Electronic – Upcoming Concerts
Longest Night: Solstice Ceremony
Saturday, December 21, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 1:00am (PST)
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, United States
Experience "total spiritual recalibration" through ambient modular synth chill-outs, techno wig-outs, virtuosic guitar loops, guided movement activities, and participatory rituals culled from dream states.
$15
Wayward Music Series: Young Scientist + Marc Barreca solo
Saturday, January 4, 2031 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of immersive modular and computer based electronic music ambience with Young Scientist – Seattle’s original electronic music group – and veteran electronic composer Marc Barreca.
$5-$15 suggested donation
UW Faculty Concert: Indigo Mist
Monday, January 13, 2031 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
Faculty improv band Indigo Mist – Cuong Vu, Richard Karpen, Juan Pampin, Steve Rodby, and Ted Poor – perform experimental and improvised music at Seattle’s Royal Room.
$15
Seattle Chamber Music Society Free Recital: Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir plays Cornish, Saariaho, & Jónsdóttir
Sunday, January 26, 2031 @ 2:00pm – 2:30pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Jane Antonia Cornish – Portrait
Kaija Saariaho – Sept Papillons
Thuridur Jónsdóttir – 48 Images of the Moon
Kaija Saariaho – Sept Papillons
Thuridur Jónsdóttir – 48 Images of the Moon
Free (Free)
Wayward Music Series: Carl Stone & Robert Millis
Thursday, February 20, 2031 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Computer music pioneer Carl Stone unveils new sample-based electronic music, with multidisciplinary artist Robert Millis on prepared Victrola and guitar.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Cornish Faculty Composers Concert
Friday, February 21, 2031 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
James Falzone – In a World of One Color... The Sound of Wind
Kaley Lane Eaton – FREE
Ha-Yang Kim – Aeros
Tom Baker – Traces: Sarah
Heather Bentley – Winter Walks on the Moon
Jarrad Powell – Simultaneous Broken Symmetries
Kaley Lane Eaton – FREE
Ha-Yang Kim – Aeros
Tom Baker – Traces: Sarah
Heather Bentley – Winter Walks on the Moon
Jarrad Powell – Simultaneous Broken Symmetries
Free (Free)
UW School of Music Presents Music of Today: DXARTS
Tuesday, February 25, 2031 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
The University of Washington School of Music and The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) present original music and new works by faculty composers and visiting ensembles.
Free (Free)
Wayward Music Series: Snapping the line against a wayward plot
Friday, February 28, 2031 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Michaud Savage and friends present a collection of electro-acoustic chamber works, centering on Michaud's experience as a fourth generation Seattle-ite.
$5-$50 suggested donation
(RE)CONNECTION – Gretchen Yanover, cello & Sophie Lippert, piano
Sunday, July 18, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Classical piano works, original electric cello compositions, jazz standards, & a few tantalizing surprises.
$11-99
Mystic Chords of Memory
Thursday, August 5, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA, United States
Composer/performer Nat Evans & saxophonists Neil Welch & Kate Olson perform a new, semi-improvisatory work while drifting around Olympic Sculpture Park.
Free (Free)
Wayward Music Series: Seattle Phonographers Union + Tom Varner’s Sound Vespers
Saturday, August 7, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Double bill featuring sets by the sound recordist collective Phonographers Union, & jazz French hornist Tom Varner.
$5-$15 suggested donation
New Music Gathering 2021: Performance / Workshop / Installation Presented by Women’s Labor
Thursday, August 12, 2032 @ 8:00am – 10:00am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Using embedded technologies, domestic tools are repurposed as musical instruments & explored in this public installation & performance.
Free (Free (registration required))
New Music Gathering 2021: Sidney San Martin, Verdant Vibes, Kyle Hutchins, Zack Baltich & Ilan Blanck
Thursday, August 12, 2032 @ 11:00am – 12:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Sidney San Martin – Donate a Note
Kirsten Volness – The Pathless Woods
The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker – ICD-10CM R55
Zack Baltich & Ilan Blanck – Giving
Kirsten Volness – The Pathless Woods
The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker – ICD-10CM R55
Zack Baltich & Ilan Blanck – Giving
Free (Free (registration required))
New Music Gathering 2021: Mary Prescott, Marianne Parker, Julia Lougheed, 113, Ryan McMasters
Thursday, August 12, 2032 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Mary Prescott – “Moon” from Tida
Stephanie Ann Boyd – Pincushion Protea (world premiere)
The Persistence of Art Music: COVID works for Clarinet
Yu Kuwabara – In Between
Ryan McMasters – phonetinus_
Stephanie Ann Boyd – Pincushion Protea (world premiere)
The Persistence of Art Music: COVID works for Clarinet
Yu Kuwabara – In Between
Ryan McMasters – phonetinus_
Free (Free (registration required))
New Music Gathering 2021: Morgan Schoonover, Clara (Da) Yang, & Rachel Mangold; Gregory Oakes; Dameun Strange
Friday, August 13, 2032 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Morgan Schoonover, Clara (Da) Yang, & Rachel Mangold – grief. acceptance. resistance. money?
Jessie Cox – Light-Dots on a Deep-Space-Image for Quarter Tone Clarinet
Dameun Strange – Our Boat: Notes on Senegal
Jessie Cox – Light-Dots on a Deep-Space-Image for Quarter Tone Clarinet
Dameun Strange – Our Boat: Notes on Senegal
Free (Free (registration required))
New Music Gathering 2021: Sasha Kaoru Zamler-Carhart & Samn Johnson; Thiago Ancelmo; Andrea Mazzariello; Melody Loveless
Saturday, August 14, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:10pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Sasha Kaoru Zamler-Carhart & Samn Johnson – Consolation: trans monastic microtonal dungeon
Thiago Ancelmo – Contrasts: Music for clarinet and electronics
HEADLINER: RECAP
Andrea Mazzariello – War Footing
Melody Loveless – Live code set
Thiago Ancelmo – Contrasts: Music for clarinet and electronics
HEADLINER: RECAP
Andrea Mazzariello – War Footing
Melody Loveless – Live code set
Free (Free (registration required))
Wayward Music Series: Golden Retriever + Saariselka
Friday, September 10, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Electro-acoustic double bill featuring Golden Retriever (Matt Carlson, piano/synthesizer & Jonathan Sielaff, bass clarinet) & Saariselka (Chuck Johnson, electronics/steel guitar & Marielle Jakobsons, organs & synthesizers).
Ticket price TBA
Archipelago Collective Summer Festival 2021: Chamber Music 2
Saturday, September 11, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
San Juan Island Grange, Friday Harbor, WA, United States
Camille Saint Saëns – Fantaisie pour harpe et violon, Op. 124
Angelica Negròn – Technicolor for solo harp & electronics
Richard Strauss – Morgen!, Op. 27, No. 4 (arr. for harp & string quartet)
Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Angelica Negròn – Technicolor for solo harp & electronics
Richard Strauss – Morgen!, Op. 27, No. 4 (arr. for harp & string quartet)
Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
$25 ($90 weekend pass)
Wayward Music Series: Right Brain Music Minifest
Saturday, September 18, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
1-night explosion of improvised music, featuring local virtuosos & spontaneous jams that will stretch your imagination.
$5-$15 donation
Cedar & The Slow: Kaley Lane Eaton & Kayce Guthmiller
Wednesday, September 22, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
Composer-performer Kaley Lane Eaton presents Cedar, an electro-chamber pop song cycle, with guests Tom Baker, Ha-Yang Kim, Heather Bentley, Leanna Keith, & Kayce Guthmiller. Opening set by Guthmiller.
$15 ($20 at the door)