Category Archives: Event

Screening and listening party for A Nomad of Sound by Marina Albero.

Join us in a very special night of music and community to celebrate Marina Albero’s new album. Successfully funded through a crowdfunding campaign last summer, the album is going to be launched November 3rd, but this event is a very special screening and listening party where the tracks … Read More →

A new trio to deliver a mix of free improvisation and punk, all of it wild-eyed and fierce as hell. Guitarist Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of) and bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Stooges) both need no introduction, but if you insist: They’re defining figures of the 1980’s California hardcore/post-punk scene and did as much as anyone to … Read More →

Seattle sax legend and Festival Resident Artist Skerik performs solo saxophone with a complex multiple EFX system based around harmonizers and a balanced continuous matrix routing system. Those allow him to program effects in multiple arrays and create up to nine independent voices through one saxophone. He constructs dynamic, symphonic improvisations inspired by such composers and improvisers as Wayne … Read More →

Hey everyone! Sous Chef here, inviting you to a night of beautiful and avant garde sounds in celebration of the release of my debut album Pas un Monde, Mais un Miroir and supported by the incredible New York pianist/composer Erika Dohi and local bass and songwriting maestro Kelsey Mines featuring the visual crafts of Dion Egg.

The night will kick off … Read More →

Doors open 7 PM, music 8 PM.

Blurring the limits between speed and slowness, guitarists Meg Duffy and Greg Uhlmann communicate in velocities, underwriting each other’s peaks and flurries as they ache toward a mutual horizon. After playing in Perfume Genius and Hand Habits, Duffy and Uhlmann embarked on their first record together, Doubles. A testament to the wordlessness of … Read More →

Guitarist Michael Nicolella performs his own works for solo classical guitar, alongside music of: Debussy, Falla and Albeniz and works for electric guitar by: György Ligeti, Tom Baker and Jacob ter Veldhuis. 

Described by Classical Guitar magazine as “one of the contemporary guitar’s most gifted stars,” and by Guitar Player magazine as “a classical iconoclast, (who) continues to push the boundaries of the … Read More →

Lauren Sarah Hayes brings the intense physicality of her hybrid human-machine sonic performance to Seattle, with support from local computer synthesists Sebastian Camens and RM Francis.

Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish improviser, sound artist, and scholar recognised for her embodied approach to computer music. Her music is a mix of experimental pop/live electronics/techno/noise/free improvisation and has been described as … Read More →

Matthew Welch’s work, at its core, is about experimental musical hybridity between traditional and innovative forms of Western music and World music. Drawing from over two decades of research and performance interests in diverse musical systems — Western classical and experimental music, jazz and improvisation, Scottish bagpipes, Indonesian gamelan, and music of the Philippine Cordillera — he creates new … Read More →

Tiger Poems : Arrington de Dionyso (bass clarinet and voice masking), Gust Burns (piano), and Noel Kennon (idiosyncratic percussion).

“Tiger seems a little mad… in a sense, the tiger is mad. but the tiger is also perfectly at ease. the tiger is simultaneously disarming and making minute preparations stalking and exiting beaming and weeping mending and tearing feeling and deflecting … Read More →

Guitarist Satchel Henneman performs an eclectic program of contemporary works by Chris Cerrone, Han Lash, Zachary James Watkins, Tom Baker, Jarrad Powell, and Marguerite Brown. With a program evocative of many styles and genres, from Han Lash’s jazz-like “For Ben,” to Marguerite Brown’s textural study of clouds “Crown Shyness,” this rare opportunity to experience a recital of contemporary concert … Read More →