Noel Kennon: 11 scenes framed by a sunset

An evening of music. Featuring a new ensemble consisting of Gust Burns (piano), Troy Schiefelbien (voice), Aaron Michael Butler (vibraphone), Gregg Miller (clarinet), Justin Lazar (clarinet), Hanna Broback (violin), John Teske (contrabass ), and Noel Kennon (viola , clarinet).

This ensemble will present a new piece “11 scenes lit by sunset,” written by Noel Kennon and realized by the ensemble. 

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Austin Larkin + Kozawa/Keith

Austin Larkin is a composer primarily working with violin, bells, and sirens. His performance and practice is informed by research into dimensions of vibrating bodies. Larkin’s solo violin performance situates the violin as an instrument to accentuate space, rather than to fill space. Within this space, the violin renders a continuously unfolding structure of interlocking harmonic shapes and temporal … Read More

Leanna Keith: So long, and thanks for all the fish

Leanna Keith’s last show in Seattle for some time, come bid her farewell as she prepares to move to San Diego.

Flutist Leanna Keith found her improvisational voice thanks to the Seattle improvised music scene, and as a send off she’d like to do one more show with some of her favorite improvisers in town making a tribute to her … Read More

Millis/Jones/Knott + Messenger Girls Trio + Kelby Clark

An evening of (mostly) string improvisations and abstractions, featuring (mostly) ukulele and banjo. But also expect electro-acoustic/found sound/collage/drone explorations and deconstructions. Robert Millis and Dave Knott (Messenger Girls Trio) just released a cassette on Seattle’s Eiderdown Records. Millis has a new LP out on Discrepant. They will perform together and separately and be joined by Alan F Jones (Marginal … Read More

Daniel Menche + enereph + unnunned + C̴i̴g̴v̴ë̴

Daniel Menche (born 1969) is an iconic experimental musician and multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. Menche’s sonic abstractions manifest through intense noise, immersive drones, dense ambiance, poly-rhythmic percussion, turbulent nature field recordings, abused acoustic instruments and many other sources.

Connie Fu aka enereph is a multidisciplinary artist and producer. Her nomadic lifestyle and restless hands fuel a love for music-making … Read More

NonSeq: Kate Olson & Friends

KO SOLO + Special GuestKO Quartet feat. Conner Eisenmenger, Tim Carey, Evan WoodleLive visuals by Brad Rouda and Steve Kennedy-Williams

Kate Olson is an award-winning improviser, composer, bandleader and saxophonist living in Seattle. She teaches jazz and improvisation at Pacific Lutheran University and the University of Puget Sound, and she can frequently be heard performing with her own projects, Wayne Horvitz’s RRCME and Electric … Read More

Puget Sounds Contemporary Music

Please join us for a program of new music performances, including multi-media, feedback loops, above and below the piano strings(!), along with voice and traditional instruments.

Puget Sounds-Contemporary Music-New Performances presents a program of music by composers in the area with a wide stylistic range. Daniel Carr will feature a number of recent pieces for flute guitar, and piano. At the other end of … Read More

Skerik + visuals by Blazinspace

Seattle saxophonist and electronic artist Skerik will be performing live with his multi-effect set up with visual artist Blazinspace. An immersive sonic and visual experience using extensive electronic effects on the saxophone while Blazinspace fills the Chapel with multiple screens and projections. 

Forever defying categories & notions of the standard human work ethic, Skerik has been brewing worldwide jazz/rock/funk/electronic/avant-saxophonic mayhem since … Read More

Heather Bentley / Michele Khazak

Join us for an extended improvised duet (voice and cello) with a few indie songs (think 2010-ish) woven in as a special treat.

Join us for an improvised duet (cello & voice) with a few indie songs (2010-ish) woven in as a special treat. We’ve been having so much fun playing together in preparation and we really hope you can … Read More