Category Archives: Event

Threshold is an improvising band composed of Seattle music scene veterans Don Berman (drums), Dennis Rea (guitar), Simon Henneman (guitar), and Heather Bentley (cello). This project is the manifestation of a musical vision Berman has held for years. His late father, William Berman, was a master violist who performed extensively in symphonic and string quartet settings. Having listened to … Read More →

Composer and percussionist Joey Largent, visiting from Istanbul, joins movement artist Maumae (formerly Katrina Wolfe) for a three-hour durational performance of sculptural movement, improvised cymbal music, and field recordings.

In 2021, Joey Largent and Maumae performed a three-hour, durational work, Basaltic Void Dervishes, for improvised cymbals and dance at the Chapel, featuring a long-form movement duet in collaboration with her … Read More →

TORCH (Brian Chin, trumpets, Eric Likkel, clarinets, Steve Schermer, bass, and Bonnie Whiting, percussion) is a multi-arts collective of artists dedicated to the creation and performance of new socially-conscious work. Embedded within the collective is a contemporary chamber music ensemble whose original compositions play with our heady intellects and our groove-craving souls. Rooted in contemporary classical, jazz, and improvised … Read More →

A night of free-improvised music flavored with drone and noise.

Just back from touring, Friends of the Road is an experimental string band from Seattle exploring long-form acoustic drones rooted in a melting pot of influences from American-primitive, dhrupad, and free improvisation which coalesce into original arrangements of traditional folk tunes.

Casey Adams is a Seattle-based builder and creator of electro-acoustic … Read More →

An evening of improvised music from Lu Evers (clarinet), Amy Denio (alto sax, voice), Lady Zade (cello), and Tom Scully (guitar). The joy of spontaneity, sharing in the moment of awareness, the scintillating particles in the diverse array of dimension.

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An evening of ambient and electronic drone music, slow and calming. Come and relax for as long as you wish.

Ben Kaya is an American composer, producer and performer based in Belgium. His work primarily is concerned with simplicity, limitation and repetition, using long durations, repetitive motifs and a focus on texture in sound and visuals to bring a natural … Read More →

Poetry and ambient engross the air in an evening built for the therians of the PNW.

Exploring the cacophonous silence of the desert with hypnotic percussion and animal calls, Bassariscus takes you on a trip through the therianthropic mind.

frrn is a Seattle-based ambient experimental musician. With both her records and improvised live performances her music is a blending of melodic, … Read More →

Doors open 6:30.

Guitar Worship Service is playful in name but the intention praises the importance of the creative possibilities of a guitar. Since 2013, GWS presentations select musicians/sound sculptors/artists to examine what a guitar physically or conceptually is. While there are different types of guitars (electric, acoustic, steel, bass, homemade, video game, etc.), past performances have given audiences diverse solo … Read More →

Two Seattle musicians collaborate for a special concert celebrating love, the universe, and world peace.Serena Tideman is a cellist and composer from the NW. The Seattle Weekly describes her music thus: “Tideman makes poetry of her own with the cello, her lines flowing with the lyricism, tension”. In Pop Matters magazine, she was included in a Top 12 list … Read More →

Film and Audio Visual performances by indigenous artists, presented by COUSIN Collective:

Svetlana Romanova (Sakha/Even) is an artist, filmmaker, and activist born in Yakutsk, the capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located south of the Arctic Circle. Her practice centers on the critical importance of Indigenous visual language and sovereignty to the sustainability of Indigenous identity, particularly in the … Read More →