium (keys). Sunaad is available on all major streaming services: https://linktr.ee/suchitraiyermusic
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Bun-Ching Lam produced the album Mountain Clear Water Remote through her 1995 Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. The album was performed with the New Performance Group: John Weller, violin; Ella Marie Gray, violin; Melissa Hamilton, viola; Walter Gray, cello; Paul Taub, alto flute, piccolo; Matthew Kocmieroski, percussion; Thomasa Eckert, piano; and Bun-Ching Lam, piano
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Trío Guadalevín’s project El Noroeste – produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program – is a musical exploration of the historic presence of Latinos in what is now Washington State. Serving all who want to learn more about the Pacific Northwest, it is a necessary project to acknowledge a legacy of more than two centuries, storied with contributions to the social and economic fabric of the Northwest. Inspired years ago as an effort to address omissions in the public understanding of Latinos’ role in this region, it has become a critical effort in an era of intentional misrepresentation, unfounded stereotypes, and cultural/racial intimidation.
Explore the videos, which feature the peoples and places that tell the story, and read a detailed account of the project at https://www.guadalevin.com/elnoroeste.
“Presente Estoy” – “I am here!” – addresses the 21st century challenges and promise of Latine communities in Washington, who live in and contribute to the economic and social well-being of every county in the state. Despite its contributions, this community continues to face discrepancies in education, employment, housing, and health. The population also endures persistent stereotypes, inflamed by an increase in dehumanizing anti-immigrant and anti-Latino rhetoric in popular media. This anthemic song centers on the dignity of peoples whose stories connect hard work, family, cultural tradition, and social innovation.
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This week we feature one of the poems Gabriela Denise Frank recorded at Jack Straw as part of her 2025 Artist Support Program project, producing recordings of poems that will appear in installations and public-facing venues. “How to Live on a Damaged Planet” is a cento. Gabriela writes, “I chose this form, which involves stitching together borrowed lines of poetry, because it speaks to the fractured and chimeric nature of our planet and the creatures (humans and more-than-human) who are struggling to adapt to a world disrupted by climate change.”
“How to Live on a Damaged Planet” is made from lines from the two introductions to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, edited by Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt.
The art for this episode is a collage by the artist, titled “Persephone.” For Gabriela, “The analog process of working by hand—cutting images and shapes, pushing elements around on the page, letting them talk to each other and move several times before anything permanent happens—is essential to my approach. For me, mixed media collage is a physical ecotone of exchange between archetypes, symbols, synchronicities, the hand, the mind, the subconscious, and the collective unconscious: an [im]possibility space where creatures and forms that have no earthly business with each other can meet, interact, and react to reveal truths about “reality” more accurately than realism can. The remixed nature of collage reflects the hybridity of the world we live in.”
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In its original form, Jack Straw Artist Scott Morgan (aka loscil)’s project Adrift is a collection of 4 pieces of endless music presented as a mobile application. The application uses structured random selection to continuously play the discrete musical components with no beginning or end. The pieces were conceived as aural backdrops, seascapes of sound in which the listener is encouraged to drift in and out of. Each of the four pieces is named after an infamous ghost ship.
As of 2025 the app is no longer functional. This piece comes from a collection of four linear renders of the music from the Adrift application, representing a singular version of each of the pieces. You can hear and download the whole collection via Bandcamp.
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Jack Straw artists Jonathan Rodriguez and Sandesh Nagaraj of Till the Teeth talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation we being so.
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“Secret Festival: September Moon” is from singer/pianist/composer Carolyn Graye‘s album Poems by Denise Levertov, a collection of the poet’s works set to improvised music. The album was produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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Jack Straw artist Laura Luna Castillo talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Onix y Marmol.
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“Heat Check” is the title track from Greg Kramer‘s upcoming full length album. The song features members of the Seattle based bands True Loves, Polyrhythmics, and High Pulp. Greg’s music is a blend of hip-hop, soul, jazz and pop, featuring layered trombones and tight arrangements. Greg’s album was mixed at Jack Straw Cultural Center by Daniel Guenther through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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Zambuko African American Marimba Ensemble recently produced their debut CD, Bridges: The Legacy Continues, through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The first track, “Ngoma,” is a traditional celebration song from the coastal region of Kenya. It was introduced to Zambuko by Anita Achien Mwamba and Khalfani Mwamba.
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Jack Straw artists Hannah Simmons and Leah Crosby have launched their project Field Guides – In Transit, a site-specific audio piece designed for the Link Light Rail, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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Jack Straw artist Shin Yu Pai has launched the fourth season of her award-winning podcast Ten Thousand Things, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. This week we’re sharing an excerpt from the first episode, which you can hear in full on Apple Podcasts or any other podcast platform.
When Yowei Shaw was laid off from her job, it felt less like a career shift and more like a breakup — one that unraveled her sense of identity and purpose. In this episode, Yowei and host Shin Yu Pai explore the emotional toll of job loss and the rituals we invent to heal – from fried chicken to gold trophies. Along the way, they chart a path through grief toward reinvention, while exploring the power of reclaiming your story.
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Jack Straw artist Athr talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation D Butterfly Efekt.
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Jack Straw resident artists Star Gondola have released “Anthem,” the first single from their Artist Support Program project. You can watch the video on YouTube, and follow them on social media, Bandcamp, or streaming services to hear future releases.
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Richard Gibbons was a fiction and non-fiction writer and storyteller based in Seattle. He produced Prairie through the 2001 Artist Support Program as the soundtrack to an epic poem and video piece representing a personal narrative of his grandfather’s childhood on the Illinois frontier (1855-1868).
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Anna Homler’s Reverie, created through her 2007 Artist Support Program residency and produced by Steve Peters, is available at last via Right Brain Records. The title track features Lori Goldston on cello and Bill Horist on guitar.
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Perri Lynch Howard’s “Ocean Avenue,” produced during her Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency, is an immersive audiovisual experience that transports viewers into the tranquil heart of our oceans. Through a mesmerizing blend of underwater soundscapes and captivating visuals, this work invites audiences to witness the profound beauty and fragility of marine ecosystems.
By juxtaposing the serene sounds of whale song with marine noise pollution caused by human activities, “Ocean Avenue” aims to raise awareness about the detrimental impact of noise pollution on marine life, from whales and dolphins to countless other species that rely on sound for communication, navigation, and survival.
Originally debuted at the Santa Fe Art Institute, and opening May 17th at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, “Ocean Avenue” offers a powerful and evocative exploration of our planet’s underwater realm.
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In Shadows, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, is a multi-generational collaborative composition between composer Mako Kikuchi and the Omoide Project, a collective of Seattle-based writers whose work remembers and preserves the wartime experiences and legacies of Japanese America. The creation of this album began in remembrance of the 80th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. While not explicitly naming the Japanese community, this order authorized the forced removal of all individuals deemed a threat to national security. In total, over 125,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated, approximately two-thirds of whom were American citizens. Kikuchi and the Omoide writers bring the sounds, memories, and emotions of this experience into the present. In Shadows bears witness to the deep trauma that resides in those who experienced and those who are descended from this incarceration.
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Jack Straw artist Romson Regarde Bustillo talks with Carlos Nieto about his Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Proximity Modifier No. 49: Dukkha, Liberation, and Tranquility.
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Sylvia Jones recorded the audio version of her poetry book Television Fathers at Jack Straw as part of her Artist Support Program residency. This excerpt includes the following poems from the book:
“Man with Shotgun and Alien”
“First Black Cop Bop”
“Don Draper Demonstrates in His Clogs”
“In Some Underground Cavern”
“Don Draper Eulogizes Norman Lear”
“Don Draper Acquires Himself an Art Residency”
“To Be a Dog”
“A Hurt Mouth Amount”
Television Fathers is available now from Meekling Press: https://meeklingpress.com/television-fathers/
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Thomasa Eckert and The Bird Tribe Orchestra produced their album Red Ruby Palace during their 2000 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Jack Straw artist – and 2022 Jack Straw Writer – Jessica Gigot has released the second season of her podcast Her Deepest Ecologies, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. In conversation with a wide range of artists, makers, creators, and caretakers, this podcast takes on two fundamental and interconnected questions: “How do we care for ourselves and each other?” and “How do we nurture the Earth?” In Episode 14, Jessica talks with poet Martha Silano about her writing process, her poetry teachers, her new book, and her recent ALS diagnosis.
You can hear the first two seasons of Her Deepest Ecologies at herdeepestecologies.substack.com.
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KRAB FM aired this adaptation of Dickens’s classic – produced, directed, and narrated by Rita Rega – on Christmas, 1974. The cast includes Harold Street, Theda Berkeley, David Stimson, Doug Dillon, Dean Richardson, Father Cyril Kenna, Larry Smith (Albert), Brian Fox, Cheryl Rockham, Charlene King, Ken Graham, Phil Ferguson, Shirley Powell, Raleigh Fisher, and Natasha Bushnell.
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This excerpt from the 7th episode of Derek G. Larson‘s animated series Très Mall, with music produced through Derek’s Artist Support Program residency, features a clip from an interview with art historian David Joselit. You can watch the full episode, which also includes music by Jim O’Rourke and conversations with art critic Boris Groys, philosopher Carlos Oliva Mendoza, and cartoonist Jim Jinkins, at dis.art.
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Rasheena Fountain’s Jack Straw Artist Support Program project Dropped Down Blues is on view in the “How to Carry Water” exhibit at The Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx). Dropped Down Blues is a speculative blues fiction and poetry audio-visual project set in Pipers Creek, a 1.4-mile stream located in Carkeek Park in Seattle. The project includes nature field recordings, speculative fiction, poetry, and guitar riffs based on fieldnotes, observations, research, and guitar performances during the November 2022 visits to the creek during salmon run.
In the summer, Fountain spent time in the studio with a Jack Straw engineer to hone the audio (poetry, speculative fiction, field recordings, and guitar performance) for the project as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. If you are in Corvallis, Oregon or nearby, check it out, along with the other artists who are in the exhibit. The “How to Carry Water” exhibit is the vision of curators Ashley Stull Meyers and Kelly Bosworth and will be on display at PRAx until December 21.
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Jack Straw artists Transonic recently released “Hook Jab,” the first single produced with help from their Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. Follow them at @transonicmusic to hear what comes next.
Applications are due November 25th for Jack Straw’s 2025 Artist Support and New Media gallery programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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“LORA KROFT” is a sneak preview of Jack Straw New Media Gallery Artist Athr’s exhibit D BUTTERFLY EFEKT. The installation, opening Friday, November 1, is an extended reality music album – an immersive experience where sound and visuals blend together to create virtual worlds.
Applications are open now for Jack Straw’s 2025 artist residency programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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Jack Straw artists Moonyeka and Heidi Grace Acuña of House of Kilig talk with Jack Straw producer Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation flourish like an ocean’s grief.
