Kole Galbraith is a musician and sound artist originally from Wenatchee, Washington. He settled in Seattle after living in Germany, Mexico, and Austria. While traveling, Kole immersed himself in improvised experimental music across multiple genres ranging from free jazz, harsh noise, new music, and metal. He has exhibited his works in galleries and venues throughout the west coast and in Austria. Kole is a descendant of the Colville and Sinixt Tribes, and an enrolled member of the Peoria Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma.

Kennewick Man

A battle over ancient bones.
Reopened scars in the earth and our kin.
Awakened from eternal slumber,
to be taken from the creator herself—defiled.
Wáashat,
Smohalla.
Return the ancient thought,
as we have returned our ancient ancestor.
To the earth.
Go to her.

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of previously unreleased material.

Megan Mitchell composes unsettling, ethereal music under the alias, Cruel Diagonals. A jazz and classically trained vocalist, Mitchell performs and creates in numerous capacities. Mitchell has released albums with Drawing Room Records and Longform Editions, which have been met with critical acclaim. She also hosts ManyManyWomen, an index of female-identified artists making adventurous musics. You can buy her music directly from BandCamp.

This set is comprised of various works in progress and unreleased compositions utilizing a blend of voice, field recordings, Eurorack, granular synthesis, and digital processes. While earlier Cruel Diagonals releases hinted at decay and discomfort, this performance faces those themes head-on, with an unfaltering acceptance of the duality of pain and transcendence. It represents a shift into the domain of more intentional psychoacoustics, exploring noisier and harsher territories in the process.

(Photo: Marylène Mey)

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of previously unreleased material.

Guitarist Bill Horist has been making adventurous music in the Northwest US for 25 years.  His work stretches across a diverse range of genres, conventional and otherwise. He has appeared on almost 100 records and has toured regularly throughout Europe, Japan, North and Central America. He also enjoys teaching guitar.

Reverse Transcriptase – Bite the Hand that Feeds the Gift Horse in the Mouth (parts I-V) — Solo prepared guitar improvisations

Reverse transcriptase is an enzyme used by some viruses to convert their own RNA into DNA. This DNA is then edited into the host’s own DNA for perpetuity. Up to 10% of the human genome is made up of these mostly harmless viruses – called junk DNA, leading to controversial speculation that viruses may have been the initial prompt for all organic life and the evolution of every different species of plant and animal.

Recorded in quarantine on Saturday afternoon, April 25, 2020

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of previously unreleased material.

Self-taught multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer and improviser Amy Denio performs and produces soundtracks for film, TV, dance, and multi-media performances. Her work has been commissioned by the Berkeley Symphony, Relache Ensemble, Seattle Theater Group, On the Boards, New York Festival of Song, Bumbershoot Festival, Jack Straw Foundation, and Il Cantiere Internazionale dell’Arte and Norwegian TV. A member of the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame, she enjoys expanding all genres of music.  Founding member and President of the all-women Tiptons Sax Quartet, she’s collaborated with a plethora of musicians and artists since 1980 and has produced over 60 recordings and played 1,000 concerts internationally. You can support her directly via Patreon and BandCamp.

QUARANTAINT

The COVID-19 Quarantine of 2020 has created an opportunity to expand my horizons as an improviser and composer. Some of these pieces are free improvisations. Others are improvisations based on the numbers of infected and dead in New York City (341,235 / 9562), New Jersey (92,387 / 4753), Rome (5232 / 311), Connecticut (20,360 / 1423) and Detroit (actually Wayne County: 13692 / 1119).  0 is G, 1 is A, 2 is B, 3 is C and so forth.  All pieces were improvised and produced between April 16 and April 22, 2020.  Steve Turnidge mastered Roma and Detroit at Ultraviolet Studios.

Track List:

1. Improvisation #2
2. Improvisation #3
3. New York City
4. New Jersey
5. Roma Italia
6. Connecticut
7. Improvisation #8
8. Detroit
9. Improvisation #7

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of previously unreleased material.

