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2002/05/13 - Monday - 7:00 pm - Re-bar

8th Annual BARE BONES
Benefit for Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance & Improvisation

Dance/Music Performances, Silent Auction, Reception
Monday, May 13, 2002 - Doors open at 7:00 pm, performances at 8:00 pm
Re-bar, 1114 Howell St. (at Boren)
> $10-15 suggested donation, 21+ only
Info: 686-SFAD; info@sfadi.org; www.sfadi.org

Includes performance of "Triangulate", a brand new game piece by SIL2K's own Stuart McLeod. "Triangulate" involves interactions between 3 parties of music (Kevin Goldsmith - Intonarumori), dance (Carmel Post - Lunache) and video (James Drage - Lunache, SIL2K). Other performances by Karen Nelson, Kristin Hapke, Lila Hurwitz, John Dixon and others. DJ AC Lewis (sub_sonic) will be spinning at the after party!

2002/05/10 - Friday - 8:00pm - Portland Art Museum

The SIL2K Ensemble under the gentle curation of Robert Henson will be performing at the final installment of Portland Art Museum's Music at the Museum series. Each performance is inspired by and themed around a particular piece in the museum's collection. In this case, we will be interpreting and deconstructing (well, not physically) Joseph Cornell's "Hotel de la Clef d'Or". Tickets are $10 or $5 for museum members and students. The museum's events calendar has more info.

2002/03/25 - Monday - 9:00pm - Rainbow

The SIL2K Ensemble will be hosting a special evening of Oxygen Lounge, playing some of our game pieces and improvisation strategies. Eveline's Klang! Quintet will also be playing, along with a groovy subset of the SIL2K Ensemble led by Matt Duss.

2002/02/09 - Saturday - 3:00-5:00pm - EMP's Demo Lab

The SIL2K Ensemble will be hosting EMP's Demo Lab, playing and explaining some of our game pieces and improvisation strategies. The show is free with museum admission. We recommend you get there early as seating is limited. Audience participation is encouraged! February's lab will be directed more towards electronic and interactive processing of sound.

2002/01/30 - Wednesday - 9pm - I-Spy

SIL2K and Wake-Up present:

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Degenerate Art Ensemble
Pleaseeasaur

[Press Release]

2002/01/11 - Friday - 7pm - EMP's Skychurch

SIL2K is proud to collaborating with multimedia collective spaceboat.tv for this gigantic event! It is a visual and aural triptych, featuring live music by members of the SIL2K Ensemble, TransAtlantic IceFloe, Maktub's Reggie Watts, Tucker Martine, Eyvind Kang and more! More information is available on EMP's site, here.

2001/11/19 - Last weekly show at I-Spy

Otha Major
Lobot
Manalive vs. MissKick
Zu (Italy) cancelled

2001/11/12 - Special European Showcase - $8

Saadet Türköz (Istanbul/Zurich) w/ Reuben Radding & Brent Arnold
Sikhara
Daniele Brusachetto (Italy)
Jack Wright & the Seattle Plus Octet

[Press Release]

2001/11/05

Yoko Phono
Liquid Voodoo
Spider Music Orquestra

2001/10/29 - SIL2K and Wake-Up present:

Tucker Dulin (CA) & Michael Bullock (MA)
Dave Gross (MA) & Jason Glover
Timeblind cancelled
Takagi Masakatsu (Japan)
Nudge (PDX)

[Press Release]

2001/10/28 - Sunday - 3:00-5:00pm - EMP's Demo Lab

The SIL2K Ensemble hosts EMP's Demo Lab for the afternoon. Audience participation is encouraged! We will play Stuart McLeod's "Hold Music", "Goal-Oriented Value-Added Process Identifiers", "Algorhythm" and Heather Vergotis' "#4".

