Matmos: Ultimate Care II

Thursday, December 9, 2027 @ 8:30pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Vera Project, Seattle, WA, United States
A single, continuous, thirty-eight-minute experience constructed entirely out of the sounds generated by a Whirlpool Ultimate Care II model washing machine.

$15

Violin, Viola & Video Virtuosity on Winter Solstice

Tuesday, December 21, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė – Serenity Diptychs
Ayal Adler – Contrasts in Time
David A. Jaffe – Cluck Old Hen Variations
Dominique de Williencourt – Mont Ararat
Daniel Felsenfeld – Hooked to the Silver Screen
Randall Woolf – TBA
Brian Moon – Duetto con Bobik

$5-$15 sliding scale

The Sound Ensemble: Life After Y2K

Friday, January 7, 2028 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Sarah Bassingthwaighte – Premiere
Sean Osborn – 12-4-6 (2005)
Marcin Pączkowski – Deep Decline (2015)
Greg Dixon – Piece for tuba and electronics (premiere)
Daron Hagen – Chamber Symphony (2003)

$10-$15

World Premiere of Collapsing Geography

Wednesday, January 26, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Emily Koh – vom Empirischen Standpunkt
Viet Cuong – Soda Apple
Elliot Cole – Flowerpot Music No. 1
Tyler Kline – Two Songs After Dylan Thomas
Tyler Kline – Collapsing Geography
Howard Buss – De La Madera

$5-$15 suggested donation

Seattle Chamber Music Society: Janáček, Reich, Shostakovich

Thursday, January 27, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Janáček – Pohadka
Reich – Different Trains
Shostakovich – Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor, Op. 57

$16-$52

NUMUS Northwest Music Festival

Friday, January 28, 2028 @ 9:00am – 10:00pm (PST)
Cornish College of the Arts - Kerry Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A day-long, artistically-stunning event dedicated to the creation, performance, and experience of new music in Seattle.

$20 day pass (students free)

Wayward Music Series: Jonathan Sielaff | Million Mists | Norm Chambers

Friday, January 28, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Exploring the territory between genres with consumer-level electronic instruments, outdated recording techniques, aspects of cosmic synth, minimalist composition, and improvisation.

$5-$15 donation at the door

China Star and Liquid Letters

Monday, February 7, 2028 @ 8:30pm – 11:30pm (PST)
The Spite House, Seattle, WA, United States
A ritual soundscape inspired by sending messages across water, featuring music performed by China Faith Star on winds, objects, and electronics.

Free (Free)

Wayward Music Series: Noisegasm with Brad Anderson + Goldenrod + Unser Verhaengnis

Friday, February 11, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Abstract soundscapes that not so gently unmoor the listener from reality.

$5-$15 suggested donation

Music Y: New Works by Emerging Artists

Monday, February 21, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Meany Hall for the Performing Arts, Seattle, WA, United States
The University of Washington School of Music and The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) present a program of original music and new works by emerging artists.

$15 ($10 students/seniors)

Sound of Late: 2000 Moving Parts

Saturday, March 11, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Flutter Studios, Seattle, WA, United States
A contemporary harp composer and performer invites the audience to experience the customarily inaudible elements of this grand instrument.

$10

Wayward Music Series: Matt Carlson + Jeff Witscher + Jason E Anderson

Saturday, March 18, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A night of experimental electronic music featuring Matt Carlson, Jeff Witscher, and Jason E Anderson.

$5-$15 suggested donation

Wayward Music Series: Clifford Dunn + Uneasy Chairs

Thursday, April 6, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Pushing the boundaries of the flute with advanced and esoteric technology to create unapologetic and intense music that will make you think. Plus, sound experimentation and free improvisation on the guitar.

$5-$15 suggested donation

Wayward Music Series: John Krausbauer + C. Spencer Yeh + Greg Kelley

Friday, April 7, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Three distinctive voices in the fields of experimental sound utilizing the human voice, electronics, violin, and trumpet to explore the realms of pure sound, noise and concepts of music beyond genre.

$5-$15 suggested donation

Siren: Flute & Voice Recital

Thursday, April 20, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Vermillion Art Gallery & Bar, Seattle, WA, United States
Kate Soper – Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say
Eve Beglarian – Robin Redbreast
Kaley Lane Eaton – Karma Repair Kit
TBA
improvisation for flute and voice with electronics

$10

Wayward Music Series: Eveline Müller

Friday, April 28, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A journey through beautiful, ugly, loud, quiet, tense, and sparse sonic landscapes produced by sound manipulations, EEG brain waves, electronics, drums, cello, and Boaeing – a collection of metal pieces.

$5-$15 suggested donation

Seattle Composers' Salon: Kammerer, Lawson, O'Keefe, Teske

Friday, May 5, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
John Kammerer – new music for marimba and electronics
Jeremiah Lawson – Zombie Sonata Rags
Patrick O’Keefe – Morning Stroll for Saxophone Quartet
John Teske – vectorscores

$5-$15 donation

Wayward Music Series: Seth Nehil + Cameron Shafii + RM Francis

Saturday, May 6, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A night of experimental electronic music featuring Seth Nehil, RM Francis and Cameron Shafii.

$5-$15

Wayward Music Series: Zachary Watkins: High Vibration Resonance

Friday, May 12, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Watkins – for Andy Watkins – Suite for String Quartet Watkins – Positively Right On Watkins – Treatment No. III

$5-$15

Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra: SPARK.1

Saturday, May 20, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 11:00pm (PDT)
Fred Wildlife Refuge, Seattle, WA, United States
SMCO partners with local DJs, producers, and visual artists for SPARK, a new performance series that takes the classical music genre far outside the realm of the expected.

$25