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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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In_Series presents: Colin Tucker + Luke Martin
In_Series hosts a participatory musical contemporary art performance with Colin Tucker alongside works by Luke Martin, Eva-Maria Houben and Tom Johnson.
Feeling as Capacity / Feeling as RelationThis program features musical contemporary art with musical instruments, text, musicians, found objects, spectators, audio, chairs, projection, lights, and more. The program asks how sensation and emotion are tools of political power and … Read More

Bongo Funhouse
Bongo Funhouse is a free-improvisation performance ensemble that explores the world of percussion and found sounds. Bongo Funhouse seeks to create a unique performance experience that blends elements of avant-garde and contemporary classical music. Taking influence from many types of music, literature, and nature, Bongo Funhouse travels through a wide variety of sound worlds and moods that at times … Read More

TOZ
TOZ (aka Tom Zeiler) is an electro-acoustic experimentalist musician and visual artist who does surprising things with QWERTY and MIDI keyboards, guitars, horns, voice, toys, and more. Zeiler’s adventures in out-of-the-ordinary music began at an early age, and his passion for exploring novel sonic territories has only deepened over time. His approach blends a diverse set of digital and … Read More

Chingiz Kam + Tiger Poems
NOTE: Audience for this event is limited to 85 people!
An evening of Tuvan Shamanism and throat singing with Chingiz Kam and Arrington de Dionyso.
Chingiz Kam is a practicing hereditary Tuvan shaman from the Republic of Tuva (Siberia, Russia). He will conduct a powerful healing ritual, sharing his personal “Algysh” – an ancient shamanic chant full of spiritual power. … Read More

Amelia Rosselli Celebration in Words and Music
In this hybrid event, Scrambler will play original music composed by Peter Nelson-King to celebrate the publication in English translation of Amelia Rosselli’s Notes Scatter and Lost, the final volume of local Entre Rios Books’ landmark trilogy of Rosselli’s shorter texts. Local poet, teacher, and Rosselli translator Deborah Woodard will read from all three of the books. She’ll be … Read More

V.Vecker + Medina/Walsh + Kennon/Galbraith
Vancouver BC’s V.Vecker (sax, keys, electronics) celebrates the release of his new album “Heavy Gestures” on local label Obscure & Terrible, with support from Medina/Walsh and Kole Galbraith + Noel Kennon.
V.Vecker (b. Keith Wecker, 1983) is a composer, improvisor, and multi-instrumentalist using technology to explore his interest in the timbral and temporal possibilities that exist within electronic-based music. Utilizing sound … Read More

Westerlies Fest 2025: The Past Delivers – Music for Ballet
A concert presentation of the score to The Westerlies’ recent ballet “The Past Delivers,” created in collaboration with BalletCollective, Troy Schumacher (New York City Ballet soloist) and Jordan Bennett, alongside other new works.
The Westerlies, “an arty quartet…mixing ideas from jazz, new classical, and Appalachian folk” (New York Times) are a New York-based brass quartet comprised of Riley Mulherkar and … Read More

Elliott Sharp
Legendary NYC improviser/composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp performs solo electroacoustic music performed on 8-string guitarbass in celebration of his upcoming book Feedback: Translations From The IrRational, which will be published by Wesleyan University Press, Nov. 2025.
Elliott Sharp leads SysOrk, Orchestra Carbon, Terraplane, and Tectonics and pioneered use of fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetics in musical composition and interaction. His … Read More

Play On! presents Scènes D’Amour
Through music and poetry Play On! chamber ensemble spins tales of love spanning seven centuries – from 14th century sonnets of Petrarch to songs of the swinging 60’s and beyond. ‘SCÈNES D’AMOUR’ explores themes of love at first sight, passion, jealousy, obsession, loneliness, loss and hope. This concert features the premier of Seattle composer Sterling Tinsley’s monodrama ‘A Flight … Read More

Vinny Golia Chamber Sextet
One of the west coast’s most important player/improviser/composers will be in Seattle for a special concert with five of Seattle’s top players. Expect an astounding array of sounds, including a bass saxophone duo! A pioneer of the LA area creative music scene, Vinny is on 100s of recordings, and has taught at CalArts for over 30 years.
Vinny Golia and Neil Welch, … Read More

Music for Snare Drumz
Music for Snare Drumz is an immersive exploration of resonance, texture, and rhythm, blending experimental minimalism, unconventional percussion techniques, and nuanced sonic transmutation.
Featuring performers Aaron Butler, Jon Rodriguez, Storm Benjamin, and James Doyle. Audiences will encounter hypnotic durational works and unconventional percussion techniques that provide tactile percussion textures with a meditative edge. The performance will emphasize space and silence as … Read More

Abrahamson and Phelps: Classical…ish!
Thomas Abrahamson will premiere new compositions for solo piano including a new piece for violin and piano ensemble (Libby Phelps on violin), all in the style of contemporary classical…ish. Also included in the program are OLD works composed in 2023. The night will include caffeine, refreshments, chocolate, caramel, and of course, notes, music, and crescendos that will make you … Read More
