NORTHWEST EXPERIMENTAL GUITAR ORCHESTRA
Lorin Benedict + CASEY TESSIER
THE NORTHWEST EXPERIMENTAL GUITAR ORCHESTRA is a Seattle-based ensemble of musicians from diverse performative backgrounds. They perform new works that explore alternative methods of scoring, conducting, and technology integration, favoring methods that avoid traditional Western music notation, making participation accessible to everyone, regardless of background, training, or education. They will perform a suite of three compositions inspired by particle physics. All movements are guided without a live conductor, each using a different form of audio or visual technological guidance.
Lorin Benedict is a California-based improvising vocalist (scat singer, essentially), who operates in the fields of jazz and jazz-adjacent music. He specializes in small group improvisations (solo, duo, trio), in which structured forms are addressed in a manifestly loose and playful way.
CASEY TESSIER is a professional tap dance artist and award-winning percussionist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has devoted her life to honoring, sharing, and advancing percussive dance as an instrumental medium for representation, communication, and inspiration.
Cost: $20 (FREE students/seniors/underemployed)