Applications are open now for Jack Straw’s 2025 artist residency programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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During their artist residency with Jack Straw, So’le Celestial composed and produced a 5 track soundtrack titled Numa’lo – meaning, “revive, do again, return” in Fina’ CHamoru (the CHamoru language). This soundtrack explores So’le’s journey as a Trans & Queer, CHamoru, chronically ill, and disabled person. Numa’lo audibly illustrates So’le’s inner soul’s movements through life, love, grief, and death. So’le hopes to turn this soundtrack into a short film in the near future.
Jack Straw will host a listening event on Friday, October 11th, featuring Numa’lo, as well as soundscape works by Jack Straw resident artists Gregg Dietzman and Perri Lynch Howard.
Applications are open now for Jack Straw’s 2025 artist residency programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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Leanna Keith’s album body of breath, available September 27th and produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, is a concept album exploring the bass flute as a living, breathing, organism. “Al-Wahdat al-Wujud” was composed by Nebal Maysaud. Other composers featured on the album include Josh Hou, Heather Bentley, Kaley Lane Eaton, and Kevin Baldwin.
Applications are open now for Jack Straw’s 2025 artist residency programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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Tom Baker’s album Deeply Lodged includes music from multiple Jack Straw Artist Support Program projects. “Deeply Lodged,” a work for solo piano in three movements, is performed by Cristina Valdés.
Applications are open now for Jack Straw’s 2025 artist residency programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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Jack Straw artists Susie Kozawa and Brigid Kelly talk with Shin Yu Pai, Seattle’s Civic Poet and host of the podcast Ten Thousand Things, about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Tokio Florist Project.
Applications are open now for Jack Straw’s 2025 artist residency programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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Gregg Dietzman‘s 2023 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project resulted in the soundscape album Sound and Light Signals. The sounds here were recorded at various locations along the Inside Passage of the Pacific Northwest, including “the Haida Náay I´waans (Whale House) in Kasaan, the cupola of Five Finger Lighthouse in Frederick Strait, a boathouse on Kupreanof Island, on a boat at anchor in Eucott Bay, and in chapels in Port Townsend and Friday Harbor,” and edited and mixed together in the studios at Jack Straw Cultural Center.
Jack Straw will host a listening event in our New Media Gallery on Friday, October 11th, featuring Sound and Light Signals, and soundscape works by Jack Straw resident artists So’le Celestial and Perri Lynch Howard.
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Jack Straw resident artists Foleada released their new album of Brazilian Forró music, Eu Vou Pra Lua, this summer. Forró, a cultural mainstay of Northeast Brazil, describes not just a musical genre but a way of life, a celebration of dance, love, and community. On Eu Vou Pra Lua – Portuguese for “I’m Going to the Moon” – Foleada gives Forró a contemporary Northwest spin, exploring the music’s soulful rhythmic tradition with four originals and four standards.
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Jack Straw resident artist Vibhuti Kavishwar‘s album Shraddhanjali is now available to listen to on YouTube. The album is a tribute to the compositions of Vibhuti’s father, Pandit Lakshman Chausalkar.
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Jack Straw artist Jeff Rice talks with Carlos Nieto about his Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Pando Suite.
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“Juanita” is a new song from Jack Straw resident artist Nacha Mendez‘s forthcoming full-length album, produced with support from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
Nacha writes, “This is my Pride month offering, the breakup song Juanita. . . . I recorded this in Nov. 2023 at Jack Straw . . . I sat with it for 2 1/2 years. I wrote it when I started to date Juanita, but the words emerged after the break up. The song traveled to Seattle, Santa Fe and Los Angeles. It features Stephen Duros on guitar and bass, Rafael Herrera on percussion. Thank you to Camelia Jade, who engineered the first tracks at Jack Straw. Thank you to Jon Gagan of Electric Co. Studios, my collaborator of many years Stephen Duros, and lastly to my producer and friend Steve Peters.”
Lyric translation:
I sincerely offer you this song
There will be a day when you’ll see me on the street
You will say, that I look lovely and well,
I will say the same about you
Too bad our beauty couldn’t hold us up
It’s nothing you’ve said or done
I finally reached the depths of my soul to find you once again
You told me that you thought we were friends, and I thought we were more than just friends
The sign on your door said, hope doesn’t live here, keep walking
I wish you the best, it’s true, yes
Keep walking Juanita, Keep walking
That kiss you gave me, lasted forever
Damn kiss woke me up
You played with my heart, you did it to confuse me
Keep walking Juanita, Keep walking
I wish you the best, it’s true, yes.
Words and Music by Nacha Mendez
BMI 2023 All Rights Reserved
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The Skid Road podcast, produced by Josephine Ensign through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, amplifies a diversity of voices about homelessness in the Seattle area. This is the latest episode, featuring a conversation with Sparrow Etter Carlson, who works for the King County Regional Homelessness Authority in sub-regional planning for Seattle.
You can hear more Skid Road at josephineensign.com, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.
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Jack Straw artists Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation now you are there when this happened.
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Jack Straw Resident Artists Sheila Fox and The Kosher Red Hots produced their album Our Songs in 2006 as part of their Artist Support Program residency. The album is a compilation of Yiddish and Ladino favorite songs from Seattle’s Jewish community, including live recordings with residents at The Kline Galland Home, Seattle’s Jewish nursing care facility, and studio recordings at Jack Straw. This studio recording features Jovino Santos Neto on piano.
Our Songs is available for listening and purchase on Bandcamp: https://kosherredhots.bandcamp.com/album/our-songs
Learn more on the Kosher Red Hots website: https://kosherredhots.com/oursongs
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Choreographer/dancer Maureen Whiting created this soundscape at Jack Straw as part of her 2001 Artist Support Program project, a collaborative installation with video artist Robert Campbell, which appeared in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery in 2002. Other collaborators for the installation included costume designers KD Schill and Sarah Harlett, lighting designer Dave Proscia, and mechanical designer Tashi Meath. Maureen worked together with these artists to incorporate traditional performance elements (costumes, lighting, performance, visual design) into the installation and converge them in non-traditional and unexpected ways. Set to Maureen’s soundscape, dancers moved amid costumes and through video projections in the installation.
More information on the exhibit webpage: https://www.jackstraw.org/exhibit/maureen-whiting-and-robert-campbell-and-there-was-concrete-skin-for-your-face/
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The Post Office is a comic, surreal play, produced in 1995 through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, about a wildly narcissistic postal clerk, a weak, sniveling customer, and matters of the human heart. Stylistically, it pays homage to playwrights such as Ionesco and Beckett.
Stacey Levine will read from her new book Mice 1961 with live accompaniment from Lori Goldston at Fantagraphics on Saturday, April 13th.
Director: Stacey Levine
Producer: Lori Goldston
Recording: Doug Haire
Music written by Lori Goldston.
Musicians: David Barnes, Beth Ann Harvey, Lori Goldston, Kyle Hanson, Matthew Sperry
Actors: Dayna Hanson and Jack Magai
Announcer: Steve Lohrentz
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Katharine Threat produced the audio version of her book anatomy of my mixed body through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The full book will be available for listening soon. Visit Blue Cactus Press for updates: https://bluecactuspress.com/
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Singer-songwriter, composer, and performer Kaley Lane Eaton releases her new album Lookout, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, this Friday, March 15th. She celebrates the release that evening with a concert at the Chapel Performance Space: https://www.waywardmusic.org/?p=8047
Album photo by Michelle Smith-Lewis; styling by Gina Bettelli; cover design by Alex Allen.
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 2000 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. The project Safarini: In Transit featured African immigrant artists living in Seattle. In addition to Obo Addy, a drummer, dancer, and composer from Ghana, Safarini included Wawali Bonane, Kofi Anang, Lora Chiorah-Dye, and Frank Ulwenya. The Safarini compact disc was released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2000.
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Benjamin Hunter performed “Hold On” as part of his solo set the Jack Straw artist showcase in October 2021.
You can find the archived video of Ben’s whole set on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrv9IWYn6HM
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Slender Beams is a collection of recordings of Dave Hollinden‘s compositions by percussionist Andrew Spencer, representing eight years of collaboration between the two. The album was produced through the 1998 Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Read more about it on Hollinden’s website.
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Reggie Garrett performed this version of “So Far Away” with guitarist Paul Benoit at Jack Straw’s fall 2022 artist showcase. The song is included on Reggie’s album York’s Lament & Other Stories, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
You can find the archived video of Reggie and Paul’s full set on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtTbJ4_4Oug
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Helen Lessick’s 1994 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project, Dreams, Deception and Skepticism, was a 2-channel audio sculpture comprised of a side table with a fish bowl holding live sea monkeys (daphnia), covered with translucent black and white scrims. A wall-mounted headphone set at the end of the table connected to an audio recorder. Visitors would hear two voices in conversation on a short loop. The project was exhibited at Jack Straw.
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Robert Flor produced the radio adaptation of his play A Christmas in the Cordilleras, among other works, through the Artist Support Program at Jack Straw. KVRU 105.7FM will broadcast and stream two Christmas plays by Bob, A Christmas in the Cordilleras and The Christmas Snow Globe, on December 21st at 2pm PST, December 24th at 10am, December 25th at 10am, December 27th at 2pm, and December 28th at 2pm.
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Jack Straw artists Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Dream Motif.
Music in this episode by Afterlife Giftshop, from the Dream Motif installation audio.
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Jack Straw artist Zack Bent talks with Carlos Nieto about his Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation The Charity Stripe.
Applications for our 2024-25 New Media Gallery and Artist Support Programs are due Monday, November 27. Apply now!
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Circus Contraption, a one ring circus with a versatile band led by music director/ringmaster Armitage Shanks, recorded their CD Gallimaufry through the 2001 Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
Applications for the 2024 program are available now!
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Gabriela Denise Frank‘s “( yubəč / chinook )” are paired concrete poems in the shape of salmon, one heading downstream to the ocean, the other heading upstream to spawn. They were published in the I Sing the Salmon Home anthology (Empty Bowl Press) edited by former Washington state poet laureate Rena Priest. They were written to honor the cultural and biological significance of salmon, a keystone species upon whose wellbeing numerous plant and animal species—including humans!—depend. Yubəč is the Lushootseed word for chinook salmon.
Gabriela produced this recording through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Applications for 2024’s Artist Support Program and our other artist residencies are open now!
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“Sea Stacking” is the newest single from Medejin‘s album The Garden, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The Garden will be released October 20th, and is available for pre-order now on Bandcamp: https://medejin-music.bandcamp.com/album/the-garden
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 1996 as part of a series highlighting the work of resident artists in Jack Straw’s Traditional Artist Support Program. Singer and songwriter Juan Barco talks about the stories behind his songs and his deep love for his home state of Texas.
