Eye Music CD Release Concert

Toshi Ichiyanagi – Sapporo

Eye Music is celebrating the release of their recording of Toshi Ichiyanagi's 1963 composition Sapporo. Recorded at Jack Straw Cultural Center through an Artist Support Program residency, this CD was published in Germany in May 2018 by the German label Edition Wandelweiser Records. CDs will be for sale at this event.

Eye Music is a Seattle-based ensemble specializing in the interpretation of graphic and text scores. Current members include Jonathan Way, David Stanford, Michael Shannon, Carl Lierman, Eric Lanzillotta, Susie Kozawa, Dave Knott, Jay Hamilton, and Amy Denio. The group was formed in 2006.

Toshi Ichiyanagi (b. 1933) is a Japanese composer who studied with John Cage. Cage's influence can be heard in the piece Sapporo, which mixes sustained tones with sharply attacked sounds. Each performer plays from a different page of lines and points with the only synchronization being in the form of notations to listen to or watch the other players.