Category Archives: Event

An evening of butoh, live music and film with Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh and musicians Bill Horist, Michael Shannon, David Stanford, Joey Largent and special guest Katrina Wolfe. 

Dance for 9 Corpses Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh & Katrina Wolfe with Michael Shannon, David Stanford & Joey Largent 

Manhattan October (2022)Film by Michael Shannon

Piercing HeartJoan Laage/Kogut Butoh with Bill Horist

Known as Kogut Butoh, Joan Laage … Read More →

An evening of music : 

sounding :  to reenact mist or steam

Noel Kennon presents new music for solo contrabass clarinet. 

The structure of the work is a rendering of cognition; this activity is a result of biofeedback between sounding and listening. The intention of this work is to memorialize Paul Hoskin. ]

Noel Kennon is local artist, line cook, and enthusiast of the moon … Read More →

Rice, Blood, Sugar is a piece in three parts that explores the experience of heritage language loss through language as food, language as lineage, and language as delight, performed upon the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a festival of family and ancestral reunion. The composition and soundings utilize homophones in Mandarin Chinese throughout to amplify the somatic experience for … Read More →

Social, 7 PM; Music, 8 PM. Donations accepted as cash or via Venmo, Square Cash, Zelle or PayPal to wcsartanddesign@yahoo.com.

TAP 4.0: The Nyxology Sessions are high-level experiments in the art and craft of designing and presenting simultaneous, multi-participant and multi-discipline live performances, or “art-theater”, that inhabit a venue’s on and off-stage spaces and feature the live-scores of The Antenna … Read More →

Experimental violin and piano duo entr’acte presents Zombies. Formed by violinist Luke Fitzpatrick and pianist Laure Struber, entr’acte was created with the goal of expanding the sonic possibilities of the violin and piano duo. Zombies was written to recontextualize older melodies into a meditative exploration of sound colors. The piece uses an extensive amount of inside the piano techniques and emphasizes the … Read More →

An audiovisual dispatch from a world of purple mountains and pornographic websites. Featuring Gabe Fabens (electronics), Sage Folkins (guitar), Charlie Fwinkins (creative direction), Ian Gwin (synths).

Under the direction of enigmatic auteur, Charles Fwinkins, WTVBEH has produced videos such as “I Saw Jesus Die,” “Fresh Kills” and “The Lantern’s Gone Out, The Lantern’s Gone Out.” Examples of their work can be … Read More →

Bit Graves, Benjamin Marx, and Mason Lynass perform contrasting sets of dystopian drone music, generative electronic music, and songs for guitar, cello, and viola.

Bit Graves is an experimental electronic duo. Dave Segal of The Stranger describes them as “utter masters of their dystopian domain [who] excel at suspense-building dynamics and creating a sense of perpetual ascension”. They’ll play a … Read More →

Vancouver-based pianist Lisa Cay Miller presents a night of solo improvisations and combinations with local Seattle players Greg Campbell (drums and percussion), Heather Bentley (viola), Leanna Keith (flutes), James Falzone (clarinet), and Bonnie Whiting (percussion).

Lisa Cay Miller (she/her) lives and makes music on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. She has performed with many great … Read More →

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Addict is a string trio composed by Jackie An that explores the undercurrents of addiction.  

This work is my first foray into graphic and text-based notation, as I have historically used dance choreography as a visual score or a loop pedal for composing. Using acoustic string performance, found sound, sound object, and fixed … Read More →

Immerse yourself in a captivating sonic journey from local PNW artists WOYNICH, Shoyei and Huggy Pillow. Step into a realm where ethereal melodies intertwine with pulsating rhythms, creating an otherworldly tapestry of sound that transcends traditional boundaries. Surrender to the waves as they ebb and flow, carrying you through a landscape of intricate textures and atmospheric layers. The stage … Read More →