Author Archives: Steve Peters

Lori Goldston plays written and spontaneous work on cello, and works as a composer, teacher, bandleader, and prolific, widely varied collaborator. Her voice as a cellist is singular, deeply textured and original, investigating thresholds, instability, and connections between far-flung modes of thought. She lives in Seattle and performs in venues large and small throughout North America and Europe as … Read More →

Confluence is an ongoing series of open collaborative concerts, allowing Seattle’s adventurous musicians the opportunity to perform small sets with total creative freedom. After last August’s exciting premiere show, Confluence is back for 2025, and this lineup isn’t to be missed, ranging from world premiere piano works to electronic improvisation on a custom instrument!

Veteran Seattle composer Keith Eisenbrey returns to … Read More →

The Shepherd’s Purse plant (represented on the event’s poster) symbolizes the ability to adapt and exist in diverse environments. Tonight’s event holds this spirit in that the performers (environments) are sundry in aural and visual presentation with a motive to have an audience (the plant) adapt to the array of sounds and sights.

DANIEL MENCHE is an iconic experimental musician … Read More →

Threshold is a quartet comprised of Seattle improvised music scene veterans. Organized by Don Berman, the group assembled for a free-ranging session in 2023, and discovered they can enter a musical space “through threshold” where they improvise together in a deep listening manner that almost sounds composed. Some call it “great band chemistry”.

This project is the manifestation of a … Read More →

Brilliant musicians and dancers will collaborate to create… who knows? A night of exploratory deep listening, collaboration, experimentation, improvisation in multiple formats, including interactive opportunities for the audience.

Sound Artists: Abbey Blackwell, Amy Denio, Carol J Levin, Caroline Kraabel, Christian Pincock, Haley Freedlund, Jenny Ziefel, Leanna Keith, Mark Filler, Susie Kozawa.

Movement Artists: Aaron Swartzman, Aiko Kinoshita, Christian Swenson, Hannah Rice, Katrina … Read More →

Beth Quist (Bobby McFerron, Cirque du Soleil, The Crown) and leithaus (The Crown, Seattle Guitar Circle, Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists) will be performing new and old solo material and collaborations.

leithaus (aka Gregroy Meredith) debuts a new cycle of songs for 8-String Touch Guitar, loops, and spoken word (from his recently published book Silence and Surrender). Beth Quist will be … Read More →

Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh – Mortal Magnetismwith James Falzone (clarinet, penny whistle, shruti box), Jackie An (violin) & Aaron Harmonson (acoustic bass)

Katrina Wolfe – Intricacies Expandingwith Michael Shannon & David Stanford (electro acoustic instruments)

+ a film by Michael Shannon

With new solos, Joan/Kogut & Katrina return to the Chapel collaborating with well-known local musicians in an evening celebrating the richness and … Read More →

Curated by Ewa Trebacz (violin, piano, electronics) and Heather Bentley (viola), this evening honors the great tradition of Racer Sessions. Ewa, Heather, Neil Welch (saxophone), and Greg Campbell (percussion, etc) open with a 20 to 30 minute set, followed by spontaneous improvisations from those who gather.

Heather and Ewa have been making music in locales as diverse as studios, the … Read More →

SGC Electric Quintet (Steve Ball, Travis Metcalf, Brad Hogg, Dev Ray, Don Box) is a subset of Seattle Guitar Circle, local chapter of the legendary League of Crafty Guitarists playing intricate, polymetric music arranged for electric guitar ensemble. SGC EQ perform structured improvisation that sounds composed and composed collaboration that sounds improvised. This international community was initially born via … Read More →

Chris Cochrane and Kevin Bud Jones have been playing music together since 2013, initially in the band Collapsible Shoulder. Chris and Kevin would play gigs as a duo between Collapsible gigs, and continue to do so now. Their music has been described as neo-psychedelic with unpredictable twists and turns, an electronic sonic mash. In the fall of 2023 they composed … Read More →