Nov
9
to Feb 15

EXTRADITION PLAYS GOLDSTEIN

Our four-concert EXTRADITION PLAYS GOLDSTEIN series continues with two more concerts celebrating composer, violinist, and improvisation legend Malcolm Goldstein.

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JANUARY 25, 2025

On and On and Always Slowly Nowhere (1983): Sam Klapper (violin)

Bridging the Gap (1987): Shao Way Wu (bass), Collin Oldham (cello)

Broken Canons (for Charles Ives) (2011): Catherine Lee (English horn), Kara Lane (bassoon), Sam Klapper (violin), Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass)

The Rich and Complex Vocabulary of a Percussionist’s Body/Gesture (1982): Matt Hannafin (percussion)

The Violence of Small Sounds (1984): Catherine Lee (English horn), Kara Lane (bassoon), Sam Klapper (violin), Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass), Juniana Lanning (percussion), Loren Chasse (percussion), Matt Hannafin (percussion)

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Jade Mountain Soundings (1983): Collin Oldham (cello)

That Is Poetry As (1993): Sam Klapper (violin), Matt Hannafin (percussion)

Marin’s Song, Illuminated (1979): Annie Gilbert (trombone), Reed Wallsmith (alto sax), Shao Way Wu (bass), Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice), Juniana Lanning (percussion, objects), Loren Chasse (percussion, objects), Matt Hannafin (percussion, objects)

The Seasons: Vermont (Winter) (1983): Matt Carlson (piano), Catherine Lee (English horn), Kara Lane (bassoon), Sam Klapper (violin), Collin Oldham (cello), Loren Chasse (percussion), Matt Hannafin (percussion)

Configurations in Darkness (1995): Catherine Lee (English horn), Kara Lane (bassoon), Reed Wallsmith (alto sax), Sam Klapper (violin), Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass)

AS A LONG CODA TO THESE CONCERTS, the remaining three seasons of Goldstein’s cycle “The Seasons: Vermont” will be performed as part of our spring, summer, and fall 2025 concerts.

Malcolm Goldstein (b. 1936, Brooklyn, NY) is an American-Canadian composer, violinist, and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance internationally for more than six decades. In 1960 he received an M.A. in music composition from Columbia University, where he studied with Otto Luening. Later that decade, he co-founded the Tone Roads Ensemble with Philip Corner and James Tenney and was a participant in the Judson Dance Theater, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde, and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. As a solo performer, Goldstein’s “soundings” improvisations have reinvented the sonic and expressive possibilities of the violin, and as a composer he has consistently integrated new performance techniques and aspects of structured improvisation into a variety of instrumental and vocal frameworks. He has also written extensively on improvisation, most notably in his book Sounding the Full Circle.

EXTRADITIONS PLAYS GOLDSTEIN is supported by a grant from the

 
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Apr
19
7:30 PM19:30

2025 Spring Concert

Five compositions that rely on or honor influences from the outside world.

Cat Hope, Wanderlust (2018)

Malcolm Goldstein, The Seasons: Vermont (Spring) (1983)

Matt Hannafin, SETI Sessions (2018)

Barbara Benari, Fair Ellen (1971/1992)

Jennie C. Jones, Score Against Sustained Ideas (Getragen) (2011)

Participating musicians TBA. Program is subject to change.

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Jun
14
7:30 PM19:30

2025 Summer Concert

Five compositions that explore different ways of structuring or inspiring improvisation.

Taku Sugimoto, Lines (2020)

Juniana Lanning, Little Mind (2024)

Malcolm Goldstein, The Seasons: Vermont (Summer) (1983)

Matt Hannafin, East Germany, 1961 (2023)

Sharon Gal, Etudes (2023)

Participating musicians TBA. Program subject to change.

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Oct
18
7:30 PM19:30

2025 Fall Concert

Five compositions to close out our 2025 season—including the last section of Malcolm Goldstein’s The Seasons: Vermont, marking the close of our extended EXTRADITION PLAYS GOLDSTEIN celebration.

Mats Dimming, Three Notes (2014)

Peter Schuback, L’Heure Du Panurge (2004)

Ioanna Valsamara, Inevitable Cosmos (chaos as a percentage) (2022)

Samuel Vriezen, Ten Readers (2008)

Malcolm Goldstein, The Seasons: Vermont (Autumn) (1983)

Participating musicians TBA. Program subject to change.

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Jan
17
to Feb 21

EXTRADITION PLAYS TENNEY

In 1963 composer-performers Philip Corner, Malcolm Goldstein, and James Tenney founded Tone Roads, an ensemble and concert series that took as its starting point American experimentalist masters such as Ives, Ruggles, Cowell, and Varèse, and extended to contemporary figures such as Cage, Feldman, Earle Brown, Messiaen, and Webern, as well as the ensemble’s members.

Following our presentation of EXTRADITION PLAYS CORNER in 2023 and EXTRADITION PLAYS GOLDSTEIN in 2024–25, we will complete our tribute to these three great masters of the American experimental tradition by presenting EXTRADITION PLAYS TENNEY, with concerts in January and February 2026.

CONCERT #1

To Weave (a Meditation) (2003)

For Percussion Perhaps, or . . . (1971)

Improvisation for Cello (1956)

Koan (1984)

Harmonium #2 (1977)

Beast (1971)

CONCERT #2

Poem (1955)

Swell Piece (1967)

Swell Piece 2 (1971)

Swell Piece 3 (1971)

Saxony (1978)

Participating musicians TBA. Programs subject to change.

