Jacobsen Series: Striking Music

Join us for an evening of original music and lighting design featuring Striking Music, a Seattle-based percussion ensemble with Storm Benjamin, Rebekah Ko, James Doyle, and Benjamin Marx; in collaboration with Puget Sound’s Department of Art and Art History, designer Mare Hirsch, assistant professor of art and digital media.

Striking Music will combine a fresh new multimedia work by Marx, Feynman Diagrams, with Hirsch's stunning design incorporating interactive technologies, sequenced visual elements, and live synthesized lighting.

All are invited to a reception following the program hosted by the SAI international music organization.

This event is sponsored by the Catharine Gould Chism Fund for the Humanities.

Tickets: $20, general; $15 sr. citizen; military, Puget Sound faculty, staff and Community Music participants.

Admission is free for current Puget Sound and K-12 students. Please obtain a complimentary ticket and present your student ID at the door.

 Members of Striking Music. 
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Ben Marx, composer, sound designer, and synthesizers

Puget Sound's department of Art and Art History Professor Mare Hirsch

Named in honor of Leonard Jacobsen, former chair of the piano department at Puget Sound, the Jacobsen Professional Artist Series was established in 1984 and features School of Music faculty and their guests. Ticket sales support the Jacobsen Series Scholarship Fund, which awards annual music scholarships to an outstanding member of Sigma Alpha Iota, international music organization.