Category Archives: Event

Right Brain Records presents an evening of chamber jazz featuring two internationally famous artists: composer/multi-percussionist Brad Dutz, plus pianist and Seattle icon Wayne Horvitz. 

Brad Dutz is a composer and percussionist extraordinaire. A longtime fixture in the LA jazz scene and a prolific performer, he has released over 30 albums, most with his own compositions. He will perform in Seattle … Read More →

An evening of drone and free improv featuring three distinct styles of flowing:

August (Anacortes) fuses American Primitive Guitar with Drone and Slowcore. August improvises layers from an old Casiotone as well as an array of unpredictable instruments that he chooses free will alongside his classical guitar which he runs through a reel to reel.

AF Jones (Tracyton) utilizes lap steel … Read More →

Big drums, choreography, synthesizers, and an abacus shaker… Arugakki is groundbreaking taiko. The inventive duo from Los Angeles Arts District debuts new music alongside local artists, Karin Stevens (dance), Heather Bentley (viola), and Leanna Keith (flute).

Nguyen’s dance and Bergstrom’s taiko collided at a choreography residency in 2019, exchanging fresh perspectives on movement and rhythm. The inspiration fueled a North … Read More →

An evening full of morning. A series of intimate, improvised solo and small-group performances playing with new notions of temporality. A fertile four-hour space displaced through the simultaneity of daybreak and last light.

Jocelyn Beausire is a performance artist, musician, and spatial researcher who splits her time between Seattle, WA and Princeton, NJ, where she is pursuing her Masters of Architecture. … Read More →

Please join French hornist/composer Tom Varner for a celebration of the new CD and Bandcamp release of his Sound Vespers project. For several years now, Tom has assembled a wonderful assortment of Seattle’s best improvisers on both “acoustic instruments” and electronics/field recordings. The 2019 pre-covid Jack Straw recording, with mixing and (some) electronic processing by Steve Barsotti, is now finished! … Read More →

For her first solo recital since 2016, Leanna Keith presents Aeros ex Machina/Air from the Machine, a recital of newly commissioned works for flute and electronics. Pedalboards, tape tracks, live processing, bass flute, standard flute, and a great deal of air. Compositions include world premieres of local composers Kaley Lane Eaton’s GEO –, Heather Bentley’s Become Dragon, and Philadelphia-based … Read More →

Part art-theatre concert, part site-non-specific live-score, part socio-cultural research project, TAP 4.0: The Nyxology Sessions are experimental open rehearsals, designed as a hybrid experience for me to learn and for you to freely explore one thing: how and what The Antenna Project’s music inspires you to Be and Do.

Founded in 2002, The Antenna Project provides Instrumental Live-scores (improvised, context-specific … Read More →

Gavin Gamboa is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work revolves around improvised and notated composition, algorithmic video art, and short-form cinema. Between 2014 and 2020, Gavin released one album a month on Bandcamp, mixing both contemporary and classical music, all available with a free Creative Commons license.

Collaborations include performances with Erykah Badu and the … Read More →

An evening of sounding and bioremediation presented by Arrington de Dionyso, Amelia Coulter, Casey Adams, and Noel Kennon, with an opening solo set from trombonist Greg Powers.Greg Powers, performs on trombone, tuba, ukulele, didjeridu, garden hoses, etc. He is at home playing Salsa, Rock, Banda, Dixie, Swing, Avant Garde, and Jazz. A Fulbright Fellow to India, Powers is a pioneer … Read More →

The Helen Scarsdale Agency presents a night of blurred sound, caustic noise, antique drift, and liminal drone with Faith Coloccia, Jim Haynes, and Robert Millis.

Faith Coloccia is an American artist and composer based in Vashon, WA. She was born and raised in Palm Springs, CA, and attended Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles (BFA). Her work … Read More →