Author Archives: Steve Peters

thee dialectic, a new piece by Gust Burns, explores dynamics engendered by the difference between the continuous and the discrete. Through compositional strategies of syncope and sustain, this most basic of dialectical relations is clarified, developed, and complexified across an open compositional framework for sextet (2 basses, 2 violins, 2 saxophones). Improvising trio Fidelities (Gust Burns, piano; Troy Schiefelbein, vocals; Mark Kaylor, drums) moves across … Read More →

Day three of the What’s Going On festival, with two conduction events, one with strings plus guests and one with all percussion plus guests, with an incredible line up of phenomenal Seattle improvisers and stellar out of town guests.

What’s Going On: Conduction, Improvisation, and the Culture of Structure honors the work and lives of Lawrence “Butch” Morris, Sun Ra, … Read More →

Composers Nat Evans and John Teske present an evening of music, joined by acclaimed cellist Lori Goldston.

Landscape and a sense of place are recurring themes in the composers’ work, including scores that resemble maps and field recordings that echo a forest in transition. Warm Buchla‑synth tones, long bass drones, and Goldston’s singular cello voice invite listeners to access the landscape … Read More →

Hosted by Debacle Records. Doors open at 7:30.

Two of the Pacific Northwest’s most lovely experimental artists have recently put out work that deserves celebrating. Spiritual Exit (Aaron Davis) has released Fragment, a record built from pieces of his own history spanning back to 1999, reconstructed into something that honors nostalgia without surrendering to it. His moving drones, layering guitars … Read More →

Clarinetist/composer Eric Mandat will present an evening of solo and group improvisations featuring his unique sonic landscapes that draw from his more than 40 years of explorations with clarinet multiphonics, microtones, and timbral modulations, and further sculpted through his use of interactive technologies. Joining Eric will be Seattle woodwind luminaries Kate Olson, James Falzone, Sean Osborn, and Jesse Canterbury.

Eric … Read More →

DeKirÖpp is a new trio dedicated to rhythm featuring Jim DeJoie, Steve Kirk and Brian Oppel that dives into exploratory moods through both improvisation and through-composed music! We seek to find the true basis of music through vertical harmony and rhythmic drive. Never losing sight of melody, each player is at once an accompanist and soloist. The improvisation is based … Read More →

Fresh from East Coast tour, Lori Goldston delivers an immersive, transportive improvised solo cello set.

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 as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely … Read More →

“Masked, warrantless, unmarked vans, statelessness as policy. Is that mole new? Can you take a look, I can’t get quite the right angle on it.”This performance features four improvisers – Caroline Kraabel (sax/voice), Kelsey Mines (double-bass/voice), Gregg Miller (clarinet/sax/voice) and Anjali Grant (live drawing) – using sounds, images, and words to conjure and make present the weird contemporaneity of … Read More →

Join the Seattle Chamber Orchestra for an unforgettable evening celebrating Italian avantgarde composer Luciano Berio and American mezzo Cathy Berberian, a trailblazing power couple who reshaped the sound world of the 20th century. The program also includes music of Monteverdi, Ghedini, Dallapiccola, and Cage.

Doors open 7 PM; pre-concert talk at 7:15; concert starts at 8 PM.

Seattle Chamber Orchestra’s mission … Read More →

Vancouver-born award-winning pianist/composer Cat Toren leads Cat Toren’s HUMAN KIND, a dynamic Brooklyn-based quartet with Xavier Del Castillo (sax), Jake Leckie (bass), and Steven Crammer (drums). Described by UK Vibe as “vibrant, earthy and spiritual”, this project is influenced by the free-form, socially conscious jazz of the late ’60s, reimagined for the modern day. The group will perform music … Read More →