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Jul
20
7:30 PM19:30

2024 Summer Concert

Our 2024 Summer Concert goes intimate, with three solo pieces, two duos, and a concluding group performance.

Olivia Digby-Barker, Luminescence (2021): Sam Klapper (violin), Daniel Reyes Llinás (guitar)

Joanna Ward, Translucent (2020): Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice), Collin Oldham (cello)

Toshio Hosokawa, Small Chant (2012): Collin Oldham (cello)

Alexis Porfiriadis, Aria (2010–11): Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice)

Leah Asher, Neither Near nor Far (2013): Matt Hannafin (wood, paper)

Clara de Asis, Nothing Has Changed Everything’s Different (2020): Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice + objects), Annie Gilbert (voice + objects), Collin Oldham (cello), Sam Klapper (violin), Daniel Reyes Llinás (guitar), Matt Hannafin (percussion)

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Apr
27
7:30 PM19:30

2024 Spring Concert

Our spring concert draws its pieces from A Year of Deep Listening, a project of the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer. For twelve months beginning May 30, 2022, the center celebrated what would have been composer Pauline Oliveros’s 90th year by publishing a text score every day, sourced from hundreds of composers worldwide.

Grace Harper, Water, Wood, Stone, Breath (2022): Stephanie Lavon Trotter (words, book), Juniana Lanning (water, vessels), Loren Chasse (pebbles, basket)

Seth Cluett, No Small Matter (2022): Catherine Lee, Juniana Lanning, Annie Gilbert, Loren Chasse, Matt Hannafin (natural objects)

Nikki Krumwiede, Crickets (2021): Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass), Sam Klapper (violin), Maxx Katz (flute), Catherine Lee (English horn), Ben Cohen-Chen (soprano saxophone), Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice)

Joseph Clayton Mills, Immanuel Kant (2022): Juniana Lanning, Annie Gilbert, Caspar Sonnet, Loren Chasse, Matt Hannafin (household objects)

Hassan Estakhrian, Roles of a Machine (2021): Maxx Katz (flute), Annie Gilbert (trombone), Ben Cohen-Chen (soprano saxophone), Caspar Sonnet (dobro), Sam Klapper (violin), Shao Way Wu (bass), Collin Oldham (cello)

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Feb
10
7:30 PM19:30

2024 Winter Concert

Extradition explores the Old School in our rescheduled winter concert:

Malcolm Goldstein, Gentle Rain Preceding Mushrooms (1992): Stephanie Lavon Trotter (soprano), Sam Klapper (violin)

Annea Lockwood, Bayou-Borne, for Pauline (2016): Maxx Katz (flute), Daniel Reyes Llinás (guitar), Shao Way Wu (bass), Collin Oldham (cello), Sam Klapper (violin), Reed Wallsmith (alto saxophone)

Philip Corner, 148 Equal Measures for Four Instruments (1950s): Reed Wallsmith (alto saxophone), Maxx Katz (flute), Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass)

John Cage, Variations VIII (1978): Juniana Lanning, Matt Hannafin, Caspar Sonnet, Joel Nelson, Sam Klapper (found sounds)

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Unbegrenzt (1968): Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice, piano), Sam Klapper (violin), Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass), Matt Hannafin (percussion)

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Oct
21
7:30 PM19:30

2023 Fall Concert

Our fall concert explores shapes and evolving form.

Ryoko Akama, Object Performance (2014) — Loren Chasse, Matt Hannafin, Juniana Lanning, Annie Gilbert (objects)

Marianne Schuppe, Behind (2019–20) — Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice), Matt Hannafin (voice, percussion), Ben Cohen-Chen (voice, saxophone)

Nomi Epstein, Structured Improvisation #1.19 (2019) — Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass), Sam Klapper (violin), Juniana Lanning (electronics), Daniel Reyes Llinás (guitar), Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice), Annie Gilbert (trombone), Ben Cohen-Chen (saxophone), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Loren Chasse (percussion)

Thomas Stiegler, Märchenbilder I  (2013)— Sam Klapper (violin), Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass)

Sarah Hughes, Stones Fall to the Sea (2023) — Stephanie Lavon Trotter (piano), Juniana Lanning (electronics), Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass), Sam Klapper (violin), Daniel Reyes Llinás (guitar)

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Jul
22
7:30 PM19:30

2023 Summer Concert

Extradition moves to our summer home for this intimate performance, featuring five mostly electro-acoustic compositions:

Morton Feldman, The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar (1966) — Daniel Reyes Llinás (guitar)

Luke NIckel, Duet: Multivariants (2013) — Collin Oldham (cello) and Matt Hannafin (vibraphone)

Paul Newland, Locus (2013) — Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice), Juniana Lanning (electronics), Matt Hannafin (percussion), and Caspar Sonnet (dobro)

Stefan Thut, Imprints (2010–11) — Daniel Reyes Llinás (guitar), Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice), Collin Oldham (cello), and Juniana Lanning (electronics)

Eva-Maria Houben, Von Da Nach Da (2005) — Caspar Sonnet (dobro), Collin Oldham (cello), and Matt Hannafin (vibraphone)

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Apr
22
7:30 PM19:30

2023 Spring Concert

Extradition’s 2023 Spring Concert will feature five pieces that use varied compositional approaches to drive interpretational freedom.

