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 →

A Vast Absence is a work for one or more gongs, electronics, feedback loops, and resonant spaces that Aaron Michael Butler has been performing in dive bars, bowling alleys, art galleries, parking garages, and the Detroit Symphony Cube since 2016. In the work the inner resonances and harmonics of gongs are amplified and layered into an immersive ambient environment … Read More →

An evening of textural ambient landscapes by Oakland experimentalist hermischalet and architectural drones by noise sculptor Red, White and Bludd. DJ sets by Dr. Troy and more.

Rachel Smith (hermischalet) is an Oakland-based experimentalist with a music career that includes Transona 5, the Lickets, and Cassette Prophets.

Jason Amos (Red, White and Bludd) is a Seattle-based artist and … Read More →

Caspar Sonnet and David Stanford are pleased to present an improvisational performance bringing together a collection of players from across the Pacific Northwest.

The evening is built around a loosely structured score composed by Sonnet, Stanford, and Dave Knott that uses sand timers (hourglasses) to determine duration, transition, and movement. The ensemble will also be working with the … Read More →

The Kora Dance Ensemble employs the West African kora, a dancer, upright bass, and clarinet to engage with and perform selections from the kora repertoire.

This group consists of Chet Corpt on kora, Janelle Bel Isle is our dancer, Brady Kish on bass, and Eric Likkel on clarinet. We hope to present the music and movement of West Africa, … Read More →

This show will feature three ambient musical projects, each hoping to push the listener to a newfound sense of awareness of and relationship to the world around them.

Dialing In is a project picked up 25 years ago as a response to the war on drugs, war on terror and despair around American greed, hypocrisy and imperialism. The … Read More →

An open performance of ‘novelty generator,’ an improvisation framework for durational performance. Musicians sit in a circle, each responding to their neighbors according to rules inspired by cellular automata. Simple local choices build into larger patterns across the ensemble. The performance lasts 90 minutes, listeners and performers are welcome to come and go as they please. Bring an instrument … Read More →

Doors open 7 PM.

The Guitar Worship Service series is playful in name, however GWS’s intention is to praise the importance of a guitar’s creative possibilities. Since 2013, GWS presentations bring forth musicians and sound artists to examine what a guitar physically and/or conceptually is. While there are different types of guitars (electric, acoustic, steel, bass, homemade, video game, etc.), … Read More →

Since 2014 Neal Kosaly-Meyer has been performing the successive chapters of Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” at the Chapel. He has always been entranced by the novel’s musicality and performs in the hope of ensnaring everyone else in that trance. The performances are theatrical and quasi-liturgical, in resonance with the Chapel’s own history, appearance, and acoustics. After December’s performance there remain only … Read More →

Lush harmonies, droning waves, and harsh walls of sound combine to make the unique sound of Bell Chamber. Part Experimental Doom, part Ambient Jazz, Jesse Bell, Creighton Chamberlain (Heroine Sheiks & Lubricated Goat), and Dillon Stearnes improvise to create something akin to a slow-burning horror movie soundtrack that has yet to be made. Combining distant, melancholy trumpet, dreamlike … Read More →

Aidan Gold presents an evening of musical games, improvisation, and participatory performance. Musical games, or “ludic pieces,” are pieces of music that involve game mechanics. These mechanics range from reacting to others’ choices, making edits to each other’s sheet music, trying to figure out who the “improviser” is, musical charades, moving through a board game, strategically placing notes … Read More →