The Music Laboratory—Featuring Karen Dunstan

• Tightrope
• Karen Dunstan, soprano
• Andrew Romanick, piano
• Christian Pincock's Scrambler

The Music Laboratory is a playground for new experiments in music and arts. The April 2023 Music Laboratory show features Karen Dunstan, soprano with Andrew Romanick, piano performing a program of modern classical vocal pieces including Luciano Berio's Sequenza III for female voice. Scrambler will use the Soundpainting sign language to create real-time music and theatrical collages.

7:30—Tightrope

8:00—Karen Dunstan

9:00—Scrambler

$10-20 suggested donation for the performers (Cash and Venmo accepted). All donations go to the performers.

About Tightrope

Tightrope fearlessly walks between order and chaos, combining improvisation with composition in unusual ways. Christian Pincock (valve trombone and custom electronics) and a variety of collaborators perform this daring feat with loose groove-driven movements, ambient interludes, and routines of curiously-shifting harmonies using original material, jazz standards, and more as supports for their highwire act. Will they cross the chasm safely?

About Karen Dunstan, soprano

Karen Dunstan (she/he/they) is a soprano hailing from Ypsilanti, Michigan. Karen performs in the Seattle area, including the University of Washington's production of Haydn's Philemon und Baucis, and upcoming in Tacoma Opera's production of The Tales of Hoffman. They also had the privilege to perform with Lowbrow in their 2023 production more than friends. Karen is passionate about inclusivity and broad access to opera, particularly with regard to queer representation, and examined the history of queer representation in opera in their project Someone Will Remember Us: Queer Narratives in Opera and Art Song.

About Andrew Romanick, piano

http://andrewromanick.com/

About Christian Pincock's Scrambler

Christian Pincock's Scrambler makes a musical mess by combining large quantities of jazz, several cups of classical music, a tablespoon of folk and a dash of sound effects, whisked together through a conducted improv sign language called Soundpainting. Some of Seattle's finest improvisers contribute their own unique and diverse flavors, blended in real-time with Christian Pincock's hand-signed gestures.