Category Archives: Event

Garrett Moore (drums) / Greg Kelley (trumpet) / John Seman (contrabass) / Jeffery Taylor (electric guitar)

Untitled Free Improvisations – Live Recordings 2017 – 2019

The GMQ churn through a gamut of freely improvised sounds encompassing the meditative, reflective, harsh, ugly and abrasive. Delve into an elixir of expansive psychedelic free improvisations that constantly unfold and meld into swirling elastic aural … Read More →

Rich Hinklin (1962-2021) was a much-loved presence on the more adventurous fringe of the Northwest rock scene. A gifted multi-instrumentalist whose work combined taste, technique, and humor, he was a member of such left-field bands as Utterance Tongue, Pitbull Babysitter, Gumshen, and his periodic Red Fable project with rotating musicians. Rich also mentored a generation of younger artists as … Read More →

Clarinetist, composer, and improviser James Falzone is an acclaimed member of the international jazz and creative music scenes, a veteran contemporary music lecturer and clinician, and an award-winning composer who has been commissioned by chamber ensembles, dance companies, choirs, and symphony orchestras around the globe. He leads his own ensembles Allos Musica, The Renga Ensemble, and the duo Wayfaring … Read More →

Beverly Setzer holds degrees in clarinet performance from the University of Washington where she studied with William McColl and William O. Smith. She is a member of Symphony Tacoma, Roadside Attraction, Cascade Symphony, the Seattle Bass Clarinet Project, and was Principal Clarinet of La Filarmónica del Bajío in Guanajuato, Mexico. She enjoys playing a wide variety of music ranging … Read More →

Jim Knodle has been a member of the free jazz group Holus Bolus, and a founding member of Circular Cowboys and Inside Out. He has recorded and/or performed with Andrew Hill, Caroline Kraabel, Dave Storrs, Jonathan Edwards, Lynette Westendorf, Michael Vlatkovich, Paul Rucker, Robin Holcomb, Sue Ann Harkey, Vinnie Golia, Wayne Horvitz and others. He has released several CDs: … Read More →

Veteran improvisor Sue Ann Harkey goes back to her solo prepared guitar roots on that $50 electric 12-string she bought over 40 years ago. Each piece is a change in implementation on an open-tuning that can do no wrong. Here is a repertoire of sounds drawn from the intimacy she has with her instrument and her proven experimental approach. … Read More →

Born on Capitol Hill, raised on Suquamish Tribal land (Seattle’s tribe). Grew up at the end of a road in the woods which has affected most of the music and sounds I am attracted to. Multi-instrumentalist performing in the area since the early 70’s in multiple roles, genres, styles. Longer bio. Mystic Weirdos.

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Born and raised in Grand Forks, ND, Gavin Borchert attended Michigan State University and the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. A not-entirely-unexpected inability to secure a teaching post upon graduation led him to Seattle in 1994, where he composes and has contributed classical music and arts coverage to The Seattle Times, The Stranger, KUOW, Seattle Magazine, Crosscut, and … Read More →

Steve Layton is a Seattle composer, performer, recordist, connector, facilitator. Editor of Sequenza21, a long-running website reporting on contemporary classical music. Collaborator at ImprovFriday/Sound-In, a weekly web gathering of musicians from around the globe. Hear more on BandCamp.

March Winds (2021)

As source and basis for the piece, I chose a recording shared online by a person in The Netherlands, “klankbeeld“, … Read More →

Afroditi Psarra (US/Greece) is a transdisciplinary artist and an assistant professor of Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington. Her work engages with the idea of the body as an interface and sound as a medium of control and resistance. She uses cybercrafts and other gendered practices as speculative strings to hack existing norms about technical … Read More →