Part music concert, part neo-dance jam, part sociocultural lab test, these evenings are designed as a hybrid experience for you to explore what The Antenna Project‘s music inspires you to do. Bring a book, bring a sketchpad, bring a pillow, bring a yoga mat, bring a camera, bring a movement idea, bring a friend… The Nyxology Sessions are all about building a bridge to that next authentic level.

Christopher Hydinger’s The Antenna Project provides instrumental live-scores (improvised, context-specific audio compositions) for all variety of experiences including extended duration performance, yoga, meditation and other movement-based classes, events, performances and happenings, films, fashion shows, ceremonies and gatherings of all kinds. He employs amplified electric guitar, an effects pedal and various methods of interfacing to create full-registered music ranging from subdued waves of droning minimalism to exuberantly celebratory maximalism. Christopher’s held the artist-in-residence position at Punk Rock Yoga, creative directed and performed in the award-winning art-theater group PB_TMOG, curated and produced the quarterly Dance and Music improvisation-based performance series HERE/NOW, performed in graphic novelist Dame Darcy’s band Death By Doll and performed at venues such as Benaroya Hall, Neumos, The Crocodile, Chop Suey, On The Boards, the Henry Art Gallery, Northwest Film Forum and the Triple Door sharing the stage with such acts as Low, Woven Hand, David Bazan (Pedro the Lion), The Gossip, Sun City Girls, The Makers, Tara Jane O’Neil, Kinski, The Dead Science, and Climax Golden Twins. He currently owns/operates WCS Art and Design.

New Series One is Simon Henneman on guitar, Troy Schefelbein on unamplified acoustic bass, and Mike Gebhart on hand drums and hand percussion. The play songs in an uninterrupted flow, weaving in and out of melodies, rhythms, and chord changes, taking it back to the roots of jazz as a very intimate folk music with all of us interacting on a shared platform. Deeply interacting and listening to each other to find new places to explore. As the world becomes larger and larger and distractions are more and more common place it’s a “close” music meant for a small audience and small spaces.

Taking its name from the Japanese word for “the space between two structural parts,” Matrio is an improvising collective featuring Greg Campbell on percussion and horns, Ha-Yang Kim on cello, James Falzone on clarinet and piano, and Tom Baker on guitar, theremin, and electronics. With influences ranging from Olivier Messiaen to The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Matrio creates set-long experiences that explore the space between sound, noise, music, and silence

This is an experimental electronic music showcase, featuring PNW sound and visual artists. We will christen the winter solstice with borscht soup, auditory hallucinations, planetary chasms, warm drones, glitch portals, distant raves.

7:15 – If Burial and Autechre had a baby, maybe it would sound like Marcus Price‘s latest record, Brain Job. Invoking “compositional origami”, Marcus Price’s sonic textures are simultaneously bleak and comforting.

8:00 – Nordra is the solo project of Zen Mother’s singer and guitarist Monika Khot, on Mamiffer-SUMAC-ISIS affiliated label SIGE Records. Cinematic in nature, Nordra has utilized the trumpet to evoke an uncommon feeling of dread, along with sequenced beats, vocals, and guitar loops.

8:45 – AVOLA, reigning from PDX, creates a journey enthralling and washed in layers of ritualistic drone and noise. She has collaborated with artists like Daniel Menche, System Lords, House of Low Culture, and Caustic Touch.

9:30 – Renowned DJ and Further Records founder Chloe Harris performs as Raica, creating mesmerizing portals of sound, invoking Kraftwerk-ian landscapes.

Kevin Blanquies is an artist, musician, and inventor–his work focuses on removing the boundary between sight and sound to create a single vivid experience. His visuals will be projected in this beautiful venue.

An evening of ambient drones and color field projections inspired by organic imagery and occurrences.

Rahikka is the pseudonym of sound and video artist, Carson Rennekamp. Rahikka explores atmospheric ambiance through droning tones, noise, and repetition. Adopting Brian Eno’s methodology of “theory over practice”, Rahikka has explored various themes including isolation, reflection, patience, and transcendence. Carson has exhibited sound and video works all over the world and most recently at 4Culture’s E4C Storefront Media Gallery in Seattle. Rahikka’s second album Northern Home was released in April 2018.

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, Part I, Chapter 5, performed from memory, and with acute attention to musical detail, by Neal Kosaly-Meyer.