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Peter Colclasure‘s My Lai, a new work for piano and string quartet based on the My Lai Massacre, was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, and performed by Peter and Skyros Quartet. “Hugh Thompson, Jr.” is the piece’s second movement. The recording is available for purchase at https://petercolclasure.bandcamp.com/album/my-lai
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In May of 2010, Jack Straw presented a performance by a rotating cast of 30 pianists, playing through Erik Satie’s infamous “Vexations” theme 840 times, as suggested by the composer’s vexatiously enigmatic note on the original manuscript. The performance started at 4:00pm on Saturday, May 15th, and ended the following day at 11:20am, after the […]
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Jack Straw artists Whitney Lynn and Jonathan Rodriguez of Till the Teeth talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation TIME KILLS.
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“P-Pop Blues” is the first single from Last of the RedHot Mamas’ forthcoming album Magick Black Woman, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Last of the RedHot Mamas is a blues band built around the jazz-inspired, country-sauced songs of Amber Flame. Singing about queer Black life, Flame brings raunchy wordplay, constant hustle, and […]
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Leanna Keith performed this piece at Jack Straw’s 2022 Fall Artist Showcase as part of a freely improvised set featuring the flute family and a looper pedal.
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Jack Straw artist Sasha Petrenko talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation FOREST TIME WATER.
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“Two Sides, One Reflection” is the first single from EarthtoneSkytone‘s forthcoming album, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, and due to be released in late summer 2023.
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Jack Straw artists Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Breathing in a Time of Disaster.
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“Residential School Requiem” is an audio excerpt from Jack Straw resident artist D.A. Navoti‘s multimedia work O’otham Rhapsode. The work will premiere on June 16th at Jack Straw as part of the event Indigenous Americana: In Words, Song, and Multimedia, and will be exhibited at Jack Straw from June 16 to July 14, 2023.
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This recording of an early version of Ran Park‘s “A Silkworm’s Thread” is from her December 2019 Artist Showcase performance at Jack Straw. You can hear the final version of the piece on her new EP, Primer, available on Bandcamp.
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I Wayan Sinti produced several recordings at Jack Straw as part of a 2004 residency in the Artist Support Program. At the same time, he was in residency as a visiting artist at the University of Washington School of Music, where he taught Balinese vocal and gamelan music. During his time at the University of Washington he also created a new form of gamelan called Siwa Nada, which was constructed with the help of his students. Read more about this project and see images of the instruments at the UW Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument collection online.
Photo courtesy the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives.
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This story is excerpted from Grey Eagle’s audio collection Hear the Wolf: Native American & Sami Stories, produced in 1994, the first year of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Ken Jackson, aka Grey Eagle, was born April 27, 2023 and died in 2008. You can read more about him and his legacy at the website of his sons’ family business.
From the liner notes of the Hear the Wolf cassette: “Most Native people believe we are actually related to all other creatures. When the relationship is sensitive, respectful, and balanced, it forms a Sacred Circle. We two-legged have received special gifts from our four-legged relative, Wolf. We’ve been given many lessons by Wolf. These lessons are recounted in stories of American Indians and Sami, the Native People of North Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Grey Eagle retells these stories in his own words. It is his way of returning the gifts – the gifts of strong stories and the gifts of lasting lessons. Hearing the stories lets us learn our lessons from Wolf and understand that we can all live together in a Sacred Circle.”
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“Story-keeping—the UN-[TITLED] Oral History series” is a soundscape of music and oral histories heard during performances of the UN-[TITLED] Project. As a series of offerings and invitations created in collaboration with theater and community artists and architects, UN-[TITLED] is an immersive, multisite-specific project that centers on the ways in which communities are displaced by gentrification. Guests are guided through a series of engagements and reckonings with community meaning, cultural memory, and healing in the Central and Chinatown International Districts of Seattle.
About the UN-[TITLED] Oral Histories: “This is an Oral History series of Seattle residents as part of the UN-[TITLED] project–a space of reflection on where we all fit on the spectrum of gentrification, and the shifting story of home in Seattle. Over the last 25 years, the historically redlined areas of Central and Chinatown International Districts have weathered widespread rapid development that has economically displaced and culturally dispersed the communities that once occupied these spaces. An intergenerational group of community residents who claim deep roots in these districts were invited to participate in this series—to share their experiences and memories of growing up, living, or working in these neighborhoods. It is a chorus of unique voices who claim multiple cultures and heritages, with varying economic backgrounds, jobs, professions, and identities. They each offer charged and moving contributions as story-keepers for their beloved neighborhoods.This series holds space for listening and reflection on where we fit on the spectrum of gentrification, and into the shifting story of home in this city. We are thankful and honor the generosity of every participant who shared what needs to be said and heard about how gentrification has directly impacted them, their street blocks, their families, their friends, their memories, and their sense of place. Together they offer to us a sacred vessel of legacy-keeping and memory-making for displaced and surviving communities.”
Visit the project website to hear, see, and read more about UN-[TITLED].
Oral History Participants, in order of appearance: JM Wong, Karen Akada Sakata, Brandi Li, JM Wong, Gloria Jackson-Neffertiti, Maisha Barnett, Ruby Holland, C. Davida Ingram, Maria Kang
Audio editing: Berette S Macaulay
Music: Seattle Soundscape Symphony by Benjamin Hunter
Photos: Berette S Macaulay
UN-[TITLED] is a multisite socially engaged project conceived and organized by commissioning curator Berette S Macaulay. UN-[TITLED] is a National Performance Network(NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by On the Boards (Seattle) in partnership with BRIC (New York). The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Audio recordings and production made possible through the Artist Residency Programs at Jack Straw Cultural Center.
UN-[TITLED] is also supported by fiscal sponsorship with Northwest Film Forum, and administratively by i•ma•gine | e•volve & Third Rail Projects.
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“Reversal of Fortune” is the first single from Nada Rosa’s upcoming album, Nunca Te Olvido, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The song speaks to the natural ebb and flow of life, and the inherent cycle of evolution and destruction that we all experience.
“Reversal of Fortune” is available now on all platforms. Nunca Te Olvido comes out this May.
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“It’s Simply a Matter of Work” will be included on MANtrio‘s forthcoming album, produced through the Artist Support Program. About it, drummer Melanie Sehman writes, “‘It’s Simply a Matter of Work’ was not something we had planned on recording when we came to record at Jack Straw. While in the studio, we needed a quick break from recording our composed pieces so we decided to do what we most enjoy: improvise. This is an improvisation based on three randomly drawn Oblique Strategies cards, and it turned out to be one of our favorite tracks and will be included on the forthcoming album.”
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“Walks with Robert” is a selection from LaVon Hardison‘s new album Brown Girls Dream, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Catch LaVon live, and pick up a copy of the CD, at our spring artist showcase on April 1st at Jack Straw.
About this song, LaVon writes, “I wrote ‘Walks with Robert’ in the winter of 2020 and everyone was huddled inside hiding from COVID, and the recent snow seemed to emphasize the stillness and solitude of what everyone was feeling. I remember looking out my front window and feeling the dreamlike state of snowfall. The way it muffles and slows everything down, how it brings everything to a stop. It felt like nothing was happening and I was anxious that I would be put in this holding pattern forever. But looking outside, I was reminded that life was still happening, I just couldn’t see it, and this pause is part of livingness.”
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced by Jack Straw in 1995 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Jack Straw artist Kofi Anang talks about growing up in Ghana and the inspiration behind his music and performance.
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Jack Straw artist Tiffany Danielle Elliott talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation I promise I won’t scream.
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Jose Bold (aka John Osebold) performed this version of “Get Better Nova” at Jack Straw’s October 2022 artist showcase. The original appears on his 2012 album Amp Year. Find more music and other projects from John at josebold.com.
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“Fading Light” is the first movement of Robert Honstein’s Evergreen, included on arx duo‘s album Ambient Resonances, which was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program and is available now from Origin Classical.
Watch: arx duo live at Jack Straw in October 2021
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This improvisation by James Falzone revolving around a medieval advent carol was recorded live in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery on December 21, 2019 at the Jack Straw Winter 2019 Artist Showcase.
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This performance was recorded live at Jack Straw’s 2021 Fall Artist Showcase. You can catch the band’s full set from the showcase on YouTube. EarthtoneSkytone is currently finishing up their new album, produced with help from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced by Jack Straw in 2005 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Jack Straw artist Nancy Rawles talks about her audio project, an audio companion to her book My Jim that incorporates music with spoken/sung arrangements of the text.
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“A Woman’s Work (Is Never Done),” featuring Wayne Horvitz on piano, is included on Reggie Garrett’s new album York’s Lament & Other Stories, which was produced with assistance from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The album CD and download will be available for purchase from Drums and Wires Recordings.
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Agermos Chamber Music Project performed their version of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” at our Fall 2018 Jack Straw Artist Showcase. They’ll play this and more seasonal favorites at a children’s Halloween concert this Saturday, October 29th at Faith Lutheran Church in Seattle. Tickets and more information here.
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“MMXX” is a single release by the Seattle-based artist Athr, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The project covers era-specific themes of isolation and frustration. Watch the lyric video on YouTube. This track contains explicit language.
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Esta pieza fue producida como parte del proyecto del Programa de Apoyo al Artista de la organización Jack Straw y realizado por la artista Marilyn Montúfar. El proyecto consiste de una serie de fotografías enfocadas en asesorar y fotografiar a jóvenes chicanas y mujeres migrantes de herencia Méxicana. Las jóvenes participantes fueron asesoradas en arte […]
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This piece was produced as part of Marilyn Montúfar‘s Jack Straw Artist Support Program project, a photography series focused on mentoring and photographing Chicana and female migrant youth with heritage in Mexico. The participating youth have been mentored in art by Marilyn and in self-expression through writing by Matt Malyon, Executive Director of Underground Writing. […]
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 1996 as part of a series highlighting the work of resident artists in Jack Straw’s Traditional Artist Support Program. Candelario Zamudio discusses his evolution as a musician, from his childhood and young adulthood in Guadalajara to adulthood in the Pacific Northwest.
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Jack Straw artist Chanee Choi talks with Whitney Lynn about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Remembrance: Magma.
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 1996 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Jack Straw artist Jovino Santos Neto talks about the music of his mentor Hermeto Pascoal and its impact and influence on his career and his own compositions.
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Jack Straw Artist Tomo Nakayama wrote “The Feelings Song,” inspired by the poetry of 2nd graders at Concord International Elementary School, as part of our 2022 Concord Poetry and Song project.
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Jack Straw Artist Mary Coss introduces her public sculpture Ghost Log, and its companion audio piece Ghost Timbre, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Hear more about this project in Mary’s podcast series, Timber Lines: marycoss.com/series/timberlines
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An excerpt from Amy D. Rubin’s essay in the audiobook version of the book Unmuted, produced by GenPride in the studios at Jack Straw Cultural Center. In this anthology, fourteen LGBTQIA midlife and older adults share the struggles and triumphs that shaped their lives. Visit genprideseattle.org/unmuted for more information, excerpts, and purchase options.
