Experimental – 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
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
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))
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
Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis & Belladonna
Wednesday, September 8, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
2 new composition projects by guitarist/composer/MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson: Belladonna, featuring Halvorson with the Mivos String Quartet; & Amaryllis, for improvising sextet.
Free (Free (in-person ticket price TBD))
Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis & Belladonna
Thursday, September 9, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
2 new composition projects by guitarist/composer/MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson: Belladonna, featuring Halvorson with the Mivos String Quartet; & Amaryllis, for improvising sextet.
Free (Free (in-person ticket price TBD))
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
Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts: rhythm is image
Thursday, September 16, 2032 @ 6:30pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Musical assemblage for 1, 2, or 3 people playing violin, electric guitar, paper, & a game. Works by Kotoka Suzuki, David Bithell, Dai Fujikura, Rebecca Saunders, & world premieres by Hannah A. Barnes & Christopher W. Jones.
Free (Donations appreciated ($10-$15 in person))
Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts: Matt Ulery's Mannerist 11
Friday, September 17, 2032 @ 6:30pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Chicago-based bassist/composer/bandleader Matt Ulery brings together an interdisciplinary ensemble of musicians for this concert of original works spanning the spectrum of jazz, classical, rock, pop, & folk.
Free (Donations appreciated ($15 in person))
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
Roulette: JUNI ONE SET – Boy mother / faceless bloom [in process]
Wednesday, September 22, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
JUNI ONE SET (Eddy Kwon, Senga Nengudi, Haruko Crow Nishimura, & Joshua Kohl) presents this in-progress collaborative work combining ritual, dance, music, poetry, video, & sculptural installation.
Free (Free (in-person ticket price TBD))