Experimental – Past Concerts
Roulette: Experiments in Opera & Restless NYC Present 'Rainbird'
Thursday, October 7, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Improvised arias over loops, original folk songs, & textural spaces are featured in director/librettist Mallory Catlett & composer Aaron Siegel's operatic adaptation of a novel by New Zealand author Janet Frame.
Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))
Roulette: Robert Dick & Ursel Schlicht – Flute & Piano Redefined—Again!
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
The long-standing duo of Robert Dick (Glissando Flute, bass flute, contrabass flute, & piccolo) & Ursel Schlicht (piano – both on the keyboard, & inside the instrument) premieres new music that seeks to expand the sound world of their instrumental configuration.
Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Elenna Sindler & Hasco Duo
Monday, October 4, 2021 @ 9:00am – 9:45am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Hasco Duo joins vocalist/composer/songwriter Elenna Sindler for a presentation of Elenna's songs – immersing Elenna's sophisticated pop sensibility & narrative vision in Hasco's psychedelic & dreamy soundworld.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: The Dream Songs Project & Ted Moore
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 11:45am – 12:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
The Dream Songs Project (Alyssa Anderson, mezzo-soprano, & Joseph Spoelstra, guitars) perform Ted Moore's 2015 composition FEATHERMUCKER, with Moore on electronics.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Deidre Huckabay & collaborators – 'Words For Words From'
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 6:15pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Performer/flutist Deidre Huckabay & a sextet of Chicago musicians, poets, & artists create a real life funeral rite, in which words to those who are no longer living are blared in a chaotic blend of text, drone, & noise.
Free (Free)
Florian Hollerweger & Christine Scherzer: 'Stimmen' – a 5-channel electroacoustic composition
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 5:45pm – 6:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Florian Hollerweger & Christine Scherzer perform their 2019 composition Stimmen for voice & electronics.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Fat Pigeon, with Daniel Robles Lizano
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 2:30pm – 3:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Collective improvisation performance from Fat Pigeon (Emily Beisel, bass clarinet; Luis Fernando Amaya, percussion; Craig Davis Pinson, electric guitar) with visual art from Daniel Robles Lizano.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Jillian DeGroot
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 11:15am – 11:35am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Composer/performer Jillian DeGroot presents her Lecture On Silence for Chicago, a lecture-performance that serves as an iterative culmination of her several-years-long journey toward & with silence.
Free (Free)
Roulette: Nick Dunston – 'La Operación: Reverberated'
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Nick Dunston presents La Operación: Reverberated, an "alternate reality-based inversion" of his 2019 work La Operación. Featuring Stephanie Lamprea (voice), Joy Guidry (bassoon), Anna Webber (tenor saxophone), & more.
Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))
Roulette: Lea Bertucci – 'A Visible Length of Light' + Duo with Ben Vida
Monday, September 27, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Lea Bertucci presents recent discoveries for alto sax, wooden venu flute, tape, & electronics from her most recent release, plus a collaboration with Ben Vida (accordion & electronics).
Free (Free ($20-$25 in-person))
Desert Fantasy/Hyaline/Eat Your Greens
Sunday, September 26, 2021 @ 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: Orgone Donor + RN White
Saturday, September 25, 2021 @ 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
Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts: NON:op Open Opera Works
Saturday, September 25, 2021 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Theater, music, & movement combine in this performance featuring theatrical works by Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard, & more; a world premiere from creator/performer Enama; & performers with & without disabilities.
$10 ($20 in person)
Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts: NON:op Open Opera Works
Friday, September 24, 2021 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Theater, music, & movement combine in this performance featuring theatrical works by Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard, & more; a world premiere from creator/performer Enama; & performers with & without disabilities.
$10 ($20 in person)
Wayward Music Series: Erin Jorgensen + Kyle Hanson
Thursday, September 23, 2021 @ 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
Roulette: Anna Webber’s Simple Trio // Idiom VI Large Ensemble
Thursday, September 23, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Woodwind player/composer Anna Webber performs works from her recent release, Idiom, featuring both her long-standing Simple Trio & a new large ensemble made up of jazz improvisors & contemporary classical music specialists.
Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))
Roulette: JUNI ONE SET – Boy mother / faceless bloom [in process]
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 @ 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))
Wayward Music Series: Right Brain Music Minifest
Saturday, September 18, 2021 @ 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
Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts: Matt Ulery's Mannerist 11
Friday, September 17, 2021 @ 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))
Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts: rhythm is image
Thursday, September 16, 2021 @ 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))