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.

Please join us for a program of new music performances, including multi-media, feedback loops, above and below the piano strings(!), along with voice and traditional instruments.

Puget Sounds-Contemporary Music-New Performances presents a program of music by composers in the area with a wide stylistic range. Daniel Carr will feature a number of recent pieces for flute guitar, and piano. At the other end of the spectrum will be music by William Dougherty, who will create amplified feedback loops from guitar picks on the piano strings in “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” inspired by T.S. Elliot’s “The Waste Land.” Carson Farley features new works with subconscious multi-media, projected from the music into simultaneous visuals.

In addition to these premieres will be vocal music by Greg Youtz, who has written in many different genres, including opera, one of which was recently produced at the Rialto Theater in Tacoma. Clement Reid’s song cycle is a setting of works by Phyllis Wheatley, the first African American poet in North America to be published in the 18th Century. In addition Keith Eisenbrey will present a contemplative piano work.

Each artist for the evening employs technology and synthesizers in unique ways, spinning spells of ambience punctuated by the occasional electronic beat and sample clip including improvisations in virtual reality spaces.

Chloe Harris needs no introduction in the worldwide music scene. Based in Seattle and part of the formidable Further Records imprint and music store, her artistic output whether as a DJ or live performer always delights and expands the senses. Her experience leading audiences through aural journeys hit the mainstream as she traveled the world as a DJ with international stars Sasha and John Digweed. In more recent years, Chloe has delivered countless enthralling live performances of original music, utilizing the latest in synthesizer technology while at the same time releasing timeless electronic music records on Further Records and other imprints. This evening, RAICA will cast a set of ambient electronic spells sure to capture our imagination.

Tom Butcher’s ORQID project celebrates a new record for 2025, his Secret Lover mini-album. Butcher’s projects include the 1990s label imprint Orbitrecords including the local sensation Heatsync as well as his Codebase moniker used in the 2000s and 2010s, fusing together techno sensibilities with songwriter melodies and chords. ORQID is another departure, putting together ambient drone music with a pop sensibility. His set for this evening pulls from his sound design roots as well as R&B grooves.

Kasson Crooker’s projects run the gamut from his work as an audio technologist to his artistic compositions spanning numerous projects, such as his Symbion Project solo moniker as well as his former synth pop band Freezepop. Never satisfied to ruminate on a single sound, Kasson explores myriad combinations of technology, music, art, and live performance. His most recent project (m)ORPH delivers an immersive experience both to performer and audience as he utilizes virtual reality spaces to compose and perform, bringing the audience into his world through video projectors and the sound reinforcement system. Don’t miss.

Visuals by Nick Bigelow.

Olivia Camfield is a multimedia movement artist of the Muscogee Nation, born and raised in the Texas Hill Country. Their work finds connection of dance as body horror, tattooing as protection spells, and farming as Queer Indigenous Futurism. They have performed and choreographed dance for much of their career, and their film work includes themes of the Alien as kin, time traveling relatives, and Mvskoke lifeways in experimental forms. They are a tattoo artist whose hand poke practice is based in Southeastern and Mississippian Indigenous tattoo traditions, creating designs for Southeastern people that imagine the possibilities of those tattoos’ into the future and the new shapes they may take. Since becoming a farmer in 2020, Olivia began the journey of becoming an Indigenous Seed Saver by learning seed saving techniques, researching historically stolen varieties, and participating in seed rematriation while working on farms. They are now finding the intersections of their artist practice and aesthetics and the ongoing work of Missisipian/Southeastern seed keeping. Olivia’s films have screened internationally at Camden International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, and have appeared in print and online publications including ArtForum and Variety. Olivia was a 2018-2019 Alembic Artist In Residence, CYCLE I featured artist of COUSIN Collective, and 2022 Sundance Institute Indigenous Non-Fiction Intensive participant, and a 2022 NACF LIFT awardee.

Woodrow Hunt is a Cherokee, Klamath, and Modoc Tribes descendent, who founded Tule Films in May of 2017. In every project, Woodrow utilizes his ten-plus years of film experience along with his upbringing in the Portland Native community. He wishes that one day every indigenous story will be told by an indigenous storyteller. He contracts with Confluence to create short films and collaborate on interviews with tribal elders.

Also performing this evening is krautrock-inspired string drone rhythms from Faustian Headwound. Finally, Body Of Eyes will be exploring movement and the resonance of objects.

KO SOLO + Special Guest
KO Quartet feat. Conner Eisenmenger, Tim Carey, Evan Woodle
+ Live visuals by Steve Kennedy-Williams

Kate Olson is an award-winning improviser, composer, bandleader and saxophonist living in Seattle. She teaches jazz and improvisation at Pacific Lutheran University and the University of Puget Sound, and she can frequently be heard performing with her own projects, Wayne Horvitz’s RRCME and Electric Circus, psychedelic cumbia band Terror/Cactus, and local instrumental funk groups like the Oscillators and Battlestar Kalakala. 

Tonight she’ll present two sets of music:

KO SOLO is Kate’s atmospheric live looping project. 100% improvised and meant to transport listeners to similar realities in alternate timelines, Kate incorporates multiple instruments and effects to create orchestral soundscapes that range from avant garde and minimalist to funky and predictable. This time, a very special guest is invited to join Kate on stage, making this a truly knockout duo performance. 