2001/10/22

Motorbison
Kimmig Huebsch duo (Germany) cancelled
Dennis Rea & Pete Comley
Michael Manring (CA) & Evan Schiller

2001/10/15

xaxis wye
Vena Cava
Shorter Bus

2001/10/08

Yeek Yak Air Force
P.A.N.
Palace of Labor

2001/10/01

Normal Man
Blind Spot Trio (MI/IL)
The SIL2K Ensemble

2001/09/24

Rollerball (PDX)
OVO (Italy)
Voltage Regulator (OR)
Foster, Jenkins, Eubanks Trio

[Press Release]

2001/09/17

Strategy (PDX)
Trummerflora Collective (San Diego)
Knobby

[Press Release]

2001/09/10

A.Frequency
Detonator Beth
Tripod

[Press Release]

2001/09/03 - No Show (Labor Day)

2001/08/27

Hat and Beard
Byron Au Yong
The SIL2K Ensemble: Stuart McLeod's "Algorhythm" and "GO/VAPId!"

[Press Release]

2001/08/20

Knotty Ensemble (BC/OR)
Brent Arnold's "Thickness"
Maximum Coherence During Flying CD release

[Press Release]

2001/08/13

Vance Galloway
Kim Cascone (SF)
Brian Allen (TX)

[Press Release]

2001/08/06

Pinebox
Stinkhorn
Oxygen Ensemble

2001/07/30

Nequaquam Vacuum
Entropic Advance
The SIL2K Ensemble: Jim Knodle's "Tiny Boxes"

2001/07/23 - Unit Circle Rekkid Release

Intonarumori
Amy Denio
Degenerate Art Ensemble
Bill Horist

2001/07/16

Conditional Love
Jessica Lurie / Will Dowd
Filles De Killimanjaro

2001/07/09

SIL2K and I-Spy present a Benefit for Home Alive
"Venus and Mars"
featuring new music for porn videos
filtered porn videos by Humanlab
with a live score by Ota Prota
Riz Rollins and other guest poets and painters

2001/07/02

Laundryroom Lullaby Unit
King Leah
Margo Lauritzen
Eyvind Kang and Timothy Young with Joan Laage
Local Buddha

2001/06/25

SIL2K and Infinite Productions present:
DJ Spooky
Masters of Illusion featuring Kutmasta Kurt & Motion Man
Sientific American (live set)

2001/06/18

3and2
Magic Sleep (NY)
Spider Music Orquestra

2001/06/11

Aiko Shimada
Motorbison (featuring Jessica Lurie)
Awkward Star

2001/06/04

Mothra (Eveline Müller-Graf, Cedric Ross, Jim Knodle)
Bran (Another plight of medicısS) Pos
Oxygen Ensemble

2001/05/28

The SIL2K Ensemble
Ernesto Diaz-Infante (San Fransisco) / Chris Forsyth (Brooklyn)
Euphorbia

2001/05/21

SIL2K and SFADI present
"Bare Bones" benefit for Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance & Improvisation
[Press Release]

2001/05/14

Philip Gayle (Houston)
Moonbabies (Sweden)
Clocked Out (Australia)
Boris Hauf (Vienna)

2001/05/07

TransAtlantic IceFloe
Office Products (Portland)
Goat Faux

2001/04/30

The SIL2K Ensemble: Stuart McLeod's "Interchange"
This Room
Tokyo Sex Whale

2001/04/23

Brent Arnold, Lori Goldston, Serena Tideman - Cello Trio
Manalive vs. MissKick
Holz Für Europa (Switzerland/Germany/Netherlands)

2001/04/16 - cancelled because of I-Spy remodelling

3and2
Untet featuring Arrington de Dionyso (Olympia)
Oxygen Ensemble

Saturday 2001/04/14 at EMP - 3:00 - 5:00

SIL2K returns to EMP to host the Demo Lab for the afternoon.
We'll be playing and explaining Stuart McLeod's "Pulse/Impulse"
and "Hold Music", Jesse Canterbury's "Palettes" and John Zorn's "COBRA".

