Social time: 7 – 8 PM
Performance: 8 – 9:30 PM

P.I.L.L. Interactive Liminal Laboratories presents TAP 4.0: The Nyxology Sessions, high-level experiments in the art and craft of designing and presenting simultaneous, multi-participant and multi-discipline live performances (or “art-theater”) that inhabit a venue’s on and off-stage spaces and feature the instrumental live-scores of Christopher Hydinger‘s The Antenna Project as the core audience experience. Installment 8 is titled ‘A Journey Into Calm in Six Movements’ and will feature six astrophotography videoworks projections by Milky Way Matt, six movement art pieces by Christian Swenson and six instrumental live-scores by The Antenna Project.

Tad Doyle, best known for the bands TAD band, BROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH, HOG MOLLY H-HOUR, and others will be performing solo with some of his most recent film score works, like CARA the film. This will be his second live performance since 2006. Expect the unexpected.

Also on the bill is Anemochore (aka Dan Blossom). The guitarist for bands Luna Moss and Future Spells, he also goes by the moniker Anemochore which he has used since the early 90’s for his electronic projects. Everything from abstract ambient to beats in many genres. 

Join us for an evening of experimental fusion, where sound and movement transcend cultures and time, resonating as one.

An ambient soundscape created by instruments whose voices have traveled across oceans and continents, carrying their sounds through the years. Instruments from many different corners of the world come together as one. They meet the movements of a dance tradition that has been passed down for more than 300 years, originating on islands in the Pacific.

Greg, a versatile musician and multi-instrumentalist, performs on an extraordinary range of percussion instruments, as well as the French horn and cornet. His musical career spans an impressive variety of styles, from mainstream jazz and free improvisation to Western classical music and traditional West African drumming. 

Mako is an Okinawan musician based in the Seattle area, sharing the rich traditions of Ryukyuan music—an art form rarely heard in the Pacific Northwest, she sings and plays the sanshin, three-stringed instrument, bringing heartfelt songs to audiences of all kinds. 

Takako is a skilled practitioner of classical Ryukyuan dance, a tradition that dates back to the 15th century. Drawing on years of training, she brings grace and elegance to the stage through captivating performances that evoke the timeless beauty of Okinawan culture.

This unique concert will bring together five of Seattle’s finest improvisors, as the trio The Hegramatics and duo Lotus Lungs, in a tribute to the late Carol J Levin.

Amy Denio, Heather Bentley and Greg Campbell are multi-talented musicians, each with a range that defies logic. Amy improvises freely using her voice, saxophone, clarinet and accordion. Heather is fluid on cello and viola. Greg plays every percussion instrument imaginable, as well as French horn and cornet. Their works span jazz, classical, world and experimental music. Together, they are The Hegramatics, which combines all of those elements in a freely improvised mélange. The trio recorded a studio album as a tribute to beloved Seattle harpist Carol J Levin (who actually appears posthumously on the record). The album releases on June 4^th. This event will mark that release.

Guitarists Bill Horist and Matt Benham will open the evening with a set of experimental guitar improvisation. Bill and Matt are world-class guitarists, employing wide-ranging techniques to create mind-bending soundscapes. As Lotus Lungs they released an album that set a new standard for their trade.

Presented by Seattle-based Right Brain Records.

Three overlapping sets of improvised music made with loopers from Alex Anthony Faide, Crystal Beth, and Passenger Pigeon.

Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, guitarist/composer Alex Anthony Faide has a decades-long international reputation for being the secret weapon in rock recordings, arrangements, and stage productions in Europe and Latin America. Now based in Seattle, Faide released his long-awaited solo record, Particles of the Infinite, a display of guitar pyrotechnics in nine parts, on Trey Gunn’s label 7d Media in 2022. About his improvising in concert, he says: “This will present itself as a set of continuous sound, of and through solo electric guitar, but it is a container for something else entirely. There won’t be any acrobatics nor stage theatrics, or any visual enhancement. Probably a good idea to just sit back and enjoy the ride. Still, if you feel compelled to dance, do! if you feel compelled to nap, please do!”

Whether performing solo with amplified clarinet, voice & electronics, leading rock bands and blindfolded chamber ensembles, or conducting a full theater house as a beat-boxing choir, American improviser Crystal Beth (aka: Beth Fleenor) has a penchant for surprising audiences into fully embracing that magic is real. From 100,000 seat rock festivals, and maximum-security prisons, to some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, Crystal Beth sings in her own invented language, and uses sound to open the channels of communication between and within individuals and environments. She is an electric, adrenaline inducing performer described as “…a supremely versatile and virtuosic maverick” (The Stranger) and “an undeniable, unstoppable musical force…that channels strange, disturbing, and beautiful sounds into existence from beyond most of our imaginings” (Ball of Wax).

Over the past twenty-plus years, multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/organizer Levi Fuller has quietly pursued an improvisational solo project called Passenger Pigeon. The primary elements are simple – baritone guitar and a looping pedal or two – but the rhythmic, sonic, and melodic possibilities and variations are endless. Another New Low, released April 2026 on Right Brain Records, is the first full-length Passenger Pigeon album. 

