Category Archives: Event

Nonsequitur kicks off the 2025 NonSeq concert series with a special performance introducing this year’s team of Community Curators:

Noel Brass, Jr. is a composer/keyboardist based out of Seattle’s thriving musical landscape. He’s a founding member and leader of the improvising space-funk trio Afro Cop along with other side projects. His solo work is part ambient, part psychedelic, all soul. … Read More →

Mark Wilson presents an evening of his own compositions exploring his interest in integrating the musical fingerprints of kora music from Gambia, theorbo music from 17th century Italy, American hip hop from the 90’s and the French Baroque, along with canons and tango. All of this through the lens of living in a time of racial reconciliation, the too-soon death of a … Read More →

Stone & Sky is the meditative improvisational project of Trevor Eulau, Tara, and Rocky Martin. The performance aims to bring together musical expressive arts with mindfulness and spiritual practice.The performance will include a guided meditation led by Tara, the sonorous sound of various bells and singing bowls, along with Tara and Rocky’s beautiful sound on the tenor saxophone and drum set. 

Trevor Eulau … Read More →

Lori Goldston plays written and spontaneous work on cello, and works as a composer, teacher, bandleader, and prolific, widely varied collaborator. Her voice as a cellist is singular, deeply textured and original, investigating thresholds, instability, and connections between far-flung modes of thought. She lives in Seattle and performs in venues large and small throughout North America and Europe as … Read More →

Confluence is an ongoing series of open collaborative concerts, allowing Seattle’s adventurous musicians the opportunity to perform small sets with total creative freedom. After last August’s exciting premiere show, Confluence is back for 2025, and this lineup isn’t to be missed, ranging from world premiere piano works to electronic improvisation on a custom instrument!

Veteran Seattle composer Keith Eisenbrey returns to … Read More →

The Shepherd’s Purse plant (represented on the event’s poster) symbolizes the ability to adapt and exist in diverse environments. Tonight’s event holds this spirit in that the performers (environments) are sundry in aural and visual presentation with a motive to have an audience (the plant) adapt to the array of sounds and sights.

DANIEL MENCHE is an iconic experimental musician … Read More →

Threshold is a quartet comprised of Seattle improvised music scene veterans. Organized by Don Berman, the group assembled for a free-ranging session in 2023, and discovered they can enter a musical space “through threshold” where they improvise together in a deep listening manner that almost sounds composed. Some call it “great band chemistry”.

This project is the manifestation of a … Read More →

Brilliant musicians and dancers will collaborate to create… who knows? A night of exploratory deep listening, collaboration, experimentation, improvisation in multiple formats, including interactive opportunities for the audience.

Sound Artists: Abbey Blackwell, Amy Denio, Carol J Levin, Caroline Kraabel, Christian Pincock, Haley Freedlund, Jenny Ziefel, Leanna Keith, Mark Filler, Susie Kozawa.

Movement Artists: Aaron Swartzman, Aiko Kinoshita, Christian Swenson, Hannah Rice, Katrina … Read More →

Beth Quist (Bobby McFerron, Cirque du Soleil, The Crown) and leithaus (The Crown, Seattle Guitar Circle, Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists) will be performing new and old solo material and collaborations.

leithaus (aka Gregroy Meredith) debuts a new cycle of songs for 8-String Touch Guitar, loops, and spoken word (from his recently published book Silence and Surrender). Beth Quist will be … Read More →

Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh – Mortal Magnetismwith James Falzone (clarinet, penny whistle, shruti box), Jackie An (violin) & Aaron Harmonson (acoustic bass)

Katrina Wolfe – Intricacies Expandingwith Michael Shannon & David Stanford (electro acoustic instruments)

+ a film by Michael Shannon

With new solos, Joan/Kogut & Katrina return to the Chapel collaborating with well-known local musicians in an evening celebrating the richness and … Read More →