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A selection from Storme Webber‘s project Blues Divine, “an ancestral mixtape and tribute,” produced at Jack Straw through the Artist Support Program. The book and audiobook CD can be purchased through Goldenrod Music.
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This piece, performed by Hye-Jin Chang and Maria Seo on kayagum and janggu, was recorded at Jack Straw as part of their 1996 Traditional Artist Support Program residency.
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Eyvind Kang recorded “Theme from 1st NADE” as part of his Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency in 1994 – the first year of the program. This piece and others recorded during his residency are included on his album 7 NADEs, available from Tzadik Records.
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An excerpt from a live improvisation by Tom Varner‘s Sound Vespers Ensemble, recorded at Jack Straw Cultural Center as part of the Artist Support Program. You can hear the full set via the Wayward In Limbo Music Series. Samantha Boshnack & Greg Kelley, trumpet; Ray Larsen, cornet; Jim Knodle, flugelhorn; Haley Freedlund, trombone; Tom Varner, […]
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Jack Straw Artists Kitty Junk just released their new single “Wetch,” produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. They’ll be returning to the studio at Jack Straw soon to continue work on a full-length album.
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Jack Straw Artist Etsuko Ichikawa has launched her new podcast Traveling Clouds, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The first episode is about Tutu Pele, the goddess of volcanoes and fire and the creator of the Hawaiian islands. Learn more and subscribe to Traveling Clouds at anchor.fm/etsuko-ichikawa9.
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“I Am Enough (ft. J Ivy) is from SassyBlack‘s new EP BLK, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Check out the whole release on Bandcamp.
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Alyssa Keene interviews New Media Gallery artist Peter Christenson about his installation F40.298: Generalized Opus Foramina.
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Kaley Lane Eaton‘s album Cedar, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, will be released on February 18th by Bright Shiny Things. “dido on fire,” the first single from the album, is out now. Visit brightshiny.ninja for more information or to purchase the album.
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Alyssa Keene interviews New Media Gallery artist Andrew Fallat about his Jack Straw New Media Gallery Installation Timbre.
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“On Drinking” is an excerpt from Ebo Barton‘s audio version of his collection Insubordinate. This audio book was produced through the Artist Support Program and is available now on most music streaming platforms.
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In this excerpt from the 2020 event “Humanity: An Evolving Perspective,” Vania C. Bynum performs “The Middle Passage,” a poem by Vernet Nettles, with music by Owuor Arunga. This Saturday, December 18, for the second year in a row, VC Bynum Arts and Education presents a virtual performance and fundraiser as part of their project […]
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In 1997, Byron Au Yong produced the compilation A Bridge Home: Music in the Lives of Asian Pacific Americans, in partnership with the Wing Luke Asian Museum and Jack Straw Cultural Center. The collection featured selections from a wide range of artists, including the Samoan vocal group Nature Boyz, featured here. From the CD liner […]
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist May Maylisa Cat about her installation Karmic II.
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Jack Straw Artist Neil Welch will celebrate the release of his new album, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, with a concert at the Chapel Performance Space in Seattle. More details on the concert below. From composer and soloist Neil Welch: “This work is titled, composed and dedicated to the activist Concepción Picciotto, […]
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Bill and Naima Lowe‘s 97 Days Between is the third and final installment in Sonolocations, our three-part series of commissioned works with The Henry Art Gallery. Hear the whole series and learn more at soundcloud.com/sonolocations and henryart.org.
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“Gradient,” by Nat Evans with Will Hayes, guitar, and additional improvisations by the artist, was played using the sonic sculptural systems Andrew Fallat created for his installation Timbre, on view in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery through November 5th.
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Lori Goldston’s “Miasms: For three instrumentalists, one audio technician, and piano that’s been dropped (min. 20’) and left to sit (min. 20 years),” performed by Lori Goldston, Alan Jones, Greg Kelley, and Austin Larkin, was created for the 2019 Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Piano Drop, which commemorated the 1968 dropping of a piano […]
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Chenoa Egawa’s Enduring Rhythms: Seven Songs from the Skagit Valley is the second installment in Sonolocations, our three-part series of commissioned works with The Henry Art Gallery. Hear the whole series and learn more at soundcloud.com/sonolocations and henryart.org.
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The audiobook of Betsy Hanson‘s novel Always Gardenia, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, is now available on Audible, Libro.fm, and other platforms. Betsy will present a Zoom workshop on September 16th for writers to help prepare for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Visit bit.ly/3lWMXRA to register.
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“Come on Jane” is the first single from Tekla Waterfield‘s forthcoming album New Skies, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. For more about Tekla and the album, visit www.teklawaterfield.com.
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Our recent exhibit Submergence: Going Below the Surface with Orca and Salmon, presented with the Endangered Species Coalition, included a soundscape of orca sounds, original poetry, and music. This excerpt features Jack Straw Writers Ching-In Chen and Rena Priest reading their work, and music by Eduardo del Signore, with Hydrophone recordings by Orcasound.
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Rachel Lodge about her installation Transfigurations: Carbon Flow.
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Byron Au Yong’s Pomelo is the first installment in Sonolocations, our three-part series of commissioned works with The Henry Art Gallery. Hear and learn more at soundcloud.com/sonolocations and henryart.org.
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As part of her interdisciplinary Skid Road project, Jack Straw Artist Josephine Ensign conducted interviews with people who work and live at the intersection of health and homelessness in King County. This excerpt comes from an interview with Public Health-Seattle and King County nurse Heather Barr. Josephine’s book Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health […]
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KO SOLO (aka Kate Olson)’s “Standby Mode” is inspired by the work of 2020 Jack Straw Writer Arianne True, and was careated as part of our recent collaboration with the Bushwick Book Club Seattle. Check out Kate’s Spring into Weirdness livestream Friday 4/2/21 at 7pm on Loudswell.
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This song is from the soundtrack to the film A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, written and created by Jack Straw Artist Alicia Jo Rabins, who completed the soundtrack album through her Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency.
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Cameron Perry Fraser about his installation Large String Array.
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In 1999, Jack Straw brought together Ghanaian percussionist Obo Addy and jazz trombonist Julian Priester for a composer residency, commissioning them to create new work together. The project, titled Confluence, culminated in a concert at On the Boards on October 18, 1999 as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival. “For Your Information” is one of […]
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Jack Straw Artist Natasha Marin‘s multimedia online exhibit, Black Imagination: Sites of Power is now available at black-imagination.com. In this excerpt from the audio portion of the project, Salma Siddick responds to the prompt, “What is your relationship to Africa, real or imagined?”
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Dennis Rea‘s album Giant Steppes, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, is now available from MoonJune Records. This track features Jack Straw artists Juliana and PAVA.
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LaVon Hardison wrote “Center of My Gravity” in response to the work of Jack Straw Writer Helen K. Thomas, as part of the Bushwick Book Club Seattle‘s 2020 collaboration with the Jack Straw Writers Program. Hear more collaborations on Jack Straw and Bushwick’s websites and social media.
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“La Veuve Dans Sa Cabane” is the first track from Jack Straw Artist James Falzone‘s project Fallow, a year-long series of digital releases. This track and more of James’s music is available for purchase at allosdocuments.bandcamp.com.
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This is an excerpt of a piece created by Russell Duke through his 2017 Artist Support Program residency, working with Jack Straw engineer Doug Haire. The full piece, dedicated to Stephen Kennedy, consists of sounds recorded from 78 rpm records and run through tape loop iterations to degrade the quality of the sound. This project […]
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Jack Straw and Bushwick Book Club artist Nic Masangkay created this song in response to the work of 2020 Jack Straw Writer Maisha Banks Manson, as part of the 2020 Jack Straw x Bushwick Book Club project. Hear more music from this project by visiting Jack Straw or Bushwick Book Club Seattle on Facebook, or […]
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Sculptor, composer, and performer Ela Lamblin – known for his work as half of the duo Lelavision – produced Sculptaural, his first album of original music, as part of the 1996 Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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This performance was recorded at a concert in Granger, WA as part of Gritos del Alma, a project that began in 1992 in collaboration with Washington State Arts Commission and Radio KDNA to recognize and honor the diverse traditions of the people of Mexican descent residing in Washington State. The resulting 23-page bilingual booklet and […]
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Byron Schenkman and the Seattle Baroque Orchestra produced an album of chamber works by Vivaldi through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The album was released by Centaur Records in 2015.
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Yunmi Her about her installation Natural Individuals.
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Orkestar RTW‘s self-titled CD of Balkan music, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, is available for purchase at orkestarrtw.bandcamp.com.
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Jack Straw artist Ran Park is recording a collection of original solo piano music through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. “For Alice” is the first single released from this project. It is available at ranpark.bandcamp.com.
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In her Black Imagination project, Natasha Marin talks with Black participants about their experiences, connections to Africa, and the nuances of Black Joy. This clip is an excerpt from a conversation with Hasaan Kirkland.
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Jack Straw Artist Mako recently released Portal, her new album of traditional Okinawan music produced through the Artist Support Program. You can hear the album and purchase a copy at mako3.bandcamp.com. On Saturday, July 11th, at 7pm, Mako will perform a live set from Jack Straw via Facebook Live.
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Jack Straw Artist Andrew Weathers mixed several recordings of his ensemble at Jack Straw for his Artist Support Program Residency. “The Plains of Paradise” and another of these tracks will be included on a cassette single from Timesuck tapes this spring.
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Clarinetist and composer William O. Smith died recently after a long and fruitful career, ranging from playing – as Bill Smith – with Dave Brubeck to performing and composing his own pioneering modern classical work. Bill was a longtime friend of Jack Straw and produced a number of projects here, including his 2001 album Solo […]
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Jack Straw artist C. R. Grimmer recently released O-(ezekiel’s wife) as a physical and audio book (produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program), through GASHER Journal. More information on the project and how to purchase the book and/or audio book at gasherjournal.com and chelseagrimmer.com.
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 2000 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Jack Straw artist Marcos Carmona, of Carmona Flamenco, talks about flamenco music and why it’s so important to him.
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Naima Lowe about her installation Aren’t They All Just Love Songs Anyway?
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Poet Judith Roche reads at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary. Judith passed away in November 2019, a sad loss for Seattle’s literary community. Judith was a 2001 Jack Straw Writer and curated the 2008 Writers Program, and collaborated with Jack Straw on many […]
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This recording of Kwabena Nketia’s “Volta Fantasy” is from William Chapman Nyaho‘s forthcoming album of music from Africa and the African Diaspora, produced through the Artist Support Program. The CD will be released in 2020 by MSR Classics.
