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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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Oort Smog + Neil Welch + Sheridan Riley
Oort Smog aims to continue the sax-drum duo tradition, inspired by early formations such as John Coltrane and Rashied Ali and continued through the years by Anthony Braxton & Andrew Cyrille, Sax Ruins & Dead Neanderthals. Mark Kimbrell and Patrick Shiroishi combine elements of brutal prog (both are members in Upsilon Acrux) and free improvisation in their long form … Read More
Honoring Tari Nelson-Zagar
Tari Nelson-Zagar was a special part of the Pacific Northwest music community, moving with ease between free improvisation, jazz, and new & old classical music. She was known for her musical skill, keen intellect, and generous and humorous personality. Tari “transitioned off-planet” (in her words) last October, after a tragically short battle with breast cancer. Join us for a concert of remembrances … Read More
Texture & Tone
A showcase of deep-listening music from local fringers. Experimental ambient, noise, and sonic landscapes constructed from diverse textures and tones.
Aaron Michael Butler is a percussionist, composer, weirdo, and educator based in Seattle. He strives to create Sonic spaces for contemplation, disassociation, and/or spacing out. Sometimes it’s pretty, sometimes it’s soft noise, sometimes it’s loud, dense, and cathartic.
Balcony View is the … Read More
Seattle Modern Orchestra
SMO will return to the Chapel Performance Space for its second concert, featuring exclusively small chamber and solo works. The program includes Ash Fure’s piano trio therefore i was, world premieres by Jérémy Jolley for piano and electronics and cello and percussion from his contro-)clessidra series, and a remembrance of Canadian composer, R. Murray Schafer, with the performance of his virtuosic work for solo harp,The Crown … Read More
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, Part II, Chapter 1 (the Ninth Chapter)
The ninth chapter of Joyce’s last novel, performed from memory, and with acute attention to musical detail, by Neal Kosaly-Meyer. The midpoint of an epic 17-year project, the performance is presented in the serendipitously apt Chapel space, with liturgical/theatrical atmosphere, including carefully conceived set and sound design.
For the safety of all present, masks are encouraged.
Music of Angelique Poteat
Nonsequitur presents composer and clarinetist Angelique Poteat, the 2022-23 Seattle Symphony Artist in Residence, in an evening of her compositions inspired by the Pacific Northwest. Praised by the New York Times as “engaging, relevant,” Angelique’s music is rhythmically charged and colorfully picturesque. Works on the program include The Goose Egg, composed to narration of the children’s book by Liz Wong, as … Read More
Dennis Rea + Carol J Levin
Guitarist Dennis Rea presents a rare solo set of original pieces, interpretations of Asian and other world music, improvisation, and select covers.
Active since the mid-1970s, Rea has led or been a key contributor to musical innovators Moraine, Iron Kim Style, LAND, Savant, Flame Tree, and Earthstar, and has worked with such trailblazing musicians as Hector Zazou, Stuart Dempster, Cui … Read More
Kin of the Moon & Stephanie Wood
Kin of the Moon teams up with gong artist Stephanie Wood to present new works and psychedelic improvisations.
Kin of the Moon returns to the Chapel Performance Space to perform two works inspired by the natural world: delicate balance, an ode to the fragility of the ecosystem on the Galapagos Islands by Kaley Lane Eaton, and Ichneumonidae, a song cycle … Read More
Mingjia Chen, Abbey Blackwell, Kayce Guthmiller
As part of Table & Chairs‘ new Weekend Residency program, Los Angeles-based musician and performer Mingjia Chen will collaborate with Seattle’s Abbey Blackwell and Kayce Guthmiller for an evening of music interweaving song and improvisation into a fluid performance.
Born in Beijing, raised in Toronto, and based in Los Angeles, Mingjia Chen is a vocalist, composer, improviser, & multi-instrumentalist. Mingjia … Read More
St Celfer, ft. Christin Call
“Seattleʼs St Celfer writes immersive electronic songs that encompass both haunting beauty & wild experimentalism.” – BANDCAMP St Celfer, of Korean and American origin, currently lives between São Paulo and Seattle, the latter living off/on since 1990. A fan of Seattle grunge, was, once upon a time, in the 00’s New York scene performing, among other places, at CBGB’s, The … Read More