Category Archives: Event

Two Seattle bands with deep ties to the city’s new and experimental music scenes, Tom Baker Quartet and Kin of the Moon, will present an evening of acoustic, improvised music to explore the mystical resonances of the Chapel Performance Space. 

Short sets by each band will be followed by a third set with all seven performers: Heather Bentley (viola), Kaley Lane … Read More →

Droneroom is the nom de strum of Blake Edward Conley, a certified Kentucky Colonel and the self-professed Cowboy of Drone. Conley has demonstrated his ability to drift, twang, and sear over the course of numerous releases (including …The Other Doesn’t, Neon Depression, Negative Libra, Whatever Truthful Understanding, and Rusted Lung) across various labels (Somewherecold, Desert Records, Marginal Glitch, Echodelick, … Read More →

Dez’Mon Omega Fair hosts an unfolding installation, a poetry bath, a performance, and a reading; an experience in expressive art.

The event is a studio visit in motion. Dez’Mon will read new writing. We’ll view and organize paintings together. We’ll meditate into a bath of sound and poetry. There will be an opportunity for the audience/viewer/participant to draw and write … Read More →

Born in Tehran (Iran), Farzia Fallah is currently based in Cologne, working internationally with various orchestras, ensembles, and musicians. She’s lived in Germany since 2007, having studied composition at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, as well as the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She has been a fellow of Deutsches Studienzentrum … Read More →

NYC composer/performer Charles Rudig and Aaron Michael Butler perform duos for no-input mixer and electric vibraphone with support from A. F. Jones and Noel Kennon.

Charles Rudig often composes for limited sonic and material resources, pairing new music ensembles with obsolete consumer technologies such as the Game Boy and the SK-1 sampler. He has written for new music powerhouses such as the … Read More →

In celebration of the upcoming 90th birthday of my teacher, friend, collaborator, editor, provocateur, sometime landord, and closest among the virtual symposium of my senior colleagues, Benjamin Boretz, I will perform a generous selection of his works for solo piano, including (“…my chart shines high where the blue milks upset…”), the piece that grabbed hold of me at our … Read More →

81:80 is a group that explores the passage of time through the use of microtonality and improvisation. The versatile group features Ha-Yang Kim (cello), Luke Fitzpatrick (violin/adapted viola) and Jeff Bowen (electric guitar). 81:80 seeks to create new timbres that evoke a sense of wonder. Their performance of Mothra is an extended microtonal set that traverses the far reaches … Read More →

Doors open at 7 PM.

Debut performances of two large-group ensembles:

The Northwest Experimental Guitar Orchestra is an eighteen-piece ensemble comprising musicians from Seattle, Tacoma, Bremerton, and surrounding areas. Its primary focus is exploring non-traditional means of scoring, conduction, and technology integration, with an emphasis on self-guiding scores that eschew the need for traditional conduction in a large-group setting.

In their debut … Read More →

The Last Milonga: contemporary sounds in guitar and composition from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela. Music of Ricardo Zohn Muldon, Quiqui Sinesi, Carlos Moscardini, Astor Piazzolla and more.

Mark Hilliard Wilson presents a short concert exploring contemporary composers from Latin America. The evening will feature both the familiar, even classic tangos and also experimental music from Venezuela, but all of … Read More →

Seattle Guitar Circle, a 9-piece acoustic guitar orchestra, brings “Simple Songs” to the Chapel (Monk, Coltrane, Corea, Satie, Coltrane, Brouwer, Monk, Fripp, Sakamoto & SGC).

Seattle Guitar Circle was founded in 1993 by Steve Ball, Bill Rieflin and Bill Van Buren. For 30 years, they have been playing eclectic, polyrhythmic prog chamber music arranged for large acoustic guitar ensemble all … Read More →