Author Archives: Steve Peters

Threshold is a quartet comprised of Seattle improvised music scene veterans. Organized by Don Berman, the group assembled for a free-ranging session in 2023, and discovered they can enter a musical space “through threshold” where they improvise together in a deep listening manner that almost sounds composed. Some call it “great band chemistry”.

This project is the manifestation of a … Read More →

Brilliant musicians and dancers will collaborate to create… who knows? A night of exploratory deep listening, collaboration, experimentation, improvisation in multiple formats, including interactive opportunities for the audience.

Sound Artists: Abbey Blackwell, Amy Denio, Carol J Levin, Caroline Kraabel, Christian Pincock, Haley Freedlund, Jenny Ziefel, Leanna Keith, Mark Filler, Susie Kozawa.

Movement Artists: Aaron Swartzman, Aiko Kinoshita, Christian Swenson, Hannah Rice, Katrina … Read More →

Beth Quist (Bobby McFerron, Cirque du Soleil, The Crown) and leithaus (The Crown, Seattle Guitar Circle, Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists) will be performing new and old solo material and collaborations.

leithaus (aka Gregroy Meredith) debuts a new cycle of songs for 8-String Touch Guitar, loops, and spoken word (from his recently published book Silence and Surrender). Beth Quist will be … Read More →

Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh – Mortal Magnetismwith James Falzone (clarinet, penny whistle, shruti box), Jackie An (violin) & Aaron Harmonson (acoustic bass)

Katrina Wolfe – Intricacies Expandingwith Michael Shannon & David Stanford (electro acoustic instruments)

+ a film by Michael Shannon

With new solos, Joan/Kogut & Katrina return to the Chapel collaborating with well-known local musicians in an evening celebrating the richness and … Read More →

Curated by Ewa Trebacz (violin, piano, electronics) and Heather Bentley (viola), this evening honors the great tradition of Racer Sessions. Ewa, Heather, Neil Welch (saxophone), and Greg Campbell (percussion, etc) open with a 20 to 30 minute set, followed by spontaneous improvisations from those who gather.

Heather and Ewa have been making music in locales as diverse as studios, the … Read More →

SGC Electric Quintet (Steve Ball, Travis Metcalf, Brad Hogg, Dev Ray, Don Box) is a subset of Seattle Guitar Circle, local chapter of the legendary League of Crafty Guitarists playing intricate, polymetric music arranged for electric guitar ensemble. SGC EQ perform structured improvisation that sounds composed and composed collaboration that sounds improvised. This international community was initially born via … Read More →

Chris Cochrane and Kevin Bud Jones have been playing music together since 2013, initially in the band Collapsible Shoulder. Chris and Kevin would play gigs as a duo between Collapsible gigs, and continue to do so now. Their music has been described as neo-psychedelic with unpredictable twists and turns, an electronic sonic mash. In the fall of 2023 they composed … Read More →

Strange Bedfellows are found in the crawlspace between ancestral ritual and becoming the inner child who just wants to play with toys and friends. Strange Bedfellows is a duo linking Adam Levitt and Silas Morrow, formed over impromptu public practice sessions in Seattle and surrounding areas. The duo will make use of saxophone, flute, violin, percussion, synthesizer, metal objects, … Read More →

In celebration of his birthday, trumpeter and composer Ray Larsen presents a special set of music with his chamber sextet, Reasons Why. Featuring some of the most high-profile and in-demand improvisers in the region, this group has not been able to appear for over a year. The band plays Ray’s compositions which gravitate between lush harmonic textures and dense … Read More →

An improvisation concert honoring late dance innovator Steve Paxton with collaborative performances by seasoned musicians and dancers using Contact Improvisation duets, ensemble play, video and audio recordings.

This concert brings freshly seasoned dance and music improvisers from Seattle and abroad to replay, discover and spread the gravity of late dancer extraordinaire, Steve Paxton, who famously said “…being essentially objective, Newton … Read More →