A Finnegans Wake Project continues the 2018 season with the premiere performance of Part I, Chapter 5. As usual, the December premiere includes props, costume, sound and lighting design, with theatrical/liturgical movement, and all within the uncannily appropriate environment of the Chapel Performance Space. Chapter 5 has often been recommended as an excellent point of entry for Joyce’s mysterious and dream-like masterpiece.

Pianist Laure Struber and violinist Luke Fitzpatrick perform 20th and 21st century works that utilize Theme and Variations. Featured on the program is Tartiniana Seconda by Dallapicolla, Theme and Variations by Messiaen, Fratres by Pärt, Lachrymae by Britten and the Violin Sonata by Shostakovich. The concert will also have a newly arranged work by Marcin Paczkowski (Paganini Variations by Lutoslawski).

Doors at 7:30; DAHLIIA @ 8pm; GISHIKI @ 9pm
Presented in Quadraphonic Surround Sound

儀式 GISHIKI ~ An electro-acoustic recital featuring Japanese koto & modular synth. For the past three decades, Seattle-based Kasson Crooker has been composing & performing eclectic electronic music with his bands Symbion Project, Freezepop, & ELYXR. While searching for a new instrument to inspire his compositions, he became enamored with the Japanese koto, a traditional 13-stringed harp. Looking to create a unique live performance, Kasson fused electronic elements (vintage synthesizers, field recordings, sound design) with koto processed extensively though modular DSP effects to create a lush, atmospheric electro-acoustic experience. To maximize the sonic immersion of this performance, 儀式 Gishiki (ritual, ceremony) is presented in quadraphonic 4-channel sound with both the performer and audience inside the surround sound-field.

Coming together to perform for the first time ever after over 20 years of friendship and making music independently, Tom Butcher (ORQID, CODEBASE, HEATSYNC) and Cindy Reichel (EXPERT SYSTEM, ROTOR) founded Seattle-based synthesizer outfit PATCHWERKS in 2015. DAHLIIA explores the worlds of undulating, layered arpeggiated synth bleeps drenched in effects, melodic drone tones in sound-on-sound sediment, and percussive so-called “clicks and cuts” to create an enveloping environment rooted in emotion.

PREYER is a duo between Ebony Miranda and Adam Troy. Their music is a blend of cello, drums, and electronics. Together they create heavy, atmospheric, experimental music through free improvisation.

Internationally recognized percussion group arx duo brings their virtuosity, grace, and excitement to the stage for a full performance in their new base of operations, Seattle.

Born during the events of Hurricane Sandy, percussionists Mari Yoshinaga and Garrett Arney met at Yale University a number of years ago. Being trained on the east coast in their young professional lives, the two were put together to perform a marimba duo composed by Alejandro Vinao called Book of Grooves. This is a piece the two practiced in an apartment kitchen during the lock-down that ensued on the east coast while Hurricane Sandy moved north.

This piece and many others on the concert show an almost choreographed virtuosity as the two players navigate the marimba, a 7-foot long instrument. Their musicality will be unmistakable as they strike the wooden bars to play music written for the instrument, and maybe even some that wasn’t.

The duo has traveled all over the world including Africa, Asia, and the U.K., performing many different works and collaborating with many different composers. They will bring their unique sound and unique collaborations to The Good Shepherd Chapel throughout their time in Seattle, beginning with pieces written for them, on instruments that are portable.

The duo looks forward to sharing their music with their new home.

Rob Angus loops, layers and processes acoustic instruments, creating ambient industrial music presented in surround sound. Neil Welch is a saxophonist using largely non-traditional techniques that explore sonic resonance. He is also a composer and performs in a variety of bands and projects. Don Berman is a jazz drummer and percussionist, and a composer and bandleader

Marc Barreca will be playing electro-acoustic loop based compositions with a laptop, modular synth, and MIDI accordion. He has been making electronic music in Seattle since the mid-1970s, releasing a number of projects over the years on the Hawaii-based Palace of Lights label. His most recent releases are the solo project Shadow Aesthetics, and a double CD collaboration with K. Leimer, Dual Mono. Brian Fergus will be playing several compositions of electro-acoustic music featuring ukulele- and theremin-controlled synthetic instruments. Brian taught electronic music for twenty eight years at City College of San Francisco, and currently teaches ukulele technique at Woodstock Ukulele Studio in Portland. Marc and Brian will each play a solo set, followed by a duo set.