Category Archives: Event

For this concert Stefan Christoff and Lori Goldston will build on their improvised duet exchanges that have been in exploration since 2017. The Punk Equinox duet album, with Lori on cello and Stefan on organ was released to critical acclaim on the Thessaloniki based label DASA Tapes. This album was highlighted on the Adventures In Sound And Music program … Read More →

Integrating music and dance through free and structured improvisations, the Tom Baker Quartet and movement artists Alia Swersky and Hannah Rice will meet for an exploration of the aural and physical space of the Chapel.  

Alia Swersky is a movement artist, performer, and educator deeply engaged in dance improvisation, durational time based work, site-specific work, and environmental installation. Hannah Rice is … Read More →

Join jazz French horn ace Tom Varner with members of the Seattle Phonographers Union and some of Seattle’s top improvisers for another version of Tom’s Sound Vespers, where improvising musicians join forces with field recording-laptop artists. This time time the lineup will include brass, reeds, strings, and of course our Phonographers. Always different, always beautiful.

Tom Varner, French hornJim Knodle, trumpetJenny Zeifel, … Read More →

Musicians (of any style or genre!) with too much physical product on hand: Bring in your unsold media to the Chapel Performance Space and convert it to someone else’s music via the magic of swapping! Organized by Levi Fuller.

Rules (as I currently envision them):

1) Bring a bunch of your own unsold music product (ideally CDs or vinyl).1a) Know how … Read More →

Metal Mother (LA), enereph (SEA), Terror Apart (PDX), and Alien Angel (LA) present a night of heart-wrenching and tender electronic music, bathed in visual splendor. Video synthesis by Arabella Bautista (SEA) on soft sculpture installation and sumi ink on mulberry scrolls will enliven the space, melding with a cornucopia of sounds to deliver a glittering sensory trip.

Audience members are … Read More →

Outlaw Space will patiently improvise toward serene and blazing melismatic compositions to “color the mind”, erase time, and astonish everyone. Stephen Fandrich, piano; William Monteleone, saxophone; Kirill Polyanskiy, violin; Noah Colbek, percussion; special guest Greg Campbell, percussion.

Incredible skill, orchestral richness, and an eclectic playfield of musical influences are the foundation of this quartet led by acclaimed pianist/composer Stephen Fandrich. Expect a mysterious, … Read More →

Austin Larkin (New Haven, CT) is a composer focusing on elements of tone within the interstices of fields, asymmetries, and patterns. His performance and practice is informed by research into dimensions of vibrating bodies. Tonight he’ll perform acoustic in the mode and philosophy of his recent record Violin Liquid Phases. This work focuses on the psychoacoustic possibilities of the violin … Read More →

Arrington de Dionyso integrates ancient soundmaking techniques with trans-modernist inquiries into the nature of consciousness. His propulsive improvisations utilize voice and reeds (primarily bass clarinets and his invention the Bromiophone) as multiphonic tools in the navigation of liminal spaces between shamanic seance and rock and roll ecstasy. Tonight his chosen vehicle will be solo piano improvisation.

Piano was actually the … Read More →