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Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present ten concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center (which sits on the traditional homelands of the Duwamish people): contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics. Watch a video clip about us on the Seattle Channel.
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In the Chapel Performance Space on the fourth floor of the Good Shepherd Center.
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N.
Seattle WA, 98103
(SW corner of 50th & Sunnyside in Wallingford. Nearest Metro bus stops: 62, 44, 26)Email:
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$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door
Light Time Delay + An Anomalous Wave + Marc Barreca
Presented by Modular Seattle.
Light Time Delay (Théa-Martine Gauthier) uses field recordings, granular synthesis, bespoke software, hardware DSP engines, sound design, data sonification, and poetry to create long-form ambient performances. Her works form a basis of energy exchange and are designed to evoke a feeling of intensity, movement and space. This original performance will feature a synthesizer modeled on a … Read More
$40 general / Pay What You Wish (for those in need)
Sound Ensemble
Join The Sound Ensemble as they present beautiful recently composed works to celebrate ten incredible years of music making! Returning to where we started, the Chapel, we will perform a favorite oldie from our previous programs, a new composition for our Local Composer Fanfare Competition and a beautiful song cycle honoring the transformative history of contemporary music. You won’t … Read More
$15 students - $25 general, in advance
Westerlies Fest 2026: Songbook, Vol. 4
A one-night-only live recording for The Westerlies’ Songbook EP series. Night 2 of Westerlies Fest 2026 features a live recording session at the Chapel, featuring brand new compositions from the group.
The Westerlies, “an arty quartet…mixing ideas from jazz, new classical, and Appalachian folk” (The New York Times), hold a singular space in modern music. From Carnegie Hall to Coachella, … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation in advance or at the door (NOTAFLOF)
NonSeq: Carrie DeCunzo Mirande + Nour Mobarak
Carrie DeCunzo Mirande is a musician and multi-disciplinary artist who works in performance, video, installation, theater, and sound. She started making computer music in 2014 and over the last decade has released on Discreet Music, Hold Tapes, No Rent Records, and her own imprint, KSX Solutions. She received her MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College. … Read More
$15 at the door
Spring Convergence
A first-time convergence of six of Seattle’s most explorative improvisers and sound makers:
Alex Guy: violin; Neil Welch: saxophones; Ted Poor: drums and percussion; Stephanie Richards: trumpet; James Falzone: clarinet, piano; Jessica Lurie: saxophones and clarinets
$5 - $20 sliding scale at the door
Byron Westbrook + Maria Thrän / Afroditi Psarra
Byron Westbrook presents a multichannel version of his acclaimed electroacoustic work, Translucents; Maria Thrän and Afroditi Psarra conduct real-time radio wave manipulations.
Byron WestbrookTranslucents
First emerging from within New York’s experimental music scene nearly two decades ago and now based in Los Angeles, Byron Westbrook weaves intricate tapestries of sonority bridging the worlds of sound art, installation, avant-garde electronic music and … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested, in advance or at the door
Samantha Boshnack: Uncomfortable Subjects
Trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Samantha Boshnack reprises her jazz song cycle Uncomfortable Subjects at the Chapel Performance Space. A chamber orchestra of Seattle music luminaries will perform the full cycle live before recording it at London Bridge Studio; the thirteen-piece ensemble, conducted by Joshua Kohl (Degenerate Art Ensemble), features vocals by Grammy-winning singer Johnaye Kendrick (säje).
In 2020, Boshnack invited artist and … Read More