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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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$5 - $20 suggested donation in advance or at the door
Small Alien’s Ceremony of Gratitude
Small Alien is a man and his machines making music. The solo project of local musician and music teacher, Paul Ehlen, Small Alien’s music explores the full range of sonic and emotional timbres offered by synthesizers and their kin. Small Alien employs all hardware electronic instruments to erect improvised soundscapes of both epic and delicate proportions. (You won’t … Read More
$5 - $20 sliding scale at the door (NOTAFLOF)
Neal Kosaly-Meyer: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Part II, Chapter 3
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Part II, Chapter 3Performed with acute attention to musical detail, by Neal Kosaly-Meyer
The gargantuan eleventh chapter of James Joyce’s final novel, performed in its entire 4 1/2 to 5 hour length (including multiple intermissions), in an adventurously wild and musical performance, taking full advantage of the dramatic and liturgically suggestive qualities of … Read More
$10 - $!5 sliding scale at the door
Lauren Rodriguez + Sandesh Nagaraj + Meadowgoat + Polt
Lauren Rodriguez has been playing and touring North America and Europe in independent rock bands for over 15 years, most recently as one of the lead vocalists and bass players in the post-punk outfit Terminator. In between tours and photography projects, Rodriguez has been composing cello works that play with the instrument’s polarities through repetition, delving into the … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door (NOTAFLOF)
Marielle Jakobsons + David Wesley Golightly + Raica
Violinist and composer Marielle Jakobsons (Thrill Jockey) performs selections from her new album The Patterns Lost to Air, pianist and composer David Wesley Golightly (Midday Veil, Hair and Space Museum) returns to Seattle with original compositions for solo piano, and synthesist and composer Chloe Harris as Raica, performs original ambient dreams.
Marielle V. Jakobsons is an award-winning composer … Read More
$20 suggested donation at the door
Elijah Bossenbroek
Elijah Bossenbroek, despite taking ten years of piano lessons, he has consistently gravitated towards composing his own musical compositions rather than performing existing works. At the age of 18, he enlisted in the Marines, where he continued his musical endeavors, even bringing a keyboard with him to the desert of Kuwait during the Iraq War.
Currently in his … Read More
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Catherine Lamb/Bryan Eubanks + AF Jones/Casey Adams
Berlin based composer-performers Catherine Lamb and Bryan Eubanks present the N. American premiere of Lamb’s monumental electronic work Wave/Forming (Asrum), a 4 channel work for 2 digital synthesizers in rational intonation.
Catherine Lamb and Bryan Eubanks are musicians and composers originally from the Pacific Northwest. They moved to Berlin in 2013 after founding the collective and label Sacred Realism … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door
Angels 4 Carrots + Levitt/Morrow/Novak + Stacy’s World
Angels 4 Carrots is an art project that uses field recordings to make sound sculptures of deep bass dub poetry. It kind of lives in an improv ecosystem of late night road trip radio scanning, ocean dubstep, acoustic backyard lysergic jams, reflecting-pool drone, and other soulful scenes. Experimental Freedom for all! Based in Olympia WA, member of various Associations: … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door (NOTAFLOF)
noel kennon : 17 limbs of a birch tree
an evening of music at the chapel the moon will be in its waning gibbous phase and the sun will set just after 9pm.
an ensemble of Justin Lazar (clarinet), Eric Lanzillotta (moog), John Teske (contrabass), Hanna Broback (violin), Noel Kennon (viola, composition) present a new piece written for the ensemble. 17 limbs of a birch tree. 6 leafs on … Read More
$10 - $20 suggested donation at the door
The 19th Guitar Worship Service
Oh come all ye faithful to The 19th Guitar Worship Service for sound explorations by:
A.F. JONES & ROBERT MILLIS (Tracyton & Seattle, WA)A truly special and rare collaboration of two bona fide musicians with decades of creative uniqueness. A.F. Jones is a composer, sound designer, architect of mastering studio Laminal Audio, a tastemaker who founded Marginal Frequency … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door
trio ABK
trio ABK, affectionately known as tArBiKo, is an auspicious first meeting of three veteran Seattle-area improvisors: Amy Denio, multi-instrumentalist; Bonnie Whiting, percussion; and Keith Eisenbrey, piano. We’re looking forward to having a jamming good time, so please do come and join us!
$10 - $20 suggested donation at the door
Alex Anthony Faide + Crystal Beth + Passenger Pigeon
Three overlapping sets of improvised music made with loopers from Alex Anthony Faide, Crystal Beth, and Passenger Pigeon.
Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, guitarist/composer Alex Anthony Faide has a decades-long international reputation for being the secret weapon in rock recordings, arrangements, and stage productions in Europe and Latin America. Now based in Seattle, Faide released his long-awaited solo … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door
The Hegramatics + Lotus Lungs
This unique concert will bring together five of Seattle’s finest improvisors, as the trio The Hegramatics and duo Lotus Lungs, in a tribute to the late Carol J Levin.
Amy Denio, Heather Bentley and Greg Campbell are multi-talented musicians, each with a range that defies logic. Amy improvises freely using her voice, saxophone, clarinet and accordion. Heather is … Read More
$10 - $20 sliding scale at the door
Tad Doyle + Anemochore
Tad Doyle, best known for the bands TAD band, BROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH, HOG MOLLY H-HOUR, and others will be performing solo with some of his most recent film score works, like CARA the film. This will be his second live performance since 2006. Expect the unexpected.
Also on the bill is Anemochore (aka Dan Blossom). The … Read More
