Category Archives: Event

The Wizards are Returning with Reinforcements to Once Again Corrupt the Young and Confound the Ancient!

Tom “Green Eggs and Ham” Baker, guitar; Keith “The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins” Eisenbrey, piano; Haley “Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog?” Freedlund, trombone; Leanna “Oh, The Places You’ll Go!” Keith, flute; Jim “Horton Hears a Who” Knodle, trumpet

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R.A. Jones is a New York-based composer, producer, and educator. A current member of electronic, avant-garde band Eaters, the bi-continental duo Scythe, and releasing solo music as Jha Bones, Bob first appeared on the international stage through his involvement in Jackie-O-Motherfucker and Parquet Courts, to say nothing of the more regional/local heavyweights Evolutionary Jass Band (Portland, OR) and Gospel … Read More →

Myrrum is a Seattle-based instrumental and experimental band, active in the community since 2011. Making use of sample-based rhythms and textures, feedback, drones, swells, and distortion, as well as softer arrangements for brass, vibraphone, mellotron, and modular synthesis, Myrrum stubbornly explores structure through improvisation, repetition, intensity, and friendship. Having released a full length record in 2016, as well as … Read More →

Demure Asian Rage is a multidisciplinary structural improv piece involving taiko, flute, electronics, poetry, and movement. This work explores how rage manifests in the context of being Asian, non-binary, genderfluid and AFAB individual in a world that frequently marginalizes such identities. What if our inner world was allowed to be free? What happens when rage and joy are encouraged … Read More →

The Red Pants Collective, an improvised movement and sound project formed by father/daughter duo Giordana and James Falzone, are joined by special guests Christopher Williams (bass) and Jadi Carboni (movement) from Graz, Austria, and Seattle stalwarts Luci Baker (movement) and Steve Peters (field recordings).

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Rich viola melodies fuse with ambient soundscapes in this new collaborative album performance from Tristan de Liège & Gregory Allison. Their new release, Samatha, features meditations for solo viola performed by Allison and soundscapes beautifully crafted by de Liège. They will be performing music from the record and others from their previous two collaborative albums. Vinyl will be … Read More →

Rooted in Eastern European Jewish life, Yiddish music holds echoes of migration, memory, and revolution. In Facing Yiddishland, three bold artists push this tradition into new terrain. Lori Goldston, Chaia, and Levoneh reimagine the Yiddish song tradition through glitchy and psychedelic performance techniques.Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston (Earth, Nirvana, Mirah) is … Read More →

Saxophonist Steve Griggs, synthesist Ruben Griggs, and percussionist Greg Campbell reunite as Dowsing, a free-improv interplay between acoustic jazz and ambient electronics. Imagine John Coltrane at peace, scanning the crepuscule on a Southern California beach, his toes in warm ebbing waves, birds darting above in dimming dusk, the boom of a low-rider rumbling in the distance, a nearby bucket … Read More →

In a world that demands that we define ourselves with tags and constructed concepts, one can feel constricted by words that box our identity, often, creating separation from each other. What makes us all the same? What makes each one of us unique? This world premiere explores both sides of the human experience and invites you to “undefine” yourself … Read More →

A quadruple-header of PNW free improvisation groups drawing from drone, old-time, no-wave, noise and beyond.

Water Shrews – Creatures ambling thru tones. Brains combine to form a single organism. Group sound. Who is playing what? That’s the point. Listening to the sounds of sticks, reeds, strings, whoops and hollers in order to breathe and then play along.

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