KO Quartet is Kate’s original jazz-ish project: A chord-less quartet featuring soprano sax/trombone and tenor sax/trumpet blends mixed with electric bass and drum kit. They will be playing selections from Kate’s new album “So It Goes”, which was funded by a grant from 4Culture and will be released on Origin Records in January 2026. 

There will also be spoken texts by poet Omar Willey.

Curated by Noel Brass Jr. for Nonsequitur’s NonSeq series.

New music by Lori Goldston for heavy acoustic string quartet:

Salma Zenia, violin
Noel Kennon, viola
Lori Goldston, cello
Kole Galbraith, double bass

Also a solo cello set to celebrate the release of Open Space on Relative Pitch Records.

Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.

Daniel Menche (born 1969) is an iconic experimental musician and multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. Menche’s sonic abstractions manifest through intense noise, immersive drones, dense ambiance, poly-rhythmic percussion, turbulent nature field recordings, abused acoustic instruments and many other sources.

Connie Fu aka enereph is a multidisciplinary artist and producer. Her nomadic lifestyle and restless hands fuel a love for music-making machines, including hardware samplers, synthesizers, and pedals, with which she builds sonic landscapes that fluidly inhabit the world.

unnunned (f.k.a. scuzz nunn) is an audio-visual artist based out of Seattle who makes soundtracks for understanding and transformation. 

C̴i̴g̴v̴ë̴ is the french word for hemlock, a wild herbaceous plant that grows in wastelands, hedges, abandoned and uncultivated areas–the poison taken by Socrates after his conviction for impiety. C̴i̴g̴v̴ë̴ is also a one-woman guitar project, exploring the edges between blackened drone, folk and noise.

An evening of (mostly) string improvisations and abstractions, featuring (mostly) ukulele and banjo. But also expect electro-acoustic/found sound/collage/drone explorations and deconstructions. Robert Millis and Dave Knott (Messenger Girls Trio) just released a cassette on Seattle’s Eiderdown Records. Millis has a new LP out on Discrepant. They will perform together and separately and be joined by Alan F Jones (Marginal Frequency, Laminal Audio) for a trio set. Kelby Clark is a composer, improviser, and banjo player from South Georgia, currently living and working in Los Angeles, and is inspired by the old-time music of his home state as well as drone, free improvisation, raga, noise, and many other forms of both experimental and traditional music from around the world. Expect Sir Richard Bishop meets Roscoe Holcomb in a darkened alleyway in Tangiers. His most recent record is Language of the Torch “The way Clark attacks his instrument, allowing songs to unspool in tumbling, organized chaos is magnetic and feels distinctly his own” – The Quietus 

Leanna Keith’s last show in Seattle for some time, come bid her farewell as she prepares to move to San Diego.

Flutist Leanna Keith found her improvisational voice thanks to the Seattle improvised music scene, and as a send off she’d like to do one more show with some of her favorite improvisers in town making a tribute to her favorite venue. Guest musicians include: Kaley Lane Eaton (vocals), Bonnie Whiting (percussion), Christian Pincock (trombone), Mark Wilson (guitar), John-Carlos Perea (cedar flutes, bass), Greg Campbell (percussion), and Wayne Horvitz (piano). 

Austin Larkin is a composer primarily working with violin, bells, and sirens. His performance and practice is informed by research into dimensions of vibrating bodies. Larkin’s solo violin performance situates the violin as an instrument to accentuate space, rather than to fill space. Within this space, the violin renders a continuously unfolding structure of interlocking harmonic shapes and temporal patterns. With his custom bell instruments, the experience of ringing is expanded to energize the resonance of architecture and the cochlea. Through these instruments, we hear sound is not separate from space, sound is space.

Susie Kozawa is a Seattle-based sound artist, composer, and performer who works with sound collages and site-specific installations in which the gathering of sounds is a primary activity. She explores different acoustic spaces using musical instruments that she makes out of found objects (kelp, modified toys, cardboard rolls, jars, etc.). Creating live sound design and soundscapes for dance, theater, and film productions, Kozawa has participated in a “live spectacle performance” of Guy Madden’s silent film Brand Upon The Brain! that performed in Seattle, Portland, Sao Paulo, and Winnipeg. She has also contributed to sound and sound effects in the films Torrey Pines (Petersen 2016), By the Salish Sea (Gregory 2012), and When Herons Dream (2009). She was a founding member of Aono Jikken Ensemble, an experimental group that specializes in bringing live performance to silent films, and is a member of the Seattle Phonographers Union. She has received awards from the Seattle Arts Commission, Artist Trust, Washington State Arts Commission, and the Ford Foundation.

Unfortunately, flutist Leanna Keith is unable to play as originally planned. Instead, Susie’s duo partner will be harpist Carol J Levin. Levin has established a niche as Seattle’s improvising electric/acoustic harpist. Returning to the harp after classical training in her youth, she has been embraced by jazz and free improvisation communities for her creative voice and for extending the capabilities of the harp beyond its expected style. Carol plays in duos, trios and large ensembles including Trio/Impro, CHA, Levitation, The Likes Of, Christian Pincock’s Scrambler, Beth Fleenor’s Blindfold Ensemble, Rain City Jazz Orchestra, and Game Symphony Workshop. In addition to harp, she plays multiple percussive instruments and, recently, theremin!