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Jack Straw Artist Amanda Winterhalter produced the compilation Fatality Records Vol. 1 – featuring songs about death in the Pacific Northwest – through the Artist Support Program. Amanda and some of her Fatality Records cohort will perform at Jack Straw on December 21st as part of our winter artist showcase.
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Nuclear facility. World’s fastest pianist. 9-foot Steinway grand. Continuous Music. Such was the setting for recording Nuclear Recitals, Vol. 1. Hear an audio excerpt from this ambitious project, produced by Typonexus founder O, a Ukrainian, US-based, multimedia artist, and performed by Ukrainian pianist/composer Lubomyr Melnyk.
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Martin Jarmick about his installation The Final Image.
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Naima Lowe‘s installation Aren’t They All Just Love Songs Anyway? is open in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery through December 13th. “Gospel” is one of the pieces of music created with Bill Lowe and Taylor Ho Bynum for the installation’s titular video piece.
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This track is from SassyBlack’s new album Ancient Mahogany Gold, produced with support from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Ancient Mahogany Gold will be released next Friday, September 13. Visit sassyblack.com for more information on the artist and the album.
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I Love Being Abroad is the title track from the album Julie Cascioppo produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program in 2006. She was selected for the 2019 Artist Support Program to record an audio version of her memoir, which shares the same title.
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 1996 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Jack Straw artist Ela Lamblin of Lelavision talks about the unique music he creates with his handmade steel instruments.
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Amber Flame‘s multimedia exhibition ::intrigue:: 8 opens this Friday, July 12th, in the Jack Straw Atrium Gallery. Text and sound pieces were created with words drawn from poems by eight different poets. This piece was based on JeanAnn Verlee’s For the Woman Who Loved the Predator More Than His Prey.
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 1994 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Craig Flory talks about how he started playing music and what he loves about it.
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Erin Elyse Burns about her exhibition To Take the Shape of the Container.
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Jack Straw artist Phoebe Tsang‘s solo violin/voice album Button Music, produced through the Artist Support Program, was recently released by Off Records. Read and hear more at phoebetsang.com.
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Jack Straw artist Kathya Alexander produced the audio version of Angel in the Outhouse, her book of short stories, through the Artist Support Program. The book is available now at audible.com.
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Pianist/composer Lynette Westendorf’s album Surrounded by Green was produced in 1999 through a Jack Straw Artist Support Program Residency, with Jim Knodle (Trumpet), Kenny Mandell (saxes/flute), Hans Teuber (alto sax/piccolo), Elizabeth Falconer (koto), Dennis Staskowski (bass), and Bill Moyer (percussion). Learn more at lwmusic.com
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Jack Straw artists Srivani Jade and Thione Diop performed this piece, from Rajasthan, at the Jack Straw Artist Showcase on January 21, 2018.
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This piece (performed by Jeff Huston, Mike Shannon, David Stanford, Mark Wheeler, Dave Knott, and Sheri Cohen) is part of the installation Piano Drop, commemorating the 1968 dropping of a piano from a helicopter in Duvall, WA. Knott and many other composers will perform their original music for dropped piano at Jack Straw on February […]
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Chun Shao about her installation Silicone Love – Her Garden.
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Jack Straw Artist Coley Mixan was one of twelve musicians who created new songs in response to the work of the 2018 Jack Straw Writers, in partnership with the Bushwick Book Club Seattle. This piece was inspired by the writing of poet Corbin Louis.
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The Steve Griggs Ensemble has released Sound in Stone: Poems by James Washington, with vocalist Bernie Jacobs, produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program. Find more information on the group and this project at stevegriggsmusic.com.
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Jack Straw artist FOX HUNT has just released BLUE WAVES, his solo piano album produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, available now at https://foxhunt.bandcamp.com
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The first installment of Dmae Roberts‘s series Legacies: Faith, Hope, and Peace was mixed at Jack Straw through an Artist Support Program residency. The series was distributed in 1998 and broadcast on about 100 public radio stations across the country. The full hourlong episode is available on PRX at http://exchange.prx.org/pieces/3066
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“Forever” is the first single Nic Masangkay has released from their work in the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. It was produced and mixed by Nic Masangkay, written and performed by Nic Masangkay and Falon Sierra, and recorded and mastered by Camelia Jade Lazenby at Jack Straw.
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Deep Energy Orchestra, the new group led by Jack Straw Resident Artist Jason Everett, produced their album Playing with Fire through the Artist Support Program. This collection of audio and video recordings of Everett’s compositions features prog-phenom Trey Gunn (King Crimson) and Indian percussion master Selvaganesh (Shakti, Masters of Percussion) along with seven-string violinist Radhika […]
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist L Koo about her installation to drown.
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Marcos and Rubina Carmona received a Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency in 2000 to record contemporary flamenco music for guitar and voice including “Soleares de Triana,” an original composition commissioned by the Seattle Arts Commission.
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Sangjun Yoo about his installation blind film.
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Brian Lawlor received a Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency in 2001 to record a series of solo piano compositions and improvisations. You can hear more from Brian at http://brianlawlor.bandcamp.com/
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Eye Music‘s 2010 Artist Support Program project, their recording of Toshi Ichiyanagi’s Sapporo, was recently released on Edition Wandelweiser records. For more information on the release, visit https://www.wandelweiser.de/_e-w-records/_ewr-catalogue/ewr1801.html
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“Viajes” was written by Jack Straw Artist Abel Rocha, based on poetry from our recent Spanish-language poetry project with students at Denny International Middle School. The song was performed by Trio Guadalevin (Abel, Antonio Gomez, and Gus Denhard).
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Stan Shikuma, of Seattle Kokon Taiko, talks about the history and evolution of Taiko drumming, and using Taiko performance to break stereotypes of the Japanese-American community.
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Jack Straw artist Charlie Burks produced Since the Ace, a combined book and CD of his poems, in 2000. Charlie passed away recently; his life and work will be celebrated at Open Books (2414 N 45th St., Seattle) on Thursday, May 24th, 7pm.
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Peter Williams and Cello Experiment produced their debut CD through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. They celebrate with a release show tonight (Tuesday, April 24th) at the Crocodile Back Bar. Find more information on the group, the CD, and the show at https://www.facebook.com/celloexperiment/
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This piece is part of Kent Chadwick’s New Jersey Suite, produced at Jack Straw in 2002 as part of his Artist Support Program residency.
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Sheree Seretse, of Anzanga Marimba Ensemble, talks about how she became interested in African music and dance and the fulfillment she continues to get from playing and teaching.
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Madeline Crowley produced the Storied Seattle series, featuring residents of Seattle’s Central District, through her Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. This excerpt features Elmer Dixon. The full pieces will be aired on Hollow Earth Radio. Read more about the project at peopleofthecentralarea.com.
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Jack Straw resident artist Peter Vukmirovic Stevens‘s album Panacea: Three String Quartets, available now from ArpaViva, was produced in the studios at Jack Straw and performed by the quartet of Mikhail Shmidt, Blayne Barnes, Mara Gearman, and Paige Stockley. For CD purchase and more information, visit http://www.arpaviva.org/arpaviva_content/Panacea.html
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An excerpt from the first episode of Hatch, a new podcast by Leilani Lewis and Chieko Phillips, produced with support from Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program. Leilani and Chieko will share their work and talk about this project at Jack Straw’s winter artist showcase, Sunday, Jan. 21 from 2-6 at Jack Straw Cultural Center. Hear […]
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“Sand Dune” is from David Hahn and Concert Imaginaire’s new album Passionate Isolation, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The band will perform selections from the new CD at Jack Straw’s winter artist showcase, Sunday, Jan. 21 from 2-6 at Jack Straw Cultural Center.
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Chris Jeffries and Harold Taw produced a cast recording of their original musical Persuasion (based on the Jane Austen novel) through the Artist Support Program. “That’s Home” is the final song. More information and links to purchase the recording at persuasionmusical.com.
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artists Garrett Fisher and Tori Ellison about their installation Mikawa.
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The Steve Griggs Ensemble’s A Cup of Joe Brazil, a collection of stories and music inspired by jazz saxophonist Joe Brazil, was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The band celebrates its release on December 5th at the Royal Room.
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Tai Shan will release her new album, produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program, in early 2018. She’s currently raising funds on Kickstarter to make the release a reality: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/34180817/meet-in-the-middle-a-new-album-by-tai-shan
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Bushwick Book Club Seattle member Reggie Garrett wrote this song in response to the work of 2017 Jack Straw Writer afrose fatima ahmed, whose voice is also heard here. Listen to the Bushwick Book Club’s album of music inspired by all twelve 2017 Jack Straw Writers at https://thebushwickbookclubseattle.bandcamp.com
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artists Roger Feldman and Jeff Roberts about their installation The New Landscape: Reconstructed Ecologies.
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Jack Straw resident artist Garrett Fisher‘s CD of The Iris was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program and will be released this month via 16 Visions. The Iris is also part of Fisher and Tori Ellison‘s New Media Gallery installation Mikawa. We’ll celebrate the opening of the installation and release of the CD […]
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Jack Straw resident artist Brad Gibson‘s CD Epilogue/Procession, produced through the Artist Support Program, will be released on September 19th. For more information on this project or to buy the CD, visit https://www.bradgibson.com/.
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Jack Straw resident artist Sumiko Sato has released Nanbu Sakaya Uta Project Vol. 1, a collection of new music inspired by sake-brewing work songs produced at Jack Straw through the Artist Support Program. For more information on this project or to order the CD, visit http://www.sumikosatomusic.com.
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In this selection from A Century of Coast Salish History, produced by Gregory Fields through an Artist Support Program residency, Pauline Hillaire shares “The Education Song” and the story of how it came to be.
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Producer Kyle Norris interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artists Rachel Green and Daniel Salo about their installation Forgetting of Being.
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The title track from Jack Straw Artist Dana Reason‘s new album Reasoning, produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program. The ensemble includes drummer Peter Valsamis, bassist Mark Dresser, cellist Lori Goldston, and guitarist Mike Gamble.
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For her Artist Support Program project, Jack Straw resident artist Srivani Jade is recording a series of collaborations with different performers. This song features Pankaj Mishra on sarangi and Ravi Albright on tabla. This and three other pieces from these sessions are available for sale at https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/srivanijade5
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 2001 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Christos Govetas talks about the wide range of Greek music that inspires him.
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Tom Baker produced a few different projects through his 2016 Artist Support Program residency, including Songs of Sleep and Dreams, performed by Cherie Hughes (soprano), Brian Chin (trumpet), and Ben Thomas (percussion). More on this and Tom’s other projects at www.tombakermusic.com.
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City Meditation Crew collaborated with Seattle artists to create sound pieces inspired by various water-adjacent locations in Seattle. This Pier 56 soundscape was created with sound artist Susie Kozawa. All of the artists’ pieces will be included in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Meditations on Water, opening April 14th, 2017. Visit listenherenow.org for […]
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Gordana Crnkovic and David Hahn produced the text and sound piece Zagreb Everywhere through a 2000 Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. A video version of the entire program is available at https://vimeo.com/45275095
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery resident artist E.T. Russian talks with Steve Rowland about the video comic installation CASTING SHADOWS.
