Experimental – Upcoming Concerts near Seattle, WA
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
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
Quasar Saxophone Quartet: American Tour
Saturday, February 22, 2031 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Christ Our Hope at the Josephinum, Seattle, WA, United States
Émilie Girard-Charest (Qc) – Bestiaire (2018) (US premiere)
Analia Llugdar (Argentina) – Cathédrale Lumière (2013) for 4 spatialized saxophones (displayed in the space) (US premiere)
Yannick Plamondon (Qc) – Passages (2019) (US premiere)
Ofer Pelz (Israël-Canada) – I need to hear it first (2019)
Donald J. Stewart (USA) – l’Âme[éclatant]e (2020) (world premiere)
Katia Makdissi-Warren (Qc) – ADN 0,5% (2020) (US premiere)
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
Saratoga Orchestra: PNW Percussion on the Rock – Final Concert
Sunday, July 11, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Langley United Methodist Church, Langley, WA, United States
Culminating concert of Saratoga Orchestra's 4-day percussion workshop & festival, featuring the Orchestra's percussionists. Program to include works by John Cage, Alan Hovhaness, Johanna Beyer, Carlos Chávez, & more.
Free (Free (RSVP required))
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
Joey Largent & Katrina Wolfe: Dreams of the Forty Whales of the Harmonic Reed System
Saturday, August 14, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Joey Largent joins his quartet, Glacial Time Communion, in presenting a new, long-duration composition for 4 re-tuned reed boxes in collaboration with interdisciplinary visual/performing artist Katrina Wolfe.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Peter Nelson-King: Feldman – For Bunita Marcus
Saturday, September 11, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Pianist Peter Nelson-King performs Morton Feldman's penultimate work, For Bunita Marcus – a 72 minute masterpiece of otherworldly time & space. Presented with Nelson-King's original artwork.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Led to Sea & friends: Queer times at the Royal Room
Wednesday, September 15, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
Violinist/violist/composer Alex Guy is joined by long-time bassist Moe Provencher & drummer Aaron O’Neil for this special chamber-pop performance fusing elements of classical, pop, & experimental music. With special guests by Wayne Horvitz & Sera Cahoone.
$15 advance, $20 door
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
Wayward Music Series: Erin Jorgensen + Kyle Hanson
Thursday, September 23, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Double bill: Non-traditional accordionist Kyle Hanson showcases unique, "shimmering" performance techniques. Marimbist Erin Jorgensen performs a semi-improvisatory, meditative set full of good vibes.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: Orgone Donor + RN White
Saturday, September 25, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Obscure & Terrible presents a dual cassette release show featuring synthesizer/saxophone trio Orgone Donor & experimental/noise artist RN White with an opening set from guitarist John Saint-Pelvyn.
$10-$20 donation at the door
Desert Fantasy/Hyaline/Eat Your Greens
Sunday, September 26, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 10:30pm (PDT)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
Triple bill featuring electroacoustic percussion act Desert Fantasy; genre-bending trio Hyaline; & electronic vibraphone/drumset duo Eat Your Greens.
$10 advance ($7 students, $12 doors)
Wayward Music Series: r beny / Leandrul / What We Talk About
Saturday, October 16, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Basement State presents r beny, Leandrul, & What We Talk About for an immersive evening of textural ambient soundscapes & melodic waves of sound.
$12 in advance
NIGHTLIGHT: Harvest Moon
Saturday, October 23, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 11:00pm (PDT)
Machine House Brewery, Seattle, WA, United States
Equal parts full moon ritual, performance, & dance party. Artists Leanna Keith, Moonyeka, & Opulent Witch present this event offering people a chance to indulge their desire to party, transmute, manifest, & dance hard.
$10-$30
Wayward Music Series: Young Scientist + Marc Barreca
Friday, November 5, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Young Scientist, Seattle’s pioneer electronic music group, emerges from the laboratory for an evening of immersive modular electronic music with Marc Barreca, celebrating the release of his latest CD The Empty Bridge.
$5-$15 donation
[CANCELLED] Wayward Music Series: Beetlebox
Saturday, November 6, 2032 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Electroacoustic music from composer/keyboardist Beetlebox, featuring live piano sounds intricately intertwined with homemade software synthesizers & interactive computer accompaniment.
$5-$15 suggested donation
DXARTS Fall Concert: Real & Imagined Soundworlds – with Guest Artist Jeff Rice
Tuesday, November 9, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Nature recordist/sound designer Jeff Rice’s sound portraits frame an evening of Ambisonic sound by DXARTS composers & associated researchers, drawing the listener through known & unknown soundscapes.
Free