noise night

Wilson Shook (Los Angeles)
Shao Way Wu
slip shimmer (trotter + Stillabower)

doors 7p
show 7:30p
$10-15 sliding scale
plus a few Arts for All tickets $5 (Oregon Trail Card/SNAP)

noise night returns to PWNW with Wilson Shook (LA), Shao Way Wu and slip shimmer (stephanie lavon trotter/Anthony J Stillabower).

About the artists:

Wilson Shook is an improvising saxophonist and manual therapist living in LA. His approach to music has been shaped by collaborative relationships with Gust Burns, Paul Hoskin, Ben Bennett, Greg Kelley, Carol Genetti, Ted Byrnes, and others, as well as an ongoing sonic exploration of the resonant void spaces of American hydrologic and transportation infrastructure. For 10 years Wilson helped to organize the performance space Gallery 1412 in Seattle, and worked closely with the Seattle Improvised Music Festival.
A self-taught musician, Wilson approaches improvisation, study, collaboration, and performance as sites of radical experimentation with modes of being, relating, and perceiving. Wilson’s practice cultivates an awareness of human vulnerability and technological fallibility; embraces excess, fragmentation, and incompleteness; and pursues the chaotic, queer, and interdependent imperatives of an aleatory existence amidst a crumbling, toxic culture.
Attentiveness, transformation, commitment to the materiality of the musical act and its consequences; radical presence as the only avenue of escape. Always mindful of the axiom, via Éluard—There is another world, but it is in this one.
https://www.otherghosts.net

Shao Way Wu is a freelance jazz bassist and Portland resident who grew up in Hong Kong. He moved to the Bay Area in 1971 at the age of fifteen. For two decades Wu was a pillar of the Humboldt County, CA jazz community. His artistic spirit has been thriving in Portland, where he’s released a handful of albums and collaborated with a swath of northwest creatives. Current projects include John Savage Quartet, Bryan Smith Quartet, Alan Cook Collective, JB Butler Trio, John Niekrasz Trio, Ike Levin Trio, Chris Lee Duo.

slip shimmer is a fantasy spell, a viscous space of sounds made by voices, bodies. it is a duo of composer-performers stephanie lavon trotter and Anthony J. Stillabower. And it’s a burgeoning fashion line.