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Jack Straw resident artist James DeJoie‘s band The Ocular Proof will celebrate the release of their new album, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, on Friday, January 27th at 7pm at Jack Straw Cultural Center. Visit here for more information on the album and performance.
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Bushwick Book Club Seattle member Goodsteph‘s “Misfits” was written in response to the work of 2016 Jack Straw Writer Shontina Vernon. A collection of music inspired by the work of the 2016 Jack Straw Writers is available for download here.
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Producer Monika Khot – aka Nordra – produced the audio soundscape for Jack Straw resident artist Coleman Pester‘s performance piece “Pylon II”. The audio was mixed and mastered at Jack Straw.
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery resident artist Paul Kikuchi talks with Omar Willey about his sound and video installation AUTONOMIC.
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This story was produced as part of Anna Balint‘s Artist Support Program project, presenting the work of writers from the “Safe Place Writing Circle” at Seattle’s Recovery Cafe. The work of 10 Safe Place writers has been collected in a book and an album called Words from the Cafe, published by Raven Chronicles Press.
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Steve Peters produced “Cancoes Profundas” (Deep Songs), a soundscape composition for field recordings and improvising musicians, through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. This is an excerpt of part 2, “Community.” The full recording is available from Prefecture Records and here.
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Radio producer Phyllis Fletcher created this audio documentary about her father for her 2003 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project.
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This piece was performed live on June 10, 2016 as part of James Borchers‘s New Media Gallery residency. The percussion parts were played using the hanging resonant metal objects in his installation Obiectum Resonare. Percussion: James Borchers, Dale Speicher, Daniel Webbon; cello: Peter Williams.
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The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble recorded three pieces by Michael Owcharuk as part of their 2014 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project. You can hear the whole set here.
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Wendy Call and Irma Pineda produced these trilingual recordings of Irma’s poems through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The poems, originally in Zapotec, were translated into Spanish by Irma and English by Wendy. The text of this poem is available here.
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Jack Straw resident artist Paul Kikuchi‘s sound and video installation AUTONOMIC opens in the New Media Gallery on Friday, July 8th. This week we share a short excerpt of the music from the installation, which is drawn from a series of compositions that explore breath awareness, intention, and perception.
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery resident artist James Borchers talks with oral historian and documentary producer Steve Rowland about his installation Obiectum Resonare.
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Different Drummer – bassist Anna Doak, fiddle player Brandon Vance, and tap dancer Mark Mendonca – produced their new self-titled album through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Gretchen Yanover plays cello on this track, the group’s version of Paul Desmond’s “Take Five,” made famous by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Information on the group and […]
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery resident artist Andy Behrle talks with Steve Rowland about his installation Luminous Soundscape.
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Jack Straw Resident Artist Eric Rynes‘s Mikka and Other Assorted Love Songs, a collection of diverse virtuosic works for solo violin and violin with electronics, was recently released on Albany Records. “Crossing the Threshold” was composed by Michael Alcorn.
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Cherie Hughes and Roberto Limon’s Jack Straw Artist Support Program project, an album of works inspired by the music of Spain and the Sephardic Jewish diaspora, was recently released on Origin Classical. This piece is from Matilda Salvador’s cycle “Endechas Y Cantares de Sefarad.” More information on this release here.
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An excerpt of the soundscape composed by Steve Peters for his Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Licoes Dos Antepassados (Lessons from the Ancestors).
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This track is from Sharon Nyree Williams‘s album The Consciousness of Love, produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program.
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“Human Animal” is from Stephen Cohen‘s Jack Straw artist residency project, a soon-to-be-released EP called Talk to Me. Stephen will perform and talk about his project at a Jack Straw artist event on Friday, December 18th at 7pm at Jack Straw Cultural Center.
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Gabriela Denise Frank was a resident artist in Jack Straw’s New Media Gallery. In this interview with Shawn Wong she discusses her installation UGLY ME.
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Wes Weddell‘s new album Nobody’s Flag was produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program. Wes wrote “The Stance” inspired by the work of Jack Straw Writer Nick Wong, for the Bushwick Book Club’s 2012 Jack Straw Writers show.
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This piece, performed by Alekso “Alo” Toncov, Mustafa Eminov, Trajce Nasev, and Zdrave Stafilov, is featured on the album Music of Macedonia: Playing ‘Til Your Soul Comes Out, produced by Jack Straw resident artist Martin Koenig. Join us at Jack Straw on Friday, October 23rd at 7pm, as we celebrate the album’s release with a […]
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Jack Straw artist Peter Vukmirovic Stevens released his solo viola CD Feral Icons in 2015, performed by Mara Gearman and produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program.
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Jack Straw artists Saint Helens String Quartet have released “American Dreams”, the long-awaited album produced through their Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. The quartet will perform and discuss their project, along with some of the composers whose work is featured on the album, at a free event at Jack Straw on Wednesday, September 16th […]
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Danny Barksdale produced this documentary piece about his grandfather and his place in country music history during his Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. Visit here for more information and archival music recordings.
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2015 Jack Straw Artist Support Program artist Shin Yu Pai produced this recording as part of her project HEIRLOOM, a site-specific public art project that involves printing language on antique apples in Piper’s Orchard in Carkeek Park, Seattle. Using vinyl stencils and the light of the sun, words are burned into the peels of ripening […]
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Totem Pole Stories Told by Pauline Hillaire, produced through Gregory Fields‘s Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency, was recently released as part of the the media companion to Hillaire and Fields’s book A Totem Pole History (University of Nebraska Press, 2013).
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery resident artist Joel Ong talks about his installation Those Who Observe the Wind . . . open through July 1st.
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Composer Emily Doolittle‘s album All Spring, produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program and performed by the Seattle Chamber Players and Friends, will soon be released by Composers Concordance Records. Join us at Jack Straw on June 10th at 7pm for a talk and CD release party at with the composer.
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Jack Straw resident artists Choroloco have just completed their album Choro Louco, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. They will play at the Jack Straw music showcase at the Northwest Folklife Festival on Monday, May 25th. Visit their website for more information on performances and the album.
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery resident artist Carolyn Law discusses her installation WISHING. YOU. A. WISH. MOMENT.
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Michael Owcharuk has just released his new album String Quartet #1: The Upward Spiral, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. More information here.
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Paul Kikuchi‘s Bat of No Bird Island, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, is now available as a CD, vinyl record, and digitally here. We will celebrate the release with a reception at Jack Straw this Saturday, March 28th, from 12-3.
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Zack Bent was a resident artist in Jack Straw’s New Media Gallery. In this interview he discusses his installation Lean-out, Lean-to.
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The duo EN – John and Elizabeth Falconer – produced their album “Affinity” in 2005 through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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An excerpt from Beth Fleenor‘s “SILT,” produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. For more information, including a link to purchase the full version, visit here.
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Mark Roberts and Dan Compton recently released their album The High Caul Cap, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. “Long Pond” is an original tune by Roberts. The album is available to purchase here.
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Bryan Smith recently released his album of original solo overdubbed saxophone compositions The Re: Project, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. “Future” is the first track. You can hear and purchase the album here.
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This track was produced as part of Melia Watras and Michael Jinsoo Lim‘s Jack Straw Artist Support Program Residency. Improvised by Michael Jinsoo Lim, violin; Cuong Vu, trumpet; Melia Watras, viola.
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Freehold Theatre Lab received a Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency to produce their Voices from the Edge podcast, showcasing the work of their Engaged Theatre residencies at Washington Corrections Center for Women, Monroe Correctional Complex, and Echo Glen Children’s Center. This is the first installment of the podcast.
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S. Eric Scribner was a resident artist in Jack Straw’s New Media Gallery. In this interview he discusses his installation (The) Nature (of) Sound.
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Tom Varner recently released Nine Surprises, his nonet album produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. It is available to purchase here.
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Jack Straw recently worked with the Make-a-Wish Foundation to record pianist Marc Estabrook’s album of solo piano music “Summer Solstice”. His music is available for purchase here.
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“Voluptuous” is one of several tracks produced through Nicholas Chase‘s Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. Voluptuous: Works for Solo Piano is available here; more albums featuring works produced at Jack Straw will be released in the near future.
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The Bushwick Book Club Seattle is a group of musicians who write and perform original music inspired by literature. This song, inspired by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was produced as part of the Bushwick Book Club’s Jack Straw artist residency.
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An excerpt of the audio produced for (The) Nature (of) Sound, S. Eric Scribner‘s installation in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery, opening Friday, August 22nd.
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Brandon Aleson and Adam Primack created the multi-media installation Thermal Dynamics for their Jack Straw New Media Gallery residency. Brandon talks about the piece and his inspiration for it in this interview podcast.
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An excerpt from Jack Straw resident artist Waverly Fitzgerald‘s residency project, an audio version of her book My Year in Flowers.
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Jack Straw Resident Artists Rachel Green and Seth Sexton‘s sound, video, and performance installation Hypnagogic Jerk was installed in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery from March 31 to May 30, 2014. In this interview, the artists describe the installation and talk about the concepts and process behind it.
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A selection from Jack Straw resident artist Jennifer Jasper‘s recently-released Artist Support Program residency project, a recording of her one-woman show I Can Hear You, But I’m Not Listening.
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Jack Straw resident artists Bulgarian Voices of Seattle recently completed their album Penka Encheva and Friends, in conjunction with the documentary film project This Baba. This track features David Bilides, tambura; Penka Encheva and Jody Rush, vocals. Join them for the world premiere of the film at 3pm on Saturday, May 10th at Carco Theatre.
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Jack Straw resident artist Etsuko Ichikawa discusses her residency project, the film and Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Echo at Satsop.
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For her 2012 Artist Support Program project, Jack Straw resident artist Donna Miscolta produced several audio excerpts from her novel When the de la Cruz Family Danced. This excerpt is from the prologue. More audio excerpts are available at her website.
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Poet Kevin Craft, a 2008 Jack Straw Writer, reads two poems at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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Jack Straw resident artist Urtaa Gantulga performs traditional music on the Mongolian horsehead fiddle at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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2000 Jack Straw Writer – and 2014 Jack Straw Writers Program Curator – Felicia Gonzalez reads two poems at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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Ruthie Dornfeld has just released Lay of the Waves, her album of original compositions for the vielle, produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program.
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Bahar is a selection from a series of five pieces Srivani Jade composed in response to the paintings of Annette Solyst. Art to Art, an installation of Solyst’s paintings and Jade’s music, is being presented in Jack Straw’s New Media Gallery through January 17th.
