Category Archives: Event

Join Matt Sargent, Ben Luca Robertson, & Aaron Michael Butler for an evening of actuated strings, microtonal guitar, percussion, & bespoke instrumentation. 

Matt Sargent is a composer, guitarist, recording engineer, and music technology specialist based in upstate New York, where he is an assistant professor of music at Bard College. His music grows from resonance, memory, the making/breaking of patterns, … Read More →

Seattle Guitar Circle culminates a weekend intensive retreat with a performance featuring the ensemble and special guests, with ambient support from our friend and collaborator Travis Metcalf.

Seattle Guitar Circle is a multicultural guitar ensemble founded in 1993, representing an international community of music and education founded with Guitar Craft in 1985.  Its members and composers hail from many different … Read More →

Nonsequitur kicks off the 2026 NonSeq concert series with a special performance introducing this year’s team of Community Curators:

RM Francis is an artist working with computer-generated sound, with a focus on the unique perceptual effects of the simulated human voice and the unstable auditory personae that emerge from artificial speech systems. Alongside this inquiry into the material properties of … Read More →

Enter a world where sound is spirit, and every performance is a ceremony. Tiger Poems, a trio of visionary explorers, conjures a unique universe where the rigorous spontaneity of free improvisation meets the primal pulse of animistic trance ritual.

Hear the voice as a wild, untamed instrument. Arrington de Dionyso (Old Time Relijun, Malaikat dan Singa) channels guttural overtone singing … Read More →

James Falzone presents Mystery of Winter Skies, new music for the rare combination of string quartet and penny whistles. Commissioned and premiered in 2025, the work is a meditation on the mystery of existence and natural beauty. 

Featuring: 

James Falzone: composer and penny whistlesAlex Guy: violinLuke Fitzpatrick: violinErin Wight: violaRose Bellini: cello 

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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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