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http://www.seattleimprovisedmusic.com/polestar.html Polestar Music Gallery 1412 18th Avenue at East Union, Seattle SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 8 PM, $6, ALL AGES * Sue Ann Harkey * Tiktok An evening of gorgeous, exploratory guitar music, with solos and duos from longtime improvisor Sue Ann Harkey (soon to be departing Seattle) on prepared electric 12-string and Tiktok on ambient guitar. Improvising multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and vocalist Sue Ann Harkey has been a part of Seattle and New York's underground music and visual arts scenes for more than two decades. Harkey discovered improvisational music's power in 1979, when she began playing guitar with friends; this led to her exploration of the harp-guitar and the 12-string guitar, which she plays with mallets, bows, plectrums, and rods, and which also feature alternate tunings and metal discs woven between the strings. By 1980, Harkey had formed the cassette label/political pamphlet distributor Cityzens for Non-Linear Futures (CNLF) and the improv group Audio Letter, co-founded by Harkey and violinist/songwriter Sharon Gannon, featuring Don Cherry and Dennis Charles among its revolving membership. Hailed as one of the cassette revolution's most important ensembles, Audio Letter released a prolific number of tapes through CNLF as well as one album, 1988's It Is This It Is Not This. Harkey moved to New York in 1983 and became part of that city's improvisational scene quickly, collaborating with Sue Garner, LaDonna Smith, Lesli Dalaba, Chris Cochrane, Guy Yarden, and others, many of whom appeared on her 1989 solo debut, The Ancient Past and the Ancient Future Are Both Seconds Away. She returned to Seattle in 1992, and in addition to running her own design/illustration firm, Cactus Bones Studio, she released albums such as 1997's Fulcrum, which included free jazz players and DJs from the U.S. and U.K. underground. Tiktok is the solo work of Travis Hartnett. He performs frequently in the Seattle area in a solo context and with the Steve Ball Roadshow. Previously he has worked and performed with Electrochakra, SIL2K, the Electronic Planet Ensemble, Kinesis DanceTheatre, and Ariel Danceworks.