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Sean Osborn‘s album Bits and Pieces, a collection of pieces for solo clarinet by different composers (including Osborn himself), was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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Storme Webber recently released the music album Blues Divine, produced at Jack Straw through the Artist Support Program.
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Steve Peters‘s installation Lessons from the Ancestors is installed in Jack Straw’s New Media Gallery through November 22nd, 2013. In this interview, Peters discusses the piece and its origins and inspirations.
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“Wool Teeth” appears on the Special O.P.S. EP Backdoor Draft, recorded as part of the Monktail Creative Music Concern‘s Artist Support Program residency.
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The women’s vocal ensemble Dunava recently released their new album Bulgaria, produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program.
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Beth Fleenor and Figeater recently released the Sweet Figeater Surprise box set, produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program.
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An interview with Jack Straw resident artist Robert Blatt about his installation Elements.
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An interview with the family art collective meadow starts with p about their marble run installation I Love You, But You’re Too Loud!
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Jack Straw Writers Program alum, WA State Poet Laureate, and Jack Straw Board President Kathleen Flenniken reads three poems in an early-morning appearance at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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Longtime Jack Straw artist Susie Kozawa performed an improvisational set at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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2006 Writers Program Curator JT Stewart reads three poems from her book Promised Lands: Poems From the Sovereign of Dishpan Sonnets at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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Pianists Gust Burns and Victor Noriega recently released 2 Trios, an album produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program of the two pianists playing separately with the rhythm section of Jeff Johnson and Greg Campbell. This piece features Gust Burns on piano.
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Seattle Percussion Collective premiered Dale Speicher‘s Fanfare for the Next 50 Years at Jack Straw at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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A piece read by Jack Straw Writers Program alumnus Riz Rollins at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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An excerpt from Jack Straw Artist Srivani Jade‘s set at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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Ruth Marie Tomlinson‘s installation Lost Long: A Landscape is installed in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery through May 20th. In this interview, she discusses the piece and its inspiration and origin.
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Tina Hoggatt produced the audio for her Story Chairs installation – currently installed in Jack Straw’s lobby – through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. In this interview, she discusses the Story Chairs project.
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Amber Cortes recently presented Signal to Noise: Imagined Frequencies of Radiophonic Space in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery. In this interview, she discusses the installation and its development and presentation.
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Poet and Jack Straw Writers Program alumnus Paul Nelson reads at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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The third of Igor Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo, performed by Sean Osborn at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary. He will celebrate the release of his new album Bits and Pieces at Jack Straw this Friday, March 15th at 7pm.
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The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble directed by Michael Owcharuk recently completed SJCE Volume 1 through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. It is available for download here.
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Members of Monktail Creative Music Concern performed a midnight set at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary. Bill Monto, tenor saxophone; Steve Parris, electric guitar; John Seman, double bass; Dave Abramson, drums.
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An excerpt from Esther Sugai and Michael Shannon’s 4:30 am set at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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Judith Skillman – an alumnus of the 2008 Jack Straw Writers Program and an incoming 2013 Jack Straw Writer – reads her poem My Grandmother’s Waltz at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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An excerpt from the Victor Noriega Trio’s performance at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary. Victor Noriega and Gust Burns will present Composer Spotlight at Jack Straw Productions on February 13th.
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Stephanie Kallos reads her essay How to Write Your First Novel at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary. Stephanie was a Jack Straw Writer in 2001 and is the Curator of the 2013 Jack Straw Writers Program.
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Christian Swenson performed a solo set of his unique vocal improvisations at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary. This is the first piece from his set.
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Lori Goldston performed a solo set of cello improvisations at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012, in celebration of our 50th anniversary. This is the first piece she performed.
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One of the songs performed by Anzanga Marimba Ensemble at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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Guitarist Ed Petry recorded several improvisational pieces as part of his 2002 Jack Straw artist residency. Applications for 2012 residencies are due October 31. Go to jackstraw.org for details.
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Elizabeth Austen reads some of her poems, including a new one, at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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This recording of Tom Varner and Eric Barber was made during their performance at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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This piano piece – recorded at Jack Straw Productions – is a preview of Nicholas Chase‘s recent Jack Straw Artist Support Program project.
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Outside In/Inside Out: The inner life of Jack is a camera obscura piece currently on exhibit in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery. This week’s podcast is an interview with Ellen Sollod and Johanna Melamed about the installation and their process in creating it.
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Outside In/Inside Out: The inner life of Jack is a camera obscura piece currently on exhibit in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery. This week’s podcast is the soundscape for the piece, designed by Johanna Melamed with Ellen Sollod.
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Perri Lynch, Lara Swimmer, and Robert Zimmer recently presented the collaborative sound and video installation CARTASONIC in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery. In this interview, they discuss the piece and their collaborative process.
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Stelios Manousakis recently presented his installation The Network Is a Blind Space in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery. In this interview, he discusses the piece and the concepts behind it.
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Yann Novak recently presented his piece Blue.Hour in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery. In this interview, he discusses the piece and its development and presentation.
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Motherland Ensemble recorded several songs at Jack Straw as part of their 1998 artist residency.
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This performance was recorded at a Jack Straw artist showcase at Egan’s Ballard Jamhouse in June 2007. The Tom Baker Quartet (Baker, Jesse Canterbury, Greg Campbell, and Brian Cobb) will kick off 25 hours of music, reading, and other performance at Jack Straw in celebration of our 50th anniversary on June 25, 2012 at 7pm.
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Ruze Dalmatinke and Vela Luka produced the album Vela Luka: Croation Dance Ensemble through Jack Straw’s 1996 Artist Support Program. Ruze Dalmatinke will perform at the Jack Straw/KRAB showcase this weekend at NW Folklife Festival on Sunday, May 27th, 2012.
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Sankofa recently completed their debut album of a capella music, produced at Jack Straw through our Artist Support Program.
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Jack Straw resident artist Joy Mills is about to release her album Trick of the Eye, produced with assistance from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. You can hear the whole album here.
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2011 Jack Straw resident artists Alchymeia will release their debut album recorded through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, on Friday, April 20th at Empty Sea Studios.
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In 2004 composer Byron Au Yong presented Yiju: Songs of Dislocation in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery, in collaboration with Chishan Lin, John D. Pai, and Lorraine Pai. This album of music from Yiju has just been released by Present Sounds Recordings.
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Steve Peters and Steve Roden’s album Not a Leaf Remains As It Was was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program and released this month by 12k Records. More information at 12k.com.
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This piece, a medley of Dy Lule Mas Malit (traditional Albanian), J’ai Vu Le Loup (French Renaissance), and Oy Mamochko (traditional Ukrainian), was performed by Jack Straw resident artists Nadia Tarnawsky and the group Alchymeia during their Composer Spotlight presentation in October 2011. The album they recorded in their residency will be released this year.
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Robert Antone is currently recording a full length album of his original songs featuring acoustic guitar, musical saw, and other traditional instruments as part of his 2011 Jack Straw Artist Residency.
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This ensemble performance was recorded at the opening of Beth Fleenor‘s installation Mother May I in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery on November 4, 2011. The group is using a wave form cross-stitched by Fleenor as a graphic score.
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Rachel Matthews‘s album of new chamber music Dreams, to be released in early 2012 by Centaur Records, was produced with assistance from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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Tom Baker recorded his opera Hunger: The Journey of Tamsen Donner as his recent Jack Straw Artist Residency project. Present Sounds will release it on CD on December 1st.
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This performance was recorded at Jack Straw’s Composer Spotlight series on September 14th, 2011. Stephen Fandrich, John Seman, and Mark Ostrowski presented new work that will be recorded at Jack Straw as part of the Monktail Creative Music Concern‘s 2011 Jack Straw Artist Residency.
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Martin Koenig collected recordings and photographs of traditional Bulgarian culture in the 1960s. The recordings were transferred and mastered by Jack Straw Productions, and the photos and recordings are on exhibit in our New Media Gallery through October 28th.
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Renowned Irish fiddle player Randal Bays received a 2007 Jack Straw Artist residency to produce an album of guitar music. Oyster Light is available for sale on his web site.
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An interview with Nari Baker, whose installation Talking to Ghosts: Waiting in the River between Worlds is in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery through Friday, September 16th.
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This piece, arranged by 2011 Jack Straw Resident Artist Urtaa Gantulga, is a combination of two melodies: Argameg Hurdan Huleg by M. Altangerel, and the theme from the Genghis Khan movie Munkh Tergeriin Huchin Dor by N. Jantsannorov. This performance was recorded at Gantulga’s Composer Spotlight presentation at Jack Straw in October 2010.
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This piece is an excerpt from Tom Baker‘s Opera Hunger: The Journey of Tamsen Donner, recorded through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program and to be released this summer on Present Sounds. Join us at Jack Straw Productions on Wednesday, August 10th when Baker will present Composer Spotlight.
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Gliss, composed by Stephen Fandrich, is from the Seattle Harmonic Voices album named Harmonic Voice, released by Monktail Creative Music Concern. Disk 1 of the album Live was recorded at Jack Straw for Sonarchy Radio in 2004.
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Greg Fields and Johnny Moses recently released 2 CDs of a planned 5-disc set of Samish, Snohomish, Shaker, and Doctoring Songs produced during their 2010 Jack Straw artist residency.
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A Meeting Place, August Denhard and Munir Beken‘s album of ud and lute duos recorded during their Jack Straw artist residency, was recently released by Sono Luminus Records. Find more information on the album here.
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Jack Straw resident artists Eye Music performed live in our studios in January 2011. This is a brief excerpt from that performance.
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Nathan Ramos recorded this song at Jack Straw Productions during his 2002 Artist Support Program residency.
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Wu Ziying recorded The Art of the GuQin, Volume I during his 2006 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Brian Cobb’s Campfire Songs, recorded during his 2008 Jack Straw Artist Residency, was just released by Present Sounds. He will present Composer Spotlight at Jack Straw Productions tonight, Wednesday, April 13th at 7:30.
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Robert Millis’s installation Fragments of the Story is in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery through April 22, 2011.
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John Osebold recorded this song during his 2001 Jack Straw artist residency. Osebold currently performs as Jose Bold and with the band Awesome, among many other artistic endeavors.
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The Jason Parker Quartet is preparing to release Five Leaves left, a jazz tribute to Nick Drake, recorded through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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For Malic Amalya’s recent Jack Straw artist residency, Jac Nelson created the soundtrack to Amalya’s 16mm film Drifting. This is an excerpt of that soundtrack as performed live by Nelson at Jack Straw’s Composer Spotlight on January 12th, 2011.
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The drums and percussion on this song by James Whetzel were recorded at Jack Straw through the Artist Support Program.
