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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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Author Archives: Steve Peters
Leanna Keith: Ink Aloud
Leanna Keith presents Ink Aloud, a program of works which were composed based on books of a variety of genres, from sci-fi to speculative fiction to autobiographical poetry. Leanna uses their flute, voice, and looper in tandem to create transportive soundscapes which attempt to embody the heart of these literary works.
In addition to Ink Aloud, Leanna will also be … Read More
Peter Nelson-King: “No Place to Go”
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Peter Nelson-King returns to the Wayward Music Series to present No Place To Go, a large-scale improvisation cycle based on the poetry of Ishikawa Takuboku (1886-1912). Takuboku wrote in tanka and free verse formats, and much of his work addresses modern malaise in an arrestingly contemporary way. No Place To Go uses piano, electronic keyboard and voice to explore 11 … Read More
Ben McAllister
Ben McAllister shares his explorations in notation and improvising, trying to break out of the repetition we so often fall into playing with loops and computers. He’ll be playing both solo, and with his frequent collaborator, the drummer Neil Wilson.
When I create, I like constraints – I like limitations. What are some things in 4s? Vertical and Horizontal: 4 … Read More
Neal Kosaly-Meyer: Finnegans Wake, Part I, Chapter 7
Since 2013, Neal Kosaly-Meyer has been learning and performing from memory, with acute attention to musical detail, the chapters of James Joyce’s final novel, Finnegans Wake. The project has received notice and acclaim from NPR’s Morning Edition, CBC’s As It Happens, The Stranger and the New York Times. Performances have been presented in Seattle, Portland, Antwerp, Mexico City and Dublin.
Part I, Chapter … Read More
Subvector Colloquy
Wielding between them electric twang machine, select dynamically modulated crossblows, Italian battle zither, and the fearsome 3-button gargle tube, the four wizards of Subvector Colloquy return to the stage with an evening of freshly unimagined thaumaturgical delights: spells, incantations, enchantments – perhaps even a cryptid or two.
Tom Baker spends most of his time inventing modes of flight, and trying … Read More
Silica Gel / Jr. Mint Prince / August / Ornament & Crime
An evening of avant-garde folk, free improv, and ambient music.
Silica Gel adapts medieval texts into lush noise ballads & composes original art songs for two voices, custom electronics, percussion & various strings. Their sound is a unique synthesis of Early music with improvisation and folk elements that create a spacious & highly textured sound world. Coming out of the Birmingham, Alabama … Read More
Seattle Guitar Circle: Simple Songs
Seattle Guitar Circle, an eight-piece acoustic guitar orchestra, performs collaborative repertoire for layered guitars and voices including structured improvisation that sounds composed and composed collaboration that sounds improvised. This 2023 ‘Simple Songs’ performance brings to life new arrangements of pieces by Charles Ives, Chick Corea, Erik Satie, Hanai Rani, John Coltrane, Jon Brion, Jonny Greenwood, Leo Brouwer, Meredith Monk, … Read More
Forager
Drawing inspirations from jazz, folk song, improvised music, visual score, martial arts/dance, spoken word, plant life, the beauty of the Pacific Northwest, and the powerful gift of friendship and community amidst the post-pandemic era, ‘FORAGER’ – depicts original music that is foraged, (biodynamic & without pesticides), expressing the musical subtlety, flexibility, vitality, and synchronicity of all four of its members … Read More
Lainie Fefferman / Jascha Narveson / Raica
Please note that our building’s elevator is now back in service!
Three sets of electronic music exploring voice, audience-phones-as-instrument, controlled feedback, and ambient space jams.
Lainie Fefferman will use a combination of vocal processing and networked sample triggering to create jaunty grooves and ambient soundscapes that leave the listener woozy like the end of a five-course rooftop meal.
Jascha Narveson will play a set … Read More
NonSeq: Noel Brass Jr. + Intervales
Please note that our building’s elevator is now back in service!
Intervales is the electronic/ambient music project of composer, electronic musician, and drummer Alex Vittum. Performing with acoustic percussion, synthesizers, and live video processing, he is obsessed with hypnotic and melodic themes, and has an enveloping, contemplative sound that is playful, sentimental, and at times ominous.
Alex’s formative percussion studies were with noted … Read More