Yuji Takahashi, Stone for Cello (1993) — Collin Oldham (cello)

Glenn Sogge, The Levitation of Small Objects (1970) — Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice), Maxx Katz (flute), Brandon Conway (guitar), Matt Hannafin (vibraphone)

Ganavya Doraiswamy, Rajna Swaminathan, Anya Yermakova, The Archipelago (2021) — Catherine Lee (oboe), Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass), Caspar Sonnet (melodica)

Sophie L. Stone, Postcard-Sized Pieces (2020) — Annie Gilbert (trombone), Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice), Loren Chasse (objects, sounds), Brandon Conway (guitar), Juniana Lanning (electronics, field recordings), Maxx Katz (flute)

Matt Hannafin, Small Pieces (not Philip’s) (2022) — Francisco Botello (electronics), Juniana Lanning (electronics), Sam Klapper (violin), Shao Way Wu (bass), Collin Oldham (cello)

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Feb
18
7:30 PM19:30

EXTRADITION PLAYS CORNER: Concert 5 of 5

Composer Philip Corner (b. 1933) is one of the greats of 20th- and 21st-century experimental music. Active since the late 1950s, he’s composed thousands of works exploring the intersection of the classical tradition, post–John Cage experimentalism, and the impulse to forge true creative collaboration between composer and performer.

Concert 5 of 5 concludes our five-week EXTRADITION PLAYS CORNER festival with six pieces representing sixty years of Corner’s career.

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When They Pull the Plug (2002) – Loren Chasse and Matt Hannafin (percussion)

Electro-Acoustics (2009) – Francisco Botello, Matt Carlson, and Juniana Lanning (electronics), Loren Chasse, Tim DuRoche, and Matt Hannafin (percussion)

Homage to Revere (1962) – Loren Chasse, Tim DuRoche, Matt Hannafin, and Juniana Lanning (percussion)

Attempting Whitenesses (1964) – Robert Blatt (eBow guitar), Francisco Botello (electronics), Brandon Conway (eBow guitar), Matt Hannafin (bowed vibraphone), Branic Howard (eBow guitar), and Juniana Lannning (electronics)

The Art of No-Art (2019–2022) – Matt Carlson (piano)

Through the Mysterious Barricade (2003) – Matt Carlson (piano), Juniana Lanning (sampled percussion), Matt Hannafin (vibraphone, percussion), Evan Cordes (gamelan gongs), Loren Chasse (percussion), and Tim DuRoche (drums)

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Feb
11
7:30 PM19:30

EXTRADITION PLAYS CORNER: Concert 4 of 5

Composer Philip Corner (b. 1933) is one of the greats of 20th- and 21st-century experimental music. Active since the late 1950s, he’s composed thousands of works exploring the intersection of the classical tradition, post–John Cage experimentalism, and the impulse to forge true creative collaboration between composer and performer.

From January 21 to February 18, Portland’s Extradition Ensemble will present five consecutive Saturday concerts of Corner’s music. Concert 4 of 5 is a concert of dance, exploring Corner's long association with modern and contemporary dance via five pieces composed between 1967 and 2008.

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Presence (1995) – Loren Chasse, Matt Hannafin, Maxx Katz, Juniana Lanning, and Caspar Sonnet (percussion), with dancers Linda Austin and Danielle Ross

La Bella Infinita (2001) – Loren Chasse (percussion), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Branic Howard (guitar), Juniana Lanning (percussion), and Caspar Sonnet (dobro), with dancer Danielle Ross

Sounds, Austere, for Elegant Rooms (1960s) – Annie Gilbert (trombone), Matt Hannafin (psaltery, percussion), Maxx Katz (flute), Caspar Sonnet (dobro), and Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice)

3 for Phyllis for Some Things (1967) – Loren Chasse (percussion), Annie Gilbert (trombone, voice), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Branic Howard (percussion), Maxx Katz (flute, voice), and Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice), with dancers Linda Austin and Danielle Ross

A Day in the Life (or a Moment) (or More) (approx. 2008) – Linda Austin (dance, images), Matt Hannafin (voice, images), and Juniana Lanning (voice, images)

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Feb
4
7:30 PM19:30

EXTRADITION PLAYS CORNER: Concert 3 of 5

Composer Philip Corner (b. 1933) is one of the greats of 20th- and 21st-century experimental music. Active since the late 1950s, he’s composed thousands of works exploring the intersection of the classical tradition, post–John Cage experimentalism, and the impulse to forge true creative collaboration between composer and performer.

From January 21 to February 18, Portland’s Extradition Ensemble will present five consecutive Saturday concerts of Corner’s music. Concert 2 of 5 presents a free sound walk exploring Corner's impulse to appreciate every "piece of reality" as a work of art in its own right.

Led by Extradition’s Matt Hannafin, the walk will follow the simple format of walks Corner began conducting in New York in 1966 and later expanded on in his 1980 book I Can Walk Through the World as Music.

Participants meet between 7:15 and 7:30pm at the Trio sculpture, a 2013 art installation by Elizabeth Conner located across from the SW Lincoln St. / 3rd Ave. MAX Orange Line station, on SW Lincoln St. just east of SW 4th Ave. Look for the Extradition sign.

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Jan
28
7:30 PM19:30

EXTRADITION PLAYS CORNER: Concert 2 of 5

Composer Philip Corner (b. 1933) is one of the greats of 20th- and 21st-century experimental music. Active since the late 1950s, he’s composed thousands of works exploring the intersection of the classical tradition, post–John Cage experimentalism, and the impulse to forge true creative collaboration between composer and performer.

From January 21 to February 18, Portland’s Extradition Ensemble will present five consecutive Saturday concerts of Corner’s music. Concert 2 of 5 presents pieces from the 1960s, 1970s, and 2000s.

