TBQ (Tom Baker Quartet) ... a group of like-minded musicians who have been performing together since 2004. Performing across the NW and in NYC with 2 critically acclaimed albums, TBQ features Jesse Canterbury on clarinets, Greg Campbell on drums, Brian Cobb on bass, and Tom Baker on guitar. 

TBQ Website

Listen... Look What I Found (2007) and SAVE (2009)

TRIPTET ... a meeting of minds and spontaneous electrical impulses between Michael Monhart (saxophones and electronics), Tom Baker (fretless guitar, theremin, and electronics) and Greg Campbell (percussion, french horn, and electronics).

MORE INFO... Triptet

LISTEN... Slowly, Away (2018)

Baker // LaBerge ... An electronic duo project with Anne LaBerge on flute and electronics; Tom Baker on guitar, theremin and electronics. 

A new recording out soon, in the meantime, some sounds.

And a review of a concert in 2014.

Campbell // Baker :: improvised, interactive, digital image+sound

This is a new intermedia collaboration between composer Tom Baker and digital video artist Robert Campbell.

This interdisciplinary digital work involves live improvisation in both sound and image in a post-apocalyptic, rhizomatic artwork. New sounds and images connected by unseen roots deep within the darkness.

See their collaboration here.

Befort // Baker ... This is a long-time collaboration (15+ years) between composer Tom Baker and choreographer/filmmaker Corrie Befort. They have worked together to create full-length movement based works, works for film and video, and have spent the last few years developing a language of improvisation, a new "periodic table of aesthetic elements".

See their collaboration here and here. 

PRESENT SOUNDS RECORDINGS ... Founded in 1999, Present Sounds Recordings has released 24 CDs featuring music and performances by avant-garde and experimental artists in the Pacific Northwest, including Jarrad Powell, Steve Peters, Seattle Percussion Collective, Brian Cobb, Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kinney, Jesse Canterbury, Tom Baker, Triptet, Christian Asplund, and Christopher DeLaurenti.

Learn more and hear some new music here.

MATRIO ... an improvising ensemble with Greg Campbell on percussion, french horn; James Falzone on clarinets, piano, and shruti box; and Tom Baker on guitars, theremin, and electronics. Exploring tightly wound counterpoints and dense harmonic and rhythmic worlds, these three veteran improvisers are crafting some beautifully strange new-music.

LISTEN...

SExO :: SEATTLE ExPERIMENTAL OPERA ... co-founded in 1995 by Tom Baker, Christian Asplund, and Lara Candland. SExO has produced and premiered over 10 operas and chamber operas by Baker, Asplund, and Eyvind Kang, among others. With two productions of Baker's chamber "operatorios" in 2006 and 2009, SExO continues to formulate a new manifesto for opera in the 21st century. 

Listen: Hunger - The Journey of Tamsen Donner

"Wings" - An Electronic Opera in Three Acts by Tom Baker (2011-current). Listen to an excerpt here.

SUN RA TRIBUTE ... A cast of Seattle improvisers and performers comes together every blue moon to honor and celebrate the music of the legendary space traveller. Featuring Stuart Dempster on trombone and William O. Smith on clarinet, this group has been featured on Seattle's Is That Jazz? Festival as well as the UW Music Series. 

Keep an eye out for this creative but elusive band...

SEATTLE COMPOSERS' SALON ... fosters the development, performance and appreciation of new music by regional composers and performers. At bi-monthly, informal presentations, the Salon features finished works, previews, and works in progress. Composers, performers, and audience members gather in a casual setting that allows for experimentation and discussion. Everyone is welcome!

Tom Baker, Artistic Director
Alissa Rupp, Managing Director

More info here.