Experimental – Upcoming Concerts
Spontaneous Combustion New Music Festival: Orlando Cela, solo flute
Sunday, January 21, 2029 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Orlando Cela – Rag Lalit (2016)
Roger Briggs – Trailblazers (2006)
Bryan Ferneyhough – Cassandras Dreamsong (1970)
Jean-Patrick Besingrand – Le Soupir du Roseau dans le Bras du Vent (2015)
Mac Waters – Tinted (2017)
Robert Dick – Flames Must Not Encircle Sides (1980)
Roger Briggs – Trailblazers (2006)
Bryan Ferneyhough – Cassandras Dreamsong (1970)
Jean-Patrick Besingrand – Le Soupir du Roseau dans le Bras du Vent (2015)
Mac Waters – Tinted (2017)
Robert Dick – Flames Must Not Encircle Sides (1980)
$20 ($12 students w/ ID)
Spontaneous Combustion New Music Festival: Sandbox Percussion
Saturday, January 27, 2029 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Music Center of the Northwest, Seattle, WA, United States
Works by Steve Reich, Andy Akiho, and more.
$20
Wayward Music Series: Sarah Pyle – flora/fauna
Saturday, January 27, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Elizabeth Brown – Botanical Obsessions for solo flute (2000)
Andrew Stiefel – Let us whisper our names into the trees for flute, baroque flute, and electronics (premiere)
Sarah Pyle – Improvisations on three secular monodies by Francesca Caccini
Daniel Webbon – To Square a Circle for baroque flutist as percussionist (premiere)
Sarah Pyle – Beehive for flute and electronics (premiere)
Vivian Fine – The Flicker for solo flute (1973)
Andrew Stiefel – Let us whisper our names into the trees for flute, baroque flute, and electronics (premiere)
Sarah Pyle – Improvisations on three secular monodies by Francesca Caccini
Daniel Webbon – To Square a Circle for baroque flutist as percussionist (premiere)
Sarah Pyle – Beehive for flute and electronics (premiere)
Vivian Fine – The Flicker for solo flute (1973)
$5-$15 donation
Spontaneous Combustion New Music Festival: The City of Tomorrow (Wind Quintet)
Tuesday, January 30, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
Julia Wolfe – On Seven Star Shoes
Alex Temple – Thick Line
John Teske – Topographies
Hans Abrahamsen – Walden
Esa-Pekka Salonen – Memoria
Jacob Druckman – Delia Contente Che l'Alme Beatte
Alex Temple – Thick Line
John Teske – Topographies
Hans Abrahamsen – Walden
Esa-Pekka Salonen – Memoria
Jacob Druckman – Delia Contente Che l'Alme Beatte
$20 ($12 students w/ ID)
On the Boards presents Tamara Saulwick: Endings
Thursday, February 1, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
On the Boards, Seattle, WA, United States
Poised between concert and theater, pre-recorded interviews (cut into vinyl and played on portable turntables and reel-to-reel tape players) and live performance are combined to create a richly textured acoustic world where stories about mortality and loss are told with warmth and candor.
$12-$30
Matrio & Resonant Bodies at The Royal Room
Thursday, February 1, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
Stephanie Richards and Andrew Drury mine trumpets and drums at their aural and physical extremes, exploring how sounds interact with each other and with other resonant bodies. Plus, a performance from improvising collective Matrio.
$15/$12/$8
Wayward Music Series: Mesh Collaborative + Seattle Phonographers Union
Saturday, February 3, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Featuring a single desktop computer performing digital synthesis in response to control messages sent by four human performers with laptops.
$5-$15 donation
On the Boards presents Tamara Saulwick: Endings
Sunday, February 4, 2029 @ 5:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
On the Boards, Seattle, WA, United States
Poised between concert and theater, pre-recorded interviews (cut into vinyl and played on portable turntables and reel-to-reel tape players) and live performance are combined to create a richly textured acoustic world where stories about mortality and loss are told with warmth and candor.
$12-$30
Spite House presents Leanna Keith
Tuesday, February 6, 2029 @ 8:30pm – 11:30pm (PST)
The Spite House, Seattle, WA, United States
Genre-bending, looping, and flutes of all shapes/sizes and materials.
