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Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present ten concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center (which sits on the traditional homelands of the Duwamish people): contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics. Watch a video clip about us on the Seattle Channel.
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In the Chapel Performance Space on the fourth floor of the Good Shepherd Center.
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N.
Seattle WA, 98103
(SW corner of 50th & Sunnyside in Wallingford. Nearest Metro bus stops: 62, 44, 26)Email:
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TEXTURES
TEXTURES is an improvising trio exploring that idea, the timbre and fabric of sound, nuance and undulation, getting past note into the sound itself. As a group, we come to this project with no specific preconceptions or dialogue, no mapping it out, and so the work will be as spontaneous as possible, with structures of amoebic movement. As some … Read More
Kirill Nikolai & Doug Russell
Doug Russell is a guitarist and improvisor based in Seattle. He studied music at Wesleyan University under Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton and Ron Kuivila before forming the Los Angeles-based free noise group Open City with Peter Kolovos and Andrew Maxwell. Open City operated from 1997 to 2006.
Kirill Nikolai is a Seattle-based composer. He has released both solo and collaborative … Read More
Natacha Diels & Steph Richards
Natacha Diels and Steph Richards perform solo sets of experimental witchery with video, electronics, resonating percussion and trumpets.
Natacha Diels performs her audiovisual composition Somewhere Beautiful, a journey into a strange landscape occupied by sounds and image that are at once familiar and unknown, reassuring and unsettling. Steph Richards’s solo project draws on her avant-jazz ensemble work, where trumpet is … Read More
Chuck Johnson + Tiny Vipers
Californian Chuck Johnson (joined by Seattle percussionist/composer Alex Vittum) performs pedal steel-based ambient compositions in support of his new album Sun Glories, and will share the night with the haunting folk elegies of acclaimed Seattle artist Tiny Vipers.
Chuck Johnson is a California-based composer, producer, and musician. He approaches his work with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that … Read More
TAP 4.0: The Nyxology Sessions, Installment 7
7 – 8 PM social time; 8 – 9:30 event.
‘TAP 4.0: The Nyxology Sessions’ are high-level experiments in the art and craft of designing and presenting simultaneous, multi-participant and multi-discipline live performances, or “art-theater”, that inhabit a venue’s on and off-stage spaces and feature the live-scores of The Antenna Project as the core audience experience.
Founded in 2002, The Antenna … Read More
Alan Licht
Alan Licht’s first-ever solo performance in Seattle closes out a West Coast tour in support of his new double album Havens (VDSQ/Black Editions), a sprawling summation of his decades-long exploration of solo electric and acoustic guitar performances that navigate and challenge the boundaries of Minimalism, rock, and other non-idiomatic music-making. Licht is masterful and relentless in his negotiation of … Read More
Leanna Keith / KO Solo / Passenger Pigeon
Seattle musicians Leanna Keith, Kate Olson (KO Solo), and Levi Fuller (Passenger Pigeon) will perform three overlapping sets of improvised, loop-based music. Leanna plays flutes in a wide range of settings and contexts (see her new bass flute album Body of Breath); Kate plays saxophones seemingly everywhere all at once; and Levi plays guitars and bass, writes songs, and … Read More
NonSeq: Huck Hodge
Huck Hodge is a composer of “harmonically fresh work”, “full of both sparkle and thunder” (New York Times). His music has been praised for its “immediate impact” (Chicago Tribune), its “clever, attractive, streamlined” qualities (NRC Handelsblad, Amsterdam) and its ability to “conjure up worlds of musical magic” with “power and charisma” (Gramophone Magazine, London). His musical collaborations include those … Read More
Red Pants Collective + Kin of the Moon
Red Pants Collective, made up of father/daughter duo James Falzone and Giordana Falzone, join forces with chamber ensemble Kin of the Moon, featuring Kaley Lane Eaton, Heather Bentley, and Leanna Keith, for an evening of improvised movement and sound. Joining the ensembles will be movement artist Hannah Rice.
Red Pants CollectiveJames Falzone: clarinet, penny whistle, piano, shruti boxGiordana Falzone: movement
Kin of the … Read More
Shin Yu Pai & friends
Seattle Civic Poet Shin Yu Pai shares poems written during her poet laureateship for the city, with music from Leanna Keith (flute and voice), Susie Kozawa (found object-instruments), Steve Peters (field recordings), and Kyle Hanson (accordion). Join us on the longest night of the year for a meditative evening of poetry and improvised music. Bring a blanket and pillow … Read More
Shin Yu Pai & Friends
Seattle Civic Poet Shin Yu Pai shares poems written during her poet laureateship for the city, with music from Leanna Keith (flute and voice), Susie Kozawa (found object-instruments), Steve Peters (field recordings), and Kyle Hanson (accordion). Join us on the longest night of the year for a meditative evening of poetry and improvised music. Bring a blanket and pillow … Read More
Michael Jones & UW Graduate Percussion Group
Percussionist Michael Jones (he/they) presents new works for percussion by Matt Sargent and Scott Wollschleger that explore time, touch, and exteriority. Based in San Diego, California, his recordings can be heard on the Naxos, New Focus, Edition Wandelweiser, Cold Blue, Sawyer Editions, and New World labels. Michael’s debut solo album, Between Time and After, is available from Chen Li Music. They are … Read More
