Category Archives: Event

An evening of ambient and electronic drone music, slow and calming. Come and relax for as long as you wish.

Ben Kaya is an American composer, producer and performer based in Belgium. His work primarily is concerned with simplicity, limitation and repetition, using long durations, repetitive motifs and a focus on texture in sound and visuals to bring a natural … Read More →

Poetry and ambient engross the air in an evening built for the therians of the PNW.

Exploring the cacophonous silence of the desert with hypnotic percussion and animal calls, Bassariscus takes you on a trip through the therianthropic mind.

frrn is a Seattle-based ambient experimental musician. With both her records and improvised live performances her music is a blending of melodic, … Read More →

Doors open 6:30.

Guitar Worship Service is playful in name but the intention praises the importance of the creative possibilities of a guitar. Since 2013, GWS presentations select musicians/sound sculptors/artists to examine what a guitar physically or conceptually is. While there are different types of guitars (electric, acoustic, steel, bass, homemade, video game, etc.), past performances have given audiences diverse solo … Read More →

Two Seattle musicians collaborate for a special concert celebrating love, the universe, and world peace.Serena Tideman is a cellist and composer from the NW. The Seattle Weekly describes her music thus: “Tideman makes poetry of her own with the cello, her lines flowing with the lyricism, tension”. In Pop Matters magazine, she was included in a Top 12 list … Read More →

Film and Audio Visual performances by indigenous artists, presented by COUSIN Collective:

Svetlana Romanova (Sakha/Even) is an artist, filmmaker, and activist born in Yakutsk, the capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located south of the Arctic Circle. Her practice centers on the critical importance of Indigenous visual language and sovereignty to the sustainability of Indigenous identity, particularly in the … Read More →

Music and sounds for the koto, viola, electronics, ukulele and more featuring Robert Millis (Climax Golden Twins,Sublime Frequencies), Katherine Whatley and Noel Kennon who will all play solo and together in some as yet undetermined improvisatory arrangement. Whatley and Millis recently released a cassette of trio performances from Japan on the SoundHoles label. Millis has a new solo LP out on Discrepant. Noel Kennon continues to confound and … Read More →

Solo performance by Marcin Pączkowski, followed a trio featuring Don Berman, Heather Bentley, and Ewa Trębacz in their first appearance together since their show last summer at the Olympia Free Jazz Festival. 

Marcin Pączkowski, a Seattle-based composer, conductor, digital artist, and violinist, holds the position of Music Director for the Evergreen Community Orchestra. He earned his PhD from the University … Read More →

The Kora Dance Ensemble combines West African traditional songs and strategies,  jazz influences on upright bass and clarinets, and the silent music that is dance.

This ensemble consists of four members: Janelle Bel Isle (dance), Eric Likkel (clarinets), Brady Kish (upright bass) and Chet Corpt (kora). We draw on our experiences within many genres – jazz, blues, soul, Western classical, Turkish … Read More →

A live evening of free guitar improvisation by Carlos Cotallo Solares and Ryan Carraher, each unfolding a distinct approach to the instrument and its electronic extensions. Together, in duo and solo configurations, they engage the guitar’s uncanny versatility within a framework of spontaneous composition. Perussionist Aaron Michael Butler joins to present a new work for vibraphone and electronics by … Read More →

The Red Pants Collective, a movement and sound project formed by father/daughter duo Giordana and James Falzone, are joined by very special guests from NYC and Seattle. The evening will weave improvised moments with Klezmer music and lefty political songs in Yiddish.  

Tariq Mitri: movementAlyza DelPan-Monley: movementGiordana Falzone: movementBonnie Whiting: percussionHanz Araki: shakuhachiAndrew Drury: drums and percussionMichael Winograd: clarinetIra Temple: accordionJames Falzone: … Read More →