04/23 @ 8:00pm - Rick Moody and Amy Denio

Acclaimed composer and musician Amy Denio and novelist/singer-songwriter Rick Moody trade spots reading and accompanying one another on a variety of experiments in text and music.

Seattle resident Amy Denio is a composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, and international collaborator. She started her own label, Spoot Music, in 1986. Her main instruments are voice, accordion, saxophones, clarinet, electric guitar, and bass, and she makes field recordings. She has collaborated with musicians and artists from East and West Europe, Japan, India, and throughout North America, and has 35 CD releases. She has played concerts in N. America, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, and throughout Europe. She composes sound tracks for theater, film and dance, and works with choreographers such as Pat Graney, Li Chiao-Ping, and Victoria Marks. In 1997 she received a Bessie Award for her work with David Dorfman Dance. Her music has been performed at the Venice Biennale in Italy, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall in New York, and The Ethical Society in Philadelphia.

Rick Moody has published four novels (including THE ICE STORM and THE DIVINERS), three collections of stories, and a memoir, THE BLACK VEIL. His work has been translated in over twenty languages. He sings and records with The Wingdale Community Singers, whose second a
lbum, SPIRIT DUPLICATOR, will be released in June 2009