Category Archives: Event

A sound artist, Fulbright scholar, and Guggenheim fellow, Robert Millis has authored or co-authored books (Indian Talking Machine and Victrola Favorites) produced compilations and documentaries for the Sublime Frequencies record label, (including Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road and This World is Unreal Like A Snake in a Rope), composed for radio (“The Gramophone Effect” … Read More →

Doug Haire lives on NoBeHi and is generally associated with music.

Here are three pieces inspired by our lives in 2020. The first is a complex drone soaked in an ether bath. I’m finding that all the elements of drone music say the most when the nights grow long. The second track is about all that can happen between … Read More →

Joshua Limanjaya Lim is an experimental, electronic artist who uses modular and hardware synthesizers to create ambient / lofi music. He embraces minimalism, as well as the beauty contained within a sound’s imperfections.

This 3-movement piece makes use of sounds both natural and synthetic – from pianos, oscillators, and wind chimes. Elements are mangled and stretched to create slow-moving … Read More →

Bonnie Whiting performs new experimental music, seeking out projects that involve the speaking percussionist, improvisation, and non-traditional notation. Her second solo album, Perishable Structures launched in 2020 and places works for speaking percussionist within a context of storytelling. 2021 brings the premiere of Through the Eyes(s): an extractable cycle of nine pieces for speaking/singing percussionist collaboratively developed with composer … Read More →

Faith Coloccia is an artist and musician who works under the names Mamiffer and Mára. Her recordings have been released on SIGE records, Karlrecords, Room 40, Hydra Head and Touch. She is the co-founder of the experimental music label SIGE Records.

Voice III Continuum

Halfway through the shutdown and the pandemic I started going through all of my cassette field … Read More →

Blake DeGraw is an experimental composer and bandleader. His works explore extremes in spatial dispersion and alternative methods of scoring and conduction.

for Orchestra, Slath, and for Viola are from a cycle of works exploring self-conducting scores: for Orchestra is guided by an aural score, to which the performers listen through headphones during performance, while Slath and for Viola … Read More →

S. Eric Scribner was born in Seattle and has also lived in Japan and the San Francisco Bay Area. A long-time fan of experimental music, his own excursions into the field are lengthy catalogue-type pieces, usually graphic scores, for piano, prerecorded electronics and field recordings, and various other instruments.

SoundScroll XII: Visio Tnugdali consists of Three movements for piano … Read More →

Seattle-based composer and clarinetist Angelique Poteat has had her music hailed by the New York Times as “engaging, restless.” In addition to being principal clarinetist with the Yakima Symphony, she also performs regularly with the Seattle Modern Orchestra and the Saratoga Orchestra, among others. She is currently the Director of the Seattle Symphony’s Merriman Family Young Composers Workshop.

In … Read More →

Hailed by Gramophone as “an artist of commanding and poetic personality” and described as “staggeringly virtuosic” by The Strad, violist/composer Melia Watras has distinguished herself as one of her instrument’s leading voices. Watras has helped expand the viola repertoire through composing, commissioning, and debuting new works. Compositions written for Watras include Shulamit Ran’s solo viola piece “Perfect Storm,” duos … Read More →

Originally scheduled for March 2020, the 35th annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival rises from the ashes of COVID-19 in the form of two streaming video programs on September 27 and October 4.

STREAM TONIGHT’S CONCERT HERE AT 7 PM PACIFIC TIME!

Esteemed visiting artists – clarinetist Ben Goldberg (Berkeley), New York saxophonists Joe McPhee and Sam Newsome – perform featured … Read More →