Eric Amrine will perform “Angles Are Singing”, a spontaneous composition stolen outright from the game of billiards and from decades of improvising, studying, and performing with Robert Fripp, David Torn, Wally Shoup, Dennis Rea, Amy Denio, Lori Goldston, Jeff Greinke, John Oswald, and other luminaries.

I Can’t Trace Time emerges from the mind of Lance Watkins, with accompaniment by Casey Jones. Performing pieces to celebrate the ambient soundscape and loop based album released Fable on Lithic Records. Watkins and Jones create a soundscape to envelope all of your senses.

Ecstatic Cosmic Union – Cosmic music for cosmic people.

Sacred Signs (aka Winter Parkin) performs a brand of folk-drone soundscapes inspired by dreams both pleasant and nightmarish, weaving a gothic symphonic dreamcatcher. She has shared the stage with acts such as Thor and Friends, Norman Westberg, Johnathan Bree, and Eva O.

Patricia Wolf is a Portland-based musician, field recordist, and sound designer. Her work sonically unites the natural and synthetic world, integrating ecological sources into her minimalist compositions. Using melody and repetition she lures listeners to a hypnotic inner space, conjuring vivid textures and atmospheres imbued with emotion. Wolf primarily works with electronics, field recordings, and acoustic instruments. Tonight she’ll be performing new material that is currently being composed using a variety of electronic instruments.

Tim Westcott (wndfrm) is a sound artist, musician and audio enthusiast currently based in Portland, Oregon. His recorded and performative work is often characterized by processed field recordings, tonal minimalism, abstract percussive elements, experimental process, a wide dynamic range and an inquisitive, patient ear. He will present an evolving landscape of sounds exploring the last several years of his work – a framework for (mostly) quiet contemplative listening.

Live visuals by Mollie Bryan/Mokedo.

Curated by Chloe Harris for Nonsequitur’s NonSeq series.

Student Showcase: BLUEs.WEAVE and the Victory Sound, with Jai Kobi Kaleo’Okalani – guitar, vocals, and effects; Coen Rios – saxophone; Ethan Horn – drums.

BLUEs.WEAVE creates interconnected webs of sound drawing from a pool of analog recordings, programmed MPC grooves, and their own recorded performances from acoustic and electronic sources. Combining the ritual of crate digging with layers of electronic manipulation, BLUEs.WEAVE morphs a sample chop into an instrument in its own right, blurring the line between composition and discovery. Together with the Victory Sound, BLUEs.WEAVE explores the potential of  these sonic webs through improvisation, poetry, and alchemy.

The music will begin promptly at 8 PM, so please arrive early.

An acoustic ensemble consisting of John Teske (contrabass), Hanna Broback (violin), Samuel Klapper (violin), Gust Burns ( piano), Aaron Micheal Butler (percussion ), Al Jones (slide guitar), Stephanie Wood (percussion), David Stanford (percussion), Justin Lazar (clarinet), Blake DeGraw (clarinet), Gregg Miller (clarinet ), Brianna Camarda (bassoon), Troy Shiefelbein (voice), and Noel Kennon (viola, clarinet, composition) will realize a new score by Noel Kennon, 13 harmonic weather formations for ensemble or (a chickadee navigates the weather on its way home from an irruption in its youth).

Opening the evening: Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in the SF Bay Area. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials, he re-imagines them into constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late-1990s he has built over a hundred sound object devices, from amplified measuring tape and hacked radio transceivers to electro-mechanical installations using magnets, hard drives, and pendulums. His recorded work ranges from noisy electroacoustic improvisation to drony minimalism and audio collage, which is showcased in his projects Euphotic, Collision Stories, and Seeded Plain. Day has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Featuring UW Faculty and Special Guests: Lucía Pulido – vocals, Cuong Vu – trumpet, Stomu Takeishi – bass, Ted Poor – drums.

After years of working with Lucía Pulido and immersing himself in researching Colombian music, Stomu Takeishi stumbled upon the songs of Violeta Parra. He saw in Parra’s songs the rich depth and spirit that would provide a natural home for Lucía’s virtuosic musicality, brought to life through the unique chemistry and creative language that Stomu, Ted, and Cuong have cultivated over 25 years as a trio. Takeishi’s Violeta Project emerged as a perfect framework to showcase Lucía’s extraordinary artistry in a new and compelling way.

Vox 3 (formerly Vox Arcana) is Chicago percussionist and composer Tim Daisy’s long running experimental music trio, featuring fellow cohorts Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and James Falzone on clarinet. Formed in Chicago in 2009 as an outlet for Daisy’s multi-faceted explorations bridging compositional forms with spirited, open ended improvisations, the trio has since released multiple albums and has toured extensively throughout North America.

“Largely eschewing pyrotechnics in favor of understated trap set and marimba excursions, Daisy’s nuanced approach is bolstered by the considered support and intimate interplay of two of the most versatile improvisers, clarinetist James Falzone and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm. Whether engaged in three-way dialogues, supportive accompaniment or lone cadenzas, Daisy, Falzone and Lonberg-Holm offer a kaleidoscopic array of texturally adventurous harmonic invention.” (Troy Collins, Point of Departure)

Trio improviso is the collaboration of Andre Feriente, guitar; Linda Vogt, violin; and Sheila Weidendorf, piano. Feriante is a Segovia-trained multi-instrumentalist who has performed in the Pacific Northwest and beyond for years, both as a solist and with his Troupe de Ville and the Bohemian Entourage, in addition to Trio Improviso. Linda Vogt plays regularly with the Auburn Symphony, the Seattle Chamber Orchestra, and North Corner Chamber Orchestra in addition to Trio Improviso and the classical Trio RASA. Sheila Weidendorf is the pianist for Trio Improsivo and for the classical Trio RASA as well as CelloPiano, a collaboration with Gideon Freudmann. Along with other chamber music collaborations she regularly provides theater musical direction.  

