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 →

For the last twenty years, Upstate New York-based composer M. Geddes Gengras has created worlds inside of machines, bending electronics into human shapes and working in spaces between ambient, improvisation, and experimental music to build works with deep feeling. He has released music with Hausu Mountain, Leaving Records/Stones Throw, and RVNG International, and collaborated onstage and in the studio … Read More →

Splinter Percussion presents an evening of percussion quartets, trios, and duets that oscillate between the meditative and jarring. The program will feature modern works by Juri Seo, Jason Treuting, Marc Mellits, Elliot Cole, and Donnacha Dennehy. The sonic landscape will oscillate between meditative keyboard harmonies and explosions of percussive sound, with thick rhythmic layers and shifting meters designed to make … Read More →

Trio improviso is the collaboration of Andre Feriente, guitar; Linda Vogt, violin; and Sheila Weidendorf, piano. Feriante is a Segovia-trained multi-instrumentalist who has performed in the Pacific Northwest and beyond for years, both as a solist and with his Troupe de Ville and the Bohemian Entourage, in addition to Trio Improviso. Linda Vogt plays regularly with the Auburn Symphony, the … Read More →

Vox 3 (formerly Vox Arcana) is Chicago percussionist and composer Tim Daisy’s long running experimental music trio, featuring fellow cohorts Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and James Falzone on clarinet. Formed in Chicago in 2009 as an outlet for Daisy’s multi-faceted explorations bridging compositional forms with spirited, open ended improvisations, the trio has since released multiple albums and has toured … Read More →

Featuring UW Faculty and Special Guests: Lucía Pulido – vocals, Cuong Vu – trumpet, Stomu Takeishi – bass, Ted Poor – drums.

After years of working with Lucía Pulido and immersing himself in researching Colombian music, Stomu Takeishi stumbled upon the songs of Violeta Parra. He saw in Parra’s songs the rich depth and spirit that would provide a natural home … Read More →

Student Showcase: BLUEs.WEAVE and the Victory Sound, with Jai Kobi Kaleo’Okalani – guitar, vocals, and effects; Coen Rios – saxophone; Ethan Horn – drums.

BLUEs.WEAVE creates interconnected webs of sound drawing from a pool of analog recordings, programmed MPC grooves, and their own recorded performances from acoustic and electronic sources. Combining the ritual of crate digging with layers of electronic manipulation, BLUEs.WEAVE … Read More →

Patricia Wolf is a Portland-based musician, field recordist, and sound designer. Her work sonically unites the natural and synthetic world, integrating ecological sources into her minimalist compositions. Using melody and repetition she lures listeners to a hypnotic inner space, conjuring vivid textures and atmospheres imbued with emotion. Wolf primarily works with electronics, field recordings, and acoustic instruments. Tonight she’ll … Read More →

Eric Amrine will perform “Angles Are Singing”, a spontaneous composition stolen outright from the game of billiards and from decades of improvising, studying, and performing with Robert Fripp, David Torn, Wally Shoup, Dennis Rea, Amy Denio, Lori Goldston, Jeff Greinke, John Oswald, and other luminaries.

I Can’t Trace Time emerges from the mind of Lance Watkins, with accompaniment by Casey … Read More →

Seattle Modern Orchestra presents Among the Trees: Sonic Ecology in the Anthropocene

Seattle Modern Orchestra flutist Sarah Pyle curates an evening of environmental music in which the audience and musicians collectively explore how we are shaped by and shape the natural world. Meadows (2025), a growable graphic score led by Flicker Duo (Sarah Pyle, flute & Janna Webbon, violin), encourages at-home … Read More →

Vancouver-born award-winning pianist/composer Cat Toren leads Cat Toren’s HUMAN KIND, a dynamic Brooklyn-based quartet with Xavier Del Castillo (sax), Jake Leckie (bass), and Matt Honor (drums). Described by UK Vibe as “vibrant, earthy and spiritual”, this project is influenced by the free-form, socially conscious jazz of the late ’60s, reimagined for the modern day. The group will perform music … Read More →

Join the Seattle Chamber Orchestra for an unforgettable evening celebrating Italian avantgarde composer Luciano Berio and American mezzo Cathy Berberian, a trailblazing power couple who reshaped the sound world of the 20th century. The program also includes music of Monteverdi, Ghedini, Dallapiccola, and Cage.

Doors open 7 PM; pre-concert talk at 7:15; concert starts at 8 PM.

Seattle Chamber Orchestra’s mission … Read More →

“Masked, warrantless, unmarked vans, statelessness as policy. Is that mole new? Can you take a look, I can’t get quite the right angle on it.”This performance features four improvisers – Caroline Kraabel (sax/voice), Kelsey Mines (double-bass/voice), Gregg Miller (clarinet/sax/voice) and Anjali Grant (live drawing) – using sounds, images, and words to conjure and make present the weird contemporaneity of … Read More →

Join us for an extended improvised duet (voice and cello) with a few indie songs (think 2010-ish) woven in as a special treat. We’ve been having so much fun playing together in preparation and we really hope you can make it!

Heather Bentley: a multi-instrumentalist (violin, viola, cello), an improviser, and a  composer. Post-classical, conservatory-trained, experimental sound farmer. Loves the … Read More →