Hey everyone! Sous Chef here, inviting you to a night of beautiful and avant garde sounds in celebration of the release of my debut album Pas un Monde, Mais un Miroir and supported by the incredible New York pianist/composer Erika Dohi and local bass and songwriting maestro Kelsey Mines featuring the visual crafts of Dion Egg.

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Seattle sax legend and Festival Resident Artist Skerik performs solo saxophone with a complex multiple EFX system based around harmonizers and a balanced continuous matrix routing system. Those allow him to program effects in multiple arrays and create up to nine independent voices through one saxophone. He constructs dynamic, symphonic improvisations inspired by such composers and improvisers as Wayne … Read More →

A new trio to deliver a mix of free improvisation and punk, all of it wild-eyed and fierce as hell. Guitarist Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of) and bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Stooges) both need no introduction, but if you insist: They’re defining figures of the 1980’s California hardcore/post-punk scene and did as much as anyone to … Read More →

Screening and listening party for A Nomad of Sound by Marina Albero.

Join us in a very special night of music and community to celebrate Marina Albero’s new album. Successfully funded through a crowdfunding campaign last summer, the album is going to be launched November 3rd, but this event is a very special screening and listening party where the tracks … Read More →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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’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 →

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 →