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Lecture from Sunday Performance (1962) – Matt Hannafin (reader) + ensemble

Heraclitus 2 (2007) – Robert Blatt (guitar), Brandon Conway (guitar), Lee Elderton (soprano saxophone), Collin Oldham (cello), Reed Wallsmith (alto saxophone), and Shao Way Wu (bass)

Lesson from the East: Perfection Is Not Exactness (1960) – Lee Elderton (soprano saxophone), Collin Oldham (cello), and Reed Wallsmith (alto saxophone)

Just Another 12-Tone Piece (1975) – Lee Elderton (soprano saxophone), Matt Hannafin (vibraphone), Branic Howard (piano), Catherine Lee (oboe d’amore), Collin Oldham (cello), Caspar Sonnet (melodica), and Shao Way Wu (bass)

Sang-Teh (1960–61) – Robert Blatt (guitar), Matt Carlson (piano), Brandon Conway (guitar), Catherine Lee (oboe d’amore, English horn), Reed Wallsmith (alto saxophone), and Shao Way Wu (bass)

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Oct
15
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition Fall Concert 2022

The fall Extradition goes elemental, with five pieces featuring percussion, electronics, and voice.

> Matthias Kaul, Do Nothing, Just Wait, the Singing Will Start . . . Sooner or Later (2012): Matt Hannafin (percussion)

> Robert Blatt, Music for Three Cymbals (2004): Loren Chasse, Tim DuRoche, Matt Hannafin (cymbals)

> Joseph Kudirka, Release (2016): Matt Carlson (electronics), Loren Chasse (percussion), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Branic Howard (electronics)

> Frank Abbinanti, Three Pieces for Keith Rowe (1998), Juniana Lanning, Matt Carlson, Branic Howard (electronics)

> Alvin Lucier, Wave Songs (1998): Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice) + pure wave oscillators

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Jul
30
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition Summer Concert 2022 - POSTPONED

Our summer concert has been postponed due to local COVID trends and illness in our ensemble. We will reschedule at a future date.

Our summer concert this year features realizations of five scores that suggest great depths of opportunity.

> G. Douglas Barrett, Backyard [Music] – Vol. 4 (2006): Brandon Conway (guitar), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Maxx Katz (flute), Collin Oldham (cello), Branic Howard (field recording)

> Samuel Vriezen, Ensemble (2008): Collin Oldham (cello), Reed Wallsmith (alto saxophone), Lee Elderton (soprano saxophone), Matt Hannafin (vibraphone)

> Glenn Sogge, The Levitation of Small Objects (1970): Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice), Maxx Katz (flute), Brandon Conway (guitar), Matt Hannafin (percussion)

> Daniel Brandes, Who Has Traveled This Path Before You (2020): Reed Wallsmith (alto saxophone), Lee Elderton (soprano saxophone), Collin Oldham (cello)

> Sophie L. Stone, Postcard-Sized Pieces (2020): Annie Gilbert (trombone), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Branic Howard (electronics, field recordings), Maxx Katz (flute), Caspar Sonnet (dobro), Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice)

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Apr
16
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition Spring Concert 2022

Extradition’s 2022 Spring Concert presents five works by an international, multi-generational group of women composers.

> Lauren Redhead, Lines That Have Been Drawn on Photographs of Sculpture (2011): Lee Elderton (clarinet), Catherine Lee (oboe d’amore), Collin Oldham (cello), Caspar Sonnet (lap steel dobro)

> Melissa Vargas Franco, Ningún Nombre es Verdadero (2014): Matt Carlson (piano)

> Ioanna Valsamara, 66 Ways to Look Above (The Sky Isn’t Silent) (2021): Matt Carlson (electronics), Lee Elderton (soprano saxophone), Collin Oldham (cello)

> Emmanuelle Waeckerle, A Direction Out There: Readwalking (with) Thoreau (2021): Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice), Juniana Lanning (electronics)

> Annea Lockwood, Spirit Catchers (1974): Douglas Detrick, Tim DuRoche, Juniana Lanning, Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voices)

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Oct
23
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition 2021 Fall Concert

Extradition is pleased to announce its first full post-lockdown concert, happening Saturday, October 23, 2021, at Leaven Community. The program will present five pieces, all of which feel particularly appropriate to the past eighteen months.

> Drew Baker, How You Gaze Beyond the Vast Time (2009): Lee Elderton (soprano sax)

> Jordan Nobles, Nocturne (2013): Matt Carlson (piano), Catherine Lee (oboe d’amore), Collin Oldham (cello)

> Ailie Robertson, Vedbæk (2018): Matt Carlson (piano), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Catherine Lee (oboe d’amore), Collin Oldham (cello)

> Antoine Beuger, Como un Océano de Olas Innumerables (2018): Matt Carlson (piano), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Catherine Lee (English horn), Collin Oldham (cello)

Door 7:15pm, music 7:30pm

Tickets at the door, $10-$20

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Proof of covid vaccination is required for admission (vaccine card or photo of card) and masks are required throughout the Leaven space. Seating will be arranged to promote distancing. Thanks!

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Jun
17
to Dec 31

Extradition/APTL Social Distancing Project

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With our live concerts cancelled due to Covid-19, Extradition has partnered with Victoria, BC series A Place to Listen to present our musicians in private performance, playing and recording in their isolation. Contributions to the series include solo realizations of experimental scores, improvisations, virtual group pieces, and field recordings documenting the quieter ambience of Covid-world.

Pieces are posted on Extradition’s YouTube channel and the Extradition archive page.

Non-Extradition/APTL musicians interested in contributing to the series should contact Extradition here.

