Author Archives: Steve Peters

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 →

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 →

Each artist for the evening employs technology and synthesizers in unique ways, spinning spells of ambience punctuated by the occasional electronic beat and sample clip including improvisations in virtual reality spaces.

Chloe Harris needs no introduction in the worldwide music scene. Based in Seattle and part of the formidable Further Records imprint and music store, her artistic output whether as … Read More →

Olivia Camfield is a multimedia movement artist of the Muscogee Nation, born and raised in the Texas Hill Country. Their work finds connection of dance as body horror, tattooing as protection spells, and farming as Queer Indigenous Futurism. They have performed and choreographed dance for much of their career, and their film work includes themes of the Alien as … Read More →

KO SOLO + Special Guest KO Quartet feat. Conner Eisenmenger, Tim Carey, Evan Woodle + Live visuals by 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 →

New music by Lori Goldston for heavy acoustic string quartet:

Salma Zenia, violinNoel Kennon, violaLori Goldston, celloKole Galbraith, double bass

Also a solo cello set to celebrate the release of Open Space on Relative Pitch Records.

Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice … Read More →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →