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Wayward in Limbo #84: Amy Rubin

Composer/pianist Amy D. Rubin enjoys mixing notated music and improvisation with words to create new ways of telling stories. A number of her works are published and recorded by the Music Research Institute in the “Anthology of Keyboard Music from Africa and the Diaspora.” Amy’s music has been recorded on CRI, Mode, Koch International and Con Brio Recordings. She … Read More

Wayward in Limbo #83: Kyle Hanson

Kyle Hanson has created music for dance, film and theater. He co-led the Black Cat Orchestra from 1990 to 2006, and wrote songs and performed with Mirah and Spectratone International.

This evening’s songs were created and performed spontaneously on the accordion with a new bellows technique of my own invention. I thank Steve Peters and Nonsequitur for the opportunity to … Read More

Wayward in Limbo #82: A. F. Jones

Since 2007, A.F. Jones (Tracyton, WA) has been engaged and interested in collecting and selectively compiling site-specific recordings, from the polar ice cap to parking garages in need of routine maintenance. Camera lucida is the third protean composition from Jones, preceded by Apparatchiks (2013), and X Malfeasant, Appropriating Y (2013).

Camera lucida (for Barthes, Sontag, Morris) (2020) is a … Read More

Wayward in Limbo #81: Steve Fisk

Steve Fisk is an American composer and record producer, born 1954 in Long Beach, CA. While he is widely regarded as one of the midwives of the Northwest Grunge Music scene, he has been writing and releasing his own work since 1979. He currently lives in Tacoma with his wife, artist Anne Marie Grgich.

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Wayward in Limbo #80: Bit Graves

Bit Graves is an experimental electronic chamber duo that explores the shifting boundaries between the physical universe and the digital multiverse. Their music takes the form of dense drone landscapes which range in character from ambient to abrasive. By blending the coarse, unpredictable voltages of plain circuitry with the rigid, precise calculation of digital programming, they depict sonic worlds … Read More

Wayward in Limbo #79: Rahikka & James Lee

Rahikka is Seattle-based electronic ambient artist Carson Rennekamp. His most recent LP, Abstract Elegies, was released on Stereoscenic Records on November 6, 2020. Rahikka’s work is inspired by abstract expressionism, experimental film, and subconscious escape.

James Lee is a guitarist based in the Seattle area. His playing is inspired by a variety of genres ranging from pop, electronic, to … Read More

Wayward in Limbo #78: Tom Baker

Tom Baker is a composer, guitarist, improviser, and electronic musician, active in the Seattle new-music scene. His compositions, from operas and avant-jazz to chamber and electronic music, have been performed across the US, Canada, and Europe. As a performer and improviser, Tom specializes in fretless guitar and live-electronics. His band TRIPTET recently released its fourth album, Slowly, Away, on … Read More

Wayward in Limbo #77: Greg Sinibaldi

Greg Sinibaldi is a saxophonist and composer living and working in Seattle and New York.

This music is a partial diary of 2020, comprised of improvisations recorded over the course of the last eight months. The pandemic, our country’s political situation, protests in the streets, and my personal struggles with depression have left me feeling emotionally raw. I’ve been profoundly … Read More

Wayward in Limbo #76: Kaley Lane Eaton

A conservatory-trained classical pianist and vocalist who fell into creating electronic music shortly after a stint playing Baroque lute, composer Kaley Lane Eaton’s music is colored by this eclecticism, expressing a preoccupation with harmony, improvisation, storytelling, emotion, physical gesture, and technological glitches. She lives in a little blue house in Seattle with her partner Rian, dog Nikos, and the … Read More

Wayward in Limbo #75: China Faith Star

China Faith Star is an auto-didactical, overly practical, visual trickster, sound/word mixer. Born in Los Angeles to Punk Flower Children and raised in a world of diverse interactions, she fled to the woods to bathe with trees. She writes poetry, occasionally. Mostly she conjures ideas, transmuting socio/political/emotional concepts into aesthetically visceral maps/translations: popping color, repetitious pattern, dimensional texture, expressionistic, … Read More