Stepping Off brings together accordionist-pianist-composer Simone Baron and clarinetist-penny whistle player-composer James Falzone in musical conversation built from shared instincts, deep listening, and a delight in discovery.

Baron and Falzone share a musical language shaped by chamber music, jazz, folk traditions, and experimental improvisation. Their chemistry comes in part from hearing many of the same things beneath the … Read More →

Seattle saxophonist Evan Smith returns to perform a solo set of his own music. Moving freely between composed and improvised sections, Evan’s solo performances blend influences from contemporary classical music, jazz, and the avant-garde. Utilizing a range of saxophone voices from soprano to baritone, disjunct melodies coexist with meditative textures unfolding over the course of the performance. Each … Read More →

Obscure & Terrible recordings presents composer/music producer Paurl Walsh with his new symphony recording, “Exploratory Orchestral Aestheses for the Induction of Ecstatic States in Human Subjects” as a quadraphonic listening experience. The new 4-movement work features an expanded orchestra performing textural music created entirely using extended technique playing, and features some of Seattle’s best contemporary classical players alongside amateur … Read More →

Doors open 7 PM.

Morgan O. celebrates the release of her new album “Now Time” and performs songs from the album. The songs were written for a theater show entitled The Unicorn Crosses the Stream by Emmy Smith Stewart and Jeffrey Azevedo. The show explores grief for queer elders lost during the AIDS epidemic, the effects of an … Read More →

Composer Nat Evans performs his new album, What Are Days For. Written over the course of three years, this new album by Nat Evans considers the grief of losing loved ones, relationships with plants, surfing, home, and the light of the west coast. 

Fuzzy radios, bass and warm guitar tones drift through field recordings and clouds of synthesizers humming … Read More →

Explore hidden acoustic worlds and immersive soundscapes during a boundary-pushing night of electroacoustic music, featuring concrete experimentalists Kamran Shafii, CAEN (Gordon Ashworth), and BLSPHM (Demian Johnston).

Kamran Shafii (Persian: کامران شفیعی) is an Iranian sound artist working in the field of electroacoustic music. His recent work is characterized by its concern with anthropogenic sound and complex auditory experiences, drawing … Read More →

Co-presented by South Hudson Music Project and Nonsequitur. Full festival details here.

Recipient of the 2019 American Prize in Orchestral Composition and the 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, composer Wayne Horvitz has created new work for The Kitchen, BAM, Seattle Symphony, Kronos Quartet, Berlin Jazz, Nocco, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Centrum, and ACT among others. Coming of age in NYC … Read More →

A Vast Absence is a work for one or more gongs, electronics, feedback loops, and resonant spaces that Aaron Michael Butler has been performing in dive bars, bowling alleys, art galleries, parking garages, and the Detroit Symphony Cube since 2016. In the work the inner resonances and harmonics of gongs are amplified and layered into an immersive ambient environment … Read More →

An evening of textural ambient landscapes by Oakland experimentalist hermischalet and architectural drones by noise sculptor Red, White and Bludd. DJ sets by Dr. Troy and more.

Rachel Smith (hermischalet) is an Oakland-based experimentalist with a music career that includes Transona 5, the Lickets, and Cassette Prophets.

Jason Amos (Red, White and Bludd) is a Seattle-based artist and … Read More →