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Apr
18
7:00 PM19:00

POSTPONED -- Extradition 2020 Spring Concert -- POSTPONED

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this concert is postponed pending further notice.

The Extradition Series 2020 Spring Concert presents five works:

> Tom Hamilton, City of Vorticity (2014): Tom Hamilton (electronics) with Loren Chasse (percussion, etc.), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Collin Oldham (cello), and Doug Theriault (guitar, electronics)

> Sam Sfirri, Trio (2011): Matt Carlson (piano), Catherine Lee (oboe), Collin Oldham (cello)

> Catherine Lee & Juniana Lanning, Silkworm Project (2019): Catherine Lee (oboe d’amore) and Juniana Lanning (electronics)

> Johan Toft, Changeable Spring (1995): Matt Carlson (piano), Lee Elderton (soprano sax), Reed Wallsmith (alto sax)

> Joseph Kudirka, Release (2016): Loren Chasse (percussion etc.), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Branic Howard (instruments), and Juniana Lanning (instruments)

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Feb
29
7:00 PM19:00

Extradition Recital Series: Tessa Brinckman

Ashland-based performer/composer Tessa Brinckman brings a new solo work to Portland and joins members of the Extradition Ensemble for a group performance.

> Tessa Brinckman, Box | Grown Men Sing (2019): A 35 minute electro-acoustic meditation on loss, seen through the lens of solitary confinement, its connections to colonization and climate change, and our yearnings beyond dehumanization. Performed by the composer on bass flute and waterphone with fixed audio and video, the piece incorporates interview recordings with three survivors of solitary within the US prison-industrial complex. What did they hear, smell, taste, dream, remember, resist? What did they love?

> Eva-Maria Houben, Haiku for Seven (2003–2019): A simultaneous realization of seven interlocking solo scores from the composer’s Haiku series, performed by Tessa Brinckman (flutes), Loren Chasse (percussion), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Annie Gilbert (trombone), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Jacob Mitas (viola), and Collin Oldham (cello)


New Zealand flutist Tessa Brinckman has been described by critics as a “flutist of chameleon-like gifts” and “virtuoso elegance” (Gramophone), an “excellent…flutist” (Willamette Week), and a “highlight of Portland” (New Music Box) who “play(s) her instrument with great beauty and eloquence” (Music Matters New Zealand). She enjoys a versatile career, having worked in many classical music ensembles and concert series in the United States, South Africa, France, and New Zealand. Her orchestral, chamber, and solo music performances include the Oregon Symphony, New Haven International Arts, Festival of New American Music, Britt Festival of Music & Arts, Ashland Independent Film, Oregon Bach, Oregon Shakespeare, Ernest Bloch, Bumbershoot, Oregon Fringe, and Astoria Music Festivals. Performing on flute, piccolo, alto, bass, contrabass, and baroque flutes as well as miscellaneous keyboards, Ms. Brinckman also co-directs the ever-polymathic duo Caballito Negro with percussionist Terry Longshore, and is a member of Collectif Impulsion in France. She has recorded, composed, and performed in major regional theaters across the United States and internationally, as well as for radio, TV, and film. Her co-composition for Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman’s White Snake was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award in 2014.

Over the past 15 years Ms. Brinckman has received local and international grants to commission, curate, and perform unique programs that blend technology, tradition, and contemporary geo-political themes. The music is often interwoven with her own visual and narrative work, in concert with diverse, global artists. Recent collaborations/commissions include taonga puoro master Horomona Horo, live electronics composer Nicolas Vérin, theorbist Caroline Delume, microtonalist Pascale Criton, avant-rock composer Randy Woolf, poets Angela Decker and Tricia Snell, electronic composer Jeremy Mayall, composer-scholar Martin Lodge, multi-media composer Nissim Schaul, and koto-player Mitsuki Dazai. Ms. Brinckman’s composition for flute and string trio, Glass Sky (2005), can be found on the critically acclaimed CD Glass Sky, and is featured in the South African documentary Inner Landscapes (Climax Films), centering around outsider artist Helen Martins and her Owl House creation. She has served on the music faculties of various Oregon universities and colleges and now teaches workshops and masterclasses in the USA and abroad. Recent solo projects include performance (“When Flutes Spoke Words”) and teaching residencies (“Building for the (Un)Reliable Narrator”) at Waikato and Canterbury Universities (2017); ongoing recording projects for upcoming CD and video release; and a residency at Centre Pompadour (2018) to compose the piece she’ll be presenting at Extradition: Box | Grown Men Sing (2019).

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Jan
18
7:00 PM19:00

Extradition 2020 Winter Concert

The Extradition Series 2020 Winter Concert presents four works by composers who have affected the course of experimental music and art for more than half a century, and (save one) are still pushing musical boundaries today.

> Keith Rowe, Pollock #82 (1981/82): Matt Carlson (piano), Loren Chasse (Tremoloa, objects), Alissa DeRubeis (electronics), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Matt Hannafin (prepared table harp), Branic Howard (electronics, objects), Catherine Lee (oboe), Collin Oldham (cello), Caspar Sonnet (lap steel dobro)

> Philip Corner, Small Pieces of a Fluxus Reality (2018): Loren Chasse (Tremoloa, objects), Lee Elderton (reeds), Annie Gilbert (trombone), Matt Hannafin (table harp, percussion), Maxx Katz (flute), Caspar Sonnet (concertina)

> Annea Lockwood, Jitterbug (2007): Lee Elderton (tenor & soprano saxophones), Matt Hannafin (percussion, electronics), Branic Howard (multi-channel recorded media), Collin Oldham (cello)

> Walter De Maria, Cricket Music (1964): John Niekrasz (drum set) + fixed media

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Jan
15
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition @ Outset: Keith Rowe's "Pollock #82" Duos + Live Visual Art

A special night at Turn! Turn! Turn! dedicated completely to Keith Rowe’s graphic score series Pollock #82, which was created by isolating and enlarging drips and splatters from Jackson Pollock paintings. Musicians will present duo realizations of the piece while visual artists create new paintings and drawings inspired by the music.

