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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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The Box Is Empty: Nat Evans + Leaha Villareal
The Box is Empty presents new works by Seattle composer Nat Evans, and New York-based composer Leaha Villarreal.
Evans has collaborated with writer Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and a team of lens-based artists to create a new work for chamber ensemble, field recordings, spoken text and a series of videos. More Comfort explores the evolution of our relation to different screens in … Read More
Lori Goldston
Lori Goldston plays solo cello, amplified and/or acoustic, improvised and not.
John Teske: topographies
Seattle composer John Teske presents an evening of music about navigating space. Local musicians will premier topographies, a new series of graphic scores which requires performers to navigate through contour maps composed of musical symbols. The pieces are a study on individual and group intention. Each player creates a narrative as they traverse the score, sometimes carving their own … Read More
Moraine + Michael Owcharuk Trio
Presented by Zero-G Concerts.
Moraine returns from a recording hiatus with a set tailored to the Chapel’s exquisite acoustics. Led by veteran guitarist Dennis Rea and rounded out by ace instrumentalists Alicia DeJoie (violin), James DeJoie (woodwinds), Kevin Millard (bass), and Tom Zgonc (drums), Moraine is a shape-shifting quintet that has built a reputation as one of the most electrifying … Read More
Magma Fest: Harry Smith Tribute
Presented by Hollow Earth Radio and the Harry Smith Archives.
I’m glad to say that my dreams came true. I saw America changed through music. – Harry Smith
Celebrating the passions, obsessions, and creations of the Northwests’s own “seminal experimental animator, trickster anthropologist, psychedelic pioneer, self-taught scholar in a dozen fields, editor of the most important recorded collection of American folk … Read More
Concert Imaginaire
Music For A While is Concert Imaginaire‘s second in a series of three concerts in the chapel for the 2013-14 season. The theme of tonight’s music is taken from first line of Purcell’s song which we are performing tonight: “Music For A While, may all your cares beguile.” Music can be a soothing balm for a distracted world. Music … Read More
Magma Festival
Hollow Earth Radio‘s sprawling (and aptly named) annual Magma Festival returns to the Chapel with four acts: 3-year-old percussion monster Moon Joe; the duo of grown-up percussionist Dan Sasaki & Olympia multimedia artist Jean Nagai; the swampy psych improv of Knot Pine Box; and Low Yo Yo Stuff is veteran sax improviser Wally Shoup taking on a trio of … Read More
Seattle Composers’ Salon
The Seattle Composers’ Salon fosters the development, performance and appreciation of new music by regional composers and performers. At bi-monthly, informal presentations, the Salon features finished works, previews, and works in progress. Composers, performers, and audience members gather in a casual setting that allows for experimentation and discussion. Everyone is welcome! Composers for this month: Clement Reed, Coreena, Aaron … Read More
Neal Kosaly-Meyer & Jessika Kenney
Neal Kosaly-Meyer performs John Cage’s Empty Words IV. Simultaneously, vocalist Jessika Kenney will sing three songs from Cage’s Song Books, as well as a new composition-in-progress of her own, Complete Human for voice and electronics, using classical Persian texts.
Tom Baker: Deeply Lodged
Composer Tom Baker premiers three recent chamber works: Invisible Cities (2011), loosely based on stories by Italo Calvino, performed by the Corigliano Quartet. Songs of Sleep & Dreams (2013), based on the poetry of Fernando Pessoa, with soprano Cherie Hugues, trumpeter Brian Chin and percussionist Ben Thomas. Deeply Lodged (2014), premiered by pianist Cristina Valdes, a meditation on memory … Read More