Big Car is presenting an original, site and time-specific music event by Seattle composer (and Indiana native) Nat Evans that fuses nature, music, community, and subjectivity of experience. The event – entitled Blue Hour - will take place at sunset on September 15th on the outdoor plaza at City Market. Participants will download the music onto their iPods or other portable listening device ahead of time and arrive at the plaza at City Market by 7:45pm. At sunset the cue will be given to press play and participants will sit back and observe while listening.

The music for Blue Hour is a mix of new and pre-existing compositions that have been arranged to best compliment the changing of light during the hour after sunset, and is available to download from the composer’s website (natevansmusic.com). This is the third in a series of time-specific pieces Evans has written – his Sunset + Music event was presented across the country in 2011, as well as at a number of festivals.

To review...
1. Participants download the music onto their ipods. (Click here to download, or see below)
2. Show up the outdoor plaza at City Market by 7:45pm
3. Press play when instructed to at sunset!

About the composer
Seattle Composer Nat Evans writes concert music for various mixed chamber ensembles, distinctive electro-acoustic music, and site-specific music events that fuse nature, community and subjectivity of experience. His music is regularly presented across the United States and has also been performed in Europe, South America, Australia and China. Evans has received numerous commissions including the Seattle Percussion Collective, the Harrison Center for the Arts, ODEONQUARTET, Seattle Pacific University Men's Choir and Percussion Ensemble, Beta Test Ensemble, The Northwest School Chamber Orchestra, among others. His music has been featured on a number of radio stations in the United States, as well as BBC3, and in the 2011 Music Issue of The Believer. He studied music at Butler University with Michael Schelle and Frank Felice.

    This summer has been wonderful so far - a road trip that traversed the open, beautiful and sometimes martian-like landscapes of the American West, lots of interesting music being produced by new friends and old, and weather here in Seattle that can really only be described as idyllic. But enough of this petty banter: it's time for The News.
    There are two reviews that showed up for The Box Is Empty show that happened in June - one in I Care If You Listen and another in The Glass. The Box Is Empty played a new piece that they commissioned from me called Hear No Noise. You can have a listen to Hear No Noise here. Last weekend I presented the newest of my time-specific music events, Blue Hour, at Green Lake here in Seattle - I'm presenting it again this coming weekend in Portland.
    In other news of the site-specific sort, I won a call for site-specific scores by the Color Field Ensemble. At their festival in Madison, they'll be doing an iteration of my new piece that will be performed in its entirety in September, Hungry Ghosts. Besides Hungry Ghosts, Nat and Roos will have a sound installation that will run inside a theater for a couple of house in between musical events at Color Field Fest. Also, we have posted a video of the dance performance for All of the Above on YouTube. We did the score for this piece by choreographer Catherine Cabeen. If you enjoy the music in the video, you can buy it on amazon, itunes, or emusic. That's all the news for August - be on the look out for three site-specific music events in September!