Duo musical performances by Matt Carlson & Jonathan Sielaff (electronics + bass clarinet), Alissa DeRubeis & Marcus Fischer (electronics x2), Juniana Lanning & Matt Hannafin (electronics + percussion), and Caspar Sonnet & Reed Wallsmith (lap steel dobro + alto saxophone).

Live visual art by Amy Subach, Jason Morales, Joni Renee Whitworth, and Nathan Rice.

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Oct
19
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition 2019 Fall Concert

The Extradition Series 2019 Fall Concert presents five works that share a connection with the natural world, in one form or another.

> Toshi Ichiyanagi, Music for Electric Metronome (1960): Matt Carlson (piano), Loren Chasse (percussion), Brandon Conway (prepared guitar), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Maxx Katz (flute), Caspar Sonnet (dobro) + metronomes

> Sarah Hughes, Fires and Conifers (2012–13): Loren Chasse (sound), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Branic Howard (bowed & rubbed surfaces), Maxx Katz (flute), Lorna Krier (piano), Caspar Sonnet (dobro)

> Matthias Kaul, After the Rain (2015): Brandon Conway (sound projection), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Branic Howard (guitar), Maxx Katz (flute), Caspar Sonnet (voice)

> Luke Nickel, White Fang Field Recording (2015): Matthew Neil Andrews, Brandon Conway, Annie Gilbert, Matt Hannafin, Juniana Lanning, Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voices)

> Daniel James Wolf, Field & Stream (2011): Francisco Botello, Glenn Sogge, Branic Howard, Lorna Krier, Juniana Lanning (electronics)

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Sep
21
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition Recital Series: Mark Hannesson

Edmonton-based composer Mark Hannesson, one of only four North American members of the influential Wandelweiser Collective, will join members of the Extradition Ensemble for an evening of his own works.

> Child (2019 – world premiere): Mark Hannesson (trumpet) with Matt Carlson (piano), Branic Howard (guitar), Catherine Lee (oboe), Collin Oldham (cello), and a vocalist to be announced

> Home.Haven.Refuge (2019 – world premiere): Mark Hannesson (trumpet) with Catherine Lee (oboe) and Matt Hannafin (percussion)

> Small Garden (2015): Mark Hannesson (trumpet) with Matt Carlson (piano), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Branic Howard (guitar), Catherine Lee (oboe), Collin Oldham (cello)

> Like the Shuffling of Feet on Pavement (2017): Matt Carlson (piano), Lee Elderton (clarinet)

> Undeclared (2016): Mark Hannesson (whistling + electronics)


Mark Hannesson (b. 1968) is a composer and sound artist who writes instrumental, electronic, and mixed works. As well, he is an active performer of live electronic music.

Originally from Winnipeg, Canada, he completed a Bachelor degree in music from Brandon University and a Master degree in composition at the University of Alberta. He completed a doctorate (DMA) in composition at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Keith Hamel.

He is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta teaching courses in composition, music technology, and experimental improvisation. He is a member of the Wandelweiser Collective and has recorded on Edition Wandelweiser (Germany), the Cyland Audio Archive (Russia), Modisti (Spain), the CEC (Canada), and BEAMS (Canada).

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Jul
27
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition 2019 Summer Concert

The Extradition Series 2019 Summer Concert presents five works exploring memory, transformation, and utterance.

> Linda Austin & Brian Moran, PS122: Insert Silence (2004/2019): Linda Austin (dance & recordings), Brian Moran (recordings)

> Eva-Maria Houben, The Crickets of Raspberry Island (2014): Lee Elderton (clarinet), Matt Hannafin (friction gong), Branic Howard (bowed bell)

> Alvin Lucier, The Sacred Fox (1994): Matt Hannafin (voice & resonant vessels)

> Lo Wie, Score for 3 Performers (2015): Alissa DeRubeis (electronics), Juniana Lanning (electronics), Caspar Sonnet (dobro)

> Angharad Davies, Cofnod Pen Bore (2012): Annie Gilbert (voice), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Branic Howard (percussion), Margaret McNeal (voice), Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice)

The performance by Linda Austin will be a recreation of a dance performed in 2004 by New York dancer and electronics player Brian Moran, utilizing Moran’s original accompanying audio track merged with new audio by Austin.

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Apr
20
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition 2019 Spring Concert

The Extradition Series 2019 Spring Concert presents five pieces that, in one way or another, present puzzles to be unpacked by their interpreters. The two Danny Clay compositions were written specifically for this concert. The piece by Alexis Porfiriadis will also be receiving its world premiere.

