Author Archives: Steve Peters

New music by Lori Goldston for heavy acoustic string quartet:

Salma Zenia, violinNoel Kennon, violaLori Goldston, celloKole Galbraith, double bass

Also a solo cello set to celebrate the release of Open Space on Relative Pitch Records.

Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice … Read More →

Daniel Menche (born 1969) is an iconic experimental musician and multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. Menche’s sonic abstractions manifest through intense noise, immersive drones, dense ambiance, poly-rhythmic percussion, turbulent nature field recordings, abused acoustic instruments and many other sources.

Connie Fu aka enereph is a multidisciplinary artist and producer. Her nomadic lifestyle and restless hands fuel a love for music-making … Read More →

An evening of (mostly) string improvisations and abstractions, featuring (mostly) ukulele and banjo. But also expect electro-acoustic/found sound/collage/drone explorations and deconstructions. Robert Millis and Dave Knott (Messenger Girls Trio) just released a cassette on Seattle’s Eiderdown Records. Millis has a new LP out on Discrepant. They will perform together and separately and be joined by Alan F Jones (Marginal … Read More →

Leanna Keith’s last show in Seattle for some time, come bid her farewell as she prepares to move to San Diego.

Flutist Leanna Keith found her improvisational voice thanks to the Seattle improvised music scene, and as a send off she’d like to do one more show with some of her favorite improvisers in town making a tribute to her … Read More →

Austin Larkin is a composer primarily working with violin, bells, and sirens. His performance and practice is informed by research into dimensions of vibrating bodies. Larkin’s solo violin performance situates the violin as an instrument to accentuate space, rather than to fill space. Within this space, the violin renders a continuously unfolding structure of interlocking harmonic shapes and temporal … Read More →

An evening of music. Featuring a new ensemble consisting of Gust Burns (piano), Troy Schiefelbien (voice), Aaron Michael Butler (vibraphone), Gregg Miller (clarinet), Justin Lazar (clarinet), Hanna Broback (violin), John Teske (contrabass ), and Noel Kennon (viola , clarinet).

This ensemble will present a new piece “11 scenes lit by sunset,” written by Noel Kennon and realized by the ensemble. 

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Environmental Studies is a group of Los Angeles musicians that blends unusual electronics, left-field rhythms, and warped brass instruments. Their newest record, Planet!, will be released on August 1st on their label Drifting Boat.

Nathan Ho is a Bay Area-based electronic musician combining contemporary classical music with brutal, percussive sound design drawing from breakcore, glitch, and bass music. His debut … Read More →

Sean Gaskell and Chet Corpt have both studied the kora in the traditional manner with the late great Malamini Jobarteh in his compound in Gambia, West Africa. A former minister of culture for that country, in addition to being a renowned international performer of kora music, he once said “Kora is an ocean.” Very deep, wide, and touching many shores. Seeking … Read More →

Guitar Worship Service is playful in name, however not to mislead the importance of the creative possibilities of a guitar, GWS presentations select musicians and sound sculptors to freely interpret what a guitar is. While there are physically different types of guitars (electric, acoustic, steel, bass, etc.), GWS also encourages a conceptual nature for examining how to approach a guitar … Read More →

Young Scientist was formed in Seattle in the mid-1970’s by James Husted, Roland Barker and Marc Barreca, performing for several years with analog synths, tape loops and keyboards. Following re-releases of 1970s material on the German labels Bureau B and Vinyl on Demand, Husted and Barreca sporadically reunite for live performances of YS’s immersive blend of pulsating electronics and … Read More →