Author Archives: Steve Peters

Kyle Hanson is a non-traditional accordionist and has developed an oscillating bellows technique that produces shimmering waves of sound. This evening’s set will consist of luscious clouds of rhythmically articulated, slowly-unfolding tone clusters, populated with ghostly suggestions of melody, notes hovering in the air.Erin Jorgensen will play a half-improvisatory, half-structured set of meditative, dreamy landscapes on her five-octave marimba. … Read More →

The Right Brain Music Minifest is a one-night explosion of improvised music, featuring local virtuosos and spontaneous jams that will stretch your imagination. The Minifest will include short sets by widely contrasting local artists, followed by Chance Trios, randomly chosen by audience members, and a massive full ensemble jam, in a unique program to be created for just this audience … Read More →

Morton Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus (1985) is one of the great piano masterpieces of the late 20th century. Building on a handful of notes and pregnant pauses, Feldman uses his singular talent to spin magic glass and dance through silence. Lasting 72 minutes in one unbroken movement, For Bunita Marcus brings music to the event horizon.  Multi-instrumentalist Peter Nelson-King will perform the … Read More →

Golden Retriever (Matt Carlson and Jonathan Sielaff) and Saariselka (Chuck Johnson and Marielle Jakobsons) will share their cinematic and hypnotic electro-acoustic compositions for bass clarinet, pedal steel guitar, piano, and synthesizers.

Golden Retriever (bass clarinetist Jonathan Sielaff and modular synthesist/pianist Matt Carlson) have spent the last decade expanding their palette from primarily electronic music into works for chamber ensemble and … Read More →

Brooklyn duo of guitarist Drew Wesely and drummer Kevin Murray improvise through liminal spaces of pitch, rhythm, timbre, and texture running the gamut from rhythmically dense collages to  shimmering timbral interplay. Drew Wesely has established themself as a unique voice on the guitar, pushing the instrument to new timbral and relational territories using screws, styrofoam, kitchen knives, ceramic plates, and … Read More →

Composer-multi-instrumentalists Amy Denio and Christian Asplund performed as The Naked Slime Duo in the ‘90s, in a synergy of phreneticism, quirky humor, lyricism, and genre-bending. In this performance, they will be joined by the brainy, profound, and dexterous composer-guitarist Tom Baker in their first outing as a trio. This performance will offer a rare chance to hear this trio … Read More →

Triptet is a meeting of minds and spontaneous electrical impulses between Michael Monhart (saxophones and percussion), Tom Baker (guitars and effects), and Greg Campbell (percussion and cheap electronics). Amsterdam-based Anne La Berge’s passion for the extremes in both composed and improvised music has led her to storytelling and sound art as her sources of musical inspiration. Her music gathers the … Read More →

Joey Largent joins his quartet, Glacial Time Communion, in presenting a new, long-duration composition for four re-tuned reed boxes in collaboration with interdisciplinary artist Katrina Wolfe, who will perform her subtle and intricate choreography with the composition. 

For the piece, three shruti boxes and one harmonium have been re-tuned by hand into just intonation using the first seven primes (2-17) … Read More →

The Seattle Phonographers Union is a collective of sound recordists who have been improvising together with unprocessed field recordings since 2002. Coming from diverse backgrounds (musicians, recording engineers, game designers, etc.), they treat the sounds of the world as raw material for moving and evocative sound collages woven in real time. In recent years they’ve expanded their approach to … Read More →

RE-EMERGING: An evening of improvisations and connection

Please join saxophonist Eric Barber (ex-Seattle, now in Los Angeles) as the beautiful Chapel at Good Shepherd Center reopens! This night will celebrate friendship, resilience, and hope through small and large group improvisations featuring some of Seattle’s finest improvising musicians.Eric Barber – saxophonesHeather Bentley – violaSamantha Boshnack – trumpet Greg Campbell – tuba, percussionJesse … Read More →