> Raven Chacon, …lahgo adil’i dine doo yeehosinilgii yidaaghi (2004): Matt Carlson (piano), Michael Chergosky (viola), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Sage Fisher (harp), Maxx Katz (flute), Catherine Lee (oboe), and Collin Oldham (cello)

> Danny Clay, Correspondences I (2018): Lee Elderton (clarinet), Branic Howard (guitar/electronics), Catherine Lee (oboe d’amore), Collin Oldham (cello), and Melanie Voytovich (vibraphone, percussion)

> Danny Clay, Correspondences II (2018): Matt Hannafin (percussion)

> Alexis Porfiriadis, Happy Notes, Sad Notes (2012): Loren Chasse (percussion), Brandon Conway (guitar), Sage Fisher (harp), Maxx Katz (flute), and Collin Oldham (cello)

> Glenn Sogge, For Thomas Willis on the Occasion of Music Day (1975): Doug Detrick (trumpet), Lee Elderton (soprano sax), Branic Howard (tabletop guitar/bass), and Jacob Last (piano)

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Mar
9
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition Recital Series: Dan Joseph

New York composer/performer Dan Joseph joins an ensemble of Portland musicians to present four experimental works:

> Dan Joseph, Dulcimer Flight (1998–2019): Dan Joseph (hammer dulcimer, electronics)

> Dan Joseph, Notes & Queries (2015–18): Dan Joseph (hammer dulcimer) with Lee Elderton (clarinet), Maxx Katz (flute), Margaret McNeal (voice), Collin Oldham (cello)

> Craig Shepard, Coney Island, April 15, 2012 (2012): Dan Joseph (hammer dulcimer) with Brandon Conway (guitar), Lee Elderton (soprano sax), Matt Hannafin (triangle), Maxx Katz (flute), Collin Oldham (cello)

> Johnny Chang, Haikus (2012): Dan Joseph (hammer dulcimer) with Matt Hannafin (percussion) and Margaret McNeal (voice)

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Dan Joseph is a freelance composer, curator and writer based in New York City. He began his career as a drummer in the vibrant punk scene of his native Washington, DC. During the late 1980s, he was active in the experimental tape music underground, producing ambient-industrial works for independent labels in the U.S. and abroad. He spent the ‘90s in California where he studied at CalArts and Mills College. His principal teachers include Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, and Mel Powell. Equally influential were his studies with Terry Riley during several workshops in California and Colorado.

A New York resident since 2001, Dan’s work has been presented at Merkin Concert Hall (NYC), Diapason Gallery for Sound (NYC), Roulette (NYC), Issue Project Room (NYC), The Kitchen (NYC), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (CA), New Langton Arts (CA), Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), and other venues. He has received commissions from several ensembles and performers, including Gamelan Son of Lion, the sfSoundGroup, baritone Thomas Buckner, and clarinetist Matt Ingalls. Dan has held residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.

As an artist who embraces the musical multiplicity of our time, Dan works simultaneously in a variety of media and contexts, including instrumental chamber music, free improvisation, and various forms of electronica and sound art. Since the late 1990s, the hammer dulcimer has been the primary vehicle for his music. As a performer he is active with his own chamber ensemble, The Dan Joseph Ensemble, as well as in various improvisational collaborations and as an occasional soloist. He has collaborated with a variety of creative artists including Miya Masaoka, Pamela Z, Loren Dempster, JD Parran, India Cooke, Andrea Williams, William Winant, and Miguel Frasconi and John Ingle.

As curator and presenter, he has organized over 100 concerts as an independent producer and as a member of organizations such as Harvestworks, Mutable Music (producers of the acclaimed Interpretations series), and the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. He currently produces the monthly music and sound series Musical Ecologies at The Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and is a co-producer of the Music for Contemplation series in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

danjoseph.org

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Jan
12
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition Series 2019 Winter Concert

Extradition's 2019 Winter Concert will present five compositions that run the gamut from sound sculpture to art song.

> John Cage, Two (1987): Matt Carlson (piano) and John C. Savage (flute)

> Anna Höstman, What Her Friend Said (2009): Gina Adorno (soprano) and Lorna Krier (piano)

> Mark Hannesson, A Moment Is a Window (2017): Brandon Conway (guitar), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Mike Gamble (guitar), Catherine Lee (oboe), John C. Savage (flute), and Jonathan Sielaff (bass clarinet)

> Morgan Evans-Weiler, Constructed Objects (2016): Loren Chasse (percussion), Derek Ecklund (electronics), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Branic Howard (electronics), Juniana Lanning (electronics), Collin Oldham (cello), and Jonathan Sielaff (bass clarinet)

> Matt Hannafin, Variations on a Picture of Snow by Evan Cordes (2016/2018): Matt Carlson (piano), Derek Ecklund (electronics), Branic Howard (electronics), Maxx Katz (flute), Catherine Lee (oboe), and Collin Oldham (cello)

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Oct
20
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition Series 2018 Fall Concert

Extradition's 2018 Fall Concert will present five compositions that take radically different approaches to shaping sound into music.

> Cornelius Cardew, The Tiger’s Mind (Nightpiece) (1967): Brandon Conway (guitar), Lee Elderton (soprano saxophone), Lorna Krier (piano), Catherine Lee (oboe d’amore), John C. Savage (flute), and Shao Way Wu (double bass)

> Jürg Frey, Un Champ de Tendresse Parsemé d’Adieux (4) (2011): Matthew Andrews, Matt Hannafin, Branic Howard, Juniana Lanning, Margaret McNeal, and Melanie Voytovich (dry leaves / pebbles / whistling)

> Ryoko Akama, Tada No (2013–14): Barbara Ford, Gina James, Margaret McNeal, Bonnie Singer, Stephanie Lavon Trotter, and Marion Van Namen (voices)

> Daniel Brandes, Other Echoes Inhabit the Garden (2013): John C. Savage (tenor saxophone) and Claudia F. Savage (recorded poetry)

 > G. Douglas Barrett, A Few Silence (2008): Matthew Andrews, Matt Hannafin, Branic Howard, Juniana Lanning, and Melanie Voytovich (objects)

