Author Archives: Steve Peters

L.A. Lungs is an Olympia-based project consisting of Nathan Markiewicz and Lori Peterson. We feel very grateful to consider the greater Pacific Northwest esoteric arts community home since the project began in 2005.

These two live performances both occurred at Teatro de la Psychomachia in Seattle, in 2013 and 2016. While performed almost three years to the day from one … Read More →

Lost Chocolate Lab is guitarist Damian Kastbauer channeling solo improvisational frequencies at the intersection of technology and expression.

Somewhere tangled in the frequency-sheets of sound stands a lone guitar player; glaciers of distortion covering invisible mountains with blankets of white noise atop towering peaks. Impossible to reconcile the enveloping resonance from common six-string instrument; the full-on maelstrom of sound barely … Read More →

Stephanie Wood is an experimental sound artist, sound practitioner and healing justice-centered activist. Using a plethora of gongs, DIY sound sculptures, processed found objects and field recordings, she incorporates surrounding soundscape, silence, and group experiences in performances. Stephanie loves playing/composing with eclectic ensembles and teaching group improv with gongs, electronics and found objects. She also hosts Seattle Avant-Garde Music … Read More →

Dangerknife was formed by Nico Sophiea (drums) and Brad Rouda (guitars) out of a mutual fondness of improvised music, film and poor decisions. One’s love of Pop and Harsh Noise and the other’s love of Balkan folk and 70s rock has created a band with a great sound for a discount record bin. They are joined here by Joe … Read More →

Pink Void is the immersive solo project of Crystal Perez. She uses her guitar, keyboard and samples to create sprawling soundscapes of slow building, hazy guitar drone capable of lulling and consuming the listener in a nightmarish aural fog.

This piece is an exploration of creativity, endurance and strength as a cocoon we must sometimes create for ourselves in order … Read More →

Rob Angus has been composing and performing in Seattle since the early 1980s. Having studied electronic music at the Boston School of Electronic Music and Penn State University, he became more interested in manipulating acoustic sounds. These days he tends to make acoustic music that often sounds like electronic music. Listen on BandCamp.

This is a live recording in four … Read More →

Samantha Boshnack (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Chris Credit (tenor & baritone saxophones) have worked together for 13 years. They played together for five years in the modern jazz sextet Reptet, which featured all-original compositions from each member of the band, released two albums and a single, and toured extensively. In 2011, Boshnack started creating her own ensembles featuring her compositions … Read More →

Nital Etch is Kevin Lewis. Primarily a string player, operating out of Seattle. He enjoys hard labor, paying bills, and sleeping.

DesperationCompiled 11/19/2020: Cello, lap steel guitar, synth/electronics. Dark neoclassical, ambient, drone seasoned with doom.

00:00 Onward Forever01:58 Persona Non Grata07:00 Cloth Mother09:25 Feed The Crows (Tweed Session)19:40 Despondence23:23 Wednesday 6:16 PM24:48 Hurrah Hurrah

Wayward Music Series · Wayward in Limbo #67 … Read More →

First meeting in Seattle’s lost iconic venue, Cafe Racer, Heather Bentley (viola) and Dio Jean-Baptiste (drums) have been celebrating their ongoing experimental listening fest for audiences of one to hundreds. In live streams, VJ collaborations, recordings, dance collaborations, concert halls, and house concerts, they’ve been locking ears and wielding sounds for over five years and have no plans to … Read More →

Gyre is an experimental electronics trio formed by Michael Shannon (Eye Music, Aono Jikken Ensemble, Yuan, Earnerve), David Stanford (Eye Music, Aono Jikken Ensemble, Gamelan Pacifica), and Carl Lierman (Eye Music) in January of 2012.

Gyre’s sound making practice is inspired by the helical swirls found both in nature as well as the philosophical ideas of the Gyre by … Read More →