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Recorder player Vicki Boeckman and Ensemble Electra recently released a collection of Sonatas by the composer Francesco Barsanti, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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This song, performed by Johnny Moses, was recorded as part of Greg Fields‘s 2010 Artist Support Program project: a series of recordings with songs, cultural knowledge, and biographical information from two Coast Salish culture-bearers, Moses and Pauline Hillaire.
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Trimpin’s 2003 installation in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Klavier Nonette, contained nine coin-operated, electromechanically played toy pianos capable of playing 41 different pieces, included this composition by Amy Denio.
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Orkestar RTW’s performance of Cupurlika appeared on the 2001 Radost Folk Ensemble album Heirloom, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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This is a short excerpt from Kinski’s soundtrack to the Jim Hobbs installation A CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES, opening in Jack Straw’s New Media Gallery on Friday, December 3rd. The full soundtrack is available for purchase as a limited edition vinyl LP.
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Carletta Carrington Wilson recently recorded several of her poems as part of her 2010 Jack Straw Artist Residency.
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This performance of Jack Straw Resident Artist Rachel Matthews‘s Circle was recorded at Composer Spotlight at Jack Straw on April 14, 2010.
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Dale Speicher’s composition Interstice, recorded during his recent Jack Straw Artist Residency, can be found on the Seattle Percussion Collective’s new album , available from Present Sounds Recordings.
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Jesse Canterbury‘s album Vertigo, recorded during his 2009 Jack Straw artist residency, is now available here. In addition to Canterbury on clarinet and bass clarinet, it features Chris Stover on trombone, Joanne DeMars on cello, and Tom Baker on guitar. Applications for 2011 residencies are due November 1st!
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This song was performed live by Golden Tree Story during Composer Spotlight at Jack Straw Productions on June 9, 2010. Applications for 2011 residencies are available now!
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Elizabeth Falconer’s album Water Colors was recorded during her 1998 Jack Straw artist residency. Applications for 2011 residencies are available now!
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Jim Knodle and Anansi’s album Wending was produced through their 1999 Jack Straw artist residency. Applications for 2011 residencies are available now!
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St. Helens Quartet is currently finishing work on their Jack Straw residency project, including recordings of Ken Benshoof’s Variations on Swing Low.
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Christian Asplund’s Liquid, An Epistolary Opera, was recorded by the Seattle Experimental Opera during his 1999 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Writer Alie Smaalders recorded this story during her 2003 Jack Straw artist residency.
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The band Swampdweller recorded their album My Favorite Monster during their 2005 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Phillip Arnautoff recorded his 16 Variations for Cello during his 2009 Jack Straw artist residency. He will discuss and perform selections from this project at our next Composer Spotlight on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010.
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Byron Au Yong‘s Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas was recorded as part of his 2008 Jack Straw New Media Gallery residency with visual artist Randy Moss.
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Hannah Palin recorded this audio documentary piece during her 2002 Jack Straw artist residency. This is the shorter of two versions.
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Blues for the Splitting Atom is from Ota-Prota’s self-titled EP, recording during their 1998 Jack Straw Artist Residency.
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Dennis Rea’s Views from Chicheng Precipice, partially recorded through his 2007 Jack Straw artist residency, was just released on Moonjune Records.
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Key Line is from Rulon Brown’s album Based on Actual Events, recorded during his 2001 Jack Straw Artist Residency.
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Intonarumori’s self-titled album was recorded during their 1999 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Harlem Nocturne is from Dan Blunck and Mike Bisio’s album Concerted, recorded during their 2000 Jack Straw Artist Residency.
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Tom Swafford’s Dubious Diversions, performed by Beth Fleenor and Tiffany Lin, was recorded during his 2005 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Linda Allen’s Peacebuilding Songs for the Middle East was recorded during her 2007 Jack Straw residency.
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This track is a selection from Noseman: A Twin Absorbed, a radio play created by Janet Wallace and Joseph Zajonc in their 1996 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Pangeo’s album Northern Borders was recorded during their 2000 Jack Straw artist residency.
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The album Coincidentiae Mirables was recorded during Mike Shannon’s 1999 Jack Straw Artist Residency, as a collaboration with Jeph Jerman, Dave Knott, Susie Kozawa, and Miroslaw Rajkowski.
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Ray Holman’s album In Touch was recorded during his 2000 Jack Straw Artist Residency.
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Keeping the Devil Out: Poems and Music for Sabina Spielrein, a collaboration between writer Pamela Moore Dionne and jazz musician Jim Knodle, was recorded during Dionne’s 2001 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Pianist Victor Noriega recorded his album Alay at Jack Straw during his 2005 artist residency.
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Amy Rubin and Dawn Clement recorded their album The Rubin-Clement Piano Dialogues during their 2000 Jack Straw artist residency. They will both be performing as part of Jack Straw’s presentation of Erik Satie’s Vexations on the weekend of May 15th, 2010.
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Nancy Rawles’s My Jim – a companion CD to her novel of the same name – was recorded during her 2004 Jack Straw Artist Residency. This song features Mark Broyard on vocals and Hilliard Greene on bass.
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Chenoa Egawa and Alex Turtle recorded Heartbeat of Life, a collection of Native American prayer songs, during their 2005 Jack Straw residency.
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Karin Kajita recorded the album Letting Go with her jazz quintet during her 2006 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Degenerate Art Ensemble formerly known as Degenerate Art Ensemble , recorded their album Metropolis during their 1998 Jack Straw artist residency.
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The Bella Musica Woodwind Trio’s album Unrolling a Chinese Scroll was recorded during their 1999 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Seattle-based jazz musician Rik Wright’s album Isomorphism was recorded during his 2001 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Ghanaian folk musician Koo Nimo recorded his album Tete Wobi Ka during his 2000 Jack Straw residency.
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The Bird Tribe Orchestra’s album Palace of the Birds was recorded during their 2004 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Jes Raymond recently released the album Even the Trees, recorded during her 2008 Jack Straw Artist Residency.
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Isfahan appears on Cynthia Mullis’s jazz album Inside Job, which was recorded during her 2000 Jack Straw artist residency.
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The album Folkpunch was a collaboration between folk singer Jim Page and spoon player Artis; it was recorded during their 2006 Jack Straw artist residency.
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This song appears on the album Yes Is the Answer, recorded during Grand Hallway’s 2006 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Matsuri Taiko is from Quiet No More, the album Seattle Kokon Taiko recorded during their 1996 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Mezzo-Soprano Amanda Cole recorded her album Saudade – a collection of 20th century Portuguese art songs – with pianist Sandra Cranshaw during her 2008 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Greg Williamson and the Pony boy Large Ensemble recorded Conversations and Deconstructions: Jazz Traditions during Williamson’s 2005 Artist Residency. The album is a recording of a live performance mixing new jazz compositions with sampled interviews of jazz pioneers.
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Reptet recently released Agendacide, a 7″ record recorded during Samantha Boshnack’s 2008 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Sandy Diamond’s album with Quasimodo and the Bellringers, Still Life, was recorded during their 2005 Jack Straw Residency.
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Matt Weiner and Del Rey’s album At the Ukeshack, a collection of bass and ukulele duets, was recorded during their 2006 Jack Straw residency.
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Voulez-Vous Danser is from Yerbabuena’s album Vaiven De Mar, recorded during their 2005 Jack Straw residency.
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Sculptor and sound artist Ela Lamblin recorded his album Tone Pond during his 2000 Jack Straw Artist residency.
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This piece is on Unused Lexical Variable’s self-titled CD, produced during their 2008 Jack Straw Residency.
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Tom Varner‘s album Heaven and Hell – recorded during his 2007 Artist Residency – was just released on Omnitone Records.
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Edinburgh Castle is on 2006 Jack Straw Artist Shulamit Kleinerman’s recent album New New Nothing.
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Sean Osborn recorded his collection of 32 etudes for clarinet by the 19th century clarinetist Cyrille Rose during his 2006 Jack Straw residency.
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Smith and Canterbury’s Collage/Decollage – an album of music for clarinet for two players – was recorded during their 2004 Jack Straw Residency.
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The Michael Owcharuk Sextet’s self-titled CD was recorded during Owcharuk’s 2007 Jack Straw Artist Residency.
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This piece is from Aono Jikken‘s soundtrack to the 1926 Japanese silent film A Page of Madness, recorded during their 1998 Jack Straw artist residency. Aono Jikken will be presenting at Jack Straw’s next Composer Spotlight, on November 11th.
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Tom Baker‘s opera The Gospel of the Red-Hot Stars was performed by Seattle Experimental Opera and recorded during his 2006 Jack Straw Artist Residency.
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Johanna Kunin is this week’s Artist of the Week. This song was recorded during her 2004 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Srivani Jade is this week’s Artist of the Week. She has just released Meera’s Love, the album recorded during her 2008 Artist Residency.
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Ellie Belew is this week’s Artist of the Week. Reverb is from Run Plant Fly, Belew’s 2003 Artist Support Program project, a CD based on her novel of the same name.
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Mark Johnson is this week’s Artist of the Week. Big Metal Boxes – recordings of shipping containers turned into stringed instruments – was recorded as part of the 2005 Artist Support Program, and released by Noise Order Recordings.
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Black Cat Orchestra is this week’s Artist of the Week. They recorded the album Mysteries Explained, which the song “Geçti Dost Kervani” appears on, during their 1999 Jack Straw artist residency.
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This week’s artist is August Denhard. “Courante, Branles Gay” is from his album Cusp of the Baroque, recorded as part of the 2002 Artist Support Program. Denhard and oud player Munir Beken will be talking at Jack Straw’s next Composer Spotlight on Wednesday, September 9th.
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This week’s artist is Emma Zunz, a collaborative project between Annie Lewandowski and Cristin Miller. Their album Bride Laid Bare was recorded as part of the 2005 Artist Support Program, but has not been released.
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This week’s artist is Charlie Burks, whose 2000 Artist Support Program project, Since the Ace, was a combined book and CD of his poems.
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This week’s artist is Vela Luka. “Drmes Iz Zdencine” is from the album Croatian Dance Ensemble, recorded by Doug Haire and Tom Stiles as part of the 1996 Jack Straw Artist Support Program, and released in 1997.
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This week’s artist is flutist Paul Taub, with “Trailblazers,” from his album Oo-ee, which was recorded as part of the 1999 Jack Straw Artist Support Program. To commemorate twenty years of musical activity in the Pacific Northwest, Taub commissioned new works from musicians he had met and worked with in the region. “Trailblazers” was composed by Roger Briggs.
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The first Artist of the Week is Jack Straw Artist Christopher Roberts, whose album Trios for Deep Voices was recorded at Jack Straw by Doug Haire as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program and released by Cold Blue Records.
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 2000 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. The project Safarini: In Transit featured African immigrant artists living in Seattle. In addition to Wawali Bonane, a soukous musician born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Safarini included Obo Addy, Kofi Anang, Lora Chiorah-Dye, and Frank Ulwenya. The Safarini compact disc was released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2000.
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