Author Archives: Steve Peters

Danny Godinez performs both solo with guitar and voice, as well as in various bands in Seattle, including The New Triumph & Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder. He is known for his looping and use of effects in his solo acoustic performances, as well as his fiery electric guitar playing.

In this body of work Godinez examines some key experiences and realizations … Read More →

Born in the Arizona desert, a veteran of multiple explorations into the Sahara desert via Morocco and Western Sahara, and now a resident of the Mojave, Derek Monypeny sees his musical mission as adding to and expanding on what he calls the “desert continuum” – the psychedelic sirocco swirl of desert-based stringed instruments played with utter abandon by musicians … Read More →

Austin’s Elevator Bath label presents an evening of experimental sound art: four solo performances featuring ambient drone, field recordings, modular synthesis, and audio collage, in and outside the traditions of musique concrète.Adam Pacione is a composer from Fort Worth, TX. Pacione’s music contains elements of ambient textures, drones, field recordings, processed radio transmissions and modular synthesis. His works have been … Read More →

Tongue Depressor is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write and perform music with pedal steel, double bass, bells, tapes, and fiddles, often using microtonal tunings.

Austin Larkin is a composer and violinist focusing on elements of tone within the interstices of fields, symmetries, and patterns. His performance and practice is informed by research into dimensions of … Read More →

To celebrate the release of two albums recorded over the pandemic – Eva-Maria Houben’s Windspiel and Alvin Lucier’s Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas, (part II, numbers 5-8) – local experimental percussionist Aaron Michael Butler performs an evening of music that evokes environmental landscapes and explores constructive and destructive interference of waveforms. Special guest Cassie … Read More →

Ramen Trio celebrates it’s second recording release with another eclectic and engaging performance of composed/improvised music.

Ramen Trio mixes composition and improvisation in various combinations while not adhering to any one style. You will hear elements of jazz, contemporary classical, folk and even rock at different times. The band plays in a unified way, but often opens into three separate … Read More →

Seattle marimbist and producer Erin Jorgensen is joined by inimitable musicians Rachel Nesvig (Hardanger fiddle), Leanna Keith (flute), Aaron Michael Butler (percussion & sound manipulation), Steve Peters (field recordings), and Kevin Blanquies (lights) for a one-night-only-4-hour-improvisational musical nod to Summer Solstice. Underpinned by the hypnotic undertones of a five-octave marimba and dream-inducing vocals, this evening will shift and change … Read More →

Mangal is an experimental ensemble conceived by mrudangam artist and composer Rajna Swaminathan, gathering artists across disciplines and locales to collaboratively improvise while pushing the boundaries of their creative process. In English, the word mangal refers to an assemblage of mangroves, which form a chaotic, non-hierarchical rhizome. In Sanskrit, mangal describes harmonious or sacred timing. This imagery of entanglement and serendipity guides a … Read More →

Naeim Rahmani, classical guitarist and Artistic Director of the Seattle-Isfahan Project, has commissioned new works by three Iranian composers living outside of Iran (Anahita Abbasi, Farziah Fallah, Parisa Sabet) and three Seattle composers (Jeff Bowen, Huck Hodge, Yigit Kolat) to draw attention to the water crisis that is happening now in Iran, particularly the drought that is affecting the … Read More →

Jeff Greinke is a renowned composer of ambient, electroacoustic, and experimental music. Having a degree in meteorology, weather has remained a central theme of his heavily atmospheric work, which blends electronic and acoustic instruments and textures to produce multi-layered soundscapes that are at once haunting and inviting. Deeply informed by his time living in the desert outside of Tucson, … Read More →