Summit Sound at the Seattle Convention Center

Wooden bench and platform adjacent to a glass and metal building in the background. Speakers mounted on black columns over the bench.

In 2023, Jack Straw Cultural Center partnered with the Seattle Convention Center to curate Summit Sound, an audio gallery at the new Summit building on Pine St. Summit Sound was envisioned by the SCC Art Program as “an outdoor space where residents and visitors can immerse themselves in one of our region’s revered creative disciplines–sound.” As the new home to dozens of public artworks, the Summit building presents public works beyond the visual, offering a multi-sensory experience.

Jack Straw’s team selected a wide range of audio pieces from over thirty years of our arts and education programs, plus additional archival material from partners such as the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Department, to create a collection of music, sound, and spoken word amplifying and celebrating the unique and diverse voices of our inclusive Puget Sound community, in line with the Seattle Convention Center’s vision for this project.

Selected sounds for the initial launch of Summit Sound include music of many genres and spoken works produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program; indigenous songs and stories from regional culture bearers; and poetry from fellows in the Jack Straw Writers Program as well as students at Denny International Middle School.

Summit Sound is a street-level, south-facing, outdoor, landscaped area with seating. It is located on the exterior of the building, mid-block on Pine Street between Ninth and Boren Avenues in downtown Seattle. Stop by and immerse yourself in these sounds, songs, and voices seven days a week, from 7am to 11pm – or listen any time, right here:

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1
Stommish (Warrior-veteran) Song
2
Kozo Comes To Play
3
Low Resolution
4
Future
5
Con*cep*tion: 2d. the sum of a person’s ideas and beliefs concerning something*
6
Nøkkedansen
7
Fly Away
8
Oyster Light
9
Los Puentes De Mi Vida / Si Mi Vida Fuera el Mundo
10
Hallie Illingworth
11
Invocation
12
Theme From 1st Nade
13
Land No. 7
14
Long Ago
15
How to make gods laugh
16
Swing Low: II. Moving, Easy (Benshoof)
17
Fore I Sees My Jim
18
Song to Stone
19
Shimmy at the Volta
20
Kaval Sviri
21
Canoe Song
22
Mayden Lane
23
Untitled
24
Qiu Feng Ci
25
Hakka Hill Song No. 5
26
Father's Evil
27
Fog Mud Queen
28
Si el Sol Fuera Verde
29
Fluidity
30
Swan
31
On the Sidewalk
32
Endechas y cantares de Sefarad: Arvolicos d'almendra
33
Tuwe Tuwe
34
Moj Mi Je Mato Iz Draca
35
Para Los Pinares (Descargo)
36
A Family of Axolotls
37
Character Pieces: I. JMN - With Cockiness
38
Moment I
39
Medicine Feather Cleansing Song
40
Haichikuten Bushi
41
Partita, for unaccompanied violin: Bourree
42
Four Pieces About Water: 4. Rain Water
43
Sonata IV in C minor: Gavotta Allegro
44
When We Could Not Speak, We Sang
45
turning and toward
46
Phantom Returns
47
Mole
48
The Moon and the Sun Are Eternal Travelers
49
Go Northwest
50
Grace
51
Consciousness
52
Silk Hat And Walking Cane (Price)
53
Dirty Face Song
54
Brazilian Tune
55
Drinking Songs
56
Snoshti Sedenkl Kladohme
57
My Dearest Love Technique
58
Essay (1995) - IV. Postlude
59
Ambient Resonances: Echoes of time and place II (excerpt)
60
Goga
61
Walking Music One
62
Sabina Breaking Silence
63
Harana
64
I Love a Day Like This!
65
Trite Pati
66
History of the Quilt
67
Hallelujah Games
68
City Folk
69
El Mundo De Mis Sueños
70
Looney Tune
71
Rosin Rag
72
Nature Guide to the Great Unreal
73
Joys of the Trail
74
Prelude
75
Fold: Redux Movement 1
76
Osei's Praise Song
77
Stepped Out
78
I Miss Goin' to the House
79
Sensations of Place and Time
80
smoke
81
Psalm No. 34
82
Even Odds
83
Out of Pebbles
84
(un)Settled
85
Discus
86
I Float
87
On the importance of salmon
88
Aizen Yakyoku pt 1
89
Kome-togi Uta (Rice Washing Song)
90
Palace of the Birds
91
Red Envelopes
92
Noten-Buchlein: Two Marches
93
Scots Tune, Wilson's Wilde
94
Lady Louse
95
Undiscovered Territory
96
Spotted Owl Gallery
97
Adaptation
98
BRAVV
99
The Final Lullaby

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