2001/04/09

Serena Tideman
Bill Horist meets Plastiq Phantom
TikTok and D-rage: "Fou Reach"

2001/04/02

Nice Nice
Mome Raths / Strategy (Portland)
Greg Sinibaldi Trio (with Bob Rees and Reuben Radding)

2001/03/26

Ghidra
Ruins (Japan)

Wednesday 2001/03/21 at Broadway Performance Hall

CoBrew & PA RT, a new symphonic improvisational dance and music event
joins the oldest known improvisational duet, will be presented on
March 21, 2001, 8PM, at Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway.

2001/03/19

"Four Constructs by Detonator Beth and Associated Enterprisers:
  Radding, Post, Muhs, McLeod, Kundzins, Horist, Drage, and Armstrong"
Axolotl
The SIL2K Ensemble: Stuart McLeod's "Interchange"

2001/03/12

Wally Shoup with Reuben Radding and Bob Rees
Jack Wright with Ben Wright
Resonants

2001/03/05

rebreather
The Stools
Matt Shoemaker

2001/02/26

HighRize
John Schuller's MuSickness
The SIL2K Ensemble: Terry Reilly's "In C"

2001/02/19

TransAtlantic IceFloe
Child Proof (bring your toy instruments!)
Glist

2001/02/12

Saadet Türköz (from Istanbul/Zurich)
Arianna Lewis: Project Nada
Eveline Muller-Graf

2001/02/05

Troy Swanson
Ffej
xaxis wye

2001/02/03 - SIL2K and the Fuse Foundation present FuseBall

Igniting Seattle February 3rd, 2001. Outrageous attire expected.

Music by La Movida, Ota Prota, IQU, sub_sonic, Bill Horist, DJ jjustice, Crystal Radio, Plastiq Phantom, and others!

2001/01/30 - SIL2K 1-Year Anniversary Part II

Plastiq Phantom (DJ set)
Los Parasitos (featuring Eyvind Kang and Timothy Young)
King Leah and the Rainbow Surprise (members of Rollerball & A.Frequency)
Sir Real

2001/01/29 - SIL2K 1-Year Anniversary Part I

Mount Analog
Stuart Dempster and Amy Denio
Bill Horist
The SIL2K Ensemble plays Jesse Canterbury's "Palettes" between sets

2001/01/22

Oxygen Ensemble
3and2 cancelled due to illness
Tro Shink (from Portland)

2001/01/15

Stinkhorn
Les Voix Vulgaires (Amy Denio, King Leah, Detonator Beth)
Nice Nice

2001/01/13

Experience Music Project
Demo Lab: SIL2K

A special interactive performance of Stuart McLeod's "Pulse/Impulse" and Robert Henson's "Graffika".

2001/01/08

Beds (from Portland)
Rick Bishop (Sun City Girls) & Jason Glover (Tripod)
Maximum Coherence During Flying

2001/01/01

Matt Shoemaker
The Stools
The SIL2K Ensemble

Show cancelled due to damage to I-Spy from previous night's New Year's Eve party.

2000/12/18

Sir Real
Troy Swanson
Musickness (Christmas in Hell)

Show cancelled - instead a special benefit show for Peace (of Peace of Soul)
featuring Saul Williams!

2000/12/11 - Music and Computers (a.k.a. Laptop Dancing)

J-Lab
Solenoid
2up Technologies

DJ jjustice between sets

2000/12/04

Airage (DJ Aaron and Jadie on 4 decks)
Orgazmo the Clown (featuring former Super Sonic Soul Pimps)
Plier

2000/11/30 - Thursday After-Hours at the SAM

Seattle Art Museum
Thursday After Hours
The SIL2K Ensemble plays "Hold Music", "Pulse/Impulse", "Graffika"
and John Zorn's "Cobra" w/ guest dancers and projections

2000/11/27 - No Show (Thanksgiving)

2000/11/20

Trepanning Drill
Sparrowform
Tongues

2000/11/13

James Drage and Carmel Post: "Barg'n Surgical"
Metal Men
soulBOIL

DJs Thrift and Mofo in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/11/06 - Trio Night

