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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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Wayward in Limbo #124: John Teske
Seattle-based composer John Teske writes contemporary concert music for soloists, chamber groups, chamber orchestra, and “any ensemble”. John’s music has been performed across the Americas, as well as in France and Russia, and has been supported by the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, the Jack Straw Foundation, and the City of Seattle. (photo: Amelia Apfel)
intonations is a … Read More
Wayward in Limbo #123: Sovan
Sovan is a collaboration between Tomo Nakayama and Jeramy Koepping.
This recording is a combination of ambient electronic loops, live improvised acoustic piano and electric guitar, cassette tape manipulation, and field recordings collected in our neighborhood of West Seattle. Though we live only a mile or so apart, we created this piece separately in our homes, as neither of … Read More
Wayward in Limbo #122: Eric Muhs
Eric Muhs builds instruments, records, and produces from his Invisible Music studio in Ballard. A physics and astronomy teacher and founder of community radio station KBFG 107.3, he’s been active in music since 1980, pushing boundaries across structured and improvised music. He’s played for a decade with a traditional Hawaiian band, Na Hilahila Boys, and released 3 albums during … Read More
Wayward in Limbo #121: Robin Holcomb
Robin Holcomb plays the piano, sings, writes, and records music. Following Sundanese Gamelan study, sharecropping tobacco, and several crucial years in the Lower East Side music community, she has lived and created music in Seattle since 1989. She is currently composing a piece for The Philadelphia Orchestra.
These thirteen solo piano pieces were written, developed, invented, and recorded in … Read More
Wayward in Limbo #120: Noel Kennon
Noel Kennon is an artist living in Seattle, WA. This work is currently questioning the role and purpose of sounding in society as well as continued research into the actualities of this perception called sound. Inquiries about visiting this year’s installation work -> ‘(tattered drifting)’
This recording is referred to as :
‘ prayer { Monad and the Fantasimon … Read More
Wayward in Limbo #119: Ewa Trębacz, w/ Leanna Keith & Josiah Boothby
Ewa Trębacz (pronounced Eva Trembatch) is a Polish-American composer, an interdisciplinary artist and a violinist-in-disguise. Exploring the unique interaction between the musician and their acoustic environment, she often uses space as a catalyst for improvisation, working through Ambisonic recording sessions in acoustically inspiring spaces. Listen on SoundCloud.
A freelance flutist, artist, improviser, and composer, Leanna Keith delights in creating sound … Read More
Wayward in Limbo #118: Joshua Kohl
Joshua Kohl is a composer, sound designer, conductor, musician and co directs Degenerate Art Ensemble, a Seattle based, globe trotting performance company. His primary focus is music for the moving image; dance, film, installation. He is deeply honored to have his work included among so many incredible musicians in the Wayward in Limbo series.
1: Snapshot Spring 2021
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Wayward in Limbo #117: Don Berman/D2
Percussionist/composer Don Berman has been a part of the Seattle creative music scene for over thirty years, coming from the Midwest after receiving his musical training at Oberlin College and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he studied with Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame percussionists Michael Rosen and Thomas Siwe. A key Seattle experience was studying free … Read More
Wayward in Limbo #116: Dick Valentine
Dick Valentine is a composer, improviser, instrumentalist, and performer based in Seattle. Dick’s background includes private and formal studies under Joe Henderson, Janice Giteck, Jarrad Powell, and many, many others. Dick founded and led the influential, widely respected Seattle avant-jazz quartet Far Corner for 15 years. In pre-pandemic times, he was a core ensemble member of Seattle-based ensembles including … Read More
Wayward in Limbo #115: Ramen Trio
Ramen Trio was formed in 2016 by three veterans of the Seattle music scene with the purpose of writing, improvising and performing music that branches out while at the same time acknowledges the lifeblood of music that came before. The band combines form and freedom through composition, improvisation, jazz and contemporary classical styles while adding splashes of folk and … Read More