Wayward Music Series: Honoring Tari Nelson-Zagar
Free
- Jesse Canterbury, clarinet
- Eric Rynes, violin
- Gust Burns, piano
- Paul Rucker
- Sheri Cohen, dance
- Daisy Zajonc
- Greg Campbell, percussion
- Christian Asplund
- Andrew Drury, drums
- Stuart Dempster, trombone
- Tom Baker, guitar
- Lori Goldston, cello
- Jim Knodle, trumpet
Tari Nelson-Zagar was a special part of the Pacific Northwest music community, moving with ease between free improvisation, jazz, and new & old classical music. She was known for her musical skill, keen intellect, and generous and humorous personality. Tari "transitioned off-planet" (in her words) last October, after a tragically short battle with breast cancer. Join us for a concert of remembrances and music as we honor Tari through words, sound, and movement.
Participants include Jesse Canterbury, Eric Rynes, Gust Burns, Paul Rucker, Sheri Cohen, Daisy Zajonc, Michael Zachary, Greg Campbell, Christian Asplund, Andrew Drury, Stuart Dempster, Tom Baker, Lori Goldston, and Jim Knodle.
In lieu of a traditional admission fee, we will accept voluntary donations on Tari's behalf to Community Passageways.
About Wayward Music Series
Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present 10 concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center: contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics.
https://www.waywardmusic.org/About Eric Rynes, violin
About Gust Burns, piano
About Sheri Cohen, dance
About Greg Campbell, percussion
About Andrew Drury, drums
About Stuart Dempster, trombone
About Tom Baker, guitar
Tom Baker is a composer, guitarist, improviser, and electronic musician who has been active in the Seattle new-music scene since arriving in 1994. He is the artistic director of the Seattle Composers’ Salon, co-founder of the Seattle EXperimental Opera (SEXO), and founder of the new-music recording label Present Sounds Recordings.
"...the acoustical rendition of a Jackson Pollack painting."
— Twenty-First Century Music
Tom’s compositions have been performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He writes chamber music, opera, and electronic music, as well as music for percussion, chamber orchestra, dance, film, and chorus. His work traverses themes of grief, loss, redemption, and perseverance, through a combination of sound exploration, electronic improvisation, and musical form and structure. He has been in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Montalvo Arts Center, and his music is published by Frog Peak Music.
"…a delicate, eccentric compositional sense and a tendency
toward unruly improvisation."
— Time Out New York
Tom is also a scholar and educator and has recently presented work to the Society for Minimalist Music in Wales UK, and to the International Conference on the Arts in Society in Vancouver BC. He is a Professor of Music at Cornish College of the Arts where he teaches composition, music theory, and electronic music. His most recent article was published in Perspectives of New Music in July, 2020.
"Alarmingly restrained, yet evocative,created with great care
and structured structurelessness. The space is the music."
— ADD Reviews
Tom is active as a performer and improviser, specializing in fretless guitar and live-electronics. His band TRIPTET recently released its fourth album, Slowly, Away, on Engine Records. His electronic-interactive-arts collaboration with visual artist Robert Campbell called Manifold2 was was featured in the MoxSonic festival in 2019 and excerpts from their new opera-in-progress called The Language of Change were featured in the Current’s New Media festival in 2020.
"Tom Baker’s music plies the shadowy territory between
form, isolation, and silence."
— The Stranger
About Lori Goldston, cello
Lori Goldston is a cellist and composer from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist draws connections between far-flung approaches and explores timbral thresholds of her instrument, driven by a restless curiosity and informed by a long, widely varied history of collaborations with bands, ensembles large and small, composers, film makers and choreographers. She performs throughout the US and abroad, and has released recordings on Sub Rosa, Woodland Fauna, Marginal Frequency, Yo Yo, K Records, Second Editions, Sub Pop, Mississippi, Eiderdown, Substrata, State 51, Ed Banger, Full Spectrum, PIAPTK, SofaBurn, Broken Clover, and No Sun.
https://www.lorigoldston.com/