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Sep
15
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition Recital Series: Music of Small Means – solo & duo percussion

The new Extradition Recital Series launches with a performance of five quiet, intimate solo and duo works for percussion, performed by Loren Chasse and Matt Hannafin:

> Michael Pisaro, A Drum Acted Upon by Friction, Gravity, and Electricity (2011)

> Matthias Kaul, Two Together (2014)

> Mark So, (IDLE.) – 51 THINGS TO DO WITH 2 HANDS. for Eileen Myles (2010)

> Glenn Sogge, Gestures (2017)

> Matt Hannafin, Post Box Music (2018)

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Doors 7pm, music 7:30pm

Refreshments will be served

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Jul
21
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition Series 2018 Summer Concert

Extradition's Summer Concert will feature five intimate solo, duo, and quartet settings of pieces concerned with the direct influence of environment, poetry, visual art, and materiality on musical creation.

All proceeds from this evening's ticket sales will be donated to a fund established to aid the family of our friend and colleague, bassist Andre St. James, who passed from this earth on May 26.

> Manfred Werder, 2009-4 (2009): Matt Carlson (piano), Brandon Conway (guitar), Evan Spacht (trombone), and Reed Wallsmith (alto sax)

> Kristin Bolstad, Silence Come Closer Wait Expect (2014): Branic Howard (sound)

> James Saunders, Surfaces (2010–11): Loren Chasse and Matt Hannafin (surfaces + objects)

> Matt Carlson, untitled (2018): Catherine Lee (English horn) and Matt Carlson (electronics)

> Matt Hannafin, Honor Roll (2017): Reed Wallsmith (alto sax)

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Jun
13
7:30 PM19:30

Cage/Wolff/Ichiyanagi: Composed Improvisations for Music & Dance

A special concert celebrating the release of Extradition director Matt Hannafin's new recording, John Cage: Four Realizations for Solo Percussion, on Notice Recordings.

> John Cage, Experiences No. 2 (1948): Margaret McNeal (soprano)

> John Cage, Child of Tree (1975): Matt Hannafin (percussion), Emily Jones (dance)

> Christian Wolff, Play (1969): Lee Elderton (soprano saxophone), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Branic Howard (cassette), Evan Lindorff-Ellery (cassette), Takahiro Yamamoto (dance)

> John Cage, Composed Improvisation for One Sided Drums (1990): Matt Hannafin (percussion)

> Toshi Ichiyanagi, The Field (1966): Brandon Conway (guitar), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Branic Howard (guitar), Emily Jones (dance), Margaret McNeal (voice), Takahiro Yamamoto (dance)

Refreshments will be provided.

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This concert is a coproduction of Notice Recordings and the Extradition Series.

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Extradition Series 2018 Spring Concert
Apr
21
7:30 PM19:30

Extradition Series 2018 Spring Concert

The Extradition Series 2018 Spring Concert features five works of extraordinary experimental composition:

> Jurg Frey, Floating Categories (2015): Scored “for reader, listener, player alone, maybe performer(s),” this sparse dreamscape mixes words and phrases, short melodic fragments, and grids of colored dots, challenging performers to translate images and feelings into aural and visual content. The piece will be performed solo by Loren Chasse (sound + light) with pre-recorded melodic fragments by Matt Carlson (piano), Douglas Detrick (trumpet), Matt Hannafin (melodica), and Jacob Mitas (violin).

> Michael Pisaro, Entre-Moments (2005/6): Combining separate pieces for piano, instrumental trio, and group electronics, “Entre-Moments” is concerned with projecting a sparse amount of musical material across long durations. This performance will be the world premiere of the combined piece, performed by Matt Carlson (piano), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Catherine Lee (English horn), Andre St. James (double bass), and Derek Ecklund, Ben Glas, Branic Howard, Juniana Lanning, and Evan Spacht (sine tones).


> Richard Glover, An Imperfect Harmony (2013): A simple, deeply resonant composition exploring microtonal harmonies on the double bass. The piece will be performed by Andre St. James (double-bass).

> Catherine Lamb, Nodes, Various (2009/10): Using a defined frequency set, this open-ended piece asks a group of musicians to explore the tonalities of saw-wave oscillations and their low overtones. The piece will be performed by Matt Carlson, Derek Ecklund, Ben Glas, Branic Howard, Juniana Lanning, and Evan Spacht (electronics).

> Mark So, a tepid atmosphere (bedroom near the sky) (2007): Part of a series of pieces based on the poetry of John Ashbery, "a tepid atmosphere" combines field recordings, electronics, and other instruments to slowly shift the listener’s perspective within what seems like a static sound environment. The piece will be performed by Matthew Andrews (vibraphone), Brandon Conway (guitar), Mike Gamble (guitar), Matt Hannafin (percussion), and Branic Howard (electronics + field recordings).

> Ben Glas, "Self Composure #2 (Memory Sequence)" (2018): Part of our participatory “Extradition Off-Site” series, this new sound meditation by Portland composer/performer Ben Glas is designed to be performed by anyone, musician or non-musician, outside of the concert setting, at the time and place of their choosing. The score is available as a Facebook event within a four-week window around the concert date.

Saturday, April 21
Leaven Community
5431 NE 20th Ave. @ Killingsworth, PDX
Doors 7pm, music 7:30pm

The Extradition Series presents quarterly concerts of 20th- and 21st-century experimental music, exploring purity, space, and a natural unfolding of sound and silence. Extradition is curated and directed by Matt Hannafin and presented by the Creative Music Guild.

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