Jack Straw Cultural Center
Keeping art, culture, and heritage vital through sound
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Call for Scores
Create new music for a piano dropped from a helicopter!
50 years ago the Jack Straw Foundation, in the form of KRAB radio,
dropped an upright piano from a helicopter
near Duvall, Washington. To commemorate this event, Jack Straw is soliciting compositions for what remains of the instrument – the soundboard and harp, minus the bass strings – which is currently housed in our New Media Gallery.
The selected compositions will be recorded at Jack Straw and incorporated into a Piano Drop installation in the gallery in February, with live performances and more.
Submission guidelines:
- Interested composers should email [email protected] or call us at (206) 634-0919 with any questions, or to schedule a time to visit the instrument in the gallery and work on your piece.
- Email submissions to [email protected] by midnight the night of Monday, January 7th
- The maximum length for submissions is 4'33".
- Submissions will be accepted as written scores of any kind (PDF or Word) or demo recordings (MP3) – or both. Please also include a short bio.
- The tuning of the strings is as-is. They generally go from low to high, and many of the unisons are still in unison, but this is not a traditional tuning, and we can't guarantee it won't shift as people play it.
- Fingers, mallets, bows, or other gentle forms of activating the strings are fine, but please refrain from striking the strings with great force.
- Duo or ensemble pieces with any additional instruments are welcome!
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Support the next 25 years of our Artist Residencies
Jack Straw Cultural Center
keeps art, culture, and heritage vital through sound
. Artists in our
Artist Support Program
,
New Media Gallery
, and
Writers Program
work with our artists and engineers to learn about sound and technology, create new work in our studios, and present it to the public.
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Support Jack Straw Cultural Center
Jack Straw Cultural Center relies on the support of individual contributors to make our programs possible. Please help us continue to support the work of artists working with sound and all our art and technology education programs. Donate any amount by clicking the button below, or sending a check directly to us at 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105.
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Jack Straw Cultural Center gratefully acknowledges the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Seattle Foundation, ArtsFund, Raynier Institute and Foundation, Harvest Foundation,
Jubilation Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation
, Robert Chinn Foundation, Tulalip Charitable Fund, and individual contributors for their support of our programs. Special thanks to our friends at Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP, ORA (Owen Richards Architects), and Forma Construction for their support.
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Jack Straw Cultural Center | 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle
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