Trio Improviso is a purely improvisational performance group; each piece a freeform creation – a dance and interplay of musical intuition and deep conversation. Their soundscapes are rich, complex, and mutlidimensional, exploring color, texture, and rhythmic intrigue, with elements of classical music, jazz, flamenco, Middle Eastern, and even Hindustani classical idioms entering the mix. Based on Whidbey Island, their music also reflects the elemental expressions of water, light, wind, the forests and mountains that surround. Their music is expansive, breathing with the cosmos and yet rooted in Earthly delight. The trio recently released their first album, ETHERIUM, streaming on most platforms.

Splinter Percussion presents an evening of percussion quartets, trios, and duets that oscillate between the meditative and jarring. The program will feature modern works by Juri Seo, Jason Treuting, Marc Mellits, Elliot Cole, and Donnacha Dennehy. The sonic landscape will oscillate between meditative keyboard harmonies and explosions of percussive sound, with thick rhythmic layers and shifting meters designed to make your mind melt. We hope there will be something for everyone to enjoy and to be challenged by.

Splinter Percussion is a percussion collective founded by local musicians Mitchell Beck, Storm Benjamin, Stephen Karukas, and Rebekah Ko. The organization is rooted in collaboration, accessibility, and community building. We are born out of Ballard and serve the greater Seattle area. 

One of the greatest challenges with programming chamber percussion programming is the vast footprint required to set up the instruments. Another challenge is acquiring and storing said instrumentation. The added challenge of existing in a city with continually rising costs on space is restrictive for those who want to program specific pieces, those who just want to play, and those who are simply curious. Splinter Percussion seeks to remove those barriers and become a percussion instrument, facility, and personnel resource for the Northwest. Our objective is that with time, we can bring percussion chamber music out of the university halls and into the community. 

For the last twenty years, Upstate New York-based composer M. Geddes Gengras has created worlds inside of machines, bending electronics into human shapes and working in spaces between ambient, improvisation, and experimental music to build works with deep feeling. He has released music with Hausu Mountain, Leaving Records/Stones Throw, and RVNG International, and collaborated onstage and in the studio with Sun Araw, The Congos, Greg Fox, Akron/Family, and Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead, among many others. Since 2022, Gengras has become enamored with antiquated MIDI playback devices, and will be presenting new works that blend this obsession with his trademark sonic atmospheres. Examples of recent works in that lane can be heard here and here.

Cindy Reichel is a Seattle-based electronic musician and music educator. Specializing in an array of electronic genres ranging from techno to ambient and IDM, Cindy fuses lush melodic textures with intricately woven percussive layers that take the listener on a spiritual journey through rhythm and melody. Cindy is also a certified sound healer and is fascinated by the therapeutic potential of sound and vibration. She holds regular synth sound baths in the Seattle area, combining traditional sound healing techniques and instruments with synthesized drones and atmospheric textures. Beyond the stage, Cindy enjoys teaching electronic music production workshops and classes. She is also an accomplished computational research scientist and holds a PhD in genetics from the University of Washington. In this performance, Cindy will explore the shadowed edge of ambience, weaving haunting drones, ghostly harmonics, and cinematic textures into an enveloping soundscape. With each note drifting and evolving like light over black water, the audience will be pulled into a world both unsettling and achingly beautiful.

Live visuals by Lightgazer.

Curated by Chloe Harris for Nonsequitur‘s NonSeq series.

Seattle saxophonist and electronic artist Skerik will be performing live with his multi-effect set up with visual artist Blazinspace. An immersive sonic and visual experience using extensive electronic effects on the saxophone while Blazinspace fills the Chapel with multiple screens and projections. 

Forever defying categories & notions of the standard human work ethic, Skerik has been brewing worldwide jazz/rock/funk/electronic/avant-saxophonic mayhem since his emergence from Seattle in the late 1980s, carving out an enormous & stupefyingly diverse body of work that remains in restless development (day by day, hour by hour, second by second). A saxophonist by trade & border-destroyer by nature, absorbing anything that carries the whiff of inspiration & sincerity, ensuring that all aspects of his output reflect that same good faith. It is the Skerik way, and it has served him (and us) well.

A founding member of Critters Buggin, Garage a Trois, Tuatara, Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog
Brigade, Crack Sabbath, The Dead Kenny Gs & countless other legendary ensembles, his extraordinary
career has also seen live & recorded appearances with Roger Waters, Mad Season, Pearl Jam, Primus,
REM, Fred Wesley, The Headhunters, The Meters, Ani DiFranco & many many more.

All totaled, Skerik has contributed to more than 200 records as a saxophonist and/or keyboardist. His
music has seen worldwide placement in feature films, independent films, TV shows, theater & dance
pieces. He continues to make Seattle his primary home (now owning & operating his own studio in the
city), and he continues to regularly tour around the world with his ever-expanding cast of collaborators and new things to do.