Author Archives: Steve Peters

A spirited, wide-ranging improvisation involving longtime associates Dennis Rea (guitar), Seattle Jazz Hall of Famer Wally Shoup (alto saxophone), and Monktail Creative Music Concern core members John Seman (bass) and Mark Ostrowski (drums), recorded in 2017. The expeditionaries traverse rugged sonic terrain encompassing thickets of mutant jazz, quiescent geothermal pools, and tectonic overthrust zones.

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Alex Guy is a Seattle-based violinist, violist, singer and composer, and is the leader and principal songwriter of Led To Sea, a magnetic trio that fuses classical, pop and experimental music. Alex has also composed extensively for film, theater, and dance, and has performed and collaborated with a virtual who’s who of bandleaders, composers, improvisers and jazz musicians in … Read More →

Amelia Coulter is an alto trombonist and experimental sound artist. She enjoys discovering new, messy, and uncomfortable embodiments for the trombone using alternative techniques, modifications, and integration with analog electronics. She has a bachelor of music from Cornish College of the Arts. She would like to acknowledge that these sounds were produced on the unceded traditional land of the … Read More →

Tiffany Lin is a classically trained pianist and designer who has a love-procrastinate-hate-melancholy relationship with playing and performing music. Therefore, tiflin’s scant time on the instrument is usually bookended by both angst and joy, lately inspired by the folklore of tactile skills, always an investigation in comfort. Let her know how you’re feeling. 

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Josh Medina is an electroacoustic composer and performer from Seattle. His work reflects a variety of styles and genres, combining elements from electronic music, ambient, folk, free improvisation and drone. In 2014, he began playing as a duo with sound artist Paurl Walsh, releasing an EP shortly thereafter, followed by their subsequent LP Vault of Angels released via Debacle … Read More →

To honor the recent passing of composer Harold Budd, this special edition of Wayward in Limbo features a live recording of a very special concert by Harold and Seattle bassist Keith Lowe.

The performance took place at the Good Shepherd Center Chapel in Seattle on June 11, 2009, to celebrate the release of Harold’s book of poetry, “Colorful Fortune.” It … Read More →

RM Francis is an artist living in Seattle who works with computer-generated sound. His most recent releases are A Taxonomy of Guffaws, on ETAT, and Nth White Dot, on Conditional.

Jack Callahan is a composer and sound engineer based in New York. Since 2013 he has been primarily working under the moniker die Reihe, taken from the journal edited … Read More →

Christopher Icasiano is a Filipino-American percussionist and composer from Redmond, WA. Based now in Seattle, he has been performing and touring professionally for over 15 years. His specialization in free-improvisation and experimental music combined with his vast experience with pop and rock have made him a highly sought after collaborator in all genres of music. He co-founded the grassroots … Read More →

Mark D. Cooper is MFA graduate in electronic music and recording media from Mills College. He is a member of the Seattle Phonographers Union, and the songwriting project Cooper-Wetstone.

Quintessence

A few years ago, I embarked on a project of organizing field recordings and sonic experiments loosely under the idea of the four “classical” elements: water, air, earth, and fire. The … Read More →

Kaori Suzuki is a Tokyo-born composer and artist who uses high-droning modified acoustic instruments, intensely high register electronics, tape, and other handmade elements necessary to spin her auditory transmissions. She holds a diverse background in electronic music having designed and produced vintage-inspired electronic instruments (Magic Echo Music) from 2009-2015. Previously based in Seattle, she is currently on faculty at … Read More →