#26: 2011 by SIMF

The 26th Seattle Improvised Music Festival was curated by Gust Burns (with suggestions by Steve Peters) and presented by Seattle Improvised Music and Nonsequitur at the Good Shepherd Center Chapel. Recordings of the final night of this festival are currently MIA. Anyone having other recordings, photos, or written recollections of the 2011 festival is encouraged to share, and they will be added to this album.

Participating artists:
Jeffrey Allport, percussion (Vancouver, BC)
Gill Arno, radios (NYC)
Gust Burns, piano
Lou Cohen, laptop/Csound + Wiimotes (Boston)
James Coleman, theremin (Boston)
Mark Collins, bass
Paul Hoskin, contrabass clarinet
Andrew Lafkas, bass (NYC)
Radu Malfatti, trombone (Vienna)
Mara Sedlins, viola
Wilson Shook, alto saxophone
John Teske, bass
Tyler Wilcox, soprano saxophone

Wednesday, February 9:
Solo - Andrew Lafkas
Solo - James Coleman
Trio - Gill Arno, Wilson Shook [Note: Mara Sedlins was scheduled to play on this set but was absent due to illness.]
Trio - Jeffrey Allport, Gust Burns, Tyler Wilcox

Thursday, February 10:
Duo - Jeffrey Allport, Andrew Lafkas
Duo - Lou Cohen, Paul Hoskin
Quartet - Gust Burns, Andrew Lafkas, Radu Malfatti, Tyler Wilcox

Friday, February 11:
Trio - James Coleman, Mark Collins, Mara Sedlins
Solo - Lou Cohen
Sextet - Jeffrey Allport, Gill Arno, Gust Burns, Lou Cohen, James Coleman, Andrew Lafkas

Saturday, February 12 (not recorded?):
Duo - Gill Arno, Andrew Lafkas
Eleventet- Jeffrey Allport, Gill Arno, Gust Burns, Lou Cohen, James Coleman, Andrew Lafkas, Radu Malfatti, Mara Sedlins, Wilson Shook, John Teske, Tyler Wilcox
Solo - Radu Malfatti

Initiated in 1986 by Paul Hoskin, the Seattle Improvised Music Festival is perhaps the longest running festival of free improvised music in North America.

More material will be added here as it emerges. We welcome contributions.

Artists wishing to have their recordings removed will be accommodated upon request.