Noel Brass Jr. is a composer/keyboardist based out of Seattle’s thriving musical landscape. He’s a founding member and leader of the improvising space-funk trio Afro Cop along with other side projects. His solo work is part ambient, part psychedelic, all soul. Influenced by early sci-fi soundtracks, film noir, and improvisation, his scenes are synth-lush and spliced, while dosed with mood changing textures, dystopic yet hopeful.

The collective consciousness of the current uncertainty brings up all types of questions, moods, and ideas. This track, “Quarantine Dreams”, is a contribution of inspiration from my current headspace with thought and reflection. Grateful for the surrounding community & all those involved in contributing to healing, empathy, understanding & love. Recorded at home on Sunday April 19, 2020 using Nord Stage + Looper.

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of previously unreleased material.

Casey Chittenden Jones has been soundtracking the collapse of civilization under the moniker noisepoetnobody. Utilizing home made instruments and modular synthesizers creating haunting, discordant and broken sounds to express the need for creativity in a dying ecosystem. Specializing in underground venues, bars, art galleries, abandon buildings, and illegal DIY spaces. Always seeking to promote mental deprogramming through anti-commercial sonic immersion. Each set is a one of a kind exchange of energy employing analog electronics and improvised inspirations via speaker cones. Most commonly associated with the genres of, experimental, minimalism, noise, drone, dark ambient.

This track, “Amid the Swirling,” features noisepoetnobody on analog modular synthesizer, hollow log with springs, resonant copper, and processed field recordings. Liquid field recording by Briana Jones.

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of previously unreleased material.

Kate Olson is an improviser, saxophonist and woodwind specialist living in Seattle. She is primarily a freelancer, but also works as an educator and as leader of three ensembles: KO SOLO, KO Ensemble, and KO ELECTRIC. Her KO Ensemble was recently awarded the Earshot Golden Ear Award for NW Acoustic Ensemble of the Year. You can support her work directly via Patreon and BandCamp.

Here performing as KO SOLO, she improvises based on three prompts from Oblique Strategies, a collection of creative quandaries penned by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt.

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of previously unreleased material.

Over the course of 30+ years, Dale Lloyd has been a sound artist, publisher, graphic designer, producer, musician, and visual artist. In 2001, Dale founded the recording label and/OAR to publish unique environmental recording work and various other forms of sound art. You can support his work directly via BandCamp.

The idea behind this recording stems from his long, ongoing fascination and appreciation of what is known as “low fidelity sound” as has been demonstrated with his recording group projects Lucid (founded in 1993) and Search Ensembles (founded in 2010), as well as a series of various artist compilations he launched in 2018 called “Muted Stories”. Dale’s artist statement could be summed up in the following Novalis quote: “To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of previously unreleased material.

Saxophonist and composer Neil Welch is a Seattle-based artist whose work is rooted in improvisation, using a variety of sound techniques that explore deep resonances within the saxophone. His work embraces a variety of musical styles, spanning avant-garde jazz, modern composition, solo acoustic saxophone and electronic sound processing. He performs as a solo artist, in addition to the longtime drum/saxophone collaboration Bad Luck. You can buy his music directly via BandCamp.

This recorded work is a series of acoustic improvisations, documented in a single performance while at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each piece navigates a varied sonic landscape, with techniques that include: mouthpiece only, singing into the instrument, conical air flow migrations without the mouthpiece, pushing air in and out of a grouping of saxophone necks, pitched melody, and multiphonic clusters. Saxophone voices used include the soprano, alto, tenor and bass saxophones, at times modified to include items such as: scrap metal, noah bells, a beer can, harmon mute and tin foil.

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of previously unreleased material.

Seattle cellist Gretchen Yanover was immersed in the world of classical music until college, when she expanded into different styles. Once introduced to a loop sampler, Gretchen began to create in this context. She continues to play both classical (acoustic) cello in NW Sinfonietta, and solo electric cello. Gretchen has three solo albums to date.

Here she presents a collection of pieces for electric cello and looping pedal that she has not previously recorded, which will go on a future album. The inspiration for the music stems from a variety of sources – from the sweetness of a person driving a beeping vehicle, to the brutality depicted in a short story, to the joyful feelings of a sunny day. This session was recorded at home on April 12, 2020 by Ben Thomas. Photo by David Speranza.

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of previously unreleased material.