Jackhammer Trio
Teleologic
Reuben Radding Trio

"Airage": DJ Aaron and D-Rage on 4 decks in the mezzanine

2000/10/30

Mutant Data Orchestra
Brent Arnold's "Thickness"
Child Proof

Tiktok in the mezzanine

2000/10/23

P. A. N.
Degenerate Art Ensemble
Yeek Yak Air Force

Model 563 and DJ Floormatt in the mezzanine

2000/10/16

Zahir
SIL2K Ensemble: "Hold Music"
Electrochakra

DJ jjustice and Mark Johnson in the mezzanine

2000/10/09

Ghidra
Intoning Silence
Rollerball

xaxis wye and DJ Jim Deal in the mezzanine

2000/10/02

The Grandmothers

featuring former members of the Mothers of Invention

The Frankophile MotherMix project in the mezzanine

 [Press Release]

2000/09/25

Mike Bisio / Dan Blunck - CD Release Party
Lisa DeFrance and Melanie Noel
Dennis Rea

DJs Thrift and Mofo in the mezzanine

2000/09/18 - HipSync Records Night

Disjunkt
Tony Grasso Saxophone Quartet? & Greta Nintzel
Rik Wright & Guests

DJ Vegan and Sarah-O in the mezzanine

2000/09/11

Sinister Kitchen
Ffej and Blue Tarp Boy
King Leah (China, Ümlaüt) meets King Frog (Noggin)

Model 563 in the mezzanine

2000/09/04

Cathy Sorbo
DJ Aaron
SIMURG

Tiktok in the mezzanine

2000/09/03 - "Film at Eleven"

A special Sunday show cohosted with One Reel Productions!

Featuring:

Improvisational film scores by the SIL2K Ensemble
Ota Prota
Francisco Lopez (from Madrid)

DJ Aaron, DJ jjustice and D-Rage in the mezzanine

2000/08/28

Global Warmers
DJ Diskyze
southleft

DJ jjustice and 2up Technologies in the mezzanine

2000/08/26 - SIL2K Night of Games!

A special evening at Consolidated Works! All proceeds go to the Tentacle!

All of our game pieces and premiere of some brand new ones, including Kevin Goldsmith's "Notebook" and Seth Howard's "Broadcast".

More details are available at Consolidated Works.

[Press Release]

2000/08/21

Wesley Davis and John Schuller
Kid Lucky
X vs. Z

inRAGE (D-rage and inBOIL) in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/08/14

Kate Widdows and j-lab
Abigail Grush and the Phantom Beat
Model 563

DJ Aaron and Ffej in the mezzanine

2000/08/07

Trepanning Drill
China
Ümlaüt
with cheers by The Art Cheerleaders

SIL2K Death Metal Remix Project in the mezzanine

2000/07/31

James Drage's "Instant Score!"
Project W
Shorter Bus

DJ jjustice and Planck in the mezzanine

2000/07/24

Blind Date
Bastille Band
Tiktok

DJ Aaron and DJ FloorMatt in the mezzanine

2000/07/17

Manhounds of Antares
Your Cell: Yourself
Axolotl
Rik Wright / DJ Vegan

DJ D-rage and 2up Technologies in the mezzanine

2000/07/10

No Holds Barred Jam featuring the SIL2K players
(King Leah - vocals & toys, Erik Bauer - trumpet, Ruben Radding - contrabass, Seth Howard - drums & percussion, Aaron Lewis - turntable, Stuart McLeod - vibraphone & percussion, John Schuller - guitar, Carl Farr0w - bass, James Drage - clarinet & found items)
Douglas Theriault & James Boring
Chad Kirby

Dave Knott and Steve Barsotti in the mezzanine

2000/07/03

performance. art. network.
Tony Grasso Saxophone Quartet?
DJ jjustice

debris and soultheft. in the mezzanine

2000/06/28 - 15th Seattle Improvised Music Festival

Featuring:

Toshi Makihara, Wally Shoup and Michael Bisio
Bill Horist vs. Douglas Theriault (from Portland)
John Zorn's COBRA: Returntables
Robert Henson's "Graffika": Turntables

and in the mezzanine:

soultheft. / John Schuller
inBOIL / DJ jjustice
Intonarumori

[Press Release]

2000/06/26

Anansi (with Jim Knodle)
Tripod
Mutant Data Orchestra/Euphorbia

DJ Aaron and Mark Johnson in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/06/19

Steve Barsotti
Minus+ (with Fred Chalenor)
inscrutable-d (Dave Knott)

DJ jjustice and Jason Glover in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/06/12

electrĝn love theory
soultheft.
DJ Aaron

inBOIL DJ set with DJ Aleph and j-lab/k.widdows in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/06/05

Amy Denio & Fred Chalenor
A.Frequency
rebreather

DJ D-rage and 2up Technologies in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/05/31

Reggie Watts
Barricade
sub_sonic

DJ Aaron and D-rage in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/05/24

Ota Prota
Harry Pierce

DJ Aaron and Cap'n Piledriver in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/05/17 - Road Trip Showcase

Rollerball (from Portland)
Kaffe Matthews (from London, England)
Come Winter (from New York)
Stuart McLeod's "Caged"
DJs Aaron and D-Rage

[Press Release]

2000/05/10

The Herb Levies
Seattle Guitar Circle w/ slides by Ingrid Pape-Sheldon
Carl Farr0w's "Concord"
DJs Aaron and D-Rage

[Press Release]

2000/05/03

Stuart McLeod's "Caged"
Infusion
Disjunkt
Thermogenesis with this->

DJ Aaron, DJ jjustice and Carl in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/04/26

Jeff Greinke
Ham and Treachery
Carl Farr0w's "Concord" for mobile musicians

DJ Aaron and DJ FloorMatt in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/04/19

entropic advance
Soundrangers
xaxis wye

DJ Aaron and DJ jjustice in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/04/12

Unit Circle Rekkids Night, with:

Amy Denio
Intonarumori
Bill Horist
Eveline Muller-Graf with John Schuller

DJ Aaron, Free and D-rage in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/04/05

Jalopaz
MNE-MIC (featuring Mayuko Hino of C.C.C.C. & Butoh dancer Ranko Onishi)
inBOIL

DJ Aaron and Ken Wallace (from Groovetech) in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/03/29

Robert Henson's "Graffika"
Degenerate Art Ensemble: Excerpts from "Razor Stitch"
electrĝn love theory with Thermogenesis

[Press Release]

2000/03/22

DJ Azrael
Bill Horist vs. DJ jjustice (now known as Tablet)
Your Cell: Yourself (formerly Meanderthal)

DJ Aaron, Free and D-rage in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/03/15

Rick Bishop (of Sun City Girls)
Climax Golden Twins
John Zorn's COBRA: Turntables

DJ Aaron and D-rage in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/03/08

A.Frequency
Noggin
Stuart McLeod's "Pulse/Impulse"

DJ Aaron, D-rage and Ryan in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/03/01

soultheft.
Elaine di Falco's Fabric
John Zorn's COBRA: Percussion
also: spoken word by Gita

DJ Aaron, Free and D-rage in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/02/23

Robert Henson's "Graffika"
Power Lounge Experimental Ensemble
Amy Denio

DJ Aaron and Free in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/02/16

Intonarumori
Seattle Guitar Circle
Film: "Saffron Burroughs"

DJ D-rage in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/02/09

inBOIL
Bill Horist
Robert Henson's "Graffika"

DJ Aaron and Free in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/02/02

Stuart Dempster, Loren Dempster, Greg Campbell
Stuart McLeod's "Pulse/Impulse": Gross Concerto with Stuart and Loren Dempster
John Zorn's COBRA with Tuning Score

DJ Aaron and Free in the mezzanine

[Press Release]

2000/01/26

Stuart Dempster
John Zorn's COBRA with Tuning Score
Stuart McLeod's "Pulse/Impulse"

DJ Aaron and Free in the mezzanine

[Press Release]