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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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Chapel Renovation Closure
The Chapel is temporarily closed until late September due to seismic retrofit construction. Stay tuned for news of our re-opening when the dust settles. Check back here or subscribe to our email newsletter (at bottom of right sidebar) for updates.
Tiger Poems + Gregory Reynolds
Tiger Poems : Arrington de Dionyso (bass clarinet and voice masking), Gust Burns (piano), and Noel Kennon (idiosyncratic percussion).
“Tiger seems a little mad… in a sense, the tiger is mad. but the tiger is also perfectly at ease. the tiger is simultaneously disarming and making minute preparations stalking and exiting beaming and weeping mending and tearing feeling and deflecting … Read More
Satchel Henneman
Guitarist Satchel Henneman performs an eclectic program of contemporary works by Chris Cerrone, Han Lash, Zachary James Watkins, Tom Baker, Jarrad Powell, and Marguerite Brown. With a program evocative of many styles and genres, from Han Lash’s jazz-like “For Ben,” to Marguerite Brown’s textural study of clouds “Crown Shyness,” this rare opportunity to experience a recital of contemporary concert … Read More
Tiny Orchestral Moments
Tiny Orchestral Moments presents an evening of structured improvisation for ginormous guitar ensemble, featuring eleven electric guitars: SGC ElecTrio, CKST, Fernando Kabusacki (Buenos Aires) and Fabio Mittino (Milan).
SGC ElecTrio (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 … Read More
Confluence 1
A confluence is when two or more flowing bodies of water meet to become one – waters that had their own ecosystems can join to make new systems greater than the sums of their parts. “Confluence 1” is the first of a prospective concert series based on this concept, inviting Seattle’s most adventurous musicians to collaborate in small sets exploring … Read More
wndfrm + RAICA + Cameron MacNair + Mokedo
A night of euphonious and elevating ambient electronic music with focus on the trippier side. Thoughtful and engaging with layers and textures to dip in and out of. Visuals and colors provided by Mokedo will enhance the space and take you deep into different moods, spaces and time.
Tim Westcott, visiting from Portland, records and performs as wndfrm. Tim’s work … Read More
Pran
PRAN is trombonist Greg Powers performing the deeply meditative style of Dhrupad. Since his Fulbright to India in 1988, Powers has continued his study of the ancient Dagarbhani tradition both here and in Mumbai with Ustads Zia Fariduddin Dagar, Jeff Lewis, Uday Bhawalkar and Bahauddin Dagar. He is a pioneer in adapting this ancient tradition to the trombone and … Read More
Tom Baker Quartet + Kin of the Moon
Two Seattle bands with deep ties to the city’s new and experimental music scenes, Tom Baker Quartet and Kin of the Moon, will present an evening of acoustic, improvised music to explore the mystical resonances of the Chapel Performance Space.
Short sets by each band will be followed by a third set with all seven performers: Heather Bentley (viola), Kaley Lane … Read More
Bad to the Drone: a guitar drone showcase
Droneroom is the nom de strum of Blake Edward Conley, a certified Kentucky Colonel and the self-professed Cowboy of Drone. Conley has demonstrated his ability to drift, twang, and sear over the course of numerous releases (including …The Other Doesn’t, Neon Depression, Negative Libra, Whatever Truthful Understanding, and Rusted Lung) across various labels (Somewherecold, Desert Records, Marginal Glitch, Echodelick, … Read More
Dez’Mon Omega Fair
Dez’Mon Omega Fair hosts an unfolding installation, a poetry bath, a performance, and a reading; an experience in expressive art.
The event is a studio visit in motion. Dez’Mon will read new writing. We’ll view and organize paintings together. We’ll meditate into a bath of sound and poetry. There will be an opportunity for the audience/viewer/participant to draw and write … Read More