Tad Doyle, best known for the bands TAD band, BROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH, HOG MOLLY H-HOUR, and others will be performing solo with some of his most recent film score works, like CARA the film. This will be his second live performance since 2006. Expect the unexpected.

Also on the bill is Anemochore (aka Dan Blossom). The … Read More →

Social time: 7 – 8 PMPerformance: 8 – 9:30 PM

P.I.L.L. Interactive Liminal Laboratories presents TAP 4.0: The Nyxology Sessions, high-level experiments in the art and craft of designing and presenting simultaneous, multi-participant and multi-discipline live performances (or “art-theater”) that inhabit a venue’s on and off-stage spaces and feature the instrumental live-scores of Christopher Hydinger‘s The Antenna Project … Read More →

An evening of improvised trios: Strings, Percussion, Brass and Objects.

Improvised farmhouse string minimalism:

Hanna Broback (violin)Noel Kennon (viola)Kole Galbraith (bass)

A first-time improvised trio:

Casey Adams (percussion, objects)Silas Morrow (banjo, objects) Rebecca Novak (piano, cornet, objects)

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An evening of slow and mellow electronic music, come and relax for as long as you wish.

Ben Kaya is an American composer, producer and performer based in Belgium. His work primarily is concerned with simplicity, limitation and repetition, using long durations, repetitive motifs and a focus on texture in sound and visuals to bring a natural life … Read More →

Sarah Belle Reid‘s work centers on experimental electroacoustic performance, improvisation, and human-machine interaction. Performing with trumpet, voice, modular synthesizer, and custom electronic instruments of her own design, she creates interactive performance systems in which performers, technologies, environments, and listeners continuously shape one another. Often praised for her ability to transport audiences through vivid sonic worlds, her musical language … Read More →

The Japanese shakuhachi – an end-blown flute made from the root-end of a mature bamboo stalk – has been a notable part of the musical and cultural landscape in Japan since the 9th century AD. Following in the footsteps of his forebears, Araki Kodō VI (Hanzaburo) carries the distinction of being the last in the longest, unbroken connection … Read More →

miniBOS is a Seattle-based chamber-prog quartet making bold, rhythmically driven instrumental music that is both meticulously crafted and completely alive. Led by guitarist and composer Andrew Boscardin, the band draws from post-rock, new music, art rock, and creative improvisation to build songs from interlocking patterns, layered textures, and wide dynamic shifts.

The band features Rebekah Ko on mallet … Read More →

Confluence is a solo performance experience combining live music, field recordings, and projected video landscapes into a meditation on water, place, and listening. The performance centers on original works for vibraphone and ambient analog synthesizers, accompanied by single-shot videos captured near water features. Each presentation is designed as an immersive listening experience exploring how sound shapes our sense … Read More →

An exciting celebration of John Coltrane’s 100th birthday featuring a performance of Don Berman’s Ascension Northwest and an opening set by the fabulous Keplinger Mandyck Duo. This show will be the Coltrane celebration event of the year! 

Ascension Northwest is Don’s composition for an 11-piece ensemble, based upon and a tribute to Coltrane’s legendary “Ascension” recording of 1965. Ascension Northwest … Read More →

In Seattle Open Orchestra’s inaugural concert, the group will explore unconventional, experimental, and improvised music with radical inclusion and collaboration as its guiding ethos.

Seattle Open Orchestra (SOO) isn’t a typical community orchestra. There are no auditions. Musicians of every age and experience level come together to play experimental, contemporary, improvised, and otherwise unconventional music of the distant … Read More →

Pianist-composer Jared Redmond performs works celebrating the centennials of composers Morton Feldman, György Kurtág, and Betsy Jolas, as part of his fall 2026 US and South Korean tour. Jolas’s lush, expressionistically dense dissonances, influenced by Balinese gamelan and Messiaen, contrast with the terse, crystalline miniatures of Kurtág’s Játékok (Games) series – offerings from two major figures of contemporary music … Read More →

Ted Poor is a Seattle-based drummer, composer, and producer whose adventurous, soulful playing has vaulted him to the stages of some of today’s most vital artists. Modern Drummer describes his playing as “adventurous, truly dynamic, and forward-thinking.” A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Ted has toured and recorded with renowned artists such as Paul Simon, John … Read More →

Jaap Blonk, one of the most highly regarded improvising vocal artists and an important participant in the international improvised music community, will make a rare Seattle appearance. Jaap will perform solo works and will be joined by Seattle musicians Bonnie Whiting (percussion), Steph Richards (trumpet), and James Falzone (clarinet/piano) who, together, will play an opening set. 

Jaap Blonk (born … Read More →

Returning from their West Coast tour, Seattle’s somesurprises layers dream pop vocals over celestial guitars, synths, and samples, and Portland’s Ilyas Ahmed radiates cosmic solo guitar compositions. Morgan Henderson, best known as a member of Blood Brothers and Fleet Foxes, opens the night.

somesurprises is the Seattle-based band led by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Natasha El-Sergany. Born in Letterkenny, … Read More →

Oakland experimental duo Grex joins percussionist Chris Icasiano and bassist/composer John-Carlos Perea for an evening of songs and improvisations. Grex celebrates the release of its new album “Auntie + Tebs,” which explores stories of revolution in the Philippines and South Africa. Icasiano, Perea, and Grex will perform individual sets, convening for ensemble pieces at the end of the program.Grex has been … Read More →

Upright bassist, singer and composer Carmen Quill presents music from her forthcoming album Harmless. The Seattle-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s songs are unconventional and unassumingly virtuosic, with vivid countermelodies, improvised responses, and richly arranged development sections often directly reflecting her pithily insightful lyrics. Quill will be joined by longtime Scree bandmates Ryan El-Solh on guitar and Jason Burger on drums, … Read More →

Breakfast Calculus is a duo project of Teagan Faran (strings) and Leo Sussman (winds). Based in Ithaca, NY, the nesting pair met while personifying various rare birds in a John Luther Adams piece, and they haven’t stopped squawking and honking together ever since. Dedicated to rambunctiously pluralistic noise-making, Leo and Teagan celebrate life’s simple pleasures – from buttermilk … Read More →

Composer Nat Evans performs his new album, What Are Days For. Written over the course of three years, this new album by Nat Evans considers the grief of losing loved ones, relationships with plants, surfing, home, and the light of the west coast. 

Fuzzy radios, bass and warm guitar tones drift through field recordings and clouds of synthesizers humming … Read More →

Explore hidden acoustic worlds and immersive soundscapes during a boundary-pushing night of electroacoustic music, featuring concrete experimentalists Kamran Shafii, CAEN (Gordon Ashworth), and BLSPHM (Demian Johnston).

Kamran Shafii (Persian: کامران شفیعی) is an Iranian sound artist working in the field of electroacoustic music. His recent work is characterized by its concern with anthropogenic sound and complex auditory experiences, drawing … Read More →

Co-presented by South Hudson Music Project and Nonsequitur. Full festival details here.

Recipient of the 2019 American Prize in Orchestral Composition and the 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, composer Wayne Horvitz has created new work for The Kitchen, BAM, Seattle Symphony, Kronos Quartet, Berlin Jazz, Nocco, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Centrum, and ACT among others. Coming of age in NYC … Read More →