$20 donation encouraged (not required)
The Sound Ensemble: A Life Transformed
Saturday, February 10, 2029 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Call for Scores Winner – Work TBD
Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht (sextet)
Kevin Clark – Commissioned Work
John Adams – Chamber Symphony
Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht (sextet)
Kevin Clark – Commissioned Work
John Adams – Chamber Symphony
$15
DXARTS' Music of Today: to speak, to strike
Wednesday, February 21, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Daniel Webbon – An infinite number of others, for string quartet
Wei Yang – ….verse…. for cello and piano
Marcin Pączkowski – Drum Memory, for percussion and interactive sound processing
Cameron Fraser – Chatra, electro-acoustic percussion
Daniel Peterson – Spun-Glass Garden
Daniel Peterson & Adam S. Hogan – Foresta (open wood)
Wei Yang – ….verse…. for cello and piano
Marcin Pączkowski – Drum Memory, for percussion and interactive sound processing
Cameron Fraser – Chatra, electro-acoustic percussion
Daniel Peterson – Spun-Glass Garden
Daniel Peterson & Adam S. Hogan – Foresta (open wood)
$15 / $10
Sound of Late: Book of the Dark
Saturday, March 3, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Ruth Crawford Seeger – Diaphonic Suite No. 1
Alexander Miller – Short Stanzas
Arvo Pärt – Summa
Adriana Verdié – Confluencia
Alan Shockley – Book of the Dark (world premiere)
Alexander Miller – Short Stanzas
Arvo Pärt – Summa
Adriana Verdié – Confluencia
Alan Shockley – Book of the Dark (world premiere)
$15 ($5 students)
Wayward Music Series: Andrew McInnis + Ray Larsen Ensemble
Friday, March 9, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Strange otherworldly chord voicing inspired by the high Andes of Peru, plus new works for trumpet with a surprise cast.
$5-$15 donation
UW Composition Studio: Comprovisation
Saturday, March 10, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
University of Washington School of Music graduate students in composition, jazz, performance, and theory collaborate in experimental improvisations exploring new conceptual and sonic territory.
Free (Free)
Wayward Music Series: David Stout – 'The Janus Switch'
Saturday, March 17, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A digital performance work merging live cinema and electronic sound in a poetic exploration of generative audio-visual feedback structures.
$5-$15 donation
Peter Nelson-King: The Magpie's Shadow
Thursday, March 22, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Peter Nelson-King – The Magpie's Shadow (2017/18) (world premiere)
Hans Erich Apostel – Kubiniana, Op. 13 (1947)
Ernest Bloch – Five Sketches in Sepia (1923)
Fulvio Caldini – Iblis Suite, Op. 3a (1981)
Hans Erich Apostel – Kubiniana, Op. 13 (1947)
Ernest Bloch – Five Sketches in Sepia (1923)
Fulvio Caldini – Iblis Suite, Op. 3a (1981)
$5-$15 suggested donation
The Sound Ensemble: You Didn't Know They Composed
Saturday, April 7, 2029 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Bjork – Overture
Rush – Woodwind Quintet
Beck – Selections from the Song Reader
Dessner – Murder Ballades
James McAlister – New work (Sound Ensemble commission)
Rush – Woodwind Quintet
Beck – Selections from the Song Reader
Dessner – Murder Ballades
James McAlister – New work (Sound Ensemble commission)
$15 (students/seniors $10)
48-Hour Composition Competition
Saturday, April 14, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Gallery 1412, Seattle, WA, United States
48 hours to compose, six days to prepare, and one very unusual concert.
Free
Kin of the Moon: What Better Than Call A Dance?
Friday, April 20, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A hybrid of through composed and improvised music, the retrospective/reworking includes dance music of the Renaissance, and new view on the waltz and the tango, and a sort of EDM thing... and electronics.
$5-$15 donation
Drone Cinema Film Festival
Saturday, April 21, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Showcasing cutting-edge minimalist works of ethereal beauty that transmute sonic drones into the visual realm.
$5-$15 donation