Category Archives: Event

A two-night exploration of sound, space, and silence.

The Silences Between is a mini-festival featuring a variety of music for voice, guitar, cello, and electronics, loosely based on themes of sound, space, and silence.

The first evening (April 28), a singer renowned for her adventurous vocal performances will perform her solo vocal show Sor Juana and the Silences, which uses … Read More →

An evening of intimate experimental electronics.

Blevin Blectum (born Bevin Kelley) has been called a “celebrated icon of deviant and cerebral electronic music”. Often observed in the wild, far and wide, alongside fellow laptop/hokeypoker/snaustamer Kristin Erickson (aka Kevin Blechdom) in psychedelic combination as Blectum from Blechdom. She currently resides in Seattle, and has recently released Deep Bone (Blectum from Blechdom, … Read More →

Originally from Seattle, Caroline Kraabel is a London-based improviser, saxophonist, artist and composer. She conducts and plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO). Sometimes she improvises solo while walking in London and elsewhere (broadcast over several years on Resonance104.4 FM as Taking a Life for a Walk and Going Outside). She releases ephemeral solo pieces as part of Lonely … Read More →

Láthalom Gi Matan Guma’! Welcome to the Face of the House MALI’E’ is a Matao-CHamoru performance research project re(k)newing the spirit of embodied musicality as oral history and prophecy. Three locally-based Matao-CHamoru multi-disciplinary artists – roldy aguero ablao, Lourdez Puti’on Velasco, and Dakota Camacho – explore new expressions of the ancestral practice of exchanging memorized and improvisatory verses called MALI’E’ and … Read More →

Workshop + Concert: $15 (Register for workshop)Concert only: $5 – $15 sliding scale

WORKSHOP (6 PM): Compositional Work with the New Pulsar Generator (nuPG)

The focus of the workshop is composition with a digital audio technique called pulsar synthesis and its instrumental incarnation the New Pulsar Generator (nuPG). The nuPG program is a standalone (Mac OS) application implemented in SuperCollider 3 … Read More →

Portland-based composer Brian Fergus merges the ukulele with electronics, presenting his solo arrangements of soundtrack music written by the German composer Florian Fricke for the Werner Herzog films Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Heart of Glass (1976), and Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979).

Seattle electronic music veteran Rob Angus will perform his own compositions for Mirage sampling keyboards, loopers, … Read More →

Lori Goldston and percussionist Dave Abramson perform new and improvised solos and duos.

Lori Goldston has performed prolifically throughout the Pacific Northwest for decades, and tours throughout the US, Mexico, Canada, Australia and Europe. Her work is emotionally charged and nuanced, drawing connections between far-flung idioms, and exploring timbral thresholds of her instrument. She collaborates with a wide range of composers, … Read More →

FOREST FEST brings a NYC/San Diego-based, collective percussion quintet, The Forest (Gustavo Aguilar, Leah Bowden, Andrew Drury, Lesley Mok, and Michael Wimberly) to Seattle for two nights of sonic exploration with percussionist Bonnie Whiting, clarinetist James Falzone, and the UW Percussion Ensemble. Using drums as wind instruments, dustpans played with violin bows, and inspiration from Ed Blackwell, M’Boom, Contemporary … Read More →

FOREST FEST brings a NYC/San Diego-based, collective percussion quintet, The Forest (Gustavo Aguilar, Leah Bowden, Andrew Drury, Lesley Mok, and Michael Wimberly) to Seattle for two nights of sonic exploration with percussionist Bonnie Whiting, clarinetist James Falzone, and the UW Percussion Ensemble. Using drums as wind instruments, dustpans played with violin bows, and inspiration from Ed Blackwell, M’Boom, Contemporary … Read More →

Emerge from the chill of winter to the promise of spring: 1 butoh dancer, 1 grand piano, 2 electric guitars, 2 sets.For this evening’s performance, butoh dancer Joan will be joined by Randy Shay on piano for the first set in a homage to her teacher butoh master Kazuo Ohno. After intermission, Michael Shannon and David Stanford lay down … Read More →