Join composer-songwriter Kaley Lane Eaton for a celebration of twelve years of music-making in Seattle before she embarks upon her next adventure in California. Featuring final Seattle performances from her two beloved Seattle ensembles, Kin of the Moon (Eaton, Heather Bentley, Leanna Keith) and the Plectrum Five (Eaton, Rian Souleles, Lady Zade, Tom Baker, and Jon Butler) alongside guests James Falzone, Neil Welch, and Chris Icasiano, Eaton will present songs from her records cedar and Lookout alongside group improvisations, experimental repertoire, and a special final set from the Plectrum Five. Featuring an opening set from Greek bouzouki player and songwriter Rian Souleles.

trio ABK, affectionately known as tArBiKo, is an auspicious first meeting of three veteran Seattle-area improvisors: Amy Denio, multi-instrumentalist; Bonnie Whiting, percussion; and Keith Eisenbrey, piano. We’re looking forward to having a jamming good time, so please do come and join us!

9:00 PM – Future Spells is an experimental, ambient project made up of Luna Moss members Char Easter and Dan Blossom creating dreamscape vocal textures on electronic dub beats. For this performance, Blossom, known for his sublime guitar soundscapes, will be creating in Ableton Live. Expect unpredictable patternless paths that lead to a hypnotic tranquility, and a guest dancer, on occasion.

8:15 PM – Six00 Salad Bowls has been snaking its way through the landscape of time offering a fresh listen to the written words of Helena Rogers. While these words are usually striving to find their way atop the beautiful cacophony of her current trio Student Nurse, she is here inviting you to be able to clearly hear each word while they are sometimes spoken sometimes sung over a bed of scintillating computer-based electronica tracks composed by herself in collaboration with John Rogers and Eric Muhs (also of Student Nurse). This minimalist approach is sure to please the aurally-fatigued masses!

7:30 PM – Eric Muhs: 40 years of live analog tape processing.

Doors open 7:00 PM.

Oh come all ye faithful to The 19th Guitar Worship Service for sound explorations by:

A.F. JONES & ROBERT MILLIS (Tracyton & Seattle, WA)
A truly special and rare collaboration of two bona fide musicians with decades of creative uniqueness. A.F. Jones is a composer, sound designer, architect of mastering studio Laminal Audio, a tastemaker who founded Marginal Frequency Records. Live performances utilize guitar, lap steel, and pedal steel. Fittingly, Jones co-directed an academic documentary on guitar legend-innovator Keith Rowe, which is available on YouTube.

Robert Millis is also a sound designer and musician. Furthermore, his street cred also upholds him as a producer, scholar, and author. As a solo artist and half of Climax Golden Twins among other projects, Millis applies his gifted capabilities toward guitar and his profusion to create with other instruments whether musical or strictly sound-based. Jones and Millis are impressive people and their prowess for improvisational sonic performances is what their involvement is all about. 

SPIRITUAL EXIT (Portland, OR)
As Spiritual Exit, Aaron Davis has spent years opening gateways of sensory guitar drone-music soundscapes and is an alumni of Seattle’s premier experimental record label Debacle Records. Davis’s technique continues to be carefully honed which renders listeners to make an acquaintance with out-of-body audio experiences.

PINK VOID (Seattle, WA)
After a ~10yr hiatus, Crystal Perez has been returning to live performing. Stronger than ever, the wait was worth it. PINK VOID will make its fourth appearance on a GWService lineup. You’ll see and hear why as Perez performs physical motion in a call-and-response nature with guitar that reaches sweepingly sublime territories.

EAT THE SUN (Bremerton, WA)
Started as an expansive solo recording project by JL in 2017. In 2026 Eat the Sun made its first live witnessing on Guitar Worship Service #11 as a duo with Caelum Roberts. Their explorations continue to evolve by melding densely processed warm static bass guitar feedback with tension-building analog Moog synths. Tag ETS as astral drone without the tropes of being overtly ‘spacey’.

COLORBARD (Tacoma, WA)
Visual artist-projectionist Matthew Terry aka colorbard visual has become a frequent collaborator with GWService events. Terry proves amazing as an optical sculptor of surreal, psychedelia, and abstract visuals. Colorbard masters the relationship of A/V interplay that enriches the audience’s eyes in coordination with the audience’s ears. Expect the interior of the Chapel to be transformed into a vivid ocular wonderland.

THE CHAPEL
As a room that measures 60’ x 60’ and two stories tall, it is well known for reverberant acoustics which thrives on dynamic capabilities for unamplified and amplified audio, music, and spoken word performances.

MISSION STATEMENT
Guitar Worship Service live performance event series encourages non-traditional approaches toward any kind of guitar whether physically and/or conceptually. Artists and bands have free reign to interpret this requisite.

Join us as we praise the coolest and most dynamic instrument ever conceived.

an evening of music at the chapel the moon will be in its waning gibbous phase and the sun will set just after 9pm. 

an ensemble of Justin Lazar (clarinet), Eric Lanzillotta (moog), John Teske (contrabass), Hanna Broback (violin), Noel Kennon (viola, composition) present a new piece written for the ensemble. “17 limbs of a birch tree. 6 leafs on each branch 3 of them the same color.”

This is a continuation of a series of pieces using ascending prime numbers as a structural feature (11 harmonic scenes framed by a sunset, 13 harmonic weather formations, 7 divides five stones two leafs one longer than the other, 5 streams for trio) this will be the 5th piece in the series. While this is the largest prime number used so far its harmony and instrumentation is quite sparse in contrast to past iterations of the concept. The sound is continuous and uses small collections of notes that unfold over the 17 sections of the piece. 

there will be an opening and closing sound. (before and after) 

this activity is intended …” to sober and quiet the mind ” … < J.C.>

Program: 

opening sound – riversigh 

17 limbs of a birch tree. 6 leafs on each branch 3 of them the same color. (ensemble) 
closing sound –  unisons (phase pattern)